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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

There will be no art in masculine
fashions" says an English artist, "un-
til men discard trousers" Tush! Look
at the hats some of the men are
wearing this year.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Speaking of families which go to
the dogs, a Massachusetts woman
wants a divorce because her husband
insisted on keeping eighteen bow
vows in the kitchen.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Mrs. Majorie Gould Drexels little
daughter is set down as a $30,OOO,OOO
baby, but there are others that can
not be bought at even that price.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Cleveland has unveiled a statue of
Wagner. At this distance it cannot
be seen whether it is a statue to
Honus or to Wilhelm Richard
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

They teach logic in colleges and
yet the football scores when compared
occasionally lead to some most H.
logical results.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

College women do not indulge in d.
vorce, says one of them. To the pros
pective marrier this should be warn
ing enough.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Reports from Los Angeles indicate
that drunken Japanese with a load
ed gun is as dangerous as a drunken
Caucasian.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

A masseur has been fined for prac-
tic1ng medicine. !. 1t will soon be I'M
safe to put a wet towel on a sick
friends brow.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

THE middle west has been given an
opportunity to see what real old fash
Toned winter was like this week. Zero
and down the line for ten straight days.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

In Tucson eggs have been selling
for 20 cents apiece. Burbank should
hasten to develop species of cactus
that will lay eggs.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12
Unclaimed Letters.

Letters remaining uncalled for in the
P. O. at Edgerton for the week ending
Jan. Is, 1917:
The Pullman Club Rev. d. S0holten
Carl KleiSt Maple Lane Farm
w. Holmes EDWARD COSgrOye
Persons calling for any of the above
named letters please say advertised. =
H. MCINNES, P. M.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

The difference between a banquet
and dinner is that the former con-
sist of great deal of talk without
much to eat
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Grapefruit is beginning to crowd
out the cantaloupe and the latter 10
doubt sees what it's fate is to be.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Nevada has only seven-tenths Of
a man to the square mile" And the
missing three-tenths seems to include
the part that was located above his
shoulders
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

An immense flea has been fished
from the bottom of the sea near a
California port. This feeding ground
for the tribe may be pronounced ideal.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

On the Isthmus of Panama there
are 4,786 bachelors and only 1877
spinsters. Go south, young woman
go south!
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

The men who pJastered their auto
number with mud and hurried away
after a casualty have done the same
to their consciences.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

The financial success of some of our
popular actors is indicated by the
amount of alimony they are able to
pay
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

The megarhone would be a valuable
thing on the farm, where it could be
used to call the hired man at a. m.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

About all that can be said in favor
of a double chin is that it has some
prestige in an argument
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

We base our prediction Of long
cold winter on the fact that this
years chestnut worms are fatter than
usual.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

mended as new cure for inebriety.
| Try ton some friend.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Taxes have gone SO high in Japan
that the little nation may not feel like
whipping anybody for several years
to come
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

The preachers who decry baseball
should raise their own batting aver
age if they want to increase interest
In their own work.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

It cost a Missouri man $35 to shoot
a redbird and it could not have been
such great sport, either
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

A Texas town of 1000 has not seen
wedding in three years, but has had
two lynching parties.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Capt Elmer Baldwin will try to To-
cate the north pole in 1915. 1t may
be a common jaunt by then.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Queen Louisa of Denmark, is go
years old, but, being queen, she
does not look it,
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

AN EXCHANGE asks how many men
who turned over new leaf January 1st
have turned back to look at the pic
tnreS2
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

An election in Switzerland seems to
attract about as much attention as its
navy.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Few headline writer's can tell Of
fall of snow without illusions to "Th'
Beautiful"
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Six comets are visiting the sun
Stamping the solar system?
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12
DEPARTMENT STORE.

