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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-13
MOVING THE CROPS.
A Problem of Astounding MagnitudO
to the Railroads.

This is the season of the year when
American railroads are taxed to thelr
utmost. fer the autumn days are the
time when the crops are moved. rev
realize the extent of the rallroao
mans problem, yet some idea OF It's
magnitude may be gained from
statement Of the value OF the coun-
trys agricultural products. This year
the grain crops will approximate S4,-
600 100000 in value, 4 sum four times
that of the national debt, and sum,
Gent to give every man, woman ana
child in the country $50 Two-thirds
of this crop will be fed to live stock
or moved to mills by wagons IN the
districts in which it is grown, but the
remaining third will travel to every
part of the world, and it is in the NOV
ing of this part that the railroad man
finds his great task
This year will see crops OF such SIZE
that that part which comes to the
railroad will aggregate 1,500,0O0 car
loads Of freight, for the moving OF
which at one time nearly 3S,ooo loco
motives would be required Ihese cars
and locomotives, if placed IN single
train, would reach half way around
the world and since the supply OF
freight cars in the country is only
trife in excess of 100000, with some
thing like 1890 locomotives, one may
imagine the worries of the railroad man
in moving a single item OF freight
amounting in volume to nearly the total
capacity of the rolling stock of all the
country's railroads. To the railroad man
it is a game Of chess played on board
5000 miles square, with freight trains
for pieces to be moved hither and thlther
in hundred-mile jumps.
The movement Of grain each year is to
the railroad what the conduct OF the
campaign is to the general Each de-
ponds during the early stages upon tbs
reports of his scouts Those of the ran
road company form a large corps OF eX
perts, who travel throughout the coun-
try, estimating as closely as possible the
probable grain tonnage Of each district
and the number of cars necessary for its
transportation. Basing its plans upon
these figures, the railroad makes ready to
concentrate cars at points OF need just as
the general concentrates his men.
The idea of the railroad mans mind
is to get the cars to the region of the
central west at any cost. Expense is
almost a forgotten item. Every one,
from the general traffic manager down
to even the station agent, receives gen
eral orders as to the disposition of all
cars. They are begged, borrowed and
bought-in fact, procured in every
possible way. Agents in their efforts
to serve the farmers have been known to
steal trains of "empties' in order that
the grain movement of their particular
districts might be facilitated.
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Au.oI.latic A. INKS.

Every post Office in Italy is say
ings bank, but not every laborer in
Italy can get chance to go to the
postoffice during business hours. There
fore, says Pearsons Weekly of Lon
don, the Italian government is encour-
aging thrift by setting up automatic
banks all over the kingdom.
They are simply hollow cast-iron
pillars, with three Sits opening into
them. In the top one man who
begins saving money inserts a ten
centime piece, which is equivalent to
about two cents. If the coin is coun-
terfeit it is promptly rejected, and
falls out of lower slit. If good, a
receipt drops from the third opening,
at the bottom Of the pillar.
AS soon as one has collected five or
more receipts he can exchange them
for q pass-book at regular savings
bank, and the government begins to
pay him interest on his savings at the
rate of four per cent.
The device is new thing, but al
ready many laborer turns to the
automatic bank when he gets his days
wages, pleased with the thought that
when he has saved ten cents he will
have his handbook, like any capital
fct
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By MRS. LOvETT CAMERON

