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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26
COUNTRY REAL ESTATE

FOR SALE-2UJ ACHES. WELL. IMPROVED: EN-
celleut lsLd: we'll wd,ered tue dairy farm; 81.
miles from city. Price, $500. Box Ill Star
office. au263ts
FOR DESIRABLE FARM. HALF MILE
from railroad station. at Laurel. Md.
+. Z. PHILPITT,
au1O-lms I36s 4 st n w
FOR SAIE,-A FINE STOCK OR DAIRY FARM OF
ZIG acres: one mile fiom MI Vernon estate Va :
one Eilt and hall from II. X. station: thirteen
miles from Washington u G; 100 acres under
good state OF cultivation. divided into fields
well fenced. each accessible to d never ling
Stream of water running through the farm: bal
hnce SO acres In wood large house and tarn and
other necessary ouIhuiidings In excellent renair:
or will trade for cnincuml,ered city property hay
in. clear title. D. W BAIII\:ER
SOME VERY BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY PLACES
including two three valuable stock farms Of
800 to 800 acres. within easy reach Of Washing.
ton: WM. II. SAUNDERS CO.. l4o7 St
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26

EDGEwORTH BOARDING AND DAY SCHOOL
Mrs H. +. fEFEBVRE. Principal.
Miss Z. ID. HUNTLEY, Associate Principal.
122 and l24 W., Franklin ST.. Baltimore, Nd
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-26

ST GEORGES HALL FOR BOYS. ST. GEORGES,
baltimore. Md. ]. c. kinear, A NJ. prin.,
Path year: established reputation; primary.
demic and business courses; individual inStruc-
ton; building: home comforts; surprising
advantages. jy29-s&w, CIV
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
WHAT PRESIDENTS COST.

New York Herald: Presidents
come high, but we have got to have
them 1t costs us $114,865 a year
foT a chief executive His salary is
$4,000 and found" as our Western
neighbors say. The presidents find
ing is rather comprehensive, cover
ing about every possible requirement
of family. His private secretary,
tie clerks, doorkeepers, messengers
and steward, and three other servants
cost us $33,865 year Then there is
contingent fund of $4,000 a year,
which the president may use accord
ing to his discretion.
In furniture and repairs to the
white house the sum of $4,000 more,
to be used by the discretion of the
president, is provided by the nation
and is always expended. For fuel
alone $4,000 is allowed, and for neces-
sary repairs to the greenhouse there
is $4,000
Altogether, the presidential find
ing annually amounts to the snug
sum of $64,865, nearly $4,000 year
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
DOMESTIC.

Chicago May wheat, 725sc.
A bad fire occurred at Alma, Wis.
The Ishpeming mining strike ended.
The Fitzsimmons-Jeffri fight is off.
Ex-senator Tabor is dead at Denver.
Iron workers in Chicago engaged in
riot.
Minneapolis defeated Chicago at
whist.
Floods begin in southern Minnesota
and Wisconsin.
Twelve lives were lost in a flood al
Glendive, Mont.
Census Director Merriam fixed the
enumeration districts.
L. V. Brockius of Canton, Ohio, died
of paralysis, aged 73 years.
The Arkansas antitrust law threat
ems to destroy labor organizations.
Commencement Orations were abol-
ishGd at the University of Minnesota.
The Northern Pacific car shops at
Man6an, N. D., were partially burned
Former Supreme Court Justice Ste
phen J. Field died at Washington
&ged SO.
Pr6Slu0nG- 1nuIU0I Vi lie OnIISO
States Export association argued in
favor of trusts.
NJ K. Brown, president of the Chi
cago city railway, died from an opera
ton for appendicitis
Almon NJ Clapp, at one time United
States government printer, died in
Washington, aged SO years.
Leading churches in Columbus, O..
have decided to enforce a rule that
ladies must remove their hats.
The c. c. Washburn Touring mills
in Minneapolis are bought by the
Washburn-C Crosby company.
Andrew Carnegie by selling a vacant
block on Fifth avenue, New York
made 100000 in four months.
France presented to the American
people. two beautiful Sevres vases as
a pledge of sympathy and friendship
The Kansas farmers have formed ?
trust. They propose to hold thei,
wheat in order to force a higher price
The Chicago election commissioners
have completed the official count OF
the ballots cast at the mayoralty cleo
ton. Harrison received 148,412 Car
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
CABLE CULLINGs.

