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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10

A man entered an "ice cream par
lor," and slowly and thoughtfully ate
his portion Of vanilla. While he was
paying the cashier he said, quietly:
II notice you advertise that you
make your own ice cream"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10

She'll bet when Adam first met
Eve he put on an air Of superiority.
He--Well, there was nothing else to
put on just at that time.-Indianap
lis Journal
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-10

De Tanque-I hear your wife came
for you at the club late last night.
Old Soak-That's not SO. But she
went for me after I got home.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
From Nodes.

FROM MOleS.
The day when bridal outfit meant
dozens IF each article of clothing a woman
wears belongs to the past. The keynote of
the modern trousseau Is common sense
The girl Of today considers what her fu-
ture life is to be and prepares for 1t as we'll
as her means will allow, but without any
OF the excess which once was apparent in
every outfit Of the sort A wedding gown
that can be made to serve for evening wear,
one of less costly material and darker in
color Tor dinners and the like, a tailored
gown of handsome broadcloth, simple
one of cheviot for travelling and later
morning and shopping USE two pretty af-
ternoon gowns and two for mornings, with
half dozen odd waists. means not suffi-
cheney alone. but ample and even elegant
provision. while the list can be further cur
tailed If need be.
Underwear need never mean more than a
half dozen sets, and can easily be kept
from extravaganza If the work be done by
the girl herself Dainty finish and fine ma
terial there should always be, but hand
run tucks make the most elegant of all
trimmings, and there is no need of costly
edges if frills be made of fine nainsook
rolled and whipped on by hand.
cheap display is always vulgar. Excess
stve elaboration on machine made gar
ments is far from refined. To be correct
the material should be nainsook of fine En-
gl1Sh iongcloth, and all sewing except the
seams should be done by hand, but there
Is no law demanding fine lace and the like
Faienciennes edgings and fine needlework
frills are attractive and desirable beyond a
doubt, but they should be a second rather
than first consideration, the all-fmportant
place being given to material and work.
manShip
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
Spanish Dancing,

From the Saturday Review.
Singing and dancing in Spain are as the
right hand and the left, and the same airs.
throbbing on guitar, guide the most char
aeteristic kind of dancing. Here the mean
Ing is more explicit; like the pantomime of
all eastern dancing like the shapeless jog
trot OF the Soudanese, which you can see
at Earfs Court; like the undisguised MIN
icry of the women in the Re du Caire at
the last Paris exhibition, 1t is wholly sex
ual. But in the dancing, inherited from
the Moors, which the gypsies have perfect
ed In Spain, there Is far more subtlety, del
1cacy, and real art than in the franlser pos
turing In Egypt and Arabia. It is the most
elaborate dancing in the world. and, like
the music, 1t has an abstract quality which
saves 1t from ever, for moment, becofn-
ing vulgar. Il: ty
AS have watched Gitana dancing in
Seville have thought of the sacred dances
which in most religions have given per-
fectly solemn and collected symbolism to
the creative forces of thefworld Hferatic
not perverse, centred upon the tcentral fact
of existence; moving gravely, without frfv-
oHty, In sense without passion, so deeply
is the passion rooted ins the nature of
things; the dance coils round Upon itself as
the trails of music and the trails in stone
coil round upon Themselves II Is another
secret of the Moors. and must remain as
mysterious to us those other secrets,
until we have come a little CLOSER than we
have yet come to the inimaterial wisdom
of the east. n
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
A HohenHOlIern Superstition.
'ror,a No Tor...Y

