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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
SUBSTITUTES FOR GOLD.
PrOmissOry Notes Not Recognized in
These Banking Circles.

PrOmissOry Notes Not Recognized in
These Banking Circles.
Norway even now uses corn for coin.
The skins of animals were the ear
Hest form of money.
Sheep and oxen among the old Ro-
mans took the place of money.
Oxen form the circulating medium
among the Zulus and Kafirs.
In India casks of tea pass as currency,
and in China pieces of silk.
Tin today forms the standard of value
at the great fairs of Nishni Novgorod.
In the retired districts of New Guinea
female slaves form the standard value.
Iron spikes, knives and spear heads
and brass rods are employed in certain
parts of Central Africa.
Chocolate is still used in the interior
of South America for currency, as are
cocoanuts and eggs.
The archaic Greek money was in the
form of thick, round Jumps of metal,
stamped with the given value.
Whales teeth are used by the Fijans,
red feathers by some of the South Sea
islanders, and salt in AbysSinia.
The old Chinese gold coins were in
the form of cubes, while the bronze was
shaped like knives and mining tools.
The Icelandic and Irish laws yet have
traces of the use of cattle for money.
Many Teutonic fines were paid in
cattle
In the early colonial times of 1852
tobacco and tobacco receipts were legal
tender, corn and beans and Goldfish also
being employed.
The small hard shell, known as the
coWrie, is still used in India, the Indian
islands and Africa, in the place of sub
sidiary coin. - .~94
In 1862, during the early colonial times
of America, musket balls passed fer
change at a farthing apiece, and were a
legal tender for sums under a shilling
Wampum was the commonest currency
of them all. 1t was the shell bead money
of the Indians, and was soon accepted
by the colonists as a convenient token.
The strangest coin of all, though, was
the ideal money spoken of by Monies
quieu as being found in certain parts
Of Africa. 1t is an ideal money called
'maconte," but is purely a sign of value
without q unit. Sel.-Ram's Horn.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
Much in 1he Method and the Means

1t was Nathan C. Fowler, Jr., the we'll
known authority in all that pertains to
advertising, who once said that 1.-THE
man who cannot use advertising in his
business has no business to be in bust
ness, and he generally isn't" There are
a great many standing Illustrations of
the truth of Mr.. Fowler's axiom in ex-
istence today.
The argument against advertising, that
it does not always pay, is often used by
the business man who has tried it at
some time in his life and made a failure
of it. Ten chances to one the methods
which he pursued were the direct cause
of his failure to make it a success. His
inability to realize from his investments
has been the result of the wrong way
Of going about it, nothing more, nothing
less. Advertising is no longer an expert
ment. It is a business necessity, and
the more it is studied and followed ju-
diciously, the larger will be the results
obtained from Wilmington Del.)
Evarv Evening
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
A Cute Trick Dog.

Julius Mentz of Bay Shore has black
and tan ratter which he calls Vidocq, be-
cause he thinks his dog is as sharp as
any detective that ever lived. Vidocq is
none of your common, ordinary dogs,
with only dog sense enough to bark when
a ragged tramp comes to her masters
door, and she is not only educated but
accomplished. She was never a circus
dog, has always kept good company, and
her tricks are only performed for the
amusement of her masters friends and
such visitors to Bay Shore as, having
heard of the dog, may wish to see her.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25

flew up and settled on his back, driving
her claws in deep and trying with furi-
Gus backward beats of the wings to drag
him from the face of the rock. The
mans gun was loaded, but he dare
not let 60 his hold on the rock to fire it.
His attitude was for a time that of a
reversed Prometheus, the vulture tear
ing his back instead of making a meal
of his victims liver. In this predica-
ment the hunter contrived to shift the
position of his gun so that the muzzle
almost touched the breast of the Hammer
geier, and cooked and fired it with his
foot. But in these cases the vulture
was not the first aggressor Unfortun-
away young infants are not rare, and
are well authenticated-Lon Specta-
for
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
Hit Back Hard.

