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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
DEPENDS ON TEST OF THE GUN
Army VIII Adopt Sixteen-lnch If Navy
Finds 1t Can Use the
Fourteen.

Sixteen-inch guns for the army will
follow a successful test of 14-inch guns
for the navy, according to Brig. Gen.
William Crozier, chief Of ordnance.
The decision will hinge on the trials
of the new navy rifles. 1--WE still have
an advantage over the navy, said
General Crozier. 1--WE can build guns
more powerful than the toughest ar
imor they can produce. The navy Is
pretty close to the limit of armor pro-
lection, and we have by no means
built the most powerful guns of which
we are capable. The navy is now pro-
posing to arm it's new battleships with
14-inch guns. Those rifles will be of
higher power than the army 14-inch
gun and consequently more powerful.
If the navy adopts 14-inch guns as
permanent feature, we shall have to
meet this advance in the fighting
strength of warships. We shall then
increase the power of our gun"
1t was only a short time ago that
the army adopted the 14-inch rifle.
One OF the new type has been COM
pleted and tested. Twelve others are
now in the process of construction. 1t
seems probable that an entirely new
type will be adopted even before the
batch of 14-inch guns has been COM
pleted.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
Bachelor Snubbers,

When the bachelor, who is undenia-
bly, that, finds girls staring at him
with theis noses turned up and cold,
icy stare in their eyes, he may be sure
that he is in the presence of bachelor
snubbers. The organization made at
Paterson, N j., reputed to have been
a home for anarchy and like decisions,
is composed of young women who dis
dain the men who disdain the maid
ems. Their slogan is: IF he wants to
flock himself, let him flock till he
wearies" He will be cut out OF lawn
parties and river chills and all the
other incidents of sentimentality and
feminine sociability.
The provocation to this position was
the organization of a bachelor asso-
citation by the fellows who thought
they could play friends and yet not go
further. The girls believe they will
break up the recalcitrant organization.
AS the movement has spread, the
snubbers may be met anywhere, ex-
cept in Baltimore, where the girls are
so pretty and alluring that they have
to shoe off the men who flock about
them with proposals to wed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
.aDETS
NO POLO PONIES
Washington Officials Won't Pay Cost
of the Game at West Point
Major Out $1,975.

Maj. ]. M. Carson, Jr., quartermas-
ter in the United States army, would
be glad to dispose of $1,795 worth of
polo ponies. The ponies have been
used by the West Point cadets in play
ing the game
Maj. Carson, who has a kind heart
but is not versed in the law, paid the
S1,975 for the ponies in April 1909.
Then he presented the bill in the reg
ular way with his other accounts to
the war department. The auditor or
the war department squinted at the
item and finally refused to reimburse
the major.
BY this time the major was getting
a little anxious and appealed to the
comptroller of the currency to re-
verse the auditors decision. The
comptroller of the currency seems to
be as hard hearted as the auditor of
the war department, for he has just
handed down a decision leaving the
major with his batch of polo ponies
on his hands and no money to REIN
burse him.
The comptroller says that the ap-
priation for horses, cavalry, artil-
lery and engineers" under which the
major thought he was authorized to
buy the polo ponies, is not properly
chargeable with such expenditure. The
comptroller adds that he does not
know of any other appropriation to
which the amount can be charged.
The action Of the comptrolled will
be almost as sad a blow to the ca.
diets as it is to Maj Carson, for it
will mean that they will have to
give up polo undess they play with
cavalry horses or mules. 1t looks as
if the major would have to give up
about $1,975 until he can dispose of
the ponies.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
VoItaire and Frederick.

Apropos of the recent lottery in
France, Paris contemporary inquiries
whether the winner of the first prize
knows that similar luck befell a great
Frenchman. Voltaire, it seems, gained
in 1871 100000 francs organized to pay
off the debt on the Hotel de Vile. The
philosopher was in difficulties after
the publication of his "Henriade," and
this little venture saved the situation.
1t was effective if not dignif1ed, but
Voltaire did not always act with dig
nifty. We have read somewhere that
when that strange friendship between
him and Frederick the Great was on
the wane, the King. who could stoop
to meanness, cut down Voltaire's sup
ply of cocoa, and the author of Ma
homet" Unidentified himself by pocket
ing the wax candles Of the palace, and
further revenged himself by showing
to friends some Of Frederick's bad
verses, which he had to touch up, and
observing, See the dirty linen | have
to wash" or words to that effect.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02

