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HELP wANTEp-Continued.

w ANTED-A GIRL AS NURSE AND HELP
" with second work; German preferred; wages
] $40. Address 1907 HYDE st.
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1u care horses and garden, milk cows, wants place
in private family. Address NJ. M, box 49, Call
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FURNITURE, COUNTERS, SHOWCASES
Il restaurants bought, sold. ANDERSON.112lM Mkt
r c. MUTHER, THE AUCTIONEER, BUYS
y furniture at highest cash prices. Fourth ST.
CHOW CASES, BAR, RESTAURANT, CANDY
- outfits fixtures, etc, bought and sold l25 Fifth
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SITUATIONS wANTEDzMALE.

DOR COOKS, WATERS, TRANSFERS Al
L farmers send your orders TO j. +. CROSETI
CO, 62S Sacramento st.
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| RESTAURANT IN GOOD BUSINESS IOCA-
IL ton; fine large range and fixtures: all new
cheap; on account Of other business. Apply at
| grocery, NE. cor. Bush and Larkin opposite Inr.
| line baths.
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SITUATION WANTED BY RESPECTABLE
- man and wife, English, as porter in hotel, wife
as housemaid; or coachman and generally useful
around place; wife good cook or homework; or
ences; city or country. A. G. W., box 49, Call
Office.
SMALL ADVERTISEMENT AND SUBSCRIP-
- tons taken at CALL Branch Office, Ut Larkin
ST., 339 Hayes st. and 251S Mission ST., open till
8 80 p. NJ
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SITUATIONS wANrED-Continued.

J1IRST-CLAsS DRESSMAKER WISHES FEW
i more engagements at 81 80 per day. Address
NJ. A., Call Branch, 251S Mission st.
VOUNG LADY WISHES GENTS MENDING
l. to do. Call so Fourth ST., room 8.
NTANTED-BY A MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN,
w situation as working housekeeper for single
man. no objection to children. 507 Eleventh ST.,
Oakland.
HOUSEKEEPER; MIDDLE-AGED, RESPEC
IL table American widow: educated; alone; good
cook: wants home; country preferred Mis- H.
L. 13l Post ST. room 81.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
BIG, SAUCY RATS.
Swimming Two Miles from the Mainland
to the Island.

Swimming Two Miles from the Mainland
to the Island.
The island of Tropic, twenty miles
south of here, has been invaded by an
army of savage rats, and the inhabitants
have been forced to flee for their lives.
TrOpic is three miles long and two
miles wide, and the soil is very fertile.
A dozen families have settled on the
island and engaged in growing vegetables
for market.
George Butler, one of the settlers, has
lust reached here, and tells a thrilling
story of the invasion and subjugatlon OF
Tropic by the rats. Up to month ago.
according to Mr.. Butler, there were no
rats on the island. At that time the
advance guard of the rodents arrived and
were quickly followed by others until in
two weeks there were fully 10000 on
the island
The rats came from the mainland,
which was only two miles away, and
Mr.. Butler affirms that they swan
across He says he has seen them com,
ing out of the water by hundreds. At
first the rats contented themselves with
attacking the vegetables, which were
soon destroyed. Then they invaded the
homes of the settlers. The latter made
Mr. Butler says he has killed as many
as 100 at one shot, but that others would
rush forward and attack him, biting him
viciously on the legs.
In spite of the slaughter, the rats got
into the houses and attacked the women
and children. Several of the latter were
badly torn by the sharp fangs of the
rodents. One baby was so severely bit
ten about the face that it's life Is
despaired of.
For three nights, Mr.. Butler says, not
soul on the island slept, as that would
have meant death. At last the people IN
terror and worn out fled in their boats to
the mainland, where they are now
camped in destitute condition.
Mr.. Butler says the rats pursued them
to the waters edge, and the women and
children were repeatedly bitten before
the boats could be pushed off. Every
vestige of vegetat ton has been destroyed
on the island and it resembles a desert.
The rats are described as gray in color
and monstrous in size, being larger than
squirrels. ~ Titusville Fla.) cor. New
York Recorder.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
Ii HUNG CHANG CARRIED HER.
China's Viceroy Took Literally an Invi-
tation to Escort Lady.

