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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Scotch Humor.

An artist is busy at his easel by the
wayside. A rustic is looking over his
shoulder in the free manner of the indie
pendent Scot. A brother rustic is in a
field near by with his hands in his peck
cts. He is uncertain whether it is worth
while to take the trouble to mount the
dixie for the uncertain pleasure of looking
at the picture.
What is he doing, Jock ~ asks he in
the field of his better situated mate.
DRAWN WI pent!" returns Jock, over
rs t bonny?' again asks the son of
toll in the field.
.sOcht but bonny" comes back the
prompt and decided answer of the critic
OF consideration for the artists feelings
there is not trace. Yet both of these
rustics will approximately relate the in
cident on coming in from. the. field and
washing themselves, with this rider:
'An' he didna look over weel pleased,
I can tell We! Did he, Jock ?"-Contem-
porary Review.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
HOW TO REMEMBER.
Advice to Those Wishing to Commit Songs
or Music to Memory.

Advice to Those Wishing to Commit Songs
or Music to Memory.
81 wish you would teach me how to
commit to memory the songs / want to
sing" said an amateur musician to
friend. 81 have never been able to COM
nit my music to memOry-at least, have
never done so-and / think it would be
of use to me if I could"
'"The process is not difficult one"
was the reply. Il have always found it
easy to remember songs and poems by
certain rule or method that / adopted
a long time ago. Take any popular song,
The Last Rose of Summer, for example.
1t is good plan to read it over and get
the sentiment of the verse. which COM
prehends the idea of loneliness, the fad
ing away of beautiful things and the lack
of sympathy in sadness. The rose is
blooming alone. It's companions are
faded and gone. No flower or kindred is
nigh to share its pleasures or answer to
it's signs. This is the groundwork-the
skeleton, so to speak-of the verse. I'm
press this firmly on the mind, and famil-
iarize the thought with the sentiment.
Imagine the garden with the one rose
and faded leaves all around. Once this
is fixed in the memory it is comparatively
easy to fill in the remainder of the words.
This is one of the simplest and surest
ways Of committing the words of song
to memory.
"With most people memorizing the air
of the song is much easier, and this is
ferring to the music whenever there is
any question. It is important to learn
an air correctly at first, for when mis-
take is made at the outset one is almost
certain to blunder at the same place ever
afterward. New York Ledger.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Birds Tongues.

Some fresh information about the tom
cues Of birds has recently been gath
cred by a German naturalist. Many peo-
pie suppose that woodpeckers use their
sharp-pointed tongues as darts with
which to trans6x their prey 1t is true
that the woodpecker, like the humming
bird can dart out it's tongue with as
tonishing rapidity, and that it's mouth is
furnished with an elaborated mechanism
for this purpose; yet investigation shows
that the object of this swift motion is
only to catch the prey, not to pierce it.
For the purpose of holding the captured
victim the woodpecker's tongue is fur
nished with sticky secretion.
Considering it's powers of initiating
speech, it is not surprising to learn that
the parrots tongue resembles that of
man more closely than any other birds
tongue does. It is not because the par
rot is more intelligent than many other
birds, but because its tongue is better
suited for articulation than theirs that
it is able to amuse us with it's mimicry.
The humming birds tongue is, in some re-
spects, the most remarkable of all. 1t
is double nearly from end to end so that
the little bird is able to grasp its insect
prey with it's tongue, very much as if it's
mouth were furnished with pair of
fingers Companion.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
An Old snake Bite Fatal.

A very peculiar case Of rattlesnake
bite is causing much comment at Tweed
at present. The little 1O-year-old girl of
Howard Lee was returning home one
night after dark about a year ago, and
on the route she had occasion to cross
a large branch. A log spanned the run of
the branch She did not observe
the bulk toward the end of the log, and
as she stepped off the log the bulk, which
proved to be a rattlesnake in it's coil,
struck at her, burying it's fangs in the
child's foot. On arriving home she be-
gan to complain of singing pains, the
foot swelling to immense proportions.
Physicians were hastily sent for and med
icine prescribed, The wound was cauter-
lied and corded. The child got along
nicely until last Wednesday, when the
poisonous virus began to manifest itself.
the girl being seized with excruciating
pains in the stomach and blood flowed
in streams from her mouth. The doc
tors exerted all their skill, but could not
stop the hemorrhage The child died in
great agony Saturday After the child
was bit search was made for the rep
tile and it was trailed long distance,
but never killed.-Savannah News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Red Noses.

