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great cities is worse than Sodom and
Gomorrah, and he feels certain that it's
only a question of short time until this
republic, for which our forefathers fought
and bled so many people. will share the
fate Of Rome"
"Wot's wrong with Rome?" asked the
House Detective in a startled tone of
voice. ''I got a married sister livin up
there. Her husbands in the retail shoe
business and doing well the last time 1
heerd from EN-
II take it the reforming gentleman had
in mind Rome in Italy, and not Rome, IN
New York. up the state" said the Hotel
Clerk Rome, Ca, at last accounts, was
also doin' as we'll as could be expected
with a prohibition law in force, SO 1 feel
quite sure in my mind that it must've
been Rome. It., that he spoke of. I'm
perial Rome. you know, Larry: The an
cient city sitting on it's seven hills at one
and the same time. which in itself Is
quite feat for anybody except a f1eshy
contortionist. Rome. that once sent forth
its mighty legions to rule the world. ex-
cept On those occasions when the bar
barious Teutonic hordes stood the said
mighty legions on their heads and invad-
ed the capital. introducing for the first
time the German measles, the German
two-handed broad axe, the clarinet solo
and other products of their native land
among the Roman patricians and sena-
tors.
Evening star., 1909-07-17

Hes one of our greatest pole dashers.
is Walter. The time before this he
reached a point so remote that he was
fully forty miles beyond the last all
night drug store and nowhere near a
decent hand laundry. There's only one
trouble with Walter that l can see He
must've learned the art of dashing from
one of those old fashioned churn DASH
ers. because when he's not going straight
up and down he's moving around in cir
cles The angry wellman dashed high
Evening star., 1909-07-17

familiar with the golden days when Ho-
ratious, the Hackenschmidt Of his time
held the bridge SO that not a single per-
rush hour that day; and when Caius
Graccus and Quintus Ounce and old Ter
tiary Tonsilitis and Eczema, the Younger,
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- -
wide. wide world ?"
a sked the House
Detective of the
ST. Reckless as
the Hotel Clerk
laid down his
pa per and reached
for a tall glass
containing a pleas
ing mixture of
Evening star., 1909-07-17

planters heroine daughter. named Madge
or Virginia. The lucky producers say
this one can't fail. And l don't see how
it could; it never has. 1 can't remem-
Der when it wasn't a hit. and I've been
going to see it ever since Dion Bouci-
cault, or somebody else, wrote it the
first time
Anything else?' said the House De-
tective. when the Hotel Clerk paused.
out of breath. to take another taste of
the aromatic fluid in the tall glass with
the mint casting a grateful shade over
1t.
Lets see?" said the Hotel Clerk.
Seems to me did read something else
that was interesting Where is it? Um-
Hay Fever Cured in Twenty Easy Les
sons by Mail'-no. that's not it. 'Harri-
man Going to Live on Beer and Bread
He mustve tired of an exclusive diet Of
undigested securities. Washington Team
Holding Its Place in the American
League Those Washington players are
Evening star., 1909-07-17

Indoor Polar Explorers, is getting really
to start back to civilization again, after
making another of those daring dashes
for the pole. which carried him so far
into the frozen north that he was fully
two days away from the last good Ameri-
can and European plan hotel and
couldn't even find a pressing club to have
his arctic exploring pants pressed of a
morning.
Evening star., 1909-07-17

"As for Rome, I've given the subject
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and all those old boys were pulling off
/ could tell you by the hour about Pom
pey and Cato and Brutus and others who
are remembered by good many persons
on account of so many bird dogs having
been named for them; and / know every
thing that's worth knowing about the
reign Of Nero. when violin playing had
such boom and fire rates went up So
high, and the head executioner used to
come at breakfast time into the dining
room of the Coliseum Hotel. where Nero
was stopping that summer, and lean
over the emperors chair and say. Good
morning, Boss; how'll you have your
Christian martyrs this morning?
Yes, Larry, I've gone over the whole
history and I'm willing to admit that
don't see that we're drifting toward the
doom of decadent Rome very fast. it
seems to me that the United States of
America ought to be able to worry along
quite a spell before we fall into the
pleasing old Roman custom of getting rid
of an unpopular ruler by slipping a deep
dish poison pie or a short-bladed stabber
into his delicatessen shop. While there's
a democrat who'll take a nomination.
there's hope.
But every time some white-tied de-
scendent of the Pilgram fathers wakes up
with a bad taste in his mouth or discov-
ers that the democrats have carried his
ward, or observes that there's a class of
citizens who see no harm in going to
ball park on Sunday afternoon, he feels
it his Christian duty to announce that
New York and Chicago have got Sodom
and Gomorrah looking like twin addi-
tions to Zion City and that Ancient Rome
is right around the corner laying for the
nation with a gas pipe in an umbrella
cover. Sometimes l wish Larry, that we
could have few months of Nero's style
of administration"
IVY so?' asked the House Detective.
Because 1 know what he'd do to some
of these Little Brothers of the Chronic
Gloom" said the Hotel Clerk.
Evening star., 1909-07-17
THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK,


