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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

pens it, as it were, on the tablets OF his
mind. to be left there until occasion
shall cafl it forth. The books he reads
are always interlined and filled with
marginal notes, and these notes are
often finished sentences which he
makes thus and lays away for future
use. He is a great student Of the die
tionary. He likes odd words and is al
ways looking for them, and in the max
ing of his speeches, some of his SEN
fences, ordinary at the start, are
changed and rechanged until they be-
come oratorical surprises which 60
ringing around the world.
Ingalls, is not all brains; he mas nerve
ALSO When he was young man and
new in Kansas, he was billed to make
a speech in Atchison, where he now
lives. A party Of border ruff1ans called
upon him, and warned him not to speak.
They had pistols in their belts, and
rope in their hands, and they swore
they would hang him If he said any
thing against them. ingalls, looked
them in the eye and told them to hang.
He said that he was billed for speech,
and he was going to make it. He did
make it. and that in no measured
terms
At another time ingalls, was sitting
one day, eating his dinner at hotel in
Atchison. 1t was the days Of early
Kansas, when everyone carried revol-
vers. A drunken rufian entered the
room. He saw ingalls,, and, pointing
revolver at him, said:
''See here, my boy, they say you are
the best speaker in all Kansas. These
gentlemen here are my friends, and we
want speech. Now, you get up on
that chair and give us a speech, or III
shoot sheol out of you"
The future Senator looked the man
straight in the eye, and coolly replied
that he did not intend to make speech
for any drunkard. He continued to
look as the man fourished the pistol
and jumped up and down, threatening
to kill him. He may have been pale,
and his heart must have jumped to his
throat, but he did not move. Finally
the man happened to hit the pistol
against his boot as he jumped up and
down in his rage. 1t went off, and the
ball struck his leg, filing the boot with
blood. This sobered him somewhat,
and he left the dining-room. Ingalls,
then went upstairs, brought down his
pistol, and laying it beside his plate,
went on with his eating. The drunken
man was killed that afternoon in an
affray which he had on the street.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
JAPANESE GIRL AN AUTHOR.
Miss Onoto Watanna and Her Worl
lx,iA

Miss Onoto Watanna and Her Work
in the Pulpit.
Miss Onoto Watanna, the young Jap
anese writer and author of Miss hume
of Japan" now a resident of Chicago,
is as picturesque a character as any
in her stories. Small and dark, with
the bright black almond-shaped eyes
of the japanese and a mass of willful
black hair, she is a study for painter.
In the firm-looking mouth and straight
nose physiognomist might read the
resolution which has, at the age of 81,
brought her so favorably before the
public.
Miss Watanna, after leaving Japan
with her English father when little
girl, lived in Toronto, Canada, for a
number Of years. There the little saw
age, as she was often called, amused
the school children and shocked the
teachers with stories largely embel-
lished with boundless Imagination,
of the land Of her birth. At the age Of
II she went to Jamaica, where she was
assistant editor Of the News Letter,
published in Kingston. Under the
pseudonyms Of Busy and Man
on the Street" her work attracted much
attention in Jamaica. She became a
great favorite with the Governor and
his wife, Sir Henry and Lady Blake.
For a while after leaving Jamaica
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Miss Watanna lived with her fathers
relations in the South, but she grew
FESTIVE and studied shorthand that she
might go out into the world. Chicago
was the goal of her ambitions, and
soon believing herself an expert ste
nographer, she sold her bicycle, and
with the proceeds arrived at the Polk
street depot. She secured position
through Sunday advertisement for an
experienced typewriter and stenog-
rapher. The first morning she was
installed before the typewriter the girl
realized her utter ignorance Of the
machine. 1t was all easy enough but
making the capital letters; that puz
zled her, but the letters were calmly
written without a sign Of cagitaliza.
ton, and on the managers astonished
inquiry she told him regretfully that
the capital was broken. OF course a
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

In an article in the Year Book of the
Department Of Agriculture Mr.. Barnes,
Of the Division of Statistics, advocates
the keeping Of goats In many parts Of
the States. He states that whenever
foul land Is regularly pastured by goats
it becomes cleared Of weeds and bush
es, and being evenly fortified runs into
nutritious native grass. Practically all
the goatskins entering into the COM
merce and manufactures Of the United
States are imported. With the excep-
ton Of that portion of the population
upon territory derived from Spain and
Mexico, the people Of this country have
not usually evinced any interest in
goat-herding for profit, either Of skins
or other products" He shows that
Angora goats have done well on farms
in Massachusetts, Connecticut and I'LL
nois. There are 100000 goats In the
United States, 25S,OOO in the West In
dies (where goat mutton is extensively
used, $4,000 in England, and 4.5O0,OO
in Spain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

