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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15

Professor A. S. Mitchell, Milwaukee
city gas inspector, and formerly chem
list to the state dairy and food COM
mission, is preparing to have a con-
ference with Milwaukee members Of
the state legislature relative to the
establishment Of state lighting COM
mission to fix the quality of gas to be
furnished, and to determine a fair
price for gas and electricity.
Il have been studying the cost and
quality OF gas furnished in other
cities under varying conditions, he
said. Il feel that gas as at present
furnished here is below the average
quality. probably because of the adj
mixture and use Of coke over gas, and
the difficulties in purifying and grad
ing this portion up to a high average
OF Illuminating and heating power.
Il have come to the conclusion that
the citizens are entitled to either a
better quality OF gas, or proportion
ate reduction in price, or both.
Rate Making Is Complicated.
Il intend to advocate the establish.
ment of state lighting commission
or placing the control of public light
ing companies under one of the COM
missions now established. The work
OF fixing prices IS exceedingly compli-
cationed and varies widely with local
conditions.
There are certain costs of opera
ton, maintenance, distribution and
depreciation which can be raised but
slightly regardless of the quality of
the gas or the source of supply. But
the net cost of manufacture depends
upon the price of coal, the freight
rates, the ease of handling, and the
magnitude Of operations, and is less
ened in a varying amount by the sale
of residuals, such as coke, tar, am.
monia and tar oils, and by acquiring
gas from outside sources such as coke
plants.
A Question Of Importance.
1T would seem that the study of
Inc 4uSothOiAo VI SOoI vi pIOuuCtlOu anu
distribution are sufficient to occupy
the entire time of a special commits
sion appointed to examine the plants
and books and all matters with refer
ence to the cost and selling price, and
to provide for state inspection of met
ers both gas and electric, under prop
er regulations.
IF the sales of gas in Milwaukee
are taken in round numbers they
amount to about 100000 cubic feet
per day. This means that the citi-
zens pay $4,25O in that time, and a
change in quality or price of 10 per
cent. would mean saving or loss to
the citizens of $425 daily. Similar
conditions exist in numerous smaller
places in the state. The interests
involved would seem to warrant spe-
cial commission"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15
NEW YORK.

The glory of Paris, INTELLECTUALLY
considered, lies less In the multitude
of its beautiful features-though it
does undoubtedly possess this advant-
age-than In the intimate relation
these features bear to the whole city
and to each other, in the mutual con-
sheraton and Difference, so to speak
they display. It is by virtue of its
unity. and syr iaetry that Paris Ia
supreme. The beautiful features OF
New York, on the contrary. turn their
backs most impolitely on each other,
raging no more attention to SYM
metry and unity than a woman's
watch pays to time. An arch that
crosses no vista, for instance, however
admirable an arch It may be. rs, in
such a position, little better than an
architectural joke. A facade that
might be grandiose II provided with a
citing approach is merely elephantine
Without Il A marble masterpiece In
setting OF tenements is anything
but a vision OF delight The truth is
ths. New York is in the throes OF Gre
afip,.. With Infinite travail u is TAX
ias en- body adequate to it's needs.
Ia feat Paris long ago accomplished.
The operation necessarily Involves
d;sagrecahle surprises, and the lmma-
date result, viewed In It's entirety, Is,
" must be confessed, much more gro
texons than impressive An orcnes-
trail performance in which each and
every performer played a different
tune could hardly be less prcP0sesT-
lng.---A. Y. Sanhorn IN Atlantic.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15
CHANGE.

When old Uncle Weatherby was
poor farmer he used to go up town
and eat pie with a carving fors1. The
people smiled.
You don't say"
Then later on he began eating IL
with tablespoon. The people laugh
ed
Il don't blame them
From that he changed to knife
They reared"
Great Scott, Ard he is still stick
ing to the knife"
NO Since they found oil on his
farm and rated him as a millionaire
he eats pie with his fingers and every
body mods his approval and says he
IL bizarre"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15
A REMARKABLE RELIC.
An Iowan's Preservation of the Hole
Through Which He Left Prison.

