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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

= For the, first time in our history a
woman is chosen y Presidential cleo
tor. Mrs. Sarah Malloy of Cheyenne.
wyoming, is elected to this position in
that state on the Republican ticket.
Her husband, who is division superin-
tsndent of the Union Pacific from
Cheyenne to Ogden, Is a Democrat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

Money on hand June 3Oth, 1896 3o71 S3
Cost of school houses built dur.
ing the year S1303. 90
Cash value of school houses and
school apparatus in the county 10000, OC
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
During the year two public examina-
tions wereheld at which twenty appli-
cants for teachers certificates were ex-
amined and of these, two received first
grade, two second grade and sixteen
third grade certificates. All the
schools have been officially visited
during the year the number of visits
being forty seven. The law requires
the county superintendent to visit each
school at least once every year. 1t is
my aim to visit every school at least
twice year. Once before Christmas
and once afterwards, and in cases
where needed from three to five visits
were made.
We have course of study prepared
by the State Superintendent for the
district schools to follow.
The pupils may graduate from this
course just as any pupil may graduate
from any higher institution. [ have
spent some time and energy in awaken
ing an interest in this work and as a
result examinations for graduation
from this course were held in several
of the schools during the year.
The schools of Arbor Vitae and Star
Lake are deserving of special mention
for their rapidity in growth, and in
this respect probably have no equal in
the state. Springing, as it We're, by a
single bound from the newly cut pine
stumps of the forests of the central
part of our county, each have row q
very large two-department school.
Respectfully submitted,
ALIEN. HIGGINS.
County Sup't. OF Schools.
The committee on accounts are now
wrestling with the various bills that
have been filed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

Entered at the Post Office at Eagle Riv-
err WIS. as second class mail matter.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

The committee on accounts are now
wrestling with the various bills that
have been filed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19

ing busy on committee work, consider
ing the reports of the different county |
officers, bills on file, etc.
Although the various committees
will not make their reports before Sat
urday still we are able to give our Grad
ers a short report of what is being
done. The reports of the county clerk
and clerk of court have been received
and satisfactory settlements made with
those officers.
Supervisor T. I. Laughlin, who was
appainted a committee of one to inves-
tigate the cost of maintaining the poor
| in the adjacent counties will report
that he made Investigations in Oneida,
Lincoln, Price and Iron counties. That
| in Oneida and Iron counties the poor
were maintained under the township
system. That in Oneida county no es-
innate of the cost could be procured,
while in Iron county it run from seven
Thousand to twenty-five thousand per
year. That in Lincoln county under
the county system and without any in
dustries attached the cost was S37O0.0O
| per annum. That in Price county they
purchased poor farm in 1889 at a cost
of $35O0.O0, and that since 1891 it has
been self sustaining, besides paying
| the overseer an annual salary of $3.50.
| He will recommend that if the county
board decides to rdopt the county sys-
TEN that the location be made central
and that timbered land be chosen for
| the site.
County Superintendent Higgins
made and filed his annual report and
as we believe it will be of considerable
interest to our readers we give it in
full
REPORT OF THE COUNTY SUPER
INTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
To the Honorable County Board of Vii
las county:
Gentlemen:
In compliance with the re-
quirements of the office, l have the
honor of submitting my annual report
as school superintendent of Villas cour-
ty, for the year ending June 30th,
1856.
GENERAL STATISTICAL SUM-
MARY.
Whole number of school districts
in the county l0|
Whole number of different de-
partments 20
Whole number Of children Ee-
tween four and twenty 1S6
Being an increase from last year
of II
Percentage of attendance be-
tween four and twenty 90
| Whole number of children be-
tween seven and thirteen attend
ing twelve weeks or more. 4O1
Whole number OF days attend
ance Is, S531
Being an increase from last year
of 4ssS4
" hole number of male teachers
employed 4
/ Whole number of female teach
ers employed ID
Average wages of male teachers
per month $4,000
Average wages of female teach
ers per month $4i.O0
Number of districts that furnish
free text books 8
FINANCIAL.
Money on hand June Both 1885 S4O43.22
Total amount received during
the year S196329 81
Total amount of money paid out
during the year $16C61 .OS
Money on hand June 3Oth, 1896 3571 SO
Cost of school houses built dur.
ing the year s1303.99
Cash value of school houses and
school apparatus in the county 100000
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS
During the year two public examina-
tions wereheld at which twenty appli-
cants for teachers certificates were ex-
amined and of these, two received first
grade, two second grade and sixteen
third grade certificates. All the
! schools have been officially visited
during the year the number of visits
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-11-19
COUNTY BOARD.

