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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02
A HomeIy Suggestion.

n AOAcAy CuRS0SCIOHs
In these days, when so many house
holds are feeling the stress Of poverty. it
seems worth while to call attention to
the homely old adage that a penny saved
is a penny earned. When hard times
come, every woman's first thought is
bitter regret that she canot add to the
family purse by earning money and she
goes sOrroWfully over the list of her lit
tie accomplishments and talents to see if
there is one that would prove remunera-
tive. AS a general thing the result of
the invoice is nothing. She is bound to
admit that nobody would pay to hear her
play the Battle of Prague" or sing,
and that the verses which she writes on
funeral occasions for her friends are not
ready overstocked with poetry
Probably because Americans scorn do
mestic work so entirely. It does not oc-
cur to her that she can save far more
than she can earn by turning off the
cook and doing her own work 1t is not
the salary of the cook that counts in the
South. 1t is the waste, the lncompeten-
cy that ruins food and the capacious
basket that comes and gees with the col
cred lady who condescends to look after
culinary affairs. When one considers
that the health and the happiness of the
family depend so much on the kitchen,
it is strange that women pay so little at
tention to learning the fine art of cook
ing.
1t is profession that is always in de-
mand. The world may be overstocked
with prima donnas, the supply of women
writer's is always greater than the de-
mand, typewriters and clerks are far in
excess of the places for them; but the
whole world is looking for a good cook
This is a homely and practical sugges-
ton. 1t is not so romantic, perhaps, as
doing something that brings your name
before the public, but Housekeeping
hearts are happiest, and the woman who
manages her house on the most economi-
cal and hygienic plan is doing far more
for her family than if she had gone out
to compete in the ill-paid world of I'M
skilled wage-earners. = New Orleans
PicaVune
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02
Had a Good Head.

At dinner party the other night, a
handsome young physician had been par
ticularly bright and entertaining. AS the
ladies left the table. cigars were passed
and accepted by all of the gentlemen
but the doctor. The host looked at him
said he; "why, my dear fellow, you lose
half your dinner eyes, l know l do
replied the doctor; ''but if l should
smoke | would lose the whole of it,
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02
A Drop of Water.

Water that is now in the ocean and in
the river has been many times in the
sky. The history of a single drop taken
out of a glass of water is really ro-
mantle one. No traveller has ever ac-
complished such distances in his life.
That particle may have reflected the
palm trees Of coral islands and have
caught the sun ray in the arch that spans
a cloud clearing away from the valleys
Of Cumberland or California.
It may have been carried by the Gulf
stream from the shore of Florida or of
Cuba, to be turned into crystal of ice
besides the precipices of Spitzenbergen. It
may have lowered over the streets of
London and have formed part of
murky fog and have glistened on the
young glass blade of April in Irish fields.
It has been lifted up to heaven and
sailed in great wool-pack clouds across
the sky, forming part of a cloud mount
ain echoing with thunder. 1t has hung
in a feecy veil many miles above the
earth at the close of long seasons of
still weather. Tt has descended many
times over in showers to refresh the
earth and has sparkled and dubbed in
messy fountains in every country i'll Eu-
foDe.
1t has returned to it's native skies
having accomplished it's purpose, to be
stored once again with electricity to give
it new hfe-producing qualities and equip
it as heavens messenger to earth once
more-Charles S. Whiting in the Mu-
scum.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02
Emnloyer's Liabiiity.

