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Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1895-12-07

A New York lawyer explaining his
rapid increase in wealth. said 1t was due
to the tomfoolery of other people. "Fol
example, a client OF mine had a race
horse that he traded for an island in
the sound. The racehorse went wrong
and the other man brought suit to re.
cover damages. This made my client
mad and he brought suit for misrepre.
sentation of property. The opposing
lawyer was a friend of mine. We had
two suits and we fought them tooth and
nail. Now he owns the horse aud ]
have the island in the sound"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
EFFECT OF THE NEW BULLET.
Discussion by Army Officers in Regard
to the Krag- Jorgensen Rifle.

Discussion by Army OfEcers in Regard
to the Krag- Jorgensen Rifle.
The killing Of Convict Thomas Coffey
at Fort Sheridan, Chicago, was the first
practical demonstration of what effect
the new Krag-J orgensen rifle will have
on human mark This rife was intro
duced into the army to reduce the loss
of life as far as possible in time OF war,
disabling rather than killing. 1t was
urged that the great speed, directness
and small caliber would result In the
infiicting Of a small, cleancut wound
which easily would close and heal, the
bullet passing clear through the body.
The effect on the head Of Corey, al
though the bullet passed through and
out at the forehead, was to shatter the
upper skull in pieces.
Some army officers say that the med
zeal report Of Maj. Gerard will declare
the effect inhuman. It Is claimed that
the shortness of the range was respon-
sible for the explosive effect and that
at a longer distance the wound would
have been clean cut. Lieut.. Thomp-
son, chief of the ordnance office depart
ment of the Missouri, however, said:
"The new rife has been regarded as
more humane than the Springfield rifle.
I consider it less humane when the
ball pierces vital organ. Its contact
with fluid matter, according to Pc
culiar law Of vibration, has an explo-
sive effect. In bone vibration is not
established, and the hole would be
clean. In experiments cans filled with
stones have had clean holes made in
them, but cans filed with water and
stones have been burst. In muscles and
bones only will wounds be less painful
and fatal"
The rifle is known as the "magazine,
model 1892, caliber 80" 1t may be
used as single loader magazine arm,
or as single loader with magazine
in reserve. The magazine holds five
cartridges. The bullet is a hardened
lead slug, jacketed with thin cupro-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
a NEW olL-cuP.
ItIsDesigned to Do Away with CERTAIN
Faults in the O1d-Style cups.

Designed to Do Away with Certain
Faults in the O1d-Style cups.
One of the trade papers illustrates the
ingenious device here shown, Wnlcn -
the invention of Boston macnlnlst.
A common objection to many adJusta-
bic feed oil cups is that the adjustment
is secured by either jam nut, set screw
or some kindred mechanism, ana tnat
this adjustment is likely to become
changed by the jar of the engine OF
machine loosening the nut or screw,
which of course destroys the practical
benefit Of the device.
The Boston machinist claims TO nave
overcome the possibility of anything
Of this kind in his new oil cup. Inc
feed is regulated by square-he adeu
screw: this screw is fine threaded
enough to make any adjustment de-
sired. however close, and finds Its inter-
nal bearing on pm, which passes mid
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
Too Much for Electricians,

North Adams, Mass, continues to be
puzzled over a queer crankism of cleo
tricity in it's vicinity. Although when
the great four and one-half mile Hoosac
tunnel was built no ores, magnetic or
otherwise, were encountered, there was
general expectation that rich ore peck
cts would be found; for a yet unex-
planned reason not an electrician has
been discovered who can send tele-
graphic message from portal to portal
Of that tunnel, be such wire run inside
of an ocean cable through the huge cav
ern or out of it. Therefore such mes
sages have to be SEM on wires strung
on poles over the top of the mountain,
fully nine miles, and that is the way
ingoing and outcoming passenger and
freight trains are heralded to the keep
ers Of the two tunnel approaches.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

A gentleman from Birmingham tells
Tin the Atlanta Constitution of a very
effective way in which the anti-bloomer
enthusiasts of that city checked and
forever killed the growth of the craze
in that up-to-date city. So far, it seems,
none but young girls have appeared
publicly in boomers, but it became
whispered around that some of the
young women We're having them con-
structed. Thereupon the anti bloomer-
ties secured the services of an enormous
negress, whom they dressed in a gro
tesque boomer costume. consisting of
u red waist, blue trousers, with broad
stripe down the sides, and bright yell
low hose. The ridiculous figure had
been made to parade the streets on a
bicycle for several days, perspiring
at every pore. She has served, it is
said, to forever kill the bloomer craze
in the Magic City.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
DEEP-SEA PHOTOGRAPHY.
A Scientist Succeeds in Using Arti-
fetal Light for the Purpose.

