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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
COUNTS WICKED SCHEME.
Would Unite Europe in a Commercial
War ON America.


War ON America.
Count Agenor Goluchowski, the Aus
TRAN Minister of Foreign Affairs who
desires to unite Europe in CONNER
cial war on the countries of America,
has the reputation among European
diplomats and statesmen Of being a
peaceful man. His speech, in which ne
almost violently advocated concert OF
Europe for industrial warfare on the
United States and the South American
republics, would be startling were there
any possibility Of the Counts plan be-
ing put into practice. The Count Is
man in the prime of life. He comes
from family which has been power
full in Austrian affairs for several gen
crations, and he holds one Of the three
ministerial places within the gift of his
country. His only associates of equal
power and rank are the ministers of
war and finance. He has been regard
I'd as one of the most brilliant diplomats
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

The society for checking the Abuse
of Public Advertising, founded four
years ago in England, has been highly
successful in awakening the sentiment
of reform. The Thames River is by
act of Parliament protected from any
advertising whatever on it's banks; a
series of gllide-books calls attention to
recent advertising disfgurements of
beautiful scenery; the council of Lon
don has condemned some monster
boardings erected for advertising pur-
poses, and the superior courts have en-
forced the prohibition of sky signs.
America stands no less in need of such
an association and such a sentiment.
''The way in which I shall help" ex-
claimed young matron recently, sis
by never buying such articles as see
advertised amid natural scenery or in
Objectionable methods. They shall be
impressed upon my mind as something
to be summed"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

Sir Walter SCOTS writings do not
pass into eclipse behind the later prod
ucts of genius. The Providence Pub
lie Library issues bulletin from which
it appears that during ten years few
books were drawn more than $50
times. Among these were "Ivanhoe,"
Guy Mannering," ''The Bride Of Lam
mermoor" and ''Kenilworth." "Kenil-
worth was taken out 625 times. Thir-
ty-five years after Scott's death a Lon
don bookseller would not keep in his
stalls a six-penny edition Of the Waiver
~ novels, because they killed the sale
of all other books. Yet the lure was
rot in sensationalism; the popular crav-
ing was not for poisonous sweets; mil
lions Of readers found only pure and
wholesome human pleasure.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

One of the most successful of recent
novels debates a question that has
probably occurred to many thoughtful
who forms a part Of our complex and
tempestuous civilization to lead
Christian life? The novelist's conclu-
sion is, on the whole, unfavorable and,
therefore, condemnatory Of civiliza-
ton. Such a theme, so treated, was
certain to awaken controversy. Chief
ly opinions range around the hero Of
the story. It is asserted that his fail
ures were chargeable to his character,
not his environment; and the criticism
is sound enough-so far as II goes. 1t
cannot be an adequate statement, be-
cause it fails to take note Of certain
fundamental truths. In the first place
it Is important to remember that the
authors inquiry Is no novel one. For
eighteen centuries, the earnest and the
faithful, straining their eyes at the
ideal of human brotherhood that Christ
set up, have wondered despairingly
whether man could ever reach it. The
better the man-judged by the stand
ard Of others-the more hopeless, to
him, has seemed the attempt Thus
the recent raising Of the inquiry does
not mean that single good man has
all at once perceived the world to be
growing worse. Does 1t not rather
show that an artist, keenly susceptible
to the mental influences that mold the
time, has been impressed by those as
pirations toward general helpfulness
and justice which unquestionably tend
with him, conceding that the world
he misreads the answer to his question.
But even If we were forced to size
to dominate mankind. We believe that
has not gained wisdom as it has grown
older, we might comfort ourselves
with the thought that human nature
at least has not changed. There are no
new pitfalls on the road to perfection,
though some of the old ones may bear
new names. The saints of the early
centuries lived, as we must, in the
midst of rich and poor. Pharisees, pub
licans, sound and sick, sinners and
righteous. And in our day, as in theirs,
''the aids to noble life are all within"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
House Built in a Tree.