A barrister gives the Green Bag this
court story: Some time ago he had I'M
der cross-examination youth from the
country who rejoiced in the name of
Samson, and whose replies were provo
catiyc !. much laughter in the court
"And so,'' questioned the barrister, "you
wish the court to believe that you are
a peaceably disposed and inoffensive kind
of person?' YES" "And that you have
no desire to follow in the steps of your
illustrious namesake and smite the Phil
istines?' EMO: I've not" answered the
witness. "And if had the desire amt
got the power at present" '"Then you
think you would be unable to cope sue
cessfully with thousand enemies and
utterly rout them with the jawbone of an
ASST" ''Well." answered the ruffled
Samson, II might have try when you
have done with the weapon"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
Rich Find IN a Book.

The custom Of placing paper money be-
tween the leaves of book for safety,
particularly in books which are not
likely to attract much attention. and
tbe otbeg d d a wben
came upon treasure of 10000 lire. The
physician had to refer to a book upon
clinics, which was in bookcase in a
library belonging to the family of DIR.
Giordano. who had been dead some two
years. This wonderful book contained
some Italian rentes and a receipt for a
deposit in the Banca d'Italia, altogether
of the value of the above named sum.
The papers were. of course, handed over
to the family of the late doctor.-London
Daily News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
DICK, THE GULL. BACK AGAIN.
Each Fall, for Twenty-four Years, HI
Has Returned to the Lightship.

Each Fall, for Twenty-four Years, He
Has Returned to the Lightship.
Dick, the gull, has futtered back to
the Brentons Reef lightship, to spend his
twenty-fourth winter with the crew, who
think that something has gone very
wrong if he does not come back every
winter within three days of the same
time. Time was when Dick was the
liyeliest gull that ever skinned the
waves to pick up a piece of meat in the
bubbling wake of an ocean liner, but
now the twenty-nine years of his life
have told on him, more than the light
ship men like to think. Some of his tail
feathers have moulted away for good,
and when the men throw boiled salt pork
to him they have to pare the rind off, so
that he can swallow it. He flies feebly.
Dick still remembers his friends,
though, and while he does not tell them
where he goes in April, he is back again
in October with great regularity. Know
ing that he must die soon, the men hope
he will die near the ship, because then
he will be stuffed and sent, as BELTS a
famous bird, to the Smithsonian insti-
tuition.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25

Vidocq is the mother of four puppies,
and all her children do their mother and
their master proud by the accomplish
mentS they have mastered in their one
brief year of life.
Mr. Mentz does not believe in whipping
education into dogs noddle. and he has
taught Vidocq the twenty tricks that she
does without once striking her a blow.
The way he did it is this: The dog is
something of an epicure. There are
many little bits that she is very fond of.
A small portion of some one of these her
master holds in his hand where she can
see it; sometimes he gives her little
smell or taste of it. Then, just in an
ordinary tone of voice, such as he would
use in addressing an intelligent child. he
says to the dog: Eyes, know you like
this very much and if you will do what
tell you, the way show you, you shall
have it, He then puts her through the
desired motions, gives her the food, pets
her and praises her. After a time the
dog learns to do the trick at the simple
command of her master and without the
reward in sight. She is usually given
some trife of which she is fond at the
end of her work, however.
VidOcQ does twenty different tricks.
They are, prayer, roll over, dead dog, sit
up, walk on hind legs, dance, sing,
smoke, just like grandpa, loss of one
arm, loss of both arms, ashamed, every
body's dog. watch him, jump through
hoops and over bars, speak, good girl,
next Vidocq.
1t is very amusing indeed to see her
go through some of these tricks. Prayer,
one Of the illustrations given, her master
says, .sCome, Vidocq, it is time for you to
say your prayers" Up on a chair the
little dog jumps, puts her little head
down between her paws, closes her black
eyes and waits for the amen, when she
jumps down from the chair and runs to
her master. her face expressing clearly
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
* Story OF Malone

Says former surgeon in the Confed-
crate army: Il remember Gen. Malone
as he appeared before Petersburg in
1864. He was already famous through
out the army for his fighting qualities
and his temper. My duty took me fire.
quently past his headquarters, and one
morning saw him pacing up and down
in front of his tent while negro sat in
the doorway gorging himself with q
fresh pan of biscuit. I turned to an of
6cer and asked the meaning of this
strange performance. Then came the ex-
PLANTATION that the negro had baked a
pan Of sour biscuit for breakfast, and
Malone, by way of an object lesson, had
set the cook to eat all of his own product.
The negro ate as fast as possible, and
Malone kept up his patrol until the last
biscuit disappeared. The performance
was characteristic of the man"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
saved Ais Life and Married Him

