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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
WOULD RAISE PAY
OF STATE TEACHERS
WISCONSIN ASSOCIATION AFTER
NEW LAW 70 INCREASE
SALARIES.
PROF. PATZER'S STATISTICS
Statement Shows That Many Are
Earning Only SO Gents Day.
Men Leaving Profession
Rapidly,

Milwaukee.-To the end that bill
may be introduced at the next ses-
sion of the Wisconsin legislature es-
tablishing a minimum salary law for
rural school teachers of the state,
Prof. G. E. Patzer of the Milwaukee
Normal school has compiled num-
Der of rather startling statistics
which are to be used in the interests
of bringing such a law into effect.
The Wisconsin State Teachers as
ISOLATION has for a number of years
known some of the conditions which
existed regarding the salaries of ru-
raj school teachers, and also saw that
some legislation should be secured to
remedy them. At the last annual
meeting of the association held in
Milwaukee the legislative committee.
consisting of G. E. PatZer of Milwau-
kee, chairman; Supt. Leo P. Fox of
Chiffon, Supt. John Callahan of Me-
nasha, Fl. P. Landgraf, president of
the association, and State Supt. G.
P. Cary, was directed to secure sta
tistics on rural school teachers sal
aries.
From State Supt Cary's report of
1908, in which was published the
teachers salaries based on eight
months of teaching, Prof. c. E. Pat
ger made authentic deductions using
the twelve-month basis instead Of the
eight-month basis. AS the result of
his deductions he found that there
were 81 teachers who worked for
$162 a year, or for SO cents a day;
526 teachers who worked for 1892
i year, or 62 cents a day; 1920
teachers who worked for $238 year,
or II cents day; 1851 teachers who
worked for 1921 a year, or 80 cents
a day; 2,164 teachers who worked
for 1923 a year, or $1.04 day, and
1890 teachers who worked for So 66
year, or SLY day. The general
deduction made was that there was
about 5000 rural school teachers in
Wisconsin working for an average OF
80 cents day.
In gathering the statistics Mr.. Pat
ger found that between the years OF
1900 and 1908, 500 men who had
been teaching rural schools resigned
their positions principally on account
of the extremely low prices paid to
them. Mr.. Patzer stated that he be-
lieved it would be but short time
when the presence of a male teacher
in a rural school would be a rare
sight.
Mr.. Patzer stated that the next step
in securing the much needed legis-
lation would be that the legislative
committee of the Wisconsin State
Teachers association would consult
with a special committee from the
state legislature, so that a bill would
be drawn up establishing a minimum
salary law for rural school teachers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
PROBLEMS MANY YEARS OLD
Children of Today Puzzle Over Them
Just as They Did Thousand
Years Ago.

When King Alfred the Great was
reigning over England, a thousand
years ago, school children pondered
over problems in arithmetic much as
our boys and girls do now.
Here are two taken word for word
from lesson book of that day:
The swallow once invited the snail
to dinner. He lived just one league
(three English miles) from the spot,
and the snail travelled at the rate of
only one inch day. How long would
it be before he dined?"
"An old man met child. Good
day, my son., he said. May you live
as long as you have lived, and as
much more, and thrice as much as all
this; and if God gives you one year
in addition to the others, you will be
a century old!' What was that boys
?"-The Comrade.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
WISCONSIN PIONEER DIES
Noted Woman Who Died in Madison
Recently Had Lived rs
Years in State.