Compendium OF the Worlds pros
ress for the year 19oS. Editor, Frank
Moore Colby. Ma; associate editor.
Allen Leon Churchill. New York
Dodd, Mead & Co.
The old series of year books published
BY Dodd Mead x Co. ceased with the
publication OF the volume for 1902 and
since then there has been no annual
issue of this character until year
ago when the Dodd- Mead Year Book
was resumed with the volume of 1907.
The continuation of this enterprise IS a
matter for general congratulation. tor
q work of this character meets
urgent need. The year 1908 was es
pecialiy filled with important happen
ings and this volume is, in consequence.
OF particular value to the student of
current affairs. The work is conducted
upon the basis of an encyclopedia. with
the same painstaking attention TO de-
tails and care to include the last word.
While IL is particularly complete Ill
matters relating to the United States.
its reference to items of world interest
is not neglected a chapter on aeronau-
tics. covers what was unquestionab.y
Evening star., 1909-07-17

IN EFT married if YOU are rich" Is
7 good advice for the young wom-
an.
Evening star., 1909-07-17
By Irwin S. Cobb.

OTIS doin' over the
wide. wide world?"
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BOOK REVIEWS.
THE LONG GALLERY. BY Eva Lath-
bury New York: Henry Holt & Co.
Washington: Lowdermilk.

is these dream people who
urge us into real communica-
tion with one another" says
Griselda TO her husband on the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
ANNUAL ISSUED EARLY.
Memorial Day Commemorative Volume
Contains Article by the Late
William F. Villas

MADISON, Wis, Jan. 12.-lSpecial.]
The Memorial Day Annual has just
been issued by the office of the state
superintendent. The publication is sent
out two months earlier this year because
February II is the Tooth anniversary
of Lincoln's birth. Selections suitable
to this occasion have been included in
the volume, which is the largest and
most replete ever issued by the govern
ment. Material is also included in the
pamphlet for Washington's birthday
Memorial day, May 30, Flag day, June
II and Peace day, May IS.
The volume has been prepared by 0.
S. Rice, state library clerk. Among
Wisconsin authors who have selections in
the complication are the late Col. Will
liam E. Villas. Our First Commander"
j. A. Watrous. From Whence Came
They?" Maud Barnett Kronshage, THE
Decoration of the School Room for Me
mortal Day." H. w. Rood, STORY of
Our Flag" and other brief selections.
''The country must be saved in times
of peace no less than in times of war
and heroes of peace must rally round
the flag, not on the battlefield, but at
home, in business, at the ballot box"
says the preface. 1.-The celebration Of
Memorial day should in large degree call
to mind the desperate conflicts and the
heroic sacrifices which were necessary in
order that the nation might endure. But
it should also call to mind the great
civic obligation which rests upon the peo
pie of this country at the present time,
and which will rest upon succeeding gen
erations-the obligation of the unselish
devotions in times of peace to the well
fare of all the people even at the cost,
if need be, of personal sacrifice. With
this two-fold aim clearly in mind the re-
curing celebration of Memorial day, and
the other patriotic holidays, will not
diminish, but will increase in interest
and Importance as years go by"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
MADISON GETS STATION
U. S. FOREST SERVICE LABORATORY
AT WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY.
Decision of Government Will Give Bad
ger University Best Forestry
School in Country.

