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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-01-17

INSTITUTIONAL special appeal
to the authorities of the northern
and western states to organize the
boys and girls of their communities
into "corn clubs was made by the de-
partment of agriculture, which issued
a special pamphlet outlining the
work. The corn club movement has
advanced rapidly in the south, where
the girls are as ardent agriculturists
as the boys, but less interest has been
manifested in other sections of the
country.
WASHINGTON With the as
sertion that present combinations Of
capital are safe only because of the
personnel of the men holding them,
and avowing his belief that such COM
binations have gone quite far enough,
George F. Baker concluded state
ment before the Pujo committee that
covered almost every phase of his
vast business interests and required
two days for the telling.
SAN FRANCISCO, GALA million
dollar estate in Yorkshire, England,
hinges on an inquiry here as to
whether the baby presented to Lieu
tenant Charles Henry Raymond
Slingsby by his wife in October, 1910,
is her own child or one she bought
and palmed of on him.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-01-17

MILWAUKEE, - Being gored BY
a bull gnu at Washington park while
feeding the animal, Jacob Reichertz,
1902 Vliet street, was painfully injur-
ed. The muscles of his thigh were
badly, torn by the furious onslaught
of the animal, and Reicnertz will be
confined to his home for several days
at least.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1913-01-17

CHIPPEWA FALLS - Ray V
Melville, twenty years old, of this cit
committed suicide by placing the mu
zle of a shotgun in his mouth and pul
ing the trigger The act was commi
ed in a barn on his fathers farm, S
miles south of here. Dependency
is given by his parents as the eau:
of the deed.
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''as though Browns getting pretty Sc
rious there"
''Pshawv Helen scoffed, .'its simply
that he likes to talk about Europe,
about
Especially with a stunning-looking
woman like your Aunt Margaret"
Mr. Brown had lived in the Towner
place upward Of two months before in
vitations for the housewarming, which
every one had looked for earlier. We're
sent out. 1t was to take the form of
dinner. At the appointed time they
found Mr.. Brown calmly smoking on
his veranda.
dinner. There was no Formally. no
ostentatious display of wealth. It dawned
on Helen that, while Mr.. Browns dinner
was of necessity more elaborate than
Aunt Margaret's, he had endeavored as
far as possible to carry out her ideas of
simplicity, Helen could see Aunt
Margaret in the absolute freedom from
form and in the exquisite bunch of
crimson roses which adorned the center
OF the table. With little flash Of sur
prise she noted the one crimson bud in
Mr.. Browns lapel and the frequency
with which his eyes Travelled to the hand
some figure in rose crepe.
we've been blind, that there may be
something in what father says
The possibility became a certainty an
hour later. when from her position close
to window where the men enjoyed
their after-dinner smoke she heard Mr..
Brown say in low voice: Margaret
and / are perfectly agreed, Mr.. Nor
ley, on the subject of a quiet wedding.
Neither of US likes unnecessary display.
We will be married early in the COM
ing month without fuss and feathers"
(THE ENID
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it is only right when we do entertain
him to show him that we know what
style is"' Helen ended breathlessly and
Indignantly.
into soft laughter. Cant agree with
you, my dear. BY the way" she said.
her gaze focused on the center Of the
table where did the candelabra come
from?''
BORROWED it from Mrs. Travis"
HeIen's tone was a trifle tart. The
Moores and the Daltons and the Trav-
ises used candles. Why shouldn't we?
Mrs. Travis says well appointed tables
nowadays have candelabra."
Perhaps. Nevertheless give me my
beautiful crimson roses. Besides. even
If this Mr.. Brown is the wonderful
creature he's painted. 1t seems to me
the poor man would love to sit down to
a. genuinely honey dinner such as you
girls know so well how to get up
Its not as elaborate as the one the
Travises had" Beth. the younger niece,
put in. NOR the Moores nor the Dali
tons. We certainly don't want to be
outdone by the Daltons, especially when
Mr.. Brown has paid Helen so much at
tention at these affairs given for him.