Madison.-Mrs.E Ellen A. Shower
man, who died of paralysis in Madi-
son, was one of Wisconsin's pioneer
women. She had been a resident of
Wisconsin since 1897.
Mrs. Showerman's father, Luther
Parker, drove from Indian stream,
New Hampshire, to Milwaukee in
1887, and was the first white settler
In the township of Muskego His wife
came the next year with the three
chlldren, among whom was the little
girl, Ellen Augusta Parker, who had
been born in 1888, and who in 1854
became Mrs. Nathan Cobb and in
1889 Mrs. Hiram Slovenian, her
first husband dying one year after
their marriage.
Luther Parker was a member of
the state legislature in 1845 and in
1916 was active in the campaign for
the formation of Waukesha county
from Milwaukee county. Hiram Show
erman was an early settler in Brook
field and was one of the first station
agents and postmasters of that place
He died in 1884 and Mrs. Slovenian
lived in Brookfeld until 1897.
The Parkers are descended from
the Puritan deacon, Thomas Parker,
who came to America from England
in 1885 and settled in Reading,
Mass. Another branch of the same
family included Theodore Parker,
the famous clergyman, and Capt.
John Parker, who commanded colo
NAL soldiers at Lexington in 1775.
About 500 descendants of the Read
ing family of Parkers- fought with
the colonial army during the revo-
lutionary war.
Mrs. Showerman is survived by a
brother, Charles D. Parker, River
Falls, Wis, former lieutenant gov
ernor, and member of the board of
regents of the state university and
of the board of control, and three
sons, E. N. Cobb, Monmouth, ILL.,;
H. P. Slovenian, Walla Walla,
Wash, and Grant Slovenian of the
faculty of the University of Wiscon-
sin.
Funeral services were held at the
residence of Grant SLOVENIAN in
Madison. Interment was at Prairie
Home cemetery, Waukesha.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
Desier Larger Hospital.

La Crosse. Because many believe
that a SIS, 1000 or $4,000 hospital for
tuberculosis patients would not be
large enough to meet the require
ments, there is adverse sentiment TO
an appropriation at this time, and
the call for a special meeting of the
county board may not be issued.
Or the other hand there is de-
mand for a separate building for pa
tients at the county infrmary and a
number of supervisors are deter
mined on the present plans.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
A Shipping Error.

The young duchess of Westminster,
wife of the richest peer in England,
recently gave birth to her third child,
a daughter. Thus there is no heir to
the immense Grosvenor fortune, Earl
Grosvenor, the duchess second child,
having died at the age Of four.
Apropos of all this, rather cruel
story is being told in Newport about
Lady Ursula Grosvenor, the eight
year-old daughter of the young Ouch
ess.
A friend, the story goes, called at
Eaton Hall, and as she sat In the
drawing-room, little Lady Ursula en-
tered.
"Oh, good afternoon" she said,
gravely. Mamma can't see any one
today She's upstairs with the new
baby. They sent her, you know, a girl
when she'd ordered a boy, and she's
so upset that she's quite ILL.,"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
HOW A DOCTOR CURED SCALP
DISEASE

"When I was ten or twelve years
old l had a scalp disease, something
like scald head, though it wasn't that.
L suffered for several months, and
most of my hair came out. Finally
they had a doctor to see me and he
recommended the Cuticura Remedies.
They cured me in a few weeks.
have used the Cuticura Remedies, also,
for breaking out on my hands and
was benefited great deal. haven't
had any more trouble with the scalp
disease. Miss Jessie F. Buchanan,
r. F. D. 8, Hamilton, Ca, Jan. Z, 1903"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
Bogus Officer Sent Up.

Madison.-William A. Kaphen, a
Youthful forger, who posed in this
and other cities as an army officer
and nephew of Senator Tillman,
was found guilty of forging checks
and was sentenced by Judge Donovan
to five years in the reformatory at
Green Bay. Kaphen has reputation
for talking himself out of his many
troubles and in this case he sought
in a long speech to convince Judge
Donovan that the sentence should be
suspended The judge listened and
then passed sentence without any
comment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
SIiohtlv Confused.

All of us become confused and all of
us mix our language sometimes, but
preachers sermon was the greatest
confusion of metaphors I ever heard,
says traveller. When the lengthy dis
course was nearing it's close and he
had reached his "Twenty-thir and
lastly, brethren" he wound up by the
following elaborate figure:
"Everywha, bredren, we see de Al
mighty-all down de untrodden paths
of time, we see de footprints of de
Almighty hand."-Human Life.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
When the Fish Exploded.

Somebody discovered that fish are
fond of gasoline, and this led to the
idea of soaking worms in gasoline in
order to make them more alluring
when used for bait
Mark the result
Two of those gasoline-tempted fish
exploded in the frying pan, and broke
the kitchen window, and blew the
cooks face full of mashed potato, and
hurled the teakettle into the flour bar
rel, and painted the kitchen ceiling
with stewed tomatoes
Call it lying world and let it go at
that.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
Where size Counts.

