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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
COFFEE IN THE DESERT,
HOW AN ARAB CHIEF pIsPENsES
HOSPITALITY.
Making OF the Beverage an Act Of
Some acknowledgement Honored
and Made Comfortable Be-
fore Conversation.

That morning We left the main cara
van, but meant to rejoin it before
night. An hour after sunset, however,
we were wandering about without q
path. Hearing the barking Of dogs,
we rode toward the sound and soon
saw the fires of the encampment of an
Arab chief who had been driven in
from the desert by the drought.
On one side of an open square a
large fire was blazing at the mans
end of the most spacious of the low
black tents. The intermittent blaze,
fed by dry weeds Of the desert, lighted
up slab Of limestone bearing the
rudely scratched insignia of the
tribe of Benz Sakr. We dismounted
silently, as men do in a land where no
one knows whether those whom he
meets are enemies or friends. The
Arabs, grouped cross-legged or a-squat
around the blaze, said nothing, but
the chief men rose and motioned to
US to be seated, while the others
moved to places of less honor. A
quilt was brought to spread on the
coarse wooden rugs, and another was
rolled up for me to rest my left elbow
on.
1t was only after we were comfort
able that conversation slowly began.
While we talked a servant, on signal,
brought out the coffee tongs-two
spoons Of iron chained together and
having handles Is inches long. Green
coffee beans were placed on the larger
spoon, which was about six inches in
diameter, and were held over the fire
to roast. The other spoon, only an
inch in diameter, was used to stir the
beans and prevent burning. When the
coffee was roasted the slow process of
grinding began.
The grinder evidently felt that his
work was of great Importance and
should be done artistically. Each
stroke of the great wooden pestle was
accompanied by double click on the
side OF the deep wooden mortar. Then
the coffee was boiled, first in one
blackened copper pot with a long
SSA @AohS AoShAAOp tlhQ bACh III duOlu6Ts
Finally the grinder tasted 1t. Then the
cups, two in number, began to circu-
late. Each man was served with only
two or three swallows of the strong
black fluid, but the cups were passed
to the chief men several times.
AS they sip the black unsweetened
coffee, the desert prince and his COM
panions talk not only of prices and
OF the doings Of their great ones, but
tried to make me understand how they
and their people fought with the gov
eminent not many years ago. The
chiefs eyes were so fierce and his ges-
lures so violent that began to think
he was really getting angry. why
does the government take taxes for
even our coffee from poor Arabs who
come from the desert in time of
drought" he asked. "Have not the
Arabs the right to feed their fiocks
wherever there is grass? Some day
soon the soldiers will see what my
people will do."-From Palestine and
It's Transformation" by Ellsworth
Huntington.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
MEASURES FOR RELIEF TAKEN.
u. S. War Department and the Ma
tionaI Red Cross Prompt to Act.


tionaI Red Cross Prompt to Act.
Washington, Aug 20. - Prompt
measures for the relief of the suffer
ers from the Texas floods have been
taken. The National Red Cross has
wired its representatives at New Or
leans and on the border to get into
touch with the stricken district and
give any needed relief.
In the meanwhile the army already
is on the job. Major General Bell has
gone to Texas City and taken charge
of the relief work there. He has been
authorized by Acting Secretary OF
War Breckenridge to purchase all
needed supplies and the depot quar-
termaster at New Orleans has been
directed to send forward foodstuffs
and camp equipment to replace that
wrecked by the storm. 1t is expected
that an army transport now in New
York will be loaded with supplies and
sent to Galveston at once.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
RUSSIANS SINK +
GERMAN WARSH|PS
Petrograd Says Dreadnauqht
Moltke Was Destroyed.
FOES FLEET LEAVES GULF
Three Cruisers and Seven Torpedo
Boat Destroyers Also Reported
to Have Been sunk by
Cars Warships.