MADISON. Wis, Jan. 12.-[ SpeciaLI
United States Forester Pinchot an
nounced Monday at Washington that
the great central consolidated laboratory
of the forest service will be located here
on the site to be furnished by the Uni
versity of Wisconsin The choice OF
Wisconsin for the location of the labora-
tory is distinct recognition of the uni
verslty by the government as Michigan,
Cornell and Purdue universities were
all bidding strongly for the honor.
The regents of the university at their
last meeting voted an appropriation or
$4,000 for the erection OF suitable
building for laboratory purposes, and
row that the choice has been made the
structure will be rushed to completion.
The United States forest service will
equip the laboratory at a cost of $4,000
and will furnish the entire corps of in
veStigators. 1t is estimated that the In
stltution will start with about twenty
five employees with salary list of over
$4,000 with the prospect of doubling
in size and Importance within a short
time.
The Investigations that will be carried
on are not distinctly in line with the
work commonly considered under the
forest service. They will relate rather
to the uses and utilities of woods and
their by-products and to the study of
soils and fertilizers with reference to
their adaptibility in tree culture. The
laboratories will be open to the students
and the faculty of the university for in
vestigation purposes. Members of the
investigating staff will lecture to the
students which will give the university
the advantage of practically the best
equipped school of forestry in the coun-
try.
The timber and paper industries of the
state will benefit directly as a result of
the decision of the government to es-
tablish the station at the University of
Wisconsin. One of the important ex-
periments to be carried on will be the
production of wood pulp from materials
not now used
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
LATEST MARKET REPORTS
MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 10.
EGG AND DAIRY MARKETS.

MILWAUKEE-BUTT steady :
Elgin price Of extra creamery Is 32c; local
price, extra creamery is SIC; prints, 33c;
tirsts, 27@29c; seconds 22@25c; process, 23a
2 "a dairy, fancy 25@26c; lines, 21@22c;
CHEESE-Sreaoy: American full cream
new make, twins, 131a@14c; Young Amer
icas, 14914Rc; daisies 140141ac; long.
horns, 14@141hc; limburger. new make.
141s@15c; fancy brick, 14@141sc; low
grades, 9@1O1ac: imported Swiss. 25c; new
block, 131a@14c; round Swiss, 14GD15c
EGGS-Firm. The produce boards of
fetal market for strictly fresh laid as re-
ceived. cases returned. Sic; fresh recan-
deled, 35@36c; April storage, 28c; recandeled
storage, zoe; seconds and checks, 15@D1Sc.
Receipts, ITS cases; yesterday, 200 cases.
ELGIN, H., Jan. 1.-THE Elgin board
of trade declared butter firm at &c. The
total output for the week in this district
was 587, 200 lbs.
CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 12.-Cheese-Firm;
Americas, 141ac.
CHICAGO, H., Jan. Butter-Steadyi
creamerles, 22@32c; dairies, 211a@27c Eggs
Firm; firsts, 311ac.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Butter- Steady;
receipts, 12,4O8; creamery extras, 32@33c.
Cheese-Firm; receipts, Ills; state full
creamery, late made, small, best, 1910.
Eggs-Higher and firmer; state Pennsyl
vania and nearby fancy selected white, 40c;
fair to choice, 36@39c; do brown and mixed
fancy, 35@36c; do fair to choice, 32@34c;
western frsts, 33c; do seconds, 31@32c
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
OrvilIe Wright Goes to Paris.

Orville Wright left New York on the
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse for Paris
to join his brother, Wilbur, who with
the Wright aeroplane has conquered the
air and aroused the wonder of France.
Miss Wright accompanied her brother.
Wright walked with a perceptible limp.
81 haven't recovered from the effects
of that accident yet" he said. This
cane is still of use, and the surgeons
tell me may have to limp for two years
yet. I do not expect to make many
ascents in France. This will be sort
of family reunion, and there are certain
business matters that must be attended
to. l do not know whether we shall
remain in Paris, go to LIE Mans or to
the south of France, where the weather
may be more favorable for flying at this
time of year. Anyhow. probably shall
occupy myself with designing improve
ments for our aeropiane. OF course my
brother and l feel we can still improve
upon it,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
MARKETS BY TELEGRAPH.

MILWAUKEE,, Jan. 12.1W 1n1
northern, on track, 1;os1z@1. 107k. Corn
Steady; No. 8 on track, 5SA@59c. Oats
Easier; standard, 511a@52c; No 3 white, on
track, 49A@517zc Barley-Steady; stand
ard, &c Rye-Firm; No. l on track, 7612c.
Flour quotations in CARROTS are: Hard
spring wheat patents. il wood. 5.45q5.6
straights, in wood, 5,35@5. %; export pat
ents, in sacks, 4.4594so; first clears eleaals Il, in
country, 365@a.9o; sacks. Kansas, in wood
'' CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 12-cash wheat
No. 2 red, 1.O5M@1. O65s; No. 3 red, Long
1O51k; No. 2 hard, 1025s@1. 04A; No. hard,
I.OO11. O3A; No, 1 northern, 1881 .0915 !;
No. northern, 1o7@Los; No, 8 spring,
61061Ac; No. 3 yellow, 584@59c; No. i.
57Ea5s1kc Oats-No. 5 white, 4915@51c;
No. 4, 4995Oc. standard. 51h@52c
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 12.-Receipts-Flou
q, 767 bbls; wheat, Il 600 bus; corn, 3s1, 900
bus; oats, 600 bus; barley, 1S4 400 bus !;
rye. 1000 bus; timtothy seed, l99.93o lbs
bbls; wheat. 9517 bus; corn. 364, 12S bus;
oats, 2O5, 1S8 bus; barley, 35,412 bus; rye,
5000 bus; timothy seed, 90,730 lbs; daxseel,
1000 bus.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
In Luck.