The Supreme court of Minnesota held,
in the recent case of Carlson VS.. North
western Telephone Exchange company,
that the decisive tests as to whether,
in any given case, an employe is to be
regarded as a vice-principal or a fellow
servant is not his title or his rank, but
the nature of the service which he per-
forms; that if he is authorized to per-
form duties which are the absolute du-
ties of the master, he is to the extent
of discharge of those duties a vice.
principal and that whenever the ma
ture and magnitude of the masters
work, whether it be that of construc
ton or otherwise, are such that it is
necessary that orders be given regulating
the conduct of his employees and direct
ing them where to work, it is not only
right but the absolute duty of the mas
ter to give such orders, and in obeying
such orders the employees have a right
to assume that the master, in giving the
orders, has exercised due care for their
safety. In the case before the court it
appeared that the defendant in eXcayat-
ing a ditch placed the work and the
men employed thereon, of whom the
plaintiff was one. in charge of fore
man, who had general oversight of the
work. The men were subject to his
orders; he had authority to employ and
discharge them and direct them what
to do and where to work, and was the
supreme authority there present. The
foreman negligently ordered the plaintiff
from the place where he had been work
ing into the ditch at point where he
had not previously worked, which was
a place of unusual danger by reason of
a crack in the earth on the side Of the
ditch and defects in the curbing, which
danger and defects were not obvious
or known to the plaintiff, who obeyed
the order and was injured by the caving
in of the ditch. The court held that in
giving the order the foreman was a
vice-principal and the defendant liable
for his neoli@encn Bra dSt1eat,s
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02
Trick Of Money Changers.

Nearly all of the money changers
downtown have stopped displaying gold
in their show windows. and in place of
it have great piles of new copper pen
MES Up to year or so ago the chang
ers We'd with one another in displaying
gold coin. Sometimes there would be as
much as $1,000 or $4,000 in a window,
and there was usually crowd around
looking at it. About year ago a thief
in one of these crowds smashed win
dow and made off with a double hand
full of gold. Then the police asked the
money changers to take better means to
protect their windows. Some of them
put up wire screens. Others put up
iron bars. Both interfered with the
view of the gold. Who originated the
new funny idea is not known, but it
has taken hold generally. The pennies,
when they come from the mint, have
about the color of an American gold
coin. They are piled in the windows.
Indian head up. There is nothing on
that side Of cent to tell what it is,
and no doubt great many foreign
patrons of these places, who are not
familiar with our coin, think them gold
Some Of the changers have empty treas
ury bags in their windows beside the
pennies. The bags are marked $4,000
or $4,000 or some other large AMOUNT
New York Sun.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02
The Organ Bird.

lie VTSan
The banks of the streams in the vicini-
ty Of st. Paul's in the Upper Amazons
in South America. are dotted with palm
matched dwellings of the Indians, all
half buried I'M the leafy wilderness, the
scattered families having chosen the
coolest and shadiest hooks for their
abodes. The traveller frequently hears
in the neighborhood of there huts the
organ bird, the most remarkable songster
by far of the Amazonian forests. When
it's singular notes strike the ear for the
first time the impression cannot be re-
sisted that they are produced by a human
voice. Some musical boy must be gath
ering fruit in the thickets. and is singing
q few notes to cheer himself. The tones
become more f1uty and plaintive. Some
times they resemble the notes of fageo-
let. and the traveller is almost per-
suaded, in spite of the absurdity of the
thing, that some person is playing that
instrument in the primeval forests.
However closely he may scan the neigh
boring thicket, no bird appears. although
the voice seems to be that of someone
near at hand.
The bird is rarely if ever heard in the
Lower AmaZonS. 1t is the only song
bird that makes an impression on the
natives, who sometimes rest their pad
dies along by the shady bystreams as
if struck by the mysterious sounds-a
high compliment, indeed. for the usually
impassive natives to pay to the feath-
cred songster.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-03-02

Teacher-''Thomas, I saw you laugh
just now What were you laughing
about?'' Thomas-'I was just thinking
about something ''You have no bust
ness thinking during school hours. Don't
let it occur again. ''-Answers.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
OBSERVATIONS.

