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Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-07-03

The State Of Idaho is practically
unanimous for free silver Meth
e. party has any advantage in this
respect. The republicans have
been in power and their senators
and member Of congress always
voted for It, and our last legisla
ture unanimously memorialized
congress in behalf Of free coinage.
The present political situation
may be summed up as follows:
The republicans are wrong in enc
thing the silver question, and
right in every other thing.
The democrats are right in one
thing the silver question. and
wrong in every other thing.
The populists are right in moth.
ing and wrong ia everything.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1896-07-03

Is complete, and comparison CT our
prices with other lines is invited Don't
forget we handle The Popular MEMS
SHIRTS, the handsomest, best made and
best line shown by any house.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
showed Under.

Ex-Congressman Yoder of Ohio, in
commenting on the recent elections,
when everything went about one way,
told a party of friends the following
story at one of the uptown hotels:
In one Of the counties in Ohio a Ger
man was running for sheriff on the Dem
ocratic ticket. He felt very confident of
election, but when he read the returns
he found he was showed under by about
1000 majority. This reused his ire, and
he said to his wife:
Dot settles it. We will move oud of
dis shtate where dey treats Democrat
like dis. Yust you pack oop our things
right away unit git ready to move away
''He left the house in great wrath,
but in about an hour he returned and
found his wife tearing up the carpets
and taking down the curtain poles.
'Shtop dot, Katrina said the Ger
man. 'yust you let dem carpets alone
But vat is der matter nit you,
John? asked his wife; 'yust leedle vile
ago you said git ready to move, unit now
you say don't git ready to move
"'Vell, dots so, I did say dat, but /
yust been down to the depot. unit dare is
no place to move to- said the German"
Washington Post
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
Small Matters of Courtesy.

When one is asked to small dance or
other entertainment at a private house,
he should answer in time to allow his
hostess to fill his place if he is unable
to go. 1t is not mere matter OF form,
as so many men seem to think, but it is
a matter of the utmost Importance. At
fairs of the kind are not gotten up hap
hazard but are carefully thought out.
The hostess knows just the people and
just the number she wants, and if those
whom she asks do not respond, her plans
are all upset and the affair does not go
smoothly.
Then, as to making dinner calls or
party calls. 1t is custom more hon
ored in the breach than in the observ-
ance, / fear, but there may be more
excuse in this case. Such calls are apt
to be stiff and stupid simply from their
to make them, but it is not good form,
and out of respect to their hostesses
they should do it.
There is one other little formality that
it is surprising men who are supposed to
be well bred often fail to observe. 1t is
the writing of so-called "bread-and-but-
ter" letters. When one has spent a day
or two at a country house, OF has been
making a visit anywhere with friends,
ordinary courtesy demands that on his
return home he shall write note to his
| entertainers, telling them of his arrival,
and thanking them for the pleasure his
visit has given him. 1t would seem
most natural thing to do, yet some men
constantly neglect it. This is a thing
that is imperative, and no man can af-
ford not to do it. One may perhaps be
pardoned for emitting now and then to
make dinner calls, but there is no excuse
| for his emitting his Observation-Disclosures let
| ter.
| Attention to such little matters as
these marks the difference between the
| thoroughbred and the man who goes
| heedlessly along on his unconventional
way, treading on other peoples toes,
and happy so long as his comfort is un-
disturbed
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
Mistaken Sacrifices.

