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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08
Plan an Eight Hour Revival.

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The American Federation of Labor at
its, recent convention devoted a great
deal of time to the discussion Of the
eight-hour day and the best means OF
bringing it about, and after a most
thorough consideration decided an eff
fort should be made simultaneously
throughout the country to inaugurate
revival in the labor movement by hold
ing public mass meetings for the dis
cussion of the question in all it's phases,
says the ST. Paul Globe. The first of
these demonstrations is to take place
on Feb. %, and are to be continued at
frequent intervals thereafter, applica
lions for memberships from all work
ers, skilled or unskilled, who desire to
become members Of organized labor be
ing received at each meeting. This cam
paign, according to the federation's
plan, will eliminate in a national dem
onstration for the eight-hOur day OH
May /, 1898. The local movement, al
though not designated solely for the
object spoken Of above, will be con-
Quoted ON the lines suggested by the
convention. Meetings will be held eV-
cry Sunday evening, and prominent
speakers will be secured who have
thorough knowledge of the subject to
discuss the labor question in its broad
est sense. It is proposed to organize
federal labor union, which will en-
brace workers in every calling, and
when a sufficient number of any one
craft is secured they will be organized
into distinctive union. A musical and
literary program will be rendered each
evening in connection with the meet
ings, and everyone interested is invited
to attend and to bring his family. w.
W. Erwin will deliver the principal adj
dress this evening, his subject being
Organization" and the lighter num-
bers will be contributed by local talent
of high order. The organization COM
mittee of the Trades Assembly have i'm
mediate charge OF the meetings.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08
Labor Notes.


Unions of Butte, Mont, talk Of start
ing paper.
Cincinnati newspaper carriers have
formed union.
1t is probable that the new Kansas
Legislature will create a State prilt-
ing office.
A woman in Gage County, Nebraska,
can husk seventy-fye bushels of corn
in day.
The silk worm Of the world, during
the year 1887, spun 100000 pounds
Of silk, valued at $400,O0O,OO0.
The Panama Canal Company has
hired 5000 laborers from Jamaica, to
work on the big excavation at Colon.
Spades. shovel, rakes and hoes were
used by the Egyptians and are found
depicted on the walls Of their cata-
combs
Boston bookbinders complain That
women and children are forced to work
extra long hours in a bindery where
school books are finished.
The Irish trades congress will be held
at Waterford in July and $500 has al
ready been subscribed to defray ex-
penses. The mayor gave $50.
A strike has been declared at the Phil
adelphia Wall Paper mills, Philadel-
phia, Pa, on account of the employ
ment Of nOnunion hands.
The Salvation Army's industrial farm
for discharged convicts is a 312-acre
tract in Ramen valley, near Mount Di-
ablo, Contra Costa County, Cal.
A Grimma, Saxony, paper firm not
only shares profits, but furnishes square
meals for cents and sells at slight
profit all goods except liquors.
Students of the University of Wash
ington, at Seattle, have struck for the
continuance of the sale of fifty tick
pany.
Alexander Smith s. Sons carpet mills
at Yonkers, n. Y, will resume work
at once after two months of idlencss.
The mills employ 1000 people and the
pay roll reaches 100000 week.
In the city of Paris, France, 10000
persons are employed in making vari-
Gus articles of women's costumes, and
1000 regular dressmakers The bust
! ness amounts to 1921, 100000 annually.
There are 100000 child workers in
New York, Of whom 5000 make enve-
lopes at cents per 1000. Many more
make paper collars and 12-year-old
child is set to count and put into boxes
as many as 10000 day.
In the manufacture Of knives the di-
vision of labor has been carried to such
| an extent that one knife is handled by
seventy different artisans, from the mo-
ment the blade is forged until the in
strument is finished and ready for the
| market.
Ohio mine workers, in session at Co
lumbus, passed a resolution against the
use of coal by State institutions mined
| by nonunion miners in other States.
1t is said that 10000 tons of such coal
is cons umed every year by the public
| institutions Of the State.
| A magnetic crane is now employed in
London foundry for the purpose of
| lifting pieces of iron and steel. Three
| men can thus accomplish in fifteen min
utes the work that formerly required
| the same number Of men engaged for
+, one and one-half hours.
| The capacity of the leading steel tube
mills in this country for bicycle works
is far beyond the consumption. 1t is
estimated that 100000 feet of steel
| tube has been used this year, but there
| are seven mills, and one of them alone
can turn out 100000 feet; the com
bined output of the other six mills
amounts to 64,O00000 feet.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08

sketch, and while in this position it is
utilized as storage room for any fod-
der, like straw, pea or bean vines, ETC.,
that may be threshed out during the
winter. It is raised by a tackle and
fall. and is lowered in the same way,
directly upon its gear, when wanted
the following season.-EXchange
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08