Fog more than week the man had
been out of work. One Monday might
however, when he came back to the
lodging house he reported "good luck"
What are you going to do?' asked
his friend.
Break eggs" was the reply. "I've got
q position in a cake and cracker factory
They have people III those concerns who
do nothing but crack eggs. They begin
it at s o'clock in the morning and keep
1t up till at night. In that time, they
tell me, man who has become an ex-
pert can break 5000 eggs, or an average
of 1000 an hour. And he doesn't smash
them all at one clip, either. He tackles
them singly and disposes of them in
groups of five. That is, in order to avoid
any accident with over pc eggs, five of
them are broken into bowl and then
added to the general stock
Great heavens" calculated his friend.
What monotonous grind, How much
do you get for it?'
Zone dollar day to start WITH" said
the lucky man. When | get up 60 the
thousand,an-hour mark III get $50, -
New York Times.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15

$500. 25; lambs, common to fair 5.OO@6 co.;
sheep, good to choice, 10000. so; sheep, com
-SHEEP.-
81 lambs. I 20 $! :sse 81 lambs 80 $50
CUDAHY Wis Ian IAN 12 Maee 1000
5.55@5. 80; poor to good heavy packing, 5.65
@6O0; medium and butchers, $500. 10; Sc
lect packing and shipping, ,5.so@6;2o; fair
3OOa5. % Representative sales: 81 hogs
average POI at $40; 63 hogs, average PIT at
5s5 IS hogs average 334 at Go 4s ho ySs
heg s Ho Is at 5sS % hogs
IS hogs, average III at $50; SO hogs, aver
age 1856 at SIS; % hogs, average ia at 800.
CHICAGO III Jan l21CattleERece1pts
s5m7tsd It Te2 2o aGas5
4OO@5. go; stockers and feeders, 325Q5. 90;
cows and heiferss, 1.75@5.5o; calves e, LOG
ket sc higher; light, 530@5.95; mixed, $50
QD615; heavy, 56O@62O: rough, 5.6o95, 70;
good to choice heavy 5:75@6;20 pigs, 430a
ceipts, estimated, $4,000; market steady; ma
tive, 3.1O@5.75; western, 3.15@5. S5; year
lings, 6.O0@7 %; lambs, native, 5OO@8.Oo;
KANSAS CITY, Mo, Jan. 12-Cattle-Re-
ceipts, 11,OOO; steady to strong; native
steers, 4.75@6sO; native cows and heifers.
bulls, 2.50@2.80; calves, 40O@8.5 so; western
steers. 4OO@65O; western cows 2.O0@5.O0.
Hogs-Receipts, $4,000; &c higher; bulk Of
steady to 1Oc lower; muttons, 4.25@5. s. !:
lambs, 6.5O@7.S5; range wethers 4.5097 CO.;
fed ewes, 3.O005.25.
SOUTH OMAHA, Neb., Jan, 12.-Cattle-
Receipts $500; slow to shade lower; ma.
tive steers, 4OO@7 90; cows and heifers, 800
$3.50; western steers, S5o@6,40; Texas
steers, 3.OO05.25; range cows and heifers,
27505.35; calves. 2.OO@8OO. Hogs-Re-
ceipts, 97OO; market sc higher; bulk of
sales, 5.7O@5.95. sheep-,Receipts, $500;
steady; lambs, 6.5o@7. Is; sheep, 4;Oog6.s5;
ST. LOUIS, Mo, Jan. 12.-Cattle-ke-
ceipts, 1000; steady; beef steers, 5.OO@7 60;
stockers and feeders, 3.25@4.75; cows and
heifers, 3.25@650; Texas steers, 3.OO@6.5O;
loads, 5.OO@85O. Hogs-Receipts, 10000;
market SC higher; pigs and lights, 5.OOg
500; packers, 5.SO@6.O5; butchers and best
heavy, 595@625. Sheep-Receipts, 5000:
stronger; natives, 425@5.25; lambs, $500
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15

or the balance would be on the wrong
side. Mexican greasers cost me between
IS and 50 for food a month"; but they
will do a good $3.50 worth of work a
day; but take your husky young foreign
err or native-born American worker-he
costs less-ahout So a month when you
are catering on big scale, but he wants
a choicer class of food; but then he
fellows 50 and $3.50 a day and have
bigger margin of profit than for the
cheaper unskilled labor. Everything has
got to make good on this farm on the
profit side of accounts, from blade
of wheat up-or it goes!'-Agnes c.
Laut in The Outing Magazine
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
WHAT AIS OUR FARMS?
Chiefly, Say the Experts, the Greed or
the Farmers.

