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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-06
WKIKFIsH NOT BITING WELL.
So Much Food in the Bays Now That They
Ignore tho Halted Hnoks.

The fishing in near by waters for weak7sh
has not been so good during the past two
weeks as 1t was earlier in the season. This Is
not duo to a scarcity OF fish. for judicious
cumming will bring school OF them around
the boat. The small catches are due to several
causes. chief of which is the enormous amount
OF food In the bays. All the inlets in the vcn-
ity OF New York are literally swarming with
spearing. species OF small fry OF which the
weakfsh are very fond. These little fish run
up on the meadows in countless numbers
where they arc pursued by the weak fish In
the night the spashng OF the schools OF weak
fish in pursuit OF their prey can be heard for
q long distance, Another reason why the
catches are smaller is the presence OF worm
which grows in the cinder beds at the bottom Of
the bays 1t resem bles a SAND worm in appear
ance. except that i IS much shorter. In the
ance on the surface. The weakish is very
fond Of it, and feeds upon 1t so ravenousy that
the most tempting bait j.. no attraction. In,
deed. the manner in which the occasional
wenklsh takes hold Of u line Mt this season is
On account. therefore. OF the worms in tho
water, shrimp are preferable for bait
But there is another reason why weakhsh
are comparative strangers to the landing net
Just now, and that Is the prevalence OF the
toes on the Hackensa"k meadows. He is nat
urally a bottom feeder, but the shrimp chum
thrown INTO the wafer 10 attract the WeaknSh
soon draws the porgy to the surface. This ia
especially the case at slack tide periods. when
weakhsh are captured At this season OF the
year the porgy IS no bigger than baby'S hand.
but every scale in his little body aeems in
stinct with life. and when a weaknsh hook.
baited with half u yard OF worms and Iuicy
vicinity OF tho porGy. he cleans the hook
with single nibhle, The porgy is the
cause Of more profanity on the part
perhaps. tn" spider crab. In case the fisher
man. in II moment OF forgetfuness, permits his
bait to get near tho bottom, the spider crab
grabs it. He takes the hook in one Of his for
GERS. while with the other he picks OF the bait.
after finishing the bait on the hook. would
elm up the line hand oyer hand, tum BILE into
the boat and hunt around for the bait box. But
the pOrRy has the advantage OF being ed BILE
while the value OF the spider crab has yet to be
determined.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-06

On Oct. 2t Of last year there was placed in
on" Of tn" gallery tanks on the salt water side
mt the Aquarium drumlsh that weighed
about three quarters Of a pound, and there IL
remained until last week when it was trans
irrrod to larger tank on the ground floor
tier, II had doubled in weight and came TO DO
rather TOO big to he kept in a gallery tank
The drumilsh WAS put III with the spade.
fsh. winch 1t resembles hot at all in shape.
1t appears TO- Tx" the more spacious tank.
With entire disregard Of company in the shape
OF !s.tors looking on. II ghi"s. AZ times.
IN manner that one m ght fear would dislo-
cate It's Jaw, But its gazing is simply fog
Of exercise inr comfort sake, or f. may Ia
substance 'hh' has h,.cOm" attached To- it. sI.lS.
But the th!nE ia" GrImiiSh does that peases
people most ~ rs p,rAIuE ~ OF pvbbr"S,
The lutt IN 81 IN" lallk Is 'DN"r"i " IN "A bod
Of pebbles or rnars" Errv"i, More or less ant
ma lie ~ minute forms attaches to thrs" p"h-
lvS, ana tn" pwhlnrr become covered with
minute forms - vegetation. Both these forms
al he he drumn~h ,ikn,. aud ncnasinnally il
picks VI " uapHth'u. IT n" pebbles ana mnn,-
h"~ them us"r and eats on WAatCyrris on
them, Just H. "a small b"y Vpu|d hold ~ his
muHih a .unlp U' candy or -DHr KIND Of candy
drops to suck "u, but the dUimNSh doesn't
Nul'E swallow ia" pebbles After II tune.
when II las '"nuoI ~ an h" uu'timrnt from
them. II HN'b SUITS he urGb,rs ont. an 10
So" IN" drGm'ish -lD't ~ U'ull'~ B, always
umuN,uy +" hose Thn happen to -"r :
The drumii-h II not the greatest attrnotio1
Y me AVuar!um but It Is not Wltlifn ~
trleuds.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-06

