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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
HUNGRY CARP.
They Destroy Oregon Meadow Grass,
Roots and All.

They Destroy Oregon Meadow Grass,
Roots and All.
A rancher, whose place is on the bot
tom along the Willamette slough, below
HoIbrook station. was in the city yes
terday to find out whether he had any
recourse against the United States fish
commission for the introduction of carp
into the rivers of this section. He says
these fish are destroying his meadows
by eating his grass and grubbing up the
roots. AS the water overfows his
meadow the carp follow it up in thou
sands, the small ones weighing about
three pounds pushing their way up
where the water is only three inches or
SO in depth and clearing off all vegeta-
ton, so that when the water recedes he
will have mud flats in the place of
meadows. He says while looking at the
fish eating his grass on Sunday he got
so mad that ne took off his shoes and
stockings and went out into the shallow
water and attacked them with a hoe.
He slashed a lot of them in two, but
when the drove became alarmed and
noses against his shins and came near
knocking him off his feet, and his ankles
are. all black and blue from the humping
he got. AS for driving. the carp away,
he says he might as we'll have tried to
sweep back the rise of the Columbia
with a broom His legal adviser told
him that an action against the fish COM
mission would not lie, and advised him to
get a seine and catch the carp and keep
the '.HOme for Fallen Men, just start
ed here, in fish. He objected to this,
and said these men could do their own
straightforward Oregonian.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
Two Great Men.

The late Col North, the Nitrate
King was one of the type. whom Du
Maurier caricatured as Sir Giorgias
Midas He went out to Chile many
years ago with a capital Of f25 sterling.
and, through developing the nitrate beds
and promoting railways, made fortune
OF. $1OO,OO0,0O0. He had great social
ambition but his vulgarity and his in
ability to place his his where they be
longed counterbalanced his great wealth
in the eyes of society. The Prince of
Wales had him down at Sandringham,
the home par excellence of the princess
and her daughters, on only one occasion;
w. w. Astor and J. Robinson, one of
the South African millionaires, were also
in the party. 1t SO happened that the
princess was not then at home, and, by
another notable coincidence, the annual
sale of horses raised on tie Sandringham
stud farm took place at the same time.
The guests purchased literally. giving
sometimes more than five times the value
of the nags. Col. North's greatest social
success was obtained through the dissi-
pated King Leopold of Belgium, to
whom he lent enormous sums.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
KNOWLEDGE.

Half of the worlds product of qui-
nine is used in the United States.
1t is said that certain Swedish cop
per mine has been worked without inter
ruption for 800 years.
The lathe was known in early times.
and it's invention has been ascribed to
Theodore of Samoa, 74O B. G.
Wells are one of the most ancient OF
articles of Dress They were used SO
long ago that their origin is lost in re-
moteneSs.
Successful trials are reported to have
been made at Spezia with a new suO-
marine boat, invented by an Italian ma
val engineer
There are many reasons in favor OF
the supposition that Mars is more likely
to have been inhabited in past ages than
at the present time, in spite of it's at
mosphere or water clouds.
The healthiest place in the world ap-
pears to be a little hamlet in France
named Aumone. There are only forty
inha bitants, twentythree of whom are
80 years Of age, and one is over 100.
In the pavement of one Paris street
not less than six different kinds of wood
have been used, viz: pitch pine, pine
from the Landes, teak, red karri, box
and a particular hard wood from Ror-
neo. From time to time a committee
will report on the most durable Of the
woods.-Popular Science News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
"Bosses" Not Drinkers.

Our political bosses are not respected
as they should be, says. the New York
Press. The word "boss'" suggests some
thing rather low and besotten, but we
must considerable strength of mind and
purpose of the leaders who have distfn-
guished theGsc.yes as se"bosses" and
passed unscathed through the seas of to-
bacco juice and oceans of liquor, with
which political affiliations have surround
ed them. Tweed never took a drink Of
liquor, never smoked cigar, and never
chewed tobacco. He was, however, a
great eater. "Clear head was his mot
to. Hill is the most abstemious of men.
He has never been known to take
drink, nor a pipe, nor a chew, nor "a
he is an angel. German is another.
He never had any use for the stuff that
steals away mems brains. Platt is alb
stemious to an amazing degree. He is
a model for young men in this district
Croker never touches drop of anything
stronger than kumyss Boss McLaugh-
lin could always decline a drink in the
most agreeable manner. Liquor never
hurt him, because, like all the rest, he
never gave it a chance.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
BISMARCK AND HIS GUESTS.
He Receives Visitors, but the Number is
Necessarily Restricted.

