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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
Take Things Easier.

Sometimes when we hear of the death
of a woman friend who has to all ap-
pearances been taken away before her
time. we think how much longer she
would have lived if she had only taken
things just little easier. The rush and
hurry in which half the feminine popula-
ton live will age them prematurely if it
does not break them down entirely. The
desire to finish Ethel's gown prompts
the tired housewife TO sit up until mid
night, putting in stitch after stitch when
she should be enjoying the repose that a
day Of domestic labor merits. She goes
to bed worn our. she awakes unre-
freshed, her nerves lose their stability
and long before she is 40 she is wreck.
and why. All because she never would
rest when she had chance so to do and
because she let q little dust or fine sew
Busy women continually resolve to
''take things easier" to rest on their
oars for a season." and drift on the river
of Incidence, if only one hour a day
We embark on the daily voyage fully in
tending to do this, but before nightfall
on the Scylla of duties, real or imagin-
airy, or engulfed in the Charybdis of so
cial hurry.
Why not really make up our minds
that one hour daily should be devoted to
recreation or resting in some manner !?
Either we Will walk an hour, lie down
an hour, read an hour, sew, knit, do
fancywork, visit or chat with a congen-
iaI friend for an hour. In short, we
will overturn our common methods for
one brief space daily The result of a
months fair trial Of this plan will en-
courage to further effort in the same di-
rection. and in faithful observance of
some such system we shall renew our
youth like the eagles while many of
the worn and toilsome places will take
on new beauties 'and blossom as the
rose '-Philadelphia Times
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
A Notable Invasion.

For the first time, perhaps, in thou
sand years, sharks have appeared this
summer in British waters. The excep-
tionally mild winter, and possibly whim
of the Gulf stream, are credited with
the introduction of the ugly monsters.
Off Portsmouth they are reported to
be in large numbers, playing shabby
tricks on the fishermen by tearing their
nets and chasing all the marketable fish
from the fishing grounds.
Ii the sharks in question are Gulf
stream loafers, it is more than probable
that they have emigrated from here
abouts, and, as we can we'll afford to do
without them, we hope they will remain
with our British cousins, behave them
selves like respectable Americans and
stop their skylarking. Besides, they will
afford the English sportsmen splendid
opportunity to enjoy the glorious sport
of shark fishing. With a half-inch steel
hook, a chain for a leader, a barrel for a
float and about 500 yards of stout line,
the English lovers of the gentle art can
pull and haul to their hearts content.
1t beats lion hunting all to pieces: and,
moreover, they can have the sport near
home, without the trouble of going to
Africa We trust they will enjoy them
selves.
There are several particularly notorious
kinds of sharks. There is the ground
shark, big, lazy fellow, who was never
known to bother a bather. There is the
sand shark, dude that is not always
to be trusted; and there is the man
eater. We trust that the sharks in Eng
lish waters are not man-eaters. dis
tinguished American expert denies the
existence of man-eaters. He says all
sharks are harmless. Perhaps he is right,
but a great many shippers differ with
him. We refer to this fact just to en-
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
Summer Travels of Elderly Women


There are few facts in life which are
MOI lajbeled Ff,y at least ONE appropriate
and distinctive name. and elderly
covers a somewhat unpalatahle period i'm
a woman's life. which comes when she
has passed the mid-age landmark and
has not reached the one marked jagged
TT is. in truth. an arid and fITuitless land
which cannot be more exactly named;
and yet 1t is a wellpepUEaHed one, where
almost as many women dwell as in the
land Of youth. All who have survived
the DerilS of motherhood and the stress
and strain of family life come in time to
that land, TO find their occupations al
most Orawholly gone, although keen IN
tereSt in life remains, an interest lntensl-
fed by long observation of humanity
and tempered by a TRUST BORN of long ex-
perience of the vitality of goodness and
the almost universal luck of life.
All these reflections came to nae an a
three days observation of trio of Ell
derby women who We're travelling to-
.gefher in August across tine Great lakes,
and of one travelling singly on tourist
ticket, and, as l supposed, bound for the
sights Of Alaska What an amount OF
courage it had taken ito stiffen her soul
for such a trip! Yet there she was,
looking with an alert mouse-like c1Trios-
Ity at the travelling world of winch she
was q too conscious atom.
Dear old thing! My heart was touched
by her self-conscious and uncomfortable
fimidity. I looked from her ito the three
merry, self-appreciative, wOrld-apprecia-
tive, travelling companions, and won
,dered at once why all elderly women did
not form themselves into clubs and go
travelling. These three, each of them
black-gowned and gray-haired, with fine
and cheerful faces, exercised themselves
up and down the hong deck of the beau
round table in the dining room and or
dered delicate Ia carte dinners in trio
or tucked each other UP in the steamer
chairs, heartily thanking the stalking
males who picked up their balls of
worsted or fallen books or flying news
papers, and adding to the general at,
mosphere of festivity by having so good
a time emselves.-Harpers Bazaar.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
R,arns, Love for His wife.