It is stated by the Popular Health Mag
azine of Baltimore, in it's June issue, that
''redness of the nose" is caused by indi-
gestion, not intemperance The remedy,
it is stated, is to ''abstain from over-in-
diligence in fats and sweets" This die
tum will be appreciated by many worthy
people whose noses are unduly rosy. For
years they have been misjudged by irrev-
erent scoffers, who did not scruple to as
cribe the nasal tint to excessive imbibi-
TONS Now science comes to their relief.
1t is ''fats and sweets" that make the
trouble, causing Indigestion, which pro-
duces a rush of blood to the nose. Some
persons, like Mr.. Stiggins, given to alco-
holic stimulants do, indeed, have red
noses, but the redness is stomachic, not
alcoholic. The ''fre-water" may "burn
out ones coppers," and thus, Indirectly,
produce the luminous proboscis; but it's
owner is now in position to assert that
it is an error to say drinking did it.
1t is likely the rare old toddy blossom
has had it's day.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
4 Boat Sliced Down the Middle.

There has been launched from the
Walker shipyard of Sir w. 6. Arm
strong, Mitchell & CO., an ice-breaking
steamer, which the British press states
is very powerful. although few details
of her equipment are given. The vessel
is intended to be employed in conjunc-
ton with a large railway ferry transfer
steamer in transporting railway cars
across the Volga river. The vessel is
about $50 feet long, SO feet beam, and
will be fitted with twin-screw engines of
14OO-horse power. A novelty in con-
struction is that the vessel is divisible
longitudinally. The canal locks through
which the vessel must pass between st.
Petersburg and the Volga are but % feet
wide, while the steamer, as stated, is of
80 feet beam. The hull is, therefore, so ar
ranged that it can be divided into two
parts longitudinally for passage through
the locks and subsequently rejoined afoat.
The frames of the vessel are closely
spaced, in the bow, portion, they are
doubled, and much of the shell plating is
an inch .thick.-Railroad Gazette.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
SOME WHEELING DoN'TS.

Don't imagine it adds to your ap-
pearance to be smoking pipe while rid
ing.
Don't be dissatisfied with your
wheel every time you hear about a new
one.
Don't leave any but good impress
sions behind you when you depart from
a town.
Don't have too many ribbons on the
handle. 1t is regarded as rather effemi-
nate.
Don't be prejudiced against a man
who has more expensive wheel than
yours.
Don't take general advice as to the
care of your wheel. If you do, it will
be ruined.
Don't exhaust yourself trying to ride
up hill. A little walking is relief to
the legs.
Don't undertake to doff your cap to
a girl unless you can do it without falling
off.
Don't ride to church on the wheel
unless in need of the prayers of the con-
gregation.
Don't lend your wheel, even to your
uncle. 1t has the disappearing trick of
the umbrella.
Don't think every girl sitting on the
piazza has never before seen a man on a
wheel.
Don't imbibe on the eve of jour-
ney. There is no sympathy for whisky on
wheels.
Don't ask geographical questions that
even local schOOlmasters cannot answer
Boston Globe.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
The SUN Not Responsible.

