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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-24

merry Christmas Papa and Mamma too
We didn't have time to dress !!
But here's a kiss for our gifts, all this
From Madge and Willie and Bess !"
"Whee! What q tree And look at the things
Marked 'Madge and Willie and Bess'
Thus gay all the day did the children play
And they never found time to dress !"
Roy L. McCdrdeN
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1896-12-24

Mike Kehoe has accepted the idea of
playing in Indianapolis next season
While he has had no intimation to that
effect from the club. INehoe feels that he
would be benefited by 4 season in the
w estern league under the tutorship of
w II. Watkius--the best manager in
the West, bar Cincinnati Tribune
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THIRST WoRsE THAN HUNGER. :

/. THIRST WORSE THAN HUNGER.
The disturbance to the general system
which is known by the name of raging
thirst is far more terrible than that Of
starvation, and for this reason: Dur
ing the abstinence from food, the or
ganism can still live upon its own sub
stance; but during abstinence from IL
quid, the organism has no such source
ofsupply within itself. Men have been
known to endure absolute priyation Of
food for some weeks, but three days Of
absolute privation of drink, (unless in
a moist atmosphere) is, perhaps, the
limit of endurance. Thirst is the most
atrocious torture ever invented by
Oriental tyrants. 1t is that which
most effectually tames animals. Mr..
Ashley, when he had refractory horse,
always used thirst as the most effective
power of coercion, giving little water
as the reward for every act of obedi-
ence. The histories of shipwrecks
paint fearful pictures of the suffering
from thirst; and one of the most ap:
palling cases known is the celebrated
of 146 men in the Black
Hole, of Calcutta.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01
To BAFFLE MosoU1Tos.-The time

To BAFFLE MosoUITos.-The time
of. the year will soon be here when
many people are keenly interested
| in any measure that will lead to
the circumvention of the pestilent
mosquito. An American agricultural
expert finds that a film of kerosene
oil, on the water tanks near his
house has rid it of MOSQUITOES.
Kerosene smeared on the face and
hands is quite effective in keeping
the insects at bay. An Indian journal
vouches for the castor oil plant as
one of the best projections against
mosquitoes. In Egypt it is planted
about the houses to drive the insects
away. In towns the young plants
can always be had in pots, and they
can be placed about the house for
day or two. After that they must
be put out in the fresh air, for the
plant loves the sun. But with two
sets of pots, one for service within
doors and the other recouping, the
plan can be worked perfectly. In
tropical countries the ordinary belief
is that the insects are killed by q
poison that is to be- found on the
lower side Of the leaf; but If dozen
leaves are placed about a room that
swarms with the insects they will
disappear without leaving any dead
ones lying about.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01

SENATOR TILLMAN LIKED IT.-Sen
ator Tillman got taste of suffrage al
the reception given by his Colorado
admirers the other day.
AS the crowd was passing in front o.
the stand upon which he was being ex
hibited in Denver an elderly woman
leaned forward, and clutching him by
the neck drew herself to his level and
planted kiss on his mouth that re-
sounded through the entire hotel.
Eight thousand persons were jammeo
in the balconies reaching up 10 floors
The salute was received with some EN-
barrassment by the senator, but he bore
it bravely, as some newfangled reform
that Colorado had introduced without
asking his consent. The audience re-
sponded with cheer that covered the
old woman with confusion and caused
her pretty daughter to expostulate. Ir
the retirement of his room the senator
said he would like to make prolonged
campaign in the State.
The woman who made herself famou:
is Mrs. Darnell. Later, when seer
by reporter, she said she could moi
help it, as she was so glad to be able te
greet free silver man who did not gel
his education in Colorado.-New York
Recorder.
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TO BE CONTINUED.

