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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

avoiding it. These rumors are gen
orally vague and soon die out, but :
report comes from London now tha
this great discovery, which far out
weighs the flying machine and wi e
less telegraphy in Importance, has
certainly been made
This rumor is much more deserving
OF attention than the others, becau =
public test has been made of the in
vention in the presence of a large
number of BARRIERS and not one OF
them dared to hint that it was a
failure. On the contrary, it is said
they We're silent and greatly de
pressed
This invention is paste of the
consistency of mortar which is applied
to the face with brush, like lather
and after it has been on the face a
few minutes the beard becomes SO
brittle that it can be raked off with a
visiting card along with the paste.
The BARRIERS who saw it done were in
credulous until they had felt the faces
OF the subjects with their fingers 10
see if it was a clean shave, but after
doing so they turned away in silence.
Britain and Her Colonies.
The colonies are more likely to fall
apart and become Independent com
munities rather than portions of con
solidated empire The national SEN
timent and the desire for the reten-
ton Of some tie connecting them with
the mother country remain very
strong, but not strong enough to
blind them to what their commercial
interests are. A policy satisfactory
TO Australia might be most unaccept-
able to Canada and all the colonies
have become too much accustomed to
self-goyernment to be willing to re-
linquish any power to imperial control
1t seems probable that as new gen
erations arise, all of whose interests
and associations are in the countries
OF their birth tie sentimental tie be-
tween empire and colonies will
weaken Washington Post.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

the passing traffic was of character
to fire the imagination. Some idea OF
the extent of il is gained from the
statement that the marine insurance
written in the city of ST. Louis about
the time Mark Twain was looking
longingly upon the river craft-specifi-
cally, in 1S42-anlounted to nearly $50.
100000
The story of the decline of com
imerce on the Mississippi to a posi-
ton which, though still considerable.
it has for many years been distinctly
subordinate to the railroad interests
Of the Mississippi Valley nas been
graphically and amusingly told oy
Mark Twain himself in chapters with
which President Roosevelt is OF
course familiar. The narrative shows
that ether factors besides the natural
competition between two types OF
transportation entered into the de-
cline. Thus the civil war witnessed
the destruction of many famous old
boats that had made their mark By
nearly equalling the racing record
from New Orleans to Cairo-three
days fiat 1t was On easy matter, in the
latter days of the confederacy, when
a northern boat steamed between
southern shores, to mount battery of
a few guns on one of the bluffs and
sink her as she tried to pass: SO that
even after. in President Lincoln's
flowed untfoubled to the sea, good
many mischances befell members of
the river feet.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

regular channels and this magnificent
Mississippi become in the highest
sense a liquid highway of the mil
lions Of people living on its banks"
President Roosevelt has so highly
approved of the work of the national
rivers and harbors congress in its ea-
deavor to arouse public opinion to the
necessity OF supplementiHg the service
of the railroads by Improvement of the
waterways that he has no doubt ac.
copied with alacrity this invitation to
make journey which will be replete
for him with historical and present
day interest and will be glad of the
fact that his visit will help to fix the
attention of the civilized world upon
some of the most interesting of mod
ern engineering projects.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13
HOW GENIUS HoRRows.

