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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-09
Ancidentn swindlers.

The extension Of electric traction has
brought upon the scene particularly
dangerous and offensive swarm of ras-
calls who prey upon the street railroad
companies by bogus claims for person
al injuries received in real or imaginary
accidents. They are fostered by tribe
of disreputable attorneys, who make q
practice of communicating with all per-
sons whom they can identify as con-
cerned in any street railway mishap.
and often without instructions issue
process against the companies. Some
Of these legal sharks have a regular
staff of detectives, who prowl about the
depots and termini of the lines on the
lookout for cases. False witnesses are
easily procured, and juries are usually
liberal in the matter of damages, the
greater portion of which is swallowed
up in the attorneys costs" The evil
has become so great that the street rail
way press is suggesting the formation
of mutual protection society Of some
kind 1t is proposed to keep a regis
ter of the names Of claimants, and in
terchange information as to persons
who, it is more than suspected, make q
trade of the business and travel from
city to city for the purpose.-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
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a terror to the tradespeople on account
of their thieving propensities. Further
more the Quarterly Review, in 1856,
in an article upon the London police,
said: THE extent of pilfering carried
on, even by ladies Of high rank and po-
sition, is very great; there are persons
possessing a mania of this sort SO we'll
known among the shopkeeping commu-
nity that their addresses and descrip-
tions are passed from hand to hand for
mutual security. The attendants allow
them to secrete what they like without
seeming to observe them, and after
ward send bill with the prices of the
goods purloined to their houses" Pre-
sumably the same policy might have
been carried out in the instance that is
attracting such widespread attention
just now if the shopkeepers had but
known it, or had as much faith in for
eigners as in their own beloved. If &C.
centric, aristocracy.
Tales of the exploits of kleptomani-
acs i'll the abstract would do very we'll
for humorous reading, but for the al
ways apparent undercurrent Of sad
ness and suffering. One lady. varying
the expression of morbid impulses, ar
rived at complete insanity by yielding
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Could Have Paired.