IT WORKED In EVERY WAY.-A
Washington correspondent, sometime
ago, started a story about Prohibition
ist Hull, of Iowa, to the effect that he
once admired knife of Representa-
tive Chickering's which had in it a
hook, "designed," Chickering said, ito
remove stones which might become
fastened in q horses hoof on a rocky
road" Hull admired it so much that
Chickering gave it to him, and Hull
took it home to show to his wife.
Mrs. Hull looked at the knife and
then at her husband. "John," she
said, "any man who has served
terms as secretary of the State senate,
been twice lieutenant governor, and
served two terms in congress, must be
pretty good man if he doesn't know
a champagne-opener from a hoof'
cleaner"
The story was copied all over the
State, and commented on in variety
of ways. Then the congressman met
the correspondent who first published
the story. He was smiling all over.
"You did me a great SERVICE" Hull
said affectionately; "all the Prohibi-
tionists are taking my wife's view OF
my ignorance, and all the 'antis' are
insisting that I'm devil of good
fellow for imposing so successfully on
my wife. 1t works we'll in my behalf
whichever way you take it,"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01

A PREACHERS ADvIcE.--Lorenzo
Dow once closed discourse with the
following language, which is as singu-
lar for its quaintness as practical in
its advice:
"I want you, my young sinners, to
kiss and get married, and devote your
time to morality and money-making.
Then let your home be provided with
such comforts and necessaries as piety,
pickles, pots and kettles, brushes,
brooms and benevolence, bread, vir-
tue, wine, and wisdom. Have these
always on hand, and happiness will be
with you. Do not drink anything
Intoxicating, eat moderately, go about
business after breakfast, lounge little
after dinner, chat after tea, and kiss
after quarrelling. Then all the joy,
the peace and bliss the earth can
afford shall be yours, until the grave
closes over you, and your spirits are
borne to a brighter and happier
world"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01
THE SECOND UNITED STATES CAV

THE SECOND UNITED STATES CAV
ALRY.-It is doubtful if any other one
regiment furnished an equal number
of distinguished officers during the
the Civil war. Among the officers
were Albert Sidney Johnston, colonel ;
Robert E. Lee, lieutenant colonel
William J. Hardee, brevet lieutenant
colonel; George H. Thomas, major.
Robert E. Lee and A. S. Johnston be-
came generals in the Confederate
army, and Hardee became lieutenant
general. Thomas became a distin'
guished general in the Federal army
Among the captains were Earl Van
Dorm, E. Kirby Smith and N. G.. Evans
all of whom became generals in the
Confederate army. I. N. Palmer
George SGoneman and R. w. Johnson
held the same positions in the Union
army. Among the subalterns John B
Hood, Charles w. Field, Chambliss
and Phifer became Southern generals
and R. Garrard and others attained
the same place in the Northern army
Captain Evans left the United States
service before Colonel Robert E. Lee
did, and when they parted at Fort
Mason, Texas, Colonel Lee said: "1'm
sorry to give you up, Evans. Don't
know what may happen before we
meet again. Perhaps they'll make you
a general"
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"Tono, I can help you out Of this scrdpe." "
may evade the matrimonial tax, and
that she must agree beforehand to dis
miss me at the end of that time"
"Precisely. Daisy would try to make
life burden to you if she thought you
were deceiving her. "
"Do you suppose she will consent to
such an arrangement"
81 think so. She wishes to study
music and has decided not to marry be-
fore her twenty-sixth birthday. She is
21 now and has property enough to en-
able her to take care of herself, go she
cares nothing for the maiden's pay day.
I think she would like an escort who
would not trouble her with a lovers
importunities and who would act as a
shield between herself and possible
lovers"
cit will do no harm to propose, at
any rate"
Tom wrote the letter, as his friend
had suggested, sealed it carefully, ad-
dressed it to Miss Margaret Blake and
gave it to Sander to deliver. Sander In
closed it in one giving full particulars,
and in due time Tom received the fol
lowing reply:
Mr.. Tom Wainwright:
DEAR S1R-I have just finished reading your
| proposal and my cousins pleasant account OF
you, which he was 50 good US to send with the
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proposal In reply, VIII say that agree
consider myself your betrothed for period o
three years and to release you at the end o.
that time, provided you conduct yourself dur
| ing that time as gentleman should TOWARD
| the lady whom he esteems highly, but doe
| not expect to marry. I do not like endear
ments, but understand that society is some
what exacting in regard to the behavior OF en-
gagged people, and shall try to 30 conduc
] myself that we may not be commented upon
| can see that you would prefer not to have Il
| known that we are engaged simply Tor CON
| venience. 1t will please me to have desirable
escort during my stay In town, and Cousin
| Sander assures me that shall find you simply
| perfect. wonder what he has told you about
me. That have an abominable temper,
presume. he considers that my chief charac
| teristic. Well, II Is bad, but console yourself
with the thought that, 30 far as know, 1t II
the only fault / havel And am not eros
when things 90 to suit me. II yog prove
| satisfactory escort, pieaune you VIII neset
know from experience that am not simply
angelica Yours truly, MARGARET BLAKE.
Tom found this letter quite satisfac-
tory and conld hardly wait for the day
when he was to see Miss Margaret, or
Daisy, as her cousin called her and as
he liked TO think Of her. A number OF
his best friends knew Of his good for
tune in finding a charming girl who
was willing to be engaged to him for a
period Of three years and to give him
his liberty at the end Of that time.
"It will" he explained, mot deprive
me of my freedom in any sense Of the
term. In fact, it will give me greater
freedom. can be pleasant with other
girls without their thinking that / am
making love, and even if should fall
in love with one Of them my engage
ment to Daisy will not prevent me from
explaining matters to the other girl and
declaring my sentiments. "
It was really quite nice arrange
ment, and Tom would not have had q
moments uneasiness before he met Miss
Margaret had he not overheard two of
his friends talking about him one day
at dinner.
81 wouldn't have believed Tom
Wainwright would be so simple" said
one of them, "as to go and engage him
SELF to girl whom he had never seen. "
"He depended upon Ridgway's judg-
ment, understand, replied the other.
"But she is Ridgway's cousin, and
one is always blind to the defects OF
ones relatives. Besides did you ever
know Ridgway to be acquainted with
any girl who was not charming? All
girls are alike in his eyes. He has no
more Judgment than Hottentot.
"There is no one," replied the other
speaker, whom I wCAld rather see
caught than Tom Wainwright. he is SC
fastidious Think what it would mean
to him to be obliged to escort an ugly
woman for three long years and see
Sander walking away with pretty ALICE
GriggsP"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01