Years ago a Louisiana planter, aptly
named Wildeson, went to establish
himself on the Rama river in Nicara-
qua, where he raises bananas and rub
Der trees with profit. A Mr.. Drew,
who visited him on business, describes
for Southern paper his three-story
house as literally built in tree-a
sturdy ebo tree-siXty-three feet from
the ground.
To get up and down between the
ground and the house an elevator is
used, so constructed with block and
tackle that the person using it raises
himself or controls his descent by
means of a rope.
There is also a chicken house sus-
pended from a limb into which the
poultry is collected at night. After a
day Of free picking and strolling the
feathered bipeds come OF themselves
to be raised to their roost.
A good snake story goes with the
rest. Mr.. Drew says: "a thing that
struck me curiously was the sight of a
twelve-fOot boa constructor gliding
about on the ground at the foot of the
tree, climbing over the roofs of the la
borers' cabins, even entering them, and
in general making himself perfectly at
home on the plantation.
'Nobody'd think Of harming him.
said the old man to me when I spoke
to him about the big snake. He's per-
fectly harmless to any one. and he
keeps the place clear of mice and moles
that eat the roots Of my young banana
and chocolate trees. Eat chickens!
Never knew him to do such a thing.
Still, while they're little, don't put
temptation in his way, but keep them
in a snaketight coop of wire netting"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

That the greatness of the self-made
man is consequent upon meagre educa-
t:onal advantages is an old superstition
fast disappearing, as ex-President
Cleveland pointed out at the recent
Princeton commemoration. The sue
cessful man whose youth was with
out advantages has attained success
not because of those disadvantages,
but in spite of them, and it is logical
to infer that with increased intellectual
training he would have climbed to still
greater eminence.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

engage notches in the rods No,
free ends when the frame is A,
prevent the brackets then SLIM,
ward. At the other ends Of N
are transverse rods with ripbt
hand-screw threads, engaged hr
buckle, to permit of moving tba|
toward or from each other al
to the thickness of the tire al
between them, and these ra|
rods have upward extensions
to be connected with each OhI
bar passing between adjacent
of the wheel, the bar being cd
at it's free ends with a padlocs
ten the frames and the wheel \
thus preventing unauthorized
from riding off with the whed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

The English have much better no.
ton Of what happens in parliament
than we have of the proceedings Of the
House and Senate. No matter how
suddenly the debate springs up, nor
how unexpected the occasion, in the
London newspapers the satisfactory
account of all that was said and done
is next day before the British people.
Such thing hardly ever takes place
with us, writes Thos. B. Reed in the
Illustrated American. If a member
makes an important speech it must be
written out before delivery and sent
by mail, and then figures in the tele
graphic column as a monument alike
Of American eloquence and American
enterprise. One disadvantage we Ia
Dor under is that we have no central
London. Our capital is not London,
though it Is no mean city. The country
at large has more than one news Gen.
ter. New York the Greater will have
population Of 100000, but is 225
miles away. Chicago has 100000,
and is the center of a vast country, but
is 800 or 1000 miles distant. San Fran
cisco has the great empire of the Pa
cific coast behind it and around it, but
5000 miles Of railway divide us. New
Orleans lies a distance of two days fur
Their south, and st. Louis and Cincin-
natl would be much aggrieved not to
be deemed centers Of news distribu-
ton. While, therefore, we are salts
fed with our country, and know that
all the waste places will be filled up,
and that we shall have Londons on
either coast and in the center, never
theless just now we are too much
spread out to know about our Congress
quite as well as some other people do
about theirs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

A company of workingmen in En-
gland lately listened to speaker who
called himself workman. In
his time, he said, he had experienced
many privations. He had known what
Il was to be cold because he could not
afford fire. He had worn patched
clothes and shoes. He had lived up
on poor fare. When he was young he
learned to pillow as straight a furrow
as any man in the parish, and no one
could thrash better than he. The speak
er was man who in the table of prece-
dency comes next after the princes of
the royal blood-the Archbishop of
Canterbury.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

