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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22
Minor State Matters

|Ale Judge Teall and family of Eau
{e were watching the circus parade
rs got i'll the back door of the resi-
1 and stole diamonds valued at about
W, Cckoy and Miss Sadie G. Goe
married at Oshkosh by Rev. 3. F.
pro-. Mr.. McKoy owns extensive
ANA cattle interests in Texas. The
Is sister of his first wife.
Fond du Lac, the residence of n. f.
Fh'er was entered by a lone robber
gold watch and two valuable gold
were stolen. The man walked in
Foht door while Mrs. Carpenter was
easement and helped himself.
cry violent windstorm, accompanied
"nIcF' lightning and rain, passed
district north Of Juneau, doing
'amase to buildings and crops Sat
Inc district which was affected
almost across the county and in
from about mile north almost to
junction, five miles distant. Sew
"''olhSS were blown down. large
'oSh up by the roots and the grow
an Ie1eIed to the ground.
vS'"'e values along the st. Louis
~" IN the vicinity of New st.
b. %,e picking up, owing to a rumor
S water power of the river is to
: ''peu' Just before the panic in
was understood that the jaw
Omt .u'cl'e had arranged for funds
II 10 develop it, but owing to the
Fora ".nsehcy IN the money market
NV unable to float the bonds. Or
o"eNcr' 1t is said that the bonds
ba, n placed, and recently renewals
korb, nt1ue Of options on land in the
Ton VI the falls. The value of
'Va'S River at Duluth and Sn-
for5 1'e III immense water power it's
liz rnn ms power. if applied. will
aYtS 40 al the mills, manufacture
hoa ana street railways. but viii
NJ s.s and light to all the bousns
VI these cities. 'Ae HOUSES
paa st Ut a farmer and noted
BY b;s i'oul' died from injuries re-
resj5s s team running away. He
He wa OF Lodi for over forty
's was 70 years old.
{ = Of t ,hs one of the wealtbiest
NH oNe town of Oak Grove ro.;a
b the bo ot'n OF Juneau, was over
sabv, HG eat and his death was eaus-
BE ye,r lie was born in Germany
in 1870 ~: so and settled in Oak
er, Mrs. n nls wife and one married
Junctisn' William Wegner of Min.
'0n' are the only surviving
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22


adopt suitable measures to protect them
selves and their employers from the same
source of danger.
No Fear of heritage.
A Pittsburg dispatch says: The fear
of coal shortage, which caused a scraln-
BILE for the black diamonds and heavy
advance in prices, is over, and unless the
miners strike continues for many months
a famine is not now expected. There IS
at present an abundance of coal in the
market and thousands of bushels seem to
be available Operators are in daily re-
ceipt of letters from the mines east ana
north of Pittsburg offering them large
quantities Of coal at from 70 cents 10
81 .25 at the mines on freight rates vary
ing from 33 to SO cents. While the vlsl-
BILE supply on the Monongahela between
here and Brownsville does not exceed
1000, 900 bushels, the operators say CANS
can be made on the Clearfeld district
where coal can be obtained without diln-
Guilty and at rates as reasonable as couid
he expected. The present quotations tor
coal run from the mine are from Sl.zo 10
81 80.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22

Forty families OF Polish Jews, number
ing over 100, who were landed at New
York by the steamships Stella and Veru-
dam, will be deported because they are
in destitute condition and are therefore
subject to exclusion as persons liable to
become public charges"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22
. S1,ppery Prisoner.

,on+ 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon the
Ia du Lac police arrested man who
.orad TO the description of the man
robbed the Carpenter residence IN
morning. When first seen by an OIL
bp attempted to escape observation.
was ken to the station and identified
|Unrman Furstnow as the man who
|rbt 4 watch key in the morning. The
(ch was not in his possession when ar
bod Thursday night the prisoner was
Zinc with another man and the livery
4 NJ, Wilkins, took the rig away from
Il for fast driving. The burglar was
alone in the police station and given
liberty of the corridor while the po-
went to the depot to make an arrest.
seu they returned the prisoner had es-
H. The chief had returned in time to
the nan running through the back
A large crowd took after him and
1 yas soon captured and locked in a cell.
gives his name as O'Brien.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22