inrou9n winch he Lert PRISON.
Many queer things have been ship
ped from one part of the country to
another, but it has remained for an
old soldier of Iowa to break the rec
ord by having shipped to him from
South Carolina the hole through
which he made his escape from
prison during the Civil war. On
recent visit to the south Major s. H.
NJ Myers, who is the hero of this
tale, visited the old prison at Col
umbia S. c., where for fourteen long
months he was kept a captive. The
old building had been remodelled, but
under a layer of fresh new boards,
the major was overjoyed to find the
identical hole which he had sawed
out with a blunt caseknife AID
through which he made the thrilling
escape which to this day has puzzled
some of the confederate guards. The
hole was cut out and presented to the
major, who had it shipped north, and
it now occupies a conspicuous place
in his elegant drawiag-room, along
with costly curios from abroad.
Major Myers has had an interest
ing career, has travelled extensively
abroad, and enjoys considerable dis
tinction in his native state. being a
poet of note; but there is nothing
over which he grows more eloquently
reminiscent than over his experiences
in war times. and It is the vein OF
poetry in his nature which inspired
him to revisit the scenes OF conflict
which played 20 thrilling > part In
his youth he is now engaged In
writing play called "Allatoona," q
war play. which Is woven FOUND The
hole through which he made his ex'
citing escape.
Probably no more thrilling escape
figured in the great Civil war than
that Of Major s. II. NJ. Byers, the
Iowa poet Saving their way out
with blunt caseknife. he and com
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15

amateurism are too often made up OF
persons whose standard of sport Is
low. The disqualified crew was even
provided with afiidavits asserting its
amateur character. We need rather
more scrupulous individual sense Of
honor. That would prevent genuine
amateur from sitting in the same boat
with one who had No de underhand
sale of his services.-New York Even
ing Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15
SLEEVES OF IMPORTANCE.
They Are the First Thing That
Change In Style.


The masculine part OF the inhabi-
tants should account it as one Of its
greatest blessings that it does not
have to wrestle with the mighty prcb-
lem of sleeves, says the Baltimore
News.
Nowadays, if one listens to the con-
versation of the feminine clerks in
shops, it is always about sleeves. For
the nonce discussions about him"
have been abandoned Past and gone
are the talks about Jack" and his
doings-all that one overhears is
sleeves.
last seasons suit this season is en-
tirely matter of sleeves.
The reason ones last summers
gowns are going to look like last
summers gowns and nothing more, is
entirely a matter of sleeves.
The reason the lingerie waists one
occupied the spring of ones youth
making just three short months ago
are no longer the thing is entirely a
matter of sleeves.
A mans sleeves give him no con.
Germ. They may be trifle fuller at
one time than another, but IL they
are no one knows it but the tailor
not even the man himself How diff
ferent with the miserable feminine
sex,
1t is plain that while woman was
made to mourn, man was made to pass
happy and care-free life, as any one
could who did not have to consider
sleeves.
Trusting woman has a gown made
early to avoid the rush at the dress
makers. will this style be perfect
ly good in the spring." she asks that
lady.
Perfectly" says the dressmakcr,
mendaciously, for she has had expert
ence enough with sleeves to know
that they couldn't remain the same
for two consecutive months to save
themselves.
In the spring the suit has to be
taken back to the dressmaker's to
have the sleeves adjusted.
One might just as we'll have an
inch too much on the end of her nose
as an inch too much ON the end of her
sleeves.
We are here today and gone tomor-
row in the matter of sleeves. Clothed
from shoulder to wrist one moment,
from shoulder to elbow the next. and
then the news comes that our sleeves
are to be the length of dairymaid
sleeves, and "bewidgered" womankind
wonders where 1t will find dairy.
maid to discover exactly what the
length of her sleeves are.
There will be no suffrage for women
and no progression generally until
this matter of sleeves has once and
for all adjusted itself to stay.
When we know that the same
sleeves will be fashionable next sea
son and the next and the next-when
we are sure that sleeves cannot
change in the night and so render our
best gowns useless--then will we
have the time to put our minds tn
higher things and generally to run the
world
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15