Burns has been holly assailed because
Of his alleged Indifference to his wife
EJean ,Ar1norrn but the fact is he was
,ardently fond of her. Jean was true to
him, and his true affection never really
turned from her Jean worshiped him
literally Worshiped him. And when we
study her devoted life we must agree
that there must have been much that
was admira BILE in the character of a man
who was adored by SO true a woman.
Barns biographers have paid too scanty
attention to all this. There is no use in
.apologiZing for the defects of Bebbie' S
life. but there is such a thing as insist
ing too heavily upon them. Too
much has been made ia the thousand
stories of Burns life of the Highland
Mary episode, and too little of what he
really felt for Jean Armour, and of
Jeans intense loyalty to him and de-
voted care of him. The real facts about
Highland Mary will never be known.
They comprise the one episode of Burns
life which is yelled in mystery. But
one can study the poets life closely
enough to see that the persecution which
i'll the early days seemed to hopelessly
separate him from love drove him to
Highland Mary for solace, and that
Mary's sudden death idealized that
Highland lassie in his memory. There
was not much more to it, and Jean never
troubled herself about it. There has
been a sad waste of popular sympathy
over Highland Mary. 1t is to loyal Jean
our thoughts should turn. Burns love
for her and for his children was very
great That is a pleasing picture OF
him handed down by one who saw him
sitting in the summer evening at his
door with his little daughter in his arms.
dangling her, and singing to her, and
trying to enlist her mental faculties. .
The little girl died in the autumn of
q l.
ing.-Arthur Warren in Ladies' Home
Journal.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
How to Clean a Wheel.

In the first place, the rider, in cleaning
and repairing his wheel, should take it
apart and soak it in gasoline. Then
rub them perfectly dry, clean out the
threads and washers and all the little
crevices and put back the bearings. Soak
the chain in gasoline, also, in the same
way, and, after wiping it perfectly dry,
soak it again in bicycle lubricating oil.
and everything else carefully and cor
rectly adjusted. 1t is well to keep the
wheel properly oiled.-Los Angeles Her
oil
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
How the vultures Gather.

The manner in which vultures and 9TH
er birds of prey gather together when
ever a carcass is left exposed is eX-
planned by Sir Samuel Baker as follows
He writes:
"When an animal is killed and skinned,
before the operation is completed the
first bird to appear is the willy and
omnipresent crow; the next is the ordi-
nary buzzard Both these birds are
near the surface of the earth, seeking
their food with untiring energy. But,
although they may have keen powers
of scent, even they, in my opinion, are
mainly guided by their acuteness of Wis
ion, as they are always on the alert,
hunting in every direction, and, in fact,
keeping a sharp lookout The third ar
rival is the small, red-necked vulture.
This bird deScends from great height.
concentration from all quarters of the
compass. This is easily arranged by "
ing beneath a bush and shading the eyes
while you gaze into the deep blue sky.
It will appear to be all alive with the
smallest flies, all moving. all hurrying
and descending. These become rapidly
larger, and you are aware that they are
vultures, collecting from such enormous
attitudes that. were a mountain top eX-
posed, it would be capped with everlast-
ing snow
While you are Straining your eyes
to peep into these blue vaults, you are
startled by tremendous rush, like the
roar of rocket; this is the descent, with
closed wings, of some of the large, bare
necked vultures, who have plunged like
a plummet for some thousand feet, to
share in the feast below. All those birds
flying at high attitudes have been soar
ing upon tireless wings, never fatigued
by motion, as they seldom flap, but only
adjust themselves to the currents of air
upon which they float, and having, with
their extraordinary powers of sight, OBJ
served the hurry of smaller birds to
some objective point, they have at once
directed their course to fulfill the Biblical
expression, Where the carcass is there
shall the eagles (vultures) be gathered
together weekly Telegraph.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
The wheel and Domestic Felicity.