London, Aug. PA dispatch to the
central News on Sunday from Petro-
grad says:
The president of the duma has an
nounced that the Germans lost the
Dattleship Moltke, three cruisers and
seven torpedo boats in the Riga bat
tle."
The announcement of the president
or the duma, as sent by the CORE
spondent, follows:
In the Riga battle the Germans
lost one superdreadnaught, the
Moltke; three cruisers and seven tor.
pedo boats.
The German fleet has withdrawn
from Riga bay.
The Germans tried to make a de-
scent near Pernpvin (Pernigel, on the
east shore of the Gulf of Riga, some
tn1rty-f1ve miles north of Riga).
-Four barges crammed with soldiers
took part in the descent. They were
repulsed by the Russian troops with
out the cooperation of artillery, the
Germans being exterminated and the
barges captured"
An official statement from the Petro-
grad war office also says the German
fleet has left the Gulf of Riga.
Our destroyers in the Black sea
have sunk over hundred Turkish
boats" the statement adds.
The statement adds that the Rus
sian land front is firm in the region
of Riga and in tho direction of Jacob
stadt and Dvinsk. West of Kochovary
the Russians held in check the persist.
is claimed the Germas have been
held back by counter-attacks in the
region of Bielsk.
A dispatch to the Times from Petro-
grad confirms the announcement Of M.
Rodzianko, the president of the duma,
of Russian victory in the Gulf of
Riga and the sinking of the German
battle cruiser Moltke.
The German battle cruiser Moltke
was a vessel of $4,000 tons and car
ried In ordinary times a complement
of 1,107 men. She was a sister ship
of the famous Goeben, which became
a part of the Turkish navy after the
commencement of the war and was re-
christened Sultan Selim.
The Moltke was 500 feet long and
was armed with ten 11-inch guns and
IL six-inch guns and IL 21-pounders.
In addition. her armament included
four 20-inch torpedo tubes. She was
built in 1911 and had speed of about
twenty-eight knots.
The Moltke was in the battle with
the British fleet in the North sea last
January when the German armored
cruiser Bluecher was sunk.
In 1912 the Moltke was in the Ger
man squadron w lch visited the Uni
ted States to return the visit of the
United States battleship squadron at
kiel during it's trip around the world.
The cost of the Moltke was about $12.-
600, 1000.
Berlin announced on Saturday in an
official statement the loss of two Rus
sian gunboats and one torpedo boat
during a battle In the GULF Of Riga. In
addition it was said two Russian de-
stroyers and one other large warship
were damaged, while one German de-
stroyer was Deached and another was
damaged and was escorted to port.
The Russian gunboats which were
sunk were the Sivutch and Ko-
reefs. The names of the German
ship damaged or last were not given.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
a,bv prowns in Creamery Vat.

Janesville-The infant son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Waef1ers was
found drowned in the bottom of
vat of whey in the fathers creamery
at Orfordville The child had been
missing since Sunday evening and. it
is thought, tottered into the vat
while playing in the building.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
yedno Sets Trot Record.

Montreal, Aug. 21.-Yedno. owned
by F. ]. DAILY, Peterboro. Ont. estab-
lished a new Canadian record for a
competition mile in the grand circuit
races at Dorval track by stepping the
distance in the 2:0S pace contest in
2:o21s. She had won the two previous
heats with comparative ease.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
BRITISH SUBMARINE is LOST.

Goes Aground and Is Pounded to
Pieces-15 Of Crew Drown.
London, Aug. 23-The British sub
marine E-13 has been lost with Is
men off the Danish coast, while on
her way to the Baltic sea. Fifteen
men we're saved. Official announce
ment OF the loss of the E-l3 was made
on Friday by the admiralty. She was
under orders to cooperate with the
Russian Baltic feet off Riga, against
the German fleet
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Beat "Bio Crop" Record.

New Richmond.-Taking advan-
tage of the continued favorable
weather considerable portion of the
small grain of st. Croix county Is to
be thrashed from the shock. Reports
from all sections of the county indi-
cate that the 1915 yield greatly ex-
ceeds that of 1895, "the year of the
big crop"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
CARDINAL vANNUTELLI DIES.
Dean OF Sacred College Was Eligible
to Papacy.