A Scientist Succeeds in Using Arti-
fetal Light for the Purpose.
A student of zoology, during his in
vestigations on the shores Of the Medit-
erranean, constructed camera and an
instantaneous shutter especially adapt
ed to use under water. Desiring to ex-
tend his experiments to greater depths,
he devised the apparatus shown in the
accompanying illustration, his object
being to get artificial light.
The apparatus consists Of barrel
containing oxygen and carrying a glass
globe, in which is lamp with a wick
impregnated with alcohol. A rubber
tube connects with the glass globe,
and by pressing a bolt at the end of
the tube, the operator may throw mag
nesium into the fame of the lamp.
He wears the ordinary diving suit,
provided with an air supply pipe, and
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

An American named Spalding, who
has been given by the Hawaiian Gov
eminent franchise to lay an ocean ca
BILE from Honolulu to San Francisco
and who has been promised a subsidy
of $4,000 year, has just visited
Washington to notify the authorities
that when Congress meets it will be
asked to grant charter to company
of American capitalists and to grant
sufficient assistance to make it feast
BILE to construct and maintain this sub
marine cable. The promoter hopes the
government will grant a yearly subsidy,
which, in connection with that granted
by Hawaii, will enable this company of
capitalists to raise the mOney-about
four. million dOllars-which will be
needed to lay the cable. This is prop
fit We're ne cessary for the United States
to be in telegraphic communication
with Hawaii it would be cheaper to sell
per cent. bonds, raise four million dol
lars, and lay the cable than to pay this
company the subsidy of two OF three
hundred thousand dollars year it is
anxious to get. For the interest on the
bonds would be only 100000 a year.
But there is no urgent demand for such
line, commercially or politically. The
hundred thousand inhabitants of the
islands, mostly natives, Japanese, and
Chinese, do not need to be in close teie-
graphic communication with the rest
of the world. The great industry of
Hawaii is sugar-raising. The f1uctua-
tons in the price of that article are not
as great or as frequent as those of
stocks in Wall street. The producers
can get along very well without cable
Even if the islands had been annexed,
and were an integral part Of the United
States. one would not be needed i'm
peratively. There is not hundredth
part of enough business to support
cable. with its heavy charges There
would not be enough to support land
line Of that distance. There is no rea-
son why the government should come
to the assistance of promoting specula-
tors so that they can make money out
of a scheme which is commercially I'M
profitable. There would be some sense
in making Hawaii the halfway house Of
cable linking our west coast with
Japan, China, and Australia. Such a
line would dc a good deal Of business.
But to lay one to Hawaii for the ac-
commodation of two thousand Ameri-
cans and few thousand Germans,
Portuguese. and English, who would
L. - II q -
the United States pay for furnishing
those facilities, would be profigate
waste Of money.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

way through slot cut in the valve
spindle. When the lever is raised
to an upright position to start the flow
of oil, the slot in the lever engages the
square of the screw and absolutely Sc
cures it, and the feed can only he
changed by throwing the lever down
and exposing the screw for any de-
sired alteration in the feed. It is not
necessary to use either a sore wdriver
or wrench in setting the adjustment.
The screw may be turned with the
hand. The lever is also constructed SO
that by setting it at an angle of forty
five degrees the oil will run a stream,
thereby providing ample means for
flushing the bearing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
Due to Imagination.