1T is wonderful" says Charles
Reade, how can genius borrow" aAu
literature, remarks Oliver Wendell
holmes, lives by borrowing and lend.
ing and he adds. "A good image is
IKE diamond which may be set A
hundred times in as many genera.
Luis, and gain new beauties with
every change" This is not a ouestion
Oh originality. The lighting a candle
at a neighbours fire." observes Dean
oWiit, does not effect our properly
IN the wick and flame" Genius bor.
rows nobly.' The transference is often
a transmutation. For brass; the bor-
rover brings gold, and for iron sill.
yer; and for wood. brass, and for
stones, iron. The crude ore is refined
and the raw material fashioned into
a thing of beauty.
1t has been pointed ont nv Mr.
Huth, in his Life of Buckle tbat
there is kind of pedigree in litera.
lure Dante avows his indebted
ness to Virgil; rs the latter himself
was under obligations to Homer.
Ariosto owes much to Virgil and
Spenser borrows very frequently
from Ariosto. Sponsors Faerie Queen
gave birth to Fletcher's Purple Is
land and this Demands Isle of
Man, and this in turn to Defoe,s
ROBINSON Crusoe and Runyan's pu.
grims Progress-all like so many
blossoms rising from the one stem
Shakespeare has been called the
great WarwicKshire thief. So inyet.
crate In his borrowing habit. He IN.
Faded literature like NAPOLEON and
brought back the rarest art treasures
to enrich and beautify his verse. One
Is surprised to learn that for drama
'ist mas no original plots, that he has
gwen to poetry no new rhythm nor
stanza, and that he ran not ONLY IN
the old road but in the old ruts." HIS
AS lou Like IT. is taken from an
Old romance. The characters of his
~Jniius Cesar ere old Romans tax
en- from Plutarch. But what borrow.
ing' Dry bones are turned into living
men. The commonest materials art
taken into the lambent fame Of his
genius and transmitted into airv
beauty.
aMiiton. too. is a free borrower II
Is this fact, indeed that makes bis
verse 50 rich in learned "reminiscences.
and - Gorgeous with sbarbaric pearl
and gold. He owes much to Shakes
peare. Some critics think Millions
Eve is borrowed from Shakespeare's
iniranda--Circle Magazine.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

interesting historical evidences on
the Mississippi itself of work already
done to improve this great natural
highway of commerce Mr.. Roosevelt
will find everywhere From an early
date labor and money nave been spent
In relieving the channel OF the snags.
SO easily formed in stream that II
petpetually eating away its banks.
The course of the river has been moro
or less Strengthened out by natural
and artificial means, Ii is a curious
fact, for example that In 175 years,
ending in 1875 the Mississippi is
known to have shortened itself by
2i2 miles. A characteristic example
was in 1922 when neck of land half
a mile wide. near Port Hudson, Louis
lana, was cut by the river, which
henceforth avoided a great loop IS
miles long. Much artificial work in
the same direction has been done
Withal. there has, of course. been
the constant work ON the levees a
persistent fight conducted for more
=
Sire Bienville threw up the first rude
embankment to protect the infant
city OF New Orleans against the over.
dow of the mighty stream. The Ores
cent City, which as an old writer once
eut it has a mortgage on the great
West aud the Rocky Mountains. pay
able in annual instaments," has set
an example of what engineering *.
pests say should be done in many
places along the river to supplement-
the leyee work and to make navigation
safer.
Considering the very direct rea-
tionship between the improvement OF
on. inland waterways and the building
Of the Panama Canal an undertakins
which viii always be associated ii
the name of President Roosevelt. It is
particularly appropriate that the chief
executive who has already witnessed
the sl2 ing of the dirt on the Isthmas
should now interest himself in study
irg at first hand the traffic on Amer.
cGS largest river system the outlet
4 American goods to the orient BY
why % the Mississippi and the port 81
New Orleans is directly concerned.
approved conditions OF river commun.
cation will enable the manufacturer
~ the Middle West or in western
pennsylvania to send his products is
The orient hy the very cheapest posi-.
he form OF transportation. With oaly
a single trans shipment. This oppor-
tunlty was foreseen as long ago as
iStS by a writer IN Pusman's ma. IA.
sne Who predicted. THE world IS
iast beginiag 70 appreciate the value
q cheap and rapid communication as
an element Of civiliEason When we
shall AZ last have re;dixed that dream
Of the cortnry-a direct western pas.
sage from Europe 10 India -and shall
fsvc srasped the rich PRIZE az As'atlc
traffic then win the real value ana
significance OF this great river systcm
be understood nor untfi then viii It's
lesecs b properly rebuilt. viii itS cur
rents be made to flow In even an 4
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13
"NExT.v

The practice OF shaving the beard
has existed from the remotest al
tiquity, as is abundantly shown by
the ancient statues and carvings that
have been preserved to the presen.
time. What the instrument Of torture
was with which the beard was re.
moved is not known, but it was prob
ably bronze razor.
The the process was considered an
enjoyable one there is nc proof what
ever. OF ancient poetry there is a
surfeit, put there are in it no odcs
and sonnets to the barber or the
razor The probability is that ever
since shaving was. first practiced it
has been regarded as one of the
greatest evils that flesh is heir to-
That the process was considered an
the beard, for If they did not hate It
with perfect hatred they would let
il grow. There are few religionists.
1t is true, who consider ii impious to
shave the beard and who from rerg
ious motives cultivate it, but there is
no proof that they like il any better
than other people The inhabitants
of high attitudes, who need protac-
ton from the cold. are almost the only
people who do not wish they were
beardless.
The trouble of shaving or being
shaved is greatly aggravated by tan
talizing rumors heard now and then
that a way has been discovered II
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13
A STORY OF LIGHT.