Those of us who have suffered year aft
er year from those annoying blemishes
who have seen them come under the
rays Of the summer sun and disappear
when the reign of King Sol is over-are
illogical enough to consider the glowing
monarch accountable for our annual crop
of freckles. All sorts of reasons have
been given for these annoying pigmentary
discolorations. One well-known derma-
tologist declares they are the result of
too much iron in the blood, and that the
suns rays bring the iron-stained spots to
the surface just as they do to bit of
cloth which has come in contact with
iron and is then put in the sunlight. In
other words, that freckles are iron rust
Prof. Hobra of Vienna, who is account
ed the greatest authority of his century,
insists, on the contrary, that the sun does
not produce freckles. He says: ut is
fact that lentigo (freckles) neither ap-
pear in the newly-born nor in children un-
der the age of 6 or years, whether they
run about the whole day in the open air
and exposure to the bronzing influence
of the sun or whether they remain CON
fined to the darkest room. It is, there
fore, certain that neither light nor air
nor warmth produces such spots in chill
dro,,
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01

light: for he is as yet informed only of
the other vessels whereabouts at the mo-
ment, and knows not which way she is
going, nor what manner of vessel she
may be. This last is what the light next
reveals, for if it be white it is the mast
green the absence of white light re-
veals a sailing vessel. 1t is for the red
and green lights, commonly known as
the side lights, that the officer of the
deck most intently watches, for by them
he can tell which way the vessel is go
ing. If her red light shows he knows
that her port side is toward him and she
is crossing to his left; if it is her green
light her starboard side is toward him
and she is crossing to mis- right; but If
both red and green are showing she is
heading straight in his direction. Thus
he learns by these running lights where
the other vessel is, what she is and in
what direction she is going, and he knows
in plenty of time whether she is on his
track or whether she is crossing it in one
direction or the other. All that is not
enough, however, to avoid collision, for
both he and the officer on the other yes
sci must know exactly what to do and
what the other is going to DO. He must
know, so to speak, on just what track to
switch and on just what track the other
vessel will switch to avoid him. This is
settled by fixed rules, which are the
same the world over, and are known to
all men who follow the sea. They are
called the RULES of the Road"
The rules of the road say that when
two vessels are coming bows on-that is
to say, on the same track-each vessel
shall turn off to the right far enough to
avoid the other; that is, when their
tracks would cross each other-the one
which has the other on her starboard
(right) hand must turn to starboard (the
right and go behind the other vessel.
while the latter keeps on her track of
course; and that steam vessel must al
ways get out of the way of sailing
vessel, vessel at anchor or disabled, or
a vessel with another in tow.
Thus the lights tell in the darkest
night which way the ships are going and
what kind of ships they are, while the
rules of the road tell, both for night
and day, in which direction the ships
must turn to keep out of each others
way. If vessel has another vessel in
tow she carries two masthead lights in
stead of one, and when vessel is at
anchor she has no side lights or mast
head light but single white light made
fast to a stay where it can be seen from
all around her.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01

lies down they climb upon his back,
which is so broad as to resemble the big,
fat pad on the back of a circus horse.
They crawl upon his head and peck at
his ears He does not shake them off,
however, as most dogs would.
When Bob walks around the yard the
little chicks hang on for all they are
worth, and when he lies down they all
nestle in near his paws. In this position
dog and chicks remain motionless for
hours at time. The motherless little
brood of chicks are getting to be big fell
lows now but they have not yet any
idea, it seems, of deserving their queer
foster-father.
A new brood of younger chicks have
come into the yard within a few days,
and they, too, are learning to climb upon
Bob's woolly back and to peck at his
tongue and nose, all Of which seems to
tickle the old fellow very much. It is
astonishing to see how careful Bob is
when his little adopted children are tax
ing an afternoon ride on his back. The
fine old dog is as gentle as a lamb at such
time and keeps a watchful eye open for
possible accidents. It is all very queer
and lovely though, and everybody who
knows Bob says he is a great, big-heart-
ed canine, which is true.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
A Queer Foster-Father.

Enough good dog stories are told every
week to fill volume as big as your fami-
ly Bible.
Just the same. all the world loves a
really clever dog. This story is about
dog that is neither clever nor brave,
nor handsome, and his name is Bob
plain Bob. and nothing else: According
near Warwick, Mo. He is water span
iel, and one Of the latest dogs in the
West. He is not a heavy eater, but he
is SO very good-natured that he gets fat
on nothing but clear conscience and an
even temper.
At Bob's home are many chickens and
they all look up to Bob as their foster
father. A queer friend for chicken is
a big, fat water spaniel, but the chick
ems don't care what or who he is, he is
just Bob to them. There is a brood of
motherless chicks who are seldom away
from him if they can help it. When he
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
IN A TINY CRAFT.
A Young Sailor Who will Try to Break an
Atlantic Record.

