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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
THE FLEET OF MONITORS.
Their History Long Record of Extrava-
gance Consequent Upon Neglect.

Their History a Long Record of Extrava-
gance Consequent Upon Neglect.
When the story Of the monitors in
the United States navy shall come to be
told it will lay bare Il long record of
extravaganza consequent upon neglect
Some of the uncompleted or recently
completed monitors were begun while
many officers of the navy were still
in their cradles, and the fleet of monitors
just ordered from the James river, near
Richmond, has been lying there rusting
these twenty years. They are of the sin
the Ajax, served for the whole fleet.
They are all single-screw steamers of
$40 horse power. and each carries two
guns. The Ajax. Canonicus, Mahonac,
Manhattan and Wyandotte are 21OO tons
each, while the Catskill, Jason, Lehigh,
Montauk, Nahant, Nantucket, Passaic
and Comanche are of 1875 tons each.
Only two out of the six remaining at
Richmond are to be prepared for sea,
and it is said that of the four that have
not been ordered Immediately from the
James some will probably be sold as
scrap iron.
The history of the old double turret mon,
itors. several of which have lately been
completed is somewhat like that Of their
single turret sisters. The largest of
these great ironclads is the Puritan. She
is of 606O tons and of 300 horse power,
and she carries ten guns. She is a dou>
BILE barbette turret monitor and SO are
the Monadnock and Amphitrite. They
and the Terror, a double-turret monitor,
are each of 5000 tons and 1900 horse
power The Monadnock carries six guns
and the other two carry four guns each.
All of the double-turret monitors are twin
screw propellers The whole fleet has
been the mystery of the navy for nearly
4 quarter of century and the compile
ton of several of these ships has disap>
pointed the expectation of everybody that
enormous, and there have been great
changes in their plan of construction One
of them lay for years at a shipyard at
Wilmington, Del, until the shipbuilders
put in a claim for many thousands of dol
lars for dockage. 1t used to be said that
the double-turret monitors, if completed,
would never be seaworthy, though.
through change Of construction. if nothing
else. this evil prophesy has been disap
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Annual sales more than 6 900, Q
SRV Lovers.

4 young man helped pretty girl OF
about eighteen summers into one of the
coaches of local train on the ''Pennsy'
recently. saw that her parcels were prop
erly stored in the seat by her side and
then unhesitatingly bent over the fair
maiden and imprinted a kiss on her will
ing lips Most of the passengers were
busy finding seats and failed TO notice
the sentimental parting, but those who
did were rather surprised until they
heard the young man say "Good-bye.
Tell mother | expect to be home next
Saturday evening" And then he left the
car. There was only one man in the car
then who had any doubt that the girl
was the young fellows sister, and, con-
sidering her sweetness. was not sur
prised at his display of fondness for her.
The doubling Thomas, who sat few
seats back, took occasion to remark to-
the passenger in the seat beside him as
the train pulled out: "Thats the third
time | have seen that couple play that
game within a week, and I'll bet a flyer
that she amt his sister. Just take notice
that the girl gets off at one Of the sub
urban stations. If he was her brother
he wouldn't kiss her for such short
journey, and he would get home more
than once a week if his family lived liz
the suburbs. Oh! these lovers are mighty
cute, but they shouldn't play the same
game too often.' And the amateur Sher-
lock Holmes settled back into his news
paper-Phiadelphi Record.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
AIMING A BIG GUN.
1t Seems to be Largely a Matter of Scien-
tific CROSSWORD.

1t Seems to be Largely Il Matter of Scien-
tific Guesswork.
The way big guns are aimed is this The
approaches to the harbor are blocked out
in squares. From points along shore
there are observers. In case of war they
sight the vessel approaching. They meas
ure her course on their chart. They find
that going in the direction and at the speed
she is. she Will be in a certain square at
Il certain angle at a certain time. They
telegraph the fact to the batteries on the
Hook. The officers look at their charts.
aim their guns so that the projectiles will
hit that particular square, in case of the
nlortars, and in the case Of rifed guns
that particular spot in the square, and
when the time comes the guns are fired.
Unless the vessel goes wrong the vessel
ought to be sunk. AT any rate two or
three rounds could be fired before the
captain Of the vessel could locate the point
of fire. and the chance of his being hit, es-
pecially where shots are falling every
where within a quarter of a mile, is
great. Should he escape he would have
to aim his guns in the air and fire at an
angle that would drop his shot inside the
fertilization to do any damage. The al
most impossibility of that task can be
seen. The opening of the mortar pits is
much smaller than a steamship.-New
Work SIM
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
WHY DOGS BARK.
A Writer Affords an Explanation as Given
Him by an Indian.
pointed,