Apropos OF the superstitions of the Ho-
neutrality-suspicious. by the way,
found in all ancient royal families, fnclud-
Ing our own-the rulers of that house pos
sess talisman brought into it by a good
spirit said to guard its destfnies. This is
the curious black stone" to which is at
tached the following quaint tradition:
Since the time of the Elector John CT
Zero, who fiouriShed toward the end of the
hfteenth century, each ruler has been wont
before his death, to hand to his successor a
scaled packet. This contains a ring I'm
which is set a black stone said to have
been dropped by a huge toad on the cover
let OF a princess of the family Just as she
rad given birth to n SON. Frederick the
Great found the ring in a cover. which
also inclosed memorandum, written by
Frederick l. stating its value and its
mode of transmission. Schneider. the H.
biarian of William 1, declares that he saw
the packet handed by Ceiling, the treas
urer, to his royal master on his accession.
and further asserts that he read his ac-
count OF the talisman to the emperor, who
fully confirmed it.
The present emperor never fails to wear
on all great occasions this queer old ring,
and has, like every Hohenzollern the deep
est respect for the quaint little Jewel.
Frederick the Greats father had the black
stone mounted on a ring and bequeathed
1t TO his son. who believed firmly in its
value as talisman. and many of the docu-
ments Of that time deposited in the ar
chives at Berlin make allusion to it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
Told by an Engineer.
From Leslie's Weekly.

TO run over man-perhaps that's the
only thing of all that shakes me. To see
him on the track within ten or twenty feet
of you; to know that you can't stop to save
him; to feel the wheels of the engine go
over his body, crunching out his life-a
man doesn't want to experience that more
than once in lifetime.
It's worse with a child. There was an
old mate of mine in the west, when / was
riding in the Union Pacifc-never mind his
name, he's dead now. As good an engineer
as ever stood in a box. cool as the devil
nerve like steel, had been through three
wrecks, hold-up and fire. Well. one
day Jim was little behind his schedule
and made like anything for the next stop.
There was crossing right in front of
him. He saw that everything was clear
as he thought, and went right ahead, when
all at once, out of a clump of trees there
ran little golden-haired fairy right in
front of the engine. 1t was all over in
one instant, and when the train stopped
Jim dropped like log. It was two months
before he crept back again to work. But
he could never come to that crossing but
he saw the little girl with her hair flut-
terfng in the wind. running out from the
trees. And one day he just got off his
engine, turned it over to the second man
and walked away, never to be seen again,
until his body was found in the river"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09


Earliest of all forms of headgear was the
cap. The hat did not really come into CON-
mon use till the seventeenth century. In
the time of Charles l the queer, high,
sugar-loaf shaped hat came into fashion
1t was wound with a rich band and trim
med with a feather. Constant balancing of
the head was necessary to keep it on.
This hat was taken up by the Puritaus
who satisfied their bitter conscIences by
discarding the frivolous band and the
wicked feather.
Charles II brought the French periwig
into England, and the tall hat went out to
make way for low. broad-h-immed thing.
gorgeous with feathe and sinlcracks
These broad brims became broader and
broader. At last it became necessary to
turn them up. First, this was done at the
back, finally according TO the wearer's
fancy
Out of this extravagant style % headgear
grew the cooked hat The footn,an ana
tions still wear this style of headgear
During Queen Anne's time the cooked hat
was the hat of the gentleman. The correct
fashion was to carry It under the arm as
much possible.
The French revolution. which took off so
many heads that had worn the cooked hat,
took off the cooked hat, too. In its place
the crescent shape became the style. partly
by force. The direct ancestor of that dread
full thing. the high hat of today. was the
noble and sturdy beaver. Beavers went
out of fashion Largely because the supply
of material became exhausted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
No Fear when Death Draws Nigh.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Il have seen thousands OF persons die
under all sorts OF circumstances, and never
yet have l seen one display the slightest
fear of death" This remarkable statement
was made the other day by a physician
who has practiced many years In PhiladeI-
phia, and who has seen great deal Of hos
pital service.
1T is a popular fallacy." he went on, ito
imagine that a deathbed scene is ever Ter
rible, other than a parting between
loved ones The fear of the unknown is
never present at the last. Even amid ig-
norance and vice l have never experienced
such scenes as novelist. who strives after
realism. will sometimes picture
When patient is told that he cannot
recover and the end is near. he invariably
seems resigned to his fate. and his only
thought seems to be of those who are to be
left behind. This is true alike Of men and
women.
Those who become hysterical and de-
clare they are not fit to die are the ones
who are not as i'll as they think they are
They always get we'll
A psychological reason2 Oh, don't
know that there is ANY. It's Just a human
trait"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

of the fishermen Is permanent II IL happens
to fall upon them.
mad conversation with one man who
mas several times received full charge In
ms race, and he assured me that beyond
the smell, which is most nauseous he felt
no Inconvenience at ALL no smarting or
pain In his eyes, and no bad after effects
f any of the liquid gets upon the nets II
rots them beyond repair unless 1t is washed
Oft Immediately. Another curious fact Is
mat this fluid will not iniure cloth in the
slightest degree beyond making a perrna-
nent stain. One man told me that he had
used jersey for several years which had
been squirted all over at different times
ny these cephalopods. but that except for
the cloth being stained 1t was as good as
ever. "
When this ink Is elected under water
1t hangs in a sort of cloud and does NOT
spread.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
A New Kind of Water Mark.