rade. Lieutenant Devine, Of a Phila-
delphia regiment. secreted themselves
for two nights and a day in dark,
sitting cubbyhole over porch.
where they remained without water
or food until they thought the sol
diers had all been removed from the
fort. Surrounded by waiting guards
as soon as they emerged from their
hiding place, they made a desperate
dash for the gate amid a rain Of bull
lets, and in the darkness made their
escape. Major Byers is known to
old soldiers all over the country,
hoving written the song, "Sherman's
March to the Sea-" while he was in
prison. This was later taken up by
the entire army, the song being car
ried through the lines in the artificial
leg of union soldier.
1t was when Major Myers was
youth of twenty-four and adjutant of
the fifth lowe Regiment, that he
found himself with five hundred COM
rades, shut up in the old prison at
Columbia, S. c. 1t had formerly been
used as a insane hospital, and con-
sisted of number of frame build
ings, surrounded by high stone wall.
As there were always guards on top
of the wall, it was not deemed nee
essary to place them in the various
buildings, and it was to this fact that
the major owes his escape. His cot
was placed in frame building in the
center of the enclosure. Eager to
secure news from the outside, Major
Myers bribed negro who was al
lowed to come into the camp to sell
bread. to send him each morning in
a loaf of bread daily newspaper. In
this way he learned that Sherman's
army, returning from its march to
the sea, was now coming north. In
view of this fact he felt sure the con-
federates would remove all their
prisoners to some other point out of
Sherman's way.
army was to reach the prison where
he was a captive, the major confided
his daring scheme to Lieutenant De-
vine, who occupied the cot next to
him, and in the dead watches of the
night they worked feverishly with a
dull caseknife at the board partition.
and at last had hacked out a hole
large enough for them to crawl
through into the thick darkness of
the roof of a little porch. The hole
was made in that part of the wall
which came just under the cot.
After two nights and a day, be-
lieving that the coast was clear, they
ventured forth in the darkness anu
stealthily stole downstairs. All was
quiet. The major climbed to the top
of the wall, and there below them,
were about twenty guards who had
been left to look for them, the rest of
the soldiers having been taken to
another prison, as the major had pre-
dicted. Catching sight Of their prey,
the guards rushed in at the gate with
a savage YELL In their excitement,
however, they left the big gate open
behind them. Making desperate
dash for liberty the major and his
comrade gained the gate, and, under
cover of the friendly darkness, made
their escape. They were secreted in
the cabin of a negro, where they
waited for Sherman's army. When
this arrived, Major Myers was
promptly put on the generals staff
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15
"HoMELIkEv HOMES.

American Homes and Gardens.--No
word appears so frequently In the
home literature as ''homelike." What
does Il mean? With many persons a
homelike interior is assumed to re-
fer TO a quiet. unpretentious house OF
moderate cost, equipped in a moder-
ate way with modest furniture neatly
disposed in rooms CT unassuming
proportions
That such rooms may be homelike
is unquestionably true, but that all
homelike rooms are Of this descrio-
ton is completely erroneous. Homes
are Of almost as many different kinds
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-11-15
MITCHELL WOULD
SET STANDARD
WILL ASK LEGISLATURE TO REG
uLATE GAS COMPANIES.
FAIR PRICE is DESIRED

milwaukee, inspector Believes Quality
Should Be Improved, or Rate
Should Be Lower, or soth-WiIl
Confer With Legislators OF the
Cream City.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02
By SEWELL FORD

"Why, Rossy" says I. II didn't think you was
I'm not" says he That's just fathers way,
you know, when he suspects anything is going
on that he hasn't been told about He runs his
business that way-has a big force looking into
things all the time. And maybe some of them
weren't busy; so he told them to look after me"
Well say! I've heard some tough things about
the old man, but I never thought he'd carry thing
that far. Why, there amt any more sportin' blood
in Rosster than you'd look for in ribbon clerk
Outside of the little lady like boxin that he does
with me, liver regulator, the most excitn fad
Now, generally fights shy of mixin' up in family
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

paper" says l. land when your come up at
Special Sessions maybe your friends'l all have
served seats. Sweet pair of pigeon toed junk col
1ectors, you are"
If they wa mt sick of the train business before
I turned EN- loose, it want my fault From the
remarks they made they went down the stairs [
suspicioned they But now
and then folks that I'm kind of proud
class.
1 was still on the grin, and thinkin' how real cute
I'd been, when 1 hears heavy steps the stairs,
and in blows Rossters old man. short of breath
and wall eyed.
where's he gomez" says he.
(Which one?" says l.
'Why that fool boy of mine'' says the old man.
"I've just had word that he was here less than
hour ago."
You got straight tip says I.
"I'm poor guesser,' says I, and he didn't
leave any word but if you was to ask my opinion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

