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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05

borhood of 210.
In one other respect the Bostonian
likes to believe that his city, which
first gat into the rapid transit process
sion fifty years ago. is still at its head.
The relations of the public service
corporation to the state have been
established in Massachusetts upon
basis which has often been held up as
a model of the relationship that should
prevail! everywhere The whole tend
ency is to give both public and the
street railway company fair show
and to leave disputed questions to the
judgment of an expert tribunal, the
railroad commissioners of the COM
monwealth Certain tendencies there
have been in the past to overtax
street railways, but that perhaps has
been due to ignorance OF the fact that
the travelling public must pay the
tax Street railways of Massachusetts
actually pay in taxes 6.3 per cent of
their gross revenue; In other words,
each passenger as he hands in a
nickel to the conductor is In reality
contributing nearly half cent to the
public Golfers. In the main, however,
the form OF public control under which
the Boston Elevated Railway has been
enabled to build up satisfactory SER
vices has been repeatedly declared
by economic writer's to be preferable
20 the types of municipal ownership
which some European cities, such as
Glasgow, have established.
A remarkable feature of the fifty
years development of street railroad
ing is that 1t has so largely been
brought about by Americans. Some
thing of the credit for the third rail
system Is. due to DR. Werner Siemens
of Berlin and his associates, and very
lately the German government and a
syndicate of manufacturers have been
carrying on experiments on the Eos
sen military railroad near Berlin in
the utilization of train speeds and high
pressures of current. For the most
part. although every civilized nation
has been quick to adopt American
street railroad devices. none has sen
sibly improved upon them.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05

Boston, March est is proba-
bly, not inaccurate to say that this
month marks the fiftieth anniversary
of the beginning of modern street
railroading. On March 26, 1856, a
horse railroad was opened for traffic
between Bowdoin Square, Boston,
and Harvard Square, Cambridge-not,
indeed, absolutely the first of its
kind, but the first to be continuously
successful, making start in the d.
rection of its logical successor the
most complete and comprehensive
rapid transit system in the world.
Many years before 1856 New York
City had seen the advent of lumber
ing omnibus car known as the John
Mason, which horses drew over strap
rails laid on stone ties, but this was
hardly street railway in the modern
sense of the word, nor did it lead to
similcr enterprises in other cities.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
AMERICAN ARMY BILL.

La Crosse Chronicle-The British
will support nearly 100000 soldiers,
all arms, most of them abroad, with
s150,000,000 the coming year. The
United States usually manages to
get deficiency out of an appropria-
ton of more than s100,OO0,000 for co.
900 men, and this year s115,000,000 is
asked Pay to the troops is big
part of this, but it does not explain
the enormous difference in expense of
about three to one. The efficiency
of the forces is difficult to compare,
but it is probable that they would not
differ much where CONSUMPTION does
not figure British volunteer troops
are as good as any in the world
Those raised by force in the cities are
lamentably poor. The equipment
and food do not differ materially in
the two armies. British regiments
are sent further from home and their
transportation bills are greater. But
the British army is not yet reduced to
the level of Mulligan-s guards, that
historic company with eighty-nine Of
ficeEs and a private, and in this the
British army saves money over the
American which is rapidly arriving at
that point where the commissioned
officers. including regiment or two
OF retired brigadier generals, may
out.number the enlisted men.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
HUMoR OF RURAL DELIVERY. \
What Patrons of the Country Carrier
Expect Him to Do.