non-contiguous territories of the
United States, and 100000 ship
ments to those territories.
The value of fruits and nuts i'm
ported into and exported from the
country in the fiscal year which ended
June 80, 1910, was in round terms $751;
100000, Of which about one-third rep
resented exports. A compilation made
by the bureau Of statistics of the de-
partment of commerce and labor gives
the years imports of fruits and nuts
at $36,000,0O0 and exports at $4,000
900.
A study of the commercial move
ments during the last decade or two
develops the fact that domestic pro
duction is rapidly supplanting certain
classes of fruits formerly imported in
large quantities. This applies espe
cially to raisins, prunes and oranges.
Certain other lines, in which local pro-
duction is still insufficient to meet
home consumption, continue to in
crease in value of imports, notably
bananas. figs, walnuts, cocoanuts and
d1LuOuuS. SO1upul luS LIIO 4hpOA ID VI
the year just ended with those of one
and two decades ago, imports of fruits
and nuts as a whole have increased
from $21 100000 in 1890 and $4,000,
900 in 1900 to about $36,000,000 in 1910
On the export side far more rapid
growth has occurred since 1890. In
that year the total value Of all fruits
and nuts exported from the country was
but $4,000,000. in 1900 the total had
increased to nearly $12,0O0,000, and in
1910, about s19.000,O00. The principal
articles contributing to this growth
are apples, prunes, oranges, raisins,
apricots, canned fruits and nuts.
OF foreign fruits consumed in the
United States, bananas supply about
one-third. The imported bananas come
chiefly from Costa RIGA, Honduras and
Panama in Central America, the Brit
.ish West Indies and Cuba. Italy sup
plies practically all the lemons i'm
ported into the country. Of course,
the Xante variety, produced in
Greece, supplies most Of the imports.
Raisins, formerly coming In at the
rate of 100000 per annum, chiefly
from Spain and Turkey in Asia, have
practically disappeared as an article
of importation, and as above indicated,
are now becoming an important arti-
Gle of export.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
OUR CIGARETTES IN CHINA
Consul General Charles DENLY Says
America Has Taught the Chinese
to Smoke Them.

America has taught the people of
the Chinese empire to smoke ciga-
rettes. In a report to this govern
ment on foreign trade by Consul Gen
eral Charles DENLY Of Vienna in
which he described the class of for
eign markets which may be created
by American enterprise and then
supplied. the consul general says:
"One of the most conspicuous ex-
amples OF such a market is the de-
mand for the cigarette in China. Ten
years ago the cigarette was an article
used in China by small number of
people, chiefly foreigners. The field
attracted the attention of group of
American manufacturers who exam
ined into 1t and decided to introduce
the cigarette to the Chinese people
by American methods. The result is
that now the cigarette is popular
throughout the empire"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
PRISON LIFE IS A LUXURY
convicts Have a Delightful Time In
the Comic Opera Jails OF
Switzerland.

Prison life in Switzerland is lux
hry instead of punishment Inc
comic opera jail at Thorburg, where
the inmates did as they pleased, mas
only recently been suppressed by the'
Berne authorities, yet details are pup;
lished of a similar institution at Sar-.
men. in the canton of Oswald.
Sarnen is apparently an ideal penal
resort, for the happy criminals VINO
are sentenced to terms of detention |
in that institution have a far better
time than hundreds of free" SWISS
citizens who are forced to earn their
bread.
A correspondent of a Lausanne pa
per states that he was passlngi
through Sarnen when he saw num-
Der of men, dressed in dark DlueI
clothes with white stripes, walking
about the village, smoking and joking.
Others were seated in cafe, and
some were working in leisurely man;
ner, carrying bricks for the construc-
ton of a new building. To his as
constituent the correspondent found
that the men were convicts from the
cantonal prison close by.
These convicts are permitted 10
leave the prison early in the morning
and find work around Sarnen, or walk
about the country until nightfall, when
they return of their own accord TO
the prison.
They are unaccompanied by ward
ers, and there is nothing to prevent
their escaping, but they are far too
comfortable to think of relinquishlng
their quarters, for they have as much
liberty as other men, and are, more
over. fed and lodged for nothing.
The money earned by these con-
victs who choose to work can be spent
as they like. One convict, who is en-
ployed as a gardener by local mag
istrate, sends his monthly salary to
his wife and children.
Two or three convicts escaped
some weeks ago, but they eventually
returned to the prison in a half-fam-
ished condition, and after being Sc
verely reprimanded, they were al
lowed to return to their apartments.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
A Calamity.