The men that marry most frequently for money are the ministers.
 Some husbands are so indulgent that they can never come home sober.
 It is a wise woman that knows, her own husband at 8 masquerade ball.
 The bonds of matrimony would be more popular if they paid cash divi- dends.
 A wedding ceremony is never a sue cess unless there is hitch in it some where.
 When a man meets his wife down town, he wonders how much it will cost him.
 It's funny that dogs don't seem to mind it more when some women kiss them.
 The sharper woman's nose is for bargains the more she enjoys a spicy bit of scandal
 When a girl has first learned how to kiss, she begins to wonder how long she got along without it.
 A man never looks so interested in the sermon as he does the minute af- ter he has snored in church and scared himself awake.
 When girl says she never drinks coffee because it makes her nervous you may know she has read in the pa per that it is bad for the complexion
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

The clerk of the house of represen- tatives, whose duty it is to make up the list of members of each new con- gress, is now reported to be wrestling with the question of the proper classi- fication of those members who were elected by the combined votes of Dem ocrats, Populists, silverites, Prohibi- tionists and silver Republicans. What adds to his embarrassment is the fact that the members thus elected do not themselves know what to call them selves. One newly elected member from Michigan has written to the clerk three times in order to suggest what should be his proper designation, and he isn't satisfied yet
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

There are few men with a cooler and clearer head than ex-Senator Ed munds in considering the foreign rela- tions of our country. He expresses himself with caution as to the claim made by Secretary Olney and Presi- dent Cleveland of the power of the president, independently of congress, in preventing action that leads to war with a foreign government, but he is positive in believing that there is like ly to be nothing done in congress in relation to Cuba that will bring this is sue to a decision. He is clear also that this government ought not to recog- nize the independence of Cuba, and we think the country is with him on that point. The time when a nasty impulse might have carried people away in that direction has passed.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
ROUNDING UP DOCTORS.
All Their Mistakes Not Hidden in the
 Ground.

The rule that no man can be depriv- ed of his life without due process of law is liable to be enforced against the doctors as we'll as against ordinary citizens. That is if the Arena maga- zine for January can be relied upon. This number is of special interest to legislative bodies, physicians and law yers on account of the article on "A Court of Medicine and Surgery" writ ten by A. B. Choate, the prominent lawyer, at the request of leading phy sicians. MT. Choate intends to begin movement which it is believed by some of the ablest lawyers and phy sicians will be of as vital importance to medicine and surgery as well as to the public as was the movement that resulted in the establishment of trial by jury to the public and to the legal profession. This is the opening shot of a campaign that will be waged from the Arenas pages by leading phy- sicians, surgeons, and jurists in the near future, and that will be carried before the legislature in Minnesota and elsewhere this winter.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
THE CHICAGO FAILURES.

The several bank failures in Chica go last week have been ascribed by certain Democratic newspapers as due to the success of Mckinley and the sound money idea. Nonsense!
 They were due altogether to local causes, and are in no way traceable to general conditions in trade and finance. The collapsed institutions are simply the victims of unsound management, reckless methods and unbusinesslike policy, and their disappearance from the field of finance is merely weed ing out of undesirable and dangerous elements. Local business affairs in Chicago will suffer largely through the suspension of these banks, but that the crash will be followed by any wide spread or long-continued disaster is entirely unlikely. If there is any les son in these failures, it is that financial safety is to be gained only through a more vigilant and thorough public supervision of our banking institu- tions-a supervision which is most easily procurable through judicious revision and extension of the nationa bank law.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

