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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10

with balloons, from which our sharp
shooters attempted to pick off the
saucy wheelmen. But an adverse
current prevented the punishment of
the enemy as he deserved.
"In the afternoon the chief of staff
was very busy with the long-distance
telephone and communicated with
the commanders Of seven army corps,
which are now on their march to this
ncighbOrhOOd, where an important
battle must soon be fought. In less
than five minutes a radius of terri
tory many hundreds of miles square
was completely covered with these
telephone messages, and half an hour
after the general order was given the
chief of staff knew that the head of
each column was on the march, and
had an important conversation with
each general commanding a corps.
During the evening the body of
one of the enemy's ritlemen, together
with his bicycle, was brought into the
village. On his person was found a
paper containing a reference to a
quadricyclar scouting expedition
which was to take place on branch
line of rail not far from our village
next morning. These quadricycles,
adapted to the railroad, are now in
general use in both armies. They
look not unlike the Old-fashioned
hand-car, dcnuded of its framework
of wood, and are managed by two
stout soldiers, seated side by side.
The soldiers have carbines slung over
their shoulders, and carry pistols in
holsters.
"The hind wheels of these railway
uuadricycles are made much larger
than the forward wheels, and the
trcadles are SO arranged as to give
immense speed. Great services have
been performed on both sides by these
scouts, Swimming swiftly as swallows
along the humming rails, and fight
ing tlercely whenever interrupted in
their journey of inspection"
Or, after little, this may be read:
"We are greatly interested in the
manner Of operations of the new
bicycle ambulance corps, which we
saw at work for the first time. Even
while the battle was raging those in
trepid servants Of mercy were thread
ing their way, on their rapidly revolv-
ing wheels, among the wounded and
dying, and their skill and discretion
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
Her MOneY-MnkerA.

Come out and see my money
Makers" said lady living in the
country to a friend from the city who
was visiting her. "These," she con-
tinued, as they came to large and
well-appointed hen-house, "are my
'church-hens;' all that | make out of
them above expenses is devoted to re-
]igious objects.
1.-The geese you see down there on
the pond are my poor and needy
geese They cost little or nothing,
and the profits are applied to the re-
lief of the poor and needy. Away
down beyond that wood l keep a
drove Of hogs; dress hogs | call them,
because / buy my dresses out of what
l make from them.
"Those Alderney COWS are my
'theater and opera cows | saw four
Wagner operas last winter out of the
profits of one of them. You see that
bed of strawberries? Well, we don't
call them Strawberries, but shoe
berries / buy all the children's
shoes and my own, too, out Of the in
come from that strawberry patch.
"These and many other little money
making schemes | manage myself,
without troubling my husband, who
works in the city for not very big
salary. Consequently ehave great
many comforts and luXuries that we
couldn't otherwise have; and | thor
oughly enjoy the work, too"
Do not this lady's methods suggest
a host of little things which other
ladies might turn to use as money
makers, and find health and pleasure
in SO doing?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
A GoodIy Commission.

In business matters Mr.. Scott, the
Pennsylvania millionaire, who died
recently, was quick in his conclusions,
resources. The public remembers yet
the sale by VIM. II. Vanderbilt Of
500, 900, 900 worth Of stock in the New
York Central at 100. That sale was
made by VIM. L. Scott.
Vanderbilt, harassed and worried
in the management of the property,
vexed by public criticism. and uncer-
tain about his health, expressed, in
the presence of Scott, wish to be rid
of the property.
"You are not in earnest?" said
Scott.
II was never more in earnest in my
life," was the reply.
"Why not sell it them" the Penn
sylvanian asked.
"Sell i'll" exclaimed Vanderbilt,
where can I find a purchaser for
$40, 900, 900 of the stock?"
Il can find such purchaser" said
Scott, "at a fair commission.
"Do it," was the response, "and /
will give you $500, 600"
In few days Scott had organized
a syndicate among the bankers Of
New York to purchase the Wander
bilt stock at 12O, and without any
difficulty the transaction was con-
cluded.
Then came Mr.. SCOTS demand for
his commission of $500,000 Wander
bilt demurred; $500, 900 was a big
sum Of money for such work. Mr..
Scott insisted that it was a bargain
made openly and seriously, and car
ried to a conclusion. Still Wander
bilt objected that it was too big a
commission.
what is it worth?" asked Mr..
Scott.
"Oh," said Mr.. Vanderbilt, $780,
OOO."
"Vcry we'll, then, let me have the
5000, 000," said the gentleman from
Pennsylvania, and the matter was
settled. Had Mr.. Scott insisted
there is little doubt the $500, 600
would have been forthcoming. AS it
was, the commissions was as easily
earned as any money Mr.. Scott ever
made.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
Memorial Prescription.

