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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
The African Drum.

The African drum appears in varied
and often picturesque forms The ma
tives make drums out of shells, tree
trunks or earthenware, covered with
the skin of some wild animal or some
times with india rubber. Of the origi-
nal calabash drums there is probably
only one specimen in Europe. Some Of
the drums are highly ornamented
either by painting or carving. One
specimen, indeed, has puzzled travellers,
for there is depicted on it unmistaka-
bly, cross and also head of European
type. A drum found in upper Lualaha
has unique popularity in the way of
a "sympathetic cord formed by means
of small tube ingeniously inserted in
the side of the instrument, which
causes, when the drum is beaten, a vi
bration resembling that of the reed
pipe.-Southern Workman.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Camp Tidbits.

The muskrat may be broiled over the
hot embers, with sliced bacon so ar
ranged that the drippings run over the
musQuash as it cooks, or it may be
made into a stew with vegetables and
pork, and in this case the longer it
SINNERS over the fire the better will
be the results. Only seasoned campers
ever have an opportunity to feast on
the delicious nose Of a moose or know
the delights of marrowbones Of deer
split and mixed with parched corn
meal and cooked all night, or dried
venison pounded to fragments and
cooked with rich bears fat, musk tur-
tie soup, porcupine steaks, with hell
benders as a side dish. And, although
thousands of muskrats are killed and
eaten every year in Maryland and
Delaware, probably but few of my
readers in the northern states will eX-
pertinent with this rOdent.-Outing.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

every fire engine in the city at this ave-
nue., to. marshal troops Of soldiers there,
the police and all the army Of workers,
and make one last stand to save the
remainder of the city.
The cooperation of the artillery was
secured, and cannon was drawn to the
avenue to aid the dynamiters in blow
ing up the mansions Of the milliOnaireS
on the west side of Van Ness in or
Ger to prevent the flames from leap
ing across the highway and starting on
their urrestrained sweep across the
western addition. Every available
pound of dynamite was hauled to this
pendous and appalling havoc, as the
cannOnS were trained on the palaces
and the shot tore into the walls and
tOppled the buildings in crushing ruins
At other points the dynamite was used
and house after house dropped to the
earth a mass Of dust and debris.
The work was necessarily dangerous,
and many of the exhausted workers
who had worked through a stretch Of
forty eight hours without sleep and
scarcely any food, through force of in
stinctive heroism alone may have been
killed while making this last desperate
stand. Many of the workers in plac-
ing the blasts took chances that spelled
injury or death. But it was all of no
USE There seemed to be an irresistible
mower behind the flames.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27


In it's fine building the library Of
congress should be safe against de-
structiOn for many centuries Fire has
cost the world many Of it's greatest col
lectionS. 1t ruined the ancient AleXan-
drian library of the Ptolemies when
the Christians sacked the temple of
Scraps in the year 275. 1t cost the
world thousands of ancient manu-
scripts that were stored in CONSTANT
nOple when the Crusaders captured
the city. Twice the library of congress
has suffered by fire-first at the de-
struction of the capitol by the British
in 1914 and again in 1851. In it's pres
ent housing it is protected by every
possible safeguard and directed in it's
development by the most expert Of
custOdians And with a sense of pride
in which oil Americans must share the
nation has given to it's foremost sculp-
tors and artists the opportunity to
enrich it's walls with their works Lit
is a monument to American thought
and learning which must grow in
value and significance with each year.
New York World.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

One we'll known New York woman
has discovered, like some others Of her
sex, that it does not pay to be too curl
GUS. One of the old family retainers is
a Scotchman named William, who does
not believe in CLOSING over the truth
for the sake of sparing his listeners
feelings. The woman in question, al
though possessed Of considerable charm
of manner is not beauty and knows
it. Her husband, recently deceased,
was a remarkably handsome man, and
his wife was one of his sincerest adj
mirers. One day when she was looking
at her husbands picture on the mantel
in the sitting room William was fuss
ing around the CRATE, and in a moment
of impulse she asked:
William, what do you think made
such a handsome man as Colonel S.
marry such a plain woman as me?"
William looked from the portrait to
the speaker, meditated a second and
answered.:
Must have been heavens will,
ma'am."
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