Tue county board has not been IN
session this.weeis, the members all be-
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ADVERTISING RATES.

Locals, 10 cents per line for first in
eertion; cents per line for each insor-
ton after.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23

Of melodrama She met young actor
named ]. Wolf and she became Mrs Wolf
Two months later there was a rumpus
in the Wolf home, and Bette renowned
her latest husband, and a divorce sepa-
rated them. 1t was in October, 1898. that
I'm Old Kentucky opened at the Acad-
captured the first nights audience. and
the play was n big success. Madge was
none other than Bette Gerard
The mountain girl attracted the atten-
ton of an old man. He was at the first
performance and at the last, twenty
weeks later. He came only to sea the
mountain girl. In order to be near the
playhouse he lived at the Westminster
hotel, at Thirteenth streets and Irving
place. He lavished his wealth upon her.
and Bette, who loved everybody when
everybody loved her, returned his smiles.
The old man clapped the loudest when
the applause was for the mountain girl.
and once a week brought flowers to the
theater for her.
one day a member Of her company
sought Bette at her home, and found that
the mountain girl had gone to the West
minister hotel
Bette subsequently became one of
Hoyt's BLACK Sheep" but she soon left
O'Rourke's "Wicklow. Postman.' She and
O'Rourke were the stars. The play went
west, where John l.. Sullivan and Paddy
Ryan Joined 1t. The name of Bette Ger
ard and that of O'ROurke's brother be-
came linked on gossps' tongues, and the
actress returned to this city She arrived
here only a lew weeks ago, ana began to
study a part for the Weoer 4 Field Com
pany when the results of her rapid career
began to tell upon her.
On Sunday last a cab drove up to Dr..
Wylies sanitarium for women, at No 215
West Forty-third street, Bette Gerard
was lifted out and carried into the insti-
tuition. Or. Wylie said ne had no room
for her. He saw that her Illness was of a
serious nature, so he hurried across the
street. to No. 222. and asked a private
family if they would not allow Bette to
remain there. The family consented, and
the best room in the house was prepared.
When a reporter Of the Press called yes
terday the nurse who attends the sick
actress said that Bette was resting quiet
~. She had been near death twice, but
had rallied.
Her stomach rebels" said the nurse,
but DR.. Wylie hopes to have her we'll in a
little while. At present her condition is
dangerous. She can see no one"
On the Rialto Bettina Gerard was known
as a good fellow" She always had
plenty of money. but recently her friends
have noticed a change in her appearance,
and they feared that she was about to
pay the penalty of her rapid life.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
THE MERMAID MYTH.
Educated Men and Women of To-day
Have Lost the Creative Faculty.

From the Speaker.
Much seeking is not necessary to discov-
er the origin OF the story if one will only
go to the right way to work. Haeckel's
dictum that the history of the individual
is the history of the race is as true IN the
region Of myth as 1t is in that of biology.
Educated men and women of the present
day have lost the myth-making faculty.
and must go to their children. or to those
whose minds are child-like, to learn
whence such stories sprang and how they
grew.
Intercourse with the peasantry and lis
tening TO their tales would teach one
much. But they must not be questioned,
or they will be startled into sudden silence.
tales the counterparts Of which might be
found in Theocritus, who but gave per-
manent form to folk tales current in his
time. Then the classics lie ready to our
hands: and for Hebrew folklore, there Is
more of it than most people wot of in
The Book. which is in truth a library or
a literature. But these should be read as
colors should be mixed-with brains. And
that is not an easy task.
If. however, we must have literature
in plain words, IL we are to enter into
other mems labors-Kingley'S water.
Babies" will give us all we want. There
are land babies, why not water babies2
VOLTA tout" 1t is not much of a secret
the source of this mermaid myth-even
as he states it at length. mo water
babies tndeedf why, wise men of old
said that everything on this earth had it's
double in the water; and you may see
that that is, If not quite true, as most
other theories which you are likely to
hear for many a day"
How deep a hold this fancy took of early
naturalists may be seen from their works,
and traces of Ii still linger in such names
as sea lion" and sea bear" though the
reason for such names has long been for
gotten by many of those who use them
Hence it is clear that the mermaid of folk
tale has no kinshiD with siren or sea
nymph, and certainly none with the fish
shaped gods. The dugong and the mana
tee were probably taken by early man as
proving the existence of man-like beings
living in the sea; they did not give rise
to the idea.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
sHORN FROM PEASANT GIRLS.
Grades of Hair Tint Come From Diff
ferent Heads I'm Europe.

