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The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19
cvLruR1 BOSTON.
The Latest Product o. That CITY 10 ths
Literary Ca Driver.

rhs Latsst Product Of That City - shs
Literary Ca Driver.
was very much amused ut little
Incident with u Boston cabman. writes
: W. Book In tho Boston journal.
asked him to drive mo to number
n Mount Vernon street Upon reach
II there the 'cabble." holding tho
pr OF the cab open. heard mo ask
servant who WAS sweeping tho
Iewalk whether Mrs. Deland was NJ
! me. Being answered In the mega
Re. ! told my driver to 20 TO the next
ldresa
As was dismissing him at tho close
the day no said u mo:
"Excuso me- sir. but ut tho address
Mount Vernon street. TO which We
love ! heard you ask Tor Mrs. De-
pad. 10 II tho author OF John Ward
cacher. who lives ,hers?"
Yes l replied but ~hy' Dc
Iu know her?"
mo. sir. but / have read her book. "
you have?" exclaimed. getting
,ercsted.
YES. sir. l have also rend her
st ono Sidney but ! didn't Ike
at Us well us l did John Ward.
Teacher.
This was = surprise! A literary
kb driver.
Why. when do you and ,imo to
tad?' l asked.
in the evening after ! put my
prses up ! live With my mother and
'icr and being all fond Of books We
pad aloud to each other. Wo road
l!ie deal ! have read everything.
think. written By the pooi 10 whose
louse we drove this ai,ernoon-Dr
lolmos."
by this time va, simply astoundcl
well " said. you're II regular
icrnry man. You have never writ
|,n yourself supposo'" ycn,ursd.
''No, much. sir; two or three
'icccs" camo tho quick reply
Pros. or poetry" ! asked.
oh. prose. sir; ! never tried po
try. ] had two articles and n story
|rlnicd IN tho papers here. Thea
|cgan TO read ilorbart Spencer aud
Ero's IN article OF my Impressions o
lis philosophy. bat l couldn', ge, II
published and got discouraged
lad ! don; know but that cab driving
: about ne lucrative rs ~rl,lns-ts
no at least " he aid. rs he mounted
lis box. bado mo good nigh, and drov,
n.
And l was dunfoundcd. A cal
Is!y-r reading He-bcr; Spencer and
hen writing abou, him
Talk about literary Boston! Grca'
'msAr,
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19

IT il perhaps not to DO wondered y,
tina; many young persons are adverse
TO moderation. rs they conceive II.
Intense in their feelings strong in
their affections aud antipa,hics hope
ful and enthusiastic In their under
takings confident In their powers and
assured in their opinions /. 1. hardly
to b. expected that they should wei.
come tho spiri, OF moderation. which
TO ,hsm appears merely tho ,oning
down OF all tina, is interesting. until
iifc itself becomes humdrum and com.
monplacc They poin, significantly
TO persons OF weak will. OF languid
emotions OF insipid character who arc
too Indifferent TO go TO extremes and
too easily influenced TO exercise any
original power as examples of mod
GRAFTON which they neither envy nor
admire. The mistake they make
however Is In confounding the mere
absence OF force with true modera-
ton. Fceblcness OF will and of char
actsr, IL Is true may not GO 10 ex-
ircmcA because IL cannot; but it Is ut
terly unlike the moderation which is
born OF knowledge wisdom aDd OK.
perience
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19

THERE can not DO life without ro-
suit although there ara many with
out purpose Those who will no,
work for an end OF their own choos-
ing. one which conscience approves
become incontlncntly enlistcd on the
side OF the powers warning against or
der right and peace No man lives
70 himself however much he may
think no lives for soli
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19

\ Dispatch frrm Ia rsf, Bolivia. says an
Indian ruihrrak occurr,I day or tso ago
anil government troups were sent to queli II.
Advice Just rrgciycd state that battle has
iaIn fought and tbe Indians were com.
r,eciy r1utcd with loss Of 1000
l'..f. Thirty ~ Tie government troops arc
~ 10 law Irrn hafllN wnnndcl
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19
ru,tsh.d ,Dr C,,m,