DR.. Nansen's expedition to the north
pole returned after an absence of three
years. The highest latitude reached
was sc degrees. IA minutes, or 200 miles
further north than ever reached be-
fore. No land was found north of lati-
tude 50 degrees.
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c.,ves and YOU'VE stock.

They thrive best when given plenty
of exercise Keep the calves and year
lings separate. Give each calf daily
one quart of oat chop and one quart OF
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08
PiCny Swine.

The smallest known species of pig is
the pigmy swine Of Australia. They
are exactly like their larger brethren
in every particular, except size, being
not larger than a good-sized house rat.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08

millfeed. Yearlings should have two
quarts of millfeed and one quart of oat
chop. Give the grain dry, and give
plenty of long fodder, rough hay and
straw. Keep them growing, and let
them eat plenty of rough feed to dis
tend their paunches. Our aim should
be to raise large-sized, healthy cows.
with big appetites and a vigorous diges-
ton. Small, delicate cows, however
beautiful they may be, are seldom prof
liable.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08
The Old Time Kitchen.

The old hearth in the kitchen where the
fires rudy glow
Reflects a thousand fancies that your
boyhood used to know,
The dreams of young ambition through a
flmy sort O. haze,
The plans and hopes in outline of the old
er after days.
How as a boy loved it from the chimney.
deep and wide
To where the quaint old shovel hung sus-
pended from the side,
Oh, the sorrows intermingled with the
boyish joys that thrill,
Where the kettles always singing and the
cricket's never still.
The dreams of young ambition, how they
vanished with the years!
How foolish the conception to our wiser
growth appears!
The rcseate glimpse of glory in the happy.
futures span,
The youth had grown a dreamer and the
dreamer grown 4 man.
And yet, perhaps, twas better that the
vision vanished quite,
For circumstances govern and a fate di-
reefs us right
Yet there's much of inspiration for q
youthful brain to thrill
Where the kettles always singing and the
cricket's never still.
The mansion I've acquired, and in which
I've settled down,
They say for coy comfort equals any in
the town,
I've realized a competence by energy and
thrift
Sufficient for myself, and then to give
some friend lift.
And yet, with all life's portion that to
me is melted out
find myself each evening in a quandary
of doubt;
If the old hearth in kitchen to compare
would suffer ill.,
Where the kettles always singing and the
cricket's never still.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08

The Best Way of Planting Bulbs.
After ordering your bulbs set about
getting a compost ready in which to pot
them. AS good a soil as any is one
composed Of ordinary garden loan,
sands, and Well-rotted cow manure in
equal parts. One-third sand may seem
like ''too much of a good thing" but it
is not. Nowhere in the world are bet
ter bulbs grown than in Holland, whose
soil is nearly all sand. Better bulbs can
be grown in clear sand, properly fer
tilted, than in the richest of soils
without sand. Mix your compost WE'LL
and have it fine and mellow. It is very,
important that the manure should be
old. Fresh manure is harmful to all
dubious plants, out or in doors.
should advise the growing of several
bulbs in the same pot The effect is
more pleasing because Of the greater
mass Of color in limited space Three
or four Hyacinths, Tulips or Daffodils
may be grown successfully in seven
inch pot. Half dozen Crocuses or
SnoWdrops will be required to fill six
inch pot. Three or four ayerage-size
bulbs of the Bermuda Lily can be
grown in ten-inch pot.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08

B, into the post, A, and braces against
the crowbar, D, which is worked over
the fulcrum, G, by his companion
Farm and Home.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08

The design shown in the accompany
ing perspective and plan is furnished
Country Gentleman by the Co-opera-
tive Building Plan Association, Of New
York. and is intended to cost, without
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-02-08
Removing Posts Made Easy.