A certain woman, with a small income
and large heart, has a family of impe
cunious cousins-mostly girls, of the type
that cannot earn their own living, and
let themselves helplessly down upon the
nearest available benefactor. She WOr-
ried over them last winter considerably,
because she was sure the necessaries of
life were running low in their little house,
and she finally gave up her Christmas
presents to her own family. and sent
the cousins a check instead. Two weeks
later she met two of the girls at tea
they always go to everything to
her amazement each wore a handsome
gold buckle at her waist. Dear Cousin
Jane" one of them said, effusively, I'VE
were so grateful for your gift! We have
wanted buckles for a year, and now we
have gotten them through your kind
nessv' Cousin James feelings, as she
thought of her home Christmas sacri-
feed for these adornments-butcher to
make Roman holiday, as it were-can
be imagined.
She could sympathize with another
friend in New York. who gave UP going
to hear Patti, with her son and daughter,
in order that she might send the money
for the three tickets $15-to relatives
who, she knew, were much straitened
by the business crisis, and in actual need
Of ready money. What was her surprise
to hear, next day, that three of the fam
lily had treated themselves promptly to
Patti on receiving the check. cit came
just in the nick of tilne!" one of them
said appreciatively: but, of course Mrs.
- could not feel it as providential
happening as they seemed to do.
Three gentlemen, none of them veal
thy, meeting at the seashore last sum:
mer, happened to discuss the needs of
an old classmate. and each fledged HIM
self to aid toward a generous gift. The
recipient. when last heard from. was en-
joying the Atlanta exposition on the pro-
ceeds. while his three henefactors were
a trife sore over the affair." which had
cost them some troublesome economies.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
Had the T4ettcrs

A barber whose vocabulary of extend
ed words is beyond Shakespeare's and
whose "tonsorial parlors" are in Sixth
avenue, always adapts his conversation
to the abilities and tastes of his Gus
toners. One of these customers is a
prominent d. d. of Fifth avenue, who
is very patient, but who enjoys the
BARRIERS artistic skill more than his con-
yersation, though he humors the latter.
Doctor" said the artist, as he was
shaving the reverend gentleman, "a bib
liophilist like you must have, in the
extended course of years you have devot-
ed to literary study, accumulated an ex-
tensive and valuable library"
Yes was the answer, which q BRUSH
full of lather somewhat impeded.
II suppose you have many classical let
ters." continued the barber.
YES"
Have you among your books Bellies
letters?"
Yes, 1 believe I have" answered the
DOCTOR who would have followed his
IMPULSE to laugh had it not been for the
lather.-New York Herald
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
He Met Jefferson.

George Augustus Sala, in his mem
oirs, described in an amusing manner
the circumstances of his first meeting
with Joseph Jefferson. the actor: zone
Saturday I saw an advertisement in the
papers stating that on the ensuing Mon
day Mr.. Jefferson was to make his APP
pearance at the Adelphi theater in Dion
Boucicaults striking romantic rip Van
Winkle.' It seemed to me that / had
often met Mr.. Jefferson in society in
New York, and that we had been on
friendly terms; so I wrote hiIn. at once
at the Charing Cross hotel as follows:
Dear Old Hoss: Pork and beans to-
morrow at Z. Come on. The letter
was duly sent to the hotel. but early on
Sunday morning the terrible truth broke
on my mind that the actor who had been
so friendly to me at New York was not
named Jefferson, but had an entirely diff
ferent appellation. and that 1 did not
know Joseph Jefferson from the man in
the moon. How the astounding aberra-
ton had come about cannot tell I
passed the day in moody perturbation.
At 1880 p. m. 10. and behold! Joseph
Jefferson duly made his appearance 4
wasn't going to miss a good chance, he
said. as he took his seat at our humble
board. and we spent a delightful even
ing"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
Snow Figures.

Last winter being an unusually cold
one in Europe, a novel and pretty form
of entertainment was started and soon
became popular 1t would be impossi-
petition and was often held for charity
In Edinburgh and many other places
exhibitions of snow statuary were held.
1t must have been great fun, making the
figures of heroic size and trying to mould
them so they would win prize for ar
tistic excellence. To give an idea of the
skill displayed it may be mentioned that
one group thus exhibited represented a
tableau in play that was on the boards
of the local theater that week. The idea
is worth introducing, especially in the
suburbs, where snow is plentiful and
pure-Brooklyn Eagle.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27