the stairs. He was just where thought he'd be,
coverin' up in the shade of the vestbule.
Caught with the goods on" says l, reachin' out
and gettin good grip on his neck. g No you dontl
No gun play in this" and gives his wrist crack
with my knuckles that puts his shootn out of
business.
You're maxim a mistake says he. I'm a
private detective
you're third rate yegg," says I, land you've
been nipped tryin' to pinch rubber door mat"
Here's my badge, says he.
"Anybody can buy things like that at a hook
shop" says 1. "You come along up stairs till l
whether no it's worth while rngin' up cop
He didn't want to visit, not little bit, but was
behind, persuadin' him with my knee, and up he
goes.
Look at what the sneak thief business is comm
to-" says l, standin' him under the bunch light
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

affairs, but someway other just ached to take
a hand in this. Rosy" says l, you're dead
anxious to hand the lemon to them two sleuts; are
your"
He said he was.
And your games all on the straight after that,
is it," says.
"'Pon my honor, it isl says he.
"Then count me in, says I. Il amt never had
any love for them sneak detectives, and here's
where gives 'em whirl."
But say, they're slippery bunch. They must
have known just where we was headin', for by the
time we lands on the sidewalk in front of the phys
cal culture parlors the man in the leadin cab has
jumped out and faded.
He will be watching on the floor above" says
Rossiter,, land the other one will stay below"
That's the way they work it, chr" says I.
"Good Come on in without 1ookin around or
1ettin' em know you're on
We goes up to the second floor and turns on the
glim in the front office. Then puts pair of
gym shoes, opens the door easy, and tiptoes down
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

what's the use? Rosy don't travel
He don't have to, with pepper bossi
trunk lines.
When he first begun comm to the
him up for soft boiled, and wondered
stray around town alone without HI
cracked. Took me sometime, too, b
the fact that Rosy was wiser'n he
that he wa mt no knowledge trust.
lust bein' good natured was Ros:
Course, he couldn't help GRIMM
cut that way. There want any mist
in them wide set eyes of his, though.
That was the real article, the gen.
uine I'll stand for anything kind.
Say, you could spring any sort of a
josh on Rosy, and he wouldn't
squeal. He was one of your shy
violets, too. Mostly he played a
thinkin' part, and when he did talk
he didn't say much. After you got
to know him real well, though, and
was used to the way he looked, you
couldn't help likin' Rossiter. I'd
had both him and the old man as
reglars for two or three months
and it. natural l was more or less
chummy with them.
So when Rosy shows up here the
other mornin' and shoves out his
proposition to me, l don't think
nothin' of it.
Shorty" says he, kind of fushin'
up, i've got a favor to ask of
you
You're welcome to use all I've
got in the bank" says |.
1T isn't money" says he, grow
in Dinker.
"Ohl" says I, like I was a lot
surprised. Your usin' the touch
preamble made me think it was.
What's the go?"
IL can't tell you just now"
says he; but I'd like your assist
ance in a little affair about eight
find your"
Sounds mysterious" says I.
you amt goin' up against any
Garfield game; are your
"Oh, l assure" he begins.
That's enough" says l, and
names the particular spot I'll be
decoratin' at that hour.
you won't fail?" says he,
anxious.
mot unless an ambulance gets
me, says |.
Well, l didn't go around battin'
my head all the rest of the day,
tryin' to think out what it was
Rossiter had on the card. Some
how he amt the kind you'd look
for any hot stunts from. If I'd
made guess, maybe I'd said he
wanted me to take him and col
1ege chum down to a chop suey
joint for an orgy on ichi nuts an
weak tea.
So l want fdgetin' any that
evenin', as l holds up the corner of
AMIDST, passin' the time of day
with the rounds and watchin' the
Harlem folks streak by to the roof
gardens. Right on the tick han
som fetches up at the curb, and
givin' me the wigwag to jump in.
You're runnin on sked, "saysI. "V
II think your studio would be tn
says he, eff you don't mind"
l said / didn't, and away we goes a
ner. AS we does the turn l sees ano
a wild dash to get in front, and,
through the back window, spots
followin'.
"Are we part of procession? s.
Fem out to him.
He only grins and looks kind of shee
the regular thing nowadays" says he
What! Tin badgers?' says I.
He mods. "They made me rath
first" he says; "but after I'd been S
week or SO l got used to it, and latel
would feel lost without them. To-
they're rather a nuisance. l thong
help me to throw them off the track
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