There Is too much Of a disposition
among the farmers to pursue the dull
round Of toll without thought of i'm
provement and without effort for bet
ter methods. 1t is the object of farm
ers' institutes to resist and overcome
this inertia. They bring together the
farmers face to face, to give each other
the benefit of their observation and ex-
perience. They stimulate enterprise
and inquiry by showing what brains
have already done for the calling and
showing that more remains to be done
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
Vegetarians Found a

Vegetarianism has taken
England which entities IL
from people who are not q
ers in the doctrine. Inc
of the vegetarians are clel
provide a menu of reasOnaI
One Of the latest steps III
the work has been the 10y
vegetarian hospital, WlllIu
the London Daily Chronlr1I
It was started in 1872
was said about it at the
founders did not wish III
until they were sure Oh
successful. 1t was 10 p
tarians, it being unde e.,
tarians are never i'll.
there was some prejudice
It was also thought tha'
be difficulty in putting
customed to eating lne% o.
on a vegetable diet y, III
was found, patients u u
could be desired, anu "a i"
been altogether very s S',is
hospital authorities Ds,'
general increase OF can 81
cess in meat eating ii.
massage treatment WIN !.
fresh air, are incluaeu u,,n,l
regimen.-NeW YORK -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

Some of the reasons for thinking
there will be no war with Spain are
that it wouldn't be popular, that 1t
wouldn't be good politics, that it
wouldn't be profitable except to a
comparatively small number of con-
tractors, that the country isn't in shape
at present to go to war with anybody,
that President Mckinley doesn't want
war, and that he doesn't intend war
shall occur.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
u;e Broad Prime,

The Farmer-say, l u = :.
Jest as you be lei d
cornfield. INV u
Weary Walker-n . ded
The Farmer--Noa. ,' & i
weary walker-ThsD |
amt no pay? ,.,,,r rotd
The Farmer-"1Tso n I'd
Weary Walkero .
fer dom nothin -, osr I
The Farmer Il :"
nothin'. T coull
weary walker asT
self down to takln : p' cOa
IF it's a cornfield o ',acb
save means just 81 50 n l,,ur
The Farmer-o Then
Weary Walker : conf
broad principles, O % poesY
cleveland Pam
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

A bride of a year was recently heard
to say that ten of her acquaintance
were to be married before Christmas,
and TINT as the parents of all of them
lad sent her expensive wedding gifts,
che and hen husband were In much per-
tnrbation about the customary return.
There is food f>or reflection in her COM
ment that as they lived in small rent
sd house and kept but one servant,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
Information for Patrons.

When patrons of a small laundry in
the upper part of the city failed to get
their wearing apparel Saturday even
ing they found the place closed and this
note pinned upon the door:
CLOSED on account Of sickness till
Monday. I'm not expected to live
Utica Observer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

British influence goes on in far Asia.
1t has just come to light that before
the king of Siam departed on his Eu-
ropean tour he dismissed nearly every
foreign employee Of his government,
and their places have since been filled
by Englishmen selected by Chulalong-
korn personally.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

their valuable silver was still stored
in the vault where it had been placed
at their marriage; that although the
gifts represented over $4,000, the young
husband had to struggle for their live
lihood; and that the most modest pres
ents they could select for their ten
friends would take his whole months
salary.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

"From A to izzard," the nations of
the earth are witnesses to the evils fol-
lowing the wanton destruction Of for
ests. Abyssinia has her story to tell.
Menelik has changed his capital four
times since his accession in 1889, be-
cause the wood supply was exhausted.
The woodman who does not spare that
tree has seen his best days. Public
opinion is awakened.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
Antiquity Of Mirrors.

use as far back as 1870 Before glass
was invented horn and metal were
used. Anglo-Saxon women carried
small ones slung to their girdles, and
beauties in the time of James l. and
Elizabeth had them in the center Of
their fans.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

Some obtuse persons begin to dimly
realize that there is a distinction to be
made between scrimmages Of raw, I'M
disciplined schoolboys and scientific
game Of football.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

That Connecticut preacher who
claims that he can get gold from ordi-
nary sea water says the idea struck
him while he was riding in palace
car. The idea of getting money from
some source or other usually strikes
the average citizen before taking such
a trip.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
Size of Fog Banks.