Another influence of the wheel that
has not been prominently brought for
ward is it's bearing upon domestic felic-
ity. Wives and husbands, notably those
who have reached the early forties and
beyond, have found bond of compan-
ionship in the bicycle that is as strong
as it is oftentimes unconscious. The adj
vent of children and the encroachments
of business cares are two elements OF life
that slowly force man and wife apart
to a greater or less extent, till, after
twenty years of matrimony, it not infre-
Quently happens that without any jar
or conscious eStrangement the two are
spending most Of their time in separate
pursuits. Into this breach the wheel has
Slipped with magnetic power. A COM
mon enthusiasm for the steel steed
brings them together in interest, their
daily spins in company make them
amusement sharers, and the silver we'd
ding anniversary is likely to stretch on
to the golden one if they are spared to
see it, with their lives happily welded.
To the closely united couples, too, the
wheel has to come. Said a wife recent
ly, a woman whose oldest son has voted
twice: II am going to learn to ride q
wheel this summer while | am out Of
town. My husband, the most conserva-
tive Of men, has resisted the craze till
now, but he is about to take it up, and
[ foresee dire results if do not also.
In all our married life, despite various
cares and anxieties, it has been our habit
to take little outings together-some-
times only a day, sometimes a week or
a month, as it happened, but always to-
gether, walking, driving, or sailing. Now,
if he rides a bicycle and | do not, it will
mean separation on these. expeditions.
From now on we need each other more
than ever, for our sons and daughters
are nearly ready to go out into the
world So, though the children smile
at the idea of mamma on a wheel, there
is where she is going to be-"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
Might I Return.

Might I return to that May-day of gladness
When life is young, and all it's promise
fair,
Might l efface the memory of Sadness
And put away the weary load of care,
To pluck the rose that in Times Eden
blows,
I would not go, were to miss you there.
Might 1 ascend unto those realms of rap
ture
Whose amaranthine joys fade not again,
Might the secrets of Elysium capture.
And find fruition for my lOngings vain,
I would forego these dear delights, to know
That you were with me, and to share your
pain.
Florence Earle Coates in July Lippin-
colts.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13

continually with silver ladies in the
hands of priests. After this the oil is
pat into two silver oald9Ons and placed
upon a porcelain stove, sfhere it is stirred
by six deacons, arrayea in black and sil-
yer vestments. T1is oil is supposed to
possess miraculous curative powers, and
great crowds of people bring bits of cot
tom oc wool to dip i2to the holy mixture.
The vases filled with the oil are carried
ia great state to the cathedral of the
Assumption, where mass is said by the
roDolitan.--Lendon Chronicle.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
GOSSIP FOR THELADIES
The old e,rasnbler to sese New Girl.

The old s.rs,fnblca to sfse New Girl.
Bike. BikeI Bike
Ger the harQ street sa0nes,sO She.
And 1 w0Gld thaI my te1gue could utter
Tie thoughts shat arise III me-
O we'll for the newspaper boy
That lie scoGts on lis cycle away
@ u eli for tlba butdlSer lad
Tla3t ne peGals-perchance it may pay
Rut wjaan szately GIRLS get on
Saj af-cr0pch. and with prospect OF sT5f3,
Il lis @ for the touGl Of q wee soft ha06,
Ana the sound of voice that could
thrill,
Bike Bike BE&e!
With Thy foot on the pedal, o Sine!
Bat the giIliSh grace that the Wheel
struck dead
WIFI never come back to theeI
Punch.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
HalIucinatiOn.