Some writer's of sea songs were poor
sailors. 'Im on the sea! Pm on the
sea-" wrote Barry Cornwall as if
life on the ocean wave were joy. But
it was his imagination that wrote the
song, for he was the sickest Of sailors.
and detested the sea.
Il had it from Mrs. Proctor" says
Santley, the singer, who told me that
she used to tease him, humming a
strain of his jovial sea song as he lay,
very log, huddled in shawls and a tar
paulin, crossing the Channel, with
barely sufficient animation left to utter,
NV dear. dOn'tr"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

best things he has written. very plainly
shows the style and character of his
poems:
The cold has killed the corn off an blight
ed all the wheat;
The ice is on the peach blooms an the
apple-blossoms sweet.
An the country is in mournin' from the
mountains to the sea,
But the good Lord runs the weather an
it amt a-botherin' me!
The bees was out fer honey an a-workin'
fer their lives,
But the blizzard stopped their buzzin'
an they're froze up in their hives;
An there won't be any, sweet'nin' fer the
coffee or the tea,
But the good Lord runs the weather, an
it amt a-botherin' me!
The mockin' birds was singin' jes' the
sweetest kind O. notes,
But now they're sittin' silent with fan
mel roun' their threats;
An there won't be any music till the
summertime to be.
But the good Lord runs the weather, an
it amt a-botherin' me!
It don't make any difference what these
changin' seasons bring;
If it's cold, the fires a-blazin' an hear
the chimney sing;
If it's hot, the trees is shady, with the
breeze a-bloWin' fl He,
Fer the good Lord runs the weather, an
it amt a-botherin' me!
Stanton's father was a journeyman
printer and was something Of poetic
genius. He died when he was young
and Frank was obliged to go to work
when a mere boy. II had pretty
rough time," he says. "When 1 was II
years old I was saving wood for 81 a
month in north Georgia; saving wood,
you know, and saying nothing, but
was looking all the time at the things
about me-the wild flowers, the forests,
the blue sky overhead. They all sank
deep into my heart. Then, too, I fol-
lowed the plow and learned a world
about nature behind the handles"
Later he drifted into a country news
paper office-the Smithville (Ga) News
and there his poems and other writ
ings first attracted attention. The At
lanta Constitution secured his services
six years ago and he has since been
with that enterprising journal. His
writings are now eagerly sought and
copied by the magazines and newspaper
editors and he promises to fill a con-
spicuous place in American literature.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

creasing and fixing the odor Of T.,
before they ship them or offer ~ 4''1
sale. The accompanying lllus,.,s
shows the apparatus used
The flowers are put into ",
box previously cooled with ica
bottom Of the box is a tube n,s,I
with perforations, and into and ,b'
this tube is sent a current of ms
acid gas charged with the char,n
tic odor of the flower.
On the left of the picture is Il
der A containing the carbopic ,S
a liquid form. It's flow is contro1aI
regulator B at the top of tho -
der, The gas is Slightly heated
petroleum in passing through tha N,
pipe c, and then bubbles IN FIN,
the essential oil in the tank n
From the tank D it passes nn
box where the flowers are, carrvin,
odor Of the oil with it. After
tain length of time the flowers ba,
impregnated with the transferred
and that odor becomes fixed "a
times, in order to facilitate tho a.
of the odor, the flowers are impps
ed with a little glycerine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

A most interesting suit, in which
Disconnected husband seeks separa-
ton from four wives and number Of
children, has been filed in an Oklahoma
court. The plaintiff is a Cheyenne In
dian whom civilization has brought up
from the plug hat, calico shirt stage of
darkness into the fullest privileges Of
aboriginal dignity before the law. Vel
low Bonnet is the name Of this disaf-
fected son of natur. who now finds his
tepee too crowded. Under tribal con-
cessions made to him he contracted the
marrying habit, and now under the
law Of the territory he seeks surcease
from job lot Of mothers-in-law. Mr..
Bonnet has been eating too much gov
eminent beef He is feeling his oats.
When follower of the Indian agency
commissariat fails to harmonic with
the conditions which have so long made
that commissariat necessary he needs
dieting. Give him less beef and more
Of that great social problem of making
ends meet. Yellow Bonnet should be
suppressed. If he wants justice of the
courts by all means let him have it.
Arrest him for bigamy on three counts
and put him through the divorce mill
by way of the annulling power Of a
term in the penitentiary. Imagine a
white citizen of the country asking
for divorce from four wives at the
same time! He'd get two years apiece,
anyhow.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

to it. Work was begun on the struc-
ture last April, and the building will
be finished within the year.
1t is of the French transition style of
architecture and will contain about 60
rooms. It will cost in the aggregate
100000. It will be 10 feet long and ~
feet wide and will be three stories high.
IT will be built of buff brick and terra
Gotta. One of the attractive features
will be a Spanish tile roof, it's rich
coloring contrasting with the buff of
the building. AT one end of the build
ing will be pretty three-story porch
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
The DEVILS Pumn.