He Receives Visitors, but the Number is
Necessarily Restricted.
Prince Bismarck continues to be in
fair health and high spirits, and receives
visitors at intervals as formerly. 1t is
necessary, however, that the number of
his visitors be greatly restricted, for if
he should receive all who express desire
to call and pay their respects to MIN,
the time of the aged ex-chancellor would
be wholly occupied with receptions.
A party of Mecklenburgers visited the
prince at Friedrichsruh the other day
and presented him with, a small model
of the Friedrich Franz monument. The
eX-chancellor chatted in alively manner
with his visitors and related many rem
iniscences connected with Mecklenburg.
Eugen Wolf, the explorer, has just
presented Prince Bismarck with a col
lection of curios and natural memen-
tos which he gathered in Madagascar.
The prince has ordered the collection to
be exhibited in tent in the park at
Friedrichsruh.
Prince Bismarck lately excited the dis
content of the inhabitants of the Duchy
of Lauenberg by his action in connection
with the time-hOnored May-day celebra-
ton in the duchy. The day has long
been legal church holiday, when pray
ers were offered up in the churches for
a good harvest. The festival is called
the "Hagelbittfeier, and on that day
all farm labor is forbidden.
Prince Bismarck, for alleged economic
reasons, procured the issuance of a de-
cree repeating the prohibition Of farm
services were held nevertheless. The
future Of the holiday now depends upon
the support of the other landowners
than Prince Bismarck s14
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
how nervous and worried a person may
JAPANESE POSTERS.
Are as Common There as Play Bills Are in
This Country.

This Country.
A traveller in Japan who had pene-
trated to the most remote villages
thought he had reached the limits of
modern civilization, but on coming out
of doors the next morning found a small
japanese girl proudly displaying a pack
age OF chewing gum and nickel alarm
clock. A few miles further on he dis
covered what surprised him more-a
yerltable poster displayed OH blank
wall, with an admiring crowd around it.
1t seems that every teahOuSe has its
series of posters, and every shop window
contains them. Crowd always gather
in Japan when a new poster is shown
for the first time.
During the recent war the interest of
the people was greatly heightened by
the poster cartoons relating to the prog
ress of affairs. The subjects of these
cartoons were of a character to impress
one that the japanese were entirely SUI
perior to their antagonists, yet in none
of them could there be found any evil
dence Of vainglory or Insult.
During the war there was good deal
of comment about the inefficiency of the
officers of the Chinese army, and the
japanese made the most of this, one OF
the resulting posters being extremely
funny, representing a Chinese officer on
horseback, the whole drawn with trem-
bling, zig-zag lines, which gave the figure
a curious, shaking effect.
i Ii Hung Chang received the doubtful
honor of getting more notice from the
Japanese poster artist than any other
great man Of the time. One picture
shows him kneeling, coolie taking off
his coat, while three coolies walk away
with his decoratins, etc. The poster is
headed, His Skin Will Go Next" The
almost European handling Of the situa-
ton makes the poster especially enjoy
able to foreigncrs.-Tol Bee.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
Eugenie as naughty as Ever.

A man who rode on the same train
with the ex-Empress Eugene on her
way to pay visit to the Princess Bea-
trice at Nice says that she shows. no
will that brought on the Franco-Prussian
war is becoming more and more clearly
stamped on her face. Nevertheless she
was as nervous as possible over the diff
Guilty of stepping from her compartment
to the PLATFORM step that French cars
make something of a feat for any wom-
dered alarming to her-to- judge from the
way she called on the Lord in true
French fashion. She was walking, as
usual, with a cane. The special tie be-
tween her and the Princess Beatrice is
that the English princess and the prince
imperial were in love with each other,
and it was mainly to crush their incon-
venient young affections that the prince
was allowed to go to his death.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
Amounted to Naught.