Edna thoughtfully considered COW
that was calmly grazing in meadow
across the way. Mamma, how old Is
that cow" she finally inquired. "She
is four years DID," answered Edna's
mother. Edna considered the answer
and from time to time appeared to be
comparing herself with the COW.
WELL" was her parting comment on
the question, I'm five and that COW
Is big enough to be fifty"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
EXPECTS TO RAISE BIG SUM
Immigration Commissioner Campbell
Says Industrial Association WIN
Have $4,000 Yearly.

-; WaoSau-A. D. Campbell, COM
~. of immigration, who is in
" ,E'S part Of the state in the interest
~ ."e Wisconsin Industrial associa
o ,,o- SAYS he is confident that the
% ,,SoSlalion will be able to command
.74SI $4,000 a year for publicity.
a;, ne SAYS that the Wisconsin valley
70 ,' u. VIII pledge 100000 acres
t ~ ."s association, and that the terri
,oE Jraversed by the old Wisconsin
g o,.,o"o Will WELD about 100000
5oH =, tie anticipates a total of g.
co,y,,D.eV acres, making the aggregate
boo"yEl5ooUtlons 100000. To this sum
c ~ "uGS from $4,000 to $4,000 as
ana Tn5s'',touHons from manufacturers
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
Good Cranberry Crop.

Marinette-There are indications
that the cranberry crop in Wisconsin
this season will be larger than ever
before The berries are ripening so
much earlier than usual that there is
little probability of any loss by
frosts. The crops on the Boa1er
marshes and several others in thiS
vicinity were destroyed by fire.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
Even the Children.

Ex-Governor Pennypacker, condemn
ing in his witty way the American di-
vorce evil, told, at Philadelphia
luncheon, an appropriate story
Even our children" he said, ARE
becoming infected. A Kensington
school teacher, examining little girl
in grammar, said:
"What is the future Of II love?"'
GA DIVORCE the child answered
promptly"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
Log Drivers Move.

Marinette.-The rains of last week
raised the water in the Menominee
river so that log drives which have
been aground on the stream and it's
branches since early last spring may
be brought down to the mills. One
big drive has been at Little Quinne-
sec falls on the Menominee river and
another below the White & Friant
dam on the Sturgeon river. The two
contain about 100000 feet of tim
her
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
Kept with Barnum's Circus.

P. T. Barnum, the famous circus
man, once wrote: ''I have had the
Cuticura Remedies among the con-
tents of my medicine chest with my
shows for the last three seasons, and /
can cheerfully certify that they were
very effective in every case which
called for their USE"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
DISCUSS Labor Que stjon

-, TJS"NoSh.-The questions of fe-
's ana child labor and providing
jaots parks will be principal sub
ibe ~. discussed in the meeting of
an, Wisconsin Federation of Wom-
and oS-ooS in this city on Oct. 26
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
0Tocers Favor SUNDAY CLOSING.

rers, pIs1lor.-Delegates at the gro
S SnS annual convention discussed the
faro~a, closing laws. The sentiment
closinu general and COMPULSORY
S''s OF all places selling foodstuffs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
HAY on River Bed.

Maiden Rock.-Because of the low
water hay is being cut on the shores
of Lake Pepin, where in past years
large river boats have run.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
GGosse sAxe

OG0NVE bH<O
Harduppe-Say, you bumped into me
and knocked me down with your auto
and | want damages.
Showfurr-Oh, haven't you got
enough? Well, start up and I'll bump
and knock you again.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09

81 have suffered with piles for thirty
six years. One year ago last April be-
gan taking Cascarets for constipation. In
the course of week I noticed the piles
began to disappear and at the end of six
weeks they did not trouble me at all.
Cascarets have done wonders for me. I
am entirely cured and feel like new
man." George Kryder. Napoleon, 0.
Pleasant. Palatable. Potent. Taste Good.
Do Good. Never Sicken Weaken or GRIPPE.
1Oc Csc Soc. Never sold In bulk. The gem
uine tablet stamped &C. Guaranteed to
cure or your money back. $40
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1910-09-09
verv Very Easv

Very, Very Easy.
Patience-You can't do anything
without money?
Patrice-Oh, yes, you can. You can
run in debt.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01
JADED GLOBE TRoTTERS.
Many Cheerless American Tourists
Who Lnck AssimiIatiOn.

