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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-04-05

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-04-05
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THE WEST AND SOUTH.

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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1897-04-05

Call al ~. Conin's photograph
gallery when in need OF good work. You
will fnd him right up to date in fhe way
of good work and low prices.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

If the New York Times's figures are trustworthy, there are now 1000 recognized firms of pension attor- neys. There are 10000 legal gentle men engaged in that particular field of professional activity, and in the seven years 1891-97 they collected from the pensioners the sum of $1O,- 110,194 The Times is informsd that Commissioner Evans would be glad to see congress make "a clean sweep of the pension attorneys. Ce tainly everybody would be glad to see all the money voted by congress for pen sions go straight into the hands of the deserving old soldiers for whom a grateful country intended it, if that can in any way be brought about.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25
Thousands are Irving If.

In order to prove the great merit of Ely's Cream Balm, the most effective cure for Catarrh and Cold in Head, we have pre- pared generous trial size for 10 cents. Get it of your druggist or send 10 cents to
 ELY BROS., 56 Warren St., N. Y. City.
 I suffered from catarrh of the worst kind ever since boy, and I never hoped for cure, but Ely's Cream Balm seems to dc even that. Many acquaintances have used it with excellent results.-Oscar Ostrun, 45 Warren Ave, Chicago, III.
 Ely's Cream Balm is the acknowledged cure for catarrh and contains no cocaine mercury nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents- At druggists or by mail
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25
THIS BUSY WORLD.

Gold was known much earlier tihaI
 silver and was at first the cheaper od
 the two metals; but the price of sil- yer was lowered by the discovery ol silver mines in Silesia, Spain and Laurium.
 A Calais, Me, merchant was sur- prised at the receipt of $400 picture last week. Investigation, however, showed that it was intended for Ca lais, France, and had strayed from it's route.
 A Louisville, Ky, rector refused to perform the wedding ceremony for a friend because he was in love wihh the girl himself and told her so. She promptly agreed to marry him and dismissed lover No. 1.
 A man persisted in answering Mt" the other day in a Buffalo po- lice court, to the question concerning his name. It finally appeared that the prisoners name was Herman Nit, and the magistrate cooled down.
 An advertisement that recently ap- paared in a London paper under the heading Situations Wanted" reads as follows: "As plain cook, general servant or house parlormalid; whers there is dog or dogs, pug preferred; age 3S. E. E. s. &c.,"
 A jet black cat in the Philadelphia Bourse has a fomdness for riding up and down in the elevator When sha' wants to go up she goes to the door of the elevator shaft and "mews," and when the can comes along the man lets pussy get in. She 'mews" again when she reaches the floor she wants to visit. Shel is great pet with all the building em- ployes and is most accomplished
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25
PEOPLE OF NOTE.

Henry w. Walters of Baltimore, a son of the late William T. Walters, the art collector, has just received the twenty silver and :b:onze medals which he had made in Europe in memory of his father.
 Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British ambassador, is gradually recovering from the long and somewhat painful attack of rheumatism which has kept him in his room and part of the time in bed for the last five weeks.
 Dr. Marie Louise Benoit of Lowell, Mass, has been appointed from the civil service list as medical tnterne in the Craig colony for epilepaics at Sonyea, Livingston county, New York. She is the first woman ap- pointed as a medical interne in the state hospital service of New York.
 The Rev. James Legg, professor of Chinese at Oxford university, who died recently, was an extraordinary worker for fifty years, having been m the habit of rising at in the morning, and rarely requiring mora than five hours sleep. It was in 1S41 he made up his mind to translate the Chinese classics. He commenced the
  few years ago.
 Professor H. c. Crosby, for twenty years the principal of the state normal school at Plymouth, N. C., who re- gently died in Raleigh, bequeathed his entire property, amounting to $7,5O0, to found the Henry Clay scholarship D for poor young men at Shaw univers- tty, of which he was an early gradu- ate. This is thought to be the larges. gift ever made by colored man to an educational institution.
 Rabbi Moses J. Cries of Cleveland urges the adoption of the Chris ian Sunday as the Hebrew Sabbath, and his board of trustees is considering the advisability of making the change.
 Mrs. Jane H. Haskell, who recent ly died at Nicholville, N. Y., was one of the few pensioners of the war of 1872. Her husband was a private in Lieutenant Wells company of that state, and served in defence of the border against invasion from Canada.
 There are two kinds of bad hearts, one depraved, the other diseased For A1-~
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25
AS TO OHIO.