From the Paper Mil.
Two Englishmen who have recently Sc
cured a method of producing water marks
by means of electrolysis thus describe the
process:
I'm producing disappearing and repeat
edly revivabe translucent water mark in
or on manufactured paper we proceed as
follows: Upon a platinum sheet or plate
forming the positive conducting surface we
place layer of absorbent material such
as blotting paper. previously moistened
with water. On this material We place the
paper " hich is to receive the water mark.
the paper having been previously rnoistened
through with water. We then press face
downward. on the paper platinum design
OF the water mark. and this design forms
the negative electrode. We keep this mega
tive electrode in contact with the naper
for from five to ten seconds, according to
the nature Of the paper and the amount Of
electric current used. The result on re-
nloval of the electrode is a distinct and
translucent image OF the design. which
gradually fades as the paper dries. and
finally becomes invisible The mark, how
ever. can be revived and made visible as
often as the paper is immersed in water or
rnoistened in any other way"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
A Plague Victim TO Science.
From the London Times,

FoL the LONDON lines.
A correspondent at Lisbon sends us some
pathetic details Of the death Of DIR. Camara
Pestana, who actually caught the plague
through his anxiety to learn all that he
could about it. He was dissecting the body
Of patient who had died from plague. and
in order to extract the virus more thor
oughly for analysis he put aside his instru-
ments and worked with his fingers The
poison entered his system under the finger
nails and he was struck down with the
terrible disease which he was investigating
He was at once moved to an isolated ward
set apart for plague sufferers and there he
set himself to study his own case and to
record for the benefit of humanity his own
symptoms and the course of the disease
he refused to see his brother for fear OF
infection, and in every way. even in max
ing arrangements for his own funeral he
took every precaution to prevent the spread
of the plague His mind and Will con-
quered his bodily sufferings until the very
lend, and even as he died he WAS still try
ing to Indicate to those around him the
lessons of his own case. He left a letter
for the Queen Of Portugal begging for her
influence in favor of his colleagues at the
Lisbon Psychological Institute DIR. Pes
tana had believed himself immune on ac-
count of the injections Of plague serum
he had taken.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
The Struggle With r..

SnarleS johnston In the Contemporary.
Every baby has struggled with r: some
times the struggle lasts for years, some
times the victory is doubtful to the end
And this is a survival. And there is a
general weakness in this respect all across
the central European plain. from Poland,
through Prussia, to Paris. The Poles turn
the pure Slavonic into sh: the Prussians
and Parisians pronounce it as gh, saving
bgheit for brett and amougheuse for
amoureuse, and so on. Thus fate recon-
Giles the victors and vanquished at Sedan
Across the channel the same consonant
gives trouble. We have all heard of
class of people who are supposed to say
''Weally. deah boy" and so on and all
the Saxon area in England has this disabiI-
ity. 1t comes across the Atlantic, and
New York and Brooklyn have invented a
new evasion of r, worse than anything
Chinaman, Pole. Prussian. Partisan and
eockney have ever attained. They say
"foyst," 'thoyd.'' for first, third and
boyd, skoyt, noyse, oyth. doyt, boyth,"
for bird, skirt, nurse. earth, dirt, birth !"
in all of which a Scotchman, for instance,
would pronounce a pure r. In their case
think. this is the influence of the Dutch
up Of New Amsterdam breaking through,
but whatever it is. it is horrible, and should
be stopped by legislative intervention.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
A German Officer of the Roers.


