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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

somebody whom the gossiping neigh
bors describe as lawfully queer" and
who may suddenly go insane or COM
nit suicide from cocaine or opium.
with his secret msuspected by the
neighbors. Yet for the purpose of
making a comparative study of such
maladies the physician goes to New
York, He notes at the hospital a gem
orally effective treatment that has
been adopted. Before the use of CO
caine has proceeded too far it may be
overcome by an effort of the will sec
onded by removal to new environ
ment, and, if possible, by new and
engrossing occupation that will give
no time for the return of the old
morbid ideas. The cocaine user who
wishes TO reform must place himself.
too, at the mercy of his friends, seek
their society and shun his own, and
encounter all possible pleasant dis
fractions. A cardinal rule for over
coming the habit before it has reached
the hopeless stage is to eat a meal
whenever the craving is felt to be
coming on. Such a rule may upset
the conventional regulations for meal
times, yet it is claimed in some in
stances to have saved the day. For
the cocaino-maniac proper there is lit
tie hope unless he seek medical aid
and undergo definite scientific treat
ment.
If he We're more easily detected,
medical aid would seek him instead,
for his case is one of the most inter
esting in neurology. In general, the
cosmopolitanism of big city like
New York, so valuable to the sociolo-
gist, the literateur, the artist, the po-
litical economist, all ostensibly
asearch for types" but really looking
for eccentricities, is likewise particu-
larly favorable to the physician-the
pathologist-who acquires during his
studies at such an institution as the
postgraduate medical school variety
of experience which could not be OBJ
tanned in the small town or city.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
Out of the World, Yet In 1t
ne Winter Lite of the Fisher Folk ON Distant Block Island
isolated iset That Keeps Our Tables Supplied With
Sea Food and Uses the Long Distance Telephone to Sell
Its ProductsSchooners OF Old Type Still Sweep the Seas

Newport, r. l., March 1.-The most
solated Of American communities is
one that is freshest in the remem.
brance of large proportion of the
American public during the winter
months. With fish caught by the
nardy seafarers of Block island. Friday
tables are supplied from New England
to New Mexico. such are the refriger-
ating facilities that American railway
enterprise has devised. The great
shallow submerged seaboard from
Cape Cod to the capes of Virginia
yields its tribute of sea food to the
mainland during the entire year with
out interruption; and the folk on the
farthest outcroppings of the land are
naturally next to the biggest fares of
cod, paddock, halibut and mackerel.
Everybody knows that this ocean blight
supplies many of our choicest bites.
but the everyday life, especially in
winter, of the island fisher folk. is al.
most as unknown, except by vague
hearsays as the life of the inhabitants
of Farce or Saghalien.
Perhaps the most remarkable thing
about this life is that, although still
very quaint and picturesque, it is
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

IN miniature harbor, tied up over
sunday. The steamer is berthed be-
tween two groups of the vessels. Ap-
parently half of the inhabitants of the
island have assembled to greet the
boat, for the tri4weekly arrivals are
important events.
The further experiences, though
they may be delightful enough, are
likely TO be somewhat disappointing to
the traveller who goes to Block island
expecting to find a winter life differ
ing radically from that of the rest of
the world. He is perhaps on the out
look for rusticity, and he finds the tele-
phone everywhere. Old and new are
commingled on this ancient island of
Manisses to which Adrian Block gave
his name in 1914. AS the stranger
turns on the steam heat in his room at
one of the all-year boarding houses he
smiles involuntarily at the remem.
brance of Whittier's description of the
island in winter:
"Dreary the land when gust and sleet
At its doors and windows howl and
beat,
And Winter laughs at its fires of peat. .
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
Work of Curing Cocaine Fiends
How the Victims of the Deadest of Drugs Are Treated
New York Hospital

