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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
An Old Expression.

The common expression, carrying
Goals to Newcastle is not original or
peculiar to the English, as one might
suppose, but has it's equivalent in other
ago as the days when Greece was mis-
tress of the world we find the same
idea conveyed in these words: 'Owls to
Athens; fish to the Hellespont." A Latin
author clothes the same thought in
somewhat different language, Apples to
being his form of expression. In Span
ish the thought shows itself in the
lines. "To carry wood to the mountain;
to offer honey to the man who owns bee
hives The French speak of carrying
leaves to the wood while the Germans
are still more comprehensive with a say
ing which refers to carrying water into
the sea -
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20

those pretty pockets, as most of the
stories about him incorrectly state. He
has no need to do SO as an inspection
Of his burrowing operations will dis
close.
He humps his little back and resting
partly on his tail, partly on his hind
feet and with his front paws he fairly
makes the earth fly. Every few mo-
ments he will drop on his front feet
and with his hind ones will kick the
accumulated debris out behind him.
When a fair pile is collected he wheels
about. places his front paws. under the
mound and showing with his sturdy
hind legs comes putting up out of his
burrow like tiny steam eXcavator. In
a few hours he can dig long and very
winding burrow, and if he encounters
stones or roots he either undermines or
gnaws through the obstruction, however
big. He never sabandons his line of ex-
cavation on account of unforeseen difE-
culties.
The pretty fellows make very charm
ing pets and very cleanly ones, but fight
nearly all the time. Acquisitiveness
and keen instinct of property rights
make frequent disputes. Unless the cage
be very large one the stronger ones
will soon kill the weaker by force or
starve them to death. One will find the
others hidden store and appropriate it.
If taken in the theft a fight is inevita-
BILE and even if not badly injured the de-
feated gopher seems to take no JOY in
life when his property is thus lost.
Pockets in animals as in men seem to
Indicate realization of meus and tuus
inseparable from a train of accompany
ing woes. Envy, jealousy, worry, fraud,
fear, greed and suspicion almost I'M
known to savages and to pouchless Great
ures, make the gophers' lives very tur-
bulent. And in common with human
society they suffer from that most de-
testable. Of thieves, the pickpocket. New
York World
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Rvsterical Women.

.sMuch that is done in this world and
many a characteristic owes it's origin
to hysteria, declared or acknowledged.
We generally confine the word to those
fits Of passionate weeping in women and
girls. where self-control is lost and
screams prevail" says Mrs. Lynn Lin
ton. ''But doctors and the experienced
know better, and they know that many
things which perplex the unenlightened
and distress the sympathetic are simply
outbursts of hysteria, and that this is
the motive force by which is moved a
very large portion Of human nature, es-
pecially of feminine nature, both young
and old"
OF school girl loves and friendships
she says: ''Vows and declarations, pro-
testations and misunderstanding, jeal-
ousies, heart burnings, quarrels, despair,
here a wild outburst of fiery wrath,
there the upturned nose of cold disdain
and here again flood of tears, wherein
it would seem as if the very life of the
silly creature were flowing away-all
these are the first spellings3 Of the future
poem, which is now a tragic epic, and
now peaceful idyl. And the whole
things is hysteria, from endNto end. and
as baseless as all other such manifesto
tons under what name soever tLey may
CO."
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Kite-Flying in Corea.