One of the greatest combinations of
natural and artificial curiosities on the
coast of California is called the devils
pump. The pholas, or shell miners.
species of mollusk which eXcayate i'm
mense caverns in the very hardest
stone, have tunneled the entire coast in
the vicinity of the pump Water rushes
into these cayerns with each successive
tide flow, and, in this particular case
finds vent through a cylindrical open
ing some distance from the water's
edge. It is estimated that this hole
which connects with the sea cavern is
Is to 100 feet in depth. Every time
the tide rushes into the cavern he
meath the pump" throws water to the
height of a full 100 feet above the
mouth of the opening. The Indians
formerly called it by a name which
signified fairy water gum but the
irreverent white men have given if the
title of the devils pump" and by that
name it will probably be known ia
future generations.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

China that the real criminals have SUI
fered. The ingenious orientals have
method of substitution which is con-
venient for the officials. They snatch
up any poor outcast they find without
friends and execute him in the place of
the rich OR influential criminal who can
afford to pay for such service. Misera
BILE wretches not infrequently volunteer
in consideration of money to be paid
to surviving relatives to undergo SEN
fences, and the custom of the country
permits the substitution.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

It is evident that Lord Dunraven, in
claiming to be "a sportsman" is not
sustained by his acts. In the last race
he crossed the line at the start, as he
said, because he was "a sportsman"
and that the start of both yachts was
necessary to give the Defender a right
to the cup as the winner of the race. In
the yacht race, as in horse race, two
Or more must start in order to make up
a case of competition for the purse or
prize. Lord Dunraven made the start,
sufficiently to fill the technical require
ments Of the case, and then sailed back
into the harbor. This was spurious
magnanimity. 1t was not sports
manship. 1t was a fraud Of bad tenn
per and John Bull sullenness caused by
past defeat and the certainty Of future
defeat. In fact, Lord Dunraven ad-
mitted that it was no use to sail the
race, as he had an inferior boat. This
fact was made patent by the offers to
Dunraven to provide a new cup for
another race, to put up purse of from
$1,000 to $4,000 in money, and the
tender of other wagers it he would
race his yacht against the Defender,
anywhere off the American coast from
Sandy Hook to Marblehead. This
would give him a stretch of 500 miles
of ocean, without interference Or the
possibility of an adverse ''fuke," on
which his sloop could do it's best to out
sail or outmaneuver the consummate
product of Yankee naval architecture
and seamanship. He refused this offer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
A NOVEL CHARITY.
The Home for Aged Baptist Ministers
at Germantown, Pa.


Germantown, Pa, will soon have a
unique institution, to be known as the
George Nugent Home for Aged Baptist
Ministers. Mr.. Nugent was prominent
in Germantown business circles TWEEN
ty-fve years ago and when he died
about six years ago his will provided
that about $1,0OO,O00 be set aside for
the endowment and establishment Of a
home for aged Baptists. Shortly after
his death his residence was converted
into a home and many laymen and
ministers are now finding rest in their
declining years. The new home is To-
Gated on a tract of land left by Mr.
Nugent, and it was his request that it
be erected on it. 1t is surrounded by
splendid shade trees and with an abun-
dance of ground which can be made in
to attractive lawns. The residences of
some of the wealthieSt citizens and
business men in the city are contiguous
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

A New York medical expert says that
insanity is simply the result OF i'm
agination getting the better Of judg-
ment" If that definition is true, the
whole world is merely a gigantic in
sane asylum. Perhaps we have locked
up the wrong lunatics.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
Grumblers

