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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
Eat Fruit and Grow Pretty.

The warm weather damsel should have
skin like peaches and cream. She
would, too, if she only knew how to I'M
prove her opportunities.
Why doesn't she take advantage Of the
fruit season? Why doesn't she scorn
pastries, buildings, cream and candies
during the few months, at least, when
for the mere choosing healthful fruit
dainties are hers?
Would she aid her digestion, clear up
muddy skin and secure all around
health let her become an apple eater
Pears are health aids, but better when
cooked. Peaches are calculated to beau
tify, and grapes are declared the health
lest of all fruits. Cherries an authority
says, frequently restores health and
strength to the weak Strawberries,
though a cold fruit, have the virtue Of
healing rheumatism. Pineapples are
said to be the best cure for dyspepsia
known. Oranges are an excellent cure
for dyspepsia, and lemons serve as a fine
fruit tonic-Philadelph Inquirer.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
JUSTICE FIELDS BIG OAK.

al to Cover Several Acres and to be
the Largest in California.
Long before California became part
of American territory there existed in the
vicinity of Monterey, and there still
stands after half a century of occupa-
ton, wonderful specimen of live oak.
1t was a marvel to the Mexicans of
those days, and pointed out as one of the
curiosities of the land to the few visitors
to the coast.
Among those to whom the natural Won
der had been shown in the days of Mexi-
can domination was a young passed mid
shlpman of the United States navy,
whose ship had anchored in Monterey
bay. His name was Timothy Beals
Field, and he is now long since dead
He was so amazed by the sight of the
marvellous tree that he sketched it and
wrote an account of it to his father,
shire hills of Massachusetts,.
This incident was long forgotten. 1t
was only last year, on the occasion of
his visit to California, that the recollec-
ton came to the mind of Justice Ste
phen J. Field A party was made up
The tree was found: It proved to be
even more extraordinary than as de-
scribed by the young midshipman to his
father.
Since the midshipman wrote of it the
tree must have expanded vastly, for it
now covers more acres than one It's
trunk is not to be seen. The fine light
sand has drifted in to the depth of 80
or 40 feet. and covered and protected
this relic.
Each branch is the size Of an ordinary
tree, and there are numbers Of them
spreading out latitudinously, with other
branches on these, shooting upward to
the sun, the foliage being all on top and
very dense.
The tree is of the variety known as the
California live oak, Quercus wren; it's
leaves are small, fresh and crisp, and of
a vitality unimpaired by years. and they
do not fall with the seasons.
Ever since the rediscovery of the tree
it is popularity known as "Justice Fields
oak San Francisco Chronicle.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
Coins in an Oil Cup.

An engineer on the st. Paul railway
tried some interesting experiments this
week to see the effect Of continued, vio-
lent motion on number of coins He
took a 5-cent piece, dime and penny
and dropped them into the oil cup on the
''side barr of his locomotive and allowed
them to stay there while the, engine made
a few trips between Milwaukee and Rug
by Junction. The side bar, it may be
explained, is the bar that connects the
two driving wheels of the locomotive.
The coins were thrown into the oil and
the up and down motion Of the bar
caused them to revolve rapidly.
When the were taken out it was found
that each had turned wide rim on its
edge and rounded it as perfectly as
though the coin had been turned out in a
lathe. The accompanying cut gives q
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
EXPENSES OF THE TURF.
The Cost of Derby Vfctory-A Reform
in Methods Advocated.