Speaking of the first meeting Of Ii
Hung Chang and John w. Foster, on
which occasion the Chinese viceroy ell
tertained a woman at dinner for the first
time in the person of Mrs. Foster, the
Washington Capital vouches for the fol-
lowing story, which is one of the best
illustrations of true Oriental courtesy,
combined with the peculiar seriousness
and matter-of-factness of the Chinese
mind ever related.
When she was introduced to the vice
roy Mrs. Foster wondered how she was
to be taken into the banquet room.
Some time before, it seems, Ii Hung
Chang had been the guest of honor at a
dinner given by the Russian ambassa-
dor, and being asked to take the ambas-
sador's wife to the dining room, proceed
ed to comply with literalness which
astonished all the guests. The viCsroy
is a giant in stature, and the ambassa-
doris wife being small woman he had
no difficulty in picking her up bodily ana
carrying her to the table.
Mrs. Foster did not yearn for such
honor, and called upon her husbands
diplomacy to arrange that she should
be escorted in a less vigorous manner.
Mr.. Fosters tact was equal to the occa-
sion, and when the doors were thrown
open Ii Hung Chang led the way and
Mrs Foster followed him.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02

Half concealed between the bony brow,
the little green eyes CLEAN with so pecu-
liar an expression, such a concentration
of fiendish malice, of quiet, calm, settled
villainy, as no other countenance that l
have ever seen at all resembles.
Knowing that the brute is as cowardly
as he is ferocious, commenced to splash
as much as | could with my feet. This
had the desired effect and, with a lateral
wave Of his powerful tail, he shot off and
for the moment disappeared.
Again looked round for the boats, but
still observed no sign that we were seen.
Night was fast falling-there is no twi-
light in those latitudes-and | could see
little or no hope of escaping horrid death
from the jaws of the shark, which, l
we'll knew, was not far off.
Suddenly a cry of horror from my COM
panion who had now quite regained his
senses, drew my attention to the rapid
approach of our dread enemy. This
time he seemed determined not to be
baked, but came straight on for us.
Again l threw myself on my back and
kicked and splashed with all my
strength, which had again the effect of
alarming him, for he went right under
us and disappeared.
Uttering short but fervent ejacula-
ton of thankfulness again turned my
attention to the boats and beheld, with
AWNINGS iAO PNAA Ne1A SoSS 80 AeN'
we had been made out and that one of
the cutters was fast pulling toward us.
But even as she came our peril in
creased, for the shark was joined by an
other and both kept running but a few
yards off in circle round us.
My strength was rapidly leaving me
and I knew that should | once cease
splashing we should be seized. My COM
panion was perfectly powerless.
Still | continued to kick and splash,
still the voracious monsters continued
their circles, sometimes diving and going
under us, to reappear on the other side,
but the cutter was fast approaching and
the crew, suspecting our danger, gave
way with all their might.
As she neared us, the bowmen laid
their oars in and began to beat the
water with boat hooks. This was the
last / saw. Nature must have given
out, for when / opened my eyes again |
was safe in my hammock on board the
brig.
A good nights rest restored me to my
self, but though l have seen many a
shark since I can never look on one
without feeling my flesh creep and a
shudder run through every nerve
Youths Companion.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
The Fad of Breathing.

Until comparatively recently nobody
has bothered himself very much about
the way in which he has breathed, but
within the last two or three years the
misguided world has been informed of it's
error in this respect, and "How to
Breathe Properly" is frequent caption
of the public prints. AS is usual with
the modern theorists, every known i'll is
mitigated or aggravated according as it's
victim exhales and inhales the atmo-
sphere which surrounds him in the way
prescribed by this or that system in
dorsed by the aforesaid theorists. I'm
doubtedly there is great value in deep,
full breathing, but one questions the
benefit of a ''cure' which depends on
putting the foot down on inhalation, and
vice versa, though the advocates of the
system are as enthusiastic as are the
followers of the barefoot panacea or the
believers in the remedial virtues of mud
baths. The last breathing remedy is for
seasickness. All you have to do to be
absolutely impervious to the miseries OF
NAL de mer is to pay careful attention to
the rise and fall of the vessel, and to
breathe inward as she goes down and ex,
hale the breath each time it mounts
wave. Could anything be more beauti-
fully simple or more hopelessly impossi-
hloS
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
Vessels Keel sewers a Gable.