The time is near at hand when we snail know the real truth about the senatorial situation in Ohio. The country has been treated to an s,n- usual amount of gossip on the subject ever since the polls closed in Noyem- Der. Now MT. Hanna is dcne for Gov Bushnell, or somebody else, by a combination of disgruntled rapubli- cans and democrats, is to carry off the prize. Now MT Hanna is absolute V certain of election. Opposition $ sd- mltted, but it lacks both courage and leadership. In the rural phrase. of pleasant origin, it cannot cut the mus tard. The two statements have al ternated with the happiest effec.s of mysufication, now one and now the other, and each from tim.e to time carrying some new and unimp ch- able detail, until people at a distance are Justified in wondering what the actual facts may be.
 Mir. Hanna is his party's nominee for senator. The nomination was reg ularly made by the Toledo convention and is binding on the party as were, other acts performed by that body. some of which have been ratified. Gov Bushnell was nominated for rs-elec tlon by that convention. His nom.- nation was no more binding than is that of Mr. Hanna. He had no more claims to republican support for gov ernor than MT. Hanna now has for senator. The Toledo convention, could not have been regular as to the one man and irregular as to the other.
 Despite all the gossip. the country expects MT. Hanna to be chosen. His defeat, 1t can easily be seen, would nave consequences, even in Ohio of far greater than personal bearing MT. Hanna is at once his party's nom- 1nee, the presidents personal friend ana choice for the place, and in that sense the administrators candidate 1T that combination is not sufficient to insure his election, then MT. Hanna's personal d4scomfture will be of small moment in comparison with what the republican party in Ohio and else- where will inevitably suffer. Such thrust at the administration from the presidents own state would invite t. disorder and disorganization where ever factions now exist.
 How many members of the n,axt house do the republicans of Ohio ev pect to elect? How important do they consider republican control of tn next house to be? How necessary It for them to work in harmony next year in order to contribute their share toward continued republican supre- macy in the affairs of the country? And how much for such harmony is tnls senatorial row calculated to make?
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25
THE CAROLINA EXPERIMENT.

Politicians generally are wa ch ng
 the experiment which is now being
 tried in South Carolina state. Thcre have been some imdica lions recently
 of successful revolt among the white voters against the rule of Ssnator
 Tillman, who has long been the po-
 litical boss of the state
 The whites, all claiming to be dsm-
 ocrats, consist of two factions. One faction contains the followers Of Till
 man, who call themselves reformers
 and the other faction is made up of
 the old line democrats Tillman thought he could foresee th,a time
 when his enemies might use the. negro
 vote to destroy him politically and for his own protection, while he was at
 the zenith of his power, he forced the
 calling of a constitutional convention.
 That convention was dominated by
 his friends and followers and they
 adopted a constitution which pro-
 vlded among other things that there
 should be a general registration of
 voters once every ten years. Another
 section of the constitution permitted all male persons of voting age apply
 ing for registration prior to Jan. 1, 1898, to register provided they c-uld either read themselves or explain when read to them, any sec.ion of the constitution. It also provided that list of all persons registered before Jan l, 1898, shall be filed with the secretary of state and such persons shall remain qualified electors during life. After Jan. 1, 1898, a voter in order to register must be able to read or write any section of the constitu- tlon or must show that he owns prop- eriSy assessed at $500 or more.
 It is regarded as probable, owing to the marked changes which have cc- cured in southern politics during the past two years, that the temporary dlsfranchis5ment of the negro voters may operate against rather than in favor of Senator Tillman's prospects for the future. Undoubtedly the re- belliun against his authority among the white voters has assumed formid- | abble proportions. The late Senator 1 Earle and his successor, MT. McLau- rim, were both elected oyer the oppo- '1t1on of Senator Tillman.
 f the factional fight among the whites continues during the nsxt 'hree years there will doubtless come time when Tillmam would like to 'ee the righib of suffrage restored to he negroes, because he probably could lepemd upon them to support his pol- cies in preference to those of the opposition.
 Another possible outcome of the en-year disfranchisement of the ne 7u5es is the formation of a white r?- party in South Caro ina which, by gradually absorbing the olored youths as they reach years of maturity, may within ten years te- ome a. tremendous force in the poi ics of the state.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

