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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1923-11-07

brides the British offered you at Bara-
taria. And in turn what have the
Yankees done for you, Jean-scattered
your fortune to the winds!"
"Aye, you enriched this city, and
you stand fugitive upon its streets 7"
The captain raised his hand grave
ly: lam a citizen of the United
States, gentlemen. Prescribed, just
now, 1t is true-but-it might be
could serve again. There are curious
things reported in the Mexicoes.
Colonel Travis, 1 recall. and Crockett
and young Bowie were hot for me to
join the Texans IN a new republic.
And in Kentucky"
"Ah, but, my captain" growled old
Johannes, "what hast thou to do with
their miserable politics of the day?
The sea for us ID be this gable
OF the town. Look you, what it has
made of Dominique Sitting, twid-
ding his thumbs on his fat bellyl And
Beluche-taking off and putting on his
gilt chapeau, ticklishly, as If fearing
to get dust on his gewgaws"
"Cease your spewing," growled the
Cartagenian, 81 sail with proper COM
missions, would have you know, from
Colombia"
"And be id with your papers J"
reared the old man. Admiral? There
does not live one for me Nor coun-
cilors, nor nobillty-young sprigs of
dandies coming to pat our hard salted
fstsI"
He glared about, his gaze lingering
on Count de Almonaster
"Old man." said Raoul quietly, you
had better keep your place"
On, :"
The old sea dog was starting up;
I.attte laughingly laid hands upon
him.
sit down, old tar-earsl shall beg
pardon for you. / KNOW know
Old days-old ways-it Is hard to put
things by" He put his hand affec-
tionately on Johannes shoulder. DO
you remember the time sent you with
the eight-oared barge to conduct Mr..
Grymes back to the city-after the
feasting, roaring week ut Grand
Terre2"
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Relieved of Catarrh
Due to La Grippe
Thanks
To
PE-RU-NA


Mrs. Laura Berberick, over 20
years of age, 1905 Willow Ave.
Hoboken, N. J., writes: "A severe
attack of La Grippe left me with
a hoarseness and slime in the head
and throat. | had chronic catarrh.
1t grew worse. | could not lie down
or sleep at night. l was always
bothered by the slime, vain in the
pack and a terrible headache every
morning.
Finally I bought bottle of
Pe-ru-na which was of great bene-
ut: 1t gave me blood and strength.
have. no pains in head or back.
nor noises in the head. The slime
has gone and I can sleep. Nv
weight has increased. I am cheer
tul and happy, thanks to Pe-ru-na.
which l shall always keep in the
house and recommend to nv
friends"
For every form of catarrh
Pe-ru-na meets the need, Coughs,
Colds. Nasal Catarrh, Indigestion
Bowel disorders are all forms of
catarrh.
:. Buy it any where in tablet or
liquid form.
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inches off my belly and I'd be at saa
again. only today / argued with the
mayor. Rouifignac, that the civ was
better off when it fattened on the pri-
watering. Was it not equal robbery
when the Americans under Comma
dore Patterson looted our Grand Terre
warehouses;"
I'VE should have fought instead Of
scuttling out" grumbled Johannes.
The Yankees could not have taken
us by storm. Glad they were later
TO nave our fellows aid them. Who
dld General Jackson turn to but Can
tain jeans skilled artillerymen when.
the British threatened the city? BAIL
| never saw such a lame lot of dogs
as our fellows were the day the POM
pous governor announced we were all
recommended for pardon! We stood
dangling our cutlasses, listening to
lawyers speeches praising us for say-
ing the city, when we should have
been to sea again. Captain Jean, thou
vert the only wise one Of the band
departing to the Texas country and
selzlng Galveston island against the
Spaniards. l could curse my heart
that l did not enlist again with theeI"
Il intended to have the new estab-
lishment legitimate enough" muir
INJURED Lafitte, "but after the war the
politicians lost no chance at Washing
ton, nor with the Spanish viceroy at
Vera Cruz, to poison all minds against
me. When they sacked Galveston, /
took young Bowie and went inland to
the Santa Fe. That was my history
since, comrades. 1 came back from
the West, drawn by 1 know not what
to tread these streets again"
The old buccaneers watched his
calm face in the moonlight He had
taken off the hat and peruke: q
bronzed handsome man with dark
eyes tirged with acknowledgement
was Lafitte.
ETH, WELL" grunted old Dominique,
"Pakenham would have taken the city
in the rear If you had accepted the
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Much to Be Thankful For.

