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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
Wicked Deacon.

There was once a deacon on Cape
Cod who heard early one morning that
there had been a wreck on the beach
near his house. He hurried down with
a couple of pillow cases; filled one with
sugar, hid it under the bank and went on
to look for more groceries. When he
was gone a neighbor came along on the
same errand, caught sight of the pillow
case, emptied it in his own bag and re-
filled it with sand. By and by the dea-
con returned empty-handed and carried
off his pillow case without noticing the
change. In fact. he filled his sugar
bowl and tried to sweeten his coffee
before he found out how badly he had
been treated. Then he was so indignant
that, as he confessed afterward, II was
almost. wicked enough to wish there
might never be another wreck on this
here coast again.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
Finding a Ships Speed.

A ships rail is found by line about
900 feet long, on reel, having one end
fastened to a thin, sector-shaped piece
of wood, called log. The arc of the
log is loaded to make it stay vertical
when tossed into the sea; it then re-
mains inthe same place lis supposed to-
in the water while the line is unwind
ing from the reel. The line is divided
into equal parts of SO feet each, called
knots, or 1-12Oth of a nautical mile.
Since a half-minute has the same ratio
to an hour that knot has to a nauti-
cal mile, the ship runs at the rate of as
many nautical miles an hour as it runs
knots in half minute. If, say, nineteen
knots pass in half minute, the vessel
is then running at the rate of nineteen
miles an hour.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
A sELF-MADE MAN.
John Fritz, President of the Society of
Mechanical Engineers.

John Fritz, President of the Society OF
Mechanical Engineers.
John Fritz. who was recently elected
the president of the American Society
of Mechanical engineers, was born in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, in 1872,
and the first sixteen years of his life was
spent on the farm of his father. He
then went to harrisburg, near by, and
secured employment in a machine shop.
During his apprenticeship he had most
varied experience, which ranged from
the cleaning of castings up to the man
agement of the lathe. Young Fritz went
to Morristown, Pa, where there were
larger shops and greater opportunity for
improvement. From there he went to.
Safe Harbor. Pa, where he put up the
machinery of n rolling mill. He then
began to acquire an experience in the
rolling mill industry, both as an inventor
and n builder of iron and steel making
machinery, upon which his reputation
chiefly rests.
He is considered to be one of the fore
most of American metallurgists and Is
now superintendent of the Bethlehem
Iron works. In 1854 Mr.. Fritz remod
eled and rebuilt the Cambria Iron works,
pioneer iron and steel plants of the coun-
try. In 1867 Mr.. Fritz constructed his
first three-high roll train and produced
iron rails with an economy hitherto I'M
known. In 1860 company was organ
lied to build furnaces and rolling mills
on the banks of the Lehigh river, below
Bethlehem, and Mr.. Fritz was selected
to plan and build the new works. His
company was one of the first to begin the
manufacture of Bessemer steel, and their
success was largely owing to the ability
and energy Of Mr.. Fritz, who has the
distinction of being one of the few Amer
leans who has been hOnOred with the
Bessemer gold medal from the British
Iron and Steel institute.
All honor is due to the man who has
passed through all the rudiments of a
trade and has risen to the highest point
in the profession, and it is a handsome
and proper recognition of his worth to
be elected to the presidency of an i'm
portant body like the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
Changed Places.

The Partisan wits are reviving m old
story about the wonderful cure from
deafness of patient who was recon-,
mended to, 90 to hear ..Lohengrin," and
to sit near the orchestra, by. the from
bones. The doctor accompanied his pa
tient, and sat beside him, All of sud
den. while the noise of the. instruments
was at it's loudest, the deaf man found
he could hear. Doctor" he almost
shrieked, II can hear" The doctor took
no notice Il tell you, doctor, repeated
the man in ecstacy, you have sayed me.
I have recovered my hearing" Still the
doctor was silent. He had become deaf
himself.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN
The Child-Season.