Him by an Indian.
In writing of the native dogs Of Central
America. Frederick Boyle brings forward
a theory as to how dogs form the habit
of barking. He was discussing with an
old resident of the country some traits OF
the coyote as the native wolf IS called,
but which more nearly resembles the dog.
Dogs will never go wild so long as they
can find a master to serve, and more espe>
cially trained dogs. The coyote never
banks, and only gallops when pursued,
''Why don't these coyotes bark ike
other dogs?' I asked an old Indian, point,
ing to one I was trying to reclaim, "and
why do they only howl and the pups
grunt?"
His answer was, He won't learn
mot LEARNT said l. What do you
mean?' -
:No.' he replied, mot learn. for if he
were of an honest breed he would bark,
TO try to initiate his master. or. at all
events, the other dogs: but all barking
proceeds from dogs initiating their mas,
ter's shout The master shouts to DRIVE
cattle to the corral. and the dog barks
also. In fact. the dog initiates his master
when he banks; he tries to speak, but
cannot" /,
| give this curious observation as the
only attempt l ever heard to account TOT
the barking of our tame dogs. NO Wlld
breeds make any noise except hoWInS
and snarling, nor. under the best clrcum'
stances, will they learn to bark until tins
third or fourth generation.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
RURAL GEORGIA JOYS.
Ahe Old-Time Log Rollings and Corn
Shuckings Are Things Of the Past.

line old-time corn-shuckings and log
Tolllngs have played out in the land Of
Tue south, remarked Georgia farmer
from Gilbert county yesterday. the con
yersation turning to farm life and its
JOYS. Yes, one rarely ever sees the gen
ulne old-tlme Georgia corn-shucking
tnese DAYS. You see, for a number of
years the farmers of this section of coun-
try dlo not grow enough corn to have a
respectable constructing. and as for log
rollings, the farmers have not been in
the humor of late years to clear up much
new ground land, and for this reason
there has been no occasion for much log
rolling"
A listener wanted to know what was a
lOg-rOlllng anyhow.
why, have you never heard of the
log-r,o1lllngs we used to have in this coun-
Try asked the farmer ''Then you've
missed half your life. 1t was the great
est fun the darkies on the farms had for
years and years. The farmer VINO had
cleared new ground. when the trees had
all been cut down and the brush clipped
OH ana burned, wanted to get all the
logs oil the field before he could cultivate
It. therefore he would give what is
called log-rolling, to which he would
invite all the darkies and laborers on the
nnelshporlng farms on some suitable day.
lhere was no compensation in it, for it
was a picnic. though you would never
thlnk IT., for it was the hardest sort of
work. The darkies all would come in
high glee, knowing that a great Jug of
whisky would be dished out to them and
that a big dinner would be given by the
landlord who gave the log-rolling. What
is meant by rolling logs is putting a hand
stick under them, with darby at each
end of the stick, and lifting the logs
from the ground and then conveying them
to pile here and there about the new
ground. where they would be burned
later. The fun came in with the rivalry
among the darkies to see who was the
champion litter of the day. They would
have great straps of leather that went
over their shoulders in loop, and
through this loop they would stick their
hand-sticks, sometimes enabling them to
lift with their hands and their whole
bodies at the same time, throwing their
strength against their opponent, who had
hold of the other end of the hand-stick
under the log. This strap of leather, for
some reason, was called an Alabama 1t
was great fun to see them strainng their
very lives away under the great, heavy
logs here and there about the field
When night came on the frolic wound up
with a great dance and hot supper as
they called it, in the landlords Kitchen"
Atlanta Constitution.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Wisconsin Patents.

