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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04
NaDOleOD'g First Essay.

Before the close of this trip his fur
Tough had expired, his regiment had
been put on war footing. and orders
had been issued for the return Of every
officer to his post before Christmas
day. But in the execution of this fixed
purpose the young Corsican patriot was
needless Of military obliga tons to
France, and willfully remained absent
from duty. Once more the spell of O.
wild, free life was upon him he was en-
listed for the campaign, though without
position or money to back him.
The essay on happiness which he had
presented to the Academy of Lyons
had failed, as matter of course, to win
the prize, the judges pronouncing it
"too badly arranged, too uneven. too
disconnected, and too badly written to
deserve attention" This decision was
a double blow, for it was announced
about this time, at a moment when
fame and money would both have been
most welcome. The legacy of the old
archdeacon remained the only resource
Of the family for the lavish hospitality
which was required Of q Corsican can
didate according to immemorial semi
barbarous tradition.--The Century.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04
OLD FORT CHARITIES.
Powder Magazine All that Remains
of an Historic Fortress.

Powder Magazine All that Remains
of an Historic Fortress.
The accompanying picture Is true
Fort Charities, Randolph County, Ill.
This fort was first built of wood in the
year 171S and was completed in less
than two years. It is located in the
American Bottom about three miles
from the Eastern Bluff and one mile
from the river. The fortress was called
by way of eminence '.Fort des Char
tres" having charter from the crown
Of France for it's erection. It is stu
ated in the northwest corner of the
county.
The fort contained all the necessary
buildings to accommodate the seat of
government of the country and garri-
son. The quarters of the officers and
barracks for the soldiers were finished
in neat and becoming style of pioneer
times. Under the mild and impartial
government of the company the coun-
try commenced to grow and flourish,
and the seat of government CIT Char
tres), became the center Of business,
fashion and gaiety.
The villages around Fort Charities
became respectable and prosperous,
but they ceased to exist when the vii
lage of Fort Charities was drowned
with the forts in the food Of 1772.
Under the administration Of Chevalier
Macarty in 1851 Fort Charities was
blli1t entirely new and was one of the
most convenient and strongest FORTH
cations in North America. It's recon
struction was of solid and durable lime
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04
A Good Wife for Somebody.

Two up-to-date girls in seal sacks and
violets were hurrying up Washington
street just as a tremulous old man hest
tatingly started to cross the street. A
big dray crossed in front Of him, and
he came back to the sidewalk. He
stood looking helplessly about him for
a moment. evidently undecided wheth-
er to return or try it again.
"Wat minute" said one of the girls,
and she left her companion suddenly.
Cant help you to get across?' she
said to the old man.
"Thank you, thank you," he said
gratefully. II wish you would; my eye
sight is so poor hardly can venture,
and I have just had an operation per-
formed on my eyes"
He took her arm, and she not only
took him across the street, but down
on Congress street to his destination.
New York Recorder.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Tie jury in the Hayward murder trial
in Minneapolis after a few minutes de-
liberation and on the first ballot found
the defendant guilty of murder in the
first degree, which in Minnesota carries
with it the death penalty. The murder
of Miss Cling was peculiarly atrocious
and the subsequent developments were
most sensational. The whole develop
ment of the awful facts, the unfolding
of the 1iendish plot and the testimony
of brother against brother have been
carefully watched by the reading pub
lie throughout the country, and pop
ular verdict was rendered against the
prisoner long ago. Public sentiment
will not be satisfied until both Hay
ward and his dupe BliXt shall be drop
ped through the same scaffold trap.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04
w. r. MORRlSON'S GOODNESS.
Somehow Did Not Make the Impress
sion On His Wife He Expected.