o sunny life Of childhood! blossoming
To gladden. all the world; as if the spring
Were captive made, and your soft hair IN
Had Melted all springs sunshine as it
stirred;
Your little nest has still its singing bird.
youth! fast learning to be wise and vain,
Whose aims are lofty. In the race for gain
Great things seem possible-and yet today
Some grave that is a milestone on the way
Says over the worlds loud voice, "Kneel
and pray"
o, hearts that pain has chastened! well We
know
The song of thankfulness. Ye but ,forego :,
YouF1joy little. while. The leaves may.
Of autumn; yet be brave; We have fought
well,
Weep not; ye know that other fighters fell
O, aged heads that many a Yule-tide snow
Has whitened! Though the time be long
ago
Since first We laughed in childhood's golden
ray,
The Child of Bethlehem takes your hand
today,
Gods blessing crowns your far more perfect
way. Chambers Journal.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
The Worlds Rivers.

The Tigris is 1850 miles long.
The Tiber is only 23O miles long.
The world-famous Orontes is only 24O
miles long.
The Zambesi, in South Africa, is 1900
miles in length.
Slow rivers flow at the rate of three
to seven miles an hour.
Twelve creeks in the United States
bear the name Of the Rhine.
Every ancient city of note was located
on or near the sea or a river.
The Gauges is 1870 miles long and
drains and area of 10000 square miles.
The Hudson river, from it's mouth to
the lakes, is 400 miles in length.
The Mississippi and it's tributaries
drain an area Of 100000 square miles.
The branches of the Mississippi have
an aggregate length of $1,000 miles.
For over 1900 miles the Nile does not
receive a single tributary stream:
The River Jordan has it's origin in one
of the largest springs in the world.
In islands of too small size to have
rivers, creeks are dignifed by that name.
The Connecticut, the principal stream
of New England, is $50 miles in length.
During a single food Of the Yang-tse-
Kiang, in China, 100000 persons were
drowned.
The most extensive protective river
works in Europe are at the mouth of
the Danube.
y kEhe Rhine is only $50 miles long, but
drains a territory nearly double the
area of Texas.
The Irish, in Siberia, is 22O miles in
length and drains 100000 miles of terri
tory.
The Nile, from it's delta to the great
lakes of Central Africa, is over 1000
miles in length.
The Thames of England is 22O miles
long. The river of the same name in
Canada is 160.
There are twenty creeks in this coun-
try which have been dignifed with the
name of the Tiber.
The Columbia river in Canada is 400
miles in length; the stream of the same
name in Oregon is 600.
The Arkansas river is 217O miles long,
but at various points in its course it is
very thin for it's length.
The Potomac river is only 500 miles
long and in it's lower course is rather
an estuary than a stream.
The British islands are better provided
with rivers than any other country of the
same size on the globe.
The Mississippi at the point where it
flows out of Lake Itaska is ten feet wide
and eighteen inches deep.-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
"A Vegetab BILE for Dyspepsia.

That beautiful and exclusive vegetable,
the onion, perhaps you know, is most
desirable one for dyspeptics. 1t gener-
ates no acid, indeed, absorbs it.. rather
than creates it, and is most soothing to
that gastric hour glass Familiarity called
the stomach, which in dyspeptics re-
fuses to expand and contract in an agree
able way. A distinctive charm of an
onion is it's quick power of assimilation.
It assimilates more easily than any
other vegetable. An onion properly
cooked should have no odor. This may
be pleasant intelligence to others than
dyspeptics who delight in that vegetable.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
A HOT PLACE TO LIVE IN.
1t is on the Coast of Persia and Discounts
the Famous Red Sea.