fiuenced her to devote her fortune ani
talents to promulgating the doctrines
of peace. Later she met Baron Gunda
car Won Suttner, man who entirely
sympathized with her views, ant
whose wife she became. In 1882 thu
baroness wrote her first book, entitled
"The Inventory Of Soul" Later ap
peared her work, which created a sen
sation in Germany, France and Austria
Lay Down Your Arms" This deal
directly with the hard side of war ant
the sham glories Of physical victories
and is powerful appeal for the substi
tuition Of arbitration for force Of arms
AS result of her writings, the Aus
trian Society Of the Friends Of Peace
was founded, and it's work has been Of
an influential character
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Experience has demonstrated that
one of the best ways to advertise
book is to question it's morality. Con-
tinuing the crusade started by the re-
lection of Macmonnies' famous Bac-
chante, the Boston school committee
has rejected an illustrated edition Of
Ovid which it was proposed to intro
duce as a text book into the schools,
because certain Illustrations in the
book Of NEUROLOGICAL characters were
pictured in a state of partial nudity.
Their action has reused a tornado OF
talk, and If experience repeats itself,
there will probably be brisk run on
the illustrated copies of Ovid. People
who never heard of the Roman poet,
and certainly many who never read
him, will want to con him now, provid-
ed, of course, they can be furnished
with the much talked-about edition.
When the hue and cry was raised
against Lies Miserables" having q
place in the library of the
Girls High School Of Philadel-
phia, several years ago, almost
every girl proceeded to scour the public
libraries or muster up money sufficient
to buy the tabooed novel. Curiosity is
one Of the most potent of human at
tributes. The records of the very first
family In Eden prove that.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

man was sent for to mend the machine,
and from him Miss Watanna received
her first lesson in typewriting, paying
him from her slender purse and swear
ing him to everlasting secrecy.
Miss Watanna's first Japanese story
appeared in the Cincinnati Tribune. It
was entitled "a japanese Girl" Since
then many Of the leading periodicals
have requested stories from her pen.
Her work is particularly wholesome
and abounds in delightful descriptions
of the tropical East.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

1t may be that the twentieth century
will give us both a flying machine and
never-failing cure for senility-the
two things for which humanity has
struggled for centuries. In fact we are
already assured that some professors
have solved the problem of circum-
venting old age, although the discovery
upon which their experiments were
based was made by a country physician
who has been searching for the secret
Of youth" for thirty years. The ply
in the mysterious laboratory Of the
alchemist or in the cryptic writings of
an Indian squaw-but In the common,
everyday barnyard billygoat the
street cleaner that eats tin cans and
wire fences. The return to youth is
produced by the doctor through hypo-
dermic injections of the Emphatic
this process it is claimed that the min
eral deposits which accumulate in the
bones, and which bring on the senility
and decay Of old age, are replaced with
the life cells contained in the Emphatic
glands Of the goats and general de-
terioration of the body is prevented and
the elasticity Of youth preserved. The
theory seems plausible enough even to
the unscientifc mind, for nothing would
seem to be so admirably calculated to
make man feel frisky and frolicsome
as an infusion of goat "cells." 1t
would seem, however, that great eau
ton ought to be exercised in the use Of
these "cells." If man got loaded with
an overdose of these goat "cells" there
is danger that he might want to butt
over everything in the town. Indeed,
man whose bones were charged with
three or four more goat "cells'' than
he needed might do great damage to
life and property. There is no doubt
that the goat "cells'' are a good thing
and should be pushed along, but their
natural propensity for head-end col
lisions would suggest the exercise Of
great caution in adapting them to the
needs of those who are anxious to feel
young at eighty or ninety.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Little surprise was expressed at the
wording in English, instead Of French,
Of the invitations issued by the British
ambassador at Paris to his banquet in
commemoration of the queens eigh-
tieth birthday anniversary. Yet there
was time when such proceeding
would have been tantamount to rup-
ture of diplomatic relations. In these
days there is no longer any one court
or diplomatic language, while the Eng
fish language is steadily and swiftly
moving forward toward universal
usage.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
Rats for Snakes.

Snakes have the sense of smell. 1t is
difficult to obtain food for rattlesnakes
and water vipers. The owner of a
small private collection has been trying
them on the house rats and mice he has
caught about the buildings. He would
leave these in the snake cages over
night and through the day.
They would run over the snakes with
impunity The snakes would pay no
attention to them, but when he hap
pened to secure some field mice and
put them in the cage the snakes ate
them at once. He then put in several
rats and mice of the ordinary house va
riety that he had caught out Of doors,
and these were seized by the snakes
almost as readily as the wild species.
He then conceived the idea of making
an earth box to keep the rats in for a
while before feeding, and soon found
that if they were put in there for
twelve hours or so before they were
given to the snakes they would be eat
en-. The only apparent explanation is
that the smell of the earth is desirable
by the snakes, and that the smell which
the animals acquire about buildings is
Objectionable.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
A BIG UMBRELLA.