Th' notion store " Marcus Cohen in St
inul- was nearly destroyed by fire and the ef.
lD. 'a ~ nu "Tulnaiu the other night Cohen
gf'l hIt brn'brr.in-law wprc Killed nv the OK
s.HliNn Tie police found that Cohen hal
aIIuuil il. .as tn "negpc and poured out a
,au uI tt .iiuc aud tr,el the store To get the
lasaAacc, Ills wife admitted the TACT.
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19
Public Notice

Is hereby given TINT nv wife. hnuis o.
hnrtln, having lett my bed aud board.
hereby caution nll persons that | viii
mot be- responsible Tor any debts con,
iractcd by her. GEO. ". MAgTIS.
MEEKgg, Colo, Feb. -. lsI2
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19

We'll I would havo been engaged
now II IL were not for my chapcron.
Did S,o in,orfcro'"
'ics. shc became engaged to him
herself Life
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19
The .Neeker siahlcs.

Under Harry lin,nard's management,
this place Is run Will view To giving
the travelling public good accommoda.
lions and treatment Try III.
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19

Go 10 forsrs for ANYTHING ar every
lhiHG aud In viii save you money
FROM 10 10 - per cent. on the dollar.
The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19
Consumption Cured.

An old physician. retired from practice.
having had placed in his hands by an Ea,,
India missionary the formula Of n vcrcta.
bic remedy for speedy and pcrmaneu, euro
OF consumption, bronchitis, catarrh,
asthma ana all throat and lung affections.
also positive and radical cure for nor-
vous debility and all nervous complaints.
after having tested its wonderful curative
powers in thousands of cases, has felt 1.
his duty TO make IL known to hi. suffering
fellows Actuated by this motive and a
desire to relieve human suffering. will
send free of charge, to nil who desire IL.
this recipe, in German, French. pr. ..g-r
no aFalnst vir.us r-c revealed. a ..fu,t o-
ose Of tho pslsonal MO % q pur'lar 49,
trcnks og4 10 "llau4 inEIlEl' fur thf~
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The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19

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The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19
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The Meeker herald., 1892-03-19

Mr. Ncflpolr-l nm dniuk with love
n yoh. dearest one. Mt, Werlich
So Aud sou want Ia Try iEc gold
cute. hp Noug
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
ROsy Checks and Bald Heads.

1t was a noticeable fact that Il
large percentage of the Union League
members who waited in the club
assembly-room for election returns
on Tuesday night were rosy-cheeked
and bald-headed, says the Pniladel-
phia Press. a well-known doctor,
who was in the room and who is as
bald as a billiard ball himself, took
occasion to explain the singular
matter by remarking:
"'The scalp and the stomach are SO
closely connected that the condition
Of one easily eXe:ts a strong influence
on the other. Hair falls out because
the scalp is feverish. A man who
loves to eat and drink the best he
can get is very apt to have feverish
stomach. If he keeps this up the
fever is permanently impaired to the
scalp and the hair falls out. Show
me a rosy-cheeked man with a bald
head and III show you person who
loves to live we'll and who has an
inexhaustible fund of good nature.
They like fun and excitement, and
for that reason can often be found
in the front rows Of our theaters.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14

and rejoicing. People liked to "dress
themselves up" when they were
happy with anything Of this kind,
just as children do now. Chaucer de-
scribes one such
"a gerlond hadde he settle upon his head,
AS gret as 1t we're for an ale stake
This habit of browning the ale
stake with leaves and flowers-put-
ting "gerlond" on top Of it, in sort
was the first public-house sign. In
many parts of Belgium, France and
Germany it is the only outward sign
of clearinghouse to this day. Even
when modern pretentiousness has
caused the host to adopt some other
Understanding name for his "hotel,
the green branch, bush or "gerlond'
hangs in front. Good wine needs no
bush, says the old proverb, in allud-
ing to this ancient custom.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
Electric Light ON Battlctields.

