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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
Twelve Men With a Story.

A raft from the Hampshire lived
through the boiling seas that swamped
her boats and bore u battered men to
land. When the admiralty unseals
their lips what tale they will have
TO tell
The world waits to hear how Kitch-
ener died. In Germany the man who
is called ruthless" ard ''the scOurge
of the Beers" but for all that "a
man in the largest sense" is claimed
as a victim, in the words of the KreuZ-
zeitung, ''at the hands of our navy"
Is it true? Did the British navy per-
nit Great Britain's greatest war lead
err TO be picked off by a submarine for
lack of destroyer watchdogs, near the
very fold of the dreadnaught fleet? Or
is it true, as has been supposed, that
the cruiser. was sunk by British mine
broken loose or a German mine sown
broadcast in the sea and floating aim
Iessly TO a shining mark?
Some of these i men may have been
on deck, where the path of an ap-
preaching torpedo might be described.
They may be able TO end suspense, to
establish the probable if not the GER
tain cause of the disaster. When their
silence is broken they will not lack
an audience.-New York World.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21

ing, and tastes-f1ne local color, and
all that-but more like soda than a
good bracing snifter.'
All this was of no moment to Moore.
He glanced anxiously at ROrke Vivian.
He was the oldest of the party. He
had done London, Paris, New York in
a journalistic way, had written three
books, spoke little, and then to a pur-
pose. He sat now, his finely chiseled
face half hidden by his hand, and said
-nothingi
There was where the whip scourged,
there lay the bitter sting for Moore!
One word or look of appreciation from
Vivian would have been more to the
aspiring young writer than all the
others might put in volumes.
Guess last nights extra has used
me up" spoke Vivian at length, aris-
ing with a yawn. Then his lips set
close, as though all this were a mask
to conceal some unusual emotion. He
rather evaded Moore, the latter
thought. When Vivian was gone the
group broke up. Moore was glad OF it.
His soul was bruised. He wished to
be alone, to think.
1T fell fiat he soliloquized as he
reached the outer air. Il won't try
again"
He thrust the manuscript into an in
side coat pocket with savage punch
of his fist Then he braced for long
walk He was emptying out of his
mind all the grand plans he had for a
story, if his colleagues had given him
the least encouragement specially
Vivian
A favorite stroll of his was along
the city edge, where a broken stretch
had been developed into striking pic
tureaqueness, and a number of fine
residences had exclusive location. At
one spot a pretty rustic bridge
spanned a gully with a hayward
stream trickling through. He paused
there, leaning on the railing Of the
bridge.
The surroundings were magically
enhancing in the clear white moon
light. and conducive to quiet thought,
but Moore brooded. Something had
gone out of his life. The first child
of his brain had been ruthlessly ban
ished.
Its the humdrum dog trot and the
bread and butter after this" he ut
tered. almost bitterly. "Good-byi'
He ierked the roll Of manuscript
from his pocket in a res0lute way and
gave it a vehement fling far as he
could beyond the bridge. A breeze
was blowing, and the leaves separated.
He watched them moodily skither
here and there snd finally settle down
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21

Mindanao has a larger colony of
American planters, engaged mostly in
hemp cultivation, than any other spot
in the islands, Notwithstanding that
the people there have always been
hostile to trespassers. Many Of these
have been wantonly murdered but the
fatality list is growing less right
along, an evidence that the people are
being converted to a new order of
things. Many of these brave Ameri-
cans started business on what they
saved from q soldiers wage, and to-
day not a few of them are Oriental
nabobs.
Responding to Education.
For centuries the Moro thought the
only kind of effective government was
that having force behind it. To be
kind to him, in his opinion, meant that
you feared him. But to be kind, with
a means of making kindness accepta-
BILE through a standing military force,
has completely wrought change in
the warlike people. Under good lead
ers the Moros are good people; under
bad ones they, too, are bad.
The Mohammedan religion teaches
that to slay a white man, or a Chris
tan, is a sure way to get to heaven.
Therefore, in Spanish times, and dur
ing our early occupation, fanatical
Moros used to run amuck, chopping
down as many foreigners as they
could with their wicked knives. Often
1t has taken a dozen bullets, we'll
aimed from a high-power army rifle,
to kill the crazed followers of the
Koran. All Moros hate pork as bull
does a red flag, and the military Off
Ger who placed the dead body of a
fanatic inside a pork carcas and
strung the two up in the plaza for
the inspection of others effectually
kept running amuck" within bounds
in his territory.
But today the Moros are laying
aside their war krises and spears, are
discarding their tight-ftting, gaily
colored costumes for modern dress,
similar to the Filipinos, and are send
ing their children for the first time to
public schools. A decade hence there
may be Moro professional men, such
as lawyers, doctors and scientists.
A committee of Moro chieftains who
went to Manila recently to meet Resi-
dent Commissioner Manuel Quezos of
Washington, himself a Filipino, told
the commissioner that schools were
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
Lost
and Found
BY VICTOR REDCLIFFE