Removing Posts Made Easy
The illustration below is almost self
explanatory, but scheme that but sell
dom occurs to person who wishes to
move posts. One man drives the pick,
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25
makers. arbitration. yet the man down
in a coal mine" has the heart of the peo-
pie. GRANT ELDREDGE.
THE SUMMER MAN.

1t would be gratifying to say that
the summer man is a beautiful specta-
Gle. but he isn't. The golf stocking
and small cap era has brought us COM
fort, but its aesthetic attractions are
not enlivening. The average mascu-
line legs are not fine; their disposition
to bow or shrink or bulge appears only
to candidly along the contours of hos
iery. There is a stunted appearance,
too. in the ensemble. A dress suit
tones up the plainest form. A Prince
Albert frock lends dignity. A high hat
is a towering crown Of respectablllty.
All these adyentitious aids are lacking
in the summer rig, says Leslie's Week
ly. The togs flap like loose sails in
calm. The pedal coverings show up IN
all the solemn bigness Of the American
foot The little cap is so Insignificant
and so hard to get off that IL is actu-
ally discouraging many men from mt
ing it as a salutation to lady. VI
course all criticism is hopeless, for the
summer man, although a little later
than the summer girl. is getting ripe.
is blooming and poisoning on every
shore Go where you may, you will
find him, and it looks very much as II
he intended to make his hygienic cru
SADIE a universal movement. He can
never look as attractive as the short
waist girl, but he can be as comfort
able, and that evidently is his inten-
ton
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In Ten ears They Have Caused a Business
Loss Eighty-Two Millions of Dollars.
STRIKE THE "LABOR EVENT OF The CENTURY
More Sentiment Lngers Around the Miner Than
Roulh Any Other Class of Laborers.
L STRIKES %MIGHT" EVENTUALLY MAKES RIGHT.

strikes where they ferment one. George
c. Warnings attributed statement that Ia
Dor organizations are "overpaid blather-
sixties" must be taken with. not grain
but whole bag of salt. What the lawyer
is 10 the man at the bar the labor head
is TO the Iaboring man. He is the go-be-
tween. He says to the capitalist: MY
man can not do such and such work for
less than so and so much. because Of this
and that" And the capitalist. unless he is
an idiot. Hstens-and arbi,rates! The Ia
Dor representative claims little more
than ne expects to get. and the capitalist
adjusts" matters with him. The labor
unions are for convenience. They assist
all natioualities-provided the work is Of
equal merit-to set equal wages. When
one labor leader abuses the trust placed in
him a thousand hold it sacred
In the greatest strikes that have ever
taken place, those that have won public
respect. the issue has been that Of higher
wages with out respect TO hours.
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NOTES OF THE DAY.

The Jewish colony in Tampa, Fla,
numbers close to 200 souls.
Tennessee is looking forward to q
very large blackberry crop.
There are now four times as many
wire nails made as cut nails.
For foreign navies the private ship
wards of the United Kingdom are build
ing twenty-eight vessels.
William Peagues negro Baptist
preacher of Chesterfield, S. c., is the
proud father of forty-three children.
Pennsylvania has just been added to
the list OF States which make the Lin
coin birthday, February 2, a legal holi-
day.
s madras dentist has, 1t is announced.
received a sum of $500 for supplying
his highness the nizam Of Hyderabad
with row Of false teeth.
Virginia evangelist breaches TO the
people from mission boat In the
river. He cannot be induced to preach
on shore. Water and religion, he says,
"go together" 60
The following lines, says the Atlanta
Constitution. have been carved on the
tombstone of North Carolina moon
sinner: KILLED by the government Tor
making whisky-out OF corn grown from
seed furnished by a congressman.
A Georgia author sent short story TO
$50 newspapers and magazines cPmbin-
ed. II took all of them just thre9 years
TO decline It, but he was not dkcour-
aged. and during the fourth yeartpf its,
itinerary il was accepted, and pad o.
When a dog banks at night in
the owner is arrested and sentenl
work a year for the neighbors Wild
disturbed. The dog is killed. Pc
this accounts for the superstition
when a dog bowls at night death
shortly occur.
Among the wonders shown at the
cent exhibition of the Quekett MicfV,
scopical club in London was the who'll
of the second chapter or 81. Jonn Cos
pei written on the two-thousandth part
Of a square inch. and plainly leSiple at
that under the microscope.
Aix-la-Chapelle has newspaper mu-
scum forty years old and containing
over $4,000 newspapers in sixty different
languages. Gera has similar museum
with 10000 copies so far. II Is believed
that these collections will prove OF in,
estimable value to historians.
In Giles county, Virginia. the inha-
bitants are moving to other parts on
account OF the earthquake, which there
produced cosmic effects not reported
elsewhere. The water all leaked out OF
one Of the neighboring lakes and a pros
porous salt works entirely disappeared.
A curious accident befell Major Will
liam Heimke at chihuahua, Mexico, re-
Gently. While walking along one OF
the streets of that City he slipped and
fell. His right hand was close at his
side at the time, and his full weight
struck his hand and actually broke one
OF his ribs Herewith.
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misunderstood.