Dean OF sacred Coiic9e was Gu9ipie
to Papacy.
Rome, Aug. 21.-Cardinal Serafino
vannutelli dean q the Sacred col
lege, is dead at the age Of eighty-one.
Cardinal vannutelli was one of the
most influential of those members Of
the Sacred college eligible to the
papacy. He was one of the six cardi-
nal bishops who take their title from
the suburban sees of Rome. He was
bishop of Porto, Santa Rufina and
Ostia. He was proclaimed cardinal by
Pope Leo XIII. March IA, 1887. The
cardinal was born November 26, 1884.
at Genazzano.
He was successfully secretary to
the papal nuncio in Bavaria. apos-
tolic delegate to Ecuador and Peru,
and nuncio at Brussels and Vienna.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Mexican "Sniper" Killed.

Brownsville. Tex. Aug. 90 An
American sharpshooter shot and killed
Mexican "sniper" who had been
firing from the southern side of the
Rio Grande. The Mexican was hit on
the head as he looked out from his
shelter.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Liner orduna Sails.

New York, Aug. 24.-Undismayed by
the fate of the Arabic, the Cunard
liner Orduna sailed for Liverpool car
rying 276 passengers and 5000 tons
of cargo. Seven of the passengers
were Americans.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Franks eody Laid to Rest.

New York. Aug. 23.-Leo M. Franks
body was laid to rest In the family lot
in Cypress Mills cemetery on Friday.
His widow, his parents. and a few
other relatives and friends stood be-
side the grave.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Senator ShiVely I'll.

Laporte, Ind. Aug. "a. - United
States Senator Benjamin F. Shively
of Indiana is reported critically i'll
at the home of his parents In Brook
field. Pa. Senator Shively has been
in Ill health for months.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Closer Watch on sayviIle.

Washington, Aug. 20.-Secretary of
the Navy Daniels announced on
Wednesday that he had ordered a
closer censorship of all messages be-
ing sent from the Sayville IN. Y } wire
less station.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Session a Success.

Oshkosh-The Oshkosh normal sum-
mer session closed with the awarding
Of fifty-one diplomas. the largest in
the history of the school and the most
of any school In the state this year.
The fall semester opens Sept. IA.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
TARGET Shooters Kill Man.

Shawano.-Reinholt Sudley, aged
as, was instantly killed when acct
dentally shot at Gresham when a
number of young men were target
shooting. The body was discovered
when a man went to inspect the tar
get Sudley had evidently been sleep
ing, in direct range of the target, and
his body was pierced by two bullets.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
TWO BRITISH WARsHlPs SUNK.

Small Cruiser and Destroyer Torpe-
doed by Submarine Craft.
Berlin, Aug 81, by wireless.-Ger-
man torpedo-boat destroyers have sunk
a small British cruiser and British
destroyer by torpedoing them in an
engagement of small craft off the vert
coast of Jutland. the German admiral
ty announces.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
French to Discuss War.

Paris. Aug 23.-Public interest has
been aroused in an extraordinary de-
gree in the session of the chamber OF
DEPUTIES. which reassembles after a
recess The governments conduct of
the war will be discussed.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Posse Foils Bank Bandits.

Perrysburg, o., Aug. 24.-In q
battle two auto bandits were wounded
and two others captured by posse.
Louis Colin and Albert Bates were
wounded. Roy Schilling and Edward
BOYLE were arrested.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Clarence Funk Seriously IIl.

South Bend. Ind, Aug. 24.-Clarence
S. Funk, formerly of the international
Harvester company. is reported seri-
ously ilt at the home of j. ID. Oliver,
but efforts to learn the nature of his
illness have proved futile.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
HIGHER RAIL RATE APPROVED.