Jimmy" the messenger boy. was hook ing
for some rNcu-" to loiter and he found Il y,.--
tcriay afternoon by watching a nous" catch
flies in show window on IaWrrur" street.
near Seventeenth. N soon a. Jimmy"
stopped he became deeply Interested, and hts
absorbed attention attracted Others, and IN a
mouse il {. past grand master Of the art at fly
catching. He was letter than all ia" stirky
paper i'm town \ paper now and then perm Is
a fly to escape but III" mouse, never Th"
mouse would II" back. carefully watching "A
corner OF ia" window. aud A. -p"n - fly
aud gather it in Now and thriI a rv would
attempt To elude the mouse. a. the latter
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-06
Religious "Jumpsrs in the Bluegrass.
From the Central CITY (KvJ Republican.

The Jumpers are making things lively in
South CaTr0llton this week by holding street
services in the day and meetings in their tent
at night, Their manner Of holding services is
not the prettiest on earth. nor TO the uncon-
tho spirit true and tried, They pass un needed
the laughter and remarks OF the audience as
Guiding what, II seen on the stage. would be
voted up-to date dapcing with the high / lex
act tossed in for down weight We understand
doing other parts Of the county for several
years. and is composed OF several NEE and
hcient to lend interest II not comment.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-06
American Club Dinner in Mexico for 3lh
Gents.
From The vtv orisan, TINS Democrat.


The American Club in Mexico City is a
unique and interesting institution" said a
former resident now in business in the sister
republic. 1T has about 900 members and oc-
cupies the whole OF a sumptuously furnished
on San Francisco street The initiation fee :
SlOO Tor regulars and $50 a year dues. hut
now residents get or with 500 initiation tee
alone. The concern is most admirably man
aged. and the chcapne,s and excel tnc" q It's
cuisine Is something really marvellous What
do you think ot "A trSt-rah dinner Tor 81 a
cents? That is tho charge TO msmherS, and 1t
may interest ciubmen In this city TO know eX-
nctly what our steward gives uR to eat at such
a figure. Here is a sample dinner card that
happen to have in my pocket:
Cacumbers, radishes.
SOup-NCal broth. with rice.
Fish Dreaded frogs legs a Ia Poule
Entries Slut"s of doves. with small strips of
bacon, chops, VITA tomato sauce; bTaizrd spring
laInh, with mint sauce: stuffed chles la MeIicanA
Roast Sir1ln Of beef
Vege.abl--Mashed potatoes, boiled cabbage.
atewrd Tomatoes
Dessert-Baked apples coffee, cheese fruit
THAT is the dinner Of July l2-nothing I'M
usual, Just an everyday meal-and my word for
II as a New Orleans cubman of twenty years
standing. that both service and cooking were
uneXceptiOnabe. or course. the dining room
has never made any money, but II has man
aged to pull out about oven. which 10 certainly
q remarkable feat, Americans who are carry
ing Uncle Sans commerce into foreign lands
have learned the value Of club life from the
English. and this particular institution would
be tirst-ra model for tho American colonies
In Cuba. Puerto Rico and the Philippines"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

discovery, which he considers the
browning event of his wonderful
career, and which is embodied in a
Red Cross Starch (Red Cross trade
mark.) He is planning to distribute
millions of packages of this starch to
the housewives of America, at merely
nominal price to the consumer, in order
to make it's merits known without de-
lay. Thus, for but cents two large
10c packages of Red Cross Starch may
be had, together with two magnificent
Shakespearean views printed in IL
beautiful colors, or Twentieth Gen.
fury Girl Calendar; or for only 20
cents 10 packages of the starch and
the entire series of eight Shakespearean
views and one Twentieth Century Girl
Calendar-views alone easily worth
$1.0O. Watch this paper for future
premium announcements, of which
every lady will certainly want to take
advantage.
While Mr. Hubinger will devote his
best energies to the manufacture of
this new and wonderful starch, he will
not retire from the various financial
enterprises in which he is interested
street railways, electric lighting plants
and the Mississippi Valley Telephone
Co., with 10000 telephone subscribers
in Minneapolis and ST. Paul-nor will
his augmented activity interfere with
his social obligations and exercise of
the splendid hospitality which he dis
penses at his palatial Keokuk home.
Mr.. Hubinger's family, consisting of
himself, wife and four children, is the
pivot around which his activity re-
wolves, and while fond of promoting
great enterprises, he is still fonder of
his home circle, where he spends every
moment of time not taken up by busi-
ness or public cares.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
Progress.