Patents for the following Wisconsin
inventions are reported for this week by
Erwin. Wheeler & Wheeler, 5S and 80
Loan and Trust building. Milwaukee.
Wis These attorneys will furnish the
Inventors Handle free on request.
Thomas A. Campion, Milwaukee. vapor
burner: Frank A. Hobart, Beloit, steam en-
CINE; William e. Leidger, FAN Creek insect
destroyer; Lobegott Mollart, Watertown
take up mechanism for Stat and Wire fabric
looms: Ernest j. Perry, Fond du Lac car
bon copying manifold sheet or book; Albert
Rosa. Milwaukee. wire nail machine; Jacob
STEVENSON and NJ. Christensen. Raymond.
gate; Olof e. Wallner, Superior, auger:
Clinton 4. Weed, Racine, platform spring for
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
"A Giant WiSteria.

Over the path by the west drive in
Central park, New York city, not far
from the Webster statue. there is a fa
miliar arbor which is shaded by giant
wisteria. When the wisteria is in bloom
it scatters it's blossoms falling from their
own ripeness or blown off by the wind,
thickly upon the surrounding grass, so
thickly that they have to be carried away.
1t may be that as you approach this long
arbor with it's great wisteria you viii
meet coming away from it park laborer
with a wheelbarrow load of the fluffy
purple blossoms
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
No Meeting.

Young reporter was sent out recently
by the city editor of one of the Rochester
PP%1rs after the assignment was made,
.hc Young reporter returned with sad
VI" n.,ntpnancp. The city editor asked him
. :" Get the report up Immediately, as it
',,os nearly time to go to press. 'There
viii not be any report on that meeting, ,
, WINS the answer why not?' queried
tbr city editor. There was not any
'"nnectjng," replied the young reporter; 1T
h i,, M in a big row. and the chairman
" .l,ncLnd uudnr the ia bic y
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Very Cool.

..Was it cool where you spent your
vacation?'' Cool? / should say it was:
| Went away for a couple of days and
returned unexpectedly. | found the old
farmer wearing one OF my shirts and
my straw hat: his two sons away at a
lltra;ninr ieily through my white flannel
coat: and all they said was: We hain't
been expectin' We hum 50 soon.' 1t was
Tho coolest family I ever struck. Life.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Dr.PIERCE'S
Golden rIedical
DISCOVERY
c,,.ss NineH-eighf per cent. of all
csses of Consumption, in all its
Earlier Stages.

,,.,ouph by many believed to be incura-
AIt h,ere IS the evidence of hundreds of
be, NV witnesses to the fact that, in all its
livi ,sr stages stages, consumption is durable
e cause Not every case, but large per-
o o1Ttage of cases, and we believe, Jayy 9S
l tnr t55ut are cured by DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical even at1e dt the re a,seass
H. .rasa99;nes from the lungs, severe lingering
o,e1 With copious expectoration (inc1ud-
cD GU s+,,bercular matter. great loss of flesh
ing IRENE ernaciation and weakness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
The Meaning Of Names.

It is pleasant to know the origin and
meaning of ones own name, and where
that meaning is beautiful it is an incent-
i've 70 brave and noble conduct. Even the
nl9inpst and harshest names are beautiful
hv association 1t would be well for ev-
Try girl to find out what her name means
friend or character who caused it to be
loved and then try to realize what her
narpnts hoped for when they chose that
name in preference to all others for their
child
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Nicotinized Nerves.

Men old at thirty Chew and smoke. eat
little, drink. or want to, all the time Nerves
Jingle, never satisfied, nothings beautiful,
happiness gone, a tobacco-sa turated system
tells the story. There's an easy way out.
No-Io-Bac will kill the nerve-craving effects
FOR tobacco and make you strong, vigorous
and manly. Sold and guaranteed to cure by
Druggists everywhere Book, Don't To-
bacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away" free.
Ad: Sterling Remedy Co., New York City or
Chicago.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Don't Get Scared

II you should hear that in some place to
which you are going malaria is prevalent
To the air poison which produces chills and
fever, bilious remittent and dumb ague there
is a safe and thorough antidote and pre-
ventive, viz, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
The great anti-malaral specific is also a
remedy for biliousness. constipation, dys
pepsia, rheumatic and kidney trouble, nerv-
BUSINESS and debility.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
No Character.