One night when the sun had disap-
! peared and birds had tucked their
heads beneath their wings to rest, one
OF the night birds flew close to an
electric light.
or what use are your asked the
bird. You give SO little compared
with the sum-"
4 do the best | can, said the light.
Think how dark this corner would
De II We're not here, People walking
and driy ng might run into one an
other, and someone might get hurt,
That's true" said the bird. and
away he few. Then he came near q
gaslight. standing apart from houses
and busy streets.
Or Wkat use are your" asked the
bird. You do not give as much light
as the electric light"
I do the best cam said the light.
DO you not see that steep bank iust
beyond? If were not here someone
might fail to see it, and fall"
that's true" said the bird: and
away he flew. Soon his sharp ewes
spled a lamy in window.
"Of. what use are you?' asked the
BIRD You do not give even as much
light as the gaslight.''
4 do the best can. | am in the
WINDOW to throw light down the path.
that Farmer Brown may see the way
when he comes home. | do the best
cam
That's true" said the bird, and
away he few.
But again his sharp eyes spied :
hght-a tiny candle light in a nursery
window
VI what use are your" asked the
bird. Your light is So small yon
DO not give even eas much light as a
lamp
I do the best | cam said the can.
die, and can easily be carried from
room to room. Nurse uses me when
she gives the children a drink of
waser at night or sees that they are
snugly covered up in bed | do the
best | can
that's true, said the bird; and
away he flew, thinking, as he saw the
many lights here and there. little and
great: All are helpers. -Kindergar
ten Review.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13
SHoRTcAkE.
Rhubarh Good Substitute When
Strawberries Are Scarce.

As fruits beg n to come INTO the
market the possibilities of various
shortcakes recur to us. Fruit Of
some sort is always needed while the
cake which forms the basis may be
one Of two kinds-a light sweet cake
Of the spongy variety or the old-fash.
Toned shortened dough, like very
rich BISCUIT. A good cake of the first
sort can be made by separating the
whites and yolks OF three eggs. Beat
the yolks with one cupful OF fne
sugar until very light. Add one-ouar.
ter Of cupful Of cold water. pinch
OF salt. few drops OF vanilla ana
one heaping cupful OF salt, few
drops % vanilla and one hean-ng
cnpful Of sjfted pastry -four. stir in
lightly the stiiIly VII pped whites OF
The eggs and Tablespoonful 81
baking powder and bake in two
sheets.
An old-fashioned shortcake calls
for one pint Of sifted -four mixed with
a Tablespoonful OF salt, two table.
spoonfuls Of sugar and two scant tea.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13
Sorry Life Of a Senator's Widow