Prepared Lutetisk 10. &c
Greening Apples ID. &c
Corner Stone Flour sack $1.40
Mothers Best sack $1.35
white Lily sack $1.20
Every sack guaranteed to be full pat
ent and give satisfaction
Tycoon the best so cent tea-will not
turn red
3 cans good corn 25c
cans mustard sardines 25c
Can good peas 10c
Horseradish bottle 10c
Prepared pancake and buckwheat -four
package 10c
Canned milk SC and 10c
Fancy salt mackerel each 1Oc
3 packages mince meat 25c
Paul Revere coffee %, 80, 35, Acc
Fancy sailed peanuts ID. 12c
8 Id. pail pure lard 4Oc
5 Id. pail pure lard 68c
Cotosuet Id. lie
Fancy red and black raspberries 15c
Fresh bakery goods every day
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

Clearing sale price on all cloaks,
suits, dresses and skirts. T. P. Burns,
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

What a lot the infant emperor OF
China knows for his age!
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-01-12

THE democratic party will meet at
Baltimore, June 25th, to nominate their
candidate for president in 1912.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
Orioin of Vaudeville.

Writing to the Kansas City Star con-
corning the origin of the word vau-
deTille, Raymond Weeks. professor of
romance languages at Colombia uni
versity, says the word is derived
from the Vaux de Wire (the Wales of
Nire), a village in Normandy.
oliver Basselin was a French poet
who resembled Robert Burns and who
lived at Vaux de Wire in the fifteenth
century. He wrote many popular
songs, largely jolly drinking songs.
These spread far beyond the obscure
hamlet where he lived, until, finally,
the name of Vaux de Wire, by which
they were known, not being under
stood, they and similar songs were
called Vaux de Vile. They are men
toned by Boileau in his Art Poetique.
Early in the eighteenth century in
France, such songs were in~terspersed
to vary light operettas, which later
were called by their name. The songs
of Basselin in praise of cider and wine
are probably the finest of their sort
In any language.
las for the fact that we have taken
vaudeville from the French, let me
observe that most of our important
terms relating to the theater came
into English from French"
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
SEVEN KILLED BY LIGHTNING.
Residents of ST. Louis and Vicinity
Victims-Heavy Hail.

Residents of ST. Louis and Vicinity
Victims-Heavy Hail.
st. Louis.-Seven persons were kill
ed and one seriously injured neal St.
Louis, by lightning bolts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hansdorf, 26 years
old, of st. Louis, was killed at Prairie
de Pont, ILL.,, four miles from St. Louis,
while on a fishing trip. She was pre-
pairing lunch and the lightning bolt
struck the steel knife in her hand.
Her daughter, nine years old, was sit
ting in her lap but was uninjured.
Orlie Meadows, small son of Mrs.
Lulu Meadows, of East st. Louis, and
Edward Mics of st. Louis, were in
stantly killed while sitting under a
tree in a public park at East st. Louis.
Chas. Jougkski, a laborer, sitting
with them was so seriously injured he
will probably die.
Lightning struck the residence of
Jefferson Rulo, two miles south of De-
soto, Mo-, about As miles south of st.
Louis, Killing Mr.. Rulo, his wife, son
and daughter and badly ~injuring Frank
Rulo, brother of Jefferson Rulo. A
number of persons were injured, none
fatally, in st. Louis by lightning,
which damaged a number of buildings,
including the Second Presbyterian
Church. Hailstones covered the
ground in Southwest ST. Louis.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
SpOrfin6

Harry Wolverton is booked for an
other year as manager of the Yankees
according to reports.
The Brooklyn Superbas have re-
leased Sommers, the pitcher recently.
purchased from Nahville, to the Chi
cago Cubs.
William Jensen, pitcher of the New
Haven Club in the Connecticut
League, has been sold to the Detroit
Tigers.
The Boston Braves have signed
"Hub" Perdue, their best pitcher, for
three years.
Connie Mack has given up all idea
of winning the American League pen
nant, and is preparing to set his house
in order for another year.
The Mcmahon brothers, represent
Ing Philadelphia interests, have asked
johnson for terms for a six-round bout
with Jeanette in the Philadelphia
Athletics ball park on September 20.
Johnson, when the report reached
Chicago that his contest with Joe
Jeanette had been called off, said:
THAT means that l won't fight again.
l simply wanted to fight Jeanette to
show certain people that l wasn't all
in"
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30