Admiral Jouett lives at Sandy Springs,
Md, where the roads are no better than
elsewhere in Dixie. He is an ardent Re-
publican, though a son of the Blue Grass
state; and last election, when heavy
rains had made the roads almost impas-
sable. he shamed the stay-at-homes by
taking his son, James, Jr.. through the
mud and downpour to their voting place.
The journey home in the dark, swimming
through mud to the hubs, was so disquiet-
ing that they arrived profane and ex-
hausted. well" said the admiral,
thank heaven that's over! We've had
a hard pull Of it, but it is the duty of
every citizen of the United States to
vote. Say, Jim he calculated 1iercely,
81 voted the straight Republican ticket,
as usual How did you vote?" ia
ther, we might as well have stayed az
home and paired" replied the son; 81
voted straight Democratic. '-Argonaut.
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wires and other unsightly Instructions,
has reached point Of perfection, as
shown by an exhibit in Philadelphia,
which makes it a commercial POSSIBLE
ity, and promises large extension of
the usefulness Of electricity in every
day life. With q further development
in the direction of cheapness, it may be
possible to reproduce, in towns unpro-
vided with cheap means of motive pow
err, the conditions existing in Great
Fails, Mont. In that town electric pow
er produced economically at water
privilege does all the mechanical work.
It propels, lights and heats the street
cars, runs the elevators, the printing
presses, the cranes, and all kinds of
machinery, and is used for pumping,
for excavating, and for rock-crushing.
1t is even applied in the building trades,
it not being unusual to see on the
streets a mortar mixer attached to an
electric wire leading down from a pole.
The restaurants cook by electricity; the
butcher employs it to chop his sau-.
sages, and the grocer to grind his coffee.
The housewives run their sewing ma
chimes and heat their fiat-irons by cleo
tricity; they bake their cakes in wooden
electric cake ovens, that can be set
away on the shelf like pasteboard
boxes. They have electric broilers,
boilers and teakettles. One almost
holds his breath as he wonders to
what use next this wonderful power
will be put.
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morning the Butler "salary-grab" bill
was passed. The Presidents approval
was necessary. By 10 o'clock the Presi-
dent had read the bill, approved it, and
word was carried to the Capitol to that
effect. That meant work in the wee
sma' hours. When the bill was repeal
ed the President worked none the less
faithfully.
The President must learn to intro
duce. Not merely to pronounce names,
but to conduct the art of presentation
in a manner that shall be acceptable
to all peoples and all nations. And at
dinners he must be the gracious host,
presenting, greeting, leading the way
to dinner, denominating places and be-
ing ready for the return trip to the
drawing-room at a mystic look from
his wife. All told, the President has a
severe task before him.
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to fancy for throwing things into the
fire. She confessed to her physician
that the impulse was merely playful in
the beginning. She had thrown an old
pair of slippers into the crate, and had
been amused at the contortions caused
by the scorching Of the leather. Next
day she threw an old hat into the fire
and enjoyed seeing it burn. In another
day she was surprised by strong de-
sire to throw something else into the
fire, and as the object nearest at hand
happened to be handsome prayer
book, madame covered her eyes rather
than see it burn The habit seemed
thus to be established. The victim of it
said the desire came in the shape of
a violent paroxysm which caused her
flesh to creep and culver until she had
yielded to the morbid impulse to throw
something of value into the fire.
A homely instance of the existence OF
kleptomania is that Of an elderly ply
stefan. This good man, who is high
ly respected member Of the community
in which he lives, and faithful unto
death in his profession, cannot bear to
leave patients house without some
trif1ing souvenir of his visit Thimbles,
spools of thread, spoons and scissors
are carried away in the doctors peck
cts. The situation is so thoroughly I'M
derstood that the doctors pockets are
regularly inspected by his better half,
and the articles are quietly returned to
their owners.
A specialist in mental diseases has
a fund of queer stories Of kleptomania
One thorough-going woman, who came
for treatment for the trouble, contrived
to carry away after her first treat
ment" bulky medical work, a few in
struments and the doctors driving
gloves. All these articles, with guam
titles of other stolen goods, were af-
terward found in closet Of the lady's
house. The closet was a dark one, and
the fact developed that everything this
particular maniac appropriated was
cast into the closet and never even
looked at afterward.
Persons of high moral standards and
bright intellects have not infrequently
enriched medical lore by giving careful
accounts of their kleptomaniac expert
ences. One lad, who was recovering
from an attack Of fever, saw man
pass his window wearing big watch
chain. The boy had plenty of money
to crafty his whims, but he became
possessed Of a desire to possess that
particular chain. His dreams and wax
ing hours became an agony. AS soon
as he was able he watched in the
streets for that chain. He saw it, and
eventually saw the man lay it, with a
watch attached, upon jewelers. coun-
ter. The boy dashed in, seized his prize
and escaped. With guilty conscience
the thief sent the watch back to the
jeweler, but still found no pleasure in
the DOSSeSSiOn of the chain. At last he
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crime. Yet fair science froWns not with
both sides Of her face. Medical men,
as is their habit, disagree as to the
moral responsibility Of the kleptoma-
MAC and even jurists do not rest in
sweet accord upon the subject. So emf
nent authorities as Judge Noah Davis
and Judge Cox have handed down the
opinion that ''every one is responsible
who knows the nature and conse-
quences of his acts" Other judges, ex-
pressing the advanced ideas Of their
constituents, have tenderly recommend
ed alleged kleptomaniacs to the care Of
their friends, convinced that medical
treatment would cure them.
1t is not SO very long since the world
began to consider insanity an extenua-
ton Of crime or a disease amenable to
treatment. More recently still those
only have been considered insane who
ragged, raved and were entirely without
self-control or saving grace Now there
are physicians learned in mental dis
eases who claim that four-fifths Of the
human race are insane upon some point
are liable to give expression to NOR
bid impulses.
Just here the work Of the moralist-
tically all men are or may become cap
bly, destructive forces in the shape of
ton to decide is whether the individ-
ual to whom these come is not always
capable of suppresSing them if he will.
That strange, unmeaSured, ungueSsed
power, the human will-how far is that,
or is it not, responsible. Are not terri
BILE destructive forces in the shape Of
morbid impulses repressed until they
die out of individuals and of races be-
cause the moral balance is maintained
by that same human will?
And is it not the duty of the law to
insist that the moral balance must be
maintained and the giving rein to NOR
bid impulses punished? The man who
steals when under the influence Of
liquor is in a mentally irresponsible
condition, yet the law takes no account
Of that or holds that he should have
taken care not to become mentally and
morally irresponsible.
English society and English courts
have not the privilege of pretending to
be greatly surprised at the alleged pc
cularitieS Of an American cousin-in
law. SO long ago as the early seventies
the London Times, in commenting upon
the case Of a gentlewoman who had
been arrested charged with stealing
some handkerchiefs from shop, that
any one in society could name off-hand
q dozen danes Of high degree who were
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returned the chain, and suffered no
more from a morbid impulse which he
could always have resisted if his will
power had not been weakened by ill
ness.
Instances are valueless, save as they
esta blish the status of the mental or
moral disease. But the consideration
Of that question, involving as it does a
wider subject than that of kleptomania
might we'll be entered upon by all the
people who have time enough to stop
to think what the morbid and danger
Gus impulses are, and to what extent
they can be controlled in the interest OF
public morals and the general good.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-09
THE PRESIDENTS "scHooL'
Small Things He Must Learn with
His Oath of Office.

