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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Size of Apple Barrels.

This question was troubling fruit
growers thirty years ago. At the win
ter meeting of the Western New York
Society in 1867, resolution was
passed-''That the present law regu-
lating the size of fruit barrels is rea-
sonable and just, and ought not to be
repealed; that the legal barrel will hold
as many pounds Of wheat as the -four
barrel does Of flour; that fruit keeps
better and is handled easier than in
large sized barrels and ought to be sat
isfactory to all concerned; that our SEN
ators and representatives in the Legis-
lature be requested to oppose any re-
peal of the present law, which estab-
fishes 100 quarts as legal barrel"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
me Wind of the Night.

rhf winds at the easement o wind
O. the night!
20 you envy this shelter-this flicker
ing light?
You have stormed the pale stars from
the heaven above
Would you hound this lone hearth,
with it's ashes of love?
Far-far be your flight,
o wind O. the night,
To the terrible seas, with their pillows
of White;-
To the fearful seas, where the black
skies frown,
And the gray gulls scream as the ships
go down!
Fast in flight
o wind O. the night,
From the ashes of love and the bAan-
tom of light!
II.
The wind at the easement. 0 wind O.
the night,
Beat down the rude portals IN Wratn
and in might!
You have blown the bleak stars from
the heaven above:-
Wreak your rage ON this hearth, with
the ashes of love!
Nay, wing not your flight,
o wind O the night,
To the seas where the drowned souls
are shrouded in white;
For the seas they lie east, and the seas
they lie west:
But the stOrmiest seas in the human
breast!
Stay your flight,
o wind O the night
Here are ashes of love for you-embers
of light!
The winds at the easement. o wind
O the night,
Toss DER my bleak bosom lost tresses
of light!
Reveal through the Clouds through
the shrouds O. the skies,
The smile on her dear lips-the light
of her eyes!
I am weary tonight
AS your wings in their flight
For the fall of her beautiful tresses of
light!
For the seas they lie east, and the
seas they lie west,
But they bring her no more to the love
of my breast!
Stay your flight!
o wind O. the night
Here are ashes of love for you-embers
of light!
r. L. STANTON.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
A About Wheat Bread,

The so-called wheaton bread diet has
received considerable attention from
scientists recently and the great good
that was to follow from the excessive
use of whole wheat bread is not with
out it's drawbacks According to recent
investigators, the whole wheat bread
contains, along with it's highly nutri-
tious matter, a large quantity of earthly
matter which acts unfavorably upon
persons advanced in years. An excess
sive use of such bread consequently in
duces rheumatism, paralysis, asthma,
locomotor ataXia and even diseases Of
the brain. Thus the average person:
finds himself placed between two evils.
His only escape seems to be to go back
to the good old way of eating mixed
diet, avoiding extremes in everything.
A little intelligent care in avoiding too
much starchy food will suffice for the
average person, and in the majority of
cases will produce better health than
an exclusive diet of some, one thing.
Such a diet should be adopted only
upon the recommendation of a ply
sician. At least that is the conclusion
of recent scientific discussions of the
subject of dietary reform.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Dairy Wisdom.

Never churn in a cold room
Do not fill the churn more than one
third full.
If the cream is not stirred frequently
and thoroughly, it will not ripen even
ly, consequently the churning cannot
be thorough.
Be sure the temperature of the cream
is right, which should be from 65 to 20
degrees, according to the condition Of
the cream.
Test the skimmilk and buttermilk,
not once, but frequently, and by close
study conditions can be controlled that
there will be no loss.
A dairyman can suffer severe loss in
this way-enough or more perhaps
than to pay for the services of COM
petent assistant in the business.
In some conditions it might ripen
more rapidly near the sides of the can
or vat, in others near the middle, so it
must be stirred several times day.
If you find that you are losing butter
fat in the skimmilk or buttermilk, or
both, then there is a big fault in the
way you are handling your milk, and
don't rest until you find where it is.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
COULDN'T UNDERSTAND TT.
The Captive Saw How Useless IL
Would Be to Try 1t.