Squire Ware of Jeffersonville, Ind,
married William Bratton and Miss Liz
zie Morgan, handsome clipping couple
from Covington, KY, whose courtship
has been a decided romance. A short
time ago Bratton fell under moving
train while standing on the streets of
Covington. Miss Morgan happened to
be standing near. and with great pres
ence of mind seized him and drew him
from under the wheels and saved his life.
Bratton at once fell in love with his
life preserver and proposed marriage,
despite the fact that he was already en-
gagged to another young woman. Miss
Morgan accepted the PROPOSED, consider
ing that her claim should have the pref
erence over that of his fiancee.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
Don't Snub.

No matter how much you may feel
your own Importance or how thoroughly
you know and appreciate the good blood
that you can boast, it is unnecessary
cruelty and is really an indication of
bad form to Snub some one whom you
look upon as your inferior. We never
can tell in this world when we may need
somebody else, we never know when the
most despised will be the most desira ble
Therefore the all-pervading desire to look
out for number one should prompt us to
be kind and considerable even though our
nature, that proud, selfish part of us,
prompt us to do otherwise.
There are some people in this world
whom we cannot do other than despise.
We never can like them. their company
is an aff1iction and a bore that we would,
oh, so gladly be rid of, yet do not snub
them. Smother the feeling of contempt,
bury deep in your heart thar sentiment
of infinite superiority that makes you
long to cut them SO hopelessly that they
will never think of stepping over the bar
riers again.
1t is better policy not to give way to
this feeling, much better to bite the lip
and vulgarly grin and bear it than to do
that which is absolutely certain to recoil
upon you in the after time. If you can
not be ELUSIVE, be neutral in yo.lr senti-
ments. Hypocrisy, perhaps, is not the
sort of thing one ought to boom, but tact
is, sweet amiable tact that knows bet
ter than to show any of the Pharisaical
better than thou" side to the DISPOSE
ton. Beware of snubbing-t the ad-
vice of one who knows. and as you value
your future peace Of mind and your pres
ent social success, do not be led into a
practice that is wholly dangerous and
leaves a very unpleasant memory in it's
wake.-Philadelphia Times
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
washing the Baby,s clothes.

This is an important item in the house
keepers work, for the garments accumu-
late very fast, and if the washing is done
only once a week, quite pile of clothes
will await her attention. In this work
as in every other, much time and labor
would be saved by adopting the proper
methods.
The first thing to be done is to sort the
clothes carefully. and to put everything
except the fannels in luke-warm water to
soak having the napkins in one tub, and
the dresses, muslin skirts, bibs. ETC., in
another After they have soaked an
hour, rub them out, and place them in
hot suds, made by dissoIving ivory soap
in soft water. A rosin soap should new
er touch anything that comes in contact
with baby's skin, as it is almost inn
possible to rinse it all out, and what re-
mains, often irritates the tender flesh,
causing him to suffer torture. Put the
clothes in a boiler, and after allowing
them to scald few minutes, dip them
out into clear water and rinse thorough
ly, through one blueing water Dip
the lower parts of the skirts and dresses
i'll thin starch. but never starch the
waists, even of the best dresses. A
sunny, grassy yard is the best place for
drying, or if you have not such a place
at your disposal, sunny roof is the
next choice. and the higher the better.
If indoor drying is a necessity, see that
it is quick and thorough.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
A WOMAN CONTRACTOR.
Mrs. Cram of Boston Takes Big Jobs of
Masonry Work.