Corea is the land of kites. The bust
ness of flying paper birds is understood
there as it is nowhere else in the world.
The toys Of the country in general, as
well as the games of the people, are re-
markable. Stewart Culin of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, who is the greatest
living authority on such matters. says
that many IF the toys of today in all
countries are suryivals from remote
antiquity. Some Of them are actually
ceremonial appliances of discarded re-
ligiOns. The kite is only one of numer-
Gus examples that might be mentioned.
With us it is a mere plaything, but in
Asia it retains suggestions of its original
significance as q symbol of the soul. AS
for games, most of them were not in
vented at all in the ordinary sense of the
term, but are survivals from primitive
times, in some cases originating in magic
rites.
The kites of Corea nowadays are made
by men specially trained to the craft. A
frst-rate one costs the equivalent of 10
cents in our money. The strings are
pure silk and of various colors, those
used at the royal palace being always
sky-blue. The strings are costly, and
poor people save money during the year
to spend on kites and the necessary
equipments at the kite-fying season. All
classes fly kites. from the king down.
Women sometimes fly them from the
yards Of houses. and it is said that one
can tell woman's kite by the way it is
managed.
Coreans say that the Chinese do not
know how to fly kites. The time for
kite-fying in the proper season is the
first half of the month: if any one should
fly kite at any other time he would be
laughed at. On the fourteenth day of
the first month of the year it is custom
airy to write on a kite wish that the
years misfortunes may be carried away
by it. The mother does this for her
child, giving the name and date of birth.
A favorite emblem on kites is picture
of Shoki, the demon queller
Japanese boys attach hummer" to
kites of large size. 1t is bow of bam-
boo with string of rawhide, fastened
to the top Of the kite. The boys are
very proud of the noise made by their
kites. 1t is considered very unlucky
for a boy to lose his kite. Search par
ties will sometimes follow lost kite
for many leagues. The kite seems to be
regarded as an emblem of the person
atty of the boy. Girls never have kites.
Simple kite-fying in Corea is secondary
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Are Women Aristocrats.

American women are the enemies of
democracy, not only because they with
draw from democracy some portion of
the wealth which is power, but because
they confer that same wealth, that same
racy. Not content with allying herself
with foreign aristocracies woman is fain
to introduce and to enforce q pseudo
aristocracy into our own country. Now,
if woman is naturally and inevitably
conservative in temperament what would
be the result of giving her an increased
power in affairs? What would the ballot
do for her and for man and for the cause
of progress, which is dearest to the heart
of man ?-William s. Walsh in the Won
ans Magazine.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
If you'd be Poet Laureate.

If you'd be poet laureate in England far
away,
Be careful what you say, sir;
Be careful what you say!
Don't tell the Queen she's aging-that her
tresses CLEAN with gray;
Or that England's gone to fiddlesticks and
isn't in the fray
Be careful what you say, sir;
Be careful what you say!
If you'd be poet laureate in England Tar
away,
No genius bring to play. sir;
No genius bring to play!
For you mustn't be a genius-so victorian
mandates say;
But just a jolly rhymer, Keeling poems off
for pay
But be careful what you say, sir;
BE careful what you say!
Atlanta Constitution.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Bicycle Polo.

A new game is being played in the
called Bicycle Polo.' It requires ex-
pert riders. They are divided into sets,
the number on each side being deter
mined by the space available for play.
In the center, ball, little larger than
the regulation polo ball. is placed. The
players toss for the first bunt, the OBJ
ject of the winner being to bunt the
toward the goal belonging to his side.
A goal counts 10 points, and 100 points
constitute game. This is somewhat
similar to the bicycle polo game which
Francis Wilson introduced on his lawn
at New Rochelle. There, however. they
used mallets instead of bunting the ball
with the front wheel Of the bicycle.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Hit Back at Him.

Joseph q: ChGate 5; seldom dom meets h+ sue S
met his match while trying case in the
surrogates court not long ago. An old
woman was being questioned about how
a certain testator had looked when a
certain incident has occurred. "Now,
how can I remember? He's been dead
two years." she replied, testify. ''Is
member two years back?" continued
Choate. The old woman was silent, and
Choate asked: did he look anything
like me?" Seems to me he did have
the same sort of a~vacant look!'' snapped
the witness. The questioning was sus-
Dended.-New York Mail and Express.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
FINDS A CHURCH THAT SUITS HIM.
Colonel IngersO1l Delighted with Rev.
Caroline Bartlett's Charge.