It's simply necessary that Helen. as mis-
tSess of fathers home, show Mr.. Brown
What capable mistress she Is.
II See Miss Morley rose as she spoke
and smiled indulgently.. "Splurge ahead.
girls, I won't interfere with-fooiish adj
vice. Anyway. I've wasted too much
time lounging here
You're not going to fall us tonight.
are you. Aunt Margaret " Helen looked
anxiously at the aunt only eight years
her senior. Usually she did not deem IT
necessary to include her in her invita-
tons, for the simple reason that her
devoted SWANS never proved quite so
devoted when clever, dashing Miss Nor
| ley was by. In the case of Mr.. Brown.
however. Aunt Margaret's presence SEEM
ed Necessary. She had Travelled every
where, could talk on almost any sun
Ject. and was an evenings entertainment
| in ferself You won't disappoint us, Will
| you she repeated plaintively.
Miss Morley's eyes were whimsical.
oh. no: / won't disappoint YOU she
| answered
| Another thing, Beth and ! will wear
| evening gowns. Every one has been al
| the dinners. Do put on that new shim-
| merry rose. won't your
Miss, Morley had bought the rose,
abroad: Her smile deepened. We'l
| see" she said simply.
| She took the gown in question out OF
| its wrappings when she dressed Tor
| Heiens dinner TITS a dre4m" she said
| aloud. Becoming. too: but it's too
dressy for Helen's one-man dinner. She s
displaying the Morley heirloonns royalty
| tonight. but I don't believe she's going
to display the maiden aunt
J. Thus. when she entered the parler she
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THE EVENING STORY
Entertaining Mir. BROWN

was gowned in one of her simplest and
most becoming dresses. The pale yellow
OF 1t set of to perfection the glory of the
dark hair and dark eyes, while the one
crimson. rose she wore lent delicate
color to the creamy softness of her
cheek. She looked graceful and in
hand, and when she had moved away
from him his eyes followed her ad-
miringly.
She was at her best while they dined
Helen sat at the head of her father
table. miserably conscious of many
color scorchingly high from the exertion
of the day and its attendant excitement.
She noted Aunt Margaret's cold lowell
ness enviously. That's one of the old
est gowns she has," she thought, yet
somehow it looks just fit
It was a relief when the trying hour
was over, though in. the parlor Mr.. Brown
devoted more time than was polite to
when Miss Morley arose after an hours
talk and carried her brother off to her
own home at the end Of the street Mr..
Brown will excuse you, Tom, she said;
the girls will entertain him. There is
some business l want to consult you
about" Just as she reached the door
she paused Mr. Brown, it is customary
for my brother and his daughters to have
Wednesday dinners with me. Won't you
join us tomorrow evening"?
She looked at him very frankly. Just
as though he wasn't anybody Helen
funed inwardly Aunt Margaret was
about as Mustered as when she said,
MARY, 1 think I should like mullins for
breakfast" Yet Mr.. Brown accepted
the unconventional Invitation just as
eagerly as he had Helens set one. And
when the graceful figure had disappeared
he said fervently: Miss Morley makes
one feel so thoroughly at home
Certain it was he appeared very much
Eat home in her cool. restful dining
room at the Wednesday dinner. And
he seemed to enjoy 1t more than Helen
had seen him enjoy anything since he
had come among them, though it was
simply the homely little dinner Aunt
Margaret always had for them She
did not have even an extra course. There
was no elaborate centerpiece-just great
fragrant bunch of her fayorite crimson
roses. Through the open windows came
the soft summer breeze redolent with the
scent Of many flowers. At the head of
the table Aunt Margaret sat- one of her
roses in her hair, treating Mr.. Brown as
IL he had been in the habit of having
Wednesday dinner with her for years.