Somehow Did Not Make the Impress
sion On His Wife He Expected.
A gossiper in the Washington Post
son. The colonel believes thoroughly
in the efficacy Of discipline. He has
spent great part of his eyentful ca
reer in hotels, and one of his theories
has always been that the mind can be
SO trained that the biggest SORT Of a
hotel fire is poWerless to sidetrack the
reasoning faculties on occasions when
presence of mind is needed. He i'm
pressed this theory very strongly upon
Mrs Morrison by conjuring up Il va
riety of critical eXigencies and INSTRUCT
ing her how to act in given cases. Fate
would have it that the colonel should
be put to the test. He and his Wife
were aroused from their slumbers one.
night by an alarm of fire. The hotel;
in which they had their rooms was afire'
and great confusion and tumult ensued
among the guests. "Now is the time to,
put into practice what | have always
preached to you, my DEAR" said the
colonel. Don't get excited. Put on;
your Indispensable apparel and take
your time. Don't lose your head. Just
watch me-" He Gained Mrs. Morrson's
anxiety, handed her the various articles.
necessary to her toilet, put on his collar.
and cuffs, took his watch from under.
his pillow and placed it in his vest
pocket, put on his hat, packed a valise,
of valuables, and, taking his cane,
walked with Mrs. Morrison out Of the
burning building into the street 'Now.
my DEAR" he said when they were safe,
don't you see what grand thing it is
to keep cool and act with deliberate
purpose in an emergency like this
Here you are completely dressed as
though you were going out for walk.
and over yonder are several ladies in
complete dishabille." Just then Mrs.
Morrison for the first time glanced at
her husband. ''You are right, William"
she said, ut is a grand thing to keep
cool ard act deliberately, but if had
been you l would have stayed in the
room long enough to put on my trous7
erS'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Charles A. Dana. Of the New York
Sun has been sued for libel by Frank
i. Noyes, one of the employees of the
Washington Star. This matter grows
out of somewhat strained relations
between the Associated and the United
Press Associations. Editor Dana is
one Of the leading officials OF the United
Press, while Mr.. Noyes is connected in
an official capacity With the rival as
ISOLATION. AS is we'll known, a bitter
antagcnism exists between these two
organizations. Mr.. Moves has seized
upon certain derogatory statements
which recently appeared in the Sun
and has used them rs a foundation up
on which to base an action for libel.
But the whole matter is Il fight between
two great press aSsocia tons rather than
a personal quarrel. Editor Dana is the
recognized dean of American journal
ism. He always has demonstrated
ability to fight his own battles success
fully and to take care of himself and
he may safely be left to do so in the
present instance. But one may be par
doned n regret that mere business
rivalry should have been permitted to
degenerate into personalities involving
the foremost Journalist in America. A
certain amount of advertising can be
secured by attacking Il lion, but it is
questionable proceeding.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

cite, suspended between two upright
supports, the motor being inclosed in
metal casing, which is fixed to the
front part of the cot. The mechanism
is wound up with key and started by
a button, when it will produce a steady
and noiseless rocking motion 1T a very
slow and gentle speed, lasting from
enc to forty minutes. The swinging
motion can be stopped and restarted
at will by simple continuance, and the
clockwork is constructed to rock a
child uD to thirty pounds in weight,
corresponding with the age of eighteen
months. The rocking motion is not af
fected by the movements Of the child.
The Queen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04
Irons.

Smoothing irons were first useo
France, and are supposed to have pee
a French invention, being introduce
in the sixteenth century. After the II
PRODUCTION of starch, linens we're LIE
made smooth by pressure, being stare
ed and placed between two DOLL u.
This being found not to give the ''e&
results, resort was next had 10 Pr =,
sure with a cold fiat-iron, anu niai'
the iron was heated to impart the ~
ish now considered Indispensable
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Well, yes, calculate it is little or. !.
here Ne'I
Fer one who's been about the world orj
travelled fer an near;
But, mebbc cause never been no 9TH. |
place, to me
The town seems bout as lively as y ooos!
town orter be.
We go about our bizness in a easv sort :.
way,
Ner thinkin' O the outside world, eycor.
in once q day
We gether at the depot, where we lanch
an talk an spin
Our yarns an watch the people when tboI
train comes in
ST Jenkins-he's the Jestice o the Peace
he alters spends
His money fer paper, which he glancov
through an lends
To some O. the other fellers an we all tah i
turns ar chat,
An each one tell what he'd do if he wos
this er that.
An in quiet sort O. way, afore an hours
gone,
We git purity good idee O what's ago
in on,
An gives us lots to think about until wed
meet agin
The follerin' to-lnorrer when the trainI
comes in.
When / git lonesome-like l set around
the barber shop
II II 4.,1J
CROWN crop
18th fellers from the country; an if thel
sun amt out too hot
We go to pitchin' horsehoes in Jed ThomD-
sons vacant lot
Behind the livery stable, an afore thd
game is done
E.; like ez not some fellerll say his ma d
kin clean outrun
The other feller's, an we take 'em out
an have q spin,
But we all git hack in town afola the train
comes in.
I sec it in the papers ut some folks when
summers here
Pack up their trunks an journey to the
seashole every year
To keep from gettin' sunstruck; I've al
better way an that,
Fer when it's hot | put a cabbage leaf in1
side my hat
An 60 about my bizncss jest cz though
i: wasn't warm,
Fact is [ amt q doin' much since I
moved off the farm;
But them ez likes the outside world eff
they're mind to kin
See all they orter of it when the train
comes in.
An yit like excitement an they's noth1
in suits me more
N to get three other fellers SOS to mako
q even four
AT knows the game jest to a ''T' AMI
spends half q day
In some good place fightin' out battle
at croquet.
There's Tubbs, he's our postmaster, and
they's old Doe Smith an me-
An Uncle Perry Louder: it'd do you good
to see
Us fellers maui them balls around, wd
meet time an agin
LAh pay al pay EJioy uilil lAC tlhi
comes in.
An take it all in all I bet you'd have II
look aroun'
A good long while afore you'd find a nicet
little town
An this'n is. The people live quiet SORT
O life.
Ne'r thinkin' o. the great big world it'll
ali it's woe and strife.
An here | mean to spend my days, AMI
when / reach the end
I'll say "God bless you" an Good by!l
to every faithful friend,
An when they foller me to where they
amt no care ner sin
I'll meet 'em at the depot when the train
comes in.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04
SELF-ROCKlNG CRADLE.