The Filipino warrior had resisted
taken into camp, says the Washington
Star. His terror was pitiable as his
eyes roved about the place in quest of
the instruments of torture or the
headsman outfit. But it was not long
before he adapted himself to his new
surroundings. After interviewing
some of the other Filipinos who had
been prisoners longer, and who were
consequently fatter, he became
philosophic and cheerful.
What do you think of the prospect
of civilizing these islands?' inquired
one of his captors.
.'You mean with local talent?' in
quired the warrior.
Yes. We propose to make you peo-
pie like ourselves, if you will hold still
long enough"
Its no use," was the melancholy
answer. ''YOu might as we'll give it
up. I am more convinced than ever
that our people will never be able to
adapt themselves to your peculiar Gus
TOMS"
ooh, of course, you have some weird
rites and quaint ceremonies and that
sort of thing that you will want to
cling to for awhile. 1t won't be neces-
sary to Interfere with them for a long
time"
1.-The rites and ceremonies may be
easily managed, but there are other
things to which we can't be recon
ciled"
Haven't we treated you well?"
Yes. That's the very point. Our
people will never in the world compre-
bend system that compels you to
chase an entire stranger over noun
tains and through swamps in order to
feed him and show him a good time"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
AnIdea1 Brood Coon,

Here Is a plan of good brood coop,
one that is a protection to the little
chicks from the weather, cats, rats,
hawks and other vermin. 1t can be
made of boxes, one with the top and
bottom off for the yard, and the other
with the bottom in and roof over it.
1t should set on inch pieces to keep out
the water in case it should happen to
be set in low place. The yard should
have wire netting across it to keep out
the older fowls and keep the hen in, in
case she is let out in the run. Move the
coop little each day so as to have
fresh grass and ground, and cover the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
The Cry of the Banana Vendor.

The banana-purveying Sicilian takes
his cart to the outermost bounds of
Washington during the months when
the banana steamers are dumping mil
lions of lunches of the fruit at the sea-
board wharves, and there is a note of
pleading in his cry. During the high
noon hours, when his cart is piled
high he may be simply blithe, with
his cock-sure call, "BananZ, Is centa
de duz," but when, weary and foot
sore, and with his stock only half sold,
he pushes his cart about under a sun
that is nearing the verge of the west
ern horizon, dismally crying, "Bananz,
ony fiva centa de duZ,' there is an i'm
ploring timbre in his tones that often
wins him customers in the shape Of
sympathetic persons. - Washington
Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Treasure In An Old Wreck.

Greek divers who are working on
the wreck of the Russian flagship
which was sunk in Greek waters in
ITO say that the hulk of the vessel is
literally filled with gold and silver
coins. The. attempt of the divers is
directed only to the gold coins, of
which sos, 1000 has already been re-
covered and the sum is being largely
added to every day.
The divers say that the bottom of
the sea about the wreck is heaped with
silver pieces of thu size of dollar,
together with Jewels, swords and other
articles of value.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
High LIGHTS,

Talent is ability to work; genius is
ability to quit.
About the meanest inanimate object
on earth is a poor lead pencil.
Self-conceit is a good armor; embar-
ity.
The man who is down on nonsense
isn't necessarily full of wisdom him
self.
In looking for wrinkles on older peo-
pie, remember that you are coming to
them yourself.
Men hope to have in eternity what
they might have here II they only
scrambled around lively enough.
If Shakespeare were alive now he
would look just as silly learning to ride
a wheel as any other man.-Chicago
Record.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Time to Cut Timothy.

The pollen from timothy blossoms is
very irritating to horses when it is cut
in this stage. Hence the grass is left
until the seed has formed, by which
time the stalk becomes dry and Of lit
tie feeding value. The very best timo-
thy hay for horses is made when this
grass begins to send up it's seed stalk.
But it has not the weight or substance
that later cutting will give. This is
one reason why timothy hay needs Sc
much grain to be fed with it to make
it good feed for horses.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Harding Cows at Nighf.