Many Cheerless American Tourists
Who Lnck AssimiIntiOn.
On a day of winter sunshine last
January l chanced to be in Yokohama.
and found that agreeable city enduring
an unusual invasion, George Gascoyne
says in the National Review. A swarm
of American tourists had been
dumped" on the shores of Tokyo bay
from a great German liner, which lay
at anchor in the roadstead. / forget
how many hundreds they numbered,
but they seemed to pervade the entire
landscape.
They had started from New York
and were making tour around the
world at express speed, and they were
not an exhilarating party. They were
Mark Twain's pilgrims over again, the
passengers of The Quaker City on a
new and extended scale. At Yoko-
hama they had plainly reached the
stage of intense, unutterable boredom.
Luncheon was the only thing that real
ly interested them. They sat In stolid
rows In the lounge of their hotel. thew
hung about the entrance hall. they
filled every seat in the drawing room.
They were too languid to talk to one
another, and they even forgot to ex-
plain to the unsuspecting stranger that
they were American.
The comment of the head waiter
was instructive. "One small ginger
ale is the only order I've had all
through lunch" was his melancholy
complaint. 1t was tolerably obvious
that their one desire was to get back
to New England, from whence most of
them seemed to hail.
Those cheerless tourists at Yoko-
hama, with their leaden eyes and
dazed expressions, have learned too
late one great truth about world
travel. You cannot vegetate for fifty
years In small town or city Office
and then expect to swallow the whole
world at gulp.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01
LEPERs OF THE HAwA1Is.
Conditions on the Island of MOlOs
lxni Have Been Misunderstood.

Conditions on the Island of Molos
kni Have Been Misunderstood.
No greater misconception Of any
public institution prevails to-day than
the general idea of the leper settle
ment on the island of Molokai, R. B.
Kidd says in Harper's Weekly. In
stead of the entire island being used
for such purpose, the settlement COM
prises only eight square miles of a
total area of 261 square miles. 1t oc-
cupies a tongue Of land on the north
ern side of Molokai. The north, east
and west shores of this tiny spot are
washed by the Pacific, while on the
south side rise precipitous cliffs Of
from 1900 to 1000 feet, which make
the isolation seem even more hopeless
than the beautiful deep-blue waters Of
the sea ever could. The most difficult
and dangerous trail, constantly
manned by government guards, foils
escape, ii it were ever contemplated
by the land side.
Naturally the fear of being isolated
at the settlement caused the natives
to thwart segregation. Generally /.
was done by secreting their afflicted,
yet there are instances of lepers u.s.
ing violence to resist arrest. The ne
cessity of severing ties of the strong
est affection involved grief of the deep
est description. and many are the
cases of abnegation where the clean
have accompanied the afflicted to the
settlement to die there with them.
Then, too, by degrees there grew up
the belief among the natives that ter
rible mistakes Of diagnosis by the
physicians were consigning innocent
and helpless people to the living sepul-
cher. And as each year failed to eradi.
cate the disease as had been represent.
ed, but still claimed its toll, the belief
became almost universal that larger
proportion of those committed were
sacrifices to the despotism and ig-
norance Of the white mans medical
science that boasted but could not
cure.
By degrees, as the government real
lied the inability of the afflicted to
care for themselves, conditions were
improved, until finally the authorities
took entire charge Of the lepers, and
to-day the appropriations for the main.
tenance and care of these wards are
most generous and exceed $125. 900 an.
nually.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01
CHAPTER XII

At the close of long, hot day, the
enchanted yacht sighted fand-a blur
of gray and green to the left. AS the
night deepened this verged into
splash of tropic green, washed with a
spendthrift MOON Betty begged to be
allowed to stop on deck to watch this
dawning beauty, and Tyoga, muffled in
long white cloak. stood beside her.
AS they approached the harbor, Betty
saw 1t was the jettying mouth of a
river, the banks lined with mosshung
palms, springing from matted
growth of reeds, entwined vines, rush
es and lush grass. Straight up the
river they went in the moonlight.
through current so slow that the
stream appeared stagnant. No sign of
habitation met the eye, and the Jun
giles to either side were still as death
save for the occasional roar of lion,
or snarl of some angered panther.
The river verged into lake, black
and forbidding, within bleak beaches of
yellow sand, and from there they rush
ed into another river rooted with en-
tangled trees through which filtered a
blood-red sunrise. All day they fol-
lowed this river, pimpled at intervals
with lakes, small or large, and clear
or muddled The white heron and the
storm watched them unheeding. A
crocodile or two sidled after them, and
at intervals some huge snake, untwin-
ing from long hanging bough, would
stretch its Shiny length across the
snowy deck. Twice they passed a herd
of elephants coming down to drink, and
often sent an affrighted lioness hurry
ing back from the waters edge to her
mewing kittens. The purple lotus
spread itself despairingly over some of
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01