There is much in human life to be
thankful for, as well as much to dis
tress-mercies as we'll as Affections,
heroism as well as cowardice, and
abundant justification for faith and
hope. Nothing will contribute SO
much to progress, to tightening "of
the burden of the mystery" as a faith
full, accomplishing and cheerful per
Torrance of the ordinary daily duties
and a cooperating interest In the
concerns of the particular hearth and
home" lesson which some of the
greatest philosophers were, and are
slow to take to heart.
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His Own Idea.

young blood or dandy of the pc
Rod went into a shop and asked for
pink shoestrings. They told him they
had no pink shoestrings and had
never noted any demand for the same.
"In fact" stated the head of the
firm, Il can't for the life of me i'm
agine what you want with pink shoe
strings"
The dandy flicked an imaginary bit
Of dust from his cuff and condescend-
ed to explain: ut is just an idea of
mine, don't you know. 1 wish 10 use
them as neckties"
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"ThIs week the sensation Is
choosing the crew "a man the
Napoleon ship"

To BE coNr1NuEn9
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Business Before Sentiment

Darling" exclaimed the happy hus-
band after the minister had pro-
nounced the fatal words, 81 am not
worthy of you" "Of course you are
not" she replied; "but after a girl has
celebrated her twenty-fifth birthday
for five consecutive years she. can't
afford to be too particular. Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
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CHAPTER ~

4, Old Sea-Rovers Awaken.
midnight Captain Sazarac
from the rue de la Levee to
/ ml pavement that skirted the
llmes, and, for a moment,
IzDated the changes which even
lr Years Of the American Occupa-
IM wrought in the Paris Of the
md A painted iron paIisade
ornate grill gates enclosed the
~ before the cathedral which he
logn as a dusty parade-ground
Which IaZily tapped, now one,
h Otber-the royal standard Of
hrthe deW-de-lis Of France. A
.nd the ancient wooden gallows
Hnai0pd, but about 1t, now, the
hen played Of mornings, listening
? hUSOme tales Of Bras Coupe,
fTor Of the Swamps, who preyed
.n'n ieSh and was proof to mus
7R as tie coIored nurses had 1t.
he narrow way between the ca
and the old Spanish calabOza
l.e paused again. Documents of
'Ad ayocat were tackled to the
VI ooorS' Not 50 many years
Dad not he-Jean Lafitte-sent
up from the pirates fortified
On Grand Terre island to
10Y the escape Of his brother,
Tom this same prison? And
ld again had they not both
70 read, on these same boards.
avs PROCLAMATION for their cap
"S Jaws futile fury when no
'asl lay hand upon them, so COM
Old the Grand Terre adven-
|e the town?
,S many changes!" unused the
E Hailed by the city as a
H'aoNed by the President and
,-,' TOT service to the new re-
denounced again and driven
W seas Yet I walked these
""'n no merchant was too
!. 20 traffic for the goods we
~ ,.,,. from the gulf privateerfng.
s"- the good sea calls-again,
!, S y. door in a high wall of
,,a y" refer he tapped with his
r, %' II opened; he stood within
~. y, garden of the Cafe la veau
IVY, @ 4 dim light showed the
|gn. lDe warehouse shadows.
g g.s'nIQue' the worthy alder
\, 'I n a huge pewter mug in
,~,.s uaIt a dozen figures arose
, Gr,.'red EXPLANATIONS. They
., +,.' him. clasping his hands,
/! |. ' ~ Jean m came .
, ,,s in the Old patois Of the
b I rsss, Here are We, all
|a,, ,,.sa' out Of old days !"
i .'I ISs, Old brawIer of the
1 d J, n,', I'd they had hanged YOU
"'' Of the Santa off Grand and
s .,', seaman laughed hi. ,or
h G,,n.Ih That the British sank
+, 'o5. ..a3 Hang I me? S% Ah,
n, o'ss s15 pardon, Jeani AMI
| h"s W s.ay-peddle ducks and
! 5 ME-, city markets. The The v qru
qp g.a, me out and put their
! ao...ssI,, noses: Old Tet etc J ohm
a ~ f., who sailed with Ti9 t Jonn !"
levn', ' you all than swinging
+; ss,,.tH,e Here Is the worthy a al,
y: y ys,'C e with a lawful t''y conn al.
T. a. p. am told. And ,i'f here ~
reI- 4a.monaster!"
he b,,., sruntea Johanness,
ssr, trough, ,, the gentleman ~
h, h., 'a 4! J. Dominique d9uele fears
f., cs,,, indeed, respectable.
Z ny r'Y ham, Only last YEAR s' !
Fl s. 'Io5aer, Pierre, now o~'' .
hi = Ga James, was second uoI =. .
so soo, Ie IN duel-that is
n ''''e'y indeed, gentle
"''''d Dominique, -F.ur
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DJEAN!"