With time, comes progress and ad-
vancement in all lines of successfully
conducted enterprises. Success comes
to those only who have goods with
superior merit and reputation. In
the manufacture of laundry starch for
the last quarter Of a century j. G.
Hubinger has been the peer of all 9th
ers and to-day is placing on the market
the finest laundry starch ever offered
the public under our new and original
method.
Ask your grocer for a coupon book
which will enable you to get the first
two large 10-cent packages of his new
starch, RED CROSS, TRADE MARK
brand, also two of the childrens Shaks-
peare pictures painted in twelve beautt-
full colors as natural as life, or the
Twentieth Century Girl Calendar, all
absolutely free.
All grocers are authorized to give ten
large packages of RED CROSS
STARCH, with twenty of the Shaks-
peare pictures or ten of the Twentieth
Century Girl Calendars, to the first five
purchasers of the Endless Starch Chain
Book. This is one of the grandest
offers ever made to introduce the RED
CROSS laundry starch, ]. G. Hubing-
er's latest invention.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
PARCELS POST FOR CUBA.

Negotiations are now in progress fol
a parcels post convention between
Cuba and France. The convention, il
it is agreed to, will be modelled upon
those now in existence between the
United States and South American
countries, and the convention between
the United States and Germany. Di-
rector General of Posts Rathbone, as
the head of the Cuban postal service, is
carrying on the negotiations on the
part of the island, and there have also
been conferences in regard to the mat
ter between Postmaster General Smith
and the German Envoy, Mr. Mumm
Won Schwarzenstien, signed conven-
ton between the United States and
Germany. The convention will go in
to operation October 1, and will in
augurate a postal service by means of
which articles of merchandise may be
exchanged between the two countries,
provided the packages do not exceed II
pounds in weight The postage rate
from the United States is fixed at q
cents for each pound or fraction of a
pound.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

lars of the Temple of Castor and
Polux, st. Peters and the vatican,
make you feel that a scholastic and
studious holiday has been spent when
you paste the post card trophy in your
collecting book or address such illus
tratlons to those at home, and you
forget that you had not time enough
to study these monuments, that you
had but ten days to spend when ten
years were needed, and that the in
timacy with the place which the
modern post card SENS to presupose is
but affectation.
There are handsome pictures of
Pope Leo in the Rome collection, and
scenes around the royal palace of the
queen and king.
The German emperor, who does
things differently from other people,
and has fads harder than most NOR
tails, has set the most remarkable pace
OF postal sending yet known On the
occasion of his recent journey to Holy
Land and through Europe he pre-
pared several thousand postal cards
announcing his safe departure These
were despatched from Vienna, the
day of the kaiser's start, and were re-
ceived in a few days by friends and
mobiles.
But still more illustrious example
OF postal sending occurred on his ma
Jesty's home trip. Packed safe in the
emperor's baggage were thousands of
postal announcements of his safe ar
rival home. These were all written
before the start, and were posted when
the kaiser was only half way home
Germany devotes its postal cards to it's
scenery principally. After the por-
traits of the royal family and the
palace at Potsdam come views of the
Rhine, daring little schemes in color
of castles perched high on rocks, with
vines and twisted trees, standing out
against blue sky. Small wonder
that you jump from the train to secure
one of these, even though there is only
room for your signature below the pic
ture.
In Switzerland, also, mountains, tor
rents, waterfalls and ravines, colored
or simply in black and white, are the
usual subjects. Sometimes an Alpine
rose and the inevitable edelweiss be-
decks one corner, or a couple of
peasants show the picturesque and
graceful national costume, for which
the tourist seeks in vain.
English ornamental postal cards are
made generally out of England, or at
least the color schemes are painted
elsewhere, but the United States cards
are made in American Washington
Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
One Girls Heart.