Tariff on Iron and Steel Rails From
Chicago Points Is Endorsed.
Washington, Aug. 90 Increased
rates on iron and steel from the Mis-
sissippi and Missouri rivers. Chicago
and intermediate territory to Utah.
Colorado and Kansas points were ap-
proved by the interstate commerce
commission. The decision makes an
exception as to iron cars. steel bars.
steel sheets and structural steel in
carloads from ST. Louis to Denver orig
mating east of the Mississippi.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Residents Quit Canal Zone.

Washington, Aug. 24.-Population of
the Canal Zone has decreased 20 per
cent, or 1880 persons, within year.
The decrease is attributed to the
completion of the canal and reduction
in the number of employees.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
hew Visiting Nurse Obtained.

Manitowoc,-Miss Caroline Dueno, a
local girl, will succeed Miss Carrie
Larson, resigned. as visiting nurse Of
the city. Miss Dueno will assume her
duties on Sept /.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
20 U. s. BREEDERS Drown.

Washington. Aug. "a. - Nineteee
members CT the crew of the govern
ment dredge San Bernard were
drowned In the storm OF Galveston.
The other Is members OF the crew are
sase.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Root Heads Bar Association.

Salt Lake City. Aug. 20.-Elihu Root
of New York was unanimously elected
president of the American Bar asso-
ciasion.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
Dentists Office Robbed.

Merrill.-Burglars entered the den
tai offices of DR.. A. ]. Metcalf and DIR.
w. s. Van Nostrand and stole 500
worth of gold.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-08-27
England Has Had rs Lady Smiths.

The knighthood conferred on F. e.
Smith adds one more to the long roll
of Lady Smiths. The wife Of the new
solicitor general Is the twenty-dfth
Of the name.-London Observer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-11
BEARS KILL SALMON
Alaskan Bruin Stays Them for
Food and Sport.
Can Eat 500 Pounds at One Meal
GulIs and Terms Also Among
Causes for Waning Fish Sup
ply in Northern Rivers.

Bears that fish in shallow water and
gulls and terms that pluck out the eyes
of their prey are destroying millions
of Alaskan salmon, according to E.
Lester Jones, deputy commissioner OF
the bureau of fisheries, who was sent
to Alaska last summer to investigate
the causes OF the waning salmon sup
ply. The bears, he says, are the worst
offenders, because they haunt the
shores of streams during the spawn
ing season, and, besides killing huge
quantities for food, STAY many thou
sands of others just for the pure Joy
of the sport.
The commissioner in his report tells
how at Black Bear creek in the Cleve-
land peninsula he found the shores for
$50 feet on both sides Uttered with
hundreds upon hundreds of humpback,
silver and chum salmon that had been
tossed out of the water by bears.
Hardly any of the fish had been mu-
tilated except by the marks of the
bears claws on their backs. All that
was eaten was the cheek of the sal
mon, the bear, according to Commits
sioner Jones, being very fastidious and
preferring that part to any other.
AS the bears in Alaska are the larg-
est in the world and are noted for
their ravenous appetites, it is easy to
realize how much damage they can do
On Kodiak island, where the full
grown bear weighs thTee-quarters of
a ton, the deputy commissioner
learned from a native that one of
these giants could eat a third of his
own weight in salmon in single day
CAS- in other parts of the territory"
Mr.. Jones remarks, this bear also
throws considerable numbers Of fish
out of the water, many of which it
may never care to touch for food"
While wolves and even eagles are
also doing much harm, Mr. Jones
found that still greater destruction
was caused by gulls and terms. De-
scribing his visit to Sierra creek on a
rainy day at low tide, he says:
MY attention was first attracted by
a movement of birds in The water and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-11
was sick.
- ~ - 80
Leakage of Gasoline.

