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The San Francisco call., 1898-02-20
 6 FRATERNAL NEWS. 
NEWS.

ated with Templar Lodge of this city, and when he took up his residence in Ala meda he affiliated with Encinal Lodge. He was an intimate friend of the late Nathan Porter. and was president of the Veteran Odd Fellows Association in 1884.
 Tomorrow a team from Oriental En- campment, of which Grand Scribe Barnes, and Grand Treasurer LeInont will form part. will institute Pacheco Encampment at Hollister Twenty will be initiated as members of the new body.
 Redwood Encampment Is soon to be instituted at Fort Bragg.
 Woodland Encampment reports an in crease of twenty members during Decem- Der last. The patriarchial branch of the order is doing well throughout the State.
 The grand master will visit Abou Ben Adhem Lodge on Thursday next.
 Cosmopolitan Lodge had an old time smoker last Wednesday night in it's hall, which was attended by more than one hundred and fifty persons, and this num- Der was augmented by the visit in body of the members of Farnsworth Lodge. J. Williston, T. Jarvis and l. Sutich, who provided the cigars, also provided pro- gramme which included an address on the good of the order by ". A. $. Nichol- sen; recitation by MT Murphy; vocal duet by MessrS. Jones and LongWorth; address on the history of the order by Grand Secretary Shaw; vocal solo by MT. Reed; banjo and guitar selections by Professor Graber and his pupils; songs by Messrs Emmerson and Farnsworth. and song by Harry Knoble. The lodge purposes to give reunions of this charac- ter at least once month.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
FLOATING HUMOR.

jim: rs Maud's hair golden?'
Nab: ''No-it's plated. Standard.
What ground does Bagley take in
his new book, Silver Questions for
Beginners'?" II don't know yet
I've read it only four times so far. =
Judge.
He electrically: "You have re-
fused me! Tomorrow | go to seek
my fortune in the Klondike' She:
May I have the refusal of you when
you return ?''-Puck.
eve are going to give up having
Johnny get an education ''For what
reason?" "Well-we can't get him
sterilized every morning in time to
go to school, Puck
Blobbs: "That fellow to whom I
nodded will probably cut me the next
time he sees me- Slobbs: 0Why?"
Blobbs: Hes my barber, and he's
Internally careless. "-Philadelphia
Record.
Miller: @You never see me turning
around to stare at pretty girl I pass
on the street" Baker: "What! Do
you mean to tell me that your wife
never allows you to go out alone p
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Mr. Youngbud: why SO pensive,
dear?" Mrs. Youngbud: Il was just
trying to decide, lovey, which ] would
like TO have you rescue first in a ship
wreck, me or my dear little Fido. -
Philadelphia North American
Klondike BRIDE "And do you still
think I am worth my weight in gold,
lover" Klondike bridegroom: Worth
your weight in gold, pet? Why, blame
my eyes, if don't think you're worth
your weight in canned goods! Puck
and you swear that you will al
ways love me?" she asked eagerly.
'.The young circulation manager Of
the Daily Scoop bent over the fair
girl lovingly. I shall draw up my
affidavit to that effect at once" he
said, earnestly.-Puck.
Don't say goodbye forever" she
pleaded. There was reason in her re-
quest. He had been nearly half an
hour at it already, SO her suspicious
that the process might project into
the boundless regions Of eternity were
well eN.-Tndianapolis Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
CAUGHT WEBSTER MAPPING.