This Novel Couch Is Set in Motion by
ClOckwork Mechanism.
A cradle set in motion by clock work
mechanism is certainly a novelty, and
will be welcomed by many overworked
mothers and nurses. In outward ap-
same as the ordinary wire net bassin-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The tendency of the new woman with.
millions to regard the United States as;
good place to emigrate from has re-
ceived check in the Vanderbilt di-i
vorce case. The court orders that the!
children be educated in this country.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Another red-handed murderer has
'gone to glory" At least John Milli-
gan, of oklahoma, who had committed
a most atrocious homicide, expressed
his conviction that be was ticketed for
that uncertain goal. 1t is a curious
fact that of those who die the gentry
dying at the hands Of the law are the
most sanguine Of immortal bliss.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

1t is charged that the Standard Oil
Company has spent a large sum of
money to get new pipe line bill
through the Pennsylvania Legislature.
Here is case where the people by and
by will have to pay the piper.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

A Kansas City theatrical manager
has gone at the high-hat nuisance with,
out waiting for legislative aid. He
simply posts notice asking ladies to-
remove their hats during the play and
the request is complied with. No law
on the subject is needed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The financial situation Of this country
never can be considered hopeless so
long as dog show can rake together
$4,000 worth OF live stock OH short
notice..
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

1t is claimed that Russell Sage gave a
Bible to the Castellanes because it con-
tains the golden rule, for which Russell
has no further use.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Cleveland Plain Dealer that Prince
Achille Murat 'shot himself in the eau
casus." 1t must have been a distress
ing affair.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The St Paul Globe says editorially
1--WE ate $4,000 worth more eggs from
Canada in the last four months Of 1894
than we did in the corresponding time
in 1893" There's an editor with an
abnormal appetite, that's all.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

There are NEWCOMERS I'M Wagner
ian enough to insinuate that the pro-
auctions of die Goetterdaemmerung"
in the original German had something
to do with the fall of two buildings.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Two hundred Chicago policemen have
been dismissed for ignorance. 1t was
generally supposed that Chicago had
Il much larger police force than that.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

A news note says that Russia has
famous ballad singer who, though over
20 years old, is still in the height of her
success. Perhaps she is training to en-
ter the ballet by and by
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Man (at front door)-I want to see
the boss Of the house Houser--Walk
right up to the second story back and
tell the nurse to show you the ncw
baby.-Philadelphia Inquirer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The total depravity man. who drops
in occasionally. says he knows o. good
many people. but not many good peo-
ple.-Boston Courier.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

It is said that J. V. l.. Pruyn has be-
come Ward McAllister's legitimate sue
cessor. New York's highest society, we
understand, is full of Pruyns.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The charming manner in which Judge
Barrett has kept all the nauseating de-
tails of the Vanderbilt scandal from
publicity ought to assure for him all
the divorce business of the "4O0.''
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The tramp who slept in an Astor bed
Is to have q new trial. What's the
matter? Hasn't he been advertised
sufficiently for dime museum purposes?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

A Boston girl has launched upon the
literary market a volume Of $50 pages
on the Basis of Philosophic Doubt
And yet it doesn't completely solve the
no Sh nrnblnnn
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

Joseph Cook denounces the Sunday
newspaper because it is money MAX
ing enterprise" Why does Joseph lee
ture?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

When a man tells us that he likes to
work, we do not say SO to his face, but
wa think it just the same.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The death of Worth, the man milliner,
will be heavy blow to ''us of the up
pah succles" here.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

season of the year that winter flannels
are better for wear than a shrOud.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

There seems to be no doubt whatso-
ever that William Nissan Vanderbilt
has been overworking his middle name.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

"A Baltimore paper says that "the de-
mand for money is good" And it might
add that the supply is otherwise.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04

The restoration of the whipping post
in New York looks like knout rage.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-04-04
EAGLE RIVER, WIS.