The practice Of bringing COWS up at
night is not a good one. 1t is far bet
ter to leave them in the pasture and
milk them there, even though it makes
more labor. In hot weather the cows,
if allowed their freedom, will Craze
during the evening and early morning
while dew is in the grass and will then
lie down to digest what they have
eaten. If yarding of COWS is done at
any time in summer it should be in the
middle of the day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13

in the whole routine of strawberry cul-
ture. Having tried fully half dozen
different plans, none of which was at
all satisfactory, a Rural New Yorker
correspondent concluded that large,
keen edged, rolling disk would be the
simplest and most effective solution Of
the problem. At scrap iron dealers
he found fine, large 13-inch disk and
frame, or fork, all complete and bought
it for 25 cents. That is the entire cost
in money of the strawberry runner
cutter shown in the illustration, the
handles being worked out and put on
in the home workshop.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Teaching Colts to Eat Oats.

Wherever it is necessary, as it often
is, to work the mare while the colt is
unweaned it is usual to shut up the
colt in box stall and without food or
drink. This is unnecessary cruelty. If
a little clover hay is placed where the
colt can nibble at it, he will soon learn
to eat hay, and If there is box with
a few oats in it he will learn to eat
those also. This is the more important
because if the mare becomes heated
while working, the milk may become
injurious to the colt. The clover and
oats cannot do him any harm. When
a colt has learned to eat oats he can be
weaned from the dam without any
check to his growth. It is best in most
cGeses that the liking for oats should be
taught before the colt is weaned.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
IDEAL BROOD COOP.
top with an old piece of carpet if more
shade is wanted.-Ohio Farmer.
A Spraying Outfit.

Some farmers imagine q spraying
outfit is expensive, when in fact all
that need be bought is force pump
with half inch hose to reach up into the
tree, and a Vermorel or other spray
nozzle. Place the pump In a barrel of
the mixture, load it into a wagon and
begin to spray. For reaching tall trees,
raise the hose by a piece Of bamboo
pole fastened on near the nozzle. More
work can be done with two lines of
hose with a man to handle each line.
High trees can be better sprayed if
four-foOt platform is placed in the
wagon. A fine mist is better than a
coarse spray. Try to reach the under
side of the leaves. The tree must be
wet all over, not soaked, but every part
reached in careful manner. Spray in
fair weather. Fairly good work on a
garden pump with long hose. This is
the cheapest outfit, costing only about
IS. Several good pumps especially for
spraying are made and advertised.
Either outfit with extra long hose is
good for spraying potatoes. Use paris
green in the same mixture if beetles are
present. For early blight, spray when
vines are two-thirds grown and repeat
in two weeks. For late blight, spray
in middle of June, in middle of July
and in middle of August.-Orange Judd
Farmer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
House Nerni1l.

To the housekeeper, whose daily life
is Conflict with Satan and SIM as
embodied in the encroachment of vari-
Gus species of vermin in the kitchen
and servants room, this warning of a
practical architect to women anticipa-
ting building will be both timely and
helpful. 1.-The woodwork" he says, lin
kitchens, bath rooms and servants
quarters should be reduced to a mini
num-" 1t is rank heresy using wains-
coting in the kitchen. Tiled walls and
floors are most beautiful and apprO-
pirate, but, if too expensive. use hard
plaster and paint. Even wash boards,
with a careless servants proclvities,
become the hiding and breeding places
of vermin Small holdings also are
Objectionable, and all woodwork should
be reduced to the simplest forms.s In
the hospitals of to-day there is no qnesS
ton as to doing away with every pos
sible lurking place for infectious germs,
but no one thinks of the Kitchen, which,
we have ever with U.S."
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Good Sheep Pasture.

Clovers are excellent for sheep pas
lures and a mixture of the white me-
dunn red, alsike cloyers with some
timothy can scarcely be improved upon.
Provide pure fresh water in the pas
ture and have some soiling crop, as
rape, peas or oats on hand so that any
shortage of pasture may be bridged
over.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Uses of Salt

Salt dissolved in alcohol will remove
grease spots from cloth
Z Salt in the whitewash will make it
stick better.
Brass work can be kept beautifully
bright by occasionally rubbing with
salt and vinegar.
To clean willow furniture, use salt
and water Apply it with a nail
brush, scrub well and dry thoroughly
When you give your cellar it's spring
cleaning, add little copperas water
and salt to the whitewash.
Sprinkling salt on the tops and at
he bottoms of garden walls is said to-
Seep snails from climbing up or down.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13