Il once attended a mandarin's ban
quet in Peking," said an ex-consul,
land it was the most remarkable feast
ever sat down to. One course appear
ed to be plain hard boiled eggs. The
eggs came on unadorned TIL ir shells
were intact, and yet, when we broke in
to them, we found that they contained
nuts and sweetmeats. Another course
was whole oranges, With unbroken
skins, yet inside the oranges were five
different kinds Of jelly. The Chinese
guests took these two courses as mat
ter of course, but I, in amaZement, ask
ed our host how on earth they had been
concOcted. He smiled and shook his
head.
"'Ah, that he said, is my cooks
secret"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

The pawning OF the wedding ring has
become pathetic commonplace to
those who are familiar with police
court and coroner's court stories or
with the private petitions for help of
the deserving and undeserving poor.
But we confess that with the West
minister magistrate we have never
heard before of pawning bank books
Yet on expert pawnbroker's evidence
ELECTED by police inquiry it is found
that this is not at all an unusual prac-
tice. In the vast majority Of cases it
would seem to be Il simpler matter to
draw on the bank account rather than
borrow on the strength of it from the
paWnshop. But one of the unfortunate
possibilities OF the practice is revealed
III the particular case mentioned at
Westminster. A picture frame maker,
wishing to withdraw f3 from the bank,
could not find his bank book and then
learned that his wife had been putting
the book in and out Of pawn for eight
years, having borrowed f7 los. on it
the first time, and of course she had
been paying interest on her various
trdnsactiOns.--Lon Pail Mall Ga
Zette.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Red. White, Green Seas.

The colors Of pure ocean water and
me varying shades observed where i'm
puritieS are met with are diversified
by the coloring effects of the enormous
multitudes of various forms of organ
lied life which sometimes mask the
natural color of the surface of the sea
and tinge extensive areas with remark
able colorS. Red appears to be most
frequently met with. In the southern
parts of the Red sea and in the Ara
bian gulf large areas are colored blood
red by microscopic animalculae, and in
the Indian ocean similar forms of life
cause, in addition to red, milk white
OF yellow spots of great extent, the
appearance of which is frequently
alarming to the ignorant sailor. Off
the Guinea coast ships sometimes APP
pear to float in milk. Extensive red
streaks are also known to occur in the
south Atlantic and south Pacific, which
are caused by hosts of small red crus-
tacea. The ''Vermilion sea- of Cali
fornia owes it's brilliant color to in
fusoria. Areas colOred green have been
noted, especially in the arctic regions,
which are due to myriads Of diatoms,
and in some portions of the antarctic
seas diatoms of rusty color make the
water a dirty brown.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
PANIC REIGNS In THE CITY
Two Hundred Thousand People Wan,
to Get Out-TncidentS.


While the heroic fire fighters were
making tie last stand at the line of
Van Ness avenues panic reigned among
the survivors in other parts of the city
The intense heat and the absence Of
water have been SO terrible that scores
have become frantic and others have
dropped from exhaustion in the streets.
Probably 100000 refugees are strug-
CLING to get out of the city.
CrOwding all sidewalks in the threat
ened area are hundreds upon hundreds
Of householders attempting to drag
some of their effects to places of safe
ty. IN some instances men with ropes
are dragging trunks tandem style, 9th
ers have sewing machines strapped to
the trunks. Again women are rushing
for the hills, carrying in their arms
only the family cat or bird cage.
In the panic many mad things are
being done. Even soldiers were obliged
in many instances to prevent men and
women, made insane from the misfort-
ing into doomed buildings in the hope
of saving valuables from the ruins. In
nearly every instance such action has
resulted in. death to those who tried it,
At Larkin and Suffer streets two men
and woman broke from the police
and rushed into burning apartment
house never to reappear.
Some expressmen charged from $40
to $50 to haul load of baggage or
give any aid at all to refugees. Liquor
stores in the north end were broken
into by thieves and hundreds of men
were carrying away the bottled liquors
when the soldiers arrived.
When the mansions on Mob hill, the
Paramount and Mark Hopkins insti-
tute were approached by the flames
many attempts were made to remove
some of the priceless works of art from
the buildings. From the Huntington
home and the Flood mansion canyasses
were cut from the framework with
knives. The collections are valued in
hundreds of thousands. Very few were
saved.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
CHRONICLE BUILDING.