1t is on the Coast of Persia and Discounts
the Famous Red Sea.
The hottest region on the earth's sur
( face is on the southwestern coast of
Persia, on the border of the Persian
gulf.
For forty consecutive days in the
months of July and August the mercury
has been known to stand above 100 de-
grees in the shade night and day and
to run up as high as $50 degrees in the
middle of the afternoon. At Bahrein,
in the center of the most torrid part of
this most torrid belt, as though It were
natures intention to make the place as
unbearable as possible, water from wells
is something unknown. Great shafts
have been sunk to depth of 100, 200,
300 and even 500 feet, but always with
the same result-no water. This serious
drawback Notwithstanding, q compare
lively numerous population contrives to
live there, thanks to copious springs
which burst forth from the bottom of
the gulf more than mile from shore.
5 The water from these springs is OBJ
tanned in most curious and novel man
ner. "Machadores'' divers, whose sole
occupation is that of furnishing the peo-
pie of Bahrein with the life-giving fluid,
repair to that portion of the gulf where
the springs are situated and bring away
with them hundreds of bags full of the
water each day. The water of the gulf
where the springs burst forth is nearly
200 feet deep, but these machadores
manage to fiji their goatskin sacks by
diving to the bottom and holding the
mouths of the bags over fountain-jets-
this, too, without allowing the salt
water of the gulf to mix with it. The
source of these submarine fountains is
thought to be in the hills of Osmond,
400 or 500 miles away. Being situated
at the bottom of the gulf it is a mystery
how they were ever discovered, but the
fact remains that they have been known
since the dawn of history. Detroit Free
prorc
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
EN- brOidery.

Even within the history of America
we can find many motives and prece-
dents of needlework which are inspiring
to follow. The Colonial danes believed
in ornamental needlework, and prac-
ticed it to an extent which gives us many
a beautiful example. remember seeing
among the personal treasures of my
grandmother generations of infants
caDs-little cup-shaped faShionings of the
finest linen and linen cambria, covered
with tiny wreaths and flowers wrought
in satin stitch with borders and centers
in various methods of exquisite. ss'open-
work" And there were muslin capes
lapping one over another, each with it's
elaborate border and edging of fine en-
broidery, the upper one entirely covered
with wrought design. There were also
narrow skirts of India null, 'tsprigged''
from waist to hem with flowers.
And all these things, tiny babies caps
and robes. and muslin gowns for the
bellies, and capes for the mothers ofS.the
family, were wrought by the fingers of
mothers and daughters in the same spirit
of becoming responsibility with which
our present maids and matrons pursue
comprehensive schemes of benevolence
or study problems of political economy.
But in spite of exhaustive philan-
thrOpy and scientific economy, the tradl-
ton of needlewOrk remains in every
wonan's mind. and the tendency to it
in her blood. and in all intervals of leis-
ure or accidents of idleness it comes to
the surface and bestows it's tranquility
with unfailing persistence. It has its
REVEALS also, during which cities and
nations are seized with a mania of nee
dlework which is pursued with ardor as
a new art; and yet all the time IN the
far East Acknowledged and dusky women
have been stitching through the centu.
rieS without lapse or cessation, and if
by slow advancement of destiny they
come to philanthropy and political econ
Omy, 1 do not believe needlework will
vanish from the world. The needle-cure
may yet be found q necessary alienation
of the effects of abnormal activity. and
needle sanitariums may be established
for the victims of social over-exertion
and mental strain.
Fortunately it is a cure always at
hand. and the work-basket or the work
bag is perennially ready to bestow it's
healing and yield it's tranquilizing powers
to wounded wrestlers with the world
J1arper'S Bazaar.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
a Little Mixed.

Mike is an Irishman just fresh from
the Emerald Isle. who recently came to
Hackensack, N. j., and was employed by
two gentlemen, each keeping horse in
the same stable. to look after their
equines. One day Mr.. Jones told Mike
to hitch up his horse and bring it around
to his residence
Mike did as he was hidden. but when
Mr.. Jones saw the turnout he said:
"Why. Mike. that is not my horse; that
is Mr.. Smiths animal"
''Begorra," promptly replied Mike, $50
it is. I knowed that wasn't your horse,
sir, but l couldn't quite make up me
mind which horse belonged to the other
rintleman"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
Inside the Teakettle.