The ubiquity of electricity is be-
coming almost proverbial. From the
brightest spot on earth" to the
blood-stained hattlctields is rather Il
far cry, but there is no end to the
application of electricity. A recent
telegram from Austria described
some experiments Of great interest
which have recently been carried out
successfully there. The difficulty Of
searching for the wounded on the
night after Il great battle has been
one which has long occupied the at
tcntion Of military rcformers, and
the army medical service in Austria
has been cndcavoring to determine
how far the electric light may be
utilized for this humane end. The
value Of powerful search-lights with
rctlcctors has been proved in naval
affairs, and at Sauliim and elsewhere
soldiers have found them very ctfec-
tive on open ground. They would
be equally effective, under similar
conditions, for assisting in picking up
the wounded, but when the battle
has ragged over wide extent Of coun-
try, or when the lighting. has occurred
amidst woods and brushWood, the use
Of this class Of light is attended with
difficulty. The need for Il special
form of light for this purpose having
been recognized, the Austrian medi-
Cal service have been experimenting
with portable electric lanterns fed by
secondary batteries contained in the
knapsacks Of the men who carry
them. These experiments, concludes
the Electrical Review, have been
carried out under conditions as nearly
as possible similar to those which
would occur in actual warfare, and
the results were SO encouraging that
it is highly probable that the port
able "search-light" will be taken up in
earnest by the military authorities in
other countries.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
AIllOriSuS.

The reason why SO few marriages
are happy is because young ladies
spend their time in making nets, not
in making cages.
A mans real possession is his mcm-
DRY. In nothing else is he rich, in
nothing else is he poor.--AleXandcr
Smith.
Employment and hardships prevent
Observation-Disclosures.
The manly part is to do with might
and main what you can do. Emerson.
Wherever luxury ceases to be limo
cent, it also ceases to be beneficial. -
Hume.
Nature has given to men one tongue,
but two ears, that we may hear from
others twice as much as we speak -
Epictetus.
God asks no man whether he will
accept life. That is not the choice.
You must take it. The only choice
is how. Henry Ward Beecher.
LaZincSs travels SO slowly that
poverty soon oyertakes him. ia
min Franklin.
The laughter of man is the con-
tentment Of God. Weiss.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
Ono Mans Fxpedient.

When the Doctor entered the room
the man on the bed indicated by a
motion Of the hand that his wife
should be sent outside. The physician,
accustomed to many queer things,
contrived to send her away without
any apparent design, and then the
sufferer turned to him and SAID:
"Doc, are you married MANI"
ayes" replied the man of prescrip-
tiOns.
"Ah!" sighed the patient, with evil
dent relief, then you'll understand.
"Wcll?" queried the M. d., hoping
to get at the trouble in the case.
Perfectly. Never was better in
my life"
This was somewhat Of a startlcr tC
the Doctor, who had been called in q
great hurry. He retained his nerve,
however, and asked:
What did you call me for?"
"Why, because I've got to be sick.
It's this way, Doc. Last fall / made
fun Of some of my wife's purchases,
accused her OF getting swindled, and
bOlI IiCl W UdhC lllC WILL ICi WICl
she did her spring shopping. She
took me up, made me promise to go,
and yesterday she began to talk OF
starting out. I'd rather live on baled
hay for a week than CO."
"Oh, | see, interrupted the Doctor,
'you want to be sick until the shop
ping is done"
Exactly"
well, how would grip or pneumo-
MIA do?"
Not any. If she thought | was
sick she wouldn't leave my bedside.
Give me something easy, something
just hard enough to keep me in the
house and let me send her out. You
advise her to go-tcll her she needs
air"
The Doctor saw" and made life
long friend. Tribune.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14

