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I think that we would choose, as men before Have turned from certainty to perilous things, The unmarked road, the peak beyond our view. Still would our hearts adventure that strange shore. That offers shipwreck—or the wealth of kings. The Unknown—the Uncertain—and the New. Theodosia Garrison, in Everybody's Magazine. Katherine & Fdelman. Copyright, 1923, Western Newspaper Union. Irthur Williams came down to the office all out of sorts with everything and everybody, so much so that when Clark Winston began to confide in him about the many good resolutions that he was making for the New Year he tried to cut him off with a sharp retort. But Clark Winston, bubbling with the exuberance of youth, and radiant with the enthusiasm of the newly engaged, was not easily rebuked. "Not make New Year resolutions?" he said. "Why! That's just what the New Year's for. It takes a day like it to jolt a fellow out of the rut he has been traveling in too long, and to keep us from growing away from the ideals of our school days. So, you bet you, I'll be making good resolutions this year and try to keep them, too, so I'll be worthy of the love of the best little girl in the world." Arthur Williams turned away impatiently and went to his desk. But all morning there came to him again and again the memory of the conversation and the log that had been on gale in Winston's face as he listened to the determination to. Make New Year resolves. Each time the thought came to him, he tried to put it from him, but somehow he found it hard to do. For, there had come to him, too, the memory of a time when he, too, had made such resolutions—when he, too, had looked to the future with the desire deep within him to make himself more worthy each day of the woman who had consented to go his. Now, however, he was content to drift along with the tide, to take each day as just a repetition of the one before—content to just hold the place he occupied in the business world, and worse: almost content with the home life that was now his, almost indifferent to the fact that he and his wife had slowly drifted apart and that the ardent love of Father Time’s Baby. Father Time has called the New Year to his young hopeful. He presents him as a happy urchin with a smiling face. Thus, we welcome him. We always make new investments in hope on January first. We are not disposed to criticize Time’s new boy. The criticism of a flower adds to our knowledge, but it spoils the flower. Even if the future brings something of disappointment, it will leave us something to still hope for. The hope of a sail has sustained many a castaway upon this island of a world. It is such a pleasure to hope that one could thank God for it, though he never realized it. Christopher G. Hazard. (©, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.) which had been theirs in the long ago seemed to be now dead. But in other days it had been different with him—he had then been just as full of hope in the future—as full of the fire of zeal and devotion toward the woman who was his as any man could be. How, he asked himself now, had it come to be that things were as they were? Was it that his love for his wife was dead, that he cared no longer for her, or was it her fault that they had slowly, almost imperceptibly drifted apart? Looking back, he recalled now, with a half shudder of remorse, many little instances where she had tried to bring the old ways back, which he, in the blind stupidity of taking things for granted attitude, had treated lightly and passed by. He recalled with a pang one particular instance—a wedding. NEW YEAR'S DAY With mirth and joy the New Year comes again, Fair aspirations hover in its train, And golden hopes of peace and righteousness That show the good to which we might attain. Why lingers peace? Why groans the weary earth? And why, amid splendors, do men die of dearth? How long for harvest must the mowers wait? When shall the longed for New Year have its birth? Be patient, brother; let us do our best, And strive again at Brotherhood’s behest To raise the fallen and to cheer the weak; And leave to ripening Time and Heaven the rest. —W. BE. A. Axon. BELLS A “. W \ Mr. Lover—Hark! the New Year Bells! Don't you think them the sweetest one can hear? Miss Love—With the exception of the wedding bells, Mr. Lover, I do. During the anniversary, it was—when she had met him at the door in a pretty gown and when she had gone to a manner of trouble in preparing a wonderful dinner, with all his favorite dishes, and when during the meal she had asked him several times if he were not forgetting something. And when after dinner was over and she reminded him that this was their fifth wedding anniversary, he had only mumbled through his evening paper: "Yes, I guess it is, but I had forgotten all about it." All these things came to him now as often before a dying man will flash in a few moments a hundred episodes of his life, and he realized with a sudden rush of feeling how empty and desolate his life would be with Evelyn out of it entirely. True, for a long time now he had just taken her presence for granted—had just