The Cost of Derby Victory-A Reform
in Methods Advocated.
Cost is a great element of these sue
cesses on the turf, and of this crowning
one especially. That earlier day when
the Yorkshire squire entered his hoSse
for the Derby with hardly greater
sense of responsibility than he would
have felt in entering him for the local
plate belongs to very ancient history.
You have to buy your way to the Derby
victory at every step of the road. The
training stables cost a fortune. 1t is
not only the stud, the broad acres for
the exercising grounds, and the huge
staff of underlings. Between the stable
man and the owner there are the train
mand, with host of others, who, in
their several ways, attain to a sort of
social Importance. The trainers house is
sometimes better than the patrons. His
lawn, his strawberries, his billiard room,
and even his dinner parties are all mat
tiers of course. The state in which the
modern jockeys live is notorious. Their
Wallets are now heard of without even
the sense Of wonder, and it would give
the public no great shock of surprise
to learn that one of them had set I'D q
private chaplain. Pindar was poet to
a racing ring. 1t is a good thing to
command the market in Vanity Fair.
The principal bull-fghter in Madrid or
in Seville is distinctly a parsonage, and
although he may not be able to read or
write, he keeps the state of things For
all that there is a considerable and a
growing number of persons who regard
racing as the curse Of the age The
demand for reform affects rather the
abuses than the uses of sport. The turf,
with Englishmen, is the national form of
the lottery so dear to other sections of
mankind. In its worst shape it is gam
bling on pure chance. The noble pa
iron has a trying time before him, for
he will soon be expected to conform
to some self-denying ordinance in the
amount of his ventures. The problem is
to keep sport fashionable and gambling
the reyerSe-LOndon News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
The Omcer,s Funeral.


Hark. to the shrill trumpet, calling.
II pierceth the soft summer air.
Tears from each comrade are falling,
For the widow and orphan are there.
The bayonets earthward, are turning,
And the drums nruffied breath roll around;
But he hears not the voice of their mourn
ing,
Nor awakes to the bugle sound.
Sleep, soldier-tho' many regret thee,
Who stand by the cold bier today.
Soon shall the kindest forget thee,
And thy name from the earth pass away
The man thou didst love as a brother,
A friend, in thy place, will have gained
Thy dog shall keep watch for another,
And thy steed by another be refined.
But, though hearts that now mourn thee
sadly,
Soon joyous as ever shall be,
Though thy bright orphan boy may laugh
gladly,
As he Sits on some comrades knee
There is one who shall still pay the duty
OF tears for the true and the brave,
AS when first in the bloom of the beauty
She wept o'er the soldiers grave.
Selected.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
DIAMOND WITH A FEATHER TIP.

Stone Which Invariably Brought Mis-
fortune to the Possessor.
Some years ago a Paris jeweler told
story of one diamond which had passed
over his counter no less than eleven
times. 1t was beautiful stone Of nearly
four carats, of perfect color and luster,
but easily identified by means Of a small
feather" in the tip of the lowest part
He bought it from an East India dealer,
and had it set in ring. 1t was sold to
a countess i'll 1869, just before the out
break of the Franco-Prussian war. The
countess died in a few weeks, and the
ring was worn by her husband. He was
killed in the siege Of Paris, and a few
days after his death the ring was
brought into the store for sale by com
mon soldier. He was arrested and the
ring sent to the family of the dead
count, says the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat.
Before the siege ended they brought in
the ring and sold it to the dealer in order
to procure money to buy food. Directly
after the siege it passed into the hands Of
an English tourist, who visited the city
to get a look at the ruin wrought by
the communists, and year later back
came the stone from the Indian buyer of
the firm, who, on being written to and
desired to tell how he got it, stated that
it had been the property OF an English
tiger, and his friends sold the ring to
get means to send the body home
The stone was reset and soon found a
purchaser in a prominent member of the
demi-monde, who not long after was
murdered in her room. Among the ar
ticles taken by the murderer was the
ring, and the firm began to wonder how
soon it would turn up. They had not
long to wait, for all their people had by
this time learned about the stone, and
were on the look out for it. After six
months it was found in the showcase of
a jeweler in London, who had bought it
from a firm in Amsterdam. 1t was
bought by the Paris agent and sent back
to be started afresh on its travels. 1t
was purchased again by a woman, who
six weeks later was drawn out Of the
Seine with the gem on her finger, and,
by strange coincidence, it was offered
to the firm that sold it by the police
agents, the court having jurisdiction hav-
ing ordered it to be sold. And SO it went
from hand to hand. attended with mis-
fortune at every change, and usually
bringing death to the possessor. Labor
ers in the Golconda mines used TO say
that when a stone was baptized in blood
when first taken from the earth it caused
The shedding Of blood wherever it went,
and the story Of one such ill-omened gem
goes far to confirm belief in such a
SlnerStitiOn
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
smart1y ROBBED Travellers.