Colonel IngersO1l Delighted with Rev.
Caroline Bartlett's Charge.
Col. Ingersoll has found a church that
just suits him. Before his lecture in
Kalamazoo, Mich, he visited the Peo-
J. Bartlett is pastor. It is run on the
institutional plan. with parlors for social
events, rooms for students, Libraries,
kitchens and SO on, and ewas erected
largely through the generosity of Silas
Hubbard, a wealthy citizen, who died
recently. This all pleased the colonel,
as did the fact that the church is un-
UNCONVENTIONAL, requiring no creed what
ever. So great was the colonel's pleas
ure that in his lecture that evening he
declared that the church was the grand
est thing in the state, if not in the Unit
ed States. If there were similar
church at his home he would join it if
permitted, and the colonel talked as if
he meant what he said.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
NEW RAILROAD SIGNAL.
"A Light to Prevent Rear End Collisions
which One Company Has Adopted.

"A Light to Prevent Rear End Collisions
which One Company Has Adopted.
The Boston and Albany railroad has
adopted device that other railroads will
not be slow to accept. Whenever a
train for any reason is forced to stop at
an unusual spot brakeman is sent back
with flag by day or lantern by night.
The lantern is not at all times conspicu-
Gus, and many rear-end collisions have
occurred in consequence of the inability
of the fagman to get far enough back
on the track to sufficiently warn the on
coming train.
A fusee has been invented to meet this
emergency. 1t is attached to a pointed
rod, which is stuck into cross-tie be-
tween the tracks. 1t is ignited by the
simple process of unscrewing a friction
cap, whereupon bright red light, which
neither wind nor rain can extinguish,
burns for fifteen minutes, making an IL
Elimination visible for afull mile.-New
York ,W0r1d
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Not Well Thought OF.

Two stories are told of the time when
the Athenaeum club, while it's clubhouse
was undergoing renovation, were hospita-
bly, taken in by the United Service club.
One was of a distinguished officer who,
after a vain hunt for his umbrella, was
heard to mutter: "That comes of letting
those bishops into the club!' The
counterblast is to the effect that when an
Athenaeum man. while his club was still
the guest of the other, asked for the
librarian, the answer was: "Please, sir,
he is in the dining room, carving the
roast haefl''
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
CALIFORNIA; Oil production.

The production of the oil field for the
past year was nearly three times as
great as that of the. previous year,
amounting altogether to 1868, $50 bar
rels The average price received was
80 cents per barrel, or 1854, 375 for the
entire output. According to the estimate
of the oil exchange, there are $50 wells
which have been operated during the
year. the mean product of each being
about fifteen barrels daily.-Los Angeles
Herald.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Toboggans and.Orange Groves.

A unique affair is promised by the peo-
pie of Truckee, little town on the Cen
trail Pacific near the border between Ne
yada and California. The place is at the
summit of the Sierra Nevada range, and
consequently it will be easy to build an
ice palace This will have toboggan
slides and skating ponds for side attrac-
tons. But the novel feature will be the
presence, only eight miles away, of
orange groves. which will be in bloom
when the exhibition opens in January.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
A Oueer Pauer:

About the queerest newspaper is LIE
Monaco. 1t is issued weekly, is admir-
ably printed on expensive paper, and its
s'news" consists almost exclusively of
figures arranged in long columns. These
figures tell in what compartment of the
roulette wheels at Monte Carlo and Spa
the little balls have come to rest during
a weeks business" The paper costs
IS year. and the advertising rates are
81 a line for announces Fnd Sc line for
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS
On Salary Day.

On Salary Day.
On salary day all nature smiles,
The foaming, amber lager wiles;
The half-case table d'hote beguiles-
On salary day.
On salary day the sky is blue;
The bill is promptly met when due;
The joy bells ring for me and YOU
On salary day.
On salary day-oh, life is heaven!
And, since such bliss by it is given,
/ wish that each day of the seven
Were salary day.
New York Recorder.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
A Straight Life.