Of course Webster was in demand
by those who could afford to pay for
his services. A sharp Nantucket man
is said to have got the better OF the
great defender of the constitution in
an amusing way, however. He had
small case which was to be tried at
Nantucket one week in June, and he
posted to Webster's Office in great
haste. It was contest with a neigh
Dor over a matter of considerable
local interest, and his pride as a liti-
CANT was at stake. He told Webster
the particulars and asked what he
would charge to conduct the case.
Why" said Webster, 'you can't
afford to hire me. I should have to
stay down there the whole week, and
my fee would be more than the whole
case is worth. ] couldn't go down
there Tor less than $1,000 I could
try every case en- the docket as well
as one, and it wouldn't cost any more,
fcr one case would take my time for
The entire week, anyway"
All right, Mr.. Webster" quickly
responded the Nantucketer Here's
your $1,000. You come down and I'll
fix it SO you can try every case"
Webster was so amused over this
proposition that he kept his word.
He spent the entire week in Nantuc-
ket, and appeared on one side or the
other in every case that came up for
hearing. The shreWd Nantucketer
hired Daniel out to all his friends who
were in litigation, and received in re-
turn about $1,000, so that he got Web
ster's services for nothing and made
good profit to boot
If that man was alive in these days
of trusts and syndicates he would
probably be at the head Of a legal
trust, controlling the services Of all
the big lawyers of the country -Bos-
ton Herald.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
Harnesses That Fit.

Whenever a working horse is sold
the harness it has baen accustomed to
work in, if at all a fit, should be sold
with it. This is especially true of the
collar, against which the pull mostly
comes. If there are inequalities in the
collar there are probably callouses to
correspond on the horses shoulder
and neck. A new harness, though it
may seem to fit all right, may bear
harder on places not prore ly tough
ened by contact with the collar. In
a stable each horse should have it's
own collar, for by use each animal
has become adapted to the one he has
been most accustomed to wearing.
Never whip a frightened horse, for
it only serves to increase his fright.
Never, under any cir.umst" nces,. per-
nit yourself to punish q horse for be-
ing hard to catch. The horse is
intelligent enough to know that If
punishment follows catching, it will be
a good thing to run away from you
next time you give chase to him.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
Farm Sanitation.

You can do very much for yourselves
along the line of preventing disease
on your farms of all your animals, if
you only will. In fact far more than
professional men with drugs ever
can do for you, and while you are
about it don't forget that the house
we'll needs cleaning occasionally, and
the cleaning of the privy vault and
c. mig up the sewer drains and the
free use of carbolic acid in water
solution. Sulphate of iron and lime
applied to the place where Slops are
emptied about the house not forget
ting the sink, may save you many d
case of typhoid fever and diph IBERIA
in the family All along the line,
either in the dwelling or about the
barns and stables disease germs are in
the filth that is allowed to accumulate,
and you suffer in consequence, while
we doctors and patent medi ire ven
ders are reaping a harvest-New
England Farmer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14

! So-called self-help-that is, individual
self help-in protection of person and
property, comes to be regarded as bar
barism. Private enterprise in war,
like Wallenstein's Thirty Years War,
is, thank God, abolished; and educa-
ton, art, the care Of the weak and de-
pendent, and the nobler departments
Of social life, become to an increasing
extent public in character. First the
individual bears the burden; then per-
haps the association of individuals;
then, in the middle ages, the church;
then, since the Reformation, the state,
the greatest of all cooperative institu-
tions,-that is, the people in their or
ganic capacity,-takes up the work Of
civilization
"Yet the state can never absorb all
our industrial and social life. Soci
ETY. is greater than the state, and must
include a sphere for the individual
and for private associations Of indi
viduals. By a harmonious develop
ment of all sorts of activities will
scope be afforded for richly diyersi-
fed civilization and for the best ex-
pansion of true individuality. We
shall thus have the Aristotelian variety
in unity.
stThe educational value of public
ownership and management may be
contrasted with the lack Of general ed
ucational value Of corporate undertake
o%y
ample. A few years since the first
part of a campaign in that city for
the establishment of city water-worlzs
and an electric light plant was edu-
cational. Tt began in an economic So
ciety of some thirty members, which
met from time to time to discuss eco
Monies; and during the entire cam
paign there was an active discussion
OF the relative merits of public and
private undertakings, and an eXami
nation of underlying economic and So
cial principles was made by many cit
liens. This is the kind Of political
activity which carries with it the pop
ular education which has been so
much lauded in republican and repre-
sentative governments; whereas or
binary municipal campaigns are merely
personal, and leave behind only bit
terness and dissension. Public I'M
dertakings carry with them instruction
in economics and politics, whereas
fools can grant a franchise to private
corporations and let them exploit the
IT. 1o1rn Io1
ignorant, turns over even her light
houses on the the sea-coast to a pri-
vate corporation. !"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
THE CROSS AND CRESCENT.
Soldiers of Russia Inspired by a Belief
that the Latter Will Vanish.