From the London Sketch
Col Schiel's name Is probably more IA
miifar to Englishmen than that of any
other officer of the Boer army, with the
possible exceptions of Joubert and Cron,a
There Is a certain element of mystery
about his career. but it appears that after
serving in the German army he left If
with the rank of sergeant and emisfa ted
to South Africa. For some reason or other
he. like many other contiuentaIs has
an intense hatred of England and English
men, ana has never missed an opportunity
of doing US a bad turn. He served as an
instructor In tactics with the Zulu army.
under Cetewayo, in the war of 1879 which
ended with Ulundi, and at the conclusion
of hostilities the British government offer
ed reward for his capture
We next hear of him in the Transyaal
as an artillery officer and II Is said the
forts at Pretoria and Johannesburg were
constructed under his direction Indeed.
he Is credited in some quarters with the
authorship of the Boer plan of campaign
in Natal. However that may be- he was
wounded at Elandslaagte, and, with other
Boer officers, fell into our hands For
safe custody he has since been placed on
beard her majesty's ship Penelope in ST.
mons bay. and his precise status as prts-
oner of war yet remains to be determined.
AT the beginning Of the war he asked the
kaisers blessing on his ENTERPRISE, and,
being unsuccessful in obtaining it, has be-
come our prisoner. Whatever his faults
from our point of view-may be, he Is I'M
doubtedly clever and accomplished SOL
der and fine-looking man.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
KILLS WITHOUT HITTING.
The Lyddite Shell Used by the British
Forces I'm South Africa.
From M,p,ra,I rIo..,s


Forces I'm South Africa.
From the Montreal Herald
What is lyddfte? The high explosive thus
called from the name of the small Kentish
town and gunnery center where the expert
ments with 1t We're made is nothing less
than picric acid brought into a dense state
by fusion Picric acid is a bright yellow
substance freely used in peaceful industries
FOR dyeing purposes. 1t is obtained by the
action of nitric acid on phenol or carbolic
acid. 1t burns very Violently, and owing to
the tremendous blast produced by the ex-
plosion the destructive effect of a bursting
shell filled with 1t is some eleven times
greater than that of a shell filled with
powder.
Common shells of forged steel filed with
iyddite are used with and 92-inch breech-
ioadlng guns, and with howitzers; also with
to 6-inch quick-firing gurs Now we have
none Of the first mentioned for land service
proper, guns of precision up at the front:
neither nave We yet dispat ched any of our
neid noWitzer batteries. Therefore the lyd-
cite smells OF which Joubert complains must
have been fired from the to 6-fnch QUICK
firing guns which the naval brigade SO on
portunely brought with them. In fact the
nghtlng around Ladysmith on Monday Oc-
tober 80 must have witnessed the Beers
first introduction to lyddite, for the common
shells fired by our field hatteries-and nm till
then the enemy had not had to face any
other KIND OF gun-are not charged with it,
but with powder
All lyddite shells are equipped with per-
cussion nose fuses only; hence their ex-
plosion takes place OF impact in the follow
ing fashion: The percussion fuse ignites a
picric powder exploder. which in turn ig-
mites the bursting charge of lyddite, the
detonatfon of the fuse and of the two ex-
plosives inside the shell being instanta-
neous The picric powder exploder, we
should add, is inserted in a recess left in
the lyddite for that purpose. Lyddite shell
Is to some extent less barbarous than shrap-
mel exploded by powder, for, though wide
spread, its death-dealing effects are due
more 10 air conclusion than to the wound
ing effects of the flying fragments In
other words. in the case of lyddite shell
bursting In a group of men, the greater
number will be killed not by pieces of the
shell, but by the blow of the suddenly com
pressed air.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
Cuttlc6sh Ink.
fneI.ondon Leader.

Cornwall Correspondence tne-Kandon Leader.
The cuttlefsh are caught in great num-
bers off this coast and are used as a bait
for the conger eel. for which this part of
the world is celebrated. The cuttlefish pos
sesscs no real mouth, but has long, cyiin-
drical sucker with which 1t adheres firmly
to the bait. The method of capturing the
fish is as follows: A long line from which
are suspended from two hundred to three
hundred hooks baited with portions of
piichards (almost the only bait the cuttIe-
fish will take) is let down into the sea and
allowed to stop there for about half an
hour; 1t is then drawn up, and the cuttIe-
fish are found hanging by means of their
suckers to the bait.
The moment that they leave the water
they eject with considerable force a great
quantity of deep, black. viscous substance
which is about the consistency of treacle.
and the stain made by it upon the clothes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
RECENT PRICES FOR OLD MASTERS.
Very Few Paintings which Have
Reached Fonr Figures.