The sharp keel Of some fast steamer
recently cut in two the telegraph cable
connecting Philadelphia with Camden.
Since that time kilograms have had to go
by other and longer ways to Camden
which has just been repaired, is made up
of many dozen wires and is laid directly
over the site of Windmill island. The
vessel which cut the cable struck on
shoal spot where the cable lay and sew
cred every wire in two. the ends drifting
up and down the river with the tides
The hardest part of the work of repair
was to find the ends and hold them to-
gether until the splice was made. To do
this it was necessary to anchor a barge
in the river while the work was being
done The cable is now in good working
order again.-Philadelph Record.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
A Costly Mausoleum.

Probably the most costly piece of
mortuary architecture that ever was
or will be erected is the structure at
Winchester, Mass, wherein lie the re-
mains of DR.. Francis B. Hitler, the
total expenditure of which has been near
~ 100000. The carved casket con-
tanning the body cost alone 100000,
similar one being placed at its side in
readiness for Mrs. Killers corpse. 1t
was by her directions that this magnih-
cent tomb was built. The area of the
building is 5000 square feet and its
height is 70 feet 1t has a dome re-
sembling that of an Oriental mosque, the
front being of Gothic design. Wrought
iron and brass have been used most Law
ishly for the gates and other portions
of the buildings, while the lamp which
illumines the post of a Waterman Whose
wages are, paid out of special fund
provided for the purpose) cost some
$4,000. The knobs to the outer doors
are of solid gold, weighing four pounds
each, while the medallions on the cas-
kets each contain f1O0 worth of gold
CaSSelI'S Journal
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
s,nartest Sort of a Tour.

The very smartest sort of tour to make
this summer, at least from the point of
is to walk barefooted through Normandy
It's a sovereign cure and tonic for socie-
ty women afflicted with nerves and va.
pors, and, more delightful STILL is one Of
the ways to beauty. The women who 60,
and the men, too, get themselves into the
exact toggery of the Normandy peasants.
minus the stockings and the shoes, and
actually walk along the white, hot roads
from town to town, and all down the
coast. by an itinerary laid out for these
special pilgrims. 1t is needless to say
that the open air, free exercise, and be-
coming picturesque costume are wonder
fully beguiling; and after a day or two
the soles of the tenderest feet find the
dust-laden roads as acceptable as a velvet
carpet. At the end of the tour the pill
grims return to their ordinary habili-
ments with regret, and to their footgear
with open protestations. = Demorest's
Magazine.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02

heartily prefer life in the country, and /
think it rather refreshing to have a little
to say about John and the children"
If we did not have them to talk about
occasionally how lonesome we would
feel. AS for the crops, why shouldn't
we have an eye and word for them!
How would we fare without them? 70
be sure, we are not obliged to be SO mar,
row-minded as to make them the glst OF
our conversation. One can always find
some time on farm to cultivate the
mind by reading good and spirited books,
if one is very anxious to do SO, and it
must be a poor neighborhood in which
there are not a few congenial spirits
with whom one can have real visit"
once in awhile. Then let US not forget
that there are sick, cherries, lonely and
homeless ones to be looked after, and not
spend all our time thinking and grum-
bling about ''our lot in life and our little
selves"
The other evening I ran in a few min
utes to see how my neighbor, Mrs. Cam
eron, was prospecting. She is bright,
cheerful, intelligent little woman and a
true helpmate Tom, her husband, is
hand in hand in their farm life, and en-
joy it clear to the ground. Over our tea
cups we talked Of city life and life on
the farm
My DEAR" she said, II would just as
soon go to prison as live in the city, and
have to buy all our cheese, butter. milk,
meat and vegetables, and be obliged to
consult my purse when | wished to have
chicken or a dozen eggs. Why, bless
your heart! / wouldn't exchange places
with any city dame, with all her dress
ing, prinking, paying calls and giving
entertainments, SO as TO keep in the
swim Such life would kill me. Give
me the country seven days in thu week;
/ love itr' and there was light in her
eyes that was good to see. u course
/ have to work hard. / knew / would
have to when I married Tom. But all
the same, / enjoy life on the farm. If /
wish to cook chicken for dinner I know
the way to the chicken roost, and where
to find fresh eggs any time. We raise
our pork, smoke our hams and corn our
beef, so they are not handled by Jim,
Dick and Harry before they reach our
table.
The garden always yields an album
dance Of vegetables, for I have taught
Annie and Willie (the children) to at
tend to it after school hours. You see
we all work hand in hand, cheerily, and
enjoy life on a farm. So, hurrah for the
country she cried, laughingly, as she
finished wiping the tea dishes and -four
ished the dish towel over her head
Womankind.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
SHAFTS IN LEADVILLE STREETS.
Curious Discoveries in the Colorado Town
Rich Ore.