How Inuch does hundred pounds of
ice weigh?
Pay in the coal industries is really
matter Q: miner Importance.
Now, aren't these nice days for any one
to be called upon to worry over the price
Of coal?
The Dallas News says that "wih oats
are now sown by machinery" This is
narrowing.
Actor Radcliffe is strongly suspected Of
a desire to change the sex Of the mother
in-law joke.
The Buffalo Courier says: '"There is one
more punch in John l.. Sullivan" About
every ten minutes.
Another hot wave is coming. Will the
brethren please rise and join IN Singing
From Greenland's Icy Mountains!
June was the coolest month OF roses
this country has seen in many years, bus
that's no reason why July Should get nos
about it.
A Dallas hack driver says ne mas hau
glimpse of hell and knows tnat lneIe -
such place." Where in Texas mas tnas
fellow been?
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p;d.e Almost Wrecked.

hundred and twenty-five feet more
PLe 4,o,tla work on the Minnesota side
lr G liver of the wagon bridge across
q. Croix at Osceola went out Tues
-, .h+ The flood of high water is the
,nJ;afe cause, but it has been weak
/ y roar The iron draw and span went
:;tb the ice last spring. The bridge
hn;It one year ago last winter by the
/ ,'ontne Bridge and Iron Company at
ovnonse of about $4,000. Very little
LIT hut the approaches.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22
KICKED TO DEATH AND BURNED
Fate of the Negro Murderer of Miss
WilIiams at West Point, Tenn.

Williams at West Point, Tenn.
Near West Point, Tenn, Tuesday af-
ternoon, Miss Rene Williams was found
brutally murdered in the woods near her
home Thursday afternoon Anthony
Williams, her murderer, was captured
near Pruitton, and at night he expatiated
his crime in the streets of West Point,
in the presence of 500 people. Williams
was riddled with bullets and burned in
the streets Of West Point, his body being
burned to ashes. Before shot was fired
the negro was knocked down and stamp
ed to DEATH Then the crowd fell back
and those who had pistols fired yolley
after volley ut him. The crowd then
gathered wood. and, building fire over
him, watched the pyre.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22
No Circus Tickets Wanted.

ayor Frawlcy of Eau Claire went on
|rd as opposed to the old practice of
BIZ part of the circus license with tick
10 the show. Learning that the Bar
& Bailey show had an agreement
the previous administration for the
bent of 500 and seventy-fve tickets,
&Mayor called the license committee
thcr and put the matter in the hands
be city attorney with a view of col
BE- cash instead of tickets, but the
5 agent succeeded in delivering 500
Seventy-fiye tickets to the city treas
The Mayor denounced the custom
&n outrage. but under the circum-
Pes no further action could be taken.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22

The members of the old Western
Freight Traffic Association, disrupted last
spring by the United States Supreme
Court decision, have made new agree
ment, which provides heavy penalties for
any road which shall violate the schedule
of rates.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22
Renorts a Surplus of $1,000.

cost the city of Milwaukee S9,OUO TO
britain the National Educational AS
hilton. The amount collected in sub
Eptions was $4,000. This is the sub
&c of the financial statement of the
smittce in charge. The report of Treas
S Y. Gillian showed a balance on
4 of 81. 1886 and bills were allowed
Sunting to So, $50. After paying Sec
8 nv Bruce a salary of 81 800, $1,000
1 be left on hand. After a long dis
lion it was voted to appropriate $500
Zhc surplus toward the cost of enter
Eing the pan-Americans. 1t was also
lied to provide each of the public
bols with copies of the proceedings of
&National Educational Association at
session held in Milwaukee. Prof. L..
Harvey and Mayor Rauschenberger
/ appointed committee to carry the
fiSi0ns into effect.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22

the acts Of reparation which ought to be
demanded should be the release Of these
captives." Secretary Evarts is quoted to
sustain this position.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22
TIsC0NsIN'S RECORD.
TOLD IN READABLE
SHAPE.

r,+.r Ruins a Bridge-FOnd du
rh wafer
Police Have a Bad Custom err
c,o;re,s Mayor Not Favorable
au Clare
n Dickers
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22

It is said that Richard Mansfield has
a new play, by Oscar Wilde, which was
written whine the latter was undergoing
his term { Imprisonment in England.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-07-22

Chancellor Hohenlohe of Germany de-
mics that he has any intention of resign
Ing hin Office.
The herald., 1897-04-20