William Mckinley and Mark Hanna,
his political manager, first met in an
Ohio court early in the '70s, when Nc
Kinley acquitted twenty-five out of
twenty-three miners whom Hanna was
prosecuting for having set fire to his
mines at Massilon. 1t was by these
mines that Mr.. Hanna laid the founda-
tons of his fortune, and he now pos
sesses iron mines in Minnesota, in Michi-
gan, in the Great Gogebic region and
in Illinois, The nearest Mr.. Hanna has
ever come to holding political office was
his selection by Grover Cleveland as a
government director of the Union Pacific
railroad. Mr. Hanna transacts his po-
litical affairs in the same offices in which
he attends to his ordinary business.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
The Druggists Varied Stock.

"A drug store Of the present day, .
ordinary demands must keep about 15.-
900 articles on hand Every root and
seed that has medicinal value as well
as the leaf, flower and bulb of the plant,
has to be kept in stock. So also must be
kept the hundreds of preparations made
from them, tinctures, extracts, fluid and
solid, syrups, and decoetions almost
without number Then come the thou
sands of chemicals, acids, salts, active
principles, the various preparations, pills
powder, all the proprietary medicines.
and hundreds of articles known as sun
dries, perfumes and fancy articles
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
ee l.

ing is a positive proof of thin, weak, impure
blood; for, if the blood is rich, red, vitalized
and vigorous, it imparts life and energy to
every nerve, organ and tissue of the body.
The necessity of taking Hoods Sarsaparlla
for that tired feeling is, therefore, apparent
to every one, and the good it will do. you is
equally beyond question. Remember that
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
Miss Marion Booth.

Another of the numerous children of
Gen. Booth arrived in New York the
other week. This was Miss Marion
Booth, who came with the two elder
children of Commissioner and Mrs.
Booth-Tucker. She is an invalid and
takes no part in the work of the Saliva
ton army, except to look after the per-
sonal welfare of her father She will re-
turn home as soon as she has rested suf-
fciently from the effects of her voyage.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
hat

Extreme tired feeling afflicts nearly every
body at this season. The hustlers cease
to push, the tireess grow weary, the en-
ergetic become enervated. You know just
what we mean. Some men and women
endeavor temporarily to overcome that
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01
! Tired

Feeling by great force of will. But this
is unsafe, as it pulls powerfully upon the
nervous system, which will not long stand
succ strain. Too many people "work on
their nerves." and the result is seen in un-
fortunate wrecks marked nervous pros
tration," in every direction. That tired
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01

Paris is rushing into the Bots de Bou-
logne for residence and abandoning the
district around the Elysee palace The
emigration to the west is SO constant
that people are already speaking Of the
not distant time when the Bots de Bou-
logne will be the center of Paris.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01

Piso's Cure for Consumption is our
My medicine for coughs and colds
Irs. c. Beltz. 439 Sth ave., Denver,
Col, Nov. %. 90
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01

Fits.-All Fits stopped free by DR.. Klines
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after the
first days use. Marvellous cures Treatise
to DR.. Kline. 931 Arch St. Philadelphia. Pa.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01

Dent you Cant to sare money clothes time, labor,
uel. ami he 18th? All these be aved # you VIII
DObbins' Electric Soap We say "tgy," knowing If
yeu try it once you will always use it. Have your
grocer order.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01

A new submarine boat which will
tay $50 feet under water for forty
ours, is to be built at Baltimore.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01

Mrs. WinSlOW'S SOOTHING SYRUP for chill
dren teething sottens the gums, reduces inha IN
nation allays pain cures wind collie. 25c a bottle
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-01

Bobby say. mamma. was the baby
sent down from heaven?
Manlma-"Why, yes
Bobby-"Um. They likes to have it
quiet up there, doesn't they Truth.
The Old One-"Ef give We some mon
ey ter spend while We be in New York
We won't go in no dance halls or gam
blin' places or drink champagne with it,
will YEP
Son-"No, sir
The Old One-''Wa-al then, here's a
dollar, an mind We keep yer word =
Judge.
Brown-'Did your wife cross-question
you the other night?'
Jones-''My cross wife questioned me'=
Truth.
TWO PATHS TO KNOWLEDGE
1--WE learn to do by doing
/ think the song doth rul;
But to my mind g,s
More things we find
And learn, by being done
UNIVERSITY Courier
Boston Mamma-"Suppose you have
four punches Of grapes, Willie, and eat
three, then what would you have?"
Boston Appendicitis Pup To
Date. p.
Dandelion leaves are said to be sure
cure for insomnia. Before going to bed
chew two or three of the. leaves, and
they will always induce sleep, no matter
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-24
RAMS HORN BLASTS.