The rural carrier. has troubles lust
beginning when he gets his commits;
sion and assumes his duties, says
Harper's weekly One source of his
woe is the never-ending exactness OF
the patrons" They ask him to find
what Jones is paying for wood and let
them know tomorrow without fail
They expect him to find out who has
pigs for sale and if Smith would loan
them his gobbler. They want him
to find out what the butcher is paying
for calves, and if the storekeeper has
any medicine that he would recon-
mend for sick baby, and to 'step"
down to the express Office and see if
there is a package there for them,
and If there is to please bring it out.
They place letters and packages in
the mail-box without stamps. with
written requests to deliver to parties
living along the route
A rural carrier in Saginaw county,
Michigan, received the following:
Friend Fred: AS you run the free
delivery by my house, i would like YOU
to bring me on your next trip barrel
OF salt, two sacks of flour, also a ton of
coal, and three spools of wire. then
throw a set of while trees and an
evener under the seat When you
come by Marion Walkers get two of
his largest chicken coops and bring
them along; then | can have my tur-
Keys caught so You can take them 10
town. Had | better get it out along
side the road, or will you go into the
woods after it? | think this free de-
livery is a great thing for us rural
people"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05

fillment at Richmond, Va, by Frank
]. Sprague, in 1888, and which was put
into operation in large city system
for the first time in Boston in the
year following. Between the earliest
crude electric cars, often the size of
toys, shown as curiosities at exposl-
tons. summer resorts and county
fairs. and the finest type of elevated
trains or interurban street cars to-
day. there is, of course, an immense
difference-such difference as that
between Bells queer little telephone
of 1876 and the perfected instrument
of today. The electric dynamo had
TO be developed in order that electric
traction should be more than theoreti-
cally possible. A method OF over
head contact had to be devised, for
the third rail type, in the perfection
of which the Germans also had a
hand, is open to grave practical OBJ
iections which make it unsuited for
ordinary American conditions. Only
the trolley" a name which originated
with little experimental line in Kan
sas City run by John G. Henry, or
the "broomstick train" as DIR. Holmes
quantity dubbed it, has proved to be
exactly adapted to our national needs
outside of the most congested parts
of our greatest cities.
Boston, as the city In which horse
cars were first employed successfully
as means of connecting the center
with outlying suburbs through a sys-
tenn of transit which truthfully could
not be called rapid, but which was
much better than the buses that used
to crawl along over no definite route
and with no fixed schedule, has taken
a pardonable pride In being FIRST In
many transportation developments. II
was the first of any of the larger cities
to take up the overhead trolley. the
first to have subway. the first to
bring subway. elevated and surface
lines together into single great
comprehensive system. Now 1t is the
foremost company. so engineers from
| every part of the world have admitted
in point of present day equipment and
accomplishment
No city, from geographical loca.
lion. has needed rapid transit more
no other got it so soon. Nowhere else
have the engineers evolved so com
plete theory of a series of short
suhways under the congested portion
OF the city with outgoing elevated
lines and surface lines spreading ike
the ribs of great tan to embrace a
district peopled by considerably more
than million inhabitants. Out OF
the little single track line three miles
and a hal. long. over which Lowell
and Longfellow and other scholars
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
2oekef4 Gor a DHd
Eower Garden

In the garden where flowers and
foliage plants gathered from the
woods and fields are grown, natural
conditions should be initiated as near
ly as possible. Most of the earliest
wild flowers prefer some shade. There
is no better way of providing this
than by planting them In a rockery.
1t can be built of a few loads of
weather stained stones, arranged in
mound, leaving recesses of varying
sizes for pockets in which to put soil
and plants.
should be thoroughly enriched with
we'll rotted manure or some COM
mercial fertilizer. The flowers
should be carefully watered until they
are well established. The rockery
may be made beautiful with score
of plant and ferns that grow in the
woods throughout the country, even
near the largest cities. only awaiting
someone who cares enough to dig
them up.
fragas, ladyslippers, anemones or
windflowers, gentians, mayapples,
violets and many hardy ferns, includ-
ing the beautiful maiden hair, are
widely distributed Spring flowers
which do well in the sun are the
bluebells, buttercups, and spring
beauties. Before the spring flowers
have ceased to bloom the summer wild
flowers are beginning. The wild
rose blooms in May and June and is
followed by the ex-eye daisy and but.
terfiy milkweed. Then comes host
of snowy field flowers which con-
tinue to bloom until severe frost of
late October and November. They
include the golden rod of which they
are several species, all yellow ranging
from to feet high; asters ranging
from little flowers half an inch across
to the New England asters, 4 to
feet tall with flowers an inch across
evening primrose dragon head lily,
cardinal flowers, false indigo and
dozens of others.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05