The captain of big Atlantic liner,
after many calculations, has come to
the conclusion that the general size OF
a fog bank in the Atlantic is about
thirty miles in diameter.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

Though, as is said, $4,0OO,OoO,00O
have been disbursed by the United
States in pensions since the close of the
war in 1865, it is we'll to remember that
the money has not been boarded, nor
h it gone out of the country.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
70 CORRESPONDENT.

AlLsommunications for this parsr should BE- sccs0
suisd by the name Of the suthor: not necessarily S
ubcaton but evidence Of good faith on the pazs
a the writer Write only on side Of the paper. Be
srtaculariy careful In giving and datss. - havs
aAs letters and figures plain and distinct
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
Britain and Mining.

Britain occupies very high place in
mining of all kinds. More than 100000
Of her people are employed at the in
dustry, and they produce over f3,OOO,-
900 worth Of minerals annually.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

Germany recently celebrated the cen
tenary of Baron Munchausen. Who
knows what time may do for the cam
paign liar in this country!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

Now that helium and argon have
been found in the Caucasus as miner
ais in pure state, for the first time, the
center of scientific and chemical inves-
tigation may be found in Asia for a
time.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

Ex-senator Henderson of Missouri,
in an open letter to young men, says:
keep out of public office" Good al
vice can rarely be followed so easily
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

1t seems scarcely worth while to i'm
prison anybody in Kansas for violating
the prohibitory law, since the parapher-
MALTA for a first-class joint, Struggled
in by two whisky sellers, was recently
discovered in the county jail at Lar
ned
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

The Houston Post tells Of Dallas
barber who was in trance, but aWoke,
and finding he was still in Dallas died
dead" Was the death fatal?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
Tho Greatest Force.

The geratest force known to science
Is that produced by the contraction and
expansion Of metals, resulting from
The action Of heat aad cold.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

You may always congratulate on
the birth of daughter, but for son
wait till he has passed his thirtietn
year
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
Real Aristocratic Touch.

George met duke while he was
abroad"
"a real duke?''
'He must have been. George loaned
him $7."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
THEIR GRANDEST Gnu

The Universa1ists to Erect
cent Structure in New Y,
The corner stone Of the Uni
Church of the Divine Paterni
York, was laid recently, TA
ture will be the grandest yet II
Universalists in the United Sd
will cost $350,O00. The memoI
dows and the organ which cost
the gift Of Andrew Carnegie, 4
the total up to $42J,000, 1t \
1000 persons. The parish III
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

There is no parting SO bitter as the
parting Of a quinine capsule just as you
are in the act Of swallowing it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

A Minnesota man has been found who
Is too stupid to be a juryman. And yet
his friends allow him to roam at large.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
HOMEOPATHIC HOSPITAL FOR SAN FRANCISCO

De
kind the continent OF
college, their friends to work get even au
Winb
regulars with envy Inc
California deeply interested
in the erprise
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

The real seal question: Will the seals
be settled before the question is?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16

contain several rooms and W
q Sunday school club house
bership Of the congregation
medallion fashioned by st
in bronze, Of Rev. DR.. e. H.
thirty-three years pastor Of
will be placed in the chance
Charles II. Eaton Is pas'
church, which Is one Of the
entail in New York.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-12-16
COASTERS WITH A NEW :
Serve as Footrests for ,,o
and Hold the R;o Wheel

hn
and Hold the Bicycle ipS G wis,,
August Zintgraff of No "''sh
patented a bicycle attaohn lor5
serves as a footrest for - l1eAt v
while coasting and for bnI,, "Aee|
cycle upright when If iS lung Y
the two rods of each fro r, III Us
bracket with teeth as on tba sly
rests, eyes on the innar ~, uSuaI
bracket braces being adantaa I =.
a clamp adjustable At W. "e
height to bring the brackatr
position to suit the conynni~ !, ID
rider. The eyes are aIsn Ivy
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22
UMPIRE DOESCHER WILL RESIGN.
Critical Decision in Yesterdays
Game Has Determined Him.