A correspondent of the American
Architect describes the successful
working of a novel tire-escapc. II
be it is very ingenious, and likely to
prove of great benefit to mankind.
4 public trial of it was made from
the top of the new Masonic Temple
at Chicago.
The pocket tire-escape consists of a
metallic tape one-Quarter OF an inch
wide and Il thirty-Second Of an inch
thick. running on steel reel which
is fastened to a web belt passing
about the waist.
The reel is provided with a brake
by means of which the person can
control the speed of his descent.
There is also an automatic brake to
keep required tension on the tape,
and thus prevent sudden drop.
The end of the tape is provided with
a thumb-Screw. which can be fastened
to the window-sill or any object in
the room. In appearance the ma
chine is like fisherman's reel, and
is about twice the size of a spool Of
thread.
The beginning Of the experiment
seemed perilouS in the extreme.
The inventor fixed the thumb-screw,
fastened the web belt about his waist,
and stepped of apparently into space
from the twentieth story.
AT first he descended slowly, then
faster and faster, till it seemed as If
he must have lost control over the
little machine, the slender tape OF
which could scarcely be seen, and at
any time looked no larger than an
ordinary cord.
At the tenth story he stopped
suddenly, and then descended again.
rapidly and slowly by turns, until he
came to the Scatfolding where were
several workmen. There he took
three men on the escape with him,
and thus dropped TO the ground.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
Big Governor-Big Story.

Governor Flower brought home
from the North Woods last week a
brand-new fish story, as follows: In
order to make the events in my story
possible, / must go back three years
before my visit to Dannemora. An
old guide hooked salmon in a lake,
the name Of which | can't remember,
three years ago.
"In the boat with him was man
and his young wife. The latter per-
sisted in carrying a parasol. when
the guide got the salmon in the boat
the woman became frightened, and
with her parasol jabbed one OF the
fish's eyes out AS she did SO the fish
became unlocked and was overheard
in tWinkling.
"The guide made spring for the
fish, but the unlucky parasol ferrule
penetrated his eye and destroyed its
sight. The guide wore a glass eye
afterward, and when | went fishing
Tuesday this same guide took me to
the lake spoken of. BY some acci-
dent the guide lost his glass eye over
board.
when / turned my gaze from him
he had two eyes, when | returned it
he had but one. The guide bewailed
his lot, and | promised to send him a
bushel of glass eyes if he would only
take me where we could get some big
fish.
"wednesday we went back to the
lake. My line jerked and my pole
bent almost double. The guide cast
his one eye on my pole and eX-
claimed: Something big, Gov'n'r.
/ knew that from the way the. object
at the other end acted. Together
we hauled the fish, should say
fiSheS-Out.
"One was a large salmon and the
other a good-szed trout. The trout
was hanging to the eye Of the salmon
with his mouth. The guide pulled
the fishes apart, and with an excla-
nation Of JOY said: There's my eye.
The eye that he had dropped over
board the day before was in the head
Of the salmon, which was the same
fish that the guide had lost three
years ago after the young woman had
poked it's eye out. The trout was
just in the act of putting the eye in
the salmon when the latter was
caught. Funny coincidence, Wasn't
it?" And the Governor bent over his
work again, while the correspondent
went out into the fresh cool air.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
What Makes Stcnocraphers Weep.

"Whom do you find the most diff
cult witness to take?" asked the Her.
aid man Of A. Nj. Griffin, one of the
oldest court reporters.
decidedly woman with griev-
ance," he readily replied. "A Pole in
passion is bad; an Irishman de-
nouncing an enemy is equally so; a
Frenchman rendering meaningless his
words by calculations is still more de-
plorable: but none of these can hold
a candle to a woman with grievance.
If Sam Weller had ever happened to
have been reporter he would have
overlooked the widow and warned his
friends to beware of woman with a
grievance. By the way, can always
tell the profession Of a man by the
manner in which he gives his testi-
mony. The real estate man, the &C.
tor, the travelling man, the doctor
all carry their profession with them
into the witness box, Chicago Her
aid
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
fortunes from Accidents.