against the unspeakable deGenera+G e.
VINO, like vultures, focked to the scene
of destruction to prey upon the I'M
Fortunate ones. and all of the police
and all available troops were quickly
detailed for duty That the work Of
the police and troops might be more
effective, and as the emergency was
such as to require severe measures, the
following proclamation was issued by
Mayor Schmitz:
THE federal troops, the members Of
the regular police force and all special
police officers have been authorized TO
kill any and all persons detected en-
gagged in looting or in the commission
of any other crime"
In the section north of Market street
the ruined district is practically
bounded on the west by Van Ness
avenue although in many blocks the
flames destroyed squares to the west
of that thoroughfare. The Van Ness
avenue burned line runs northly to
Greenwich street, which is a few
blocks from the bay. Then the bound
airy goes over Telegraph hill and down
to that portion of the shore that faces
Oakland. Practically everything in
cluded between Market street, Van
Ness avenue, Greenwich, and the bay
is in ashes. On the east side of Hyde
street hill the fire burned down to Bay
street and Montgomery avenue and
stopped at that. intersection. All south
of Market street which perhaps some
exceptions in the vicinity of the Pa
cific Mail dock, is gone. This section
is bounded on the north by Marker
street and runs out to Guerrero street
goes out that street two blocks, turns
west to Dolores, runs west six blocks to
about Twenty Second, taking in -four
blocks on the others side of Dolores
Tho fire then took an irregular course
southwark, spreading out as far as
Twenty Fifth street and going dowI
that way to the southerly bay shore.
Famine Immediately presented it:
hideous face At best the city never
carried more than three days supply
of provisions and food and will
the wholesale districts and warehouse!
wiped out there was at once a shortage
of food and prices were in most in
stances trebled and quintupled. Al
Associated Press man was obliged t.
pay % cents for a small glass of miner
al water in the Hayes valley district
There was absolutely not a drop o
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Quacl& Medicines of Bygone Days.

Nearly everything in the aniInal
Kingdom was formerly used in the
healing art In the oldest medical
book now known, composed in Hello
polls, where once Joseph served in the
house of Potiphar, we find means for
increasing the growth of hair, prepar-
ed for Schesch the mother of Teta, the
king of upper and lower Egypt"
Dogs teeth, overripe dates and
asses hoofs were carefully cooked in
oil and then grated. AS Teta lived be-
fore Cheops, this recipe for hair oil is
older than the great pyramid at Gizeh
and is supposed to date back more than
5000 years The heads Of venomous
serpents have held an important place
in medicine. A strong broth made
from them and mixed with salt and
spices and 100 other remedies was en-
ployed under the name of theriac as a
cure for every conceivable disease.
Three drops of the blood of an angry
cat gave relief to the epileptic.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
A Plea For Soup.

A learned doctor, pleading for soup
on every dinner table, says: "a person
comes to dinner weary and hungry
and needs first something to stimulate
the secretions of the stomach. The
first course, hot soup, does this by its
action upon the nerves which control
the blood vessels. Taking the soup
slowly is an aid to digestion, and if
not a fayorite dish fish or oysters can
be substituted, serving the same pur-
pose. The joint or roast can then be
taken with benefit to the system, and
the game. vegetables and sweets
should follow in their order, not nee
essarily in courses for the plain fam
lily dinner, however"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

fiscating goods-an act made neces-
sary by the shameless, heartless and
inhuman attitude of the owners in in
sisting upon dollar loaf for bread,
and holding other necessities at pro-
portionately high rates. Incidents like
these can only be mentioned; it would
require page after page to tell of them,
and even with such report, the read
er would have to draw heavily upon
his imagination to appreciate the mag
nitude of the disaster and the extent
and intensity of the suffering.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Mileage of the Blood.