One Of the brightest and bravest Off
GERS Of the One Hundred and Fortieth
Pennsylvania volunteers in the spring of
1868 was a lieutenant of the name of
Bingham, who was so fond of bacon
that the boys who knew the old verse
about "Fair Bingen on the Rhine made
a parody which they sang to a tune |
have forgotten, and only one line of
which / remember-"Bold Bingham on
the Rind." They say he. used to go into
battle chewing "a piece of bacon rind.
He was wounded at Gettysburg, at
Spottsylvania and at Farmville, and was
mustered out in 1866 as brevet-brigadier-
general of volunteers. The general has
been in Congress sixteen years and is
probably good for life term 1t is not
often that man is brigadier-general
at 25 and postmaster of a city like Phil
adelphia at % But such was Bingham.
He is today only 81 years old-New
York Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27

half to clever as either Of them-not so
we'll developed, not so high a type"
''Aspasia," l demonstrated, firmly, II
heard that priggish senior tell a Devil
dered old lady from the rural districts
that what women needed to be emancl-
pated from was ignorance and superstl-
ton"
"Well, don't they?'
Even Aspasia will sometimes be OBJ
tuse reminded her with reproach that
when to state truths, and where, and to
whom, are almost as essential acquisi-
tons of wisdom as truth itself. | pro-
tested that we were never so lacking In
tact in those old days, which are ever the
best days. But Aspasia held her ground.
She said we made the same blunders
then, and that they went equally unre-
corded. That satisfied senior will never
know how she appeared when apparelled
in her self-sufficiency until she comes
to the place where she does as we do
looks into the mirror of her callow past.
And when she gets there, life will have
SO snubbed and beaten and drilled her
into humility that she will have taken
her place in the rank and file, and have
learned to march patiently in step with
other women who took their training
wherever they could get it, in college or
out.-Harper's Bazaar.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
sonnets in SHADOW.

There is such power even in smallest things
TO bring the dear past back; flower S
A snatch of some old song, the feeting
Of sunbeams on the wave-each vivid
brings
The lost days up, as from the idle strings
OF wind-harp sad breeze eyokes the
OF antique tunes. A glove which keeps
imprint -
OF q loved hand the heart with torture
wrings
By memory OF clasp meant more IMAM
. speech; 80
A face seen in the crowd with curve OF
cheek
Or sweep Of eyelaSh our woe core can
reach.
How strong is love to yearn, and yet how
weak
To strive with fate; the lesson all things
Teach,
AS of the past in myriad ways they
speak.
--Arlo Bates in ga New Library of Poetry
and Song"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
An old Dutch DOLE House.


Two hundred years ago rich old lady
took it into her head to have perfect
model OF a house made, with dolls to rep
resent the different kinds of inmates.
Probably she intended it as a gift for
some favorite little girl; but, at any
rate, now it is in the museum of the
Dutch city of Utrecht. Great artists
were paid to paint the tiny pictures on
the walls, and to decorate the ceilings
of the "best" rooms and the chief up
holsterers were employed to- make the
furniture.
The house is two-storied and contains
nine rooms and hall. The kitchen is
and is presided over by jolly looking
cook. In the comfortable and homely
dining room some gentlemen are sitting,
smoking long clay pipes and telling
funny stories, if we may Judge from
their smiling faces.
Two wee globes stand in one corner
OF the room and an event from New Tes-
lament history is finely carved on the
ivory mantelpiece. There are two gen.
tlemen and three ladies in the drawing
room; which is most elegantly furnished
The ladies wear lovely dresses and each
holds fam. One of the gentlemen
seems about to entertain the company,
Tor ne sits close to violoncello. Up
STAIRS IN the nursery two children are IN
d oea, While nurses are waiting on other
children and two ladies, perhaps govern
esses, are. ia king. tea at table. In a
beautiful bedroom a lady. dressed for
dinner, stands in front of a looking
glass, the toilet table being furnished
With. silver jars and bottles and china
vases.
There, is a small study, or business
room, in which a gentleman sits writing,
with bills and papers scattered about
him. Inthe laundry the maids are busy
washing, wringing and ironing clothes.
In the halra nurse is giving some mess
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
A Home in the Country.