(the supreme being or heaven) and faces
tne. north The platform is laid with
s marble stones. forming nine concentric
circles; the innner circle consists Of nine
stones, cut so as: to fit with close edges
round the central stone, which is per-
1ect circle. Here the emperor kneeis,
and is surrounded first by the
circles of the terraces ana their
enclosing walls and then by the circle
of the horizon. He then seems to him
self and to. his court to be in the center
of the universe, and turning to the north,
assuming the attitude Of a subject, he
acknowledges in prayer and by his posi-
tion that he is inferior to heaven, and to
heaven alone. Round him on the pave
ment are the nine circles of as many
heavens, consisting of nine stones, then
eighteen, then twenty-seven, and so on
in multiples of nine till the square Of
nine, the favorite number of Chinese.
philosophy, is reached in the outermost
circle of eighty one stones.
GAINS UNLMCKY OFFERING
And SO back to the central plains OF
Asia-the very cradle of the Aryan race
and there too is found the festival idea
1t is not possible to trace 1t. There are
Jewish scholars who express the opin-
ION that when Cain brought of the fruits
of the ground as an offering to the Lord,
he was celebrating a harvest festival
Whether this be true or not, certain 1t is
that the Jewish feast of first fruits was
considered one OF the most important of
the year. and there are historical stu
dents who do not hesitate to claim that
the festival of first fruits was borrowed
from the Egyptians. Jacob and his
family went down into Egypt b. c. 100,
but the monuments of B. C. $500 repre-
sent processions.. with music and dane
ing, bearing sheaves of grain, bags of
corn and fagons of oil andiwine, on their
way to the temple to offer up thanksgiv-
ing for bounteoms harvest.
In Ninsveh, too- there is bas-relief
upon one of the palace walls, executed
with great care and painstaking skill
Ii represents a procession, headed by
several musicians with trumpets. cym-
balls and drums, and composed of men
bearing bundles of grain, baskets of
grapes and other fruits and receptacles
which appear to contain bread and |
other kinds of food In the rear are |
young men and women. boys and girls, |
dancing and leaping with every appear
ance of exuberant joy. The road they |
are pursuing leads to a temple in the |
distance and in the sky appears a repre- |
sentatior of the moon. The harvest |
moon and the harvest festival have al |
ways gone together.
The herald., 1897-04-20

ner of gold brocade for the prize; the
second for riderless horses, with ban
ner of crimson velvet for the prise; and
the third for mares. the prize being
banner of purple velvet. On the last day
OF the carnival there was race Of asses
and buffaloes, and as usual there was
reveling and tumult In abundance. At
night there was a comedy in the Caffa-
relli palace"
THE pAPAL PATRONAGE
OF the popes who were patrons and
promoters of carnival celebration, Paul
II was one of the most notable. In his
time the Jews of Rome were compelled
to pay a yearly sum of 11S0 golden nor
ins, which was expended on the carnival.
There is also extant a decree OF Paul IL
minutely providing for and encouraging
the diversions which were to take place.
Among other things his Holiness orders
that four rings of silver gilt should be
provided for the burghers and the re-
tainers of Of the mobiles to practice riding
at the ring. The pope also orders va
riety of races, the expense to be betrayed
from the papal exchecuer--one to be run
by the Jews, another for Christian chill
dren. another for Christian young men.
another for sexagenarians. a NTH for
asses and sixth for buffaloes.
Under julius III bull-baiting took
place in the forum. with elaborate and
magnificent accessories, and enormous
suppers were given in the palace OF the
conservatory. In the capitol, where seven
cardinals, together with the Duke Orazio
Farnese. supped at one table, and all the
ladies by themselves at another. Paul
w used to keep carnival by inviting all
the sacred college to dine with him, but
the vigorous Sixtus v. elected in 1885,
kept II in different fashion. Finding
that the license permitted gave rise to
much abuse, he prepared for the celebra-
tion, to the no small dismay of the Ro-
mans, by having erected sundry gibbets
in conspicuous places, as well as whip
ping posts-the former as hint to rob-
bers and cut-throats. the latter as
reminder for minor offenders. 1t was
Sixtus too, who reformed the evil Gus
tom of throwing flour at passengers,
permitting only flowers or confetti"
Clement TX used. on the other hand,
to shut himself every year during carni-
val time In the convent of st. Sabina,
that at least he might not see what he
could not avoid tolerating Gregory XIII,
In celebrating the jubilee year In 1916.
forbade all carnival observance. ordering
all the money usually expended for the
purpose by the apostolic chan,her Should
be used to assist poor pilgrims. Other
Of the popes have similarly suspended
carnival, and In 1903 Plus VII. forbade any
manifestation on account of the French
invasion, nor would he permit any to
take place In 1909. Notwithstanding that
the French in the occupation Of the city
had proclaimed the celebration OF the
carnival OF course the pope had no
power to enforce his wish. but 1t is
strangely suggestive. as indicating the
feeling of the people. that the corso re-
mained deserted and all the stores
closed.
The herald., 1897-04-20