be the pot calling the kettle black. Good
by, Brian. | may call you SO just for
cnce, mayn't [? You and | were al
ways good friends, though you haven't
paid ME one compliment or admired my
new dress; but then know Fair Rosa
mond is all in all to you now!" And.
with this parting shot she kissed her
fingers lightly to him, and vanished round
the corner of the street.
AS to Brian, he turned slowly and
duly away. He could not go down to
the club, nor walk along Bond street
and st. James street now. to run the
gauntlet of his friends plying or in
quirirg glances. He turned back and
went slowly h0meward. His miserable
secret was known, and his wifes name
was coupled with that of another man.
He met his cousin coming out of his own
house.
''We will start at once-this very
night" he said to him. 81 cannot bear
the shame of this" and then he repeated
to him what Mrs Talbot had said con-
corning his wife.
DO not believe her." said Edgar
Ra kes, stoutly. 'To have repeated such
thing to you, she must be what l have
always taken her to be. a bad-hearted
woman. Stay at home like man.
Brian, find your wife and vindicate her
name by bringing her back in the face
of the world"
mo, no, let us go, if not to-day, let it
be tomorrow" he answered gloomily.
for there was that other trouble, con
corning Rosamond Earle, of which he
could speak to no one, weighing upon
his heart. That, too, was, it seems.
known and spoken about, and to save
Rosamond's name it seemed to him that
he had no alternative, save to get him
self away out of England. There was
no refuge for him save in flight. AS to
Kitten, she had been foolish, but her
very simplicity and foolishness would
save her. With Rosamond it was diff
ferent. If Kittens fight were once to
be attributed to it's true cause, then the
voice of SANDER would not spare the
woman of whom his wife was jealous
He had made up his mind to go. By
noon the next day a wonderful thing had
taken place. In every club, in every
house where Mr.. and Mrs. Desmond's
name and story had been known, there
went about a strange and astonishing
piece of news. Everybody was talking
about it. Sir Roy Grantley was engaged
to his cousin, the heiress.
And, of course, said the tickle voice
of the multitude, st is evidently impos
sible that there could have been any
truth in that other story of his unfor,
tunate attachment to Mrs. Desmond"
Kittens name was saved.
And Edgar Rakes, going in for a mo
mcnt to his club to get his letters, heard
the story, too. Then he went back to
Lowndes Square, and he said
Let us so at once"
They started from Charing Cross that
very night
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CHAPTER XXI.

1t is six months later. From July to
January. great many things in the
worlds history may take place in six
months.
Some such thought was in the mind of
woman who sat very still in the twi-
light of a winters afternoon, staring
dreamiIy into the red Goals Of the fire
in front of her.
The world outside was white with
snow. Snow upon the cottage caves
upon garden paIings, and upon the stone
pillars of the garden gate, snow in thick
masses upon the laurel hedge. and
white pail upon the winding lane that
vanished speedily away into misty dark
ness, and snow again upon the distant
shoulders of round-backed hills which
doomed weirdy against the gloomy sky
And the woman herself sat still and
motionless by the freside, with the red
light flowing full upon her. Her dress
is of black velvet, plain as any nuns
yet with a certain richness in its har-
monious folds. There are white lace
frlls at her throat and wrists. and the
gleam of diamonds upon the hand upon
which she rests her oval cheek.
Rosamond Earle is doing what she has
seldom allowed herself to do of late; she
is dissecting her own heart.
Insensibly she had grown to have but
one interest in her existence, one soil
tary pleasure to which she looked for
ward-the periodical visits of her land
lord, John Trefusis. She led a life of
absolute sGclusion at Dunsterton. The
red brick cottage upon the outskirts of
the village green, with its tiny lawn and
its miniature flower garden, and with the
glimpse of the Keppington hills away
through the gate, had suited her pur-
pose admirably. Here she had battIed
through the worst of her sorrow, and
had come forth SCARED and wounded
indeed from the fight, but a conQueror
in the end.
How right I was to go away at once
and to leave no trace of my destina-
ton" she said to herself often.
But she had no idea that Brian was
abroad. or that Brian's wife was not
living with him. In this far-away vii
lage no records of the doings and say
ings of the world had reached her ears.
and she certainly flattered herself that
her own retreat was absolutely unknown
to all save to her one friend. Colonel
Trefus:s.
And gradually and insensibly this one
friend became more and more to her.
His unaagging devotion. his unwearying
kindness. could not fail in the end to
have some effect upon her. He never
spoke to her Of love. but the atmosphere
Of his love surrounded her. She did not
love him. but she learned to depend upon
him. 1t is often said that heart can
be caught at rebound.
Her solitude was broken by her par
Tor maid, who tapped at the door and
desired to know if she might speak to
her. She was a rosy-cheeked Yorkshire
girl, whose father had been a farmer
but who had failed, owing to bad sea-
sons and high rents, so that his children
had all had to go out into the world and
earn their living. Polly Whaffie, as she
had been called in the days when she
idled her time over her fathers farm
gate, and when Edgar Raikes employed
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States of the Union. Much OF the pro-
posed insurance legislation IN various
States he characterized as blacKmalilns
attempts. 1t was brought out:
/. That since 1900 the New YORK LIE
has paid to Judge" Hamilton $780,
927.O2 for legislative purposes, and mas
also paid to others large sums for SIM
liar work, bringing the total of such ex-
penditures up to $500. 1902.
2. That in addition to these payments
to Hamilton. President Mccall expects
him to render bills for his services dur
ing the present year which will aggre-
gate about $165O00.
3. That, besides these payments to
Judge Hamilton and in addition to the
1896. 900 paid him in 1908. ostenslbly on
account of real estate deals and Tor
which he has rendered no account to the
New York Life. he was also paid 80
600 in June. 1904, for which he has
rendered no account The total OF the
sums given him. so far as is known, Tor
which he has rendered no account now
stands at $4,000.
4. That John A. MvCall, who is di-
rector of the Metropolitan Life Insurance
institution at | - per cent interest. On
July last, shortly before the appoint
ment by the Legislature of the lnsur-
ance investigating committee. the inter-
est rate on this loan was increased TO
21h per cent, at which it still stands.
the loan being unpaid.
s. That John r. Hegeman, president
of the Metropolitan Life. in addition to
borrowing $4,000 from the New York
Life at ~ per cent. also, it was init
mated. borrowed money from his own
company. the Metropolitan Life.
G. That the New York Life encour-
ages its agents to get new business on
the deferred dividend plan by paying
them 60 per cent commission OF the
first years premiums and only 40 per
cent commission on annual dividend poll
cies. This. in face of the fact admit
ted by the chief actuary of the New
York Life that it is easier for an agent
to get new business on the deferred dlvl-
dend system than on the plans for which
the smaller commission is paid.
Z, That the cost to the company OF
getting new business Oh the deferred
dividend plan is so excessive that in
1903 the New York Life had to borrow
from it's surplus accumula tons over ST.
OOO.OOO to pay the expenses of business
which in premiums yielded only in that
year about $3.40O00Q,
8. That although diligent search has
been made during the past two weeks.
no record whatever has been found on
the New York Life of anyone of the
three $4,000 payments to the Repub-
lican national campaign committee.
9. That four relatives of President
Mccall. all of them employed by the
New York Life at large salaries, live in
an apartment house at 40 West Seventy
second street, owned by the company, at
rentals which yield the policy holders
only 2 $40 per cent on an investment
of 5000. 900, the cost of the property.
TO- That President Mccall admits
there should be limitation to the bust
ness which life insurance company
may roll up and that the legislative com
mittee should give that subject serious
attention.
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All Aroard The G1nf,a