Summer tours are in progress, and nat
urally suitable outfits are in considera-
ton. The old custom of saving for the
travelling expedition the half-wornout
gown and hat has quite passed away.
and we now see the traveller gowned
quite as jauntily for the journey as she
would be for the street.
And why not? People who can afford
to travel for mere pleasure surely can
afford the best service the train or boat
affords, and, such being the case, there
is no more fear of injuring the costume
than if in ones own parlor, and then,
too, shut up, as travellers are, for long
time with fellow travellers, it is well to
be so gowned as to be a pleasant COM
panion and not guy in frumpy gown.
The London tailors are unquestionably
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
Cost OF a Cattle Plague.
.INlA
+! OLJIs 3


1t is costing the Cape Colony $4,000
a day to guard its borders against the
terrible rinderpest, and DR.. Edington,
director of the Psychological institute,
Graham's town, says that 81, 100000 will
have to be expended before the scourge
is overcome According to DR.. Eding-
ton. it is ''the real rinderpest which
italians introduced it with their Eu-
ropean cattle into Northern Africa at
Massowah in 1890. 1t passed down
the Nile valley with the Arabian cara
vans, and. passing down Central Africa,
was heard of in 1898 at Kilima Marc.
For year or two it remained north of
ages among the cattle and buffalos, and
even the elephants did not escape.
don Chronicle
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
The 0uttloor Woman

1t seems to be generally acknowledged
that the most conspicuous fault among
women goIf-players is a stiffness or lack
of freedom in swinging the club This
is the defect complained Of by nearly
every instructor who has had women for
his pupils. The full swing, which re-
Quires that the arms be moved easily
from the shoulder, in order to bring
the club well behind the head and cause
it to describe a complete circle, is sell
dom attained In it's perfection. Instead,
the average woman player attempts to
produce the same effect by using the
forearm vigorously and keeping the up
per arm comparatively rigid. This is at
least the result of her motions, however
good her intention may be TO swing from
the shoulder. The consequence is that
she may become proficient in the short
game-approaching and putting-but that
she will fail ON the long drives.
One reason for this state of things is,
doubtless, that women have been unac-
customed to any exercise which demands
so free use of the upper arms and
shoulders, so that even if nothing ham
pers these muscles it is hard to force
them Immediately to do their proper
share of work But another reason, and
one which is SO easy of remedy that
there is no excuse for it's existence, is
the players clothes are frequently too
cessful pursuit of the sport. The in
structor often looks on in despair while
his pupil, i'm obedience to his directions,
endeavors to initiate his swing. She
simply cannot raise her arms as he does
because the sleeves have been put into
her gown in such a way as to effectually
prevent it. Besides that the proper
movement of the body, which ought to
receive nearly as much exercise as the
arms, is usually impossible on account
of the snugness of her corsets. It should
be said, however, that these criticisms
do not apply by any means to all women
players. Many of them have seen the
hopelessness of trying to acquire skill
under such conditions, and play in cloth
ing which restricts them no more than
does that worn by men. Shirt-waists,
carefully selected with reference to the
looseness of the armholes, are easy, and
more suited TO summer than sweaters
But the latter are very comfortable IN
cool weather, and are worn by some of
the most expert women players. Prac-
tically the same kind of skirt as that
generally used for wheeling has been
found most onyenient.-Harpers Bazaar.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
MARVEL IN MENTAL ARITHMETIC.
A Remarkable Signature of Rich Mer-
chant WHO Couldn't Write.