element of his character was his decis-
i've will, Without imagining that be-
lief in supernatural powers could render
him independent of external circum-
stances, he accepted It in order to gain
his definite ends. Therefore he con-
cerned himself only about the substance;
the forms were Indifferent. and he freely
borrowed them from others when he
himself was unable to create them.
The old Roman religion can hardly be
said to have had a mythology in the
Greek sense. AS early as the times or
the kings the Greek Olympus began to
migrate into Latium and to transform it
self into a system devoid of myths With
the exception, perhaps, of the double
! faced Janus. the Romans could scarcely
show a national deity. But they adopt
ed the gods of other countries besides
Greece. and their tendency in this d.
rection became continually stronger.
Their utilitarian sense was so sharply
developed, indeed that when besieging
a city they venerated its gods In order
to win them for allies. The priests oc-
cupied a different position to those OF
Greece, although here, too, they were
neither a hereditary caste nor dis
tinct class. Their Office was public
position, to be obtained like other pub
lie employments, or was legally
associated with some of the higher mag
istrates. Only a few priests. such as
the "augurs" and "flamens," held office
for life.
According to Juvenal, the Roman pop
ulace cared for only two things-bread
and the public shows. How far the lat
ter resulted from lack of the former is
a moot point. Without bread the peo-
pie could not exist; without the shows
they would have felt their lives were not
worth living. The circus and the amphi-
theater were indeed an absolute neces-
sity, both to the people and to the gov
ernment. To the people they furnished
the means of passing idle days in pleas
ure and excitement; to the government
they gave the opportunity of diverting
the minds of the people from political
affairs and of supplying them with less
dangerous food for rivalry and discussion.
ALLOW them, Caesar" said Pylades, ito
excite themselves about US, for then they
do not think about politics
The participation of the priests was re-
uuired at the public festivals with which
the calendar was we'll provided. During
their continuance the senate, courts and
schools were closed, no criminals could
be punished, slaves were granted holi-
day and allowed many liberties, friends
interchanged gifts and fairs were held
in the public squares. The public games
had here, as elsewhe"e e, religious origin.
Romulus was said to have instituted
them, but Tarquinius Pricus made them
permanent by founding the Circus Max
linus.
The herald., 1897-04-20

Ceres were the mysteries celebrated a
Eleusis. concerning which we know
! that. IN the presence of individuals in
itiated in the secret ritual, scenes were
enacted which represented the alterna-
ton of life and death in nature and the
resurrection and immortality of man.
OUR LOCAL PROTOTYPE
In seeking for the prototype of La FL
esta. we have to go to the Athenian
festival. where many similarities may
be found to exist between the seat and
center of ancient culture and the City Oh
| the Angels of today.
Athens. or to be literally correct,
Athenae. was founded B. c. lo56 oy
Cecrops and an Egyptian colony. IL was
called Cecropia, from its founder, and
afterwards Athenae, in honor OF Athene,
the Grecian name of Minerva. Max
Muller derives Athene from the root
"ah." which yields the Sanskrit "ahana
and the Greek "Daphne"-the dawn.
Atbene is therefore the dawn-goddess;
but she is also the goddess of wisdom,
hecause "the goddess who caused people
IN wake was involuntarily conceived as
the goddess who caused people to know.
Science of Language. 1:54S-551) The
ation between the awakening or the
day and the awakening of thought Is
also preserved in the name OF Minerva
it being connected with the Latin
"mens." Greek ''menos, Sanskrlt
.manas"-mind; also with the Latin
"mane"-morning.
Athene CMinerva) was virgin goo-
dess. and sprang from the brain OF JoVe'
agleam with the panoply of war; she IS
the roddess of the lightning and OF the
storms. and also of wisdom, OF Skill OF
contemplation, of spinning and weaving
of agriculture and of horticulture. she
&c the protectress of cities, and Athens,
her own city, was awarded to her as the
n-;za of a neaceful contest with Neptune,
r,bo also aspired to it. In the reign OF
Cecrons. the first king of Athens, the
two deities had contended for the possess
eion of the city. The gods decreed that
It should be awarded to the one VINO pro
auced the gift most useful to mortals.
Neptune struck the ground with ms trl-
dent. and the horse sprang forth' en-
hiem of war and carnage; Athene pro-
duced the olive, emblem of peace ana
proliffcness. The gods awarded the city
10 the goddess, and after her II was
named.
Athene (Minerva), then. is eminently
n goddess of peace; armed in the pano-
nly of war. but having no sympathy with
the predictions of Mars, save IN the
cause of right and justice, and then' as
p.llas-Athene. she made the heavens
rovarberate with her cries. In such
euise she inspired to deeds of vaior and
patriotic devotion.
"can tvrants but by tyrants conquered De,
And Freedom find no champion anu ho
sucb as Columbia saw arise, when she
Sprung forth a Pallas, armed ana uhoe-
filed"
Among other Of the characteristics OF
the tuteiary deity of Athens must not
he forgotten her zeal for navigation. Her
care of the Argonauts, which caused the
Areo TO be built with some of the oaks
OF the forest of Dodona, and they oeihg
gifted with prophecy, gave warning OF
coming calamity, made her the patron
ess of all those who "go down into the
deep in ships"
The herald., 1897-04-20
The practical sense of the Romans was