Prices on all grades of coal except
nut went up 25 cents a ton in Boston.
A fugitive negro turned on a posse
near Gadsden, Ala, killed one man,
wounded another and escaped.
The American Red Cross tele-
graphed $4,000 to aid flood sufferers in
Louisiana and Mississippi.
Nine battleships of the Atlantic
feet left Norfolk, Va, for the south.
ern drill grounds.
The annual Saratoga pageant, in
progress for a week, ended with an
illuminated parade and carnival.
Charles Poduzzi, five years old, of
Tarrytown, N. Y, died of lockjaw
caused by a blow on the head from a
picture that fell from the wall.
Peter Cruchio, Of Montclair, N. j.,
was killed when he jumped from the
seat of an auto truck directly in front
of another.
The hosting engineers having
struck, the collieries of G. B. Markle
Co., at Hazleton, Pa, are completely
tied up and 1000 men are idle.
The naval tug Wicomico sank at sea
while en- route from Key West, Fla,
to Port Royal, S. G. There were no
fatalities.
The supposed "Gyp the Blood" ar
rested in Pike County, Pa, and lodged
In the Milford Jail is Charles Ubriaco,
son of a saloon-keeper in First avenue,
Manhattan.
Andrew Carnegie upbraided the
Pittsburgh Industrial Commission for
asking him to contribute toward a $10,-
900 silver service for the rechristened
armored cruiser Pittsburgh.
Minnesota suffragists have adopted
as a slogan, Darn the government
and darn the socks" to show they can
keep house for their husbands and the
country at the same time.
DR.. Henry S. Dennison, of Denver,
Col, who recently inherited $1,000, 900,
died twenty minutes after taking a
drink of bichloride of mercury by mis-
take. Ten hours later his widow gave
birth to a child.
Calling the solicitation of ads. for
the programme of a New York Custom
House employees association a mild
form of blackmail, Collector Loeb sup
pressed the edition and recommended
the dismissal of one man from the
service.
By the collapse of a grandstand in
Indianapolis 100 persons were injured
during the formal notification of Gov.
Marshall of his nomination. The Gov
ernor arraigned Republican policies
and attributed the Nations unrest to
governmental boosting of one mar
and booting of another.
Mrs. Eta l.. Leonard, wife of
Charles Leonard, a wealthy dry-goods
buyer of New Bedford, Mass, was ar
rested charged with shoplifting, the
amount of the alleged theft being
about So. She had been arrested be-
fore for a similar offense.
officers and sailors in the United
States Navy have lost more than $780,
600, it is alleged, in a suburban real
estate scheme which caused the arrest
by Federal officers of Claude ]. Van
Slyke, President, and James A. Robin
son, Secretary, of the New York Cen.
trail Realty Company.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
Personal

The Car has protested to the Vati-
can Roman Catholic priests have con
verified more than 500, 900 of his sub
jects. A diplomatic rupture may re-
suit.
George Clinton Paine, 100 years old,
of Elmira, N. Y. whose recent trip to
New York City caused much interest,
died at his sons home at Odessa,
N. Y.
Gov. Wilson viewed the annual
baby parade at Asbury Park and CON
graduated Queen Titania XII.
Mrs. Clarence H. Mackay's automo-
bile skidded on a mountain road and
turned turtle, but her life was saved
when she landed on the chauffeur.
Miss Dora Keen of Philadelphia,
who led an expedition up Mount Black
burn, in Alaska, arrived in Seattle on
her way home.
Mrs. c. w. Church of Greenwich,
Conn, had her foreman fined for beat
in his horse, then paid the fine for
him, bought his horse and had it kill
ed because of old age.
Lieutenant T. F. Ellison, chief of
the naval ~aviators at Annapolis, broke
the navy and hydro-aeroplane altitude
record by ascending more than 5000
feet.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
TAFT SIGNS
CANAL BILL
President Answers Objections
That 1t Violates Treaty.
GREAT BRITAIN TO PROTEST
Taft Contends Congress Has Right to
Let U. S. Ships Pass Free-Praises
Measure Highly-Most Beneficial
Ever Passed by Any Congress.