Copyright. 1916. by W. G. Chapman.)
1t was his first ambitious venture in
literature, and Adrian Moore had be-
gun the reading of his little screed
with fear and trembling. Then, as he
got into the soul of his subject, he for
got self and was almost brilliant in
his delivery
All his former trepidation returned,
however, as he came back 60 the harsh
realities with the last sentence en-
inundated It was a little skit OF
pathos, romance and description, the
result of two-weeks' vacation in ''the
cider country downstate, just as an
tique and crude in the present as half
a century before.
He faced his critics now-they were
five. The Chosen Six" comprised a
club of newspaper writers who met
and ate-and drank moderately--once
a week in the rear room of Greek
restaurant. There, when they got
warmed up, more than one Of the
group forgot stern impractical routine
stuff and for the first time a poem, a
scenario, a magazine effort would see
the light.
Its just a dash-off," observed
Moore almost apologetically as he sat
down, and blunt Jerry Gowan, who
wrote loaded editorials, in his usual
unsympathetic way made the COM
ment:
Forget it.
Clyde Winston, who was allowed to
act as critic of second-rate books, sim
ply yawned There was Dan Cheever.
Great" he declared, slapping
Moore on the shoulder in his inevi-
table way 'Lengthen her out and
give her a spin with the magazines.
you've acquired some style" OBJ
served Jack Whistler. It's refresh
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21

intensely popular, and asked him TO
say to congress that as long as that
body was disposed to furnish school
books that the Moros themselves
would furnish the schools and the
scholars. Datto Piang. one of the
powerful chieftains, has himself erect
ed two costly schooIhouses in Min
danao solely at his own expense. A
Moro doing anything of this sort in
olden times would have been hanged
by his own people.
Baseball Has Helped.
Baseball has helped wonderfully
with the Moros, as it did with the
Filipinos, TO cement affections for the
Americans. 1t is claimed by learned
Filipino who recently toured Min
danao that in two decades the Wis
itor in Moroland will not be able, so
far as dress and manners are. con-
>cerned, to distinguish Moro from a
Filipino. No American baseball fan
really knows what fun is until he is
privileged to see holly contested
game Of ball between FilipinoS and
Moros and gives IN attentive ear TO
the game vernacular as it is spoken
bv our wards in the excitement of the
sport.
With the awakening to civilization
the Moro is acquiring some chivalry.
One of the sultans thought he had
reached the acme of politeness when
he asked the popular daughter of one
of our ex-presidents, at the time Wis
ting his palace, TO become No. in
his harem. OF course, there was a
blushing declination, at which the
dusky ruler was probably chagrined.
But the incident goes 70 illustrate that
the American, as well as the Christian
Filipino. is for the first time making
himself and his institutions accepta-
BILE to the remade Mohammedans or
our farthest-fiung frontier.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21

