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Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
LIVES IN A ROCKING CHAIR.
One Man in America Who Carries Hi
House Around with Him.

One Man in America Who Carries His
House Around with Him.
Oakland has a taxpayer whose home
is nothing more or less than an antlQuat-
ed rocking chair, and who has astonished
the authorities by obeying an ordinance
which it was thought would serve to
end his peculiar ways, if enforced, says
the San Francisco Chronicle.
The eccentric resident is a Chinese
named Chang Wee, and he repairs cane
seated chairs for a livelihood.
Chang Wee covers great deal OF
territory, and does not consider it worth
while to establish himself in a house.
So he carries sample chair with him
upon his back. and when mealtime or
night overtakes him he plants himself
down wherever he chances to be and
enjoys a repast of rice and prunes or
goes to sleep for the night.
Chang is partial to highways, and
many people have been puzzled to see
him huddled up in his chair at the side
of some suburban road calmly waiting
for the morrow.
Some time ago Chang was told that
he could not occupy the streets at night
unless he hung out a lantern, for the law
was explicit on the point that obstruc-
tons should be indicated by lights after
dusk.
This did not discourage the Chinese,
and he at once secured beacon, which
he hangs from the back of his chair
now upon retiring.
Chang is a property holder and owns
a lot in partnership with another Chinese
on East Fourteenth street. Neverthe-
less, he considers himself too poor to
afford place in which to sleep and
eat.
He walks through Alameda and Con-
ira Costa counties, repairing chairs, and
makes fair wages thereby.
Among the Chinese of this city he is
looked upon with suspicion, for they
consider his ways radically inconsistent
and absurd.
Nevertheless, Chang Wee is making a
good living and saving all but a mite
of II
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

keepers. did they not earn their iiveli-
hood? What was the weaving, the sew
ing, the cooking, the doctoring, the nurs-
ing, the child-care, ''the work that was
never done,'' if it was not earning a
subsistence? Even in these days, when
woman goes forth and receives the re-
ward of her labor as publicly as man,
she is no more worthy of her hire. Her
ancestress-sweet and sanity sOul!-did
not dream of recompense. But was it
not her due; and shall we refuse to
credit it because man was then self
sufficient ignoramus who deemed himself
the only one fit to acquire property p
Alice B. Tweedy in Appleton's Popular
Science Monthly.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
The Eskimo Dog.

The appearance of the Eskimo dog is
very much that of a wolf, accompanied
by the sharpness and intelligence of the
Scotch collie. Although capable of much
affection, most of them are ready to
fight on the smallest provocation. These
dogs are particularly valuable for their
powers of endurance, feature OF the
utmost value to such party as this
when rations grow scarce. They are gen
orally attached to a sledge in teams of
eight to ten, and will pull compare
lively heavy load across the snow for
from eight to twelve hours day. I'm
der hardships they seem Indifferent to
either starvation or fatigue, though it
is not unusual for one of them to drop
dead in the traces whilst engaged in his
task on a trip. At the end of the days
journey the dogs are simply tied to pole
firmly planted in the snow, and, whilst
their masters are either rolled in a sleep
ing-bag or ensconced in tent, the dogs,
impervious to the extreme cold appear
to sleep just as we'll lying snugly on the
top of the snow. Their food is fish and
seal meat, although in civilized surround
ings they take kindly to horse-fesh, and
even dog-cakes. Many stories might be
told of their sagacity and their Won
derful efforts to save life, and it is to
be hoped that in the new and strange
experiences they will go through before
reaching the scene of their labors the
efforts that will be made to keep them
in the good form and condition in which
they have landed in this country will be
crowned with success.-London Chroni-
c1o
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

hatchery at San Marcos. It was neces-
sary to find a water supply, and after
sinking a shaft 1873 feet deep an under
ground stream was found. In the first
current of water that spouted to the sur
face the thing" was found.
The thing is about 6 inches long and
almost white. When held toward the
sun the jelly like tissues were found to be
translucent. The circulation of its blood
was plainly seen and the internal organs
were discerned.
The head is shaped like an alligator's
and is about one inch long. It's mouth
is wide. There is not a suggestion of a
tooth in the jaws. In the places where
eyes should naturally be are two pale
blue specks, family visible beneath the
skin, resembling blood sacs.
Just back of the head is a scarlet
fringe which was thought to be hair at
first Under the microscope, however, it
was found to be a series of organs to
serve the functions of gills.
The thing has four legs. Each of
the first pair has a foot with four toes.
There are five toes on the second pair of
legs, resembling in a remarkable degree
the human hand. The body is round and
has a tail much like an eel's.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
Does woman Earn Her Keep