0. B. MOON. Editor and Proprietor
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12
INTENSIVE FARMING.

Agriculture is more honored in China
than in any other country. No people
have brought it TO such perfection.
Had it not been for the example OF the
Chinese, California to-day would be
behind every State in the culture of
the earth. And there are regions this
side of the Cascades, naturally dry
and unproductive, where these indus
trious, skillful people have made little
farms that for their crops are astonish-
ing. 1t would pay the people Of Ne
braska and Kansas to bring a few Chi
nese farmers there to show them what
they can do. They would not ask any
to irrigate for them; where
they could be sure Of even twelve inch
es of rain at any season. On Long
Island three or four Cinnamon rented
an old brickyard at $500 rent per acre
and have grown rich there. They
board and pay their hands $50 per
World
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12


Mr.. Beecher said ''the heresies of
one age are the orthodoxies of the
next" and it will no more do for men
in agriculture to tread closely the
beaten track of their forefathers than
in astronomy, zoology or theology.
All life is evolution. 'The possible
ties imprisoned in an acre OF ground
have not yet been fathomed," There
is wealth in our State. in her consum-
ate combustion of soil and climate for
those who know enough to get il. The
progress of civilization is opening new
fields for the play Of intelligence. The
scope of knowledge that enabled the
farmer of fifty years ago to not only
earn living, but to hold his rank
among the agencies of society and
keep touch of elbow with the march
ing column of progress now would
leave him far behind; hopeless and
despairing loser in the race for power
and supremacy.
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12

The Greenville Times, referring to
the expressed intention Of we'll
known farmer of that vicinity to warn
off all vagrants and idle persons from
his premises, says:
"This is hint which might be pro-
fitably followed. There is scarcely a
plantation which does not contain one
or more dens where the idle, dis
satisfied and vicious can find harbor-
age. There is a large class who sim
ply drift in this way from place to
place, providing by night, living on
what they can steal, and spreading dis.
content and desire to live without
work among the active laborers. No
people are more easily influenced by
example than the negro laborers, and
a great deal Of their restlessness and
is the outcome OF permit
ting plantations to be the refuge Of
these lawless Migrants, who spend
their time drifting about the country
and spreading their evil teachings
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12
All RIGHT.

Mr.. EDITon:-As have never seen
anything in your valuable paper from
our neck of the woods l thought !
would let you know how we are get.
ting along. We farmers are pushing
every thing along, but the gnats,
they push us so wes.dol not have to
bother them. Corn is coming MP nice
~. and they are planning cotton right
along. Every body and his wife are
planting sorghum, rice, pinders, hog
and hominy. The chicken crop is 90.
ing TO be tirst-rate from present pros
poets. think the farmers have come
to the conclusion, that they have got
tn board and live at the same place.
judging from the way they are plant
ing various crops.
Mr.. Editor. IL you have any extra
copies left over please send my wife
one, for she always wants the TINES
first, and ] want mine at the SANG
time, and we both cant have II al
once; and you know how they are.
Good-byr, Mr.. Editor. with success to
You aud your valuable paper.
FAENEEs
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12

Waldo r. Brown says: II have
changed my practice, and do not pillow
under green crops, az I have found II
nnch better to allow these fertilizing
crops to remain on the surface and
shade the land as long as possible,
rather than to pillow them under green,
and leave the surface bare, so NOW
the clover month or SO after harvest,
SO as to get it and the wheat stubble
down fiat.on the ground, and then the
fall growth which comes up through
this is thickened, and also protected
by this much, so that it makes dense
growth and covers the stubble and
clover that was cut, and It decays be-
fore the next summer. l believe that
when we grow wiser we shall never
leave fields bare and exposed through
the winter, but will always grow some
crop to cover them. Mulching is ma
lures method of restoring fertility.
and when we can make our land pro-
duce its own mulch, we have found
the cheapest and easiest method of
fertility"
The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12
Changing Conditions.

England is moving strong for devel-
oping other products instead of grain
and wool and cheap beef; they now en-
courage by every means possible the
raising of poultry, pigs, the dairy, and
gardening and fruit culture as much
more profitable and important to the
farmers to supply their home market
than to compete with cheap lands and
labor that produce wheat, wool and
mutton.
So it is in our States where lands
are high, and where we have good
home markets; we must meet the issue
and change our custom to the produc-
ton Of dairy products, poultry, spring
lambs, fine mutton, high grade export
beef and high class horses; we already
raise the best hogs in the world. The
New England States have passed
through this crisis, and many good far
mers deserted because they could not
raise wheat and common scrub stock
in competition with the West. Now
they are regaining their prosperity
with the intensive system Of special
and special CIR ps and prolucts
for their home markets. Now the cen
trail western states will follow suit in
these more profitable farm, uairy. poul-
try and other special products as the
home markets have developed around
us to require the change to the higher
system, 6ner stock and richer products
for the best markets at home and
abroad.