Mo1asses Cake for Cattle Feed.
At a late session Of the French Ma
tional Agricultural Society, Paris, a
molasses cake was exhibited which, 1t
is said had been used for cattle feed
with excellent effect. The cake is made
by Partisan, Mr.. A. Vaury, the well
known maker Of bread for the army.
Its manufacture consists in the boiling
of molasses and working 1t briskly with
mixture of corn -four and bran, when 1T
is pressed into the ordinary form Of a
cake and packed in bags for sale. The
proportions used are one-third mo-
lasses, one-third -four, one-third bran.
The suburban dairymen claimed that
in the use of this molasses cake there
are extra yield of milk and an increase
in proportion Of butter fat. The prep
er quantity in feeding should be six
to ten pounds daily, which is not in
tended as basis Of food, but as a
condiment, and to assist Digestion
National Provisioner.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13

A high tree short distance from a
dwelling house often acts as an eff
cient protector from lightning. The tree
is full of sap and this makes better
conductor than the dry walls Of a
house. 1t is very rarely the case that
live trees are rent by lightning strokes
The rending usually is some dead por-
ton of the tree that the electricity can
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13


A very well behaved lid for kitchen
utensils is the patent Of New York
City man. This lid has the excellent
quality Of always being squafely on.
the particular utensil to~which it be-
longs, when it is desired that it should
be on, and when it is Wanted off 1t al
ways is swinging @Fer the kettle so
that the cotents may be viewed or
poured off. Furthermore, it always
travels in the exclusive company of
the kettle and never displays provok-
ing inclination to get away and hide
in remote corners of the kettle closet.
The lid is connected to the handle by
a system Of wires having a fulcrum
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
The Lard Press,

Farmers who slaughter four or more
hogs each year should have lard
press. A considerable number do use
them, but very many do not. A good
press will last lifetime or longer, and
during this period it will greatly in
crease the lard product. In many cases
the difference amounts to the lard pro-
duct Of single hog.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Recipe for Cleaning silver.

Instead of rubbing with prepared
chalk for hours, the silver service may
be cleaned in few minutes quite as,
effectively. After each meal the silver
should be put in a small dish-pan, kept
for that purpose, and covered with,
lukewarm water, to which table
spoonful of powdered borax has been
added, then taken out Immediately and,
laid on a soft cloth, and each piece
rubbed with a piece of chamois skin.
The borax removes the tarnish quickly.
Some prefer having the water as hot
as your hands can bear it, and rub the
silver quickly while the water is hot
and put away out of the light. News
papers are excellent for shining up sill
yer, even better than the chamois skin.
S. H., in Epitomist.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13

) NOT WHILE HE LIVED. (

L worked with the gang IN Nine FITS
colliery about fifteen years back, and
there was one man there who hailed
from South Wales as I got pretty
friendly with.
I've called him man, but l don't
know the title comes right. He was
more like a stunted boy than man,
ana more like some sort of a queer
animal than either. He had monstrous
large head and shoulders, and a pair
of little, bowed. twisted legs, no big
ger than child's of nine years old.
I've said we were pretty friendly,
but l don't know as | was anything
more than civil to him.
He was clever and could speak Eng
lish as we'll as any of us. He had
been two years or more at the Nine
Pits and he brought some money with
him when he came. for he had a cot
tage of his own and a tidy piece of
garden, which was above what the
rest of us had.
There wasn't a man OF six feet
amongst RS stronger than he was. To
have seen him swing his pick would
make you hold your breath. He
could walk. you see, down some of
the narrow low galleries, where chaps
like we would have to crawl
/ lived along with my father and
sister then. We were precious poor,
and father used to say he hoped Hetty
would marry someone able to keep her
and so give us lift that way.
One day a new hand came to the pit,
I'M apxunn6 Inv Goo him 0n
Sunday going to chapel, clean and
smart, as straight as a pole, with his
blue eyes looking so frank and smiling,
and you'd say he looked Il picture.
He struck up a mighty affection for
me before he had been a month in the
gang. He told me all about his friends
and such-like. most confidential, and l
found out he had to keep his mother
and hadn't siX-pence he could call
his own.
Well, one day. remember it as
clear as yesterday-it was between the
lights on a September evening, l was
smoking my pipe in our back room
father was out of the house-when l
heard voices in the other room across
the passage. 1t was Matty and my
sister talking together.
Matty was the dwarf. He had a
long Welsh name, but we called him
"Matty" in the general way, because
of his rough hair, and he didn't seem
to mind the joke.
Il love you! he says to Hetty. GIVE
loved you ever since I've seen you.
Won't you marry me? I'd be a good
husband to YOU"
Marry you?" she says. "Why,
Matty you must be dreaming! OF
course | won't
He was silent for minute; then he
saws: I'm stunted and crooked. L
know. but l love you better than any
other man will ever love you, and I've
omfortable home to offer you.
IF YOU had twenty homes | would
have YOU" she answered quick.
kzs.sy no more about it.
short and saya gen e. -
/ IN -uNNtf, me. Do you think
sSsGit~WV Jim Marwood has
!, 10 you think you
aa ~ Sour stomach. Heart While I'm alive!'
be, Diarrhoea, summer Coz that has got my
s,e oSi not remeda agent n. and I'm not
il cure fever and ague, q re you or any
.larious. bilious and other few -onr Gotta oe
ADWAI,s PILLsh 50 auicke' soui 'o
4ce go cents per bottle. Sold by
RADWAY s. Co., New Yo
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13
Serving the New Potatoes.