Thousands of women work in the
mines of Belgium, England and Corn
wall. In the 6rst-named country they
formerly worked from twelve to sixteen
hours a day, with no Sunday rest. The
linen-thread spinners of New Jersey, &C.
cording to the report of the labor COM
missioner, are Sin one branch of the i'll
dustry compelled to stand on a stone
floor in water the year round, most Of the
time barefoot, with a. spray of water
from a revolving cylinder flying constant
ly against the breast; and the coolest
night in winter, as we'll as the warmest
in summer, these poor creatures must go
to their homes with water dripping from
their underclothing along their path, be-
cause there could not be space or few
moments allowed them wherein to
change their clothing" Yet women are
exempted" from labor attended by hard
shipi
Despite these washerwomen, miners
and linen-thread spinners, we are told
sit is woman's privilege generally to be
exempted from the care of earning her
livelihood and that of her offspring
1t would seem to be time that this
libel upon woman should be scorned by
fair-minded men. From all antiquity
the majority of women have been faith
full workers., rendering a full equivalent
in labor for their scanty share of the
worlds goods. The origin of every in
dustry bears testimony tn this. In our
own era. while women were still home
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
For the Piazza.

Forest green, so fashionable in all
kinds of furniture, is also used for paint
ing piazza chairs; so that if yours have
grown shabby and need repainting, cover
one or two with coat of enamel paint
in forest green, which is a dark green
with blush cast. These chairs look
well with others of white or scarlet.
Piazzas are sometimes furnished with a
certain color scheme. One piazza that
is very pretty now, but will probably not
look so we'll by midsummer, has white
hammock, green and white piazza chairs,
cushions covered with pale green linen
and dark-green corduroy, and mating
rug of pale sage color. The spreads OH
the little tables are of green denims,
and the plants are in white jardinieres.
The other plants massed in the corners
and out-of-the-way places are scarlet
geraniums in green jardinieres. A piaz-
"a with tropical color is nearly all in
orange and black. Scarlet and white is
often an effective color scheme for the
piazza of a country house. When a med
ley of colors is used, the East India
cottons are used for the table covers and
some of the pillows. Small white and
colored hammocks for children are
shown, the most convenient being at
tached to a stout standard, so that the
hammock may be swung very low and
placed anywhere on a piazza or under
trees without other support.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
SmokeIess Powder.

''There are many who imagine that in
the use of smokeless powder the United
States and other nations are seeking to
do away with smoke on battlefelds,' y
said a military man. "There is no opin-
ion more erroneous than this, as the
smokelessness of the new powders is
merely a secondary consideration. The
old black powder was found to be in
efficient to produce the necessary veloc-
ity for the new guns, and experiments
were made to get higher explosive.
When this was put in use, the discov-
erers of the new explosives were sur
prised to find that very little smoke fol-
lowed it's explosion. Smoke is often very
useful on a battlefield, and no deliberate
attempt was made to eliminate it,
Philadelphia Call
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
What Victoria Reads.

Her majesty has during the recent
months been busily reading the works of
various poets, beginning with those Of
Mr.. Henley. The great lady positively
Black. '"The Princess of Thule was at
one time her favorite book, and she is
devoted to the works of George Eliot.
Although the Queen, in her literary as
well as her musical taste, is inclined to
be somewhat conservative, it need not be
said that she neglects the work of newer
writer's She much likes William Will
sons poems, and has read and re-read
his ''Iachrymae Musarum." Washing
ton Times
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN
A Plea.

A Plea.
Oh, give me not the marble heart"
Nor yet the 'icy mitt,"
Nor treat me to the "frigid fist"
Nor answer me with init.
Don't make me ''stand upon my head"
Nor throw me in the air.
Nor ''pass me up nor turn me down"
Nor give the CLASSY stare"
But If you must reject my suit
Why please to let me know
The sorrow of my lonely fate,
By simply saying mo"
Detroit News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
Vast Pineapple Plantation.

Congressman Linton, founder of the
new town south of West Palm Beach,
has contracted with w. S. Claw of the
Windella plantation for 100000 pineap-
pie slips and suckers for the settlers OF
1000 to 5000 lots. The following fine
varieties comprise the lot: Alaska, Por-
to Rico, Egyptian Queen and Ripley.
The settlers are given until September
1, 1898, to make their first payment, and
by that time the first crop will be ON
the market The remaining payments
are to be made each year thereafter.
AS a result Of this generous deal nearly
every settler in the two new towns has
availed himself of the opportunity to be,
gin pineapple farm.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
It Costs to Learn to Sing.