Masonry Work.
Now it is the woman contractor and
Boston is her home. In the Athens
as contractor nine years ago. She has
her own Offices and is thoroughly bust
nesslike in all her dealings. Her hus-
band is also contractor.
Together they have contracted for the
foundation work of a number of public
buildings in that city. Among these
are the new public library, the new
courthouse and the Boulevard bridge
over the Boston & Albany railroad,
which is said to be one of the finest
pieces of masonry in thes United States.
The entire work on these contracts was
delegated to Mrs. Cram by her husband,
who had implicit confidence in her abil-
ity.
One of the most notable products OF
this enterprlsing woman's skill is Sec
ton four of the Stony Brook improve
ment in Boston This section contained
the largest ''bellmouth" in the sewer
line ever built in this country. To heI
was also confded the construction OF
the Edison Electric Light company OF
Boston.
About year ago Mrs. Cram decided
to embark in business for herself, III
dependent of her husbands copartner-
ship. She had, as she so naively puts
it, 'got tired of being a secondary con-
sideration" Mrs. Cram conducts a COM
mission business in connection with her
other work, selling machinery and ma
terials used in excavating and general
masonry work.
Mrs. Grams business experience has
taught her that financial success de-
ponds in great part upon personal SUI
pervision of the work in hand. She
realizes the opportunity for petty leaks
in the masonry, and their serious char
acter where a large sum is involved.
So she makes point of visiting once OF
twice a day the scene of her opera
tionS. She drives a smart rig to and
from her Office.
Mrs. Grams latest achievement was in
securing the contract from the Chase
Granite company of New York to team
10000 tons of stone, to be used in ele-
waiting the tracks of the New York, New
Haven q Hudson railroad. Mrs. Cram
has under her control the subletting of
a patented derrick, invented and owned
by her husband. These derricks were
used in demolishing the old fremont
house in Boston, and they are employed
in constructing the new Boston subway.
She profitably let's the use of machinery
for all public building purposes or to re-
move distractions.
No contract of however great magni-
tude awes her, and in a recent talk III
this city before the Professional Won
ans league on "The Business Woman .
she told some pertinent truths and gave
advice of such character as to EN-
able women with commercial instincts
to profit by her practical experience.
Mrs. Cram dresses simply and in ex-
cellent taste. She wears tailor-made
gown for business purposes, but clingS
tenaciously to all the little feminine frills
and furbelows. She is petite brunette,
with a wealth of black hair, dark eyes
and radiant complexion. She has IL
charming personality, and only her de-
cisive, quick manner would suggest her
astuteness in affairs fnancial.-New
York World
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
THE BIG OCEAN FISH TRAP.
Highly Successful at First. but Fish
Have Been Iniuring It.

Have Been 1nJurlng IT,
When the big ocean fish tree owned
by Henry Brown & Co. of Patchogue,
l.. l., was invented, built and anchored
at sea it aroused great deal of COM
ment. For several weeks after the big
trap was set tons of striped bass and
weak-fsh were taken from it daily and
conveyed to the mainland by steamer.
The large catches, it is said, glutted the
markets at times, and the ordinary fish
ermen were dissatisfied. OF late the big
net or trap has been catching few mar
ketable fish, but a plenty of sharks and
skates.
The big fish raised havoc with the trap.
This continual damage of late, added
to poor fishing, caused the company to
lose money. When the trap was first
invented and set at sea it was thought
that the secret of making large catches
of fish at small cost had been discov-
cred. but now it is said it's owners are
DISCOURAGED
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25

Mr.. Smile, an engineer of Glasgow,
has introduced a new steam pipe, which
is said to resist successfully the ten
dency of steam to burst it. The pipe is
of, copper tubing like ordinary steam
pipes, but it is bound up with steel wire,
which is soldered to the copper by a
fusible alloy having a much higher melt
ing point than the temperature of the
supercharged steam.-London Globe.
The Douglas Greek (Wyo) placers
owned by the Douglas Consolidated Min
ing company have been bonded to a
New York syndicate for $50, 900.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
A Univesal Sentiment.

Lets rally to the country's needn
Exclaims the festive bum,
And raise the taxes-I'm agreed,
On everything but rum"
"Of course" says Cholly boy, I'VE must
Pay up the country's debts;
But really, it seems unjust
TO tax our cigarettes"
IL care not" cries the anarchist,
Whence revenues appear;
So raise the tax throughout the list
Excepting on our beer"
And so it goes along the line,
'Mongst high and low degree;
You must have cash, Columbia mine;
Tax every one save me-"
Washington Star.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
French Restaurants in New York.