With reference to the recent decas- ion of the board of general apprais CTS Of New York that calf skins are not hides, but just skins, it would be interesting for scientific purposes to knoW at what age cattle cease to wear skins and begin to wear hides. There is evidently transition period somewhere in the process, during which the animals must feel as if they were dressed in misfits.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

As a treat for Boston childnen dur is discoursing on 1.-The Triumph of the Objective Over the Subjective as Rep
 resented in the Andante of Beetho- ven's Fourth Piano Concerto, op. 58.'
 Surely 4ais is better than filling the youthfuH mind with nonsense about Kris Kringle and Santa Claus coming g down chimneys and filling stockings.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Senator Teller says he is willing that President McKinley's sugges- tions about the currency shall be voted upon without delay.' He does not volunteer, however, to con- vert Senators Stewart, Jones, Morgan, Mills. etc., to the same frame of mind. It would be useless. The presidents currency suggestions may possibly have fighting chance in the senate; self denying ordinance as regards argumentative oratory would have no chance at all.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Even if Spain should succeed m buying up the Cuban leaders she has no assurance that they would stay bought. Peace based upon bribery and corruption would be mighty in secure article
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Whenever you find republican congressman talking about dispens- ing with the civil service law it is a sign that his cons .ituents are tn nk- ing of dispensing with him.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Blanco invites all Cubans now in exile to return to the island and be paeiied. They will hardly go, but a good many of them will probably send fully equipped substitutes.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

After Europe has divided up China and Africa, only South America VII nemain as an object of attack. It is then that the Monroe doctrine will command a large premium
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Official reports esumate that the Kansas farmers paid S30, 100000 of mortgages and other inde5tednes S this year and that they have millions of money left. Santa Claus is ra- publican this year, and the only sug- gestion of populism about him is the whiskers.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

southern colleges intend to revise fo0t ball rules so as to do away with considerable roughness in the sport. It Hcoks as if southern colleges never Will learn how to rival the great in s4ltutions of the north in popularity a}nd patronage.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

The Boston Globe thinks it is easy Tor congress to act promptly when it recognizes the merits of a measure. For example, the bill providing funds . Tor mileage for members went through the other day without dis senting voice.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

The American revenue cutters are hereafter to be named after the In dian tribes. The majority of the pres ent vessels in the revenue service are said to already exhibit about the same evidences of decay as the abo.. .dgina tribes
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Russia has answered Germany by formally occupying the most fmpor- tamt strategic point in China The Chinese dismemberment question is now passed up to John Bull
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Canada is always willing to talk about the sealing question or to do anything else that consumes time without protecting the seals.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

Now that the six-day bicycle race has been suppressed, some attention might be we'll bestowed on the ter TOTS of the six-day congressional speech
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

It is said there will be a big reduc- year-that is, of the machine Mar riage licenses will command the old figure.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

MT. Croker will gladly watch the old year out, provided he considers it safe to take his eyes off David B. Hill.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

It is depressing to note that the announcement of a practical and com plete flying machine seldom if ever appears twice concerning the same apparatus.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

A relief expedition to the Klondyke is likely to do much more for human ity than scientific efforts to reach the north pole.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

There are two kinds of bad hearts. one depraved, the other diseased For the latter better see Dr. Swetnam.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

paGNIx x.DEcEMEnE. s5. 1897.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Arizona republican., 1897-12-25
The Arizona Republican.
inc Treasure Tefritary's Chief Newspaper.