danao. with the Sulu archipelago
the Mohammedan empire-is well
worth reconstruction, and it is per-
haps this fact which has made US SO
persistent.
LARGEST of Philippine Islands.
Mindanao itself is the largest island
nv far in the entire Philippine archi-
pelago. 1t is about the size OF our
own state of Mississippi and is Dig
per than Indiana or Ohio. 1t would
make seven states like New Jersey,
and is by far much larger than sew
eral of our Atlantic coast states COM
bined. To be precise, it has an area
of 46,T21 square miles.
In ancient times the Moros had lit
tie. if any, business sense. They had
n woeful lack of the appreciation OF
money. To overcome their antfquated
ideas of trade we have established
markets for them in the leading towns
where they meet to buy and sell.
Some day Mindanao will be one OF
the leading countries of the world Tor
the production of rubber. The rubber
tree grows wild there in great pro
fusion. Although the industry is as
vet undomesticated. exports from a
single locality have reached nearly
/ o00oO0 pounds in year. The island
also produces much hemp, as wen as
tanioca. cocoanuts and other tropical
fruits.
we have been successful in giving
railroads to that part of the Philip
pine archipelago occupied By the Eli
ipino. even though foreign capital had
tn furnish the money, but we have
vet to lay the first steel rail in MIN
danao. the greatest and richest OF the
islands of our insular frontier. Bor-
neo. distant only stones throw from
Zamboanga. Mnndanao's metropolis. IS
far ahead of Morolsnd in everything
save natural wealth.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
y HERE was one rich and I'M
ruly realm the Spaniards were
glad to rid themselves of fol-

H HERE was one rich and I'M
ruly realm the Spaniards were
glad to rid themselves of fol-
lowing the battle of Manila
bay. The huge Island of Mindanao,
pronounced as though spelled Mind-a-
now, known in the Philippines as
Moroland, had the reputation of being
largely unconquered, as much by the
military as by the missionaries. The
Moros chung to their religious beliefs
as tenaciously as they opposed Span
fsh domination in government, writes
Monroe Woolley in the Utica Satur-
day Globe.
But the Moro archipelago today is
not what it was when we first took
up stewardship there. This means
that it is not the unconquerable en-
pire it was when the Spanish essayed
to rule and run it. For a long time
we sought to make the Moros obedi-
ent by whipping them-by killing
them off. Hundreds, thousands of
them, were slain in periodic cam
paigns, yet the fiery Mohammedans
lost no opportunity to treacherously
murder our troops and officials at
times when pacificatiOn seemed ap-
parent.
Military operations failing to a con-
siderable degree, and mindful of the
hopeless task of the Spaniards, an
other method was devised to win the
people to new government and to new
ways of living. At first the Philippine
government smoked peace pipe with
the sultans and dattos, chiefs of COM
munity factions, seeking in this man
ner to make itself popular with the
masses. AS much good will as pos
sible was thus literally bought. Cost
ly gifts and junketing trips were be-
slowed on the tribal chiefs, and they
were fawned upon as loyal subjects
are wont to do with royalty. Later,
brute force was wholly abolished.
Kindness and diplomacy were finally
substituted therefor and with this en-
1ightened new system we are gradual
1y and thoroughly remaking Moham-
medan Mindanao.
Known to and thoroughly explored
by white men for centuries past, Min
tlanao is today just beginning to be
lifted from q savage past into the
1imelight of civilization. The rich
realm has never been exploited be-
cause the inhabitants were always hos
tile to any outside interference. Min
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
Chance Is Needed.

Don't be content to live in a room
which has the same appearance year in
and year out. A change of articles, COW
erings, draperies viii have a wonderful
effect on the room as wei as yourself
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1916-07-21
Very Much Restricted.

Knicker-'Ts Jones on a restricted
diet3" Bocker-"Terribly; he is con-
fined to what he can afford and his
wife can cook. Judge.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-10
CHOKED TO DEATH.
Rutland Man Probably Was Not Victim
of Foul Play.