A st. Petersburg lawsuit is attract
ing much attention. The defendant
is prince, whose wife died from the
effects of a too powerful medicine
which the family doctor, one of the
best known physicians in the city,
had prescribed for her. The widower,
instead of causing texts of the holy
scriptures to be sculp.ured on the
tomb, has caused fac-simile of the
fatal prescription, with the doctors
signature, to be engraved on the mar
bic tomb just below the line giving
the date Of the death of the prin-
cess. The doctor is now appealing to
the courts Of law to have the ohjec-
tionable inscription removed on the
ground that his practice is injuriously
affected thereby.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
WAS LINCOLN A SPIRiTUALlST?
He Is Said to Have Listened to Mediums
at Crucial Crises.

HeIs Said to Have Listened to Mediums
at Crucial Crises.
In volume soon to be published
by a Philahelphlan it will be con-
tended that Abraham Lincoln, if not
spiritualist, had strong leanings
toward that doctrine, and that fire.
quently, in times when question of
great Importance to the nation was
before him, he would call on mediums
before making decision. An incl
dent will be cited where the martyr
President held a long and serious
conversation in the White House
with one of the most ardent spiritual
lists in the country, after having re-
ceived this letter: president Lin
coin, l have been sent to you by the
spirit world to speak with you upon
matters of vital Importance to the
nation. | cannot return to New
York until | have seen you"
Another story will be related of an
occurrence during a reception given
by Mrs. Lincoln at the executive
mansion. While the President was
engaged in an animated conversation
with one Of his guests, young girl,
probably Is year Of age, suddenly
rushed into the room and fell before
Lincoln in trance. With her eyes
turned upward toward the astonished
President, she said slowly in a clear,
loud voice: president Lincoln, the
liberty of our nation, conceived in
the womb Of oppression, and born in
the thrOeS of revolution, can never be
crowned with a wreath of Immortality
until each and every human being in
each of these United States is free.
Slavery in any form must not exist.
So says that spiritual congress which,
in this dread time of menace and
danger to the nation, watches over
it's affairs with even greater care than
do the representatives of the people.
[ have been chosen as their medium
of communication with you. Before
you can hope to bring about the great
and lasting glory Of this republic,
you must make every man within it's
boundaries free. You must emanci-
pate all it's slaves by your pen, and
your arm must Endorse your action
with the sword"
She talked to the President in this
strain for some time, clothing her
thoughts in language which in her
normal condition, she could not have
understood. When she recovered
from her trance condition she knew
nothing of what she had done or said.
This child was Nettie Colburn May
nard, afterward recognized as one OF
the greatest trance mediums in the
world.
The President seemed greatly i'm
pressed with what the girl had said.
1t was not long after that the procla-
nation of emancipation was issued.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
long distance telephone,

bicycle, long distance telephone,
quadricycle, military balloon, battal-
ions of bicycle-mounted rifemen,
wheclmen as scouts in advance of the
main column-all these things will
be in active and constant use in the
next campaigns. OF what vast serv-
ice the long-distance telephone would
have been in the campaigns around
Paris in 1870, or in the marching and
countermarching before Plevna in
1877. And the time when paintings
which depict the wild charges Of
wheelmen over the smokeless battle
fields of the future will be as pict-
uresque and exciting for us when
seen in historical paintings as the
fearless rides of horsemen up to the
mouths Of cannon are to-day.
Not much can be said as yet of the
terrible guns which are to discharge
hundreds of shots per minute, and
which will NOW down thousands
where now only hundreds are slain.
But when we read of the exploits Of
Hotchkiss and the Nordenfeldt, we
shall feel as if we were reading fairy
tales. 1t will scarcely seem credible
to us that the march of invention has
been SO mighty in quarter Of a
century.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
How to Warm I'm.

II am fearful that we are going
to have long and very cold winter"
suggested middleaged man to the
stranger who sat beside him in a rail-
way car on the Harlem road, says the
New York Times. No response came
from the stranger, who wore a tired
look on his face and did not appear
to be sociable. Il say, | am afraid
we will have a long and very cold
winter" repeated the sociable passen-
ger. well, if that is worrying you" "
said the other man, arousing himself
out of his reverie with a nervous jerk,
lust go and give somebody promis-
sorry note for four months for an
amount larger than you can hope to
pay. Then you'll find that this win
ter will pass away so quick that you
won't have Il chance to get cold.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
LOST IN THE MAILS.
Queer Articles that from Time to Time
Turn UP In Washington.