A certain judge, popular enogh, but with
a slight tendency to Feasibility, was hold
ing court. One of the judges favorite
ideas is to go into the details of case in
a thorough manner and explain matters
at length to the jury, always under the
impression that the members Of that body
are not capable of understanding for them
selves.
The case in point had been treated care
fully by the judge. who, as he thought,
had put It so clearly that verdict could
be given at once, and he expressed sur
prise when the jury found it necessary 10
leave their seats. AS hour after hour
passed and they did not return. he finally
sent in word inquiring what the trouble
was. The reply that one juror was stand
ing out against the other eleven angered
him so that he summGNed the jury before
him and rebuked the recalcitrant.
But, may j say word?'
Eyes, you may" cried the judge.
"Well, then, you see. l was the molly
man on your side, and / stood out."-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25
IARCFST RRICK BUILDING.

''Verv few know it, but 1t is tact,
explained a prominent builder to
washington Star reporter, that the
Pension Office building is the largest
brick building in the world. 1t mas
been subjected to much criticism, put
it can stand it for as time passes
along thre are many things seen about
il that escaped notice when 1t was
newer. In all, there are over lO,O9O'>
600 bricks in the building. Gen. Melgs
took liberties with brick that no other
architect had ever attempted. lie not
only used bricks exclusively Tor the
building. but he used them in con-
structing the stairs throughout the
building. In the matter OF stair Dul:d-
ing. bricks have often been used Tor
the riser, but the step has always oeen
of iron. wood, slate or stone. In the
Pension Office both riser and step are
of brick AS a brick building. therefore
pure and simple, it is unique IL con
struction. outside of the fact that II
is the largest exclusively brick eulIo-
ing in the world.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25

gies. ~rock'' cod. yReakrxS and small
fish of every kind b good all-around
bait is a crab. Cut him up in pieces,
screw upon small Hooks and throw
your line as far awaylas you can.
Certain docks are hoted for certain
fish. Ask what they are, listen to the
advice of the small boy concerning the
big fish he has caught, and be govern
ed accordingly.
Fishing parties take crackers with
them. Only crackers--and salt. IL
they want potatoes, they purchase a
hill of potatoes and ask permission 10
dig them. They roll out the small,
early tubers and boil them in the camp
kettle. The campfire is used both for
cooking the fish and boiling the kettle.
People wi-o think that only shad are
good "planked' are nightly mistaken.
The fish that is not good ''planked"
has yet to be found. OF course it tastes
of the plank, but you will be hungry
enough to eat it anyway. You couldn't
eat a ''planked" shad to save your life
or any other kind of campfire fish
at a table d'hote dinner, but hunger
lends the sauce.
Everybody who goes fishing wants to
catch shad. But it must be remember
ed that in most parts of the country
shad can only be caught by spearing,
and then only at certain seasons of the
year, to come within the game laws.
Trout are equally difficult. Really and
truly fishermen go out by the light of
a lantern and spear shad at midnight.
Fishing parties are great fun, but
you must be willing to sit in silent
communion, indulging in an Isaac Wal
ton reverie, or you will get tired OF the
whole business and long to chase a
rubber ball over the picturesque ground
or lump to catch a ball that has flown
the net. You must be born fisher
man or you will think regretfully OF
the tennis game and will long once
more to be a white-hannel man.
FRANK HARRIS.
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MOST POPULAR Sport.
1t Is Fishing in a Shady Pool With
Plenty Of Nibbles for Cheer.
Fishing Parties Great Fad-There
Never Was a Fish That Didn't
Taste Good "Planked" With Salt.
Bait and Rod for the Amateur.