Small Things He Must Learn with
His Oath of Office.
The die has been cast and the choice
made for the next President. The in
conner, though a man long prominent
in politics, begins Immediately after
his election to Ego to school" He has
much to learn before he can really be-
come President of the United States.
His school books will be the example
of his predecessors, a lesson from the
Judge Of the Supreme Court who adj
ministers the oath Of Office, and the
Constitution of the United States.
Certain things are prescribed for the
President to do. Others he does from
established precedent.
The first thing a President has to
learn is self-denial. His oath Of office
is administered in the open exposure
upon the east Capitol front, and from
there he delivers his inaugural address.
A time-honored custom with the
Weather Bureau is to provide drizzly,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1896-11-09
WILD WEST WAITS.

Colorado Indians have caught the
fever. The Grand Junction papers an
nounce an eIopement Of two of that race
from the Teller institute.
Wild game is reported plentiful in
Mesa county, Col, this fall. A drove of
wild deer numbering 200 or 300 was re-
ported to have been seen this week.
"A farmer near Steptoe. Wash, dug
251 sacks or over 500 bushels of pota-
toes from one acre. The potatoes are of
the Early Rose variety, and are fine and
large.
"A pack of coyotes, numbering about
twenty-six as closely as could be esti-
mated in the darkness, made raid on
a Nez Perez chicken yard recently and
killed fourteen fine turkeys.
The harvest of the cranberry march,
near Ilwaco. Wash, is about completed.
The crop will be between 5000 and 5000
barrels of berries this season.
Nevada miners are shipping very lit
tie ore now, as thew are holding it for
Bryan'S election, after which they expect
silver to be worth $1.29
8 The A. O. & NJ company of Glib
louisville, Idaho, has received mint GER
tifcates for $225,000 worth cf gold since
last January.
Missouri weather prophets base their
representations of the heavy winter
ahead on the height of the ragweed
growing all about The weeds are from
two to three feet high and an old adage
is recalled, which says that the snow
will fall as deep SIS the ragweeds are tall.
"A. Baggett had about three-quarters
of an acre of ground planted in potatoes
and the crop proved to be an immense
one, the yield being at the rate of 1900
bushels per acre, says the Asotin wash J
Sentinel The potatoes are large. solid
and smooth, many of them weighing two
and quarter pounds each.
The city tax levy in Olympia, Wash,
for the ensuing year will be 1912 mills.
Last year the levy was 1919 mills. In
order to cut down expenses Olympia has
entirely abolished the use of street lights.
Several citizens have, however, sub
scribed a fund for the illumination of
thoroughfares near their residences.
Idaho sheepraisers are much inter-
ested in the working of a patent sheep
shearing machine which was exhibited
there last week. 1t is a wonderful in
yention and promises to revolutionize the
strengthening business. 1t costs 3
cents per head more than the old way,
but Cosgriff Brothers compute that it
will save from one to two pounds more
wool per head.
Good potter's clay has been discov-
cred seven miles west of McMinnville,
Or. The finder shipped to Portland one
carload that proved to be of superior
quality. He also had sample at the
state fair and received an award of So.
Experts say it is equal to the best Eng
lish clay, and that the very best ware
can be made from it.
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Millions of Fortified Fish.