After dinner instead of being ushered
into the best parlor in state he was
taken into the old-fashioned garden to
Aunt Margaret's roses
DO you know she said. I've walked
about the most famous gardens Of. Eu-
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ND NOTES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS OF THE SPRING SEASON

pearance at a Bohemian supper party of
a valuable ruby ring. the owner of which
Is not In a position to advertise the theft
The author somewhat overcrOwds his
stage with supernumerary characters, not
all of whom are particularly Interesting
This IL done FOR the purpose of increasing
the mystery. but it serves rather to delay
and complicate the action. The story
too, lacks suficiency of motive in that
the solution Of the ring mystery does not
actually bring about the romantic climax
which additionally accompanies every
well balanced story of crime and its un-
ravelment The most interesting feature
Of the tale is the revelation Of methods Of
high finance in New York and the means
employed to stay panic.
KING JOHN OF JINGALO, The Story
of q Monarch in DiHculties. BY
Laurence Housman. New York:
Henry Holt & Co.
King John OF Jingalo sat upon his
throne in the great cathedral at.the CAPT
tai on the occasion of thanksgiving serv-
ices in celebration of his recovery from
h;snop prayed this is what the king
| thought:
peace? We'll, yes. I think that now 1
| have earned it! Here am l, still King OF
Jingalo, alive and in my right mind. Dur
ing the last few months have abdicated
nut myself off the throne. and been
blown on to 1t again by bomb engineer
ed by my own prime minister; nave
| heen arrested, have been locked up In
police cell, I have committed roopery anu l..
| in nv own palace been robbed again. MY
daughter has been in prison Tor ten Gays
nd q common criminal; my son seriously
assaulted by the police. and Tor ABOUT
four months surreptitiously engaged 10
the daughter of an archbishop; Wniie
Revolutionary and seditious book written
by him az a direct attack on the consul
tuition and on society has been proVloen-
tally burned to the ground-tnat also'
probably, at the instigation OF my MIN
listers. And though all this mas peen go
ing on In their midst, making hlstory.
bringing changes to pass or preventing
them, the people Of Jingalo Know no.nl NJ
whatever about it. What wonaefiui
country ia the country Of Jingalo!'
Jingalo Is an entirely possible modern
monarchy. Its king is distinctly nu-
man and altogether lovable person, whose
difficulties have been institutional raLner
than personal. Mr.. Housman IN teinng
this story has undoubtedly held In mlno
the situation or the British government
1t requires no especial keenness ol inas
nation to note the line OF likeness OF 10
discern the authors satire as ne SHOWS
monarchy in q state Of change an eVoiu-
ton in which the monarch becomes
figurehead King John tries 10 restore
the royal prerogatives, hut he lacks tne
ability to carry his ideas to conclusion.
He is fettered by customs and tradltions,
and as he sits on the throne at the
Thanksgiving services the rehectohs
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Battle Of the Flowers.
From the Pittsburgh Dispatch.


The subcommittee OF the legislative
committee on education at Harrisburg. 70
which was referred the resolution naming
the daisy as tie Official state flower OF
the commonwealth seems to have, in the
idiom OF the legislative halls, recon.
mended 1t negatively Two of the three
subcommitteemen report In favor Of the
substitution of the violet for the daisy.
and the battle of the flowers is to be
fought in full committee. Considered
from the poetic standpoint, there seems
to be as many votes from the bards for
one as for the other. Hasty examine
ton of the reference books discloses
Chaucer singing of
The dayseye or ,,iles the eye Of day
The emperice ard -four Of noures allie.
When ii fseth carly by the morrow,
That blissful sight softeneth all my sorrow.
Whittier, our good American poet. on
the contrary, pl lmped for the violet:
Out from its nned and sheltered hooks
The blue eye OF the violet looks.
While Shakes peare carefully bestrad-
dies the fence with his reference to
Daisies pied ant violets blue.
Consulting the language of flowers. we
find the daisy signifying innocence and
the violet modesty; 1.-The modest shrink
ing violet" AS to their relative popii-
larity in bouquet form. the violet is away
ahead. In the garden 1t is. as with the
poets draw. Certain varieties of each
are highly priced. On the farm, however,
the daisy is regarded as a troublesome
and useless weed. exhausting the soil and
not eaten by any stock. So much for the
history and habits and significance of
each. But where is there any special
symbolism in either as purely Pennsyl-
vanian? Both are world-girdling flowers
as typical of any place as the keystone
state And are the legislators priding
themselves on heir innocence or their
modesty?