From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
If you wish to know where false hair
comes from, you should imagine yourself
in quiet little Swiss village of thrifty
Woodworking peasant folk. The village
will find some morning that it is enter
tanning at the'inn a very handsome strang-
err who occupies the best room, pays the
best prices, and makes himself so gener-
ally agreeable that after he has been there
but one day every man, woman, and child
especially every pretty girl, whether peas
ant or high born. wishes to see this strang-
er at close range.
What, give silver for hair? the good far
mer Will ask. Why in the world would
man give money for hair when it was such
a bother to his daughters? The girls are
at work in the fields and have to be sent
for. Only too willingly they remove their
little caps, comb out their long beautiful
blonde hair letting it fall in golden show
ers over their shoulders nearly to the
floor.
During this operation the handsome
stranger has not been idle, for by his gal
liant and fiattering remarks he has won
for himself place in their estimation that
no amount of silver would do. Nina 5 hair
is not quite long enough to be marketa-
BILE, but she receives a little gold ornament
as a souvenir, while the stranger books
her hair for his next trip, and she-well
a fortune could not tempt her to sell it
to any one else. She watches daily for the
return of the stranger, and cares for her
hair as though it were a child.
Her sisters, however, are shorn of their
tresses by a few ships of his long thin
scissors, and receive in return few pieces
of silver, from 80 cents upward, or they
may have gold ornamentssif they choose.
The stranger carefully ties the long
strands of hair in separate bundles, en-
cages the next Crop" and goes on his
way to the next farm house. The village
is no longer one of long-haired girls but
for this they do not care, for they have
got what every girl takes more pleasure
ina new gown? And besides, more hair
will soon grow.
do you ever meet with refusals to
sell?' a reporter asked one of these hair
importers
Not from the peasants, unless some
one has been there before and engaged
their next crop. Oh, no, money in cash is
too scarce, and they think it is very easily
earned, so they keep raising and caring
for their hair just as they do their pota-
toes and corn. 1t is a general custom to
wear a cap to protect it from the sun
DO / travel only in SwitZerland?'
"Oh, no, 1 go there for blonde, ash
blonde, and drab shades and, by the way,
the French hair is best for bleaching, as
we can make a pure white of it. The long
est hair comes from Bohemia, but it is
harder to buy, for only a few peasants
have desirable hair, and they have got
to be urged to cut it off. l do not get
much hair from Italy. because the sun,
to which it is so often exposed, makes
it as coarse as Indians hair and hard to
bleach.s'
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
HOKE's BRILLIANT IDEA.
Paper Ducks and n Toy Gun for Press
ident Cleveland.