It Is to Be One of the Attractions of
the Paris Exposition.
The gigantic umbrella, which is to
be one of the greatest attractions at
the forthcoming Paris exhibition, will
cover a surface of $4,000 square me-
tres in height, and will consist of a
hollow metal column 40 metres in
diameter at the base. The covering of
this wonderful umbrella will have a
diameter Of 40 metres, and will con-
sist Of multi-colored glass, beneath
which will be suspended thousands Of
electric lamps. These when lighted
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

up at night will produce most bril-
liant and fairy-like effect The inside
of the "stick" will be divided into four
stories, three below and one above the
covering. On the lower floors there
will be cafe, a concert hall, and a
theater. On the fourth story, situated
at the top of the umbrella, and forming
cupola, will be a restaurant. Jhe
different stories will be reached by
comfortable lifts. The idea Of this 81
gantic umbrella emanates from the
brain Of a woman-a Nine. perchia
Giverne, who is an umbrella maker.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

given under the auspices of the Knick
erbocker Athletic Club This is thecu
first time that this honor has come to atr
,pected until the day of the contest a n
Bergen Point that Powers would btio
pitted against Alvan Kraenzlein, the T"
wonderful athlete of the University Otoi
Pennsylvania, and also product Of the -
West. An accident put Kraenzlein out 10 L.
of the competition, and Powers had api
walkaway for first honors. The total
score for Powers was 6,2O3 points, br
never but once before exceeded. llur
1897 e. III. Clark, of the Boston Athet W
ic Association, made a total of 6,2445 ne
points. pc
Powers was born in Worcester, Mass
"a years ago. For several years before ha
he entered Notre Dame University heh2
was in the employ Of his father, who 1sSq
manager of dray line. There are sew W
eral prohibition societies of CathoDca1
young men in Worcester, and Powers ~
is member Of one, the st. Pauls Ivy ~
ceum. These societies favor athletics &c
and friendly rivalry exists between III
them. Every year they have track III
meet to determine the athletic honors
of the association. Powers first ap er
pearance as an athlete was at one Oh %
these meets, four years ago, where Dc q.
won the pole vault. His performance sA
however, was nothing extraordinary -. -.
He is six feet tall, weighs $50 pounds - -
and never used liquor or tobacco in any - =
form. He excels in the shot put throw -
ing the discus, pole vault and high aD' -, ~
broad jump. da
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
PICTURE OF INGALLS,.
THE BRILLIANT KANSAN MAY
RETURN TO CONGRESS.
Pen Picture of the Man Who Leaped
from Obscurity to Be the Peer of
Conkling and Blaine Some Inter
esting Incidents.

The announcement that John J. In
gals is to l'e-enter public life and that
the halls of Congress may again ring
with his eloquence is hailed with pleas
ure by those who love the brilliant and
picturesque in craftsmanship. ingalls,
supplies both these qualities and should
he successfully run for Congress, he
would be even a more commanding fig
ure in the lower house than he was in
the Senate before William A. PETER
drove him out.
Ingalls, career can be briefly sketch
ed, but the man himself is worthy OF
extended notice. He was born in Mid
dleton, Mass, in 1888, graduated from
Williams College and. after being adj
mitted to the bar, removed to Atchison,
Kan. There he at once became po-
litical leader and within three years
after locating in the State was mem
Der of the Kansas Senate. Then he
took up newspaper work as an editor,
ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Gov
ernor on two occasions and in 1873 was
elected to the United States Senate,
where he remained eighteen years.
Before his selection for the Senate In
gals was not known outside his State,
but sensational incident connected
with his election gave him national no
toriety. Senator Pomeroy was a can
didate for reelection. He had several
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

In a summary appended to a recent
meteorological chart of the great lakes
UNITED States weather bureau Mr..
Henry states that these bodies Of water
do not have a marked influence on the
precipitation of rain over the adjacent
land areas. There are eight inches more
rainfall on the south shore Of Lake
Superior than on the north shore, and
three inches more In the cases Of Erie
and Ontario. There is also a greater
precipitation on the eastern shores Of
Lakes Huron and Michigan than on
the western.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
CHAMPION ATHLETE.