One OReilly, a trader, in casually
stopping at the house OF Boer, neal
Pneil, Griqualand West, saw some
children playing with number OF
exceedingly pretty pebbles, and on
asking his Dutch host whether he
could take one, he was promptly told
that he could do so, as "the children
had plenty more of them"
O'Reilly took the stone to Grahams-
town and sold it for $4,000; it was
resold for S25, 200.
A Dutchman named De Beer had
built himself the usual waffle and
daub house on his farm, but it had
been erected for quite long period
before some inquiring prospectors
found that the rough coat used for
the walls actually contained dia-
monds. The farm speedily changed
hands for $4,000. 1t now, with it's
neighboring mines. produces over
$I5, 900, 900 of diamonds annually
the total wealth from this discovery
to date being probably over $780,
900, 900.
At Wasselton, a Boer riding out at
shutdown to bring in his horses from
the veldt, where they had been run
ming all day, saw a small animal
called a "mecrcat" Gt somewhat re-
semblcs a weasel and burrows in
colonies like rabbits) industriOusly
scraping some earth from its hole.
Some popularity of the ground SO
thrown up led the Dutchman to fill
his handkerchief with 1t, and after
he had stabbed his horse by the dis
NAL light of a small lamp he eX-
amined the nature Of the earth. TO
his establishment and delight he
found a three-quarter carat diamond
in the sand.
Further search at the meercat's
hole revealed other diamonds, and
six months ago no less than So, $780,
900 was refused for the farm. Since
the accidental discovery over 100000
carats of fine white diamonds have
been extracted from the mine. =
Bits.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
Why They knclt.

Charles ii. of England was noted
for his good nature, and although he
was sometimes called "Unthinking
Charles" yet his heedlessness was
more an apparent than a real charac-
teristic.. The extravaganza of his
reign went hand-in-h and with poverty,
and on some occasions even the royal
table was but poorly served.
There is a story told of Grammont.
who one day dined in state with the
King.
Charles babe the Count to notice
that he was served upon the knee, a
mark of respect to guests of the King
not common at other courts.
Il thank your Majesty for the ex-
PLANTATION" answered Grammont. Il
thought they were begging pardon for
giving you SO bad dinner
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14

The case was one or assault, and
two men were suspected of the deed.
A single hair was found on the cloth
ing OF the victim, and this hair was
duly pictured in the form of a photo
micograph CIT may be as well, per-
haps, to point out here that by this
term is meant the enlarged image OF
Il microscopic object, the term micro
photograph being applied to those
tiny specs Of pictures which can only
be seen when magnitied in a micro
scope.) A., one of the suspected men,
had gray beard, and a hair from his
chin was photographed and compared
with the first picture taken. The
difference in structure, tint, and gen
cral appearance was so marked that
the man was at once liberated. The
hair of the other man. b., was exam
ined. and bore little resemblance to
that found on the victim. The latter
was now more carefully scrutinized
and compared with the other sleci-
mems The photograph clearly showed,
for one thing, that the hair was
pointed; it had never been cut. Grad
ually the conclusion was arrived at
that it belonged to a dog, "an old,
yellow. smooth-haired, and compare
lively short-hai1cd dog" Further in
quiry revealed the fact that b. owned
such dog, a fresh hair from which
agreed in every detail with the origi-
nal photograph, ana the man was
convicted. lie subsequently confessed
that he alone committed the crime. -
Chambers Journal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
An Elaborate Fire ExtinguiSher.

An original method has lately been
proposed by New Hampshire in
ventor for the cXtinguishing of fires.
TO accomplish this purpose chcmi-
cal generator as large as may be
needed for the case in hand is first
provided, and pipes run from this
into each room in the building; at
the top is jar in which acid is
stored, inside of which is cartridges;
al open circuit battery is used. The
thermoStat in each room is set at
whatever figure is desired, perhaps at
eighty degrees. On the occurrence
of fire the mercury runs up to this
figure, and the circuit is closed; this
eXplodes the cartridge in the jar, a
valve drops down. and the chemicals
are sent to the room through a sys-
TEN Of sprinklers. In connection
with this device there is a system of
dry pipes, and in case 1t is found that
the chemicals do not eXtinguish the
fire an attendant on the outside of
the building is able to tell by the
enumeration in which apartment the
fire is located, and by turning a
switch can food the room with water
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-14
No Distinction Now.

store for shop" is an American
ism of natural and reasonable growth.
In early colonial days shops were also
of necessity stores or depots for goods
in bulk, since cargoes came in seldom
and at few ports. Meanwhile. by the
time the coast region had thickened
in population, and communication
with Europe and between various
parts of the country had become
easier and more frequent, SO that
there were shops which were not also
stores, habit had fixed the word store
upon the speech of the people. and
the distinction between store and
shop has been lost.