Curious Discoveries in the Colorado Town
Rich Ore.
eve are sinking shafts in the middle
of our streets, and presently the whole
of that carboniferous basin over which
we've been squatting for more than TWEEN
ty years will be pouring its riches into the
lap Of civilization
The words were spoken by w. w.
Officer, for many years identified with
one of the biggest smelling plants in Colo
RADIO, who will visit Mercur before leav-
ing the territory.
Where is it you are camped over
mines?" asked the bystander, with
skeptical infection in his voice.
In Leadvile, was the visitors
prompt reply. 'Not only sinking
shafts continued Mr.. Officer, adding
bit of fervor to his voice, ''but we are
producing ore"
His discourse was punctuated with
piece of ore that was drawn from his
pocket. 1t was a specimen Of horn sill
ver-almost the pure quill-that had been
taken from the strike in the Bohn shaft
at depth of 400 feet below the surface
of one of the most actively-traveled thor
oughfares in the old camp. The ore at
the constitutional value of silver repre-
scented a valuation of probably $4,000
per ton.
Not only has this shaft been put
down." resumed Mr. Officer, 'but there
are eight others going down below the
streets, and in nearly all of them ore has
been shown Again, we have the Little
Johnnie, the actual output of which can
not be arrived at, although it is some
thing enormous."-Salt Lake Tribune.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
A Midshipmer's Attorney

With the boys at Annapolis there have
beer few more popular secretaries of the
navy than Col. r. w. Thompson, who,
l regret to learn, is in poor health at his
home in Terre Haute If there be any
efficacy in a wheel he will recover soon,
as he is devoted to cycling. When he
was in office at Washington there was
q man from Indiana who had known
him from boyhood, and who maintained
through thick and thin that he could
make the old man do whatever he
liked" This man was for years private
secretary to Senator Mcdonald of In
diana, and he was a friend of the Naval
academy The cadets called him Mid
shipments attorney q cognomen which
seemed to fit him well and one of which
he was proud There never was boy
in trouble while Thompson was secre-
tary that did not get off with the light
est possible sentence. Mr.. Midshipmen's
Attorney would take up the case at once,
hurry to the secretary, explain and apol-
ogize for the youngster, beg for him.
plead for him and SO work upon the ten
der-hearted Indianan that everything
was forgiven. I do not think the man
ever took a cent for his services. He
loved the boys and gave his time to
their cause Satisfied with their friend
ship, he cared nothing for their money.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
Getting Drunk once a Year.

The oldest temperance society in the
world is the abstaining commune in Ach-
lyka, in Siberia, all of whose members
are strict teetotalers every day in the
year except one Regularly on the first
day of September. year after year, all
the adult members of the commune as
semble in the parish church and every one
takes a solemn vow before. the altar to
drink no wine. beer or spirits from the
morrow of the following day for the
whole year. The clause ''from the NOR
row. is introduced in order to give them
a reward for their virtue in the shape of
a whole day of drunken carnival. AS
soon as they leave the church they begin
to indulge in horrible bacchanalian
drinking, which continues throughout the
day, until neither man nor. woman in
the village is sober. This is naturally
followed by considerable physical suffer
ing, and then by mental remorse, where
upon the penitent parish enters upon it's
twelve-montl of model sobriety, and all
live like the Rechabites. Some students
imagine that this queer proceeding may
be a prehistoric tribal CUSTOM
nati Commercial Gazette
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
BIRD CAME HOME.
Had a Broken Leg but Knew Where it
Lived.