A monument to commemorate the hat
tie OF Hanover, erected by the State of
PENNSYLVANIA. was unveiled.
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., was fined
heavily Tor driving his automobile over
Iv6e Nor, forbidden pass in the Alps.
Paris officials say that it is practically
assured that France will accept an in
vitation TO the second peace conference
at The Hague owing to the united ef-
forts OF Emperor Nicholas and Presi-
dent Roosevelt, but official action awaits
Russia's communications
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-10-13
AWFUL NEURALGIA
MIR. Porter Thought He Should 20 '"'S
But DR.. Williams Pink PIlIs
Cured Him.

eft seems like a miracle that d.
Williams Pink Pills should have cul'u
my neuralgia, said Mr.. Porter lA',
are certainly marvellous medicine "n'
am always glad to recommend 'rsr
For two years, he continued n
suffered almost uncomfortable pains III u.
head. They would start over my ey's
and shoot upward most frequently O a.
they often spread over my tace' ale eons
times every part of my head anu I tbs
would be full Of agony. Som96lmee oalE
pains were so intense that a''u'''
feared they would drive me mao .,or,
"My eyes ached constantly ana INV Nv
was alwaysa burning sensation o1o ,r;ai
forehead, but the other pans '" again
sometimes they were acute anu o ooond
they were dull and lingering 4, !, oU and
not sleep. My temper was irri'"0i' y
l got no pleasure out OF life. 40 but
Il tried remedy after relneoJiI h.
finding no help III any OF thein i',,bon I
came despairing man. Even I'VE !, T p,lIs !
began to take Dr.. Williams PINE '-D
had no great hope Of cure. ,ooo 70
mat was III OcC6illDt1 VI d;ti0p
my surprise, change III my c COZ Grew
took place right away. The pal ni,o wers
less intense and the acute a5'dC n, vii.
further apart, as I kept on using p lont be.
liams' Pink Pills. The improVenl0TT'h had
gan with the first box, and When ,so vas
used six boxes I stopped. NY cur"
complete and has lasted ever Sll ~ Rar
Mr.. Charles H. Porter lives aorSotefa
mond, N. H. He is oneof many yTg; iTs
peoplewho have found that Dr, wv. w ,n neryd
Pink Pills will cure diseases Of In ne, oths
that have stubbornly resisted eve loia bal
remedy tried. Not only n,o'ooomotoi
sciatica, partial paralysis and n, .o' sold BY
ataxia yield to them. Thev ~ a;rectt
all druggists. or NAV be obtnl'i ,.t;na Co..
from the DIR Williams Meolcin'
Schenectady, II. Y.
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Hundreds Of Cures.
About Blrd's-Eye Maple