Turn Up In Washington.
There are many queer articles lost
in the mails Some time ago seven
teen snakes were received at Wash
ington in corpse parcel. Snakes,
however, are but a few among the
many dangerous things that reach the
department of "dead letter" packages.
Live centipedes and tarantulas, horn
ed toads and ella monsters contribute
to this lost freight. Small alligators
from Florida not infrequently turn
up. Among other gruesome objects
similarly received, not long ago. was
a human ear, inclosed in letter per-
chance by some ruffian who had made
it his trophy; also the scalp of an In
dian woman with long hack hair,
doubtless reft from her head by a hostile
warrior, and grinning skull, which a
Philadelphia physician refused be-
cause letter rates were charged upon it.
One Of the most curious packages
that have reached the Dead Letter
Office, is one addressed to lady in
Springfield, Ohio, who has never been
found. 1t was a small six-barrelled
revolver, with every chamber loaded,
and set at "full cock" The wonder
is that it did not go off when the par
eel was opened. An old relic of in
terest is a letter signed by Charles
Guiteau, the murderer of Garfield, in
closing a lock of his own precious
hair. 1t is addressed to a lady who
never received it, asking her to con-
tribute $1,000 for his defense. An
other curiosity, lost in the mail, is a
cruciflx in glass box, that was post
marked "Vicksburg" and bore on the
outside of it's brown-paper wrapper
simply the words "Vicksburg is
taken"
A book is kept at the Department
of Photographs, which were sent by
mail from camps during the war.
The soldier boys commonly had their
pictures taken for sending to show
the folks how they looked in the
field. Many of the likenesses thus
dispatched miscarried, aud even now,
the Postotfice Department keeps thou
sands of them in albums, ready to be
claimed be relatives When one Of
the portraits is properly ldentlned, IL
is removed from the album page and
the signature of the recipient is in
scribed on the paper space that it oc-
cupied.
1t is the same way with corps med
ais that were sent home by soldiers
during the war. Dozens Of them are
at present retained under General
Wanamaker's charge, waiting for
their owners. There are startish, too,
petrifled frogs, stuffed gophers, Toltee
idols, silkwOrm cOcOons, and all sorts
of other absudities. 1t seems very
curious that Benjamin Franklin, the
first Postmaster General of the United
States, made record during eleven
years. service of only 365 valuable
packages sent through the mails. One
little book, Of his own manufacture,
shown in the museum, served for all
such accounts during that period.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
MACHINE-MADE WAR,
And How 1t Is to BE Waged In Europe In
the Near Future.


the Near Future.
Verify, the general reader will
stare when he begins to read accounts
Of the next war in Europe.
Instead Of the familiar talk about
the advance of the cavalry, covering
the march Of the main column, and
the story of the maneuvers of scouts
and the headlong charging to and fro
of aides-de-camp with messages, this
is something like what he will be
called upon to read:
yesterday at dawn company OF
rifemen, mounted on bicycles, sud-
denly appeared at the entrance Of
Gansendorf. This was the first init
nation that the enemy was SO near
at hand. The last balloon had gone
up toward midnight, availing itself
Of the exceptionally bright moon
light; from 1t had been seen nothing
to indicate an advance. These BIZ
cyclers must have come dashing along
the highway soon after the balloon
descended. When the ritlemen saw
that there was a large army near
they departed as swiftly as they had
come, and the air was soon thick
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10

were alike marvellous. With ham
Knocks rugged between their bicycles,
which they kept equidistant, they
succeeded in carrying off to the hospi-
tai great many badly wounded men
who must have persisted had they
remained on the field half an hour
longer. These wheelmen are equally
useful as ambulance men or us light
cavalrymen. We saw, in the recent
battle, whole squadrons of them dash
up against light artillery. which the
enemy were bringing into position for
demoralizing an advance, and so
quickly did they charge that the guns
were surrounded and taken before the
enemy fancied himself in danger"
The recent military maneuvers in
France, Germany. Austria. and En-
gland have amply demonstrated that
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10

Dick OGLEsBY, of Illinois. saws he
has had enough of politics. Three
times governor of state ought to sat
Hfy anybody. sou
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
New Explosive.

The new explosive called ammonite
is probably the most useful and re-
liable yet made. 1t has great power,
is free from danger in manufacturing
and in use, and recent tests made
with it in England have resulted in
the railroads taking it for transporta-
ton without the usual restrictions
pertaining to explosives, 1t is not
injured by exposure to the air and
will not decompose. It's ingredients
are mixture of S1.5 per cent. of am
monium nitrate and 1S.5 per cent. of
mono-nitro naphthalene.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10

scALcHI and Patti don't speak nova
days, Scalchi even goes so far az To
say she won't sing on the same stage as
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10
Unreasonable Women.