It takes a good deal to make good
home. 1t needs something even besides
father and mother, and an open fire, and
the cat on the hearth. The first element
in the home is the house itself, which
needs to be distinctly different from any
other house in sight. Then there needs
to be some land around house before it
can be real honey" 1t gives play room
for the eyes as well as for the feet A
wide range of solemn woods will do more
for child in week than yellow bricks
and dirty paving stones will do for him in
a year or ever do for him. 1t is a great
thing for child to grow up within ear
shot of babbling brook. There is a
kind of musicalness of spirit that will
become his in that way that he will
never be able to acquire from a piano
teacher or fddling master. This wide
range of prospect will also companion
him with the bright and more earnest
moods of the great mother earth on
whose bosom he is being nourished He
will have opportunity to see the DAYS
brighten in the east in the morning, and
his soul will unconsciously absorb some
of the glory of the setting sun. Children
in the city hardly ever see the sun come
about the time they have to get up. and
grows dark dozen or so hours later
To q child in the country there is like
wise opportunity for him to see it rain
There is a great difference between rain
and falling water. Rain in the city is
only wetness broken loose, and is calcu-
lated only in terms of street cleaning
and aqueduct supply. A square mile Of
rain or a dozen square miles is differ
ent matter, and is unconsciously con-
strued by the child as being a mood Of
natures mind rather than hydropathic
uncorking. Still more Impressive upon
the child's mind are the strange COM
munications made to him by the lightning
flashing above him across a hundred
miles of country sky, and the weird
aurora and the swift and blazing track
of falling stars" that make him feel
how solemnly close to him is the great
wonderful world above the clouds.-Dr.
Charles III. Parkhurst.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
DAINTIES OF THE ARCTIC.
Labrador Produces Many Berries Which
Are of Exquisite Flavor.

Labrador Produces Many Berries Which
Are of Exquisite Flavor.
In spite of the latitude and Arctic cur
rent, Labrador is the home of much that
is delicious in the berry world, says a
writer in Outing. Even the outlying
islands furnish the curlew berry and
bake apple in prOfuSiOn; and upon the
mainland in the proper month, Septem-
Der, a veritable feast awaits one. Three
varieties of blueberries, huckleberries,
wild red currants, having a pungent aro-
matte flavor, unequaled by the cultivated
varieties; marsh berries, raspberrles,
tiny white capilaire tea berries, with a
ing just a fainst suggestion of winter
green; squash berries, pear berries and
scurlew berries, the latter not SO grateful
as the others, but a prime favorite with
the Eskimos, who prefer it to almost
any other; and lastly, the typical Labra-
dor fruit, which, excepting a few scat
tering plants in Canada and Newfound-
land, is found, | believe, nowhere else
outside of the peninsula-the gorgeous
bake apple.
These cover the entire coast from the
ST. Lawrence to Ungava. Their beautl-
full geranium-like leaves struggle with
the reindeer moss upon the islands, car
pet alike the low valleys and the highest
hilltops, and even peep from banks of
upon each plant, but this one makes a
most delicious mouthful. 1t is the size
and form of a large dewberry, but the
color is a bright crimson when half ripe
and a golden yellow when matured. It's
taste is sweetly acid, it is exceedingly
juicy, and so delicate that it might be
thought impossible to preserve it. Yet
freshness and original flavor throughout
the entire winter, merely by covering it
with fresh water and heading it up
tightly in casks or barrels.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
All a Delusion.