CoNGREss.-It is now not expected
that congress will adjourn before the
latter part of May, although the peo-
ple were never before so impatient to
have the event occur at once. There
is a prevalent feeling in the country
that congress is not doing any good
and that its continued sitting only adds
to the uncertainty as TO what is going
to happen and prevents business as
suming a normal aspect. Some of the
letters received by senators and rep
resentatives are abusive in tone, vul-
gar and coarse. But the ma ajority
come from business men, who say the
uncertainty about legislation, and par
ticularly concerning the prospects for
trouble with Spain over the Cuban
question, is holding the country back
and stopping the wheels of trade.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01

In BLooMERs AND ALoNE.-Miss
Jessie Robinson a handsome young
lady of 20, who resides in Indianapolis,
has completed arrangements to make
a bicycle run from Chicago to the City
of Mexico, a distance of 5000 miles.
Miss Robinson will leave Chicago Au-
gust 10, clad in neat gray bloomers
and expects to arrive in Mexico Sep
tember 7. This stupendous task is
not the outcome of a wager. Miss
Robinson believes she can make the
run in 3s days, barring accidents, and
has the daring to undertake it. She
will ride alone.-Louisville Courier
Journal.
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BENEFIT OF HOT WATER.

"There is really no excuse for
con6ning the use of water to the
exterior of the body when its use
internally is Of such decided benefit" "
said DR.. Levitt. "Hot water, so hot
that it must be slipped, is one of the
first things now prescribed by many
physicians. Its effects on the system
are often wonderful.
ats action is of course primarily
q mechanical one. The mucous mem
brane lining the digestive system
naturally becomes incumbered by
secretions which are not aids to the
proper secretions, and which are SO
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01