The mysterious loss of gasoline,
which embarrassed the polar expedi-
tions of Scott and Amundsen, and
which was the principal cause Of the
disaster that befell the former, has
been made the subject of investigation
by several persons, and very plaus-
ible explanation is made by B. T.
Brooks of the Mellon Institute of In
dustrial Research, in All article in Sci
ence He has observed that at low
temperatures ordinary tin is liable to
be converted into the allotTopic form,
gray tin powder This change takes
place at a maximum rate at 48 degrees
Centigrade, and may occur more slow
ly at other temperatures below that
point. Hard solder, which may con-
tain IS per cent tin is subject to the
same process of disintegration. Hence
the danger of leakage along the solder
seams of the container-a fact that
should be duly considered by future
polar expeditions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-11

MURDER A COMMON OCCURRENCE
AMONG PAPUANS.
Seems to Them the Most Natural
Thing in the World TO Put End to
Existence of Enemies or the
Troublesome.

Papua has long been known as a
bloody land. 1t is a bloody land still.
But the blood of white men is rarely
let; and the wanton slaughter of ma
tives the one by the other-at least
in those fast-widening regions which
are within the sphere of the LAWS
fast diminishing, says a writer in Har-
Per's Magazine. All this being so, in
one year, nevertheless, when there
were 215 prisoners committed for trial,
11S of them were charged with murder,
nine with manslaughter and five with
attempted murder To the civilized
mind the motives to murder, shocking
enough, to be sure-nOr wanting an
aspect of gruesome humor-are upon
occasion incredible. AS they are mat
tiers Of record, however, disclosed upon
painstaking investigation, they are to
be accepted, not as irresponsible tales,
such as wander about the eastern seas,
but as substantial facts, however sim
gular and incomprehensible they may
appear. 1t is matter of court record,
for example, that certain natives OF
what is called the coast range, being
upon trial for the murder of two car
riers. whose Threats they had cut, ad-
mitted the deed without the least hesi-
tation, and sought to justify the ghast-
ly business upon the ground that the
carriers had appeared to be cold and
hungry"-dejected fellows, far away
from their village. The prisoners had
not eaten the carriers. They had
merely-with the most considerate eX-
peditiOn-cut the threats of the car
riers, who were strangers, at any rate,
and therefore of no great consequence;
and no ingenuity of cross-questioning
could elicit a motive Interior to the
one so ingenuously advanced-that the
carriers, appearing to be cold and
hungry" were, in the opinion of the
gentlemen who had incontinently cut
their threats, much better dead.
A similar case of merciful extermi-
nation concerned a young native, en-
ployed to shoot game for white
planter, who encountered sick man
(Papuan) on the road near by river,
and strangled him to death. Upon
trial he explained that the sick man
had created annoyance, and a consid-
cradle embarrassment, as well, by in
sistently requesting to be carried
across the river to the other side,
when his way lay forward to his vii
lage.
Quite so" said the presiding Off
Ger. why, then, didn't you carry him
across the river?"
"He was too heavy" replied the ma
tive. ct would have put me to a
great deal of trouble"
why did you kill him?"
'FWnat else could l do? The man
was sick"
It was out of the question to endure
the labor of carrying the sick man
across the river. 1t was equally out
of the question to abandon the pitiable
object Therefore the bewildered fell
low had strangled him-the most obvi-
Gus way out of dilemma which babe
fair to distress his feelings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-03-11
TRACTS CLEARED OF MALARIA
Gratifying Progress Has Been Made
by Those Interested in Conquer
ing the Disease.

Malaria, to which children are sus-
septible, has been made largely pre-
ventable disease by a study of the
mosquito carrier, its breeding places
and natural history, and by inocula-
ton experiments on animals and man.
1t was proved by Italian observers
that the mosquito disseminates bird
malaria in the same manner as in the
human subject.
The final upshot of these investiga-
tons has been that large tracts of
hitherto waste and dangerous land
have been rendered safe and produc-
tive. A widespread cause of debilitat-
ing sickness, and even of death, has
thus been removed
In such areas the saddest sight has
been the stunted, anemic children,
with enlarged livers and spleens, the
evidences of chronic malarial poison
ing, that can now be obviated by put,
ting modern knowledge into effect.