A dollar never buys much for
stingy man.
Misfortunes and imprudence ar,
often twins.
God goes with the man who j,
willing to take . hard plsce.
There b no virtue IN dong sizh,
simply because We have to.
Better to be lamp in the hons.
than try to be star in the sky.
God made man too great to find
his life in the present moment.
How many times good fortune
has come to us through our mis-.
takes.
Backsliding begins when the
Christian begins to live on stale
bread.
The man will Be we'll occupied
whose first aim in life 10 10 dc Gods
will.
Do what you can do we'll. and
you will soon be able to do much
better.
Ii we try to please everybody, we
shall soon have the respect of no.
body.
Time is wasted in trying to make
trotter out of . horse with a
broken leg.
God needs Daniels, and Josephs,
and Elijahs to-day, as much 6. he
ever did.
The man who thinks his Gin will
never find him out has deceived
himself.
The man dies we'll, who dies with
the consciousness that he has done
his best.
1t depends on who does the
preaching as to whether the devil
sleeps in church.
Not to give cheerfully when We
give to God is to take all the value
out of the gift.
The man who earns his bread
finds q sweetness in il that the
losfer never knows.
The man who loafs when he
should be at work will have to work
when he might rest.
Many people want to move noun
tains simply to attract attention to
themselves.
The man who spends his life in
trying 20 make this world like
heaven does godlike work.
The man who always does his
best will find q steady demand for
the things that he can do.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-24

AN HONEST JUDGE.--One of the
most honest men who ever lived
was Judge Arthur Shields, said r.
G. Markham, Of Cheyenne. lie
was on the bench in the early days
OF Kansas, and was one Of tht
lawyers who practiced in his court.
Upon one OCCASION was conduct.
ing case in which had perfect
confidence when the trial began
but before it had progressed far the
evidence against my clients side oi
the controversy was 30 strong and
so unexpected that l saw the case
was hopeless. l fully believed the
witnesses lied, bat could not shake
them by cross-examination, and il
looked as though my client would
lose his property. .Iudge Shields
had decided every question with per.
feet fairness, and il could not be
seen that he was in any way inter.
ested until suddenly he called to an
attorney: 'Mr. Black, take the
bench for the rest Of this case, hen
turning to me said Have me sworn
as q witness. | will not see q man
robbed in this court in matters OF
which ! am personally cognizant.
He took the stand and his testimo.
ny saved the case for me. The 9th.
er side appealed, bat the Judge was
sustained, the only case OF the kind
in the books.-Washington Star.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-24

8 When most needed IL Is not unus-
al for your family physician TO be away
from home. Such was the experience Of
Dir: j: Y. Schenck, editor of the CaddO.
Ind. Ter, Banner, when his little girl.
two years Of age, was threatened with a
severe attack of the Group. He says !:
my wife insisted that 90 for the doc
tor, but as our family physician was out
OF town ] purchased bottle Of Cham
beriain's Cough Remedy, which relieved
her Immediately. I viii not be without
IL in the future" Is and SO cent bottles
for sale by William r. Greenwell& Son.
Leonsrdtown; Joseph 8. Matthews, Val. !.
ley Lee, and oil country stores,
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-24

APHoRIsN AND MAxIas, 1850
For one poor person there are a
hundred INDECENT.
Many have been ruined by buy.
ing good pennyworths.'
The eye of a master will do
more work than both his hands
Buy what thou hast no need Of.
and ere long thou shalt sell thy
necessaries.'
"A plowman on his legs 10 higher
than a gentleman on bis knees
"A child and a fool imagine
twenty shillings and twenty years
can never be spent.
The second vice is living : the
first 10 running into debt
Creditors have better memories
than debtors
Those have q short Lent who
owe money to be paid at Easter
Creditors are o superstitious set
great observers Of set days and
times.'
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-24