Fred Ruoff of this city is breeder Of
homing pigeons and has some champion
flyers. On June 1 last he released six
birds at st. Joseph, Mo-, 800 miles dis
tant from Detroit. Five of the birds
reached their coops in this city before
nightfall but the sixth was mourned as
lost. 1t was valuable bird and had
made many long distance flights. AS day
after day went by without tidings from
it up for lost. This morning, seventy-two
days after being released, the. bird was
found at the entrance to its home coop.
One of it's legs had been nearly shot off
and it had evidently been nursing the in
jured member during all these days, be-
fore starting for home, never having for
gotten the way.-Detroit Journal.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
The Best WAY to Rest.

There is one bit of furniture no bed
room should want for, to-wit, the tabour-
eft. The little footstool. indispensable in
its way, will not fill the place of this
derpinnings," to use the washer lady's"
euphemism.
Amply supporting weary legs, the
tabouret. together with an easy chair,
furnishes a delightful substitute for the
couch, when resting and reading are to
be combined.
Physicians all agree that a woman
should is much as practicable keep her
legs on a level with the rest of the body,
and occasional indulgence in that man
nish trick of placing them even higher
would help amazingly toward doing away
with those tired feelings and that dragged
sensation.
Fashionable women, to whom the neces-
sity of never showing fatigue and Of ever
looking their 'best" has taught the
knack of acquiring a maximum of rest
in a minimum of time, are fast falling
into masculine habits of posture when in
seclusion of bedroom or boudoir. This
era of exercise. gives them their cue
they learn on the tennis court or IN the
''swagger'' gymnastic class how entirely
restorative it is to lounge and loll about
The tabouret may become most pct
uresque and important part OF the mise
Ell scene of those hours Of studied dis
habille, when pretty woman, prettler
than ever in flowing tea gown, receives.
half reclining, her intimates only.
In q winter room, furnished in mahog-
any and tapestry like portieres, the tabou-
ret is effectively upholstered in old-fash-
toned worsted filled canvas, which seems,
if not in reality, to owe its gay pattern
to the patient fingers of some passed
away kinswoman. Something cool in text
ure should cushion the tabouret for sum
mer. India silk, linen or denim, or best
of all a square of lovely mating. The
Japanese matting-a combination of cot
ton and swamp grass, deliciously dyed
is finely woven and reversible. and there
fore extremely durable.-Philadelphia
Times.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
What an Engineer Does in Danger

would the driver do if he saw before him
burning bridge or the red lights of a
standing train? His left hand is on the
throttle. He would close it. Almost in
the same second his right hand would
he would apply the brakes. With both
hands in about the third second he would
reverse the engine. Perhaps he has heard
that old story that to reverse locomotive
is to increase her speed-that a bird will
fly faster with folded wings. He may
pretend to believe it, but he will reverse
her just the same. If she has room. she
will stop. Even without the aid of the
airbrake she will stop the train if the rail
holds out. I ought to say that the in
slant he reverses the engine he will kick
the cylinder cocks open; otherwise he
may blow off a steam chest or a cylinder
head.-McClure's Magazine.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-09-02
An Intelligent sheen

II was on my bicycle" writes man
to an English magazine, ''and was pass
ing very large field where a number
of sheep were grazing. AS 1 passed,
sheep ran toward me in an excited state.
looking up at me like a pet dog, and
bleating in most piteous way. l was
so interested in what l saw that L
stopped, and instantly the sheep galloped
to the further end of the field in the
same excited way and then raced back
to me again, bleating and looking up at
me just in the same beseeching way as
it did at first. Had it spoken it could not
have been palmer in its request that
should go with it to the other end of the
field. | could see nothing but few
trees; still, l felt compelled to go with
the sheep, so Enthusiastically did it let
me know that it wanted me to go with
it. So / went, the sheep galloping on be-
fore me till it reached the spot at the
end of the field where l felt sure it
wanted me to go. Till / reached the
place the animal ran around and around
the same particular spot in the same eN-
cited way, as if it wanted to say, Make
haste; come as fast as you can When
I arrived I found there was deep
stream of water, and one of the sheep
had fallen into it and was struggling
to get OutI''