intrusion of the foreigner the system
revolts and sends a warning to the
reason in the shape of nausea, head
ache, or digestive arrangement If
this is disregarded, and the enemy is
admitted again and again, the physical
being finally makes truce with the in
vader-aceepts its terms, even at the
price of health and happiness, if only
TO insure its own existence.
Druggists, before restrictive laws
were passed, used to be worried by a
regular clientele of customers who
bought their cocaine in powders rang
ing all the way from half grain TO
ten-9rain doses, or in tablets. Some
used it hypodermically making so
luton with water. Physicians have
been habitues of the drug to larger
extent than the members OF any other
profession, both because they have
been tempted by curiosity. and be-
cause they alone have been able to
get it without difficulty. Physicians
wives too are noticeably indulgent,
and, unaccountably, shop-girls and
clerks. AS rule cocaine eaters are
persons of an intellectual bent, at.
tracted in the beginning by reports
of the brain-stimulating qualities of
the poison. Melancholy people are
lured into the vice by the optimism it
produces, only to incur the deep mel
ancholic reaction which in turn drives
them into renewal of the dose. Pres
emily the habit is fixed, and acute co
caine poisoning sets in with its bod
lily deterioration and its peculiar in
sanity. not unlike the delirium ire
mems OF drunkenness.
Legislation put something of quiet
us on promiscous abuse of 1.-THE bane
of the South American swamps" when
last spring the sale of cocaine other
wise than on a DOCTORS prescription,
good for once only, was prohibited
Morphine and opium may be procured
STILL by subtle ways in toothache or
earache drops, and it is likely that
the disappointed cocaine lover con
soles himself with one or the other.
Another reason alleged for the no.
ticeable falling off in the ranks of the
cocaine habitue is that many people
have come to understand the dreaded
effect of the drug in the inevitable re-
action that follows its use.
Whatever the causes it is a fact
that a certain falling off in the num-
Der OF cases of cocaine poisoning has
been noted by the specialists and
observation-disclosures of the post-gradu
ate medical school. And they are apt
TO know, for it is the opportunity TO
come into contact with unguessed
notifications of disease that draws
numbers of practising physicians from
various parts Of this and other coun-
tries. Living expositions of the co,
caine habit, the morphine fad, or the
absinthe evil are what---amongst
other things-the doctor from a typ.
ical American town is looking for in
New York. OF course, the use of
dope" is not by any means confined
to the big and wicked cities. Here
and there in even the smallest village
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
ACCIDENTS AND FATIGUE.

Philadelphia Telegraph.-It was
shown by an exhaustive inquiry of the
subject in France that the number or
accidents increases progressively hour
by hour during the first half day;
that after the rest at midday the num-
Der of accidents is notably less than
in the last hour of the forenoon: that
IN the course of the second half day
accidents again become from hour to
hour progressively more numerous.
and that the maximum number of ac-
cidents toward the end of the second
half day is notably higher than the
corresponding maximum in the morn
ing.
me influence OF the workingmen s
fatlgile on the production of accidents
stands out clearly from these observa.
tons, and 1t is easy to understand how
mis- comes about when 1t is ren,em.
bered that with fatigue the attention
readily diminishes and disappears
The conclusion. therefore, Is that in
order TO produse a diminution In the
number OF accidents it world be suffl-
clent to intercalate in the middle OF
accidents and fatigue .
each half day of work period of re.
pose. naturally not so long as that al
midday, but the length of which re.
mains to be determined In fact. ono
would only have to apply TO the man.
uai labor OF adults the measures which
Tor a long time have been put into
practice for children as regards their
intellectual labor.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

Just to complete the establishment
the traveller goes to the telephone
which is one of nearly three millions
included in the Bell system and asks
for long distance. The desired con-
Inection in a city several hundred
miles away is got promptly and the
conversation carried on through the
cable, which since about the time OF
the Spanish war, has connected the is
land with Narragansett Pier, is as dis
tinct as one between two residences
in the same exchange district. Each
day of the sojourn the telephone is
used and its convenience wondered at
The islanders think so too. The in
struments can hardly be supplied fast
enough to suit the demands of prospec-
or the treeless standard these must
be brought across at considerable ex-
pense from the mainland-the natives
volunteer to accept for the present
lines strung on two by four joists
nailed together. AS soon as possible
the standard construction is supplied,
and then not even the sleet laden
winds that sweep across the low roll
ing hills of the island will bring the
wires down.
Symtomatic of the hold the tele-
phone habit has gained on Block is
land is the curiosity with which the
working of the little exchange near
the old harbor is regarded 1t has I'M
doubtedly served to educate the
population-to use a favorite phrase
of the telephone engineers. In the
large city exchanges of the Bell COM
panies there are few visitors. but in a
small place, as on the island. people
gather at any hour of the day and
watch with eager interest the handl-
ing of the 'tra11ic-the numerous little
local calls that bring the whole is
land together to such an extent that
it seems like one village; the occa-
sional connections that are made for
the South Lighthouse. the New Light,
or the governmental life saving sta
tons; the incoming messages from
merchants in the cities on the main
land who can now 10 their own great
advantage reach the vendors of fish,
fowls or garden track on the distant
island In summer when the hotels
arc thronged with visitors the natives
note how frequently a prosperous look
ing business man 1ushes into the ex-
change and communicates with his
Office in New York or Chicago. The
object lesson of up-to-date dispatch
is thus not lost. To start an exchange
on so distant an island may at one
time have seemed a dubious chance,
but the aggressive Bell policy Of ex-
tending services wherever there is al
likelihood eventually Of profitable
traffic has justified itself.
The telephone symbolizes the gener-
al progressiyeness that has befallen
the island. east side, west side. and
The neck. r. is still fourteen miles
from Narragansett Pier in. warm
weather and many more Oh a foggy or
stormy day. But the island has prac-
tically been annexed-just as it isl
now proposed to lay a telephone cabIeI
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