Sandy Hook, July 22.-What sport
does a man like best?
That question was propounded at the
meeting of a social club Tuesday even
ing. What sport does man like
best?"
Il think it is tennis" said summer
girl in an Oxford sailor hat and SER
rate shoes. Golf is tiresome and GRO
quet isn't in it."
Il speak up for golf" cried tall
slender girl with the long arms and
legs.
You're both mistaken" declared the
married woman of the party. Il know
whatsit is, but l won't tell"
"Shame-sh shame crieu dozen
laughing voices.
Il leave it to the men. Ask Mr.. A.
on my right But pledge him first to
tell the truth and nothing but the
truth"
Well" said Mr.. A. deliberately, "if
l am to be placed pom honor and if L
am to- tell the exact truth l Will say
that the sport l most enjoy is fishing.
"Hurrayl Hurray!" cried the chorus
of masculine voices. Then in unison,
whats the matter with flshing?"
ITS ALL RIGHT"
The man who prefers-other things
being eQual-the tennis court, or the
golf links, to the pool and reel is a
rare bird. But the trouble is that you
can't always get the pool and the fish,
Even when you can you can't always
get the fishing companion, for women
are not quite as fond of teasing the
fiy as men, and men have fondness
for a summer companion. Therefore
golf and tennis, yes, and cricket and
croauet, are mighty handy things to
have around, but when you're tired OF
life and want some fresh fun, go tlsh-
ing.
he sport of fishing has been revived
this year 1t is a fad now TO go and
cast your fly and sit on the bank and
wait. Your party is divided into fish
ing couples, each couple pledged not
to talk. The pairs separate and scat
ter themselves along stream. Each
carries line and rod, and the sport be-
gins with the first nibble. Yes, and
before, for the fisherman does not al
ways get a nibble. His sport begins
when he bats his hook.
The bait depends upon the fish and
the locality, but wherever there is
water there is fishing, and if you do 1t
right you will surely catch something,
if only a sand crab or frog fish.
A very wise man made discovery
at the beginning of the present fish
ing season, and that was that there IS
a peculiar kind of fish made for anna
teur fishermen. Nobody else ever
catches that kind of fish. There are
reds and reels made for amateurs. No
expert old fisherman ever purchases
them, and there are flies that no fish
would care to digest. Then there is
the amateurs bait, wonderful stuff,
purchased from "the boy at the bridge"
for a quarter, while he runs away to
bring another kind for you, if you
haven't caught anything with the first
lot, and, of course, you haven't.
The amateur who wants to fish and
who yearns to indulge in a fishing
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25
THREE ENDS OF A ROPE.

An Irishman who was out Of work
wcnt on board a vessel that was In the
harbor, and asked the captain If he
could find him work on the ship
well" said the captain, at the same
time handing the Irishman a piece Of
rope, IF you can find three ends 10 that
rope you shall have some work"
The Irishman got hold Of one end
Of the rope, and, showing it to the cap
tain, said: That's one end, your
honor" Then he took hold of the 9TH
err end, and, showing it to the captain
as before, said: "And that's two ends,
your honor" Then, taking hold Of
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-07-25

COLUMBUS. OHIO. July 2s.-The pres
ent coal strike. now in a state Of slow I'M
certainty, Will either be a fzzle or the Ia
Dor event OF the century. It will mean
either that 10000 men triumph over capt.
tai or that Capital (this time with big
capital Q is doing what is right towards
lhese 5000 men, as the case now stands.
In strike right makes might" as has
oeeh proven many times over, and in the
eng 'un il is fght tIiu rs Rs ~ must
lora; and costly one. Yea, and sometimes
ION gand costly one. Yea. and sometimes
bloody and vengeful one.
Inc history Of strikes in this country be-
gan IN the days of George Washington.
when the cane makers Of Georgia wanted
70 produce all the cane-seated chairs i'm
use. The FIRMS" if the unpretentious
workers in those days could be so called,
received orders for cane chairs TO be used
IN Washington and Philadelphia.
A Few days later the cane workers.
mostly women and boys. struck. saying