AT last. At last" exclaimed the
bent old man with the long white hair
and the flowing beard MY great
work has been accomplished. have
placed the world forever in my debt"
What have you done?" asked the
one who had paused to listen"
II have invented a new language
a language that shall be for all men
Mine is the greatest triumph that
has ever been achieved by mortal. In
this language of mine 1t will be i'm
possible TO tell a lie."
Good heavens. Do you want to fix
1T so that no man can hope to live with
his wife?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
Riis and His Typewriter Girl.

Jacob Riis became interested in a
pale-faced young typewriter girl in his
office, and asked if the constant click,
click, click of the machine did not af-
feet her nerves.
Yes, SIR" said the girl, the nerv-
GUS strain is sometimes almost mad
dening"
so l feared" said the sympathetic
reformer. Don't typewriter girls ever
graduate into something easier and
better?"
Sometimes they do; just some
times" replied the girl as a blush
beautified her pale face.
And what do they do to better
themselves? ?" inquired the good man.
Marry their employers" said the
girl, as she lowered her head over her
work, and blushed more deeply.
Then important business called Mr..
Rlis outside.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
POPULAR GAME OF "CUTTING"
Always Finds Favor With Boys and
Girs-SimpIe Prizes Given
to Winners.

A game of cutting" always finds
favor with boys and girls. Provide
each person with an old magazine.
q pair of scissors. a small cup of
homemade paste and a brush made
by folding a piece of paper many
times and then finely slashing one
end. Besides these things give to
each player several sheets of plain
paper a little larger than magazine
page. Each person is to cut out any
picture or parts of pictures he chooses
and mount them on the plain paper TO
make new pictures. After half an N~u~
all of the pictures should be placed
where they may be seen. Slmp.e
prizes should be given to those ma
king the prettiest, the most comical
or the most original sheets.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
COTTON LEADS OUR EXPORTS
Shipments of Natural Products Fall
Of, While Manufactures Set
New High Record.

Cotton, copper, Illuminating OIL
wheat-these articles, in the order
named, formed the most important
articles exported from the United
States during the fiscal year just
closed. The value of the cotton ex'
ported was $45O,OOO00O; Of the cop
per, $S3,500,O0O; of the Illuminating
oil. $62, 100000, and of the wheat. SAL
100000.
Other articles of export ranked in
value as follows: Flour, lard, tobacco,
lumber, upper leather, corn. bitumi'
nous coal and lubricating OIL
In nearly all the articles OF natural
production there was a marked de-
cline in the exports of 1910, as COM
pared with previous years, while in
certain manufactures the figures for
the year are larger than for any pre-
vious year, and the total for all man
ufacturers probably will exceed that
of any earlier year. The bureau of
statistics, which has given out these
figures, has not yet completed the to-
tai value of the manufactures ex-
ported.
The falling off is most marked in
corn, wheat, flour and meats, wheat
falling from $161, 100000 in 1892, the
high year, to $47,OO0.0O0 in 1910; corn
from sS5,OOO,OOO in 1900 to $25, 100000
in 1910: -four from $75,0OO,000 in 1893
to SAG. 100000 in 1910; lard from $780,
900 900 in 1906 to 100000 in 1910;
bacon from s46,0O0,OOO in 1898 to $751;
100000 in 1910; fresh beef from $32.-
100000 in 1901 to $7,750000 in 1910.
and cattle from $42,O00,000 in 1904 to
$12,OO0,0OO last year.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
Qualified For Musical Comedy

De Wolf Hopper, in the course of a
visit to Coney Island, praised the 1.-the
figures of the young girls who, in blue
bathing suits and silk stockings, paced
the glittering and windswept beach.
These graceful girls" said the
comedian, make me think OF young
lady | took down the other night to
dinner.
Mr.. Hopper she said, as she SIP
ped her cup of cold consomme. did
you know l was starring in musical
comedy now
Why, no. said l, I didn't even
know you'd studied singing
"'Oh, l never studied singing she
replied. i took a gymnastic course
for the figure"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
American Trade With Territories.