his money was plentiful and he
gathered around him coterie OF
politicians.
During Governor Pitkin's term of
Office in 1883 Colorado elected a
United States senator for thirty days
to fill an unexpired term and that
senator was H. A. w. Tabor. Though
his tenure in office was not long. the
amount of money spent by him was
enormous. This was the first of his
great financial designations; and it is
said that his political Office cost him
$4,000 per day. Senator Tabor was
known as one of the most generous
men in the great west, and he fell a
prey to promoters and schemers of all
kinds. and within few years after
the accumulation of his great wealth
he had reached the lowest ebb of
poverty.
Through the influence of friends he
was appointed postmaster of Denver.
and while serving in that capacity.
he died. 1t was found upon his death
that sufficient money had not been
left to pay his funeral expenses, and
but for the efforts of friends, who had
remained loyal during his downfall.
he might now be sleeping in a pau
pers grave.
The only remnant of the fortune
of Senator Tabor was a one-seyenth
interest in the Matchless mine near
Leadville, and for years the owner
ship of this property has been in liti-
cation. Senator Tabor's widow,
though handicapped by poverty has
stfiven to secure her portion of this
famous producer; and the courts
have finally decided in her favor The
fear of defeat has. for the past few
years preyed to such an extent on
her mind that Notwithstanding the ia
vorable decision of the courts she has
taken un her residence on this isolated
mining property and has announced
her determination to remain there UNI
ill fortune again smiles upon her;
and to see that her enemies do not
again modest her interests in the fam
GUS Matchless mine
Although physicians have endeav-
ored to persuade her against living
in such high altitude she will not
leave her present abode: and seems
her, 1t is a known fact that no vege-
tation will grow at such an altitude,
and cats and dogs succumb to light
air, but Mrs Tabor. vehemently
maintains that it has no effect on her
and IS willing to take her chances In
her efforts to again become wealthy.
Her pet maltese cat. which she took
to her humble residence lived but two
days, and although this caused her
some little grief it has MOI changed
her determination to live in her
home in the clouds as it has been
apply termed
Mrs. Tabor eame from Oshkosh
Wis, during the gold excitement at
LeadvilIe and is wer known through
out The west: and although her
brother Peter McCourt is at the head
OF the theatrical trust in Colorado she
has refused tc accept means from
either him or her many friends. and
has forght her fight unaided Snds
alone
Senator Tabor was bern ia Orleans
county, Vermont in 1881 In early
youth he learned the stone enters
trade and until he was 25 years old
be worked at that trade in Vermont
IN 1885 he removed 70 Kansas. In
1857 he was elected to the Kansas leg
stature and served one term. From
Kansas he came TO Colorado.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

hOoseyeitS temperament. Whatever
Is Lett on the river from the activitie
OF antebellum days still possesses ths
p.ttaresqueshum interests which de
lgAts a President OF generous i'm.
pulses and liking for men of the aid
Nenturous pioneer type. The fleet OF
river steamers. to be sure, is smaller
now than it Was in the halycon days
OF the traffic The advent of pulling
tug boats capable of pulling beyy
-ol uarges FOR q Thousand miles or more
In reasonably quick time has caused
the gradual disappearance OF most of
the many decked steamers into whose
holds three thousand tons or more OF
cargo could be slowed.
As author of the Winning of re
West and the Life OF Thomas Hart
Benton, President Roosevelt is or
tain 10 be particularly Interested in
the "reminiscences OF pioneer days
along the river-in the grass grown
towns which once aspired to be metro.
poiises and in those places which like
Memphis ana yicksburg are really
achieving something OF the greatness
that was early predicted
The president may perhaps start
from st, Lou.s. which from a small
fieaon trading post has lNvu.ae sllasos
tue largest cities OF lie wea,ers
hemisphere, It's destiny wac cut oul
for ii long before tie Gays OF railroad
building. for the early settlers discey-
cred m II q centre from which trade
was possible over more than ten thous-
sno miles of nayigahla river. Some
OF the stretches Of uninterrupted
cocrse on which st Louis has prilea
itself ever since the era when canoes
and RATS furnished the only trans.
portation facilities of the Interior oil
the country were 1000 miles up tho
Missouri as far ms Fort Benton. 500
miles on the Mississippi 10 Minneap0
Is loo miles down stream 10 Nev.
orlesns i,0oo miles up 8sae Cap q
4 PittsbutS. 500 miles on tile Tennessee
10 Florence, $50 miles on the Cumher.
lana 10 Nashville, zoe miles up tie
Afkansas 90 Fort Gibson. 600 m les on
she white river to Bun river. 6uA
nj on the Oaashuta 70 Camden.
atd 200 miles on the RED river into
TIE interior os Texas. The total 0f
nayiSahle waters ia the Mississp pi
ana IS tributaries under the present
plan OF Improvement win be aboat
10000 miles
OF the immense commerce before
the civil war along the deepest and
Nest Saluahle stretch that between ST.
loOij aiyd New Orleans. Mark Twain
has ArittAn quaintly picturesque and
syppathetic account such = one as
NIGHT be expected from q man who Ia
mad As practical ideal 81
future greatness The possibility Of be'
c0yuing steamboat pilot For he
boyk in the Missouri river town IN
which Mr.. Clemens was brought UP
all entertained vague hope that Z
God was good q them they misAt
become pirates. but next to that they
wanted to be boatmen The sight Of
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