.,srs Under the name OF
llFs s,a5c.arac. and disguised
ea,ls sts'' former freebooter
,a ,.t, prescribed. returns
aa .... o., New orleans, He
O. eli. .,, a. bv two Of his old
T'so ,s Alderman Dominique
lloa5. At the gaming
. .,,,rac has won much
rs S'I. colonel Carr, Brit
G '.'" lam Jarvis, the ctty's
l. .,o,... of the arts and
'' ID. o,dtime friend of La
aH s' u, woman's face and
gu. u his last wager Carr
- woman. presumably a
W c,.tom compels 5azarao
tbe stake. He wins.
''r' ossocfates and Count
~ :. s,monaster accost him
q. ,.s az A project Of the
~. s.' s5centurers Of New Or
I. he rescue Of Napoleon
J, .a from st. Helena, and
I. ~, ,ts seraphine has been
..,5c From De Almonas-
~ Ir.''' Al ~,-}y 81
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half their time to unnecessary con-
facts, and considerable portion of
the national energy is wasted by the
dominance in America today of fleet
ing vision, thirst for sensation and
relentless need for notion
This public deliverance of the sec
rotary of state concerns itself with
two things-the time spent by public
oftlclals in doing work that ought to
be done by subordinates, and the al
legged sensationalism of the press in
dealing with matters of government.
So far as the first section of Mr..
Hughes remarks is concerned, he of
course is everlastingly right. The
right or wrong in the second section
is or certainly may be open to argu-
ment.
Everybody who visits a government
department and succeeds in seeing the
chief thereof knows about the "time
waste" 1t may be that an American
ambassador home on business of state
is engaged with high matters in the
office of the secretary. Twenty times
during the conference of moment the
door will be opened and an underling
VIII come in with something which he
says must be signed. The train of
thought and of conversation is broken
and the secretary and the ambassador
are forced time after time to readiust
their mentalities and to try to join
once more the links of the subject.
Important Business often Delayed.
Because Of the unnecessary con-
facts" which the chief of a depart
ment of government must make each
day, public business of high impor-
lance at times has been compelled to
wait on business of low Importance for
weeks. 1t is known in Washington
that officials of the United States gov
eminent doing duty in foreign coun-
tries have been called home for con-
ferences and have been compelled to
stay in their hotels awaiting the lei
sure of the State department to give
them audience.
The present secretary of state has
found time to talk to every returned
one, but it wasn't so in the recent past
With another party administration.
Today, however, a returned ambassa-
dor may get his State department con-
tact, but then he must wait on contact
with higher office which it is neces-
sary to make before full sanction can
be stamped on the program of action
formulated in the department of for
eign affairs"
Everybody who has read the Page
letters knows that Ambassador Page
was brought home from England for
conference and that he could not
get it. The seeming neglect Of the
ambassador on his return generally
has been put down to resentment be-
cause of his freely expressed opinions
in letters to the State department and
to the administration. In view of the
known condition of things in the de-
partments of government, the waste
of time made necessary by the i'm
portunities Of underlings and noncon-
sequential visitors, it may be that the
reason given for keeping Mr.. Page at
distance was only half the real
reason.
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Criticism of Correspondents.