What very fine young men your
nephews are, Mr.. Archer said his Wis
ttor.
eyes, I suppose So, replied the old
uncle, "but I wish they hadn't been
brought UP in the idea that they have
a rich relative to fall back upon. Flo
rian is desperately extravagant, and
there's something about Albert that re-
minds me of the ring of false metal. :
Left to himself, Mr.. Archer's
thoughts were still busy with his neph-
ews, when Florian Leverson sauntered
in
'Well, uncle he saluted, dropping
into a chair.
We'll, young man"
81 was just looking for you. want
to tell you something"
More debts, eh?"
mot exactly, sir. II am engaged
to be married"
"And who is the young LADY,"
Alice Dean"
"a pretty girl enough, but she
doesn't care a straw for you. It's
your GApSCCdIAO1lo BIC gums "
marry"
"Uncle!"
Don't tell mel" muttered Amos
Archer. Marry the girl, if you like,
but if you were not the nephew Of a
rich old bachelor she wouldn't look at
you twice
Uncle, you are speaking what is
false"
Hold your tongue, SIR, or l will dis
inherit you"
''Id sooner be disinherited than in
suited
Mr.. Archer arose and strobe out of
the room, nearly tumbling over his
other nephew, Albert Wheatley, at the
head of the stairs.
But Mr. Archer had hurried down the
stairs and into the street. Half an
hour later he came back with an air
of unusual hustle and excitement.
Boys" he cried, looking in upon his
nephews, Tive got to go west to see
about those railroad lands | have been
buying. There's trouble in the new
board of directors, and I must look
after my interests in person.
And with this he vanished.
Alice Dean was retrimming her hat
a couple of weeks afterward when the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
NEW POSTAL CARD CRAZE.
You Must Use 1t Continuously When
Travelling Abroad.

The postal card craze is at its
height abroad, and those who travel
this summer will soon catch the infec-
ton of dispatching postal cards from
every station. These postal cards are
by no means the useful tan-colored
cards with which we are familiar
They are the Illuminated postals that
were introduced only few seasons
ago. Even last summer they were a
novelty, and one sent from Holland
during the coronation of Wilhelmina
was viewed as a great curiosity.
Now every village in Europe has its
postal card and many have several
different designs. The pOstoffice
issues them, and is we'll repaid by the
extra number it sells. Many Of them
are made in Germany" and are of ex-
quisite coloring.
Wilhelmina's coronation cards SOW
ed the young queen from her baby
hood to the throne. The cathedral al
Amsterdam has card to itself, and
other cards were devoted to groups OF
Hollandese children.
In Rome you get the most classic
postal card The well-knoWn out
lines of the Coliseum, those three pill
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
Mrs. Col. Richardson
SAVED BY MRS. PINKHAM.
[LErrER TO MRS. p1NKHAM NO. z2,8o6l

LETTER TO MRS. P1NKHAM NO. Z2,oooI
'You have saved my life, snatched
me from the brink of the grave almost,
and I wish to thank you. About eigh-
teen months ago was total wreck,
physically. had been troubled with
leucorrheaf for some time, but had given
hardly any attention to the trouble.
AT last Inflammation of the womb
and ovaries resulted and then / suf-
fered agonies, had to give up my pro-
fession musician and piano player),
was confined to my bed and life became
terrible cross. My husband sum-
moned the best physicians, but their
benefit was but temporary at best. /
believe [ should have contracted the
morphine habit under their care, if my
common sense had not interviewed.
Zone day my husband noticed the adj
vertisement of your remedies and inn
mediately bought me a full trial. Soon
the pain in my ovaries was gone. | am
now we'll, strong and robust, walk,
ride wheel, and feel like girl in her
teens. I would not be without Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound; it
is like water of life to me. | am very
gratefully and sincerely your we'll
wisher, and l heartily recc nmend your
remedies. hope some poor creature
may be helped to health by reading my
story. "-MRs. Col. E. P. RICHARDSON,
RHINELANDER, WIS.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
Important Information for Men anC
Women

For those who are accustomed to send
ing away from home for their goods it
is of the greatest Importance to know
the character and reliability of the estab-
ishments selling goods to families from
catalogues. The great emporium Of the
John M. Smyth Co., located at $50 to
1876 West Madison street, Chicago, has
been established for a third of century,
and has furnished over a half a million
homes in Chicago and vicinity alone.
This firm enjoys the confidence of the
public by it's many years of fair dealing.
It issues an immense illustrated cata-
logue that should be in every family, as
it describes and gives the price Of every
article required for household use. A
sample of the extraordinary values of
fered by this firm is shown in the illus
tration Of the gentlemen's overcoat3 in
another column of this paper. These gar
ments are indeed wonderful values, and
yet they are but a sample Of the thousand
and one useful articles illustrated and
described in the beautiful catalogue Of
the John M. Smyth Company.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
STARTING A POEM.