One of the humors of a London din ner party at which Sir Henry Irving, MT. Wyndham, and other actors of note were present, was Sir Frank Lock woods remark that actors are the most popular persons in the realm, with the single exception of profes- sional jockeys"
 After having a number of articles accepted by eastern magazines, Will N. Harlen, the southern story writer, wrote to the editor of one to ask why nothing of his was published. The editors answer was: There is a con- spiracy here to hold your articles un- til you are dead, as they would natur- ally have greater interest then. How
 It is suggested in Alabama that Miss Mary Page Jones, the daughter of the late Commander Catesby ap R. Jones, of the Confederate army, be requested to name the new battle ship Alabama Ii Hung Chang's foreign visitors since his return to China, noticed a marked change in his manner of ad- dress. He has lost much of his old brusqueness. The old gentleman con- Sldully uses d WdlhluS SllCh Ol Nou Grants, presented to him by Colonel Fred Grant, in New York.
 is your health?"
 Max Muller, the distinguished phil ologist, says in the current number of Cosmopolis that he remembers the poet Uhland at Leipsic as a little, old wrinkled man. who was very shy and retiring. Once some students marched to the poets house, sang some of his songs and cheered him, and Uhland came to the window, but he was toe timid to say a word. The professor has painful memory of Heine, whom 1 he saw in Paris a wreck.
 Tolstoi has recently addressed to a Dutch conscript, who had refused or conscientious grounds to do military l service, a letter in which he speaks o1 the soldiers trade in terms that are likely to displease the Russian authori- ties. He says that stupidity barbar- ism, and cowardice are necessary qual- ifications for entering the profession of committing murder to order, and he does not understand how a sane mar much less a Christian can promise to obey so-called superior, whose first order may be to kill in an unrighteous cause.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
TO STOP SETTING.

A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo-, says" Members of the board of health are preparing to take steps toward the abatement of the splitting nuisance, and at it's next meeting something de- eisive will be done in this direction. The mayor and city physician are es- pecially earnest in the matter. Mayor Jones said yesterday: I am going to move first against the fellows who stand upon the street corners for hours at a time and eXpectorate upon the sidewalks From that we will broaden out until we hold responsible everyone who offends public decency and public health by indiscriminate splitting. l think the street car companies will cooperate with us in enforcing the rule in their cars.'
 It is a filthy nuisance and should be abated, for it has reached large proportions, this matter of expectorat- ing on the public sidewalks, in public rooms, in the public cars. It spreads disease it is indecent, unmannerly disgusting, unclean; it defaces the streets and floors and walls The ac- tion taken in Kansas City, Chicago and other cities is highly commend able, and is worthy of imitation in Phoenix. where the practice is com mOn
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
CARLISLE'S MISTAKEN IDEA.

Secretary Carlisle's annual report sheds no light upon the financial con- dition of the treasury. The secretary repeats his recommendation of one year ago and advises the early retire ment of treasury notes. He still holds to the belief that tariff legislation is not needed, and points to the increase of exports to prove his contention. He admits, however, that increased duties might be placed upon articles of luxury, yet believes even that would result in diminished receipts. He in no way admits the failure of the Will son-GOrman act, and the mystery of the surplus of SIPS, ,00O, 900 is not clear ed up AS an addition to the financial literature of the day the report is not of value. In a tone of a man who be- lieves he knows it all the secretary says:
 'The failures of many of our indus tries in the past have been attributed to insufficient protection against com petition from abroad when the real causes were unfavorable locations and lack of skill and experience on the part of their managers, or over-sup- ply of products by domestic establish ments."
 This is an assumption of knowledge that will not be accepted by those who have felt the squeeze of the Demo- cratic tariff. The potters and WOO growers, for instance, will take issue with the secretary This attempt tC show that protection from foreign manufacturers is merely imaginary is but part and parcel of the Democrat ic theoretical notions of the tariff In the meantime the deficit keeps or growing. It is about time that a new secretary of the treasury was at the head of the most important depart ment of the government.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

Senator Stewart, after investing some $22,000 in a valiant but hopeless effort to establish a self-supporting free coinage newspaper in Washington, has asked that the enterprise be placed inferred that henceforth the senator will devote himself exclusively to re- marks in the senate on ''the crime of '73"
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
MEXICAN CENTRAL RAILWAY.