The mileage Of the blood circulation
reveals some astounding facts in our
personal history. Thus it has been cal
culated that, assuming the heart to
beat GO times a minute at ordinary
heart pressure, the blood goes at the
rate of POI yards in the minute, OF sew
en- miles per hour, 1853 miles per day
and $500 miles per year. If a man
of eighty-four years of age could have
one single blood corpuscle floating in
his blood all his life it would have
Travelled in that same time 5,15O,S0S
miles
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27


out injuring any of the inmates. Chin
neys were toppled over at Woodlands,
and the tremor of the earth was plain
ly felt at Hazen, New, fifty miles
beyond Wadsworth.
Santa Rosa, one of the prettiest cities
of the state, in the prosperous county
of SonOma, is a total wreck. There
are 10000 homeless men, women and
children huddled together. The loss of
life is not to be estimated. 1t will
probably reach the thousands.
The city of Salinas, which is near
San Francisco, was badly damaged by
the first shock, and, according to dis
patch received at Los Angeles at D.
M, and transmitted here, two other
shocks occurred in the afternoon. The
total damage in Salinas is estimated
at $2,500,OO0. Spreckels sugar factory,
about three miles from Salinas, was
destroyed, with loss of $1,5OOOO0.
Reports from Palo-Alto state tina:
the Leland Stanford, Jr., university
has been greatly damaged by the
earthquake shocks. All but one of the
twenty-six buildings are said to have
been wrecked or badly injured. Two
persons were killed.
Messengers bring the saddest tidings
of the destruction of Healdsburg, Gey-
serville, Cloverdale, Hopland and
Ukiah. This report takes in the coun-
ty as far north as Mendocino and Lake
counties and as far west as the Pacific
ocean. These are frontier counties
and have not as large towns as farther
south. In every case the loss of life
and property is shocking.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

San Jose Severely Shaken and Insane
Asylum Is in Ruins.

Several other cities within a radius
of one hundred miles of San Fran
cisco suffered damage from the
earthquake which caused widespread
ruin in that city. According to the
best information obtainable the City
of San Jose experienced the most
severe injury. From the town of
Niles, which is about fifteen miles
from San Jose, in the Santa Clara val
ley, came the news that the shock de-
mcIished the insane asylum of Agnews,
near San Jose, and that 100 bodies al
ready had been taken out of the ruins
with the probability that $50 more
corpses were in the ruins. The super
intendent of the asylum and his wife
were killed.
At Napa many buildings were shat
tered, and the property loss will
amount to 100000, according to late
reports. Slight damage, probably not
exceeding $4,000, was caused at Vale
jo. At Collinsville, on the Sacramento
river, the shock wrecked hotel with
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Earthquake Brings De-
struction to San
Francisco.
THEN FIRE ADDS ITS HORRORS
Three-Fourths of City Has
Been Reduced to
Ashes.

The greatest disaster that ever bover-
came an American city was suffered
by San Francisco when at 5:15 on the
morning of April IS the city was prac-
tally wrecked by an earthquake. The
shock lasted three minutes. Buildings
swayed and toppled over, buryinG
hundreds Of people in the debris. The
loss Of life is enormous. Fire at once
broke cut and as the water mains
were broken the flames could not be
checked. Dynamite was used to blow
up buildings but all efforts to check
the flames proved futile, and the fire
burned OH relentlessly, continuing for
four days, and only stopping when
nothing worthy of the name of a build
ing in the business district and not
more than half of the residence dis
t'ict was left
Prompt action characterized the mu-
nicipal and federal governments in
providing protection to the sufferers
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27

A we'll known hOrseman describes a
fact in natural history which may not
be generally known. 1t is that all four
footed beasts in making the first move
ment in walking, running Or any sort
of forward motion always employ the
left hind leg as starter. Even a
child if put down on all tours and bid
den to advance in that position will
make the first move with it's left leg.
it's hands at the time occupying the
place of an animals fore legs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
Slavery In Great Britain.