J. Fred Powers of Notre Dame Uni
versity Holds the Title.
J. Fred Powers, of the University O
Notre Dame Qndiana), now holds the
title of all-round champion Of the Am
ateur Athletic Union of America. He
won this distinction in competition at
Bergen Point, N. J.. July a, at meet
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
HER LOVER DIED IN eArrlr
And Her Life Work Since Has Re-.
Promote Universal Pean. Nv

And Her Life Work Since Has R.
Promote Universal Peace
Baroness Bertha Won Suttner ~
peace woman of Europe, known
every one who is interested in the On. y
ton of arbitration, has friends in ~
cry part of Europe, and has been
ceived by and met most of the col
brated personages on the contiper
Her work for universal peace anon !
the nations has greatly strengthens
the peace party of Europe.
Singularly enough the baroness is
daughter Of a once-famous warrior If =
the continent Field Marshal Count
Frans Won Kinsky, of Austria. Sha !
was betrothed to Prince Wittgenstejr 3
who lost his life in battle, and 1t was
the horror of his end which largely in,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

That story of the New York woman
killing her husband because he snored
too loud awakens the suspicion that
the real cause Of Othello's dreadful
deed with the pillows may never have
been brought to light.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

to laugh with a harvest. It's develop
ment In agriculture and mining will
add almost new world to the globe.
But it cannot flourish SO long as 1T is
penal colony. History has proven that
fact. In this new departure of the
Gar the student of current affairs will
discover motives of policy as well as Of
humanity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Since the success of his son as pugi-
list the elder Jeffries is reported to be
is understood that the elder Jeffries Is
making no efforts to disturb the inflow
of gate receipts. In addition to it's
Drawn and it's piety the Jeffries family
seems to be possessed Of considerable
thrift
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

A woman writer asserts that pretty
hat can be made for sixty cents and a
neat dress for So. It is also true that
man can live on mush and molasses alb
sorbed regularly thrice day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

That professor who wants to change
the name Of the United States Of North
America to Usona may as well give 1t
up. Usona doesn't rhyme with enough
other words to make the proposition 60.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

"As soon as the ink trust Is ready for
business remarked the professor, ut
will proceed, suppose, to make the
foulest blot ON the page Of history"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

The minister who declared in the pull
pit that stiff collars and religion do not
60 together landed rather heavily on
the neck of his congregation.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Modelling her in gold may please one
girl, but just think Of the number that
might be made happy If all that mate
rial was worked up into wedding rings.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

The Sfax was one Of the sfactors in
restoring Dreyfus to the liberty OF
which he was deprived by sfalsehood
and sforgery.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

In putting his foot down on Porto
Rico Uncle Sam seems to have exposed
his leg. Hayti wants to pull 1t for a
loan.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
Cure for Typhoid Fever

Cider has been discovered 10
French investigator to be fatal % ~ ~,
typhoid fever bacillus. 1t Is the n'n a
acid, he believes, that the bacillus -
not digest.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

If Bishop Potter has never been in a
theater, as he says, he has never seen
"Uncle Toms Cabin or "Pinafore."
And yet he thinks that he has lived.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Whether or not girl bathers use cloth
gloves at the shore, undressed kid Is
common fashion at the local swimming
holes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Every woman thinks her doctor is the
best until she catches him making a
fuss over some other woman's baby.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Planks in political platforms are gen.
orally measured with view to their
adaptability to the official posts.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

If Uncle Sans new explosive, tho
rite, Is all that 1t is claimed to be, he
has no further use for disarmament
conference.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

The kissing bug appears to be COM
bination of mosquito, a copperhead
snake and an epidemic.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

The increase in postoffice receipts
will this year be sensatfonally large,
according to the present estimates of
the department in Washington. In
some branches of the service receipts
are % per cent greater than they were
a year ago. In the last fifteen years
the postoffice business Of the country
has doubled in volume. This indicates
not only our direct growth in popula-
ton, but the increase in the number
and size of our newspapers and other
publications, as well as great growth
In the habit of letter writing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

When a man is sued for breach of
promise and his love letters are pro-
duced as evidence he can nearly al
ways get off on the plea Of temporary
insanity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Motives of humanity cannot be given
too large a place in the expressed de-
termination of the Car to abolish the
Siberian exile system. The Trans-Sibe-
rian Railroad is not being built for mil
itary purposes only. The Russian Gov
eminent could not afford to maintain
such vast system for that purpose
alone. Siberia Is vast region which
only needs to be tickled with the hoe
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
THE BIGGEST duN IN THE WoRL D

States War Department has definitely decided on the OF
sin lower will utilized
finished will
built
tin
Eair nd in
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Inventor Edison was unable to invent
q way to keep his son from marrying a
girl that the family didn't like.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

They say it takes smart man TO De
q rogue, but only fools try to get along
that way.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Washington city is opposed to insec-
tivorous OSCILLATION.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

A man may call his wife dear and
the statement may bear two construc-
tons.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03
Probabilities to Fit.

Wife TAT breakfast-I want to
some shopping to-day, dear, if
weather is favorable. What are
forecasts?
Husband consulting his paper
Rain, hail, thunder and lightning
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-08-03

Never twit your wife because o. M
foolish actions. But for them ia
chances are she wouldn't have man
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