where Rossiter could get good look
at him. He was a shifty eyed low
brow that you wouldn't trust alone
in a room with hot quarter.
my name is McGilty," says he.
Even if it wa mt, you could never
prove an alibi with that face"
says |.
''If this young gent'1l phone to
his father he goes on, hell find
that I'm all right.
Don't you want us to call up
Teddy at Oyster Bay? Or send for
your old friend Bishop Potter? All,
say, don't l look like l could buy
fly paper without gettin' stuck? Sit
down there and rest your face and
hands"
With that I chucks him into
chair, grabs up a hank of window
cord that l has for the chest
weights, and proceeds to do the bun
die wrapping act on him. Course,
he does lot of talkin, tellin of the
things that Il happen to me if | don't
let him go right off.
I'll cheerfully pay all the ex-
penses of damage suit, or fines,
OllOl IS, says NOSSlJcl.
Forget i'll" says l. There
won't be anything of the sort. He's
lettin' off little hot air, that's all.
Keep your eye on him while l goes
after the other one.
| collared Number Two squattin'
on the skylight stairs. For minute
or SO he put up a nice little muss,
but after I'd handed him swift one
on the jaw he forgot all about
fghtin back.
Attempted larceny of a tarred
roof for yours" says l. Come down
till give you the third degree"
He didn't have a word to say;
just held onto his face and looked
ugly. | tied him up same's l had
the other and set 'em face to face,
where they could see how pretty they
looked. Then | led Rossiter down
stairs.
Nov run along and enjoy your
SELF" says |. That pair1l do no
more sleut in for awhile. III keep
'em half an hour, anyway, before l
throws 'em out in the street
I'm awfully obliged, Shorty"
says he.
Don't mention it, says l. Its
been pleasure.
That was no dream, either. Say,
it did me most as much good as a
trip to Coney, stringin' them trussed
up keyhole gazers.
Your names'll look nice in the
1, land when your cases come up at
MS maybe your friends1l all have re-
Sweet pair of pigeon toed junk col
rel"
mt sick of the trailin' business before
loose. it wa mt nv fault. From the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

AS general thing don't go much on looks
~ but Twill say that I've seen handsomer
"a specimens than Rossiter. He's got good
~ height, and plenty of reach, with legs
branchin' out Just under his armpits-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-02

you know how them clothes pin felers are built
but when you finish out the combination with pop
eyes and a couple of overhangin front teeth Well,
what's the use? Rosy don't travel on his shape.
He don't have to. with pepper bossin' couple of
trunk lines.
When he first begun comm to the studio sized
him up for a soft boiled and wondered how he could
stray around town alone without havin his shell
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-21
PROGRAMME FOR TO-DAY.

From Q until Gas \. NJ. horses may be exercised
In the ring by permission Of the superintendent.
10 A. M.-PreliminarH trial OF thirty one horses
entered in class III, for best performa nee OF hunters
and Jumpers over SIX successive jumps. nve feet
high, and only those horses then selected will be
allowed 10 compete In that class az 1915 p. NJ. this
ii 4, M;"ludging eight hackney stations, year
Ills M.-Judging four hackney stations, .
years old, class, "a
wears old class pa ~ ~ .
ii45 4, M.-JudginC four hackney stations,
IL M,-Judglng four hackney stations, TO be shown
with four OF their get. class 20.
l2l5 =. M:-Judging hackney mares for the
Iaa6 p M.GPrciiminary trial OF twenty seven
ladies' saddle horses entered In class ~, and only
that class at I5 p. NJ. Thursday.
:. M.-JIdging nve pairs heavy draug ht horses.
,2I5 P M.-Judglng sixteen ponies under saddle,
SO P. M.-Judglns twenty three horses and
sos +. M.-Judglng those hunters selected TO
compete II the Corinthian class; class los
tio =. M.-Judging fifteen ladies' saddle horses,
GS5 p. M.HJudging nineteen tandens, class 60.
$40 p. M.-Judging ten horses suitable for
$50 j. M.%Judging seven hackney stations,
class Il.
$50 P. M.-Judglng fifteen pairs harness horses,
.sP, M.-JudginG twenty six saddle horses,
$50 p. M.-Judging twelve pairs harness horses.
ladies 10 drive, class IS.
$50 p. M.-Judglng twenty gig horses for the
10 80 p. M.--Judging those hunters and jumpers
selected 10 compete inlclass Iii.
schtr and Robert l., Stevens: evening
Fellowes ana Thomas Hitchcock. Jr.