The practical sense of the Romans was
especially apparent in their religion.
In the Greek view the gods, though
placed above man, were yet his compan-
ions in beneficent scheme of existence.
as we'll as subjects for the exercise of his
imag aginative faculty; to the Roman his
gods were alien powers, whom he ac-
knowledged as such because he con-
ceived of man Also primarily, as pow
er, and whose favor he wished to gain
because he needed their assistance. He
was deeply religious, because his sense
OF dapsndence was great; but the main
The herald., 1897-04-20
AN IMPOSING EDIFICE
Where $50, 900 Reveled in the Gladi-
atorial Contests

sWhere are the braveries, fresh or frayed?
The pumes. the armour-friend or foe?
The cloth of gold, the rare brocade,
The mantles glittering to and fro?
The pomp the pride, the royal show?
The cries of war and festival?
The youth, the grace, the charm, the glow?
Into the night go one and all"
w. Z. HENLEY.
The herald., 1897-04-20

With the introduction Of Christianity,
or. more precisely, when Peter, accom-
panied by Paul, went to Rome and
founded there church over which he pre-
sided as bishop for rs years drom the
first year of the reign of Claudius, Al A.
d. to 81 A. d., eventually suffering mar
tyrdom in the same year and on the same
day as st. Paul, in the persecution under
Nero, the ak was laid at the root OF the
old NEUROLOGICAL festivals.
So long as Christianity was the religion
CT an obscure sect and of prosecuted
minority in the Roman state, lying also
under the suspicion of political disaf-
lection, its influence upon the Wery-day
life of the nation was insignificant. But
with the firm establishment and recogni-
ton Of the church at Rome, gradual
The herald., 1897-04-20
They are flown,

J
Beautiful fictions of our fathers, wove
In Superstition's web when Time was young
And fondiy loved and cherished; they are
flown
Before the wand of Science"
Thomas Darlington.
The herald., 1897-04-20
THE CARNIVAL IDEA
AND FOLLY A DISTIN-
GUSHING FEATURE
But Encouraged, Under Protest From
the Church, as an Incentive to
Trade and Commerce

at becomes extremely hard to disentan-
gle our idea of the cause from the effect by
which we know it.'-Burke.
The herald., 1897-04-20
THE ROMAN SPECTACLE
IN CONQUERING THE WORLD
ALIEN GODS WE'RE ANNEXED
The Spirit of Utilitarianism That
Later Degenerated Into
Bloodthirstiness
self reverence, self knowledge, self con-
troll
These three alone lead life to sovereign
power"
TEN\ycoN-oCN0NE

at is the nature of tyranny and rapacity
never TO learn moderation. From
cruel men they are transformed to savage
beasts, with no other vestiges of reason
left but what serves TO furnish the inven-
tions and retinements of ferocious subtlety,
for purposes of which beasts are incapa-
BILE and at which friends would blush"
BURKE.
The herald., 1897-04-20

This life theatre we we'll may cali.
Where every actor must perform with
art;
Or laugh it through, and make farce Of
all,
Or learn to bear with grace his tragic
part"
The herald., 1897-04-20
THE GRECIAN FESTIVALS
BAsED ON LOVE OF NATURE AND
A NATURAL RELIGION
The Time When the Good Greek Was
Model Of Excellence and the
Bad One Scoundrel

"Glory Of warrior glory of orator, glory of
song,
Paid with voice flying by to be lost on an
endless sea-"
-TennYson.
The herald., 1897-04-20

"The injury of prodigality leads to this
that he that will not economize will have
to nize."-Confucius