The French restaurants are slowly
but surely enticing gourmets away from
the high-priced cafes. The wine card
tariff has much to do with this phase
of city life. Wine is becoming an ele-
ment of almost every Gothamite's din
ner land in the French restaurants it is
possible to get very fair wine at
moderate price, while the same or an in
ferior quality costs at chophouse or
hotel restaurant twice as much. In the
best of the French restaurants, such as
the Martin or the Logerot, man can
buy for so cents quart of red or white
wine, which in hotel would cost from
81 to $3.50. Even the California wines
are sold in hotel restaurants at a price
which puts them beyod the reach of
anybody who wants a cheap or moder-
ate-priced meal. If you don't believe
this, sample the spots for yourself
New York Letter to Pittsburg Dispatch.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
Ferocity of the Alpine Buzzard.

John Scherer, hunter. shot male
lammergeier, or Alpine vulture, and was
climbing to the nest when the female
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25
Moundbuilders.

can interesting discovery was made in
Kittitas county a few weeks ago." said
Senator Helm, at Ellensburg, the other
day. my partner started for home
from our coal mine, intending to hunt
on the way down. When about twenty:
FIVE miles from home, in the foothills OF
the mountains, he discovered a mound
which looked peculiar, and IN searching
about found many more. In fact, the
place had the appearance of having been
a village of considerable size, regularly
laid out. On the smooth rocks were in
scribed peculiar characters; slabs OF
kind of characters. A piece of one was
brought to Ellensburg." The marking
on the rocks is different from any made
by the Indians.-Portland Oregenian.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-11-25

Hinduism was so called from the
River Hindus. The suffix stan is of
Persian origin and is often found in the
names of Oriental countries.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-11
The Financial situation.

Every feature of current finance re-
fleets the improving conditions.
During last week the notable feature
in New York was the weakness in for
eign exchange. This reflects the re-
newal of confidence in American Sc
curities abroad. European investors
feel that they are safe in investing
money in them, and the improvement
in trade has led to large purchases
abroad. The money in payment goes
into the balances in European finan-
cial institutions to the credit of Amer
lean bankers, and the consequent in
crease in the volume of foreign ex-
change offering in New York reduces
the rate asked. The bank clearings
reflect the increased activity in trade,
and the financial world, as a conse-
quence OF these things, is confident.
Money on call loaned in New York
last week at 1(d14 per cent, andwas in
liberal supply. The demand for
LlIIle lOduS was HOL great, dnu tHcIO
was plenty of funds offering. Rates
2 per cent. for 80 days, q for 60 to 80
days, for four months, 3(63! for FIVE
or six months.
Stocks continued strong during last
week, with occasional reactions. The
railway earnings for April show large
gains, consequent upon the improved
trade conditions. Sugar, Distillers,
Gas and Leather were the most active
among the Industrial stocks, and
there was considerable movement in
cheap, low grade railway stocks.
Those of the granger roads" were
slow, but evidenced increasing stregth.
Silver has been quiet, because of
the uncertainty about the Japan
Chinese treaty. The closing prices in
New York on Saturday were 66f(G
81! cents per ounce for commercial
bars, and 61(d6S cents for government
assay bars.
The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-05-11
INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE.
Princeton Defeats Yale, and George
town Carries Off the Honors
from Boston.

New HAVEN, CONN, May l.
Princeton defeated Yale this evening
in their first joint debate. Judge
Rowland introduced the speakers. The
question debated was:
Resolved, That under the circum-
stances the income tax of 1894 was
justiiable''
Yale took the negative. 1t was de-
cided that r. NJ. McElroy presented
the best argument of the evening, and
that Frank Rail made the wittiest
speech.
W. F. Burns, of Illinois, made the
opening speech for Princeton. He
was followed by H. E. Butterick, who
spoke for Yale's side. Frank Rail
was the second Yale speaker. R. NJ.
McElroy, of Kentucky, then pleaded
for Princeton. B. L. Hirschfeld, of
Ohio, was another Princeton speaker.
c. E. Clough, of Wilmot Flat, N. H.,
also spoke for Yale.
r. NJ. McElroy is brother of Rev.
McElroy of this city.