Washington.-President Taft sign,
ed the Panama Canal bill, afterward
sending to Congress a memorandum
suggesting the visibility of the pas.
sage of a resolution which would de-
clare that this measure was not COR
sidered by this Government a viola
ton of the treaty provisions regard
ing the canal.
This means that the question OF
free tolls to American coastwise ships
will be protested by Great Britain and
that the Ease will be carried to the
Hague. 1t means also that the South
ern Pacific Railroad will have to
abandon its plan to establish a $22,,
900, 900 line of boats from New York
to the Orient and that the New York,
New Haven and Hartford and other
railroad lines will be obliged to divest
themselves of their steamship hold
ings.
In discussing the British protest
against the exemption of American
shipping from the payment of tolls
for the use of the canal, MI. Taft says
the irresistible conclusion to be drawn
from it is that although the United
States owns, controls, and has paid
for the canal, it is restricted by treaty
from aiding it's own commerce in the
way that all other nations of the
world may freely do.
I'm view of the fact" Mr.. Taft con
tinues, that the Panama Canal is be-
ing constructed by the United States
wholly at its own cost, upon territory
coded to it by the Republic of Pana-
ma for that purpose, and that, unless
it has restricted itself, the United
States enjoys absolute rights of own
ership and control, including the right
to allow its own commerce the use
of the canal upon such terms as it
sees fit, the sole question is: Has the
United States (by the terms of the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty. deprived it
self of the exercise of the right to
pass its own commerce free or to re-
init tolls collected for the use of the
canal?"
Inc I1GSIuSnL quilts OuG ILdI I1C
rules specified in the article of the
treaty which is made the basis for the
British protest were adopted by the
United States as the basis of the neu-
Trailing of the canal, and for nc other
purpose. This article, he further says,
"is a declaration of policy by the
United States that the canal shall be
neutral; that the attitude of this Gov
eminent toward the commerce of the
world is that all nations will be treat
ed alike, and that no discrimination
would be made by the United States
against any one OF them observing the
rules adopted by the United States.
The President also approves the
provision which prevents the owner
of any steamship who is guilty of vio-
lating the antitrust law from using
the canal.
The President presented the pen
with which he signed the Canal bill
to William Z. Wheeler of San Francis
co.
London.-The Times publishes an
article r~eiterating its protest against
the Canal act as treaty violation.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
MAKING USE OF WASTE LAND
Cogent Thoughts on Subject That la
Being Forced on the Attention
of the People.

A genuinely civilized country-eco-
nomically speaking, at least-is one
whose land is divided into small hold
ings, each of which supports its own
family. This is the lands final, sta
tionary stage, SO to speak-The sort
OF thing sees, for instance, in the
smiling, truly prosperous provinces
of France. The French lend money
to all the world. They are perhaps
the most prosperous Of peoples. A
country divided into such small self
sufficient holdings is defended in
the strongest way against financial
explosions and shipwrecks. What
ever may be the zest of cow-punching
or the charm of the old-fashioned
plantation life, no state can be said
to have reached social maturity when
it Is composed of large holdings and
It's Inhabitants are dependent on the
financial ups and downs of the few.
The swamp lands of the United
States are particularly good examples
of this sort of backwardness. They
are useful for nothing but timber,
and oftentimes not for that. Anything
more %unsocial or desolate than a
southern cypress swamp it would be
difficult to imagine. Yet those who
are interested in the tremendously
important question of swamp drain
age often meet with a curious local
opposition, in addition to the obvious
mechanical difficulties and the tangle
Of state lines. Owners do not want
to break up their large holdings, even
though the value of the land will be
vastly improved. They have been
big landholders for generations, and
big landhoIders they wish to remain,
even though much of their land be
worthless.
1t is a tradition of prejudice to
which the tendency of the age is op-
posed.
However far or near Socialism may
be, there is no doubt that-in a broad
sense of the word-we are becoming
every day more social. This may
now be a matter of taste. 1t will
presently be a matter of necessity.
People will have to touch one another
whether they like 1t or not. For there
is less and less elbow room.-Oficer's
Weekly.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
Roardina.House suonestion.