What's the use of leading a straight
life? Nobody gives you credit for it.
Society expects more or less diverting
life from young fellow; it so accepts
him. Practically, it calls him s'ninny"
if he lives otherwise. 1t only asks of
him that he shall not be caught. Isn't
this so?
[ can scarcely imagine view of life
so entirely wrong in its personal appli-
cation. The real fuse" of leading "a
overlooked by this young man, who
seems to think that his life is lived for
others rather than for himself. The
sEuse" of leading an honorable life con-
Germs itself with the young man him
seIf-to his own conscience, to his own
heart Of what possible satisfaction is
IT to get credit from Others for doing
what is best for ones self? Men do not
lead honorable lives for the sake of get
ting credit for ito win the hand of APP
plause. They do it for themselves, for
their own inner ,Satisfaction-that they
may be true to- themselves and to the
best that is within them.
Aside from this paramount fact, how
ever, people do give young man credit
for the life that he leads, and are far
more>often aware of his doings than the
young man Supposes. But it depends
upon the, people whose favor the young
man values. If he seeks the recognition
of what'lS so wrongly called ana known
as Society" a righteous life, an up
right life, an .Ilonorable life-in other
words, a manly life-may not count for
SO much. But the aimless men and silly
women who constitute that body called
society" figure for nothing in the life
of an earnest youag man. If, however,
he associates with men who in his devel-
oping days may mean much to him, and
whose acquaintance in later years will
be a pride and joy to him, if he finds
Measure in the society Of women who
arouse his best thoughts he will find
that his life, free from blemish, is appre-
ciated, is understood, is recognized and
is known. There is an indefinable chord
which always draws the right men to the
young man of pure life. They are the
men who give credit to young fellow
who tries to live rightly, and they are
the only men worth his knowing. These
men may not openly applaud him, but
they will give him their confidence, their
good will, their friendship. And in later
years.he will more fully understand what
these elements mean to him. Such men
do not call a young man a 'ninny" be-,
cause he leads an upright life they call
him a manly fellow, and they take him
into theft hearts and into their homes.
An adherence to high PRINCIPLES and right
living counts for great deal as example
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20

and inspiration to others as we'll as train
ing and advancement for ones self. 1t
gives a young man a certain indefnable
strength in himself and position in the
eyes of others which nothing else can
bring him-Edward w. Box in Ladies
Home Journal.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
For Holiday Dinners and Dances.

There is a preference this season for
giving dinners and small dances rather
than great balls during the holidays.
The small and early Cinderella dances
at Sherry's, ending at the stroke OF *,
have a pretty cotillon beginning at y,
and the leader is chosen from among the
most popular men in the society. A
dinner is given to ones most intimate
friends at home entertainments, and q
large circle culled from ones visiting
list is invited for dancing at a later
hour The gowns for the girls who dine
and dance, from the latest debutantes up
to those Of the young matrons, are this
year more often Of white satin than of
any other fabric, and are varied in many
ways But they all have one thing in
common-the full faringe skirt, which
barely touches the floor, if it does not
full trains are worn only by brides, not
even by dowagers who keep up with the
times.
The skirt for this dancing gown is that
one of Paquin's which has proved itself
most popular for gowns Of many kinds,
breadth folded deeply at the top in a
wide boXpleat, and allowed to flare be-
low The other breadths are narrower,
and are shaped at the top with reference
to the individual Wearer. some being
plainly fitted by. darts on the sides and
DlodLeu dCTOSS Lie UdCh. OLucIS u VOIV
thin fabrics being each gathered and
shirred in little clusters, while still 9TH
ers have small pleats on the sides. All
are lined throughout, and are interlined
around the foot from ten to eighteen
inches deep with any favorite stiff ma
teriaI, but none are stiffened up to the
belt in the back. The rubber strap in
side just below the hips is no longer
SO much used. Instead short straps in
a line are put eight or ten inches above
the foot to hold the sides and back in
what appear to be natural folds. For
some reason the balayeuse ruffle has
Of the the skirt IS finished as plainly as pos
sible with merely a seam joining the
outer and inner sides together, or else
it is narrowly faced with velveteen or
with wool skirt braid applied in the old
fashioned way, fat-not as a binding
Harper's Bazaar.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
The American Girl as an English wife.