D.Auher (enthusiastically}-"Just look
~ that River Nymphr Doesn't it show
character?' - o,,-,
..Io. # doesn't! And | don't believe any
,;r, that would sit her picter took that
yav ever had any character. Puck.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Aucsioneer's Joke.

Owncr-''I want you to sell these
horses for me- Auctioneer-"I see their
tails are locked. Well have to sell them
at wholesale" Owner-"Whatr Anc-
tioneer-"Well. | can't retail them.r-
Philadelphia Record.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
When Travelling,

Whether on pleasure bent, or business,
+atr on every trip d bottle of Syrup of
TigS, as it acts most pleasantly and eff
fertnalIy on the kidneys, liver and bow
dis preventing fevers, headaches and
c+bor forms of sickness. For sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading druggists.
Manufactured by the California Fig
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Vegetables in Her Mind.

Mamma" said little girl, "our teach
er stopped in the music lesson and asked
us how many turnips in bushel." Mann
ma could not think what the child meant,
until she asked the teacher the next day.
who stood puzzled for a moment then
laughing heartily, said that the question
had been: How many beats in a meas
IRE ?''-Iunior Golden Rule.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

William Dennison and John Branson
rival newspaper men. had personal en-
,,n,,n,nr on the streets of Anderson, Ind.
The matter will be settled in the courts.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

Half-cured eruptions always recur
Eradicate them with Glenn's Sulphur
Soap.
Hills Hair and Whisker Dye" black
or brown, SOC.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

[ cannot speak too highly of Piso's
Cure for Consumption.-Mr Frank
Mobbs. 215 w. 22d ST., New York, Oct.
% 1894
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

Herbert Spencer has decided that GER
tain opinions of his, often repeated and
strongly expressed, debar him from ac-
:epting the Prussian Royal Order Pour
a Marito
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

George Brown. Il car works employe
at Jeffersonville. Ind, fell into fly wheel
pit and his left leg was pulled almost out
of its socket
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

Thomas Taggart, chairman of the
Democratic state committee of Indiana,
has refused to call convention to dis
cuSS silver
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
DIR. MCNAMARA.

Established 1861 for the cure
ct Nervous Debility. Exhaustion
of Brain Energy. Mental AheFra,
ton. Physical frestration. Se."a'
Weakness, Kidney Affections,
Blood Diseases, Baroness,
!, Leucorrhoea, Monthly Period
and Marriage. MEDICAL Rooms;
Corner of Johnson Street ahi
$50 Broadway. M,!s.auxee, Wis.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
uGood SpipitS ~

The words have different meanings to
a spiritualist. a Kentuckian. and an aver
age man. For the average man good
spirits depend on good digestion. How
to insure good digestion? A Ripans
Tabule after each meal. that's ALL
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
Halls Catarrh Cure.
Is taken internally. Price 70 cents.

Last week the Prince of Wales shock
ed the leaders of fashion in London by APP
pearing in Il white stovepipe hat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
He ShiVered.

She-''Tell me. when you were in the
army, were you cool IL the hour of dam
ger?" He-"Cool? l actually >hivered.'
-Tid-RitS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

Mrs. Ernest Scott, the daughter of
Mrs. Annie Besant has been received in
to the Roman Catholic church at Mel
bourne.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

The civil marriage ceremony of NJ.
Alexander Dumas and Nine. Require
de la Bruyere was performed in Paris.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04

Mrs. WinslOw's SOOTHING SYRUP for chill
dren teething, sottens the gums, reduces infam
nation allays pain. cures wind collie 25ca bottle
Cardinal Gibbons will visit Munich.
Luxembourg. Brussels. Paris and London
before returning to America.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1895-07-04
BEST IN THE WORLD.

Beecham's pills are for bill
iousness, sick headache, diz-
illness, dyspepsia, bad taste
in the mouth, heartburn, tor
pid liver, foul breath, sallow
skin, coated tongue, pimples,
loss of appetite, etc., when
caused by constipation; and
constipation is the most fire.
quent cause of all of them.
One of the most important things for
everybody to learn is that constipation
causes more than half the sickness Ill the
world, especially of women; and 1t can all
be prevented. Go by the book, free at your
druggist S or write B F. AllenCo. ,So5 Canal
ST., New York. Pills, Ioe and 25e a box.
Annual sales more than e.Ooooo1 boxes
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-09