Wife-I don't care what you say.
You are not good TO me. You do not
treat me even the same as you do
your friends.
Husband-How can /? You don't
drink--Grip.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-12-10

ITALY is an exception to the rule
in Europe. 1t had good wheat crop
this year. Still the stalwart sons of
that land will expatriate themselves
to supply other people with bananas
and popcorn.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21
BABIES LOCKeOU AND LOST.
a Peculiar Case I'm the Heart of Cincinnati
Two Children MysteriOusly Disappear.

CINCISNATI, Jan. IA mysterious dis
appearance OF two children occurred here
on Wednesday night last. They We're
Rachel Fritsch, aged four, and Charles
Phillips. aged three. Their parents live
in the same building, IL College-st.,
and the two children were iuseperable
playmates. 1t is supposed that Rachel IN
dertook TO go to her aunt's, several blocks
away, and became bewildered. They were
seen as late as midnight, and one man
questioned the little girl. who said she
was going TO her aunts.
Shortly before noon today the lost chill
dren were found in a second-story vacant
room over Harris shoe store on Fifth-st.,
near Vine. only two squares from their
home. Mr. Hart said he bad heard feet
on the floor overhead yesterday and the
CRYING of children The rooms had been
occupied by a colOred family, which
moved out a week ago. He supposed an
other family had come in. Hearing the
noise again this morning, he was about TO
90 up to inquire, when boy from a res
taurant across the street came running in
TO say he saw two children's faces at the
window that looked like the lost chill
dren. The door was locked, but was
kicked open. There lay the two children
on the floor, fiat on their faces, with
hands spread out and family moaning. II
want water" said the three-year-old boy
as soon as he saw kind faces near him.
The little ones were almost frozen and
were emaciated from their long fast, fright
and exposure. Beneath the window the
wallpaper was torn off, showing where
they had tried to climb up TO call for help.
The children could give no explanation of
their imprisonment. No motive appears
for such brutal treatment as shutting them
up there. 1t is barely possible that they
might have wandered up there themselves
and locked themselves in, as the door had
a spring lock. The parents were soon no.
titled and the scene, when the mothers
found their lost babies, was affecting in
4 10.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21

ness was the rule 10 the close. The decline stop
ped at 5OHc. Pardridge was alternately buy
ing and selling. but apparently q believer in
lower prices. He sold on the hard spots and
his buying was merely in the way Of taking
profits. Hutchinson was reported 20 be work
ing on the same lines as Partridge.
The oats market was only fairly active.
Heavy recsipts. liberal estimates for tomorrow,
and the weakness in the other markets we're
the principal bear influences. The fluctuations
were frequent but narrow. The provision mar
ket sold OF Immediately after trading
was commenced, the grain commits
sion men being free sellers. The pack
eu were sellers also. although hogs
were reported TO be selling we'll at the yards at
10 to 1Jc advance. There were reactions on the
decline. but hcaviness was the prevailing APP
pearance of,the pit. Partridge was q seller Of
ribs, as of everything else on the floor in which
speculation was active. Pork. at the close,
showed a decline, compared with the closing
quotation of Saturday, OF nc to 10c. Lard
lost 211c on the same com parison. and ribs from
exc 10 DC. The board of trade reports Oh the
visible supply OF grain: Wheat 24930, GOO, de-
crease S3S 600; corn 2,713.OOO. decrease $4,000:
oats 3 453 900. decrease 1l7.OO0; rye 419 600 de-
crease, u, 600; barley $4,000 decrease 297, Goo
The leading futures ranged as follows:
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-01-21
DEMORALIzED BY DEATH.
Chicago Worlds Fair Plans Hurt by MIR.
Roots Demise

CHICAGO, Jan. 16.-John W. Root, con-
sulting architect OF the worlds fair, died
last night of pneumonia. He had been i'll
but a short time, and was yesterday morn
ing supposed TO be on his way to recov-
cry. Mr.. Root, though only thirty-eight
years old, stood at the head of his profess
sion in this city. He was member of the
firm of Burnham d Root, and has been a
leader in the movement that, since the
great fire, has put in permanent form the
many fine bui dings that have so added 10
the reputation of Chicago. Among the
innumerable beautiful structures that are
creations of the dead architects genius, is
the "Rookery," in this city, said 10 be the
handsomest office building in the world.
The death of Consulting Architect Root
almost unstrung the energies of the
worlds fair workers today. Ten associate
architects, including those from outside
cities, thought for time that the sudden
demise of their cO-wOrker would prove
fatal to rapid pushing of the plans. Some
members of the commission had proposed
radical changes in the preliminary scheme
drafted by Mr.. Root, but after a confer
ence it was decided to proceed on the
lines laid down by him, and only minor
alterations were adopted. Several archi-
tects have been mentioned as Mr.. Roots
successor. The choice seemed tonight TO
be, however, altogether between Scion s.
Beman, architect for George VI. Pullman.
and Louis II. Sullivan, the architect of the
Auditorium