A heavy storm is raging on the coast
of Great Britain.
Russian troops, it is said, have been
distributed all over Manchuria.
The Nationalist were victorious in
the county council elections in Ire
land
The last three ''invincibles' in
prison in Ireland are to be liberated
soon.
Americans with social aims spend
at least $10,00O,0OO in London every
season.
London's epidemic of grip has al
most brought social functions to a
standstill
The initial issues of the two
pioneers in London Sunday journalism
appeared.
Admiral Kautz says German Con-
sui General Rose at Samoa grossly in
suited him.
The Spanish war estimates for the
coming year show an increase of
5,000,000 pesetas.
Emperor William is said to- have de-
Samoa unwarranted.
Tartars, driven by famine, have
arisen in the province of Kason,
southeastern Russia.
President Loubet of France visited
his native town of Montelimar and
was enthusiastically received.
Gambling has grown to such a craze
in London it has resulted in several
scandals in fashionable clubs.
: G. ~ E. Eliot is appointed British
member of the joint commission to
settle the Samoan difficulty.
The fighting in Samoa, according to
the latest advices, continues. Malietoa
Tanus has been crowned king.
The French roller boat Ernest
Bazin was offered at auction at Liver
pool, but there were no bidders.
The Jamaicans will demand restora-
ton of the ;. autonomous constitution
or annexation to the United States.
Military movements are noticeable
in the northern provinces of Spain in
connection with the Carlists's threat
ened uprising.
British manufacturers will charge
Lord Kitchener with. changing speci-
1cations of the Atbara bridge to favor
Americans.
It is announced that Great Britain
will formally occupy her new terri
tory of KowLoon, adjoining Hong
Kong, on April II.
Strange flight of the princess of
Wales from Ciyita Vecchia to Copen-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
WEALTH OF PERTO RICO.

The mineral possibilities of Porto
Rico are unsolyed problems, but the
known factors do not hold forth great
promise to the Spectator or investor.
Viewed in the light of scanty dis
coveries made on the other islands,
where the earth disturbances took
place on a more gigantic scale, and
whereof at any point in this great
range-valuable minerals should have
formed in natures crucible, the pos
sible resources in rare minerals are
not promising. Iron ore of good
quality has been found atseveral places
on the island. 1t may be that asphalt
tum will be discovered in paying
quantities. Coal is said to occur in
tiny will very likely prove it to be
Ignite. A mineral fuel, it may be
said incidentally, located in this
region, would be a great industrial
blessing, for the scanty supply of
wood at the prevailing high price will
make it necessary to import coal in
great quantities, if the present in
dustrles are to make much expan-
sion in the future. Gold has been
found in many of the mountain
streams, notably in the Loquillo
mountains in the northeast, under
the towering peak of Ell Yunque. In
the seventies a French company Sc
cured privileges from the Spanish
government to wash gold from the
streams near Rio Grande, but the
work was soon abandoned-it is said,
because of failure to find placer gold
in paying quantities. No motherhood
has SO far been located in this range,
which may yet disclose wealth under
the searching eyes Of prospectors.
This year a number of parties have
been securing the upper heights of Ell
Yunque, and rumors of finds are in
the air. In the tributaries to the
Rio Cibua, near Corozal, some fifteen
miles southwark of San Juan, gold
has been washed from the streams by
the natives, and often the San Juan
merchants purchase very small
amounts of gold-dust in exchange for
store goods. The method pursued by
the natives in securing this gold, it is
related, is primitive in the extreme,
being obtained by diving into the
water and bringing the sand from the
bottom in their clinched hands, pam
ing it out afterwards on the banks of
the stream. Numbers of other min
erals are named-none of them, so
far as known, appearing paying guam
titles Copper, lead, garnet, and
others of lesser Importance are en-
umerated. Fine quartz crystals and
agates have been picked up in many
stream beds, and small blocks of mica
are said to occur in the streams of the
southern watershed of 81 Yunque.-
Harper's Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
CHOOSING A HUSBAND.