In the closing decade of the last CEN
tury the land values Of Ohio sllrank
$50 100000. In Minnesota, the great
wheat state, the average yield an acre
has dropped one bushel in the last i've
years In Kansas the retrogreSsion Is
even more marked.
The census report gives the average
annual product an acre of all the farms
in the United States as worth S11.3o:
This figure, poor as 1T is, must owe u
great deal to the newly opened teSfl-
tories, for the great agricultural states
of Minnesota and Illinois fell consider
ably below it,
With the most fertile land in the
world. saws the Craftsman, we are pro-
ducing much less than other peoples ex-
tract from lands of poorer quality and
longer subsection to filth. During the
ten years ending with 1910 we RAISED
thirteen and fve-tenths bushels of wheat
to the acre. In Austria and hungary
the average was seventeen bushels; IN
France it was nineteen and eight-tenths;
in Germany, twenty-seven and SIX
tenths; and in the United Kingdom,
thirty-two and two-tenths bushels. The
figures for barley, oats and other crops
show the same contrast.
AS an iflustra ton of what can De zone
here under intensive farming. it may be
stated that in Yellowstone county, Mon
tana, the following yields an acre have
been secured: Wheat, SO bushels, oats.
1853 bushels, and potatoes, 1918 bushels,
while 1920 tons of alfalfa have been
grown on 200 acres.
The impoverishment of our lands has
been brought about in the main by sin
gle cropping and the neglect Of fertili "a
ton Almost everywhere in the country
it has been the practice OF our farmers
to select the crop which promised the
best immediate return and to plant their
fields in it year after year without rest
or change, and in spite of the protests
Of scientists and the demonstrations OF
agricultural colleges and experiment sta
tons.
Whereas arabic land should under
proper treatment grow richer and more
bountiful year by year, our agricultural
acres are deteriorating so fast that the
owner derives from them an annual in
come equal to no more than what would
be a moderate rental if they were in
ordinary condition and properly cult
waited.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
The Goose-Liver Trade.

In Strasburg this month the canning
Of the famous goose livers begins and
will keep several thousand people busy
till next April. The finest livers come
from geese that have never laid an egg.
Johann Clauss in 1890 began to make
goose-liver pates in a small shop. He
succeeded; but competitor named med
pastry, soon outdistanced him. Now all
pates de foie gras contain truffies; all
are made according to the recipe COM
posed by the talented Doyen over a
hundred years ago.-Philadelphia Bulle-
tin
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-15
SPRUCE GUM CATERERS.
Work in Maine Woods Which Is Vaca
ton at the Same Time.

Among those who are waiting patient
~ for snow, and who are preparing for
operations in the Maine woods when it
finally does come are the gum pickers,
says the Kennebec Journal. 1t is true,
there are not so many Of the gum pick
ers as in years gone by, when it was
a somewhat extensive business, but there
are yet many who go into the woods for
this express purpose every winter, and
who pick up considerable money by their
operations.
During the past week several Of these
men have been fitting out with wood
outfits and knapsacks for carrying the
gum. Just as soon as the snow comes,
they will hike for the spruce woods, and
begin their winters campaign. They take
along fishing tackle, and so are able to
live at very little expense. Many of those
who follow this practice of gum digging
are men who just desire to pass the
winter with as little work as possible,
and be comfortable in their own peculiar
way.
They have the freedom of the woods,
and are their own bosses. In the spring
they get good prices for the product of
their labors, if the gum is sound and
we'll picked. Inferior product is difficult
to dispose of. Gum is getting scarcer
every year, and commands higher price
than it formerly did.
Good spruce gum cannot be obtained
at the drug stores at less than 25 cents
an ounce. The spots sought by the gum
pickers are the scenes of numbering
operations of the previous year The
falling trees scratch and cut those that
are left standing, and the bleeding thatfol-
lows brings the clusters of gum. It is not
so easy as it sounds, either, this gum
picking, and if it were necessary to ac
complish it by eight-hour days, few
would be found to take over the job.