A great number Of people who can new
er cross the ocean without being pros
trated by seasickness have come to look
upon every reported cure for that dis
treSSing malady as a deluslOn and
snare. Whether the latest remedy, or
rather preventive, is more efhcacious
than the rest, remains to be proved. Dr.
a. d. Rockwell says it is. He asserts
that the reason SO little attention has
been paid to seasickness, especially by
those not subject to It. is that there
was a fallacious idea that to be sea-
sick did a person good: that it cleared
out the system, and, therefore, nature
should be allowed to take it's course. DIR.
Rockwell holds that there is neither adj
vantage in nor need for the ailment. 1t
must be prevented and the battle of pre-
vention must be fought on land before
sailing. For three days before the voy-
age doses of bromide of Sodium must
be taken-in preference to bromide of
potassium, and this course must be con-
tinued for three or four days after sail
ing. One pleasant effect of this bromiza-
ton is the sound and refreshing nature
of the sleep it induces. The dose recon-
mended by DR.. Rockwell is thirty grains
of bromide of sodium three times q day
for three days before the voyage, and for
three or four days after starting. He
mas invariably found this treatment an
absolute preventive, and has crossed the
English channel on very rough voyage
without the slightest discomfort from
the motion of the ship. In a paper on
this subject before medical society DIR.
Rockwell tells of a man who was in the
habit of crossing the ocean two or three
times year on business, and who dread
ed the recurring trips on account of sea-
sickness. After he had tried the bromide
treatment. he wrote to say that for the
first time in his experience he had crossed
without discomfort. DR.. Rockwell states
that he has never found any evil-effects
from the use of the bromide of sodium
taken for the prevention of seasickness.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
Rolling Balls of Water.

All of you have noticed, perhaps, that
the first drops of rain, when a shower
comes up, falling upon the dust of a
road, assume the form of little balls and
rebound or roll about as if they were
elastic. This is due to the fact that
the water of which the drops are COM
posed is not in sufficient quantity to
penetrate the particles of dust and
spread out so as to wet the earth. As
the shower continues, however. the drops
increase enough to touch each other,
and they become a sheet of water, so to
speak.
A drop of water on hot iron plate
takes the form of ball, too; and that is
because it is protected against the action
of heat by the cushion of steam inter-
posing between it and the plate. For
this reason the ironer in the laundry
may put her wet finger on very hot
iron without getting it burned.
This property that drop of water
has to retain it's globular or spheroidal
shape will enable you to make very
pretty experiment. A drop of water on
ordinary paper will spread out and wet
the paper, but if you put coating of
lampblack or plumbago on the. paper,
the drop will not spread.
Now, for your experiment, get strip
of strong paper about six inches in
breadth and three or four feet in length.
Coat one side of it as we have suggest
ed. and having placed upright on a ta-
BILE several books of decreasing size, pin
the strip of paper to their backs, leaving
depressions between the books. as shown
in the illustration. The depressions
should decrease in depth towards the
books of smaller size.
AT the end where the paper falls over
the largest book, pour some water. drop
after drop, and these drops will run
down the first impression, one after the
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-27
FASTNET LIGHT.
AWelcome Clean to the East Bound At
lantic VOyager.

AWelcome Clean to the East Bound At
lantic VOyager.
The first glimpse of Great Britain that
the American tourist gets on his Euro
pean tour is that of the Fastnet light
house.
1t stands on rugged and solitary rock,
situated nine miles south of Crookhaven,
at the extreme southwest corner OF Ire
land, and is. perhaps, more storm-beaten
than any other around our coast. The
rock is eighty feet in height, and the
lighthouse towers another seventy feet
above, yet, to winter gales, the Atlantic
pillows literally lombard the massive
structure and have even smashed in q
portion of the lantern at the summit of
the erection, the seas frequently sweep
ing over the rock with tremendous force.
Some two or three years ago the stormy
weather then prevailing prevented all
communication with the rock for many
weeks, so that the store of food was con-
Sumed, with the exception of some flour.
At last a schooner managed to approach
sufficiently near to enable small guam
tity of food to be dragged through the
sea by the hungry men, and, fortunately,
the next day the sea moderated, and the
stores were once more fully replenished.
Except in very calm weather the Fast
net is surrounded by fringe of foam
and the only means of landing is by the
aid of a lib fifty-eight feet in length,
so placed on the rock that, in moderate
weather. it's end reaches outside the surf.
When a visitor wishes to land ian un-
usual occurrence) he is roWed in small
boat as near as the waves permit, and
the lightkeepers throw out small buoy,
attached to rope, which is secured by
the man in the boat The lib is then
swung out, and the visitor, placing one
foot in the loop and catching tight hold
of the rope, is hoisted about forty feet
vertically, and then the jib. being pivoted
at its foot, swings him horizontally about
100 feet on to a safe landing. London
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