A girl thinking seriously of her fu-
ture husband does not lay any great
stress on good temper A soldiers
form, pair of fine eyes, a noble pro-
file-any of these might easily out
weigh good temper. Yet Mr. Smiles
assures us that after the first year
married people rarely think of each
others features, whether they be cIas~
sically beautiful or otherwise; but
they never fail to be cognizant of each
others temper" AS to a husbands
fortune it is not so important as the
qualities which lead to fortune-am-
bition, determination, industry, thrift
and position such a man may attain
for himself. In education a man
should be at least his wife's equal
Undoubtedly there. is some subtle
affinity between opposits. Yet there
must be likeness as we'll and unlike
ness. The latter will lend piquance
which is pleasant, but the former will
give peace which is essential. At first
love itself will be all-sufficing, but a
little later the individual characters
tics reassert themselves, and then in
the absence of comprehension and
sympathy in ones pet tastes and
theories a barrier springs up, slight,
unconfessed perhaps, but nevertheless
impossible, and in one sense at least
man and wife are not lone" but
distinctly "tWo.'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
GOOD FOR A COLD.

An excellent drink for anyone suf-
fering from cold or even the cough
that comes with the grip, is flaxseed
lemon. It is simply made. Take four
tablespoonfuls of fiaxseed and over
them pour a quart of boiling water.
Let this steep for three hours, when
the top should be poured off. leaving
the f1axseed in the bottom of the pitch
en- If the liquidFis too thick, it can be
thinned a little with cold water. Add
the juice of two lemons and sugar to
taste 1t is a very pleasant drink and
will loosen the cold.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
ELECTRICAL MACHINERY.

A bridge of 900-foot span at Buda-
Pesth is being erected entirely by
means Of electrical machinery. The
iron Orders used as piles to keep the
water back from the excavations for
the shore pillars were driven in by an
electric ram. The ram was ham
mer rising thirty-four feet, with a
velocity of twelve feet per second.
The SOL out of the holes was raised
by an electric MINDLESS. The water
was removed by seven centrifugal
pumps, working day and night The
five-inch diameter pumps were driven
by ten-horse power motors, the eight-
inch by sixteen-horse power motors
and one nine-inch by twenty horse.
power motor.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
THE EVILS OF OVER EDUCATION

1t your boys tastes are not scholarly
you may make him miserable trying
+ to force a love for learning. He will
go through the books, and the books
will go through him; there is no as
similation. After all, what are our
children being educated for? The
boys are to be bread-winners. They
must hurry through and hustle for a
living. The girls-let us believe it.
are the future home-makers The
word helpmeet is obsolete-left behind
with the woman who made Eden Para
disc. Constantly the question is being
brought up, Shall this and that be
added to our public schools?'' But
who asks, Can the scholars endure
any more?' They have no protests or
petition; they must stand like human
vessels ready to be filled to the brim
with mixtures of facts. I plead for a
childhood OF the soul as we'll as of the
body, for the free air, the blessed sun
shine, the moderate task ended at the
school house. This night young heads
are leaning against their mothers,
tired as no young things should ever
be, and it is a sorrowful sound to hear
g child waking from what might be
the sunny slumber of a light heart
beating to healthful music to ask in
troubled voice, ''Do you think [ can
make the pass grader" 1t is said that
they like to go to school. Yes, and
they would like it twice as we'll if
there were only half as much to learn
Many children have l known, but not
one who loved study for it's own sake.
Companionsip is what lures them. In
stead of wandering up and down the
wilderness of Wintry facts, let them
loiter while among the dear illusions.
The happy valley of childhood is but
narrow, where the golden water bab-
bles to the talking bird and the singing
tree, where the sun always shines and
the years are summers. They who ad-
just the load that presses so heavily
on the springs of life have much to &C
count for. Mrs. Lew Wallece in La
dies Home Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
Wall Paper and Diseases.