ling with unwilted foliage, burned
like lightwood in the intense heat
Yet even this is slowly recovering,
and after five or six years OF conva-
lescence, in a particularly unpro-
pitious situation and soil, courageous
ly sends out leaves.
AS usual, the hepaticas and arbu-
tus have disputed for the earliest
opening date of spring, but imagine
that the golden-dotted catkins Of that,
TO me, worthless tree, the poplar, with
its pallid bark. and ungainly, brittle
branches, were lntle ahead. Down
by little stream, in a tiny gulch,
quite of the farm, and where we only
go on our earliest trip to camp, we
find the early flowers. The adder's
tongues, spread over the ground in
vast colonies, carpeted with fieshy
emerald leaves notified with madden
brown; a single one for the yearling
plants and a pair for the mature,
above which the bright, yellow lilies
nod, opening so widely at midday that
the petals cross behind the flowers,
but closing slowly as the evening ap-
proaches.
One of the curious things in flower
hunting in leaf-srewn woods is the
difficulty of even seeing such brilliant
yellow blossoms; they seem like
fiecks of sunshine on the ochre-tinted
floor. Those on the rocks are, on the
contrary, very conspicuous. In the
clefts of rocks abutting on the gulch
the tiny cream-colored bulbs of the
Dutchman's breeches find foothold.
Aigrettes of their soft, feathery, much
cut foliage just from the ctefts, and
from their centers arch the graceful
stems from which depend exquisite,
creamy blossom, tipped with cadmi-
UNI. 1t is pity that so grotesque a
narne as theirs should be SO apt, and
that this delicate bloom should lack
the poetic and sprightly appellations
given to its near relatives, the rosy
bleeding heart and squirrel corn.
Near by, hanging from the rocks
face, are the lance-shaped walking
ferns, quite green, and preparing to
step from rift to rift by prolonging
the points of their fronds to mere
runners, which reach across smooth
rock faces to take root in infinitesf
NAL irregularities, and grow into tiny
plants.
The creamy stones of the Dutch
mans breecheS are repeated in the
shining white blooms of the blood
root, springing from rocky ground,
where its fieshy stems and spindle
shaped root shed, when bruised, rud-
dy drops. The scarlet. naples near
by are as brilliant at this season as
in autumn, studded with crimson
flowers, each in halo of yellow
tipped anthers, and the golden flower
tufts of the odorous spice bush CLEAN
at the swamps edge, like high lights
on its speckled, olive green bark.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
UPHOLSTERED SPIRITS.

La Crosse -Spiritualism
has received hard blow in London,
through the exposure of an alleged
medium one Charles Eldred, who
has for months past been making a
tremendous stir among the faithful.
He was hailed as the most gifted
medium in England, and number of
scientific men were about to test his
powers in series of meetings.
Unfortunately for the thrifty Mr..
Eldred, however, he left in the house
of another medium, after one of his
seances, a chair which he had used in
the cabinet from which the spirit
forms" came forth at his bidding. The
rival medium seems to have enter
tanned doubts as to Mr.. Eldred's
spirituality, for he proceeded to ex-
anime that chair with jealous eye.
He dug into the plush covering and
found a keyhole The seat of that
chair was hollow, and in it the ex-
plorer found spirit faces" wigs,
powder, masks, an electric lamp,
spiritually thin drapery, and other
material for ghost making.
Mr.. Eldred's game was up. He
confessed. The scientists have
called their investigation on We
don't know what Eldred expects to do
next; but he might change his name.
pack up his chair, and come over to
New York. The Rev. DR.. Funk, of
that city, believes in spirits, and we
understand that he is an easy mark.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
Fifty Years of
Street Railroadine
of the Opening of the First Successful
American Horse Car Line Occurs This Month-It Ran
Over Bridge Immortalized in Longfellcws Poem-Re-
markable Expansion of Peculiarly American Utility.