From the sea to the clouds. Passing modern cities and ancient monuments. Standard gauge in everything man, agement, ideas and treatment of pa irons. The only line in the republic running Pullman palace buffet sleep ing cars between the capital and points in the United States. Cheap rates and prompt service. For full particulars call Oh or address J. F. Donohoe. Commercial agent. Fl Paso. Texas.
 MARICOPA & PHOENIX & SALT
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

The mechanic. labOrer OF clerk can now afford to take 2 city paper since the price of E!,a ali Repub- lican has been reduced to 6he per mouth by carri h epnhlicau contains more reading matter than any other southwestern daily.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

Now that the end of his term is close at hand Secretary Morton says the Of flee of secretary of agriculture is a useless one and ought to be abolished. Doesn't it look a little queer that such a bright fellow as Morton should have required four years to make this dis cOYerY?
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

The gentleman whose loving spouse bought him a 75-cent box of cigars for Christmas doubtless was gratifed with the kindly intention. He may even give up the nasty habit of smoking
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

A California court has decided that there is no distinction between a glove contest and a prize fight That may be true in law As a matter of fact, however, there is very little similar ity between a contest with gloves and a gabfest.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

Several men have died in West Vir- ginia from drinking poisoned whiskey It is folly for any one to try to drink poisoned whiskey who has never been a regular patron of Kansas drug store
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

It is telegraphed from Washington that the Cameron resolution and the report accompanying it were not writ ten by Senator Cameron. This is one of those things that go without tele- graphing.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

Queer old Arkansas! In the returns of the state for presidential electors, at Washington, it appears that Jeffer- son Davis received eighty-six votes This looks like a posthumous upris- ing.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

The poor Cubans will have to strug gle along as best they can during the holiday recess of the senate. Our big guns are all silenced.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
PEOPLE IN GENERAL.

The only living son of a Revolu tionary soldier in New Hampshire is Samuel s. Green of Portsmouth, who was eighty-four years old last week.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

Those who complain of the high prices demanded for w. J. Bryan's lec- lures must remember that the silver trust is no longer footing the bills.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

Perhaps after listening to MT. Bry- ans lecture the country will be more inclined to believe a dollar buys too much.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

The frequent train robberies with in her borders show that Missouri is living up to her election returns.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29

The New York World has issued a war map with our gunboats smelling Havana. It's much ado on paper
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
PhGniiz and Buckeye Stage
J, s. BAsSETT, Prop,

J, s. BAsSETT, Prop,
 Leaves Phoenix Mondays and Fridays at 7s0 |. m. arrives st Buckeye in twelve hours; leaves Buckeye Tuesdays and Saturdays at 7:30 !. m., and arrives at Phoenix in twelve hours. ofice at Mesa Fruit Store. This line meets tke 4arqua Hala stage every Monday evening.
Arizona republican., 1896-12-29
TO TEX AS

The Lone Star" is wavlng-the star of the free; Then strike for Texas, if men you would be. No idlers are wanted, the thrifty and wise, To wealth and high station can equally rise. Where corn, oats and cotton; the richest Which yields to the settlers provisions and
 home.
 Trees of every descri ption ise on each hand. From alluvial soil to the rich table land Here springs are exhaustless and streams never In the season from winter 10 autumn's hright
 sky,
 wide panorama of prairie is seen; C1 grass of all kinds pereDnially green. Here millions of cattle, sheep, horses and goats Grow fat as if stall fed or fatted on oats. Mo poverty is found in the mighty domain, To the man who exerts either finger or brain, Here are are homes home for the millions, the rich and While Texas opens wide her hospitable door, She mas thousands Of acres-yes, millions-to Yet can point without cost where pre- emptors
 can dwell.
 Her terms will be easy with those whom she
 deals,
 While security, all in their title can feel. Buy land while tis cheap, and the finest select, Twill, young man, prove a fortune when least
 you expect.
 old man. tor your children, buy. file it away Godsend twill prove on some rainy day.
 For pamphlet fully describing this wonder ful country address Gaston Meslier, General Passenger and Ticket Agent Texas and Pacific Railway, Dallas, Texas
 Low-rate Home Seekers Excursion Tickets will be sold to all points in Texas on April 2, April 21 and May 5. Take advantage of this great opportunity.