Rutland, March l0.-An autopsy per.
| formed at the undertaking rooms OF
John B. Stearns by DIR. b. III. Stone and
DR.. c. F. Whitney of the state labora.
tory Of hygiene at Burlington on the
body of Domenico Ragosto, an Italian
woodchopper, whose dead body was dis
covered Wednesday morning in an attic
at the house at is Meadow street, shows
that the man died from choking while
eating some kind of greens. Whether or
not there was some other contributing
cause has not yet been determined. The
theory is advanced that the man may
have been paralyzed by alcohol or may
have suffered a stroke of apopIexy. The
stains about the mouth, which had the
appearance of blood and led the authori-
ties to think at first that there had been
foul play, were probably due to excre-
tons from the stomach and particles of
food.
In order to clear up every doubt as to
what caused the Italians end, the state
laboratory experts have taken his vital
organs to. Burlington for analysis. A re-
port is not expected until next week.
While the outcome of the autopsy
makes it probable that death was not
due to violence ON the part of any per-
son, there are points about the case
which Grand Juror C. +. Novak has not
cleared up to his satisfaction and he is
still making investigations, although he
has issued no warrants. Mr. and Mrs.
Louis Gruppo, who have been occupying
the apartments where Ragosto's body
was found, have not been located. An
officer was in Dandy yesterday to en-
ieavor to run down the story that Ra
yosto went to Dandy with Mrs. Gruppo
last Saturday. II was stated that Ra
yosto had considerable money at Dandy
md an effort viii be made to ascertain
Il he brought the funds to Rutland with |
him. No money was found in his pock- !
It's Wednesday.
Some Of Ragosto's friends win not &C |
'ept the theory that he did not meet |
with foul play. the reputation of the /
'lace where his body lay tending to add /
% their suspicious.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-10
o~. G.~
Auburn. Maine.

gan should be suitable for Mr.. Ford's
home.
Later Mr.. Ford visited the factory,
after the organ had been completed, in
company with his architect, he again ex-
pressed his admiration for the personnel,
and, according to statement by his
architect, showed more enthusiasm and
delight in the organ than in any other
item connected with his new home
This same feeling was evidenced by
statements which Mr.. Ford made to sew
eral of the men who were installing the
instrument in his home
Later his appreciation took the form OF
a request to the Estey Organ company
for list of all its employees. Mr. Ford
said he wished to show his appreciation
to every man who had a part in the work
and although he knew there were many
men in the factory who did not actually
lay hands on the instrument, he made
no exception in his request.
Yesterday every employee of the Estey
Organ company received from Mr.. Ford a
letter of appreciation with a check en-
closed.
This lS-FFohably a unique experience
and il shows side of Mr. Fords char.
acter which has perhaps not been pre-
yiously known.
Most Of the employees found the checks
awaiting them on their arrival home for
dinner. To state that they were sur
prised is to state the truth only mildly.
One man, who did no work on the big
organ, said Immediately that mistake
had been made and that the check, which
was for $40 was intended for another
man Of similar name who is employed
by the Estey firm in an official capacity.
Later he learned that ii was his own
The amounts of the checks varied,
some being for s5 some S., $40, Sl2 and
various other amounts. Altogether there
were several hundred checks.
In the letter which accompanied each
check, written by Mr.. Ford's secretary,
It was stated that every time Mr.. Ford
heard the beautiful tones Of the instru-
nent he realized that the best efforts
If the Estey employees were put into it.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-10
AN OLD PRESCRIPTION

For many years DR.. Levi Minard
prescribed and used Minards liniment,
the sale of which is now world wide,
for Minard's is the one dependable
liniment for removing pain of all kinds
and can be had of any druggist.
Minards is wonderfully soothing,
creamy liniment that gives almost in
slant relief to sufferers from neural
gia, lumbago. sciatica, rheumatic
pains, stiff joints, sore, strained or
lame muscles and tired. aching. burn
ing. itching feet.
Minard's liniment is absolutely pure,
stainless and very effective. II is eco
nomical and clean to use.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-10
The Water Question.