I've an ending for poem
That / cannot seem to start;
It would please a Hoosier poet
To the bottom of his heart.
have tried and tried to work it,
But it's clearly no avail;
It's " the drumming Of the partridge
And the whistle Of the quail"
You can fancy how he'd take it,
And he'd marshal all the birds
For their yearly journey southwark
(EIow he'd find the fittest wordsD
And he'd say that they were flying
Over hill and over dale,
To the drumming of the partridge
And the whistle of the quail.
But for me the lines are useless,
SO I'm going to take my gun,
And I'll hasten to the woodland
It's duty to be done.
There I'll quickly make an ending
AS to start l seem to fail
To the drumming of the partridge
And the whistle of the quail.
Charles B. LOOMS
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
A GOOD SUBSTITUTE.

An old Hot Springs colored woman
went to the pastor of her church to
complain of her husband, who she said
"wuz a low-down, wu'th less, trifin'
niggah.' After listening to long re-
cital of the delinquencies of her
neglectful and her efforts to correct
him, the minister said, "Hab yo' eber
tried heapin' Goals of fire upon his
head?" mo-" was the reply; "but rs
tried hot water "-Arkansaw Thomas
Cat.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
HE KNEW BETTER.

81 say, there he asked, as he stood
in the streets of New York for the first
time and watched two Sisters of
Mercy pass along, what kind of vim
men is them [ seen go along, all in
black, with white thing around their
face and neck?''
"Oh,'' replied the man addressed,
they're the Sisters of st. John the
Baptist
Get Quit" was the sneering answer,
you can't fool me. Why, man, John
the Baptist has been dead more'n a
hundred years. Golden Penny.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
JOHN C. HUBINGER.
Remarkable Career of a Wem-Kn0vvA
Western Capitalist, ManufacG-
urer and PhiIanthrOpist.

Among the leaders of the progressive
famous, Mr.. John c. Hubinger, of Keo-
kuk, Ia, reigns without peer. AS
a manufacturer, as an enterprising cap
italist and as philanthropist his fame
has spread over many states, and his
financial enterprises have developed
many obscure towns into progressive,
thrifty and wide-awake cities. Mr..
Hubinger, although but AZ years of
age, can look back upon scores OF COM
mercia1 victories, each one of which has
benefited mankind, for his hberality is
as bountiful as his business sagacity is
marvellous. He was born in New Or
leans, La, his parents being of French
and German origin. When he was four
years old, his family removed to Ken
lucky, in which state young Hubinger
received a public school education. AL
most before reaching mans estate he
secured patents on number of val
liable mechanical inventions, thereby
laying the foundation of his present
fortune.
By inclination and force of circum-
stances his attention was early direct
ed to the manufacture of starch by i'm
proved processes, and in the course of
time he became the head of concern
having an annual business of millions
of dollars. But genuine ambition
never quite satisfied with existing con-
ditions, works ever toward perfection,
and after years of painstaking study
and research Mr.. Hubinger has made a
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

Attend the Oshkosh Business Cob
lege and School of Shorthand and
Typewriting.
BEST IN EVERYTHING
!. Business Practice in Book keeping and
Shorthand from start to finish.
Educates practically and supplies bush
ness houses with competent assistants.
Established Sept. /, 1867.
No Vacations.
For Catalogue address
w. w. Daggett,
Oshkosh, Wis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
A FELLOW FEELING.

Listen to this" exclaimed the Off
Ger who was reading a newspaper;
"The queen of Spain has been obliged
to give up 100000 pesetas a year"
And from bunch of palms where
the Samoan kings were betting tobacco
tage on quiet game came the excla-
nation in rich bass voice:
Amt us monarchs having hard
luck ?"-W Washington Star.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
Still More COunterfeiting.

The Secret Service has just unearthed an
other band Of counterfeiters and secured a
quantity of bogus bills, which are very clev-
eriy executed. Things of great value are
always selected for imitation, notably Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, which has many
imtators but no equals for disorders like
indigestion, dys pepsla and cons tipation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

President Cannon of the Chase Ma
tional bank, New York, says the
northwest did more than any other sec
ton to bring about the present pros
porous condition of the country.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
BEST IN EVERYTHTN0l

1t is rumored that a committee Of
leading German manufacturers In
being formed for the purpose of pre-
venting German participation in the
Paris exposition of 1900.
Halls Catarrh Cure
Is taken internally Price rs cents