FROM the aEigiZIue OF Art.
Since the Dudley sale of 1892 no really
choice collection OF Old masters has come
under the hammer in this country, and
the prices pad for the few Isolated exam
pies which have been offered for sale
would seem to Indicate that the taste for
this class of composition is not what i,
once was. This is, perhaps. inconelusive
evidence as TO a decline in taste. for an
indifferent specimen gains as largely by
beng sold In such 4 collection as the Dud-
ley as it loses by being sandwiched be-
tween a medley Of the old and the new
Very few of the Old masters have dur
ing 1S3S reached four figures. The most
important of all was the splendid Rem
brandt portrait of Nicholas Ruts. which in
the Rus.on sale brought 5000 guineaS or
5000 guineas more than were realized at
the Adrian Hope sale four years before.
A Rube1s, "R"rnse of-the Holy Family.
juno - sold for 200 guineas. Sir
John Nfiliais' poetical example of Van
GyCk, II NE CT piping the Wings Of Love
sold for so @lineas. or nearly four times
the price a which 1t was acquired at the
Rlenheim sale in 1885: but the fact that 1t
n great favorite of the late P. R. A,
written guarantee from his hand, gave IT
all interest and importance which It
might not otherwise have had.
The Ruston sale included an example of
Van Dyck. also frcn the Blenheim coIlec-
ton. a Virgin Child" which sold for
1000 guineas, or Just double the amount
it fetched in 1886. There were also two
Van Dycks in the highly interesting series
of family portraits from Billion Hall (sold
June 2!). formerly the residence of Joseph
Addison and his wife, the Countess of War
Wick-these portraits are said 20 have been
brought to Bitten Hall from Holland House
and these were whole lengths of Prince
Rupert and Prince Maurice. his younger
brother. and they realized 40 guncas and
$50 guineas. respectively.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09
memories of Japan.'

A Picture in the Japanese Collection Exhibi-
ton NJ the Detroit Museum of Art.
Mariana Cobb in the Detroit Free Press
hear the echo of temple-gong
Far Lf and mellow; sudden of song
Rise bird-lfke in the dusk Of coming night
A dainty. undesirable delight
Under that gnarled old tree l stand and hreafh he
The perfume OF the cherry blooms that wreathe
Its boughs, remembering things / never knew
Because feel that all you tell is true.
never Japan. / never beard
Its music. temple gong or note of bird
/ never stood beside its lotus beds
And saw them lift their queen-Iike stately heads.
And yet, who can the mystery divine:
Its music and its memories mine
Is 1t because your pencil has put in
The common touch that makes the world akfns
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

In the course of a public, discussion on
women's dress at Berlin the other day,
Prof. Rubner condemned the long skirt as
frequent cause of accidents and as pro-
moter of neuralgia pains, which were
brought on by constantly holding up the
dress. Prof Brockmueller, the artist, while
not denying the gracefulness in general of
trains, pointed out that in any quick move
ment the effect was the reverse of grace
ful: and recommended short dresses, espe-
cially at dances Nine Seller adyoea ted the
short skirts because 1t was unworthy of
women to yield to a fashion which made
the wearer slave to her garments, and
because the short skirts made those who
wore them look younger. In the end the
meeting resolved by large majority that
long walking dresses are irreconcilabie with
the modern requirements OF hygiene lib
erty of movement and beauty
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-12-09

From the Boston Transcript
A field OF work for women which seems
especially suited to them is the profession
of trained librarians. and as yet II is by no
means overcrowded as many of the
others to which they are called. There are
thousands of public libraries in the United
States. besides private. reference and coll
lege and school libraries. and in all of these
there is said to be an increasing demand
for the services of graduates OF library
training schools. There are three of these
large training schools in the United States
and all of them are open to women on
equal terms with men. At the largest OF
them preference is given college gradu-
ates. and a thorough high-school education
10 essential for all candidates.