In a business women's boarding
home, with 80 to 40 permanent guests,
there was a disposition to form
cliques. This was somewhat due to
the fact that women who sat together
at table day after day became well &C
quainted with each other, while hav-
ing hardly more than a bowling ac-
quaintance with those at other tables.
Then one day the manager an
nounced that, to keep things NOV
ing" there would be a reallotment of
seats at table the first day of each
month. Some murmurs of disapprov-
al greeted this, but when the first day
came everyone was greatly interested
in seeing what neighbors she had
drawn. The tables were lettered and
the seats numbered, and each guest
drew a slip bearing her designated
place.
Meals for days afterward we're
much livelier than they had been.
There we're new people to talk to-
new subjects coming up at each meal,
and everyone voted the innovation a
great success.-Woman's Home Com.
panion.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
Made Il Diamonds.

Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, the new
president of the General Federation of
Women's Clubs. said in San Francisco
of the new woman"
MY type of new oma has a high
sense of honor, a manly sense of hon
or. She isn't like a certain old-fash-
toned type of woman who does dis
honorable things without the least n o
ton of their being so.
"A Of this type was playing
bridge. Her partner passed the make
to her, and she made it diamonds, but
her hand, on being put down, was
found to contain only two diamonds,
both very low cards.
what on earth induced youeto go
diamonds on such a hand as that?' her
partner asked.
Its your fault she answered pet
ulantly. Why did you twiddle your
diamond ring?'"
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
Life Hid with Christ in God.

Man is a dual being, made up of
body and spirit Through his spirit
he has affnities with the invisible and
spiritual world. Through his body he
has a relation to the material world
that surrounds him, and from it he
draws what is necessary for his physiy
cal life and growth. But while man
is such a dual being and should so act
as to hold himself in proper relations
to both the worlds with which he has
affinity, it is possible for him to be
so predominately under the influence
of one that he loses his grip on the
other. II he draws his motives of ac-
t:vity largely from the spiritual world
and finds his chief joy in the great
fact that he is a spirit and looking
forward to the spiritual world as the
place of his future activities, he has
true spirituality. He is giving his
spiritual nature the first place. as It
should be given. Paul had this
thought in mind when he said to the
Colossians, For ye are dead, and
your life is hid with Christ in God"
The particular characteristic of the
dead to which the apostle refers is
insensibility. The Christian should be
insensible to the physical-not abso-
lutely so, but it should not have do
minion over him. He should be su,
perior to it.
The Penn's Grove record., 1912-08-30
General

Eugene v. Debs accepted the So
cialist nomination for President in an
address in which he denounced Roose-
velt's new party.
Women of Zion City, ILL.,, must dress
to suit Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva,
who declares he will drive immodestly
dressed women out of the city.
Twenty guests at a North Carolina
health resort were attacked by pto-
maine poisoning caused by impure
milk.
The estate of Victor Newcomb, late
president of the Louisville & Nash
vile Railroad, is appraised at $71,155.
w. l. L. Adams was nominated for
Congress by the Republican commit
tee of Essex County, N. j..
The city council of Pittsburgh will
appropriate $4,000 to buy a silver
service for the cruiser Pennsylvania,
rechristened the Pittsburgh
Investigation proved that John
Thompson a negro beggar who was a
well known sight on the streets of
Atlanta, Ga, owned a house, two resi-
dence lots and had $1,000 in the bank.
Henry Bowen, a negro porter on the
special car of Superintendent Frank
Bell of the Northern Pacific Railroad,
became violently insane on the car.
He raj captured after brandishing a
huge knife at his %capturers.
The finding of four dead bodies of
soldiers and sailors within II days at
Portsmouth, N. H, has started a rigid
investigation of naval, military and DO
lice authorities.
Petitions are circulating for the re-
call of Mayor W.SW. Minick of Wichi-
ia. Kan, on the charge of retaining a
chief of police whose honesty was
questioned.
Thomas F. Ryan of Jersey City was
instantly killed when his new utomo-
bile overturned in a ditch six miles
from Orange. N. J.. Six others in the
car were hurled out, but suffered min
or injuries.