AS for the second matter in which
Secretary Hughes more than touched
in his speech at Providence, "tne
thirst for sensation and a restless
need for notion this in a way is a
criticism of correspondents who send
out dispatches based on guesses which
they make on less than the spur of the
moment. There is plenty of reason
for this complaint of the secretary, for
it is complaint and nothing else, and
nobody probably deplores it more than
the Washington newspaper man who
tries to write at least fairly we'll
thought-out matter and what may be
called seasoned stuff.
Take a case in point. Within a few
days dispatch which was printed
widely went out from Washington to
the effect that the Hughes proposal
for an economic conference to help
straighten out European financial mat
ters was more than likely to be re-
vived and to be put to the test of con-
gressional approval. This dispatch was
based apparently on nothing else than
the fact that Lloyd George had ex-
pressed sorrow that the Hughes plan
had not been acted upon.
Coincident with the sending of this
dispatch others went out from other
sources carrying official denial of any
intention on the part OF the admins
tration to give consideration to the
Hughes scheme for a world economic
parley. Readers of newspapers
throughout the United States had the
chance to read, cheek by jowl, one
article declaring one thing and another
article carrying official denial of it's
truth.
Probably the Departments in Wash
ington are too timid about publicity.
The result naturally is guesswork.
GueSSwork Is bad business.
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MEXLCO-We furnish expert reliable informa-
ton covering conditions and opportunities here.
Bank and Commercial References. Fee $500, Re-
turned If nconvenent or impossible furnish infor-
pany, Balderas u, Mexico City, Mexico.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
General Electric Man
Gables That Yokohama
Is Entirely DESTROYED

by international news service.
NEW YORK, Sept. s. "Yoko
hama is entirely destroyed. Not a
house. office or bank is left stand
ing"
This message was received today
by the General Electric Company
from J. r. Geary, Japanese mana
ger for the company.
The cable came Through Kobe,
where Geary has established head
quarters.
Employees Escape.
All employees Of the company es-
capped with their lives, although
some were injured. the cable said
Approximately 100000 houses in
Tokyo have been utterly destroyed
the dispatch stated, and the whole
city laid waste by the fire
Troops from five different gar-i.
sons are marching into the stricken
capital to preserve order and take
charge Of the relief work, the con.
sui reported.
Relief Work Started.
A flow of food and relief supplies
already has been started toward the
capital from southern Japan, going
| by water.
Ten thousand people were killed
at Atami. the dispatch added, whiel
| two-thirds of the population Of
Yokosuka were either killed OF
injured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
Seeks Right To Vote
On First Husbands
PAPERS

Politics in New Jersey are
evidently looking up, judging
from a letter received today by
the clerk Of the District Su-
preme Court from Mrs. Kate
Wehrse, Of South River, N. j.,
who says that she wishes to
vote and requests the privilege
of using the citizenship papers
of her first husband, Prosper
Schmitt. She says:
"My first husband and my
second husband died. The
papers of my second husband,
Henry Wehrse, we're lost in a
fire in New York city. 1t is
impossible for me to get
duplicate citizen papers, az /
cannot recall where my second
husband, Henry Wehrse, took
out his citizen papers"
Mrs. Wehrse says that her
first husband served five years
in the United States army and
received his citizen papers
November 10, 1890, in the
supreme court of. Orange
county of the State of New
York. The discharge papers
and citizen papers Of my first
husband have and wish you
will allow me to use them as
citizen Of the United States, so
that l be in a position to vote.
I thank YOU"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
P|NCHOT HEARS
BOTH SIDES
|NSTR|KE
Governor Now Striving to
Shorten StruggIe-Urges
Increase in Wages.

Continued from First Page.)
general sentiment while yesterday
they met in Philadelphia with John
l.. Lewis, international president.
The program of the union men
is understood to be completed. When
they enter the State house at 2
o'clock they will be ready with a
definite and final statement OF
policy. spokesman declared. While
this policy was not outlined, in
many quarters, it was predicted 1t
would be one of acceptance, in
view of the alleged well-crystal!izcd
sentiment in favor of such action,
said to prevail in the fields.
The operators arrived from their
homes still silent as to their plans
It is upon them, however. that the
crux of the situation is believed u
rest. Their attitude will determine
the success or failure of Governor
Pinchot as mediator, to say moth
ing of having a decided bearing on
his political future.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-05
Radio Told World of
Earthquake Disaster
|. When Cables Failed