New York, Mar. 1.-The cocaine
eater has become of late years an es-
pecial object of medical solicitude. He
IS not easily detected by outward
symptoms. He guards his secret NOR
bidly, his anxiety not to be betray
himself being pathological symptom.
Yet the man who takes the massive
dose eventually betrays its use in the
bloodlessness of his complexion, his
staring eyes, and. sometimes, by his
peculiar jerky gait, as though his foot
struck the ground before it was ex-
pected to.
Cocaine, unlike opium, which dead
ems the sense and sensibilities. is a
mental stimulant, so powerful that ii
fairly racks to pieces the fabric of
the thought" 1t increases the pow
er of mental association. A writer
starting upon theme while under
the influence of cocaine feels the de.
sire to branch off upon a thousand
tangents. Every other impression i'm
his brain becomes brilliantly relative
to the main thought. Yet in the cold
gray dawn of the morning after, the
product of his fantasy is unintelligi.
ble-redolent only of delirium-
The cocaine eater at certain stages
of his debauch feels a sudden energy
for all sorts of wonderful undertake.
ings. He could and would move a
mountain. Nothing is impossible.
But the stimulus to great deeds ex-
ponds itself in the delicious dream
which often becomes modified into a
conviction that the deeds have actu-
ally been done. Under the influence
of the drug, the victim is often known
to confuse other persons property
with his own. He is also quite likely
to neglect promises and business ne
gotiations supposing that they have
been already fulfilled.
Cocaine delusions are marvellous.
The chief neurologist of the New
York post graduate hospital and med
ical school, in charge OF the clinic
for nervous diseases, tells of a pa
tent whom he came upon sitting on
the floor of a room with a pair of
pincers in his hand with which he
picked off imaginary bugs as they
dropped from the ceiling. Another
once newspaper writer, who
applied to the dispensary of the post
graduate hospital, asking to be saved
from the demon that had him. and
who was subsequently cured by the
morphine treatment, used to fire his
pistol at imaginary, moving soft
black shapes" which threatened to
overwhelm him. A woman who came
into the hospital showed the effects
of the drug in its further stages. Her
face was drawn into strained lines
and her eyes were wide and staring.
though she had quite the appearance
of seeing nothing. Her system was
permeated with the drug, and had
adapted itself to it so that 1t was like
machine energized by poison and
working only under its stimulus. This
is invariably the phenomenon to occur
when the body is accustomed by de.
grees to any drug or poison. At first
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
Modern Iove-makino

London World.-Courtship is dead.
Young men no longer make passion
ate avowals. they never start when
she approaches they do not grow pallid
with iealously if another seems to be
in favor. they certainly do not write
sonnets TO their mistress's eyebrow
in fact they scarcely even go so far
as to write her letter, and if they
do go to this length the result is
never worth publishing in book form.
Lovers do not talk about their hearts,
and SO on. and If engagements are
terminated the severed twain have no
scruples about subsequently meeting
each other. In novels something must
be done to make up for the unromar-
tic spirit of the age, so awful situa-
tons have to be invented for hapless
heroines, who either have to kill then
selves or be killed or die in lunatic
asylums or converts.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

Z being modernized. Block island in
winter would be thought of as about
the outermost post of civilization. Yet
it has been included in the network
of the lines of the Bell telephone sys-
tenn. The island has always been
there, ever since. at least, the glacial
era left at the extreme end of Long
island deposit of powders and
gravel seven miles long and three and
one-half miles wide. The inhabitants
have practically always been there
the same Dodges, Littlefelds, Balls
and Roses, who have lived on the is
land since 1851. They were pious
Baptists at the outset; most of them
are Baptists and some are pious to
this day. The little farmsteads scat
tered over the surface of the treeless
islet and devoted to poultry and vege-
tables, have been handed down from
father to son. and a few, at least, OF
the houses on them are venerable
enough to satisfy the most ardent
searcher after antiquity. A pictur-
esuue windmill, very dilapidated, gives
a Hollandish touch. the fishing fleet
now, as for generations back, goes
forth at every season of the year, TAX
ing swordfish. nlackerel, haddock and
cod with which the markets of the
whole United States are regularly
supplied The Block island unlocked
schooners of from ten to fifteen tons
burden, with pointed bows and sterns
are famous for outweathering the
stoutest gales which sweep the Allan
tic coast.
Surprise awaits the occasional out
slider who goes to the island in mid
winter. He starts off as for desper-
ate adventure He takes out addition
al accident insurance He expects,
after leaving Newport to find some
thing even more desolate than the
long streets filled with the unoccupied
cottages" of the i-mfTfionaires.
The impressions of the voyage con-
firm the expectation. The sight of the
little steamer which makes triweek1y
trips to the island, weather permitting,
is not reassuring. Still less assuring
is the southeast gale that is pounding
a hard swash against the cliffs of the
southern end of Rhode Island. Some
of Uncle Sans musicians are playing
dolefully at Fort Adams. Once outside
of the harbor, the half-score of passen-
gers. lost in a wilderness Of assorted
freight, begin to be seasick. OF Point
Judith even the strongest stomach
turns. The winter visitor begins
about this time to wish that either
Block island or he were &C the bottom
OF the sea with the rest of the eastern
end of Long island, considerable por-
ton of which has crumbled away.
Out of the swash of the southeaster
the Danielson, which after reaching
Sandy Point at the extreme northern
end of Block island has been following
long a stretch of high cliffs, darts sud
y only behind a sheltering breakwater,
one of the works of that literary and
artistic engineer F. Hopkinson Smith.
II is a plunge from purgatory into a
peaceful haven. A fleet of perhaps
two score OF fishing schooners rests
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
FILTRATION.