The charges of eminent singing teach
ers in Paris vary greatly. Marchesi de-
mands $40 a month, and will take no
pupil p1 who will not begin w with her from
Lagrange has So lesson from profess
SIGNALS, and 81 from amateurs. Nine.
Rena Richards charges 81 lesson. M.
Bouby asks $40 month. Nine. Ziska
charges So to professionals and 81 to
amateurs Spriglia has S. a lesson.
The rule is from So to So a lesson, or
$40 to $40 month; and pupils are ex-
pected to take three lessons a week.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
The Demoralizing Shirt waist.

It is certain that the shirt waist is de-
moralizing. With it, the average woman
wears made tie, which shows that she
has no appreciation of what is really
haberdasher. Then, nine times out of
ten, the girl who wears her shirt waist
carries her gloves. I don't know why,
but I do know that this lack of trimness
is due to the influence of the peculiar
article of wearing apparel that covers
ness, look at the belt. 1t may be mar
row, or it may be wide; it may have a
plated buckle, that came from a Cheap
John shop, or gold one that came from
somewhere else, but there is a certain
type of girl wearing shirt waist, who
is going to make that belt cover nine
teen inches and nineteen inches only,
but she gets an awfully red face; and as
for her temper, well-her temper is usu-
ally 120 Fahrenheit. The other type of
girl wearing belts and shirt waists
doesn't care whether the belt goes over
margin of forty inches, or whether it
encloses forty-two inches waistband.
These are the people who are looking for
comfort. Usually their skirts sag, and
droop from under the loose belt SO that
the world at large knows whether the
skirt is gathered on to band. pleated
on to it,. or, as man explained it, "ar-
sages,' and by this he meant godets.
Men are very ignorant, but they do not
wear shirt waists. Some vices are too
mean, even for men.
The shirt waist girl is never satisfied.
She is accumulative. When she has
three shirt waists, she wants six, and
when she gets six, she yearns for twelve.
A fabric represents nothing to her ex-
cept it's possibilities in the shirt waist
line, and in a shop she stands staring at
a bit of cotton trying to see it made up,
and deciding whether it's collar ought to
be white or of the same material She
is reckless III buyine belts and ties.
But she will wear one skirt all summer.
1t may fray around the bottom, it may
be undesirable in every way, but if it is
mentioned at all, it gives her chance
her old skirt, making it useful by the
Intervention of the shirt waist.-Phila-
delphia Times.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
Chief Justice Taney's Old House

The mansion on the Mantz estate, at
Frederick, Md, which was once the
house Of Chief Justice Roger Brooke
fancy of the United States Supreme
court. is about to be Sold It is an old
brick dwelling two stories high, the in
terror arranged and finished according
to the fashion of the early part of the
century. The deed says that Roger
Brooke fancy conveyed this property to
Peter Mantz, February q, 1928. In it's
earlier history, when Chief Justice
fancy lived there, it was probably a
beautiful place, but the wear and tear
of years have told on the mansion.
yard of the Frederick. novitiate.-Balti-
more SIM
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES
The Sea Queen wakes.

She wakes! in the furthest West the
murmur has reached our ears
She wakes. in the furthest East the Rus
sian listens and fears
She wakes! the ravens clamor, the winds
cry overhead,
The wandering waves take up tne cry
"She wakes whom nations dread!
At last, We have reused the Sea Queen; at
last, when the world unites,
She stirs from her scornful silence, and
wakes to her last of fights;
Alone, with a world against her, she has
turned on the snarling crew,
No longer the Peaceful Trader, but the
Viking North Seas knew.
She calls, and her ships of battle-dragons
her seas have bred
Glide into Plymouth harbor, and gather
round Beachy Head.
She wakesi and the clang Of arming ecnoes
through all the earth,
The ring of warriors weapons; STERN mu-
sic of soldiers mirth.
In the world there may be nations, and
there gathers round every throne
The strength of earth-born armies, but the
sea is England's own;
AS she ruled, she still shall rule it, from
Plymouth to Esquimalt.
AS long as the winds are tameless-as long
as the waves are salt.
This may be our Armageddon; seas may
purple with blood and flame
AS we go to our rest forever, leaving the
world a name.
What matter? There have been none like
use, nor any to tame our pride;
If we fall, we shall fall as they fell, die as
our fathers died
What better? the seas that bred us shall
rock US to rest at last
If we sink with the Jack still floating,
nailed to the nations mast.
Olive Phillips-Wolley in the Columbian.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

of the Seventeenth century would perish
at the hands and hammer of some I'M
sympathetic mason. The Guildhall mu-
scum authorities speedily sent round to
make inquiries, and, if possible, to secure
the stone for their collection; but with
out avail, for it has (strange to relate)
site.
But though the Guildhall museum
failed to add to its treasures on that
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
Girl Graduates.