Wolf Bluestine, who died at Hot
Springs recently, came to Orange a very
poor man in 1876. He began merchan-
dising, and while here acquired a capital
estimated at between $4,000 and $780,
000 He could neither read nor write,
vet he was a marvel in mental arithme-
tic. Fractions nor interest had any hard
places in them for him. He offered the
principal of the city schools at this place
$500 if he would teach him to write his
own name within a year. The professor
undertook the job and worked with great
energy, but discovered that on each
Monday morning every trace of the pre-
vious weeks work had entirely faded
from the mind of his pupil, and after
five months of close attention to his I'M
dertaking, abandoned it as a hopeless
case. A peculiarly constructed "BXX"
was the nearest approach he ever made
to penmanship, but that signature is at
tached to many valuable documents now
of record in this county, and has for sew
eral years passed current at the banks
in New York. Galveston and Orange,
often for large sums of money. 1t was
quite as difficult to counterfeit the char
acters as affixed by him as it would be
to successfully initiate the Signature
Galveston Daily News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
A Windy Day.

The giant powder in the blast
Is blowing up the powders;
The daughter with pneumatic sleeves
Is blowing up her shoulders.
The baker to the kitchen maid
Is blowing up his crumpets;
The milkman in the lower hall
Is blowing up the trumpets.
The gentle zephyr from the South
Is blowing the narcissus;
The cook who thinks she knows it all
Is blowing mp the ''missus."
The father, down upon his knees,
Is blowing up the fires;
The daughter in her bloomer suit
Is blowing up her tires.
-Yonkers Statesman.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
Care of the Feet.

Low shoes should be worn instead Of
high ones whenever practicable, as the
low shoes allow much freer ventilation
to the foot than high boot can possibly
do. Some of the most impure matter
from the body exudes through the feet,
and for this reason they should be well
ventilated and washed daily with scrupu-
lous care. The neglect of the hygiene of
the feet in the matter of bathing and in
casing them in close shoes, through
which there is no chance of ventilation,
has more to do with corns, bunions and
other Affections of the feet than the
worst shoes ever invented.
The perfect fitting of stockings is a
very important matter, the neglect Of
which has much to do with the COM
plants of sore and tender feet that one
SO often hears in summer. A stocking
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
Trees Turned Into Newspapers.

A trial was recently made in Austria
to decide in how short a space of time
papers. At Elsenthal, on April II, at
1856 in the morning, three trees were
sawn down; at 9:34 the wood having
been stripped of bark, cut up and con-
verified into pulp. became paper and
passed from the factory to the press,
from whence the first printed and folded
copy was issued at 10 O'Clock. So that
in 145 minutes the trees had become
newspapers The age Of miracles IS not
past. Westminster Gazette.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
A Slaughter Of AlIigators.

An alligator story is being told by a
Floridan who recently settled in this
section that is worth telling, though it
may be. well to take it with small
pinch of salt. Here is the story: The
Florida man went misunderstanding and
came across a school of reptiles in a
pond. The mans dog caused an upris-
ing in the school, as the dog is fine
morsel for the alligator. The dog began
to bark and caper around in regular
Fourth of July order, and, as he stayed
at his masters heels. that worthy was
held responsible by the alligators. The
man and his dog were quickly surround
ed by the reptiles, whose mouths were
foaming and gaping with rage. The
rifle that the man carried was brought
into play against the school," and one
after another Of the reptiles was killed
until the ground was literally covered
with their carcasses. 1t was thrilling
experience for both the man and his
dog. both escaping without receiving a
scratch from the enemy. A curiosity
fend picked up the alligator teeth that
lay on the ground where the massacre
occurred and sold them for S30O-Way-
cross (Ga.) cor. Atlanta Constitution.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
A Princes Income,

Prince Victor has always been the sort
of pretender which the republic finds
least troublesome. He is comfortably
quartered in the Avenue Louise, Brussels;
he is comfortably increasing in adiposity;
he has partially for Louvain beer;
and, in short he seems to be qualifying
for the burgomastership. This unpreten-
tiousness has become so marked, indeed,
that the other day the prince was inter-
viewed about it by one of his more push
ing supporters. His imperial highness
''unbuttoned himself" the interviewer
subsequently reported, in the frankest
way. He pointed out that he was in the
enjoyment of nice little income, is in
comes go III Brussels-f24OO a year, in
fact. That was too much, he thought. to
risk in a descent upon BOulogne. And
the rather, for that five-sixths of it were
in the nature Of terminable annuity.
The eX-Empress Eugene allows her rela-
tive t1200 a year; the Princess Mathilde
makes that up to $4,000, and the annui-
tant has f4O0 year of his own. Now,
he very sagely argued, the empress likes
to go about France, and it is an under
stood thing that she may come and go
pretty we'll as she likes. And the prin-
cess is determined to have her winter in
Paris, and would be miserable if she
didn't get it. But if he, the pretender,
were to trouble the French government
with his pretentions, the government
would assuredly make itself less agree
able to his benefactresses, who would
naturally make themselves less agree
able to him. So he preferred to make
things agreeable all around.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06