"A Young Sailor Who Will Try to Break an
Atlantic Record.
Capt. Robert McCallum, 19-year-old
lad, proposes to start on transatlantic
voyage in 19-foot sloop. The boat in
which Capt Adolph Frietsch made the
trip successfully last August was 40
foot boat, fiat bottom, centerboard
schooner. This boat has keel and
draws 27a feet of water. She is AZ
feet beam, is made of cedar, and is said
to be the smallest boat to attempt the
voyage. Her deck is flush, and the lone
sailorman will have a space below Axe
for living quarters. He will heave to in
the day time for six hours sleep and
man the helm eighteen hours of the
twenty-four. He expects to take forty
five days to Queenstown, but carries
sixty days provisions. He claims to be
the youngest man who has ever essayed
the Atlantic voyage. The boat is named
for Richard X. Fox, who will give Nc
Callum $4,000 if he accomplishes the
voyage. McCallum is a Scotchman, his
parents living in Dundee, wheresshis
father is a steamship owner. They do
not know of his purpose. The boy has
been to sea for nine years and under
stands navigation, having been second
officer on q Maine schooner
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
No Boomers.

$50 you do not believe in bloomers?"
said the new girl to the old-fashioned
woman. 81 do not" the latter replied, Sc
verely. "Do you think them immodest?'
mot necessarily; but certainly unwoman-
ly." "Pooh!'' exclaimed the new girl in
her superior way. with such old fogies
as you there would be no advancement
at all. You do not realize the needs of
the new woman. For some things bloom
ers are almost necessity. They are
certainly a vast Improvement over the
costumes usually worn" Well admit
ted the old woman, thoughtfully "possi-
bly, that is so. l myself can think of one
place where boomers might be preferable
to the costume i'll vogue. ON the
wheel. Of course ''No; on the bathing
beach, But the new girl declared she
would die before she would wear such
hideous things on the beach.-Chicago
TimeS-Herald
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Definition of Home.

A prize was offered recently by the
London Tid-Bits for the best answer to
the question, "What is home?'' Here are
a few of the answers which were re-
ceived:
The golden setting, in which the bright
est jewel is mother"
A world of strife shut out, world of
love shut in.
Home is the blossom of which heaven
is the fruit.
The only spot on earth where the
faults and failings of fallen humanity
are hidden under the mantle of charity
The place where the great are some
times small and the small often great
The fathers kingdom, the children's
paradise, the mothers world.
The jewel casket containing the most
precious of all jewels-domestic happi-
ness.
Where you are treated best and grum-
BILE most.
Home is the central telegraph Office of
human love- into which run innumera BILE
wires of affection, many of which, though
extending thousands of miles, are never
disconnected from the one great ter
minus.
The center Of our affections. around
which our hearts best wishes Irvine.
A little hollow scooped out of the windy
hill of the world, where we can be shield
ed from its cares and annoyances.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Signaling at Night.

Ensign John M. Ellicott, in the May
the Lights Tell" This is description
of the system of signaling at night. En-
sign Ellicott writes as follows Of the
"Rules of the Road:''
Presently there flashes out of the gloom
ahead a small bright speck; then it is
gone; then it shows again, and one. of
the lookouts who has craned his neck for
ward in the intensity of his gaze cries
OUT
Light ho!'
In an instant the officer of the deck is
by his side, glasses in hand, inquiring:
''Where away?"
Then he, too. sees it. and by it is in
formed of another vessels presence near
him on the dark ocean. Then comes an
anxious time when with strong glasses
he strives to tell the color of that faint
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Legible Writing.

cts bad thing not to write a legible
hand" said the philosopher, knocking
the ashes from the end of his cigar
Sometimes most unpleasant complica-
tons arise from the habit of not writing
clearly. / remember row / once had
with my friend Darby because of it.
Darby had sent me photograph of his
wife with her four little ones, two on
her lap and one peering over each
shoulder The children were great
friends of mine, and he knew I'd like to
have it. I immediately acknowledged
it's receipt to Mrs. Darby and closed by
saying that she looked like a beautiful
rose tree-the idea being that she was
the tree and the children the roses" very
nice idea," said I, "Yes," returned the
philosopher, sadly, "but my handwriting
ruined it all. Darby met me on the
street a few days later and coldly IN
ouired what 1 meant by writing to his
wife and telling her she looked like a
'dutiful rooster '-Harper's Magazine.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Restless Children.