All the wars that have been waged
by Russia against the Turks have, so
far as the soldiers of the Russian
army were concerned, had a religious
inspiration. The idea that the cross
viii again take the place Of the
crescent on the summit Of the dome
Of the great mosque of st. Sophia at
Constantinople is firmly implanted in
the mind Of every Russian. And just
as firmly he believes that il is the
mission of Russia to plant it there.
Every Russian regards it as the mani
fest destiny of his country, and though
the day VIII n Russian hands will tear
away the crescent and substitute the
cross may be delayed, he is convinced
that it is only a question of time when
the voice of the muezzin from the
minaret calling the faithful to prayer
will be heard for the last time. When
the Russian army, under the command
of the Grand Duke Nicholas, the
brother OF the Emperor Alexander H.,
arrived before Constantinople in the
spring of 1878, he sent two telegrams
to ST. Petersburg, one reporting the
state of the army, the other somewhat
in the following language: my army
is in sight Of the minarets of St.
Sophia; we can take the city with the
loss of 1000 men," To the first he
received the usual acknowledgment; to
the second there came no reply. It
was by this understood that the en-
peror did not sanction the enterprise,
for it would have been breach Of his
pledge to Europe. In the army there
was a great disappointment, and more
than one of the Russian generals,
Skobelef at their head, expressed their
anger SO forcibly that the Russian
army was withdrawn, and put beyond
the reach Of temptation. But the feel
ing remained in every mans mind
that the next time a Russian army
came to Constantinople, it would be to
stay.-Harpers Round Table.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
Timely Farm Hints.

In case you dig early potatoes
these days, be sure to keep the sun
Off from them, but do not store the
tubers till they are quite dry. It is
generally conceded that the best place
for potatoes prior to freezing weather
is in an airy outbuilding having IA
good roof.
Don't forget that as the pasturage
fails grain Or other food should be
fed in corresponding amount,
The shortening of the days will ne
cessitate more and more the use of
lantern about the stable. Conse-
quently have hooks at hand to hang
it on, for when set down lanterns are
frequently knocked over and the hay
or straw set on fire.
Though they may have attained
their growth, be in no hurry to store
beets, carrots and parsnips. Indeed
wait until the weather becomes quite
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
agricultural
Feminine Dairy Wisdom.

In these close times it will not pay
to winter Improbable animals now
is the time to decide and begin to
feed everything that is to be turned
off.
Little things represent the difference
between profit and loss.
Proper care and thoughtfulness will
bring the profit. Save everything
that will make feed even it it is
cheap.
Prepare to take the whole herd in
winter quarters in the finest condition.
A profit can then be made all winter.
It must be done. Don't complain OF
hard times. Use your brains.
Be careful when cows are turned
into rank second growth clover. They
are apt to bloat. Allow them to re-
main only a few hours each day until
good COWS are difficult to procure.
Then they become used to it.
A we'll bred and well-raised calf
makes the cheapest and most satisfac-
tory COW.
Dairymen complain everywhere that
the way out of the difficulty is to breed
and rear your own cows. In this
way you can improve your dairy every
year By using a thoroughbred but
ter sire ard rearing heifers from the
very best COWS the problem is solved.
The horn fly, or Texas fly, as it is
sometimes called, is a great pest.
The best remedy for the horn fly l
have tried is to take black tanners oil
Cfish oiD and mix one-fourth kerosene
oil and rub over the cows two or
three times a week.
1t will pay to treat the young cat
tie for the horn fly the same as the
cows-Dorothy Tucker in Farm
Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
Hens for Winter LAYING