How full this world is OF sl''
Many of the same people wllor -,
ing this summer, because u =.
will scold next winter Deca~
cold. There is no point pew
and the nineties that suits thtD :.
.er the gray clouds yield rai !, !,
makes no matter-neither j.
If skies are clear somehow
needs rain; if the showers de''' +
body's feathers are ruined
add much to our happiness a1
much from the fatal tende sls,
old If we would strive al'e w.,
ment and cease worrying wv Wv,
eyitable. The truly happy us sa
py-go-lucky, who take eVei' y 4
comes and make the best +, - !,
rains all that is left to 90 s I'M
our umbrella, if we are ~ ~ ~
to have one, and trudge alOns s
and bedraggled skirts "op 1
any more than poverty. , an' Il
will, if there is some'nlu 70 ,D
too sunshiny for poverty t 7s',
too noble for drudgery " =. ~ soid
person who spends his nv mi
cause things don't 60 ~ Lard
like the fly on the kings e III q,
Things may not be plan, ns,- ii:
the comfort Of the n.y. Do a,sig
will never stop the pio' rnc
best tactics for flies anu q
pursue is to take what c@ ~hicss
be glad it is no worse
Herald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

There is a fine sixteenth century ring
In that threat of the Kaiser to use the
army to SUPPRESS the socialists. 1t is
strange that man of the Kaiser's good
sense should take such pains to put
himself in the hands of his enemies
This yawp will create tens of thousands
of votes in Germany for the socialists.
Outside of Russia, government on the
lines laid down by the Tudors and the
early Bourbons has been obsolete for
more than q hundred years.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
THE souTH's SWEET SINGER.

Frank L. Stanton, Georgia's Poet and
HumOrist.
No newspaper writer ever achieved
greater popularity than has fallen to
the lot Of Frank L. Stanton within the
past year. His sweet poems, whose
humor and cheerfulness are as fatal to
melancholy as the suns rays are to
darkness, are found everywhere in the
magazines, the great metropolitan pa
pers and the more humble country
sheets. An optimist himself, his writ
ings reflect the bright view he takes Of
life. A Georgia Philosopher, one of the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

Ducks eggs are shipped pretty ripe
from Swallow, in China, to Bangkok
and Singapore. They are put in shall
low baskets in layers two or three
deep, wrapped up in soft paper, and the
climate is so hot that they are Matched
before they reach their destination.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

Japan has asked China to release the
prisoners captured during the recent
war, and China's characteristic reply
Is that only two can be found. Japan
will hardly be surprised, for the cruelty
of towards is proverbial.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
No Dust.

The disposition to SEE o1,, n
to everything is often c 0oaDsiO1
as a most desirable poss eod j
possible to exaggefa'e ovist
benefit which does not e srs d;
A party of tourists " m' ssd
a hotel near a lake ps ,oeidJ
storm. Finally it was asI Il !
the lake, and ono lau. .f,,lb
agreed to the plan ch 's1, pefb
.oh, it will be nu sl al, af
the boat even If it does '.anf 4
land one thing, we .ssnrnIpgl
dust on the boat this NV
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

The report that Russia proposes to act
as a mediator between England and
France and settle all their disputes by
dividing up Turkey between them may
be taken as a convincing proof that
there is a silly season in politics over
there as well as over here.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

A French physician prescribes rock
ing chairs for people with weak stom-
achs. The oscillation, he says, has a
good effect on the gastro-intestinal
eristalsis-provided, Of course, the un-
fortunate person happens to have Latin
of that sort concealed about his per-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10
Had All His Family TattO0e6.

Tattooing, which Lombroso and his
school assert is a sure mark of delin-
quents, is spreading rapidly in London
society. A member of Parliament re-
Gently visited a tattooer with his wife
and five children and had the whole
family marked with their name and
address in case of accidents.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

The carelessness Of some mothers In
the education of their daughters is
shown by the fact that a Chicago wom-
an recently sent her daughter to the
Iowa Reform School under the impress
sion that it was State seminary for
girls. The girl has since been ''par-
doned' and set free, but the ignorance
of the mother can hardly be pardoned.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-10-10

nickeled steel, to enable it to take the
rif1ing at the high velocity-2,OOO feet
a second. The charge is from thirty to
forty grains Of smokeless powder. The
bullet weighs 22O grams and is five di-
ameters in length.