For hundreds Of years lumbeFma
and cabinet-makers have been Study.
ing to learn what causes maple wood
to assume the notified and spotted
form known as bird S-eye." In al
hundred rock maple trees perhaps one
is bird's-eye. Nobody can pick TIE
specific tree out by inspecting the bark
or the manner Of growth. You may
have to chop 200 trees before you find
one, but it is worth the sacrifice.
Fact is, the woodpeckers make oil
the bird's-eye maple there is in the
world In flying about the woods
they come to a rock maple tree that
yields very sweet sap in the season
when sap is running. Most birds like
sweetS-woodpeckers are very fond Of
sugar. Having found a tree yielding
a large per cent Of sugar, the birds
peck holes in the trunk and t0en
stand against the bark and drink the
sap as it ooZes out.
After the sap has ceased to flow and
the trees have leaved out new wood
and bark form in those small holes
The pecking and sap-gathering goes
on for years until the tree, having
given up so much sap to the BIRDS be
gins to furnish fluid containing less
sugar. In ten or twelve years after
the birds quit q tree the holes are all
grown up and nobody can pick out Tie
big bird's-eyes from other trees thai
the woodpeckers did not viSit-NeV
York Sun.
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Wednesday before
the Armstrong IN
vestigating commit
tee in New York,
md in sharp con-
trast with his first
appearance t W Q
weeks ago he made
no secret of the i'm
tnense payments by
his company TO
Judge" Andrew
Hamilton to inf1u-
ence insurance leg
81. STOW in yariOnS
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iSt.
Searching.

You may all poke fun at the Chi
nese about being backward" said the
man who was looking for an argu-
ment. "but the Chinaman will make
his mark yet
Il don't doubt it," spoke up the man
with the glazed collar. "One of them
made mark on my shirt with hot
iron only yesterday"
Always place large book on a table
before opening it.
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a Wise Child.

The Nurse-The idea Of a big boy Ike
you making his nurse pull his boots OIL
What will you do when you are grown
up and have no nurse? -
The Little Boy-When | grow up III
be policeman. and all policemen nave
aurses.-Le Rire.
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The Curative Power of PE.pr,,|
in Kidney Disease the Tall ~
Of the Continent.

Nicholas J. Hertz, Member Of ao,.,
Order of Workmen, Capitol fly
No. lao, Pearl Street Hotel, aHss
n. Y, writes: Oal
"a few months ago | contrao,,,
heavy cold which settled in nv k5Da.
and each time | was exposed to inclsn
ent weather the trouble was agcravo.,
until finally l was unable to work wy
AFTER trying many ofthe adverHu,
remedies for kidney trouble, I 6paI'
took Peruna.
I'm a week the intense pains in N,
back were much relieved and in nm,
weeks I was able to take up nv voI
again.
Il still continued to use Peruna a,
another month and at the end Of tb~
time | was perfectly we'll.
II now take a dose or two when h,v
been exposed and find that it is splenSi
to keep me WELL"
Hundreds Of Cures.
DR.. Hartman is constantly in recein
of testimonials from people who bsy
been cured of chronic and compcate
kidney disease by Peruna. For ire
medical advice, address DR.. Hartman
President of The Hartman Sanitariur
Columbus. Ohio.
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REDUCTION.

Jewels valued at several thousands of
dollars have been stolen from the home
of I'll. Van Rensselaer, Kennedy, in
Hampstead. L. |.
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WAGES ON THE JUMP.
Advance of Al Per Cent in 1904 Over
the Average.