Many of the new potatoes are aggra-
vatingly small, but they may be served
most deliciously when buttered and
Drowned Pick out the smallest FROM
the basket, wash them and rub off TIE
skins with a coarse cloth. Put into
saucepan with boiling water and salt;
let them boil until tender, then drain
off the water and set them at one end
Of the range, until thoroughly dry, and
Just before serving brown in hot but
ter.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13

Cutting Strawberry Runner.
For several years the process Of clip
ping the strawberry runners was con-
sidered the most tedious and tiresome
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13

fastening Herewith. Grasp the handle
and the lid is ultimately raised several
inches above the kettle. Let go and
the lid falls squarely into it's proper
place.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-07-13

not readily pass through. Hence the
high tree may have saved the house
from being struck by lightning with
cut leaving any mark by which the
feat could be suspected.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-05

the details Of the testimony of Miss
Lucy and Mrs. Hubbard, they made
contradictory statements. Attorney S.
G. Smith in cross-questioning Mrs. Me-
Knight, brought out some alleged fam
lily troubles happening some time ago.
Most of this was ruled out by the
Court, as it had no direct bearing on
the case at hand.
In the arguments of counsel each
side made very able speeches. Each
side was limited to forty minute
speeches by the Court. Mr.. Schuck
opened for the prosecution in a nine
teen-minute speech. Mr.. Howard, for
the defense, took the limit, and Mr..
Dryden closed in twenty minute
speech.
The Justice rendered his decision
after the closing of the arguments. 1t
was as follows: GAS the evidence of
Charles Woods was plain, straigntfor-
ward and to the point that he has not
been Influenced by anybody in bringing
this suit; as the evidence of Edith
Maser was also plain and straightfor-
ward, l find it to be my duty to hold
the defendant, James R. Hissom for
the grand jury, under the sum Of 5000
bond"
The bond was furnished by Theodore
". Fink.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-04-05
MISSIONARY MEETINGS
To Be Held in the Presbyterian Churches
in This City.

A wave Of missionary enthusiasm seems
to be striking our city this week, at least
several of the churches are feeling it.
Thursday and Friday will be given up
by the Presbyterian churches to enter
tanning their 'Presbyteriar or conven-
ton of the women of the Foreign Mis-
sionary Societies of the Washington
Presbytery.
Yesterday afternoon a goodly number
of the ladies of the Fourth Street Meth
odist church held a missionary social at
the home of Mrs, A. ]. Clarke. The OBJ
ject of this meeting was the collection
Of a special offering toward the payment
of a debt which has been hanging over
their division of the great army CT Metho-
dist Foreign Missionary women of the
United States. These ladies have earned
their money in various ways, and a feat
ure of the occasion was the story of their
experiences in so doing told ''over the
tea-cups." Quite neat sum was realized
by their efforts.
The musical and literary programme
rendered was delightful. and greatly en-
joyed by all present.