The best evidence that neither the
daisy, the viole., nor any other flower,
should be officially promulgated as the
state flower of Pennsylvania is that the
flower pickers themselves are in con-
troversy over it. Besides. the state seems
to have about as much need for state
flower as the country had for the new
nickel
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Deviation.
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE.

When the college boy in writing his
thesis wanted a word to express the
opposite to evolution he couldn't
think of any. so he coined one, "devi-
luton"
like it. 1t is picturesque Why
shouldn't common person have the
right to manufacture a word of his
own once in while?
The more you contemplate the word
the more it grows on you. The de-
in it intimates that it is the reverse of
evolution, it is the process of evolving
turned backwards. The devil in it
means just that-there is the devil in
it,
Evolution is the term we apply to
the whole of that upward swing Of ali
creation, the growth of the entirety OF
all living things. Devilution would
mean the opposite.
The most striking instance of devilu-
ton in the history of the race is war.
man society there is a continuous
process of the survival Of the fittest
while the unfit, the weakling. are con-
stantly eliminated. In war 1t Ia just
the other way. The f1ttest, that is, the
bravest. strongest and most vigorous
specimens Of the human stock are
picked out and sent away to be de-
stroyed by bullets and fever.
The unfit the diseased, the thin
blooded. stop at home. These propa-
gate the race. Hence 1t is easy to see
how a state of war works to deterior-
ate the human race.
This is devilution. AS David Starr
Jordan says: I'm the red field Of hui
man history the natural process of Sc
lection is often reversed"
This means a human harvest from
it's poorest seed.
1t is the triumph Of unreason
The chief ambition Of living men
should be that the next and the next
generation should be better and better
What ought one to think, then, of q
condition of society where the soundest
and healthiest bodies are separated
from the mass and led out to death
and the most spiritually minded are
carefully weeded out and ordained to
celibacy? Yet such for centuries has
been the practice in Europe.
What would one think of a gardener
who pulled up all the thriving plants
from his garden and saved the sickly
ones for seed?
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

BUSINESS ARITHMETIC FOR SEC
ONDARY SCHOOLS. BY Ernest l..
Thurston, assistant superintendent
Of public schools. District OF Column
bia New York: The Macmillan
Company
A LIVING LEGACY. BY Ruin Under
wood. Illustrated by George Gibbs.
Philadelphia: John g. Winston Com
pany.
THE ITALIANS OF TODAY. by Rich
ard Bagot. author Of MY Italian
Year." etc Chicago: +. @. Browne
SINOPAH, The Indian Boy. BY James
willard Schultz. With illustrations
by IL. Boyd Smith. Boston: Hough-
ton .Miffiin Company.
WAKING UP BOLTON. BY William
Ganson Rose. author OF THE Ginger
Cure" etc. New York; Dufiield a.
Co.
THE STAIN. BY Forrest Halsey. With
illustrations by Thomas Fogarty
Chicago: r. G.. Browne e. Co
HECOILECTTONS OF ELIZtBETH
BENTON FREMONT, Daughter Of
the Pathfinder. Gen. John c. Fro
mont, and Jessie Benton Fremont.
His wife. Compiled by 1. r Martin.
New York: Frederick II. Hitchcock
FOREORDAINED, with Other stories.
BY Everhardt Armstrong. Philadel-
phia: John c. Winston Company
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wherein one, holly pursuing the various
trails set. finds no less than three sep
arate and distinct murderers of this un-
fortunate young man. The real murderer
comes. at the last, as a shock. This is
due to the fact that in the development
OF the case attention is focused on the
minutiae OF circumstances surrounding
the crime rather than upon motive for
It. notwithstanding the obvious lack of
any scientific theory of detection, or OF
any theory at all, the author has built
an ingenious and exciting story.
THE LIFE MASK: A Novel. By the
author OF ITO NJ. L. G." New York:
Frederick A. Stokes Company.