One of the most important items in
securing eggs in winter is to have
thrifty, vigorous hens and keep them
III good condition. After a hen passes
her second year she passes her best
stage as an egg producer, and unless
va liable as mother, the sooner she
is marketed the better. Pullets that
were matched early, are kept growing.
SO they reasonably well matured in
good season in the fall and hens that
are not over two years old and that
matured early make the best and
most reliable winter layers. Fowls
OF this kind, given comfortable quar-
iers and are well fed with a good va
liaty OF food, can usually be depended
upon to lay regularly during the win
ter, and will, Of course, under ordinary
conditions, pay a good profit West
ern Fruit Grower.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
Kill Surplus Cockerels.

At this season the early-hatched
male chickens will begin to make
nuisances of themselves among the
flock by paying undesired attention to
the older pullets and to be moulting
and preparing for winter laying. Kill
ing off the surplus cookerels, retain
ing only those desired for use next
season, and keeping these in yard
by themselves, will, therefore, be
entirely for the advantage Of the
flock. What is more to the purpose to
the minds of many farmers is that the
cockerel killed now and sold for 2
broiler will usually bring a higher
price than later in the season, when
there is always a glut of poultry on
the market.-American Cultivator.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
To Get Rid of Dandelions.

About the only way to get rid of
dandeiions is to practice rotation of
crops When it once gets a good start
in meadows it is almost impossible to
kill it out unless the ground is broken
UP and planted to some cultivated
crop, such as corn, roots, wheat, etc.
Dandelions spread by seed. If to be
killed out by hand, cut off the plants
just below the surface of the ground
and dc not allow them to produce seed
afterwards, for several seed stalks are
likely to appear where only one was at
drst.-American Agriculturist.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
Removing Honey.

When hive sections are 1ull the
work Of removing them is made less
hazardous by the aid Of the smoker
that is in such common use, but too
free smoking is barbarous and UNI
profitable. The cone-shaped bee escape
is a device every modern bee man
ought to have. 1t is merely cone
made of fine Wire net three inches in
diameter at one end and open at the
apex, so that only one bee at time
can pass through it. This is fastened
to hole in a board the size of the
hive, the base of the cone level with
the top Of the board. When sections
are to be removed, this bee escape is
placed between them ard the body Of
the hive. The bees pour into the
oren mouth Of the cone and descend
through it's apex into the live, soon
leaving the desired case clesr. They
rarely find their way back through
the escape. It can be put in place in
stantly, is effective and so simple that
anybody can constru t one-Indiana
Farmer
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
DOTTED VEIL HOUSE.

A doctor has moved into a new
house, one of the finest in Washing
ton. He calls it the dotted veil house.
When people seem surprised he ex-
plains This physician is a special
list. He devotes himself to diseases of
the eyes. The money to build the
mansion was accumulated from fees
which were earned in the treatment
Of eyes injured by the wearing of dot
ted wells. Not all Of the profession
are so frank as this Washington
oculist.-St. Louis Globe Democrat
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
THE NOTE.

Lord Kelvin is said to be guilty of
frequent puns.
At the time his apparatus for deep
sea sounding by means of steel piano
forte wire was being made he and
Dr.. Joule entered a shop in Glasgow
Joule's attention was called to "a
bundle of the wire referred to lying
in the shop and his lordship explained
that he intended it for sounding pur-
poses.
What note?" innocent1y inquired
the doctor.
"The deep c." was the prompt reply.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
WALK OF 205,920 MILES.