Denver. Colo. June 9.-The wife and
two daughters of a former United
States senator from Colorado are liv-
ing in the shaft house of the famous
Matchless mine near Leadville, II 500
feet above the level of the sea; her
only surroundings, the large dumps
of waste earth which have come from
the now abandoned mines in thet
vicinity and the huge drifts OF snow
upon which the summer syn seems to
have no effect.
Since the death of United States
Senator II. A. W. Tabor, eight years
ago, his wife has been in destitute
although during his
lifetime she shared in the luxury of
his millions which were lost in Wild
speculations and in paving the way for
his political ambitions.
In the long legal fight over the
Matchless mine, (the only remaining
assets OF the vast estate) Mrs Tabor
came out partially victorious; her
portion of the property being about
one-seventh. Fearing that her
enemies will take possession of the
great mine from which she expects
to regain her lost fortune she has
taken up her abode on the property
itself; place where the most hard
ened prospector would be loath to
spend his days or hardy noun
taineer would shun If this peculiar res
idence savored at all of permanence.
Rude and uncouth as many west
ern cabin IS IL cannot compare with
a shaft house made of slabs and
weatherboards which is far from be-
ing a suitable place for Woman and
her two young daughters to reside;
yet Mrs. Tabor is apparently happy.
and lives in the hope that not far in
the future wealth and social pres.
tige. as she has known only few
years ago, will again return. and she
will take her place where once she
was when the proud wife of Senator
Tabor whose wealth and deeds made
him famous, but whose generosity and
insincere friends brought him nearly
to paupers grave.
The story of Senator Tabor's accum-
ulation OF vast wealth. and his sub
sequent drop to poverty would fill
volume He was one of the pioneers
OF the famous mining camp of Lead
vile. and with few hundred dollars
started in the grocery business. cat
ering to the miners of the early days
exchanging bacon for its relative
weight In gold dust Through keen
Judgment, he acquired half interest
in the Little Pittsburg mine, from
prospector who had located the same
who was indebted 10 Tabor for grocer
les Ii was not long before the Lit
tie Ptttshurg was one OF the greatest
producers in the Rocky mountain re-
gion and from the small grocer Ia
bors prestige scared to one OF the
leading financial men Of the state OF
Colorado. his fortune was estimated
at Slo.o0o.e0o. His hobbies were
opera houses ara politics. He huilt
the Tabor oper. house in Leadyille,
and the Tabor Grand in Denver. the
latter at the time OF its erection was
one OF the best and most costly in the
United States. and today its acoustic
powers are recognized as being far in
advance Of some Of the more modern
EASTERN houses Having been elected
mayor o. Leadville his political ambi-
lions took higher trend and he
made the announcement that he want.
"a to be 2 United States senator AL
though his education and knowledge 81
craftsmanship were somewhat stunted
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-06-13

Mrs. Leslie Carter is now making a
tour of the Pacific coast with her
company appearing in Du Barry and
Zaza. Mrs. Carter was at Sacrament
to on the night of June 3.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1907-05-15
A Crazy Mans Invention.

A famous New York alienist visited
an insane asylum. where one Of the in
mates said to him. 81 have invented a
patent fly catcher. Greatest thing In the
world. Here, I'll show you how II
works" The man took sheet of
paper and drew birdcage. That"
he said, lis parrots cage-just a
common cage-but you observe that on
this side there is door with q heavy
iron knob and that there is another
door on the other side, also with Il
heavy iron knob. Now, You see, you
take this parrots cage and put il o. n
pedestal fourteen feet high, the 7 -
tai standing on marble slab. TGal
place ladder on this side, reaching
up to one door, and a ladder on the
other side, leading to the other doo-.
This Is how II works: The unsuspect-
ing fly comes along and climbs M the
ladder on this side. 1t opens the door
by means of the iron knob, walks
through the cage and opens the door
on the other side. Then 1t starts down
the other ladder. That's where we
catch hlmr' the inventor continued ex-
cltedly. That's where the invention
Is. That's where shall get my money.
You see, the fourth rung is missing In
this second ladder, but the fly doesn't
know 1t, and he falls on the marble
slab Rnd breaks his neck"