Herman Doescher is to resign from
the Eastern league staff of umpires
He was to have gone from here to um-
pire the games at Montreal hut tele-
graphed President Powers last night
that he would return to Buffalo on
the midnight train. He expects to meet
Mr., Powers in Buffalo today and will
tender his resignation. This informa-
tion was volunteered to a Tribune re-
porter by Umpire Doerscher last night.
Doescher's decision at the plate in
the last inning of the second game
yesterday and which prevented Scran-
ton from tieing the score and gave
| Syracuse the game, has influenced
him to resign. The decision was fol-
lowed by such roastings from players
| and spectators as to determine Does
! cher to quit Implying for good and to
! devote himself TO his saloon business
in Buffalo.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22

The Stars got an unearned run in the
third inning ON Malarkey's single, fol-
lowed by Walters error in falling to
stop 1t. balk by Wellner and "Bilr'
Eagans single.
The Miners tied the score in the first
half of the seventh on O'Brien's single,
a wild pitch and Peter Eagan's single
to right-center with two out.
In the last half of the seventh Ma
gulre and Wellner presented the Stars
with the game. With one out Schie-
beck hunted. Mcguire made q wild
throw toward first, Schiebeck reaching
third. Shaw hit q liner to Walters,
who returned the ball quickly toward
the plate Schiebeck was not attempt
ing to score, but Wellner got in front
of Boyd and interfered with the latter
receiving the ball, which rolled toward
the grandstand and allowed SchiebeclS
to come in with the winning run.
Score.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22
CLOSE AND EXCITING.
Miners and Stars Each Win 0ne..aErrOrs
by Mcguire and WellDer Lose
the Second.

Scranton and Syracuse played two
remarkable games yesterday and broke
even.
Costly Syracuse errors gave the
Miners the first game. In the second
inning Bonner singled and Massey hit
a grounder to Smith that might have
resulted in a double play but Smith
juggled the ball and then threw wild
to first, Bonner reaching third. Ma
guire hit q liner TO left-center for a
base, scoring. Bonner and advancing
Massey to second, from where he scored
on Gunson's grounder past third.
The Stars tied the score in the sew
enth on three hits for four bases.
In the eighth Beard got a walk and
went to third on Ryan's wild throw to
block the formers steal. Beard scored
on Bonner's fly TO center.
Excepting the seventh inning the
Stars got only two scattered hits off
Morse. Kissenger too, pitched an ex-
cellent game. and, excepting the aecon
inning, kept the Miners hits scattered.
Score:
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-07-22

man." has applied for a position as UNI
pire on the Eastern league staff He
couldn't be worse and would likely be
better than some of the recent expert
ments.
The Miners leave today for Syracuse
where they will tomorrow begin a series
of three games. From Syracuse they will
leave for Montreal, Toronto and Buffalo
to play three games each in the order
named, returning home August 8.
Doescher came near being mobbed for
the decision that prevented the Miners
from tieing the score. II Syracuse had
been at bat and II ho had declared the
runner safe the dissatisfaction would have
existed just the same. Umpire Ned
Swartwood was in the city last night and
was tod by shaw that he touched Wal
ters. The latter says he was not touched.
Long after the game the Scranton players
were claiming Walters safe and the
Syracuse players claiming him out. The
players, as a rule, after game tell what
they believe is the truth about q close
play. Take your pick.