pendable trolley car could be put up
on rails. Just such tireless energy
as is now being expended upon the
problem of navigation of the air was
spent for many years By experiment
ers in electric traction, who often
seemed to their contemporaries to be
hopeless Missionaries.
The pioneer work of Thomas
Davenport, Professor Moses G.. Far
mer, Professor G. G. Page of the
Smithsonian Institution, Thomas Hall
OF Boston, Henry Pinkus, Stephen b.
Field, Thomas A. Edison, Leo Daft,
Charles ]. Van Depoele, John c.
Henry, Professor Sidney Fl. Short OF
the University of Denver, DIR. Well
ington Adams of st. Louis, and al
most innumerable other inventors
whose names deserve to be enrolled
in the Industrial hall of fame, con
tributed to the total result which
was first brought to commercial full
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05

The metropolis also saw attempts at
constructing other horse railroads,
about the middle OF the nineteenth
century. but the credit OF establishing
the first commercial street railway
line with continuous record belongs
TO Boston. Just as soon as its sue
cess was demonstrated similar roads
began to be started all over the coun.
try. and the half-century work of inn.
proving and readapting was on in
earnest. Within so brief time
American enterprise has created an
industry involving, at the time of the
issuance of the special report of the
railways In 1902, the laying of 22,576
miles OF track, on which ply 60.290
passenger cars, carrying a total of
nearly five billion fare passengers a
year, and giving employment to an
army of 10000 men. about twice as
many as are in the regular standing
army of the United States.
Since the first little group OF horse
cars began TO jangle and rattle out
ward from the west end OF Boston,
across the bridge immortalized by
Longfellow, over the then untenanted
marshes of Cambridgeport 10 the
classic precincts of Harvard univer.
sity. momentous changes have been
wrought in the ever Improving street
car service with which every Ameri-
can city is now provided. Sociologi-
cal effects have everywhere been
noticed Through cheap transporta.
tion facilities the population has been
spread out: people have been enabled
to live at a distance from their work,
and the cluster of suburbs around
every American center of population.
something almost unknown in Euro.
pean countries. has become one oft he
most marked features of our civiliza.
ton. Everybody has come 20 take the
convenient street car ana rs FIVE.
cent fare as a matter of course.
The technical changes alone In the
methods of street car operation have
been of tremendous Importance, AMI
nal traction has nearly gone out, for
less than two hundred miles of horse
car line are now in use in the United
States. The cable systems. too. which
=. enc Cine were so popular in many
of the cities of the country, have
become well nigh obsolete. They were
first introduced about 1878; before
1898 they had virtually disappeared in
favor Of overhead or underground
trolley systems Electricity as a mo-
tive power was already being serious.
ly considered at the time when the
first successful horse car line was
operated in Boston. but many inyen.
lions were necessary before de
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
Evil Of the Treating Hab,..

There is no doubt that much OF the
excessive drinking is due to the silly
habit OF treating. The folly Of il is
apparent, as is also its cause. which is
simply the moral cowardice which
leads one to conform to a meaningless
conventionality under penalty OF suf-
fering in the estimation of those whose
good opinion is generally not worth
having in the first place. Like the
tipping evil, It is due to weakne&
that plainly is not to be cured by legis-|
iation, for mere law can not save any
man who allows himself to get drunk
or be robbed rather than be thought
stongy. Custom makes almost as
many towards as Hamlet thought con-
science did.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05