CHARLES c. RANDOLPH.
 EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Smyrna times., 1897-02-17
Our Town Council What Thev Arc
Doing.

Meetlng called to order by President
John II. HOffecker with all nresen+ ~
cept W. A. FAIRIES and DR.. T. g
Moore. "
The following bills were read and
allowed: ' anu
Thompson & Co., $58.OO; P. w g.
b. H. K. freight bills, S117. 80: The
Outta Percha and Rubber MFG Co
$425.OO. Total $685.. SO.
A petition signed by some fifteen or
twenty property owners asking for a
crossing at the corner of Delaworo
Street and Frazier Street was snh
mltted. Action was taken immediately
ana on motion of Councilman Robin
son the petition was granted and two
crossings of stone ordered
AS was stated in last weeks times
the arc light question would come mn
for final settlement and the majority of
the members opposing the MAINTAINING
OF our arc lights being present thew
mad every thing their own wav. No
sooner was the question brought nm
when motion was made to postpone
action until next meeting night and
carried. Latter in the evening Conn
Gilman Moore came in and when an.
prlsed OF what had been done promptlv
moved that the above motion he re-
scended so that the question MIGHT be
reconsidered. After lively debate it
was lost on tie vote, needing only
the vote of Councilman FAIRIES. who
was absent, to win the fight. The
vote was as follows:
Yea-Messrs. Boyer, Cummins and
Moore. Nay-Messrs. Robinson. Cos
griff and Hoffecker.
On motion of Councilman Bower
the motion made at previous meeting
TO procure new make of arc lights
was rescended.
Inc giving out of coal contracts was
postponed till next meeting night.
President Hoffecker appointed Council
men j. G. Robinson and A. Lee Cum
MINIS a committee to look into the mat
ter OF securing the privilege of wharf
age at Smyrna Landing and the prob
able cost of unloading and to make re-
port at the next meeting of Board.
Council adjourned.
Smyrna times., 1897-02-17

hear anything Like polished discourse
and to find society that was at all con-
genial to their refined and cultivated
tastes. But now all this is changed.
They can find in the Methodist pulpit.
as polished, refined, logical, instruc
tive, finished and sweet gospel sermons
as can be heard elsewhere, and as
many educated and congenial friends
as can be found in any other church.
L saw a short time ago. a rather
singular statistical report, which was.
that the methodist graduates from the
various Colleges in the United States
were Just to to any other other demo-
nlnatlon, Good for young Methodism
Inc pulpit, is search light. in good
condition, flashing over and into all
the activities of the church and in foot
ON every subject that bears a moral az
pect.
1t flashed its light upon African
Slavery and it shrieked and fought and
died in commissions and Freedom
sprang into being.
1t is now flashing its powerful and
penetrating light upon the persistent
and tenacious Saloon but when its Y
Rays have photographed its complete
hldeousness to the gaze of all the
people, it will be strangled to death bv
It's now fOndest votaries and be buried
like dog. Then Prohibition will
spring into an immortal life.
And when it gets time to do so. if
will turn in all of its power and light
upon the subject of woman's rights
and soon thereafter Universal Suffer
age will be born.
For the tendency and ultimate end
OF the combined influences Of all the
pulpits, is the final and complete CON
troll OF public opinion. And I saw
Long Live the Pulpit, the Press and
the College!
Smyrna times., 1897-02-17