rum Allf NOW 4Ulh " NINls
Washington. Feb. 15.-President Cleve-
land went on another ducking trip to-
night Mrs. Cleveland accompanied him
this time. They left the white house at
an early hour and returned very late.
without any ducks, hut thoroughly satis-
fled with the nights sport IL was enjoy
ed also by the entire cabinet, for every one
of the Presidents advisers saw him as he
held a gun in his hand. and watched three
ducks hoatlng on the water. The gun
was about seven inches long, and the
ducks were papier-mache.
The water was in an artificial lake,
which had been built In the center of Sec
rotary Hoke Smiths dining-room table
and filled with not only ducks, but small
live fish of the kind which the President
loves TO catch. Besides the toy gun there
was at the Presidents plate miniature
fishing rod I'm order that he might enjoy
himself II the ducks got away. Everything
was planned to make him happy.
Usually cabinet dinners are very formal
affairs. but IL was the Secretary of the
Interiors turn TO give one tonight, and
Mr. and Mrs. HOke Smith decided to
provide a few novelties They designed
a sure-enough lake, which was ten feet
long by five wide and several inches deep.
A florist built a grotto In the center OF
Maryland rocks, covered 1. with ferns
and orchids, and carried out the humorous
Ideas OF the secretary very successfully.
A Decent man-of-war was anchored in
front of the Secretary OF the Nays
plate. Penny cannons frowned over
breastworks Of stones at the Secretary
of War: coils of red tape were strung
along in front OF the Secretary OF State:
a girl with her eyes bandaged was step
ping off a dock opposite Attorney General
Harmon. Secretary Of Agriculture Morton
gazed at a little wooden farmer pouring
seeds down hole I'm the rocks Instead
of into congressmen's districts; POstmas-
ter General Wilson confronted a mermaid
who seemed to want to deliver a letter
from the deep. Little gold dollars stud
ded an old Kentucky home in the cliffs
which Secretary Carlisle faced. over all
bazed a huge maltese cross with forty
five electric lights, emblematc Of the
forty-fve states.
Besides the President and the secretaries
and their wives the guests were Miss
Herbert, Miss Morton, Senator and Mrs
Gordon and Representative and Mrs. Tur-
ner.
Hoke Smiths dinner to the President
and the cabinet will be remembered after
all the others have been forgotten. The
sight Of the President of the United States
aiming a little toy gun at three paper
ducks will be long talked of by those
who saw Il. The President enjoyed the
fun immensely. and declares that those
kind OF ducks were the only kind Il would
be safe to put in front Of him with a gun
near by.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
"AccOrding to HoyIe.-

From the Chicago Times-Herald.
Hoyle was a barrister with a greater
fondness fer games than for the law. He
devoted his talents to the study of whist
and was the first of professional instruc-
tors in the game. He developed the game
to one of ten points and the hands 70 tnir-
teen cards each-twelve cards before his
time constituting the hands. He was the
undoubted father of the game, as Byron's
line perpetuates:
Troy owes to Homer what whist owes to
Hoyle.
His work on whist went through many
editions and no greater praise can be ac-
corded to the game than that under its
genial practice he lived to be 81 years old.
He w3s born In London IN 1917, and died
there, full Of years and honor in 1863.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23

he KNOWS THE BIBLE.
Kentucky Preacher Commits to
Memory Every Chapter But Two.
From the ChIcago Tlmes-Herald.

From the Chicago Times-Herald
Danville, KY, Feb. S.-Rev. w. c.
Hicks. a backwoods Baptist minister Of
extraordinary attainments, is attracting
a great deal of attention in the revival
meeting he is now holding in different
parts of Adair county. He is only about
% years of age, and has evidently had
only ordinary educational advantages, but
has been, so he says, hard student of
the Bible ever since he was first taught
to read when a small boy. He has com
mitted to memory every chapter in the
Bible except two. In order to test the re-
liability Of his claim, he closes his Bible
and permits anyone to call at random
for different chapters of different books,
which he recites 1t once, without hesita-
ton. word for word. His admirers, how
ever, are disinclined to accept all of his
biblical interpretations, as he differs
with Moses in his account of the flood
and has some ideas peculiarly his own
with reference to Jonah and the whale
His sermons are very unique, and few
churches can be found large enough to
accommodate the congregations which
assemble to hear him.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-23
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An Honest EngIislman.
From the New York TrIbune.

From the New York Tribune.
A woman of this city who lost her peck
etbooB on New Years day has just receiv-
ed the following unique letter:
London, January. 96.-Lady. On New
Years day / was in New York and at an
overhead railway station on the Third
avenue and Eighteenth street, / found a
pocket book. which think is your proper
ty. AS I was going directly aboard the
steamer for London where / belong
(thank God, j had not time to hunt you up.
Now here at home my Missus has a ledger
that comes from your country, he is a
Yankee and they do say he is an homes
man N do not believe myself that there is
any honest Yankee but the Missus says
that he is a real gentleman well she IS boss
she ought to know. we'll this Yankee comes
over here about or 10 times a year with
fine stock and he puts up With nay Missus
and as he pays bis score i think we can
trust him with the purse their was nothing
in it of value except piece Of green paper.
which said the United States would pay
on demand the sum Of One Dollar which i
sold for four shillngs. but that was little
enough for all my trouble and as ! am
an honest man do hope the Yankee Will
20 and give you your pocket book