self and of Queen Marghertia, and Of the
princess of the royal family, has given
to the government for the families of the
dead and wounded soldiers in Africa the
sum of 100000 francs. This sum is to
be distributed without distinction be-
tween the Italian and native soldiers who
fought side by side against the Abyssin-
ians.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06

that is toe long is sure to crease some
where and irritate the foot.-Cincinnati
Tribune,
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
A National Park.

Wyoming is to have a new national
park. A treaty has been concluded with
the Shoshone and Araphoe tribes for the
cession to- the government of a section
of land ten miles square In one corner
of the reservation. The, purchase in.
Guides the famous hot springs at the
head Of the Big Horn river, in the Owl
mountains, and the price to be paid is
SGD 600
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06
Riding Untamed CameIs.

The last communication from Prof. Ell
lott of the Field museum expedition in
Africa, dated April q, gives humorous
camels.
you can imagine" it reads, that
there's a circus around here while the
instruction is going on. When the I'M
tanned camels arrived | heard tremen-
dous growing in front of the door. and
on going out | saw one Of these amlable
beasts being led by his keeper. but walk
ing along with every expression of dis
gust, both in his countenance and voice.
The man stopped ditto cameD and at
tempted to tie the beasts forelegs to-
gether. when it reared, and, striking out
with it's forefeet, landed on the keepers
stomach and head, sending him flying
through space as II shot cut OF can
non. The man picked himself out of
ditch with hand on each bruised part,
and the camel, which never ceased roar
ing, was taken in charge by two other
and more robust natives and led to the
tents, or rather induced to go by ener-
getic assistance of very sharp iron rod
applied in most vigorous and miscel-
.laneous manner. Similar exhibitions are
being conducted daily, and we are now
ready to lead the recently broken cam
els. Within three or four days they are
said to become tractable. | formed my
opinions of a camel forty years ago
when / rode across the Arabian deserts,
and I see no reason to alter it in any
way The creature has SO many talents
and so many ways Of exhibiting them.
And, to begin with, it can kick harder,
higher, swifter and oftener than Vir-
ginia mule, and can use all four feet at
one time in kicking match. Then it
can bite worse than a vicious horse,
and buck in way to make a bronchO
blush with absolute shame. No cowboy
ever lived who can stay on that perch z
feet from the ground during a cameFs
exhibition of gymnastics. Then he can
run away whenever he feels like it. and
he is often seized with desire to slope.
Upon an occasion of this kind his rider
experiences a sensation between being
blown up with dynamite or struggling
against the throes of an earthquake un-
til all his joints are dislocated, and he
drops, a limp, inert mass, to the ground.
Then this sweet creature has a way
of evincing his displeasure that is at
least effective and convincing. He
twists his tail-like neck into a circle,
and, poking his ugly nose in the face of
the rider opens his cavernous mouth and
lets out roar of disgust in such fetid
breath that the elevated human victim is
fairly blown into the middle of the COM
ing month Ga week being too short a dis
tance). And yet, with all those high
recommendations, which some people
might consider Objectionable, these are
the dear animals | am yearning for
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06

An expurgated edition of 'HTom
Jones" is in course of preparation by
Mrs. J. M. Fielding, the wife of the
novelist's great-grandson.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-07-06

Some one asked Max Nordau to de-
fine the difference between genius and
insanity. Well" said the author of
Degeneration, ''the lunatic is, at least,
sure of his board and Clothes"