Christmas in Paris! What men,
ories that calls up for many! Wis
ions Of the gay boulevards, gayer
than ever at this season, with the
groups of eager people gazing into
the shop windows, filed to over
flowing with alluring articles de
Paris to conjure money ont Of the
purses of the thousands who have
gone out with them well filed to
choose their Christmas gifts.
Not sad face meets my view as
| stroll down the Faubourg st.
Honore; nothing but beaming looks
and eager happiness, so it seems to
me. Can be the only one in all
this crowd of English and Ameri-
cans-sprinkled through with few
French and Russians-who is not
bent on pleasure tonight But l,
at least, have anything but q pleas.
urable task on hand, and turn of
from the wealthy "English Quar-
ter" into a neighborhood where
the Christmas gifts are of a very
humble kind. Here the three-sou
public have to be catered for, and
here, too, are wistful faces enough,
that look longingly at the cheap
etrennes they yet are too poor to
buy. l soon found myself in the
Place Cadet, and there began my
business. was changing my lodg-
ings, and had to do, as had many
times lately-look for one cheaper
than the last, and this was the like
ly neighborhood; and, indeed, in o
very short time / had found what
/ wanted-a tiny room, at the top
of house whose dodgers were Of all
classes-from the well-to-do mer-
chant, aa premier, to the out-at.el-
bows Bohemian like myself, au cin-
quieme.
In the evening l found myself
installed in my new quarters. 1t
was a f1ghtfully cold night, and
my room had probably had no fire
in it for months. shivered, and
looked longingly at the few billets
Of wood l had carefully saved and
brought away in my portmanteau;
but tomorrow the cold would be
worse; at all events, worse to bear,
for tonight, if it got unbearable, l
could 90 to bed. so I resolutely
wrapped myself in my overcoat and
set myself to read. My next-door
neighbors were evidently . jolly set;
sounds of hilarious laughter came
to my ears, and sent my thoughts
from my book to former Christmas
Ewes, when /, too, had been merry.
] tried again to read, but the voices
disturbed me, and l gave it up and
determined to 60 to bed.
As / rose, q few words struck my
ear. Surely I knew that voice 1
listened again, and heard nothing
Suddenly . rich baritone voice broke
forth with the familiar, and, to the
wanderer, pathetic strains of Home,
Sweet Home = A clear, sweet wo-
mans voice joined in, and, moved
by ! know not what impuse, l also
took mp the air. Directly I did SO
the singing ceased, and the man. o
voice said, by Jove |! There's an
American in the next room p
Now knew the voice.
Charlie y l called through the
door.
The next moment I met at the
door OF my room my old friend,
Charlie Grant.
'Altcn what the deuce brings
you here:'
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-24

81 Eve was just q trifie pro-
voked.
But then, any woman would be
impatient under the circumstances.
Baking biscuits by means of a
large fat rock and the suns -ays ID
a temper-srying process,
Fortunately, however," she
murmered, "Adsm cannot say that
his mothers baking was Of O higher
order than mine"
Reassured BY che thought she set
the table with . lighter heart.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1896-12-24

FLOWING AT A MARK.--An ex-
change tells sn amusing story of an
Irish laborer whom his employer
set to hold the plow
Pat was new at the business. and
the first attempt was anything but
successful.
Look here, said the farmer, that
kind Of thing won't do. The corn
will be dizzy that grows in fur
row SO crooked as that. Fix your
eye on something across the field,
and head straight for il. That
COW there by the gate is right OPP
posite Us. Aim at her and You'll
do pretty WELL
All right said Pat, and Just
then the farmer was called away to
the barn.
Ten minutes later he returned,
and was horrified to see that the
plow had been wandering in n zig
gag course all over the field.
Hold on there +" he shouted.
Hold on! What are you up to 2
And sure, sir,' said Pat. 4 did
what you told me. worked
straight for the old COW, but the
crayture wouldn't keep STILL