cdr Chanel Of Cornell University"
observes the Kansas City Times in an
editorial article March 8, 'has made an
announcement which is calculated to
cause a slump in the market for stock
of the wall paper trust. The doctor says
that he has made chemical analysis of
a large number of samples of wall pa
per, and in nearly all of them has found
arsenical poisons, in some Of them the
poison existing in surprising quantities.
He was led to make the investigation
By having brought to his attention a
number Of cases of sickness which were
traced to paper covered rooms. 1t is to
be presumed that, in the future, houses,
in order to be classed as strictly mod
ern,' will have to have frescoed walls.
while on the subject of wall paper,
the Cornell scientist would confer a
favor upon mankind by pursuing his
investigation further 1t would be in
teresting as well as instructive to know
what per cent of the inmates of insane
asylums owe their mental condition to
their having been compelled to live in
rooms whose walls were covered with
realistic pOrtraitures of an opium smOk-
er's dream. Some of the designs which
are alleged to make living rooms coy
and hOmelike resemble nothing so much
as the efforts of a dissipated artist to
reproduce the experiences OF an attack
Of the delirium tremens."
Alabastine, the rOck-base cement for
coating walls, is free from these Objec-
tons. 1t is sanitary and costs less than
wall paper.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
WINDMILL 200 YEARS OLD.

One of the oldest windmills of the
marshes of Norfolk, England, where
the marsh country is often very
beautiful, is quaint. Its wooden tower
still defes the strength of the winter
winds which sweep across the low
lands from the sea, but two of it's
canvas frame sails are gone, and those
that remain are fast falling into decay
For 200 years it has been one of the
safeguards of the adjoining meadows.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
SPANISH-AMERICAN AFFAIRS.


Filipinos were frustrated in an at
tempt to sneak through the American
lines.
1t is reported that Admiral Sampson
may command a flying squadron to be
sent to England.
General Macarthur is about to re-
sumo his aggressive movement against
the Filipinos.
Secretary .Alger left Ponce, Porto
Rico, for San Juan.
A rebellion in the Philippine island
of Negroes was promptly quelled.
The exchange of peace treaty ratifi-
cations took place in Washington.
Gomez was reinstated as command
er-in-chief of the Cuban army.
General Gomez has come out for the
absolute independence of Cuba, to be
effected as soon as possible.
A large additional number of army
officers testified that the governments
beef was unwholesome or worse.
The volunteers serving under Gen
eraI Macarthur at Malolos are being
equipped with Krag-Jorgensen rifles.
Aguinaldo has published decree
that Spanish shall be the official Ian
guage throughout the archipelago.
Admiral Dewey again announces
that under no circumstances will he
become a candidate for the presidency
Rumors are about that either Gen
eral Lee or General Wood will succeed
General Brooke as governor general Of
Cuba.
Wounded northwestern soldiers, in
GLIDING six members of the thirteenth
Minnesota, reached San Francisco
from Manila.
General Lawton advanced upon the
Philippine rebels south Of Manila, the
North Dakota regiment being attached
to his command.
Colonel Smith, governor of the is
land of Negros, reports that the forces
of Papaissio, leader Of the revolution
lists there, have been defeated.
A respite in the active hostilities in
the neighborhood of Manila is probable
in order to give the natives an oppor.
tunity to digest the American procla-
nation.
General Miles counsel furnished the
court of inquiry with a letter from
Armour & Co. to Commissary General
Egan proposing to use the Powell
process for preserving beef
Former Commissary General Egan
may be arraigned before court-mar-
tial in connection with the evidence
taken by the court of inquiry which is
investigating the beef scandal
The president, members of the cabi-
net, prominent army officers and a
crowd estimated at $4,000 people, wit
messed the ceremonies at Arlington
when the interment of the remains of
soldiers killed in Cuba and Porto Rico
was begun.
Upon investigation Acting Secretary
Meikeliohn decided there was no neces-
sity to cable General Brooke regarding
the confiscation of supplies at Ha-
vana, as, General Brooke and his Off
GERS have ample authority to deal with
such matters.
Less than 1000 volunteer United
States troops remain in Cuba. The de-
partment is availing itself of every re-
source to get these men out before the
rainy season, and yesterdays report
was that this can be completely accom-
plished by the 25th of the present
month
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17