Season after season, with the recurring
periodicity of the roses, we welcome the
appearance of the fair girl graduates,
always with thrill and a tug at our
heart strings as we think of the life
which lies beyond their college gates. 1t
is more and more in the air-the feeling
which some old-fashioned folk do not
share-that a girls first ambition should
be for a career; that the self-supporting,
money-earning, absolutely independent
young woman is the one to be admired
and envied. All fair-minded people must
rejoice that so many thoroughly equipped
young women are graduated yearly, and
that in the fierce struggle for a foothold
they are less handicapped than Of old;
but the sentimental observer, hearing the
songs, and the baccalaureate sermons,
and the essays so polished and SO pro-
found, and watching the slim fingers that
clasp the diploma, is still glad that for
hundreds of graduates there is nothing
to do except to live at home and make
society richer, sweeter and more charm
ing and elegant The educated woman
keeps society at it's high-water mark, and
she is as useful and as honorable in this
inconspicuous but honorable relation to
her world as can possibly be her class
mate with definite work to do in the out
side market-place, among the ranks of
working men and women.-Harper's Ba-
Ear.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
A Young Girl and a Little Bear.

A few days ago Miss Grace Duckett
had quite an adventure. While return
ing in the evening from one of her
neighbours, Miss Grace met a bear. In
stead of screaming and running, she,
with the help of her dog, forced bruin
up a tree, where she left him till she
could go to one of the neighbor's for
to the place where the bear was freed.
Miss Duckett herself cut the tree down,
and when it fell they succeeded in cap
turing the bear alive. It proved to be a
fine cub and is very lively.-Co!ville
CWash.j Index.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
A Good Raroain.

arthur, DEAR" she said, II do wish
YOU would not use cigarettes"
"Why?"
Because you don't know what is in
them!'
"Oh, yes, I do. Why, for the trifing
sum a cigarette costs you get nicotine,
valerian, possibly little morphia and
any quantity of carbon"
She looked up into his eyes and MUIR
INJURED:
ARTHUR, dear, it does seem like a bar
gain. doesn't it|'-Jndge.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
Watched Hubby.

a small bulb from his coat-tail pocket
and dashing it into fragments on the
pavement)-'Gre Scottr'
Saunders" Wh-what's the matter?"
Rounders-"D-dash that wife of mine!
She's put negative bulb in my pocket,
rugged its positive to the spectrophone,
and by CAD! she's had her eyes on me
ever since we left the house,"
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
OLD LONDON SIGNS.
Relics of the Days When People
Who Could Not Read Were
Numerous.

There are still left, writes G. G. Har-
per in the Westminster Gazette, a few
of the many quantity sculptured signs
and devices that once made London
streets singular; but they are fast being
swept away to give place to more up
to-date'' and eye-compelling advertise
ments, and one by one they go to swell
the collection, that may be seen by the
curious, housed in the darkling crypt of
the Guildhall museum.
Latest among the unusual signs of
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

occasion, it is continually increasing it's
really fine collection of old signs. Some
of these are very elaborate and bulky,
and all are interesting. Prominent
among them is the boldly -sculptured sign
of the Three Crowns, from an old house
on Lambeth hill, East-cheap.
Others await their turn to be in
Guided in this collection of city curios;
that small but finely chiseled white swan
on the front of the oldest house in
Cheapside, at the corner of Friday street,
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

parish and company mark in Robin
Bride and St. Andrew, Holborn. meet,
and where the Goldsmiths company have
property, as is shown by its shield of
arms carved on the stone Recently, in
the course of much rebuilding that has
been carried on in that corner, the wall
in which this mark was fixed was taken
down, and it seemed likely that this relic
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
Found His Hoard.

In the oil excitement near Parkers-
burg, w. Va, years ago, J. X. Hender
shot, an ignorant and eccentric farmer,
sold his farm on which oil had been. dis
covered for 100000, moved to a small
house on an island and buried the money
at places under the house and about the
island. Last week while dying he told
his heirs, nephews and nieces, where the
money was buried. SO far they have
dug up $4,000 on the island and $780,
600 under the old Winchester
News.
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29

London city to pass away from it's accus-
toned place is that queer device which
for long years decorated. in whimsical
fashion, the old inn, the Goose and Grid
iron, in st. Paurs churchyard. The inn
has been recently demolished, to make
room, doubtless, for towering ware
houses, and frequenters of that neighbor-
hood know it no more.
A different treatment was accorded the
old carved stone which serves both as a
Eagle River Democrat. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1893-1896, 1896-06-29
From Earth,s DEPTHS.

A remarkable underground creature
part animal, part fish, toothless and
sightless-was discovered recently by
government workmen engaged in sink
ing an artesian we'll in San Marcos, Tex.
The description of the strange thing
here given is accurate, and A. J. Rose,
state commissioner of agriculture, statis-
tics and history of Texas, has written to
the Sunday World confirming it.
The government is building a fish