The American Girl as an English Wife.
Apropos of the recent marriages be-
tween rich American girls and English
men, says an English writer, there are
beginnings of grumblings to be heard
across the Atlantic about the way these
girls are treated after marriage. There
is much to be said on both sides, and we
think that in many of the lamentable
disagreements which have unfortunately
arisen between the contracting parties,
the American girls are much to blame.
Englishmen, when they marry, have a
tendency towards liking peace and set
Ting down; but the American, accus-
toned to tearing across the continent at
railway speed, spending a few weeks in
London and then in Paris. wintering at
the Riviera and on to Monte Carlo, does
not care for the quiet ways of English
home life.
She is too nervous constitutionally to
ride, drive and indulge in many of the
sports and games of our leisured classes
and only cares for the country when it is
used as background for elaborate house
parties and picnics. Is it to be wondered
at that the husbands have got tired of
tearing about? Though, when the newt
able separation comes, the compatriots of
the American bride consider her "a
martyr.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20

In the -Waiter-"What
shall / get for you?" Professor absent
minded, reading the bill of fare-"I am
busy now; ask me after dinner" File
gende Rlaetter.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
A Pulling Sign.

"Going Out Whitewashing Done In
side" is the somewhat puzzlng sign on
a small shop in Skowhegan. Me.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-01-20
Drop the Moral.

The late Dr. W. B. Robertson of IT.
vine was once addressing boys meet
ing, and having delighted them with
some of his racy anecdotes, he began to
draw to q close by saying: Now I'm
.'Never mind the moral" shouted little
fellow from the middle of the hall; "gie's
anither story"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-16
THE OLD SCHOOLS.

The old -chool exhibitions-the schools
there. where the birds
Made music that was sweeter than the
sweetest human words
We see them but in memory; the boys now
talk In Greek.
And 'The Soldier of the Legion doesn't
die three times a week.
The old school exhibitionz-they were glo-
riOuS and great,
Ard the boys that used to run them have
been rulers Of the State;
But they only live in memory now, whose
strains Aeolian float,
"And uOt a single drum is heard-not even
funeral note"
The old school eXhibldons-remembered
fOndly still,
The playground in the valley-the school
house on the hill;
And I'd like to meet the old boys, and with
feelings fair and fine
Go back with them TO Bingen-to "Bingen
on the Rhine
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-16

warrant and Blocmer went away very
indignant.
In the morning he called again, and,
getting no more satisfaction, lighted
lantren which ne carried in his hand
and began TO pace up and down Will
liam street form police headquarters to
City Hall and back again. His actions
attracted a crowd, and Lieutenant
Tracy sent out an officer after him.
When BloOmer was asked by the lieu
tenant what he meant by parading the
streets with lighted lantern in day
light, he said that he was looking for
his rights. He claimed that he had
been unable to get them under ordinary
circumstances, so he decided to take
light and search for them. Boomer
was locked up as a disorderly person
and later was arraigned before Judge
Mott. AS he appeared to very peni-
tent. he was discharged with a severe
reprimand.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-06-16
prTS FOR THE SUMMER GIRL

crash and linens are favorite goods
a.. present. The former is durable and
+.s sppearance improves greatly n the
~,-.1g. but it is by no means a good
--.es,ment unless it Is thoroughly
.-1nk before &c is cut. Linen IS put
81, So many uses that it is seen even in
vtse, suits. These ars pretty enough
r fair weather, but wetting linen
CHANGES its color so that it looks dread
mi after even slight sprinkle. The
Changes ruag on grass linen are almost
~rnberless, and separate skirts Of this
rial are very useful. Whole COS
unes are made from it with resem-
Nance 10 tailor finish, and simple as
-ss individual designs are, there is a
cons lerable variety Of them. The one
ssched herewith Is garnished with
machine stitching and with white cord
and ornaments. Beneath its jacket
bodice there is a fitted vest, the cord
thinning it and the loose fronts.