1t in her voice. Wanted to tell her some
times when she kissed me an called me
father'-wanted to tell her: "ILeetle Liz
zie, let me help yer bear yer load. Speak
out the sorrer that's in yer broken heart
speak it out, leetle one, an let ME helm Yer
bear yer load"
But it isn't for a man to have them
feehn s-leastwise, it isn't for him to tell
NV 'em. So held my peace and made no
sign.
She jest dropped. an pined an died One
mornin' in the spring she wuz standin' in
the garden, an all at oncet she threw her
arms up so. an fell upon her face. an
when they got to her all thet wuz left to
us NV leetle Lizzie wuz her lifeless leetle
body. can't tell of what happened next
NV the funeral an all that. said this
wuz in the spring, an so it wuz all around
us; but it wuz cold and winter here.
One day mother seq to me: "Reuhen -,
SEE she. softlike. "Marthy an 1 is gon, 70
the buryin' ground for SPELL Don't Won
reckon it would be a good time for YOU to
step over an see Bill while we're goner'
"Mebbe SO, mother" seq l.
1t WIZ a pretty day. Cuttin' across lots
thought to myself what I'd say to Bill
to kind NV comfort him. I made it m
that I'd speak about the time when we
wuz boys together; NV how we used to
slide down the meetin' house HILL an go
huckelberryin'; NV how jumped into the
pond one day an saved him from bein'
drownded; Nv the spellin' school, the
huskin bees. the choir meetin's, the spark
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-01-09
EvGEN[ FED

You see Bill an I wuz jest like brothers;
Tuz raised on 'jinin farms; he wuz his
oIks only child, an / wuz my folks only
ne. SO, nat'ril like. growed up to-
ether, lovin' an sympa thizin with each
Their. What knowed, told Bill, AN what
Bill knowed, he told me- and what neither
n us knowed-why, that warn't with
.nowin'i
lf hadn't got over my braggin' days,
a allow that, in our time, Bill an l wuz
est about the sparkinest beaus In the
ownship, 'leastwise that's what the girls
bought: but, to be honest about it, there
vuz only two NV them girls courted.
Bill an !, he courtin' one and l t'other.
you see We sung in the choir, an our
rood luck would have 1t we got sot on the
'opranner an the alto, and bimeby-oh
Well, after beauin 'em round a spell-a
'ear or so, for that matter-we up an mar
lied en- an the folks gin us the farms,
jinin, farms, where we boys had lived all
our lives. Lizzie. my wife. had always been
powerful friendly with Marthy Bits wife;
hem two girls never met up but what
;hey wuz huggin' and kssin' an carryin'
on like girls does; for women amt like
nen-they can't control themselves an
heir feens, like the stronger sext does
tell YOU it wuz happy times for Lizzie
an me and Marthy an Bill-happy times
on the 'jinin' farms, with the pastures full
Nv fat cattle, an the barns fun NV hay an
grain, an the twin cottages fun wv love
an contentment! Then when Cyrus come
our little boy-our first an only one.
why. we come, | wuZ jest SO happy an SO
grateful that it l hadn't been a man 1
guess I'd have hollered-maybe cried--with
JOY. Wanted to call the little tyke Bill.
but Bill ouldn't hear to nothn but
Cyrus. You see, he'd bought a cyclopeedy
the winter wuz all married an had
been readin' in it NV a great foreign war
rior named Cyrus that lived a long spell
ago.
Land Goshen, Bill!' seq I, you don't
reckon the babyll ever get to be
rfor?"
"Wel I don't know about that" seq Bill.
There's no tellin'. At any rate Cyrus
ketcham has an uncommon sound for a
name; Cyrus it must be, and wen he's
year old I'll gin him the finest Morgan
colt = the deestrick.'
So We called him Cyrus an he grew up
lovin and bein' loved by everybody.
Well, along about two years-or, say, IS
months scatter Cyrus come to us a
an of all the cunnin sweet little things
cunnn'est an sweetest! Looked just like
of them foreign crockery fggers you
buy in city stores-all pink an white, with
mouth here, an nose an ears. you'd
have bet they wuz wax-they wez so small
an fragile. Never darst hold her for fear
Id break her, an it liked to skeered me
y death TO see the way Marthy an Lizzie