The immigration bill sent
back by the Senate to Confer
ence Committee and amended
so as to keep out only those inn
migrants over sixteen years of
age who are illiterate, and fur
ther amended so as to admit the
illiterate wives and children of
men who can pass the educa-
tiOnal test and are otherwise
qualified, is on a fair way to be-
come a law. Just what check it
will put to immigration is hard
to tell. 1t will affect the immi-
grafton from the United King
dom and Northern Europe to no
appreciable extent, and probably
place no material check 20 the
immigration Of Russian Jews.
AS first reported from confer
ence the bill aimed to exclude
these undesirable immigrants by
requiring that all immigrants
over sixteen years of age, to be
admissible, should be able to
read and write the English lam
guage or the language of their
native or resident country, which
for the Russian Jews would
have been the language of the
Gar, a language which but few
of them can read and write.
So the law will affect only
those immigrants who are illit-
crate. This test will check the
immigration from Italy and
Austria-Hungary by perhaps
One-half; it will probably affect
immigration from other coun-
tries but little. The test pro-
vided in the law would have ex-
cluded of last years immigrants
probably something over $4,000,
or about one-seventh of the
whole.
Smyrna times., 1897-02-17
Band of Hope Entertainment.

The little folks of the Band of Hone
VIII give and entertainment in the
Smyrna Opera House on Monday even
ing Feb. the 22nd and it promises to
be most enjoyable affair. The follow
ing program has been arranged:
Opening Chorus-Band of Hope.
Crusade Psalm. Q45)
Prayer.
Pledge.
poOlP, Opening Address-John Van Gasken
E6ifb S4I' sand and ChOFus-"some Glad Day.
Dolls Hospital Girls.
Grant. '-- army Lester
Music rMNbuslc'-Autoharp Solo-Delancey R.
BBecitation,-''Our Flag''-Howard Arnet
:, hecltatlon,-'The Woman on StrikeIH
Katie Smithers. vi d "'ilAe
Windmill Song-ChOrus.
n, recitation" "A little girls views of bouse
Cleaning''-Mildred Hudson. --0O''
-, Recltation,-"The little bovs,,-Davio
Turner. "Oys -DaVlS
Solo-Helen Prettyman.
u; ,;hecltatlon,-"The little Teacher" -Leona
Motion Exercise, Helping Mamma ~
Prettyman. 1'o' NEED
D9et,-Onward we are Marching Lewis
C9yll Price, }. Dirickson Cummins
E,d'u1e hE1cltauon, - Tobacco" - E. Bavnard
Motion Exercise Farmers"
hocltatlon,-'The Ruggles' Christmas
Dinner. MARY Crow. --- ''-i'''
Admission 10 cents. No seats re-
served. Doors open at : O'Clock.
at 7.SO O'Clock.
Smyrna times., 1897-02-17

THE members of the COnsti-
tutiOnal Convention did perhaps
the wisest thing they could in
fixing the selection of the
Judges, though the popular
clamor was for the choice of
every officer by ballot and they
themselves were thus inclined in
their first deliberations. The re-
port of the Judiciary Committee,
which was adopted in Committee
of the Whole, provides that the
Chancellor and four Judges shall
be appointed for a term of
twelve years by the Governor,
with the assent only of three
fifths of the senators. In case of
death, the Governor shall fill the
vacancy by convening the Sen
ate to confirm his appointment.
AT 20 years of age any Judge
may resign his office and there
after receive full pay until the
end of his term, provided he has
served six years on the bench.
Men of the best judicial minds
are Ht "everybody's man" and
hence not popular in the sense
that would please "Tom, Dick
and Harry" The question of ao
elective Judiciary would hardly |
have been mooted but for the |
fact that the judges in Delaware !
are known to be intensely parti-
san The oath to administer
law with Justice and impair
tiallty seems to have gone but
little beyond the event of induc-
tion into Office. But there are
good and true men who hold the
organic and statutory law above
a technicality, and the Governor
and his council ought and doubt
less will make wiser selection
than the masses, who do not
weigh men judicially.