FALSE ACKNOWLEDGMENT Notes
reports the significant saying of an
old lady who was locally famous for
her good health and her exceeding
thrift. An acquaintance was congrat-
ulating her upon her freedom from
bodily ailments, when she replied {:
ave be pretty we'll for old folks, Jo-
siah and me. Josiah hasn't had an
ailin' time for fifty years, 'cept last
winter. And I amt never suffered
but one day in my life, and that was
when took some of the medicine Jo-
siah had left over, SOS how it shouldn't
be wasted"
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of the nofa Sufial agritultural and Guntmterral in


foreign to the proper ones that they
are in reality harmful. The drinking
of hot water is almost the first remedy
a physician thinks of in case of some
slight disorder of the digestive organs.
I have heard of instances where the
practice of drinking copiously of very
hot water the first thing in the morn
ing, kept up for months at a time
and used entirely independent of all
other remedies, has resulted in placing
the digestive organs in perfect shape.
"Apart from the mechanical cleans.
ing operation, there is curative one
as we'll. The hot water acts as a
stimulus to the secretions of the men,
branes lining the stomach and alimen-
tary canal. This if continued regular
ly may be attended with effects which
are almost beyond the belief of one
who has never heard of the use OF hot
water.
"Nature's cure, as this may be call
ed, is growing in popularity right
along. Many persons who are trou-
bled intermittently with .heaviness or
fullness after eating which may portend
digestive arrangement, are. aided ma
terially by hot water drinking"
Another physician told of case
brought under his notice where a
young woman had taken to the hot wa
ter treatment when she found herself
threatened with catarrh of the stom-
ach as result of bad cold improper.
ly treated. For more than year she
kept up the treatment. The last
three months she was in excellent
health. She never had recurrence OF
the indigestion. She drank the hot
water every morning Immediately
after rising, occasionally adding a little
astringent.
This was followed by lightness OF
feeling, and what she ate was taken
care of without any distress at all.
Every part of the alimentary system
was toned up by the washing out and
the grateful stimulation of the mucous
membrane.-SanF Francisco Examiner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01

POPULAR BELIEF.-The converse
ton turned upon the fatal number,
Friday, salt spilling, and other super
stitions. cit is not we'll to make too
much fun of such matters" gravely
remarked Brichanteau. "For instance
l had an old uncle who, at the age OF
II, committed the imprudence ofmak.
ing one ofa dinner party of 49," Sand
he died the next day ?" LIE Rib in
quired. "No; but exactly 13years af'
terward." A shudder ran though the
audience.
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a1iseellaneuus geading.
"UNCLE JACK"

He was remarkable African slave
of Virginia. 1t is probable he was
brought to James river in the last slave
ship that brought slaves to that State
Such was the regard in which he
was held that, on the death of his mas
ter several benevolent persons sub
scribed sufficient sum to purchase his
freedom.
Uncle Jacks talents were of high
order, and his knowledge of human
nature very remarkable. DR.. Rice, o.
Richmond, said of him, "The old
mans acquaintance with the Scriptures
is wonderful. Many of his interpreta'
tions, of obscure passages are singular
] ly Just and striking" He spoke pure
English. A few anecdotes will convey
/ good idea of his ready and apt mode
of illustration.
A person addicted to horseracing and
cardplaying, stopped Uncle Jack or
the road and said, "Old man, you
Christians say a great deal about the
way to heaven being narrow. Now, il
this is 80, a great many who profess to
be travelling it will not find it half wide
enough.".
"That's very true" was the reply
''of all that have merely a name to
live, and all like you."
"Why refer to me ?" said the man
eff the road is wide enough for any, ii
is for me-"
"By no MEANS" said Uncle Jack
"You will want to take along card.
table or racehorse or two. Now
there is no room along this way fol
such things"
A man who prided himself on his
morality said to Uncle Jack, "Old man
| I am as good as l need to be. I can't
help thinking 80 because God blesses
me as much as he does you Christians
and don't know what more I want
than he gives me-"
To this the old preacher replied
with great seriousness, "Just 80 with
the hogs. I have often looked at them
roofing among the leaves in the woods
and finding just as many acorns as they
needed, and yet never saw one ofthen
look up to the tree from whence the
acorns fell"
On one occasion some unruly person
undertook to arrest and whip him, and
also several of his hearers, for holding
religious meetings. After the arrest
one of the men thus accosted Uncle
Jack, "Well, old fellow, you are the
ringleader of these meetings, and we
have been anxious to catch you; now
what have you to say for yourself?"
"Nothing at all, master"
"What nothing to say against being
whipped, how is that?"
~ have been wondering long time,
said the old Christian, chow it was tha
so good a man as the Apostle Pau
should have been whipped three times
for preaching the Gospel, while suct
an unworthy man as I am shoulc
have been permitted to preach twenty
years without getting lick"
The young man Immediately released
him.
Uncle Jack died in 1S43, aged 10(
years. .--Blake's Biographical. Dictionary
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01