thought of her as someone who was always there—some one who was necessary to his well-being and comfort, just as some article of comfort and convenience might be, but now he realized how much she meant to him, and he knew that the love which he had thought was dead and buried was still burning, but that its flame was not felt because of the heavy curtain his in. difference and neglect had thrown over it. And then it was that Arthur Williams made a New Year resolution and one which he kept through all the years that followed, judging from the new happiness which came to him and his wife and from the buoyancy and hopeful attitude toward the future which he brought to his tasks each day. New Year Skating By Mary Graham Bonner (©, 1923, Western Newspaper Union.). THAT crisp, cold, bright New Year's day they went skating. The children home from business, the mothers who were having a glorious afternoon in the outdoors—all took part in the New Year skating party which was being given. The ice was firm, hard and smooth. Never had it seemed so wonderful, The air was invigorating. There was no wind. It was an ideal day for a skating party. Afterward they would go back for a New Year’s supper party and sit around a big fire telling stories. They would all be at the party, It would be for both old and young, for was not New Year’s day a day that was young and yet so close too the oldest day of the year that had gone before? And in the meantime they skated and laughed and sang songs and fell down and laughed some more and played games. All of them joined in, And they looked about them at the frozen lake and at the hills surrounding with the glow of the first afternoon’s rosy light upon them. It was a beautiful world and people in it were So beautiful, too. Had it anything to do with the wishes for a Happy New Year which everyone had been wishing everyone else that day? And not only that—but the wishes in the hearts of each which were sincere wishes for happiness in the gay good, New Year just commencing? EAGLE RIVER REVIEW. EAGLE RIVER, WIS. Louis Peters, for nearly half a century a resident of Oconto county, died at this home at Brookside at the age of 74 years. Margaret Kidd, a member of Green Bay’s popular younger set, has left for Chicago where she will begin her vaudeville career. Miss Kidd has been a leader in Green Bay in home theatricals for many years. She is a talented musician. Jay Rowell, 20, of Beaver Dam, fell from a scaffold on a new building being put up for Redemptorist college, on Lake La Belle at Oconomowoc, and was instantly killed. Coroner Lee was called. Rowell was an employee of the Hunter Construction Co. James Geere, 45, was instantly killed when his head was crushed by a Soo line train on which he had attempted to catch a ride. Geere, it was said, was on his way to Shawano, looking for work, following reported trouble at his home. He lived in West Algoma. According to a population survey made by The Manitowoc Herald-News, the population of Manitowoc is 19,758, an increase of 2,195, or 12.5 percent, over the government census four years ago. The Survey is based on the school enrollment of 3,147 as compared with 2,925 in the autumn of 1919; the number of new homes built, and domestic water service figures. So many wells of shallow and flowing type have become dry in the vicinity of Oshkosh lately that farmers are becoming alarmed. It is learned that several farmers have been forced to lead cattle over some distance to marshes or springs to secure water for them. In other cases, farmers have been hauling water in barrels and milk cans to the farm for the use of livestock. The theft of an entire crop of hay has Dist. Atty. George A. Hartman and Sheriff Ben C. Lange of Dodge county puzzled. The state bought 10 tons of hay from the Frank Hilker estate in the top of Shields for the state farm near by, and when a farm foreman went to get the hay, he found the barn loft empty and discovered that somebody had purloined the whole supply of feed. Leaving a note directing a knife, he had used a long time to cut leather given to a shoemaker beside whom he had worked in a shoe factory for many years, Howard Alcan, 50, ended his life by shooting. A stepson, George Chamberlain, found the body in a woodshed back of the house. Ill health and despondency over marital troubles are believed to have been responsible for the act. The child welfare special, motorized health center of the state health department, has completed its tour for the present year. Beginning on April 16, the motor health unit made one hundred five stops in seventeen counties, ranging from the southern state line to Lake Superior and from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi river, according to a report of activities made by the health department. . Nearly six hundred tons of lime stone have been purchased by Pierce county farmers during the past year and used for soil purposes, County Agent H. G. Seyforth reports. The limestone was purchased through the county agent at an average price of $1.75 per ton. Soil surveys of twenty-five individual farms in the county have been made during the year. Fifty samples of