It is related that a lady was intro
duced to Sir Morell Mackenzie at Lon
don soiree as "John Strange Winter"
and when he incredulously repeated the
name, she replied; ooh, yes I'm Boo
ties Baby" Whereupon the great
physician drew a friend aside and c0nfid-
ed to him that he had just met poor
demented lady who was introduced as q
man, end thought herself Il baby.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
Bicycles on Board Ship.

A new recreation Of Atlantic steam
ers is the bicycle race. The wheels,
instead Of being slowed below, are firm
ly tied to the hooks of the staterooms
until the first throes Of NAL de mer are
over. Then the enthusiasts, instead of
taking a novel and lounging away the
days, have the decks cleared and the race
is the things Of interest and one of the
events of the voyage. The ships of the
future will probably have bicycle decks
as well as ''co3d decks
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
A Relic Astray.

When Napoleon l., at the height of his
fame, gave to the mother of his newly
born son a magnificent token Of his re-
gard, little did he dream that the latter
part of the Nineteenth century would
find the gift the property of an unappre-
ciative New York pawnbroker. The gift
was a solid gold porte-monnaie, inlaid
with diamonds and green and white
enamel 1t is nearly an inch in thick
ness, three inches wide and four inches
long. On the top is a convexed lid about
the size of quarter Of a dollar, which
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13

Is the habit of employing a jester,
private fool, about to be renewed IN be
half of the jaded wits of our rich Ameri
can families? The latest bit of extrava-
gance, perpetrated by the host of a great
Yachting party that set cut a few days
since for a cruise in the Mediterranean,
was the hiring of an individual to keep
the company amused. No such crude
word, of course, as hiring" was used
and only few of the members of the
party knew that young Mr.. Blank Joined
their society in amy other capacity than
that of a guest on the palatial little
steamer: nevertheless he is paid a sal
airy. and a good one at that, with the
pr0viso that he furnishes amusement
whenever the party appear in the least
likely TO grow dull and bored. Mr.
Blank being young, vIvaclOus, anxious to
see Europe and glad to earn money, ac-
cepted the duties imposed and took on
board with him a lot of musical instru-
ments a wonderful stock of jokes, all
the proper parapherna1ia for private
theatrica1S. and an amazing fund of high
spirits. He had a scheme of entertain
ment mapped out for every day; he
guaranteed his conversation never to flag
or grow monotonous, his stories never to
be repeated and his good humOr never
to be rT1ff1ed-
girl, bright. pretty and accomplished,
who last winter accepted salary to ac-
company party on private car through
the South and West. She drew the tidy
little wages of $50 a week and had all
her expenses paid, but they say she
earned her money, for she kept the whole
carload of blase rich folks in an amaz-
ing good humor for the entire six weeks.
At the end of her trip she was snapped
up for country-house party; but at the
end of that visit, like a wornout profess
sional nurse, she was obliged to go home
and to bed for awhile. She had danced.
sung, laughed, talked, played tricks and
banios, drawn funny pictures, ETC., ETC.,
until she tottered on the verge of nervous
prostratiOn; but she says it is a we'll
paid profession and a growing one. Rich
Americans find it harder every year to
originate amusements and keep them
selves up to the required pitch of nov
city and excitement; but they are will
ing. to pay someone to do it for them,
and a new field for breadwinning is thus
opened to quick-witted men and women
who know just how to cater to this want.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
A Sheep Story.

: Having read from time to time in your
pages notable instances of the sagacity
of dogs and cats, it has occurred to me
that the following Observation-Disclosures
record of the intelligence of a sheep may
possess at least the interest of novelty.
Two years ago lamb owned by a gen
tleman whose farm lies close to Tough
Foyle was left motherless. A yardman
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-13
Russian Coronation Ceremonies Bor
rOwed from Byzantium.