WANTS THIRTEEN MONTHS In A
YEAR.-One of the most novel ideas
that have been advanced in some time
is the suggestion made by one John S.
Brooks, that on January l, 1900, a
new division of the year, into Is
months, be instituted. This is not so
preposterous as most people would be
likely to consider it at the first
thought. In letter which Mr.. Brooks
wrote to the New York Herald, he
says that if such division were made,
the first 12 months would have just %
days, or four weeks each, and the new
month 30, to make 365, and 80 in leap
years. After few days there would
be no need to refer to the calendars, as
The same day Of the week would have
the same date through the year. Ifin
the four years to come this change
could be adopted by all countries, and
January l were, say, Monday, every
Monday would be the 1st, 9Th, 18th,
and 22nd; every Tuesday the I'd, 9th,
10th, and 23d, and so on throughout
the year.
The changes of the moon would
be on about the same dates through
the year, and many calculations, like
interest, dates of maturing notes, Eas-
ter Sunday, and many other important
dates would be simpli6ed. Mr.. Brooks
says in conclusion:
'The present generation would have
to figure new dates for birthdays, and
all legal holidays, except New Year,
would he on different dates. Would
not the gain be more than the loss, as
that would be permanent, and the OBJ
jections imaginary or trihing? won
der that this has not been advocated be-
fore, and yet 1 have not heard of it.
1 am 65 years old, but I can never tell
the days in each month without re-
peating the usual verse that we learn
in childhood. What excitement we
could have over naming the new
month. I would call it Lunar"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-05-01
TOMBSTONE RHYMES.

It is common to say that makers oi
gravestones have little regard for the
truth; monumental liars" they are
sometimes called. But though the
good side of the departed is generally
and properly-emphasized, there are
many instances in which spirit oi
frankness seems to have possessed the
village poets, whose services are SC
much in demand on mortuary oc.
casions.
In Vermont cemetery, according
to an exchange, one may read the
following epitaph, which certainly
does not err on the side Of lattery
Here lies in silent clay
Miss Arabella Young,
Who, on the 21st Of May,
Began to hold her tongue.
And here is quartrain, never be.
fore in print, of curiously similar
import:
Here lies the body of Hannah Thurber,
Once she talk ed, and none could curb her
Three husbands had she, all are dead,
They died of earache, so tits said.
In the same rural cemetery where
this last outspoken epitaph is found
visitors sometimes pause to smile al
the ingenious grief of a widower whose
change of mood in the concluding
couplet was perhaps quite uninten
tional:
In memory of Susan Glover,
Nv 70 N, Oof tri1Q QnH hind.
Though should marry ten times over
Her like shall not find.
Grammatical correctness is perhap:
too much to ask of the unprofessiona
muse. Metre and rhyme are harC
taskmasters, and while man is intent
upon minding them, he is almost to be
pardoned for using little too much O.
that very convenient article known as
poetic license. In a case like the
following, therefore, we may praise the
smoothness of the verse rather thar
laugh at the ruggedness Of the gram
matical construction:
Pause, good friend, and drop tear,
The body of John Pratt is here.
Think of the day when you will be
Under the sod as deep as me.
The amateur poet is troubled not
only by the trammels of metre and
rhyme, but by the narrow space in
which he is obliged to work. 1t is
impossible to say everything in foul
lines, and as consequence much must
be left to the understanding. of the
reader. So it was, no doubt, with the
author of the following:
Beneath this stone lies William Bett,
In the river he was drowned;
A sauall came up, his boat upset,
His body was never found.
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a9 Queen Elizabeth had the strong
est antipathy to a sherif''s officer.
She would run away as fast as she
could directly she saw one, and con-
tinued running for miles until her
guards, who knew her weakness, stop
ped her.