and see what have done to this ger
anium leaf. 1t is magnified and remag-
nified. Look how its eyes have re-
sponded to the influence of these con-
vergent rays-a new ray I have dis
covered myself. l have found the eyes
of plants and their souls! Some day l
shall uncover the human soul itself,
not only the physically corporate, but
those that ride, as Omar says, naked
on the air of heaven"
Betty looked into the globe he held
out before her. Within she saw a
pulpy green substance, throwing out
dozens of the most minute of antennae.
These writhed and fiuttered most
weirdly.
"Oh, can't stand this" she declar-
ed, nor the air in here. Tyoga! Tyo-
ga! come and take me upstairs"
When the old negress had led her
back to her shady seat on deck Betty
Lancey sat and scanned the offing for a
sail, and wondered how she could get
word to Larry Morris where she was,
and how in the world she could send
the news she had to the Inquirer" Of
flee.
Somehow her hunger for Larry was
far worse than her desire to satisfy
the newspaper appetite of delivering
her portion of the solution to the
Wayne murder mystery. Betty, self
reliant Betty, weakened by the first Sc
we're Illness she had ever known; Bet
ty, stripped of the practical routine
adjuncts Of the daily life to which she
was accustomed; Betty, who had open
ly f1outed at poetry and romanticism.
this same Betty plunged into a fire of
mystery, murder and death, convalesc-
ing from malignant attack of brain
fever, was beginning to discover that
woman is a weakling after all, and that
when she needs a strong arm to lean
on, she wants 1t sadly. And in the
mist and mirage of the life from which
she had so suddenly been taken away,
1t was Larry Norris his face, his fig
ure and his personality that Betty's
heart and soul reached out for vainly.
If she could have found an empty
bottle anywhere she would have
CHANGED that old pastime of the mari
ner and last refuge of the shipwreck-
ed-a note in a bottle. But bottles
there were none, nor anything else fea-
sible, and Betty plunged into despair.
With returning health, however, came
renewed interest in life. She had
good food, the weather was fine, and
Betty splendid sailor. She possessed
the exuberance Of youth and all of a
newspaper woman's curiosity for the
what is to happen next. LIE Malheu-
reux, though extremely repulsive, was
also decidedly interesting, and their
conversations and intimacy grew with
the voyage.
LIE Malheureux was well read, cour-
teous, polished gentleman, gracious,
and delightful companion when he so
chose. But he never saw her for more
than an hour a day, and was reticent
about himself and his people. Betty
gathered that he had long lived in AZ
rica, though he had been educated in
England, France and Germany. BY
education he was physician, by for
tune independent, and by occupation a
research worker in the extensive fields
of electro -therapy. But there were
three things he never did-he never
removed or shifted any of his somber
drapings, his hands were always GLOW
ed, and the thick veil of full green was
never lifted from his face.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01
why He Cried.

The sympathetic neighbor asked, al,
your little brother i'll this morning.
Johnnie. I heard him crying in the
most heartrending manner
mo, not exactly" Johnnie replied.
"but Willie pulled down jug of mo.
lasses on himself in the pantry, and
mother has been trying to comb his
hair"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01

Beautiful Widow-Do you know, I
am forty years old to-day. Gallant
Bachelor-Madam you are just TWEEN.
ty. / never believe more than half OF
what ] hear
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01
A New Cause of Intemnerance

Hyperbola is the source Of muc..
fun. If not of much wit. A young
cadet, says a writer in Harper's
Weekly, was complaining of the tight
fit of his uniform.
"Why, father" he declared, "the
collar presses my Adams apple so
hard that can taste cider!"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01

There has been invented in Spain
a cylindrical barrel for grapes, divid-
ed into four sections. to ventilate the
contents and prevent them from being
crushed.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-07-01
Automatically Demonstrated.

"A man should sleep at least eigh,
hours a day."
"It can't be done," answered the
weary-looking citizen; mot when one
of your neighbors runs a phonograph
till midnight and another keeps q
rooster that crows at a. M"