soil have been tested for acidity and over three hundred samples are on hand to be tested. Seven buildings were wiped out by a fire of unknown origin at Red Granite, nine miles east of Wautoma, entailing a loss estimated at $40,000. The blaze started in a vacant building, the old White Palace saloon, and swept down the street, burping three other vacant buildings, besides the opera house, 5 and 10-cent store and bakery, and a pool hall. The moving picture machine, seats, and most of the other equipment in the opera house was saved. The loss was only partially covered by insurance. Alfalfa acreage in Pierce county has increased six times since 1920, according to reports by County Agent H. G. Seyforth. The county now has 1,166 acres in this crop, the largest of any northwest county. Agent Seyforth declares. He predicts that the county will have 2,000 acres of alfalfa by next spring. “Alfalfa has been the outstanding hay crop of the county during the past year,” he declares. “Every farmer, growing this crop, has plenty of good hay for his livestock this winter. A total of 125 questionnaires were sent to farmers last spring and all but four reported sands of alfalfa.” Walter Holtz, an employee of The Wisconsin Granite Co., at Ableman, had both feet crushed when a huge boulder rolled against him. Paul Jablonsky, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Jablonsky, who live near Phillips, is dead in the Park Falls hospital from injuries which resulted when he exploded a shotgun shell by striking it with a stone. He discovered the shell while roaming in the woods near his home. When found by his parents, the boy was suffering from wounds on his face, chest, and hands. Eight persons, said to be residents of Marathon, escaped injury when a large touring car, in which they were riding, plunged into the ditch four miles east of Catawba. Emil Tollers died as the result of an automobile accident when his car went over an embankment near the Amnicon river, about twenty-five miles south of Superior. Two ministers, the Rev. C. G. Langley, Port Wing, and the Rev. F. W. Haverlin of Madison, witnessed the accident. The cause of death is thought to be a fractured skull. NEWS OF THE BADGER STATE Joseph Gayhart, 58, who had been employed in Oconto county lumber camps, was killed by a falling tree while working as sawyer in the Calvin John lumber camps near Tipler. Fire of unknown origin destroyed the farm house owned by A. J. Neuville and L. C. Neuville, one mile south of Minocqua. The loss is several thousand dollars, covered by insurance. Iron county this year will attempt to keep the roads clear of snow for traffic. The county approved the purchase of a snow plow at a cost of $2,500 and a tractor and accessories for nearly $7,000. When his hunting dog accidentally tripped over his gun, discharging it, Henry Kerscher, 21, residing near Maplewood, was shot in the arm with buckshot. Kerscher was making hunting and laid his gun on a knoll while digging a hole. The Rice Lake hotel has been burned beyond repair by a fire which broke out recently. This is one of the old landmarks of Rice Lake, being formerly known for many years as the Deery house. The loss is covered by $15,000 insurance. Eli Portier, of Stiles, was sentenced to serve thirty days in jail in default of $55 fine and costs, imposed upon him by Justice Stuelke of Gillett, for hunting without a license and having them in his possession. The big saw mill of the Wisconsin-Michigan Lumber company in Eagle River is now operating both day and night. The new night shift gives employment to about forty additional men. The company has planned an enormous lumber cut this season. Proposed electric light schedules for approximately 35 Wisconsin towns included in the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light and Power Co. controversy, will be investigated for six months before final order regarding the rates will be issued, the state railroad commission announced recently. A wave of petty crimes has swept through Green Bay, piling up reported robberies and thefts in the past several weeks. No trace has been secured of the perpetrators of the burglaries, who in one instance robbed a sporting goods store of revolvers and the following night held up and shot a merchant as he was returning from work. At a meeting of the Sullivan and Concord farm bureau, a straw vote on gasoline tax was taken and resulted, 26 to 5, in favor of the tax. Henry J. Grell, Johnson Creek, a member of the highway committee of the county board, spoke on the subject of gasoline tax. He said one filling of all the gas tanks of the 14,000,000 cars in the United States costs $27,000,000. The inheritance tax on the estate of the late N. C. Foster, Fairchild, known as the Fairchild millionaire lumberman, was fixed in the county court at $14,253. The estate's value was appraised at $425,000. However, the Foster fortune included trust funds and holdings not subject to inheritance tax, and with these the estate is understood to total nearly $1,500,000. Monroe county has been one of 68 in Wisconsin to use the cheap land clearing explosive, sodatol, offered as salvaged war