and literati of the academic town
used to make their Journeys lin
town. with their feet on cold winter
days buried deep in straw, there has
grown a network of nearly $50 miles
of track, on which about ESQ, o0e, 0ee
revenue passengers travel every
year
The statistics of the use Of the cars
of this earliest developed of rapid
transit systems prove at once its
necessity and its popularity. Riding
in the street cars has become some
thing of a national passion; nowhere,
probably, to the same extent
as in Boston. The average Ameri-
can in 1890 rode 32 times, while at
the time of the issuing of the last
census report in 1902 he rode So
times This estimate includes the den
liens of rural communities, many of
whom do not ride at all from years
end to years end. The everyday city
man, who in 1890 treated himself to
9S rides, was twelve years later con-
tributing 16S nickels annually. The
average New Highlander, country and
city, rides more frequently than any
other American, for the reason that
there are more lines and cars in his
section than anywhere else He
actually gets on to the car 124 times
year. The New England city man
rides on an average 1872 times II he
happens to live in the greater Boston
he does better still. In the territory
covered by the Boston Elevated COM
pany, representing a population of
about 100000, the average number
of rides per individual is in the neigh
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05

influence and dumb. To raise the
price of a necessity comes hard upon
YOU and upon US, but only on our
pocketbooks. There are others,
many thousands. who must pay fo1
dearer coal, not by diminishing their
possessions tuL =. the coin OF actual
pain and even death. Vast, indeed,
and terrible is the responsibility that
lies upon both parties to a quarrel
for which myriads of human beings
must pay so dear.--Collier's Weekly.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
The Life Story.
Dis is de story:

Dis is de story:
We lose en- we win:
You climb ter de hilltop,
Den YOU roll down ag'in.
Now is de shadder,
Then it's de sun:
One day You in clover,
Then you get monet
OATS des de story
All you kin say,
Eff We all gifts ter glory
Wen boiler ''Hooray.r
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
A New Name for II.

''An eminent scientist says that life
is but a matter of chemistry"
Then | suppose that marriage is
simply chemical combination. -
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
Those Who Suffer Most.

Prosperous men and women are
frightened at the possibility of a
strike and make their protests heard.
but the class that suffers is without
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-04-05
Keep Moving.

The dog in the kennel barks at his
heas; the dog that hunts does not
feel them.-Chinese Proverb.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-10-27

In Ladies' Wraps and Furs you will find the
assortment large and the range of prices
TO please every one.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-10-27
GONE, But NOT FORGOTTEN.

The Death Angel has come again
and claimed for his own Miss Mary
Fullerton, who died Thursday
night at her home in the Alexan-
dria community, where she was
born and reared aud everybody
knew and loved her. When the
sad news was heard Friday morn
ing a cloud Of sorrow was cast over
the entire community and many a
heart was touched with sadness,
and scarcely less keen was the
grief for her loss than that felt for
the aged father, who in his declin-
ing years is bowed down in sorrow
over the death of his daughter.
Miss Mary was 81 years, 9
months and rs days old.
Dear bereaved ones, may God 5
comforting spirit in all of its con-
soling power be with YOU in this
sad hour of life.
A Loving Friend.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-10-27
H.&TC. EXCURSIONS.

Dallas, accoun, Free Mason, sell Oct. p
~ and Nov. and ,.
Dallas accent Dallas fair and races, sell
Oct. u to IS. limit to leave Dallas Oct. .
rate sos.
san Antonio, account San Antonio fair,
sell Oct. 20 to Nov. 10. rate 500, limit
Nov. -. For Lass p. m. train OF Nov :
and 1910 a. m. train Of Nov. rate will
be $500. limit Nov ..
Houston, account No-tsu-oh carnival,
sell Nov. II to 10 inclusive, rate $500,
limit Nov. ~. For special trains passing
Bryan 1910 a. m. Nov. 10 and Nov. IS
rate will be Sl.OO round trip. limited rs
and II respectively.
Waco, account Cooperative Farmers,
sell Nov. 7, rate S3.45.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1906-10-27

have over their mistakes, bruised
fingers, etc.
had thought to include the lit
tie girls, but did not, as they are
about the same in the hills as in the
level country. They dress and
walk about seemingly to no pur-
pose unless It's for the boys to look
at when they can spare time. They
are unusually pretty girls and the
big boys generally find time, but
the little boys don't seem to care
much for that sort OF time"
Austin, Texas. M. +. b.