The movements and habits of a young
baby seem so strange to us because they
are SO different from those made by adults
and because they are so unconscious
~ performed. Joy is expressed by muscu-
lar movements, by wriggling of the hands
and toes, or by convulsiye beatings of the
arms when it is small, by digging" when
it is larger. These movements are ex-
pressive of joy because, to any animal
of highly developed muscular energy,
movement is absolutely essential and par
ticularly pleasing, while stiffness is the
reverse. It is muscular excitement, chief
~ no doubt electrical, heritage from an
cestors who knew not what it was to
be still, that gives that restlessness to
children and causes them to find so much
pleasure in mere motion and muscular
exertion of any kind. If children have
to be still, it is torture to them-positive
torture in some cases-and grown-up peo-
pie are unaware how much, or they
would not thoughtfully infict it on young
children. Muscular ache, the fdgets,
growing pain in the limbs, are all the
result of enforced inactivity in children.
1t is similar with athletes. Their muscu-
lar excitement is so strong that move
ment is pleasure, stiffness means pain,
and they are noted for restlessness. =
Nineteenth Century.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
Cuckoo.

His voice runs before me; follow, it flies;
1t is now in the meadow, and now mid the
skies.
So blithesome, SO lightsome, now distant,
now here,
And when he calls Cuckoo, the summer is
near
He calls back the roses, red roses that went
AT the first blast of winter, so sad and
forSpent,
With the dew in their bosoms young roses
and DEAR
And when he calls Cuckoo, the summer is
near.
/ would Irvine him gold cage but what
would he do
For his world of the emerald, his bath in the
blue,
And his wee feathered comrades to make him
good cheer?
And when he calls Cuckoo, the summer is
near.
Now, blackbird, give over your harping Of
gold!
Brown thrush and green linnet, your music
withhold!
The flutes of the forest are silver and clear,
But when he calls Cuckoo, the summer is
here. Katharine lyman.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Magic LIQUID.

Much amusement may be afforded at
party by pouring out of the same bottle
a LIQUID which assumes three different
colors. This is how it is done: Steep
logwood shayings (they may be bought at
any drug store) in water, and when a
good red color has been obtained pour
the liquid into wine bottle. Take three
tumblers and, without being observed,
rinse one of them out with strong vine
gar; put little powdered alum into the
second and leave the third without any
preparation. Pour from the bottle some
liquid into the first tumbler; this will
assume a straw color; pour into the sec
ond and the liquid will pass gradually
from a blush gray or black on being
stirred with a steel key or any piece Of
iron which has been previously dipped in
the red liouid will assume q violet tint.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1895-07-01
Memory Albums.

Begin the album by looking over your
collection of plates and select such as
have been made on special occasions.
From these make prints, and be sure and
look up the exact date on which the
picture was taken. Do not reject a
memory picture" because it is not as
clear a plate or the grouping as artistic
as one could desire. For the album itself
buy the album leaves, which are almost
as cheap as card mounts, and they can
be added to from time to time as one
makes new pictures. Arrange your
pictures in chronological order-that is,
the earliest date first, etc., marking
under each picture it's proper date.
A person who has used a camera for
two or three years will find he has quite
q number of memory pictures" and one
who starts memory album should make
it a rule to add the pictures to his col
lection as soon as they are made. One
can use blue prints for such albums, for
a good blue print seldom fades or dis
cOlors, white artistic or albumen prints,
unless very carefully finished, are apt to
grow yellow or discolor. In after-years
our memory albums will be considered of
as much value as any of our possessions
-Harpers Round Table.