Trade of the United States with its
non-continguous territories for the
fiscal year just ended aggregated about
$40, 0OO,0 900. according to statistics Of
the department of commerce and la
Dor. The department contrasts this
with the record of 1897. when the
trade with non-contiguous territories
aggregated only s35,0O0,000 The
largest percentage of gain during the
past year was in the Philippines, TO
which the recent tariff act extended
the privilege of interchange of mar
chandise free of duty. Imports from
the Philippines in the IL months end
ing with May. 1910, were valued at
S15,ss7, AIS and exports at s15,14o.445.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
BETTY'S cAkE-WALk.

When Betty saw cake-walk,
She laughed at ali the fun.
And thought IL was the strangest thing
She'd seen beneath the sun.
The bowling and the dipping
She taught her dolls next day.
Though II was quite ridiculous
To walk that silly way.
When Betty takes cake-walk
There's something at the end;
She doesn't learn TO scrape and bow,
And turn and twist and bend.
But onward like a soldier
She marches 10 the fore;
The end OF Betty's cake-waE
Is at the pantry door.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02

United states du-
ring the last ten
Y e ars. OF this
amount, $2S5,OOo,-
900 represents the
value of imports
from foreign coun-
tries. $156,000,0 900
exports to foreign
countries, $4,000
900 receipts from
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
Unfortunate.

u am so unfortunate" she said, i'm
pressively and confidentially, "as to
possess the gift of divining exactly
what every one thinks of me-"
He Extraordinarily That is un.
fortunate. Scraps.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02

England as early at least as the four
teenth century, when its form was
the same as it is now.
Today boys play with the Humming-
top. This is hollow, having at it's
crown a peg, round which is wound a
string; this being pulled through a
kind of fork, gives motion to the top
and sets it spinning-the fork and the
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02

"Oh dear! It's raining hard" said Pus
1T feel it on my nose.
We need our rubber o. er-shoes,
And I'd like some rubber hose!
'I'd love to have the over-shoes,'
Said little Fluffy Toes.
But excuse me dear If 1 observe
We do not need the hose!
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
INTERESTING FACTS OF TOPS
Whip-Top Is Very Old, 1t Having Been
Used In Remote Time by
Grecian Boys.

Many tops are of modern invention
but the Whip-top is very old, 1t nav
ing been used in remote time by the
Grecian boys. 1t was well known IN
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
A SliQht Mistake

See here, did you tell Won Clubber
was the worst liar you ever metz"
Not much, old chap told him you
were the ocst"-Judge.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
The Usual CROP.

Are you trying 10 raise anything
on your suburban placer"
Yes; q uortgage."
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-09-02
FRUITS AND NUTS
PRODUCTION SUP
PLANTING IMPORTED VARIETY.
Several Lines That Were Once Almost
Wholly Brought From Abroad
Are Now Largely Produced
i'm This Country.

Fruits and nuts valued at $45S,000,-
900 have passed through ports of the
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

II is matter Of interest to know that
sup.rintenlent IcAlilstar has been and
is taking every percaution to prevent
asy possil le catastrophe in the mines
over which he has charge. Ee has place d
o.er two mills OF water pipe along n
main entries and is laying every paru-
cal CT dust by srrinliling from these
water pipes. No man. known 10 be care
les in obeying thc mine rules relating
o lighting p.p,i all clrrying mit.hes
iu tas min VIII he retained and any
person violating ths rule, viii immediate
ly discharged.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29
Notice of Stock
holders I1eeting
Crested Butte. Colo.
Fec. Is. 1919.

Notice is hereby riven that
the annual meeting OF the
stockholders of the Bank of Crest
ed Butte, will be held at its bank
ing house on Monday, Jan. End
1911 at eight O'Clock p. M. for
the purpose of eleciing a beard
of Directors to serve during the
year and for the transaction oil
any other business properly
brought before said meeting.
Witness my hard and the sea
of said Bank at Crested Butte
Colorado. this first day of Dec
A. D. 1910.
Jos. II. Block Cashier
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29
,rns. who oxn nnd nperai. M