A helpful suggestion is to be welcomed,
from whatever source it may come, and
this bit of moralizing, from the. New
York Times, regarding certain kitchen
practices. is just as valuable as though
it appeared for the first time in some pub
lication claiming to be devoted especially
and exclusively to the interests of Bird
get and her mistress: 1t is often the
simplest details of kitchen labor that are
the most neglected: The hot water ket-
tie, for example-how many cooks pay
any attention to it? Stale water, sim
lnered and with all vitality cooked out
is It's perennial portion, with an occasional
filling up and sudden boiling as the need
requires. If every housekeeper who
reads this paragraph should go straight
to her kitchen, lift the kettle and carry
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
The Lenghtening of Youth.

Probably no other good thing that this
latter end of the century has brought
woman has been received with such de-
vout gratitude as the additional lease of
youth The ballot is a blessing which
we have not yet decided we want, not
every woman is crying for a higher edu-
cation, the privilege of working on equal
footing with men appeals only to women
who are bread-Wlnners, but every daugh-
ter of Eve would stay her feeting youth
if she could. No woman is strong-mind-
ed enough to view unmOved the first
wrinkle, or gray hair, the first faint
propheciesrof coming age.
The customs of the past accorded to
our grandmothers but brief springtime
of life. When woman married she was
supposed to be done with the frllls and
friVolities of life. She tucked her glossy
locks under a matronly cap, and there
after lived in the reflected pleasures of
her husband and children, and was
fOrcedfo find an outlet for all the energy,
the ambition, the aspirations of her
young soul in ordering her household
affairs. At 35 she was middle-aged, at
30 she was old.
Not so today is a woman judged. We
have found that age is an elastic condi-
ton that fits itself to the heart and mind
woman of So, who has travelled,
thought, who has enriched heart and
brain with experience and feeling, is in
the best sense still in the flower of
youth, while the matron of so, still
abreast of the times, full of interests,
studying, perhaps, new language or
art, is in the very prime of life. She
has Outlived many of the triyialities and
some of the sorrows of life, her horizon
is broadened, and her heart schooled by
many experiences, and she is the center
around which society revolves. At her
age her mother had long been relegated
to the chimney corner. No one would
be crude enough now to call her old.
The poets and the novelists have
made our ideals and are responsible for
the worship we have given youth, but
ave are beginning to think for ourselves
and ask if there are not otner qualities
that may offset bread and butter, pink
and whiteness. We refuse any longer
to accept as possible the herolnes of ro-
nance who at IS were capable of all
the complex emotions of woman of
the world, the aplomb to carry off diff
ficult situation the Subtly and fnesse,
to deal with villains and outWit scoun-
drels the strength of heart to rise to
heights of passion and self-abnegation.
These things come only with age and ex
perience. They do not belong to IS, but
to % and over. 1t has been reserved for
this day to realize the French proverb
about age. and as long as a woman
keeps her heart young her interest in life
fresh, she carries her own spring time
with her. and with her it is always May,
and all the flowers are blooming
Orleans Picayune.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
THIN-SKINNED ORANGES.
Why DO Planters Only Raise Thick
Coated and Rough Ones?

why DO Planters Only Raise Thick
Coated and Rough Ones?
1t has often been questioned why
orange growers will graft and plant
great public appreciates a thin-skinned
one more highly Asking a grower, if
not one of the secrets of the orange
growing trade, why this was thus, he
replied that the thin-skinned kinds were
rarely as productive as the thick-skinned
ones-that the public would give no more
for a box Of thin skins than for
a box of thick ones-and as there was
consequently more profit in growing
orange skins than in growing orange
flesh, the skins carried the day.
We have never heard such an explana-
ton before, and this may be only ''chaff. 7
Still, the great question remains, why. 40
orange growers graft and plant thick
skinned sorts when the thin skins are
anrefera e?-Meehan'S Monthly. F
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
Bossy Nursed a Shoal.