A Mr.. Roberts, for 33 years post
man of Pilling, in the Fylde, North
Lancashire, has just retired. For %
years he walked from Pilling to Fleet
wood and back twice a day, not TO
mention many perilous trips in cross
ing the River Wyre during periods
Of storm. A calculation of five miles
each way, four times q day Tin adj
clifton to his round at the vil1age),
six days in the week for % years,
shows that he walked 1920 miles
between Pilling and Fleetwood in the
fulfllment of his duty. During this
time he must have crossed the River
Wyre Ga by no means pleasant task
in the winter tirne) 27,457 times. His
duties were considerably lightened
when II years ago the government de-
cided to bring the mails to Pilling by
another route.-London Mail.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
God Herd at d Low Price.


There is no need OF it's costing any
farmer large sum to obtain a herd OF
good, profitable dairy cows. Such COWS
car generally be picked up at reason
able prices, in almost any dairy sec
ton Of the country; or they can be
raised at very little greater expense
than can the Improbable sort Of COWS
to be found in the barns of too many
farmers.
1t ought to be possible in almost
any Of the dairy sections, by looking
around a little TO purchase at low
prices good Jersey bull calves from
thoroughbred and large butter-pro-
dUcing herds. There are several such
herds but a few miles away from here,
where such calves can be had for S.
or $40, and it is probably SO al over
New England. There isn't any need
OF our keeping 'sscrub" bulls because
We cannot afford to purchase fancy,
registered ones. [ am now raising
some fine, promising heifers from a
splendid jersey bull that cost me,
when a calf, less than S., thorough
bred animal from excellent but
ter stock With such stock ami
nal Of good vigor, a farmer can raise
in few years, from his best milk
producing cows of native or any other
breed, by constantly culling out and
disposing of the poorest, a profitable
lot Of dairy COWS. Many a 300-pound
herd has been built up in just this
inexpensive way.-R. S., in Farm and
Home.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14

cool, 1or ali root crops can endure Il
sIIghC Irost, and kotp All the be tel
Wnen stored late IN the tail.
Keep the onions in the barn loft Or
some other dry pace, and Wnen the
crop IS pulled OF oug, let them dIy
Wen before storing. store them Tree
IRON the airt, and loosely. They
should never be pied, but scattered SO
as to admit the air.
Ale your horses well shod? Well, it
pays to keep them SO at ali times of
the year, even when working IN the
farm. Never, never, however, drive
them on hard road unsnod.-Ohio
Farmer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
Three Points

Drainage will make the land the
more easily cultivated and will en-
able it to produce larger crops. The
saving of all available manure will
make these large crops still larger.
And with good roads over which they
may be carried to market cheaply the
profits of the farm may be much in
creased. Let us pay attention to these
three points.-Ex.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
AS IT WILL BE.

rs this case to be tried by jury
of women?" asked the plaintiff in ~
whisper.
''It is" replied his lawyer.
Cant we fix it any other way?"
eve cannot
"Then we might as we'll throw UP
our hands now The defendant is
younger and handsomer than l am"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
During the MouIting Season.

No corn should be fed during the
moulting season, nor any of the car
bonaceous or fattening feeds. Instead
give bran, shorts, oats and other nj
trogenous feeds, for feeding for.
leather making should always be
largely nit1ogenous. A good tonic
during moulting is never amiss and
it may be given either in the feed or
in the drinking water. In the former
case any good condition powder will
answer, and in the latter few drops
of tincture of iron will be ef1cacious
No sloppy food should be given to dis
turb the bowels and cause d,arrhoea,
but such as is fed wet should only be
wet enough to crumble.-Live Stock
Indicator.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14
ELY ON GOVERNMENT
PROFESSOR TREATS OF FRAZIER
NALIsM VS.. PATERNALISM.
TRACES IT'S GROWTH HERE

Saws There Is a Great Deal OF Pater-
nalism Here, Especially in the In
dustriai Field-Art Never Flour
ishes When Dependent on Private
Support.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-03-14

First insane patient-Go on! You
have wheels in your head.
Second patient of course I have!
And they're chain1ess wheels at that!