The town of Plymouth, N. H., has just
completed its first artesian we'll Tor towr
supply, and the townspeople are very
much pleased with it.
The well was drilled on reservoir hill
A feet, six inches higher than the towr
reservoir, and about $50 feet higher thar
the town proper.
The well was started 10 inches in di
ameter and finished eight inches in d.
ameter, 42s feet deep. The water stands
up in the well to within II feet of the
top. At the pump test 100 feet of two
and half inch cylinder pipe was put
down with brass ball bearing cylinder
at bottom, and after pumping most all
dav at the rate of two barrels minute
$50 gallons minute and some times
morel, the water in the well could not
be lowered down 70 feet. Many of the
leading townspeople visited the well TO
see the pump test and they all seemed
to be well pleased.
The following day another pump test
was given from AZ feet down, or 80 feet
from the top of water-with the object
of finding out how much water the well
would syphon down into the town reser-
yor without any pump. 1t was found
that the well would syphon continuously
30 gallons minute.
The ground slopes down about 80 de-
grees from the well to the reservoir.
The town officials intend cutting into
the hill about half way between the
reservoir and the well-and then trench
horizontally to the well--entering a pipe
into the well about six or eight feet be-
low the natural top of the water in the
well-then dropping about 80 feet OF
syphon pipe down into the water. In
this way the water should run contin-
uously down into the reservoir. Two or
three such artesian wells would amply
supply the town of Plymouth, including
all fire protection.
The water was tested and found to be
soft and of excellent quality
Water Commission DIR. George II.
Bowles has figured that this well will
pay for itself in one year-fguring
against what the town is now paying
outside parties for pumping extra water.
This well will syphon Tor rum 30 gallons
a minute, which is equal to the pumping
of 60 gallons minute for day of II
hours.
In adopting artesian well water sup
ply, Plymouth is in line with the large
growing majority Of towns and cities of
the United States, which use artesian
wells for municipal supply-having
found it to be the purest water and af-
fording never failing supply. 1t is less
expensive AS land does not have to be
bought in large quantities to protect
Growing population and its |
problems of sanitation do not affect the
deep streams of underground water. A
great many towns and cities of New
England use batteries of drilled or driv
an wells hitehed onto one suction main
md fed by gravity or by pumping into
me or more reservoirs-which thus give
ample fire protection as well as unques
.ionable, palatable and slightly drinking
water supply. These reservoirs do not
ave to be cleaned for contaminations
md growths as does the water from
,onds and brooks, contaminated as they
ire by cattle and the Inhabitants of their
water sheds.
There is an unusual opportunity af-
orded by the high hills OF Barre, VT,
or an artesian well gravity water sup
,ly.-adv.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-10
VERMONT CROP REPORT
For March as Compiled By u S. Bureau
of Crop Estimates.

Washington, D. c., March l0.-A sum
mary OF the March crop report for Yer
mont, as compiled by the bureau of crop
estimates, is as follows:
Wheat on farms Estimate stocks on
farms March ] this year 5000 bushels,
compared with 1900 year ago aud 5000
two years ago. Price on March | to pro-
ducers Sl.20 per bushel compared with
Sl.30 year ago and 81 two years ago.
Corn on farms Estimated stocks on
farms March this year 54l 900 bushels
compared with $4,000 year ago and
100000 two years ago. Price March 10
producers IS cents per bushel, compared
with 81 cents year ago and "a cents
two years ago.
Corn of merchantable quality-The
percentage of the 1915 crop which was
of merchantable quality is estimated at
20 per cent, compared with 6s per cent
of the 1914 crop and 81 per cent of the
1918 crop.
Oats on farms-Estimate stocks on
farms March / this year 100000 bush
els, compared with l,l75,0O0 year ago
and LII, 900 two years ago. Price
March to producers 50 cents per bush
el. compared with 65 cents year ago
and 80 cents two years ago.
Barley on farms Estimated stocks on
farms March this year 10000 bushels,
compared with 100000 a year ago and
10000 two years ago Price March to
producers 81 cents per bushel, compared
with ~ cents a year ago and IS cents
two years ago.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-03-10
DON'T GO TO BED WITH
COLD FEET
Says: "often Brings on Attacks of Acute
Rheumatism

An ounce of prevention is worth pound
of cure, and people who are subject to
attacks of rheume tism should never 90 to
bed with cold feet.
A whole lot is being said about taking
salts and efferyescing tablets for rheuma-
tism and sciatica. but those who suffer
sharp twinges and painful, swollen joints
need something powerful to overcome
their piteous suffering.
Any broad minded druggist will tell
you that one-half teaspoonful of Rheuma
taken once day is driving more rheuma-
tism out of afflicted people than all the
salts on earth. Right in this neighbor-
hood The Red Cross Pharmacy and all
druggists sell large quantities of it, and
it's the surest and most inexpensive rem
so cents bottle.-Ady.