A curious story comes from Marysville,
@. V. Turner is the owner of fine
Jersey COW. OF late she has failed to
supply the normal quantity of milk;
each morning she appeared to have been
MIXED. Mr.. Turner was inclined to
attribute the thieving to tramps, so he
established a watch with the following
result: One day. while the, COW was
little shoat was seen to walk up to her
and deliberately proceed to nurse. with
ro Sign Of disappFoval from the Jersey:
0tl1erfpigs near BY, seeing what cinch
the first one had, at once proceeded to
emulate his example. This aroused the
old COW to action She evidently reject
ed a syndicate. Rising to her feet and
lowering her horns she drove all the
intruders to the other end of the field
Then coming back to her favorite she
stood directly over him so he could ex-
tract the Tactical liquid with more ease
and without fear of disturbance.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17

The statement was made by an emf
nent scientist some few years ago that
an electrical engineer must be three
quarters steam engineer; and though it
is now frequently asserted by professors
and technical experts that such n state
ment is untrue, yet the fact remains that
among our most prominent electrical en-
gineers those who have achieved the
greatest success are those whose funda-
mental education was that of n steam
engineer, or more broadly stated, a me-
chanical engineer.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
what Maine Loses by Lack ofsnow

The damaging effects OF the Wlde-
spread dearth of snow in Maine, which
has continued until this date, are perhaps
little realized by the average city reader.
LAUNDERING is practically at a stand
still: even preliminary work in lumber
ing operations, which has hitherto gone
on to a certain extent under conditions
of much difficulty, is now brought to a
halt. Nor is this all; the farmers in
most cases have been unable to haul to
their doors the usual supply of irewood
for the year, and the birch and pulp,
some cash before this time, remain in
the wood lots What the result will be
on the hay crop of 90 is an unanswered
question; that there will be a diminished
amount of hay cut is generally conceded.
Boston Transcript.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
New Feature.

Rambler" in the New York Mail and
Express refers to a pretty feature at a
debutante's dinner: A Washington street
produce dealer filled an order the other
day for dozen live baby ducklings.
''This is the first time in several years |
have had such an ORDER" he said, land
although it is not a complete novelty,
the idea on which the order wassebased
seems to have been kept for a good
while in the background. The little bits
of yellow fluff were ordered for the pur-
pose of adding an interesting touch to a
debutante's dinner party, a miniature
lake some ten feet long by three feet
wide having been arranged down the
center of the table with a border of
green moss and few fine fat goldfish
to keep them company. ] consider the
idea singularly appropriate one for
decorating a debutante's festive board,
as the youngsters had only made their
own debut few days before they were
invited to take part in the evenings en-
tertainment. The gentleman who gave
the order assured me- by the way, that
on the morning following the dinner the
buckets would be sent to a friend of
his who lives at Yonkers and there
placed under the maternal care of most
mothfrly and respectable. old duck who
has in her time brought up Several
families in the way they should co.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17

it to the window, where strong light will
disclose it's interior, nine out of ten of
them will find rusty layer of lime. iron
and dregs, that effectually prevents any
good fla vored water from issuing from it.
The kettle needs the same frequent and
thorough care that any kitchen utensil
needs. Into such, having it already
warm, put fresh filtered water, boil
rapidly and use at once, and one of the
large aids to palatable food is secured.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17
DOLLAR SUITS OF CLOTHES.
These Are Possible Now that Ramie is TO
be Put Into Use.

be Put Into Use.
Ramie, a fiber, has been kicked around
by spectators and capitalists for some
years, notwithstanding the evident util-
ity of the product. That it can be fash
toned into anything now made of wool
has been proved. What its defects may
have been is unimportant now. as the
perfected product has been developed
and ranlie has a market value that is
stable, or soon will have.
A party of capitalists representing
New York, New Orleans, Providence
and Boston met with a coterie of Phila-
delphia capitalists and manufacturers at
the Manufacturers club on Wednesday
and decided to develop the newly dis
covered ranie processes. So 81 suits
may now be expected. Ramie is as cheap
rs .weeds.-New York. Press.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-02-17

city. Tony was cross between York
shire setter and bulldog. Aside from
bright, intelligent face he was not pre-,
possessing in appearance. He resembled
in fact the typical yellow dog. His own
er valued him at $4,000 and had refused
numerous tempting offers for him.