Bros. WHO oSn and operat. III
two mines here. The Canon Cit,
mine is one of The greatest Goa
miuing propositions ever opened
in the state and is located in
in Wolf park two and one half
miles south of the city and shaft
was sunk near the ceuter of the
park or coal basin to Il depth OF
eleven hundred feet where six
foot vein of the hardest and clean
est domestic coal was encountered
that was ever found in the entire
Canon City coal field. The compa-
nv has n beautiful towusite location
aud there are some forty or fifty
houses already CONSTRUCTED and Il
water work system is now being
put in anc Post Office established
hearing the name Littell, Colorado.
The company is now maintain
~ . .!.:l,- !..: :i,::. q tvs hundred
tons which is gradually being in.
creased as the mine development
gees forward. rhe conl after de-
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

1t is rumoreti to be the purpose OF the
.. & Z. G. raiirosl TO broad gauge the
lines between Sailda and Montrose and
the york of doing this VIII commence
IN April. tits sincerely hop-d tnHt there
Is something more than talk this tine
and that before next summer is ovso
broad gauge trains viii he pnihng n
and out Of our town and thousands oil
cars of our coal viii thsl b. sesn goi ng
TO the plains of Kaasas and the desert
lands of the Pacific Coast.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

The Plot is in racript of a bullct
from Brof. Royal Jarvis of the Univer-
iity at Knoxville Tenn. which was pre-
scented by him at the recent session Of
the American Institute OF Mining Engi-
neers- TIE subject matter contained in
the h.l!itan is q briaf discr;ptic, cs
Pyritic smelling at Leadville where the
process was first made success and
where Piof. JARVIS was employed as
chemist for the works.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

livery from the shaft, is dumped in
screens, from which it goes iuto
shutcs frcn which the lump and
screenings are loaded into aerial
tram cars that are hauled on
cable rails by a traction cable to
the railroad a mile ana e quarter
distant from the mine al a cost
of not exceeding five cents a ton
The company has a pernsaran,I
lease upon the land which consis s
Of GAO acres of school land belong !
ing to the state and the cost to|
sink the Shaft and equip the
mine for coal production has been|
upwards of one hundred thousand
dollars but there is large de
mand already for the coal, most
of which is being shipped in fifty|
ton cars to Kansas and Oklahoma!
which is realizing the company
above one hundred and fifty doll
lars per car F. o. B. This coal isl
sold in Canon City at $3.50 a ton.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

The Masquerade Ball given by the
Clerks last Friday night was quite a
uccess. There wss the usual array of
r diculous costumes. Just before supper =
iprize waltz WIS 'announc d. Several
,ouples danced, but the judges finally
decided in favor of Miss Julia Voss and
ioe kachever. A handsome ten pound
OK of chocolates was given as prize.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

F. Ausiia Wilson arrived from Bostoa
asst week TO COX after his various mir
ng interests In this section. He is plan
ling TO do large development work on
iis Galena mountain properties this
omiag year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

The Colorado Telephone Company
as opened their line from Gunnison a
;alida by which means there will be tw I,
alephone lines connecting us with the
outside world ard it is not likely that
9th will be out of commission at the
same time.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

TIE Floresta Coal mines closed down
'ast week for the winter. after the mo I
Iuccessful season run ever had by the
company and larger output than made
heretofore. Proper credit should be Civ
n Supt. McAllister the results.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29
S>N'M=
Jeweiry Store.
a. KURE'TICH
-SiL-->N'E

Musical instruments, full
line of Xmas gifts. pictures
optical goods, clocks, watches
jeweIry, etc.
A Speciality is made in all
kinds OF repair work.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29
NOTICE

Jan. lst. 1890 Ring out the old
Ring in the new.
7.3op.m. Turning of a new page.f
Rev. Glen Stewart Pastor
United Congregational Church
Start the New Year right.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

c. c. Brunnsr came up from the low
~ country the first of the week and
ventto Eleo f,r the purpose of arrang
ing to @ ahead with the winter work
n his minas near there.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

The Colorado Supply and C. F.& /.
'o1paaies, presented some three ken
ired h4h pound boxes of chocolates 70
the children OF the Catholic AMI CoHgre-
yatioaal Churches OF this city.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

Ms. Kate Bouser. daughter of MIS-.
louag with her little daughter, is here
fiom Rollins Wyoming. for ths holiday
season.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1910-12-29

The u. c. Church Entertainment
and Christmas tree. given last Saturday
evening was largely attended and mnch
mayed by everyone. Tie musical pro-
yaaIn was considered excellent.