TWO idle eyes one time / knew. 4
AS tender as the heavens blue;
ldie, so far as ! could see,
save when their glances fell on me.
AND there was lots for them IN IN
Ihey were soft, so sweet, SO true
worshiped them, of course. and Won
A dearer girl there could not be
To ijolize.
nou let me hirt and gently WOO:
ron let me supplicate and sue:
But when ] set my passion fras
And vowed my love on Blended knee.
an 'hat you said was, Those are
two
Too idle lies"
Felix Carmen in Smart Got
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

from Martha's Vineyard 20 Nantucket,
thus bringing all the islands off the
southern coast of New England into
communication with the whole modern
world of commerce and industry.
About two-thirds of the population, of
perhaps 400, on Block island are en-
gagged in fishing and the conditions of
the fish industry are rapidly being
modernized
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
Ey her Brother

The girl on tho sofa sighed a soul.
full sigh.
Nobody seems to understand me"
she said, sadly.
How can they" queried her big
brother, when you spend two-thlrds
of your time in front of a mirror try.
ing to make yourself less plain?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

Shadbolt-Your finances are at a
low ebb again are they?
Dinguss-Ebb? No: that would in
dicate that they're sometimes at the
flow, which they never are. Ny fin
ances are at their normal and unvary-
ing level
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
Couldn't Stand Exposure.

A photographer broke up the Stand.
ara OIL investigation by taking
bash-light picture Of the scene. The
presumption is that he threw too mucn
light on II.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
6allade of the Blunt Man

some reach their goal by w,nd,no
ways;
About the bush they beat and hide.
strategic verbiage delays
The point your waiting 70 decide
AS here and there they smootblv e,,aa
The mystery that they affect
A downright man is prone 10 cbide
My methods always are direct.
ihey puzzle you with studied phrase
Irrelevant, and shooting wide.
owe me the man who never strays
VINO blurts 1t out and lets IT slide
IN that ! take a certain pride,
I'm always anxious to connect
win me your patience won't he tried
My methods always are direct.
In saying things It pays
To have 1t ready, cut and dried
! ask for simple yeas and NAYS.
BY which I'm willing to abide,
win me you'll need no map or guide
Before my meaning you detect.
cross lots always love to ride
My methods always are direct
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
Away Behind.

Papa. what is a gentleman Of the
old SCHOOL,"
"one who allows himself to be run
over by horse, SON.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

First systematically! What are
you building new pigeon house for?
Second Suburbanite-To hold a
bunch OF green monkeys. You didn't
think ! was going to put pigeons in
It, did you?
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08
L'Envoi.

I'm up stump. I must connae
In you, and-sympathy expect.
Er-would small loan be denied I?
My methods always are direct.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-08

These life insurance companie
have medical examiners"
They need 'em; they're diseased.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-05-30
INFLUENCING IMMIGRATION.
Rock ,s,land-Frisco System Is Plan
 ming Campaign.

New Orleans, ..i. May 3o.-3The vast influence. of tue Rock Island Frisco systems is ro b. Usa' in d'- rectins immieration from Northern Eudope through the port of New or leans to points along the lines Of the systems in the southwest and west. and already the plans of the passeh- ger and traffic department are belhs Laid to have this immigration move ment we'll under control by the tune the Rock Island and Frisco lines have taen in the collection of data relative to the territory through which the lines are being built to reach orts. and within a short time this will be published in attractive pamphlets Ill various languages for distribution thdoughout Europe.
 The machinery for influencing lH- mieration through New Orleans and other Gulf ports will be actively set in motion next month. when John Sc. bastian, passenger traffic manager ot the Rock Island system sails for Eu- rope.
 Mir. Sebastian will make arrange mentS with authorities on the conu- nent and with ship owners and agents with the view of moving the largest number of desirable immigrants through New Orleans and setti,ng them among the lines of the system lie represents.