SAN FRANCISCO. Calf. Sept. 5.
Through the Radio Corporation of
Americas office here. the world
was kept informed of the greatest
catastrophe ever suffered by Japan.
A japanese wireless operator at
the Nippon governments Iwaki sta
ton. three miles from the village of
Tomioka. with which the San Fran.
cisco radio corporation office Is in
constant direct communication
flashed the news of the great dis.
aster, which destroyed a score or
more cities and towns with almost
their entire populations.
AS rapidly as the bulletins were
received from Iwaki they were dis.
tributed to International News
Service, other. press aNceacies and
newspaper
When all other communication
with the island empire was severed
by the disastrous fire. the Radio
Corporation was in direct touch
with Tomioka and through this
agency the world. was @As9 to deter
mine the deplorable loss Of life and
suffering.
Emanating from Iwaki station is
Vertible network of land wires
normally, linking the principal pop
ulous centers Of the congested IS
land. but duriAg the initial severe
earth shocks communication was
paralyzed.
There are approximately fifty
Japanese operators at Tomioka
which is 144 miles northeast of
Toxic
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as to make it unsafe for vessels.
Lighthouses were washed away.
Numerous craft, including the
steamer Selma City, have been
beached.
Among the dead of the Japanese
nobility are Princes 1iroko Kanin
at Kamakura, Prince Moromasa
Higashkuni at Odawara, and Mother
Princess Yamashima at Kugenma.
The response for relief from a
sympathetic world was instantane-
GUS. Relief ships have already ar
rived off Yokohama and hundreds
Of others heavily laden with food,
clothing, and medical supplies are
en- route to japan. The government
at Osawa, where it was moved from
Tokyo, is functioning, and relief
measures have started to ameliorate
the unspeakable suffering.
Intense Suffering.
The intense suffering Of the
refugees, who lined the destroyed
railway right of ways out of Tokyo
and Yokohama for miles, was ag.
gravated by torrential rains.
Refugees who made their way into
Kobe reported that at least 100 for
eigners had been killed in Yoke
hama. Japanese newspaper men, who
were forced to walk from Yokohama
to Osaka, reported that the damage
to the countryside adjacent to the
larger cities was as great as that in
the cities. The casualties were not
so high, however.
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AME RIGA
SPEEDS
HELP
Continued from First Pags)

Continued from First Page.)
legation at Picking, and Consul
Dickober at Kobe, said that Vice
Consul Leo D. Sturgeon (Illinois)
and Vice Consul Samuel j. War
dell (Tennessee), who were sta
toned at. Yokohama, were not
killed and that both of the Kir-
jassoff children are safe and well
in Kobe.
Counsellor Bells message said:
Refugees from Yokohama re-
port that the consulate general
there is completely destroyed and
that Kirjassoff and wife are
killed.
Naval Hospital Collapses.
''Vice Consul Samuel ]. Wardell
a safe, but other members OF the
staff are not accounted for.
THE naval hospital in Yokohama
collapsed and Commander Webb was
injured.
"Some of the staff were killed.
Suggest sending warships to take
care of naval patients"
According to Consul Dickober, a
Miss Martin, of the American con-
sulate in Yokohama, and William S.
Mason, of Massachusetts,, q student
interpreter, are safe.
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5000 FROM US.
ARE SOUGHT
IN JAPAN
Exact Figures Are Lacking on
Number There, as Check
Is Not Kept Here.

While the Government has no
exact figures on the number OF
Americans in the devastated areas
Of Japan. inquiries have been made
concerning the safety Of approx
mately 5000 believed or feared TO
have been in the Orient at the
time Of the catastrophe, 1t was
learned today.
State Department officials point
ed out, however, that it il prob
able that hundreds Of those for
whom inquiries have been made,
will eventually be found not to
have been in the disaster zone.
4,0OO There Normally.
The State Department is unable to
give even an approximate idea Of the
number Of Americans in japan. The
normal American colony. however Is
believed to be In the neighborhood Of
1000, scattered all over Japan, and
this number has been augmented by
the hundreds Of tourists who annual
~ flock to the Orient during summer
months.
Passport lists are of no value. 1t
was said, because there exists no
system Of checking them abroad, and
probably hundreds of those who took
out passports for the Orient this
summer. either did not go, or have
long since come home.
Depend on Friends.
Only by means Of inquiries from
anxious relatives and friends in the
United States ia the department. en-
abled to get an approximation of the
Americans abroad, and this, 1t was
pointed out, 10 an unreliable index.
A steady flow Of cablegram wen.
forward today, requesting the EN-.
bassy in Tokyo for tidings of those
whose friends and relatives have
made inquiry.