For a score of years, it is said, geolog-
lists have known of the existence of mil
lions of immense beds of shale in Wyom-
ing which occasionally yielded fine speci-
mems of fossil fishes but it is only recent
ly that similar beds have been discovered
in Colorado These beds of petrifed fish,
containing millions upon millions of in.
dividual specimens, cover hundreds of
square miles in the northwestern part of
the state They extend distance of 100
miles in the direction of Green river and
''shelve OUT for 100 miles more toward
the interior of the state. In some places
these beds-almost solid mass of per
fectly fossilized fish-are from $50 to POO
feet in thickness. One of the greatest
puzzles regarding the find is the fact that
they lie about 5000 feet above the sea
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LOVE THEIR HOME.
Instinct that Leads Animals Back to
Their Native Health.

Their Native Health.
With the exception. possibly, of the
anthropoid apes, the homing sense is pos
sessed in a higher or a lower degree by
birds. The well-known exploits of the
carrier pigeon are so familiar that they
will scarcely need comment. The duck
and the goose sometimes have this sense
very highly developed. l once knew a
goose TO travel back home after being
lance Of eighteen miles. A drake and
Il duck, to my certain knowledge, trav-
eled back to their old home, distance
of nine miles, after being transported by
railway. Instances of home-returnlng
in dogs, cats, horses, etc., are Of such
common occurrence that hardly need
call attention to them. The following
instance is so unique, however, that L
will give it:
In the fall of 1861 a. gentleman Of
Vincennes, Ind, visited his father at
Lebanon, Ky. When he started to re-
of young steers which he drove via
Louisville, to Vincennes. Shortly after
his arrival the steers made their escape,
swan the Ohio at OWensbOro, Ky, 100
miles below Louisville, and in a week
or so were found one morning at the gate
of their old home at Lebanon. Led by
their sixth sense alone. these animals
had made a journey of several hundred
miles over a route entirely unknown to
them.
Fishermen are well aware of the fact
that certain fish choose localities for
their lurking places which they will
share with 10 other fish. The black
bass, brook trout, sturgeon and google
eye are familiar examples of the fish
which have this habit Some time ago
l performed the following experiment:
took bass from it's home near sunk
en- stump, and after passing thin, short
piece of strong thread through the web
of it's tail and knotting it, replaced it in
the river two miles below it's lurking
place. The next day [ saw it in it's
old home, clearly recognizable from the
bit of thread which waved to and from
in the clear water as the fish moved
its tail.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Hard to Please.