and was the guest of the Hamilton
club at it's annual Appomattox day
banquet.
Thomas J. Havemeyer died at
Throggs Neck, N. Y, aged So years, of
hemorrhage of the brain. He was a
brother of Henry O. and Theodore A.
Havemeyer, and was formerly in part
nership in the sugar business with
them.
Pullman palace sleeping car rates
between Chicago and the Pacific coast
have been reduced from $3.50 to S14.
This cdt is made to meet the lower
charges lately put into effect between
ST. Paul and Seattle by the Great
Northern road.
William Whist, editor of the German
Herold of Denver, is dead at the age
of GA years. He had been ailing from
complication of diseases several
weeks but was improving, when his
wife died suddenly of apoplexy, He
survived her only tWentyfOur hours.
A committee representing southern
societies interested in an encampment
to be held at Falls Church, Va, in
June, under the auspices of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy, invited the
president to attend. President Nc
Kinley promised to do so if he were
here.
At Frankfort, KY, the grand jury
is Investigating charges of bribery in
connection with the democratic con-
vention, which nominated Bud Nc
Cord for railway commissioner for the
second district of Kentucky. It is
expected that there will be two indict-
ments.
A special from San Antonio says:
News has been received from DeYine,
in Media county, that Spanish treas
ure of over 10000 doubloons, jewelry
and documents has been unearthed
there. The name of the finder is not
given, but the story is vouched for by
reliable people.
Eugene V. Brewster announced the
list of speakers for the Chicago plat
form dinner at The Grand Central Pal
ace, April Is. The list includes Will
lam J. Bryan, Superior Court Justice
William J. Gaynor, Of Brooklyn:
George Fred Williams of Massachu-
setts; Charles A. Towne and John F.
Crosby.
At Cincinnati, District Attorney
Bundy received instructions from At
torney General Griggs to bring suit
restraining the Baltimore and Ohio
railway from reconstructing it's bridge
across the Ohio river between Bellaire,
Ohio, and Kenwood, w. Va, on the
ground that the proposed plans were
an obstruction to navigation.
The National Chair Manufacturers
Association met to adopt a new scale
Of prices. While they would not give
information concerning their meeting,
they would not deny that a substantial
rise in the price of the product had
been made. No announcement was
made concerning the extent of the ad-
vance, or the date upon which it is to
become effective
The state department. received the
formal invitation from the government
of The Netherlands to participate in
the disarmament conference to be hela
at The Hague beginning May 18. Up
to this time the only thing in the ma
ture of an invitation issued to the pow
ers was the letter from. the car, and
it is understood that some friction,
caused by the objection of the italian
government to the extension of an in
vitation to the pope to participate, has
delayed the issue of the formal invita-
tons.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17

more than his"salary The two ag-
gregate, but it is small compared with
other presidents. The president of
the French republic receives as salary
100000 a year, s32,4SO for contingent
purposes and a handsome house, rent
free. So we get our president rather
cheaCIy, after all.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
NOT RESPONSIBLE.

Winks-Don't you think editors and
reporters ought to be required to sign
their names to their articles?
Jinks-No. Editors and reporters
are not responsible for what they
write.
WHO are, them"
'GThe people who buy the papers y
New York Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17
THE HARDEST LUCK OF ALL.

Beggar (pathetically)-Ah, mister,
wot kin be worse than haYin no home
ter go ter?
Citizen (unsteadily)- Nuzzin, my
friend--nuzzin'- 'cept havin a home
that you've got to go to.-Pniladelphia
Inquirer
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-04-17

Ethel-That detestable Mrs. Bloom
said that | looked 30.
Maud-How perfectly absurd!
Ethel (elated) Frankly, now, how
old do you really think look?
Maud-About 40, dear. -Tft-Bits.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1899-10-21
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