material. County Agent E. L. Liddle believes farmers of the county have saved $3,000 on 12,750 pounds. The powder may be kept over winter without losing strength but must be kept dry. Its usefulness is fully as great as low-grade dynamite, which sells at 2 higher price. Virgil Piddington, Paris township, Grant county farmer, exhibited an ear of corn carrying 1,508 perfectly formed kernels and asking a match for the prize ear. Richard Barron, Smelter township, Grant county, promptly delivered an ear carrying 1,560 perfectly formed kernels. The first exhibit is of the Iowa Gold Mine variety. Barron’s ear of corn is Wisconsin No. 12. Once more Wisconsin takes the blue ribbon. Acting on a tip contained in the confession of Henry Miller, Oshkosh boy bandit, charged with robbing several stores and gasoline filling stations at Oshkosh, the police have arrested Clifford McAllister, Ladysmith. He is said to answer the description of Miller’s companion in two of the hold-outs. ups. It is said that McAllister came to Oshkosh to inquire about Miller and was “tipped off” by a girl friend that Miller had implicated him. He was captured later. Due chiefly to the long dry, hot weather during the growing season, Washburn county’s cucumber crop this year was about 60 percent of normal. Although quantity was reduced this year, the cucumber crop was of excellent quality. The total number of cucumbers received at the various pickle stations in Washburn county was approximately 14,000 bushels. Of this number, Spooner received 5,219 bushels, Sarona 2,273 bushels, Springfield 2,216 bushels, Minong 2,142 bushels, and Trego 1,894 bushels. The Bloomington school board has commissioned Edward Tough, Madison architect, to draw plans for a $70,000 high school. The school will be a two-story building. It includes a gymnasium. Gov. Blaine has announced the appointment of W. N. Smith, Platteville, to succeed himself on the state mining school board for the term ending July 1, 1927. John Beck, Benton, is appointed to succeed David James, resigned, on the mining school board for the rest of the unexpired term, ending July 1, 1924. By means of a skeleton key, thieves entered the restaurant of Marvin Christensen, 602 State street, Racine, and rifled the cash register of $27.76 in small change. They made no effort to open the safe. Sol Levitan, state treasurer, has had His first experience as auctioneer, and found he was a success in the new venture. In the sale of burned timber in Oneida and Price counties at Phillips, Mr. Levitan accepted a bid of $35,000 after three hours’ work when the timber had been appraised at but $13,000. With the High School Classics by Margaret Boyd, slow through the suburbs, plodded the German farmer, with flowers and fruit for the market. —Evangeline. The descendants of the German farmers who plodded through Philadelphia’s streets during Evangeline’s day are the Pennsylvania German or the Pennsylvania Dutch of the present. The land of the Pennsylvania German extends northward and westward from Philadelphia a hundred miles or so in each direction, and so far as language and customs are concerned is a foreign land. The country is rich farm land and the Pennsylvania German is a notable farmer. His language is not German, but Pennsylvania German—a dialect that savants say has not been spoken in any part of Germany for nearly a century. In order to conduct his market business it has been necessary for the farmer to learn some English, but it is not unusual to find stay-at-home members of the family where they can neither speak nor understand English, "although they and their parents and their grandparents were all born in America. The English they do speak is a queer hybrid, of the sort spoken by the tired masket woman who remarked that she was “teetotally ausge-speked.” Most of the Pennsylvania Germans belong to the Mennonite, or the Dunkirk church, although there are other sects among them, including one that holds it sinful to cut the hair or to wear buttons on the clothes. It is well worth a trip through a City market to see elders of the latter sect, long-haired, much-bearded men, with their clothing held in place by large hooks and eyes. "The women all wear dresses with tight-fitting waists and long, gathered skirts. The dresses are usually brown or black—never of any bright color. Their head covering is a little white net cap and a little dark bonnet. The young girl's dress in the frivolous style of the town until they join the church. Then they “turn plain” and don the conventional white cap. From that time forth they are required to keep their heads covered. On very hot days the matron at work in a hot kitchen may shove her cap far back on her head, but she never altogether removes it. "Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labor's bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast." Man can live longer without food than without sleep. There are many recorded instances where men have gone for forty or more days without food and have recovered from the experience. I do not know the maximum number of days that a man can go without sleep, but it is far short of forty. The expert