A man was taking his usual dose of
pork and beans in restaurant at Olynl-
pia and found two silver dimes in the
beans. Calling the waiter, he howled
out in an impatient manner:
Here, what kind Of a layout is this?
l have found twenty cents in my
beansr'
"Well. you are hard to please" re-
piled the waiter. yesterday you growl-
ed about not having any change in your
iet!'-Seattle Times.
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sleety rain at this time, and the new
President, with barred head, promises
to forget himself, his own welfare, his
opinions and his ambitions in the inter
ests of the people. The rain baptizes
his head with this decision. The people
look on from their comfortable plat
forms, sheltered by umbrellas, and APP
plaud. The President is practicing
self-sacrif1ce, but he will have a cold
in his head without doubt. Cleveland
had mild attack of grip after his last
inaugural. Whew, how it showed at
the hour for the inaugural address!
The proceedings before the Inaugural
ton require study on the part of the
incoming President. His duty is to be
in Washington on March 4, ready to
go to work. His term Of servitude is
four years, dating from that hour. Gus
tom makes him do more. The day be-
fore the Inauguration the President
elect arrives in Washington. There is
always a crowd to meet him at the sta
ton, and from the minute he registers
at the hotel with his ''suite"-in other
words, his wife and relatives-he must
hold an informal reception. He must
take his primary lesson in affability.
No matter if they do press in while he
is taking his monday bite to urge
postoffice appointment. No matter it
Mrs. Brown, from CObunkuS, does ar
rive with the coffee and after-luncheon
smoke to beg a button off the Presiden-
tial coat Luncheon, coffee, cigars, all
must be given up, and the President
must smile and smile again.
In the afternoon the President-elect
goes to call at the White House upon
the President. His object is to notify
him that he is in Washington, and is
ready to assume the duties of office.
He makes a call of ten minutes and
goes back to his hotel. Within an hour
the President calls at the hotel and no
titles the incoming President that he
is ready to deliver up the keys of state.
In the evening all dine together at the
White House. The next morning, the
4th of March, the new President goes
to the White House at II o'clock. In
little while the Senate Reception Com
mittee calls there and all get into car
riages to go to the Capitol for the in
auguration. There are the two Presi-
dents. the two Cabinets, the head of the
army, the commander Of the navy and
q large citizens escort. A few prelim-
inaries in the Senate and the President
finds himself upon the porch Of the
Capitol addressing the crowd-in the
storm.
A duty which the President has to
learn early in his career is the writing
of harmonious messages. Not only
must he write correctly, but he must
be able to word his messages and proc
lamations so that they go to the hearts
of the people. This often requires
study on his part. The most trying
proclamation ever issued was the
Thanksgiving message sent out by
President Arthur a few weeks after
Garfeld's death. There was some
curiosity to see how he would word
such a message at such a time. But his
supreme tact rose to the occasion. The
incoming President should always
learn tact. To be without it has made
enemies for many a good Executive.
The President must learn to bear
physical disturbance. Grant was
Weakened from his sleep at 2:30 the
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Original Languages of Europe.

1t is said by philologists that there
are thirteen original European Ian
guages-the Greek, Latin, German,
Slavonic, Welsh, Biscayan, Irish, AL
bantam, Tartarian, Illyrian, Jazygian,
Chaucin and Finnic.
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The Electric-Storage Battery.
The electric storage battery, in whose
development lies the hope of emanci-
patton from electric light wires, trolley
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Half Of your worry today is due to
your neglect yesterday.
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Do you ever think Of the thousands
who are struggling in secret?
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Fair science.
'frowns upon
the plebeian
opinion that
kleptomania
is a polite
name for a
~ ~ ~
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-03-12

describing it literally means, evan
gehon, good news, glad tidings, joy
ful message. This old, old story as
we call II sometimes, is really every
morning new 1t is a creator Of new
hopes, new joys, new works, new
world. Within us, beyond us and all
about us, all things become new when
we read that message rightly. Long
fellow was standing In that light
when he wrote:
"'There is no death;
What seems so is transitions;
This life of mortal breath
Is but the threshold of that life
elysian,
Whose portal we call death"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-03-12
Deafness cannot be Cured.

by local applications, as they cannot
reach the diseased portions OF the ear.
There Is only one way TO cure deaf,
ness, and that Is by constitutional
remedies. Deafness is caused by an
infiamed condition OF the mucous
lining OF the Eustachian tube. When
this tube gets infiamed you have
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing,
and when IL Is entirely closed deaf
ness Is the result, and unless the in
fiammation can be taken out and this
tube restored 20 its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed foreyeri
nine cases out OF ten are caused by
catarrh, which is nothing but an In
famed condition OF the mucous sur
face.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case OF deafness tcaused by
catarrh) that cannot be cured by
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for cir
culars, free.
II. j. CHENNEY & Co., Toledo. %.
ESSold by Druggists, 70 cents.