Weekly earnings Of all persons en-
ployed in the United States advanced Al
per cent in 1904 over the average of the
years between 1890 and 1899, according
to bulletin No. 50 of the bureau Of labor,
Just issued by the federal government.
The same report shows that the price
Of food has increased Ill per cent.
Celebrating the figures gathered from
many industries, the document indicates
that the average hourly wage would pur-
chase Al per cent more food in 1904,
and the earnings of week would pur-
chase Oh per cent more edibles
Figures gathered and compiled by the
bureau show that prosperity has not been
confined to the owners Of capital in
land and machinery, but has been dis
tributed somewhat in higher wages.
Compared with 1903, however, 1904
does not make good showing. The
figures for the two years mentioned show
that the total number Of employees de-
creased O6 per cent, the hours of labor
shortened OF per cent, wages an hour
increased O6 per cent, weekly earnings
for each employe decreased Oh per cent,
the total weekly earnings decreased 0.S
per cent retail prices Of food advanced
1.3 per cent, the wages of one hour
would purchase OF per cent less food,
and the earnings for each employee in a
week would purchase IA per cent less
food.
Retail prices secured from merchants
are compared with facts gathered by
agents of the bureau from 2,567 families
representing a total of 1868 persons.
The average income a family in 1904
was S827.19, average number in each
family 5.31, annual expenditure a family
for all purposes $769.54, and the average
expenditure a family for food alone is
given $4,000.
Family expenditures for clothing
shows that the average wife spends an
aua1ly S26.03 and the average husband
spends $333.73. The children use S4S. 70
in clothing year. The amount expend-
ed by the average family for life insur
ance is interesting in view of the recent
expose Of the uses to which life insur-
ance funds are put by mana gers of in
surance companies. The annual outlay
is $19.44, 253 per cent of the entire
income. Rent takes S99.40, fuel So. %
and lighting SS.15.
Following is the remainder Of the ia
HE.
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NATION BREAKS RECORD.
Foreign Commerce Total for Fiscal
Year Is So, 5,97O,333.

Foreign Commerce Total for Fiscal
Year Is $2,635, $40, 1888.
All records were broken by the for
eign commerce of the United States dur
ing the fiscal year which closed June 30.
For the twelve months the exports and
imports were valued at So, $3.50. 970, 1888,
compared with $2,451 ,914,642 during the
previous year, which was the largest on
record The imports were valued at ST.
l17.507, 500 and exports at S1.51S.462,-
B33, both new high records.
An unusual feature of American for
eign commerce is the small increase in
customs revenues, notwithstanding the
large increase in imports. Dutiable mer-
chandise imported reached a value Of
5000. OIL .23S, an increase Of S63. ia, 1O7
over the previous year. Nevertheless,
customs duties last year amounted to
1852, 060,51S, or less than $1,000000 in
excess Of the duties collected in 1904.
Reciprocity with Cuba reducing the du-
lies on sugar and tobacco, together with
imports remaining in warehouse upon
which duties haven OF been paid. account
Tor the small increase in revenues.
The articles showing the largest in
creases in exporta tons during the eleven
months for which details are available:
Corn, an increase of $4,000, O0o as COM
pared with the corresponding period Of
1904
Copper manufactures, an increase of $685.
900, 900. about one-third being in exports to
China, where large amounts of copper are
In demand for coinage purposes.
Cotton manufactures an increase of 500
100000, principally in exports of cotton
cloths to China.
Raw cotton, an increase Of 100000
during the twelve months.
Iron and steel manufactures, an increase
Of $23 600. 600.
1ne principal articles showing de-
creased exports for the twelve months
are:
REDUCTION.
Wheat .$32, OOO,OOO
wheat nOur ZS,UUU.OUU
Fruits and nuts ................ 6,OOO.OOO
PROVISIONS O.OUO,OOO
Unmanufactured wood ......... 6.5O0. 600
The reduction of exports of wheat and
wheat flour was due in part to the made
Quacy of the domestic crop to furnish
any considerable surplus over the home
requirements, and in part to unusually
large crops in foreign wheat-producing
countries. Exports of wheat from the
United States during the fiscal year just
ended have been even lower than the
year before.
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M.cALL MAKES ADMISSION.
SAYS More than Half Million Was
Used in LeEis atures.

John A. Mccall, president of the New
York Life Insurance Company was "
~ 1,-;+noss etanJ the greater part OF
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1t is the purpose of the bureau to issue
an annual report on wages and cost of
living. These viii be more valuable as
the years pass and figures become more
accurate.