workmen who line the great diet. Gesters in paper mills must often work for sixty hours without more sleep than they can snatch during the time that new material is being brought in to them, never more than ten minutes at a time. Surgeons and doctors sometimes work continuously for fifty or sixty hours at a time after great battles. These men are always exhausted after such periods of work and sleep excessively long periods in order to get back to normal. It is probable that a man who was not working could go without sleep for a longer period; but it seems to be the general testimony of those who have been kept awake for as much as sixty hours, by third degree methods, that by that time they are willing to confess to any crime or do anything else to get sleep. The virtues of sleep as a “balm of hurt” minds is sung by Shakespeare in the “Tempest” as follows: It seldom visits sorrow; when it doth, it is a comforter. Young expressed such the same thought in the lines: Tired nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays, Where fortune smiles—the wretched he forsakes. While the ancient described Somnus, the god of sleep, as the gentlest of the gods, “the tranghilizer of minds and soother of care-wern hearts,” Sir Philip Sidney sang of sleep as: The balm of the poor man’s wealth the prisoner’s release. Mrs. Browning refers to the Psalmist’s exaltation of sleep: Of all the thoughts of God that are borne inward into soul, Along the Psalmist’s music deep, Now tell me if that any is, For gift of grace surpassing this— He giveth His beloved sleep. Scientists try every now and then to find some substitute for sleep, just as they search for the secret of eternal youth and for perpetual motion. Instead of begrudging the third of our lives that we must spend in sleep, however, it seems much more to the purpose to try to live more intensively during the two-thirds of our lives that we are awake. German Order of Iron Cross. The Iron Cross is a Prussian order of merit instituted by Frederick William III of Prussia March 10, 1813, as a reward for bravery during the “War of Liberation” against France. The decoration is a Maltese cross of iron, edged with silver, and worn either around the neck or in the buttonhole. This order was revived by William I, king of Prussia, July 19, 1876, on the eve of the Franco-German war, and was bestowed by him on his son, the crown prince, for his victory of Wiscount, August 4, 1870. TR T ATT LT T MARKETS R R RR RR AR RN MILWAUKEE MARKETS Butter. Creamery tins. 53¢ Extra Arts. 46@48¢ Cheese, American full cream twins. 22 @22½¢ Young Americas..............24½ @25¢ Dalsies... 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Wheat—No. 1 northern. 1.11% @ 1.71. 4 Corn—No. 3 yellow. 62 @ 68 Oats—No. 3 white. 39%@ 39% Rye—No. 2 severe. 66%@ 66% Bafley. 0.0.1 @ 81 Flax—No. 1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0 While cranking her car, Miss Florence Helmuth, of Oakdale, had both bones of the right arm broken above the wrist. She was taken to the Tomah clinic for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Robert North, living near Shell Lake, are parents of a baby girl weighing only two pounds and thirteen ounces. The baby is fed with the aid of a medicine dropper. Heart trouble following a kick from a horse caused the death of August John, 65, a resident of Spirit Falls and vicinity for the last forty-three years. Three sons and two daughters survive. Seventeen applicants have filed petitions for citizenship papers in Oneida county. These petitions will be heard at the spring term of circuit court next March 18. Two of the petitioners are women. The tax rate of Oconto Falls has been fixed at 43 mills on the dollar. The total tax levy decided upon: $73,474.86. This levy also includes an appropriation for the paving of Main Street. A Women’s Community council has been organized in Rhinelander with thirty charter members. The council is purely a civic and public welfare organization and promises to be successful from the start. The membership will comprise representatives from every woman’s organization in the city. Earl Brohm, son of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brohm of Clintonville, received a broken arm when he was struck by a motor truck. The boy was running across the street and did not see the car approaching. The Waupaca Lumber company is erecting a sawmill in Waupaca which will be in operation within a few months. The plant will have a capacity of 20,000 feet per day and will probably employ about forty men. William F. Kranz is president of the company, John Button, vice president, and S. H. Kratz, secretary and treasurer. The First Bond and Mortgage company has been organized in Wisconsin Rapids with a capitalization of $100,000. George W. Me?. C. E. Boles, L P Witter, and W. J. Taylor are the incorporators. Mr. Boles will act as manager. The Tuscaloosa cheese factory has been sold by G. Zulliger to A. Blatter & Son. The new owners have been at Bruce for several years, and were at Hartford for seven years previous. A. Blatter learned the cheese business in Switzerland, his specialty being fancy brick and Swiss cheese. 