rOWed from ByZant1um.
Only those who have studied Byzan-
tine history can have any idea of how
closely the ceremonial Of the Moscow
coronation resembles. even in its minut-
est details, that which used to be OBJ
served at the coronation of the Byzantine
Emperors. Although the Russian church
did not separate from that of Rome
until the Twelfth century-that is, near
~ 400 years later than the schism of
Photius, which rent the Western and
Eastern churches asunder-nevertheless
it retained it's Oriental rite. In 1854
Russian commission arrived in ByZan-
tium to study the etiquette and ceremo-
NAL, ecclesiastical and profane, of the
court and church of that capital. On
their return to their native country a
great change took place in the national
costume. architecture and ceremonial.
When Moscow became the sacred city
par excellence of the empire the kremlln
was rebuilt on the same lines as the
Blachernae palace. on the land walls OF
Constantinople. Like its Greek model.
it consisted of a series of halls and
Observation-Disclosures. as the Turks call
then-linked together by gardens and
interspersed with scores of churches and
mOnasteries. the whole surrounded by a
wall and. entered by strongly fortified
gates, above which were icons of the
virgin and saints. Burnt down early in
the century, it has been rebuilt in palmer
architecture, but on the same Byzantine
plan.
The oil used at the coronation of Rus
sia's Cars is Lot Of an ordinary kind.
1t is prepared with elaborate ceremony.
1t is made only once in three years, and
is used only for three purposes-namely,
the baptism of royal babies, the browning
of the Gar and the conservation of the
metropolitan. 1t is called chrism oil,
or myro, and is always made at Moscow
or Kief. Early on Monday morning of
Passion week the patriarch in ceremonial
robes proceeds to the sacristy, lights the
fires and places thereon gallon of oil to
boil, reading the gospel at the same time.
The oil is kept boiling for three days and
nights without intermission, being stirred
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-25

CHICAGO.

Chicago December 2i-Wheat after try
ing today to divide its fnvors equally be-
tween the bulls and bears finally showed
Its preference for the bulls and closed with
an advance of i9m9sc. Business in all de-
pGrtnonts had very much Of holiday
character AMI there was not eaoush
change IN prices outside OF wheat TO cali
FOR comment. There will lie no on of
the board OF trade until Monday.
Although wheat opened sc higher than
II closed Yesterday it had probably tr4
tHmest start since the day before Christ
mas yoar ago. The situation was with
out chang. OF moment so that the local
speculative position was left TO adjust It.
set calmly and without pressure to the
"Nlgencies OF a three days tie up OF bus
ness. lLvcrpool opened with I'd advance
and the Northwest deliveries were again
small. The number Of car loads rScsiVed
ut MINNEAPOLIS ana plluth was go, coIh-
pared with ii6 on Thursday a week ago.
Chicago got - ears ara lS00 bushes were
inspected out of regular warehouses.
The tos.e of the market was rather hoav-
O'clock; May. which closed yesterday At
Slt4mSli,, opened at from ST.. to SiSsuSl%
gradually sagg!ng 10 Sis. II rc,e again
when at the latter price rumors OF cons. d.
cradle cash business IN wheat for ship
mont to country mails began n hn circu-
lated. The market iirned up during the
last hour, although there was no acc, Eslon
TO the volume of business. The good c,ash
demand for milling. the rumor of liberal
cngag, ments TO go to the seab1ard by
to sustain prices. The editor of the Llv-
crpool Corn Trade News cabled that the
wheat and -four on ocean passage wouli
decrease heavily In the next two weeks
and that caused the heavy Liverpool buy
ing OF wheat n New York observable
there for some days past. The market
hore became strong on hat and closed at
Sl7-. the highest prlcc Of the day
Corn was slow. but held steady. huctu-
airing only y. w.th an easier underlon%
The LEGAL receipts were above the estl-
mate. but cables were strong aud the
clcarances from the seahoafd large about
X 900 bushels. The firm tone to wheat
caused corn to closo l-l6 over ate clos ng
price Yesterday May ope5ei Inchnnge /
al 25a.. sold between ?SasG2sia and 49,.
closing steady at 2b'sn2S,g.
Oats were tame with sales few and IN
in portant. Prices We're confined to a
range Of NC and held about steady. Moy
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-25
MAXINE INTELLlGeyce
Fort OF Galveston. n..

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&c A,,, CLEARED.
IS K endooiI tx, New York
c. r,,, SAILED. lava
IS F EnlInell, IBaInes. Bremen
" ''esn'ield' Fleming, IIN.,.,