The heroine Of this tale tells her own
story. A mild and not overprovocative
mystery sustains it, a mystery whose
sign is the utter seclusion in which the
lady lives with an old nurse. Upon the
rare occasions of her appearance in pub
lie an impenetrable veil conceals her
identity. Upon no meaner authority than
that of the myterious lady herself one
learns that she is ravishingly beautiful,
with graces Of both mind and heart to
match In the course of time, down in
Spain. to which place she and her at
tendant have come from England.
young man., in purely accidental way,
walks into the private garden of their
with the usual ups and downs of de-
veloping love Until the young mans sis
ter pays him q visit. One day she, too,
but not by chance, violates the privacy
OF the gentle recluse. At this point the
mystery ends, for the sister recognizes
her as the woman who was condemned
to prison for the murder of her husband.
as one whose picture and history filled
the papers OF the day. She is innocent,
to be sure as soon comes out through
the strange confession Of the old nurse.
Beyond this the matter ends common
placely, In marriage, as 1t has developed
throughout without distinction.
PSYCHOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL
EFFICIENCY. By Hugo Munster
berg Boston: Houghton MifHin
Company.
Psychology, as applied to the actions OF
everyday life, promises such Hnmeas-
urable results that even the reader whose
knowledge Of the science is as of some
thing unspellably vague must get
working idea of the new movement in
this study of Prof. Munsterberg's latest
work. The author himself gives warning
of business life will be closed and per-
fected system lies very far distant" but
that it is a distance to be lessened by the
forward march of progress Is made con-
vincingly evident by experiments which
already prove the value of psychology as
applied to many professions and trades.
While calling attention to the difficulties
and discomforts to be feared during the
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natural wonders of which he has recently
been engaged lin a propaganda. His pres
ent book deals with one of the most In
teresting of all outdoor subjects. the lit
30 quietly. almost secretly, that few men
know Of the methods employed. By pa
tient watching Mr.. Mills has gathered
the material for this book, explanatory OF
the beavers engineering plans and proc
esses of construction. The studies cover
a period OF twenty-seven years In all
parts of the United States. One autumn
his entire time was spent In making OBJ
servations and watching the activities. in
fourteen colonies He saw. the building OF
the digging of a canal. the repairing OF
old dams and the building of new ones,
the Telling of trees and the collection OF
food. Mr.. Mills declares that the beaver
be preserved himself. The illustrations
of the volume are from photographs
which illustrate the various aspects OF
beaver life.
PANAMA PAST AND PRESENT. BY
Farnham Bishop. New York: The
Century Company.
Many books have been written on the
| subject of the Panama canal, some large
and some small, some dealing exclusively
with the engineering phases Of the work.
others with the picturesque. and still
others with historical questions. Mr..
Bishop. who is a son of the secretary OF
the isthmian canal commission, has con-
densed into this comparatively small
space an immen amount Of material on
all the aspects Of the great waterway.
! accompanying his text with q rich profu-
sion OF illustrations. AS convenient and
compact description Of this remarkable
work Mr.. Bishops volume IL to be COM
mended as of exceptional value.
HOW TO PLAY BASE BALL. BY the
Greatest Ease Ball Players. Illus
trated. New York: Thomas Y
Crowell Company.
In this volume are assembled articles
on various positions in the national
game, written by-or at all events accred-
tied to-players who have become famous
In these respective. posts OF RESPONSE
bility. These articles and their authors
are as follows: The Catcher" by Oscar
Stanage; The Pitcher" by John Wesley
Coombs; 1.-The Batter" by Frank NJ.
Schultz: ''The first Baseman," by Frank
L. Chance; THE Second Baseman,'' by
Edward Collins; 1.-THE Third Baseman, -
by Harry Lord: 1.-THE Shortstop." by Owen
Bush; ''The O,ltield." by iris Speaker;
1.-The Base Runner by Tyrus Cobb;
1.-THE Umpire" by Billy Evans Each
chapter is illustrated with one or more
photographs.