Slavery survived in England much
later than Is generally supposed The
word bondage" in Northumberland
still means a female farm servant. The
coolies and salters-i e., salt miners
OF East Lothian were actually slaves
till 1775. If they deserted their serv-
ice any one harboring them was liable
to penalty of f5 If he did not restore
them in twenty-four hours. The last
slave in England was not freed until
1899, and in 1912 there was a cody
living who, as we'll as his father and
grandfather, had worked as a slave in
pit at Musselburg.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
A. scientist

A scientist -,
strange pheno3-CL = a So
ing that they are - - :, ...,t lie ca il,
hereditary memory" -.e taxes t..
failing throug!l space" C,eam aG1
points out that afte.. 81 -'erag tAe men
tai agony OF ft:!!.... lc Sleeper es-
capeS the shock o., i-.> .3l stopping
The explanation is that The falling sen
sations have been, transmitted from
remote ancestors who were fortunate
enough to save themselves after fall
ing from great heights in treetops by
clutching the branches. The molecu-
lar changes in the cerebral cells due
to the shock of stopping could not be
transmitted because victims falling to
the bottom would be killed. In sim
liar manner by reverting to the habits
of animals which existed centuries ago
the same investigator finds an eXpla-
nation for the mental state experience
ed by individuals in various dreams
the pursuing monster dream, the
reptile and vermin'' dream, color
dreams, suffocation Dreams flying
dreams and the like
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1906-04-27
water in that half of the city that has
been laid waste
FIGHT AT VAN NESS AVENUE
Desperate Effort to Check the DevOur-
ing Flames Described.

Desperate Effort to Check the Devour-
ing Flames Described.
With each succeeding hour the de-
yastatiOn and destruction in this
stricken and PROSTATE ruin of city
grew. On the third day Mayor Schmitz
and Chief of Police Oman saw that the
only hope of saving the western addi
ton, with it's forest of frame dwellings,
and the Richmond district, with its
thousands of homes, was to check the
cruel march of the wall Of fire at Van
Ness avenue.
This avenue is ninety feet wide, and
the possibilities of checking the march
of the flames here looked hopeful to
these who were figuring ways and
means in the hour of awful horror.
The orders We're given to concentrate
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-09-13

t.ct Of circulation. Hat a knife been
Tr-sf into my kidneys the pain could
nj have been more intense. Ny sleep
r-s disturbed BY visions Of distorted
e-r- Tie kidney socreiions were an
slv irregular, and ] was tortured
fHirst and always bloated. ] used
, boxes Of Doan's Kidney Pills. TIE
betting subsidized until weighed 100
rsgrs less eould sleep like a child and
yas relieved Of the pain and the irregu-
sr.r Of the kidney action. Ny c~ireula-
fan IS good and | feel better in every
way.
A.FREE TRIAL Of this great kidney
r..ne which cured Mrs. Jackson viii
b. nailed on application 20 any part Of
ts United States. Address Foster-Mil-
INN Co.. Buffalo. n. Y. For sale BY all
price. 90 cents per box.
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Annual Fall Excursion to New York

Annual Fall Excursion to New York.
h eannual excursion 10 New York Tues
day, Sept. rs, will be by special train to
New London, thence by the steamer, 'City
OF Lowell" This Is the best tint In the
year to visit New York, as the theatres are
open and some of the National and Ameri-
can League baseball games can be seen.
Passengers arrive in New York BY day
light. There are a number OF free berths
on steamer, but state rooms can be had on
application 10 W. J.Phillips, Ticket Agent,
New London, Conn, on payment o. Il,
$50 or q. The G. V. Ry. sells round-trip
tickets for 20 from Roxbury TO Sharon.
Tickets good going only on special train
the 25th and returning until Oct. 5. No
sfop-oVtr privilege. special train leaves
Roxbury al 100 3. m; n. Granville, 1850;
Braintree, 1.37; Randolph, 1.f7; Bethel, 2;
Royalton, 300; So. Royalton, 2;i8 sharon,
2:2l. Arrive in New York, Z a. M. 2v ae
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1906-09-13

twenty years /
was d~octoring
for kidney and
liver trouble.
but without ben
eft. just before
L began using
Doan's Kidney
Pills / was al
most paralyz
ed. l could
hardly stand on
my feet be-
cause Of the
numbness and