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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31
Man a HabituaI Liar.

Through it's emphasis Of the
superlative our age is in danger
of losing all power to tell the
truth, " writes Rev. N. Dwight
Hills, D. D., of "The Diffusion Of
Happiness Through Conversa-
ton" in the August Ladies'
Home Journal. 1.-THE modern
collegian has reached such a
state of culture that the positive
and comparative degrees are IN
known. 1t is no longer possible
for the schoolgirl to find either
an adjective or an adverb to ex-
press her ecstay Of feeling. Alb
stinence and sobriety in speech
are rapidly passing away.
. David Swing once expressed
the fear that through excess in
the use Of adjectives our genera
ton would lose all sense Of pro-
portion and symmetry in the
statement of facts. He noted
that the adjectives most loved
by our age are IN themselves
gross exaggerations. In study
ing the history Of language he
found that very carly men began
to say that the sun went down
IN a bed Of gold; the moon turn
ed all things to silver; the eye
darted forth flames; the face was
brighter than the sum Having
used such expressions for twenty
years man awakens to find him
self a habitual liar. We must
also note chat the modern school
of wit does not deal in the pure,
delicate hnmor of Sydney Smith
~or Charles Lamb, but for its eff
fects depends upon gross exag-
gerations and wor d pilings.
Thus, not only the playground
and schoolroom, but the papers
and books also, through extrav-
agances, are teaching men to
strain language to the very ut
termost. In literature that style
is best which has most absti-
nence, forswearing adjectives and
adverbs, and dealing in the sim
plicities. That character also is
finest which is SIMPLE, ank found
ed on frankness and truthful
ness. :"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31
Forms in Northern Wisconsin

are as good, if not better than
farms in any state of the Union.
There is no reason why the in
tending settler shoulp go to dis
tant States III order to secure a
good location. Northern Wis
consin is rapidly developing, but
there are still thousands of acres
Of fine hardwood farming lands
open up to the'settler, which can
be obtained unreasonable figures
and upon easy terms. The soil
is Of the best, good roads are be-
ing put in, and school houses
rapidly building.
The immense undeveloped re-
sources III the shape Of rich de-
posts of iron ore, clay, kaolin
and mari, as well as large tracts
of hardwood timber, offer extra
ordinary inducements to the
manufactures. The Wisconsin
Central Lines run through the
timber ana mineral belt, thus Of
fering quick and cheap transit to
all the principal markets Of the
Union. Pamphlets, maps and
complete information can be OBJ
tanned by apply to w. H Killen,
Deputy land and Industrial Com
missioner. Colby & Abbot Bldg,
Milwaukee. Wis.
Fl. F. Whitcomb, Gen'l Mgr.
Burton Johnson, G. F. Jas. c.
Pond, G. P. A, Milwaukee, Wis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31
First Publication Monday July 31st.]
United States Land Office.
PUBLIC LAND SALE.

Notice is hereby given that in pursu-
ance of instructions from the Commits
sioner of the General Land Office, under
authority vested in him by section 2455,
U. S. r. s, DIS amended by the act of
Congress, approved February 26, 1895,
we will proceed to offer at public sale II
the 10Th day Of September, 1899, at 10
o clock A, NJ, at this office, the following
tracts of land. to-Wit:
Lots 1 and 10, Sec. 81, Lot 7. Sec. 80,
I. 40 n, Il. II E. and Lot 5, Sec. SO,
Township 40 n, Range 10 e. Any and
all persons claiming adversely the above
described lands are advised to file their
Claims in this office on or before the day
above designated for the commencement
OF said sale, otherwise their rights will
be forfeited
Dated at u. S. Land Office, at Wausau
Wisconsin, this a0th day OF July, 1899.
EDGAR T. WHEELoCK, Register.
HENRY G. MCCRossEN, Receiver.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31
United States Land Office.
PUBLIC LAND SALE.

Notice is hereby given that in
pursuance of instructions from
the Commissioner of the General
Land Office, under authority vest
ed in him by section 2455, U. S.
R. S., as amended by the act Of
Congress, approved February
Goth, 1895, we will proceed to
offer at public sale on the 28th
davof Aug. 1899, at 1Oo'clock a.
M, at this office, the following
tracts of land ,to-wit:: -NE1ANE14
Section IA, Township ~ n,
Range 7 E. Any and all per-
sons claiming adversely the above
described lands are advised to
file their claims III this office on
or before the day above designat-
ed for the commencement of said
sale, otherwise their rights will
be forfeited.
Dated at U. S. Land Office at
wausau. wisconsin, this 18th
day of July, 1899.
EDGAR T. WHEELOCK,
Register.
HENRY G. MCCROssEN,
July17-6w Receiver.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31
Mother Sl1ipton And The
Automobile.

Mother Shipton, in her famous
rhymes written about 1448, fore
told many strange things that
were to come to pass. 1t is true
that she made a mistake about
the end of the world, but in 9th
er respects her utterances were
really prophetic. Since the in
vention of steam the railroad
has been held to fulfill her initial
prophecy, but perhaps she meant
the automobile. The following
are the remarkable lines:
Carriages without horses shall
go,
And accidents fill the world with
: woe,
Around the world mans thoughts
will fly
In the twinkling of an eye.
Waters shall yet more wonders
do.
How strange! but yet they shall
be true.
The world upside down shall be,
And gold be found at the root Of
a tree.
Through hills man shall ride,
And no horse or ass be athis side.
Uunder water men shall walk,
Shall ride, shall sleep, shall talk.
In the air men shall be seen
In white, in black, in green.
Iron on the water shall float
AS easily as a wooden boat.
Gold shall be found and shown
In lands now not known.
England shall at last admit a
lew.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31
Red Hot From The Gun.

Was the ball that hit &. B. Steadman,
Newark, Mich. in the Civil War. Il caus-
ed horrible Ulcers that no treatment
helped for 20 years. Then Bucklen's
Arnica Salve ctred him. Cures Cuts,
Bruises, Burns, Boils, Felons, Corns,
Skin Eruptons. Best Pile cure on earth
25cts. box. Cure guaranteed. Sold by
Frank Beardsley the kruggist.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31

And fire and water shall won
ders do
The world to an end shall come
In 1881.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-31

Locals. 5 cents per line for each insertion.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
EddystOne.

The smallest inhabited island in the
world is that on which the Eddystone
lighthouse stands. At low water it is
80 feet In diameter. At high water
the lighthouse, whose diameter at the
base is 2SaI feet, completely covers it.
1t is inha by three persons.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
LEAGUE GAMES YESTERDAY.

At PittsburS-Pittsburg runs, hits and
B errors: Brooklyn, 8 runs, 10 hits and errors.
Batteries-Leever and Schriver; McJames and
Farrell. Umpires - Gaffney and Latham.
Attendance, 1,5W.
At Observation-Disclosures, runs, hits
and l error; Baltimore, 5 runs, 12 hits and 3
errors. Batteries-Hawley, Peitz and Wood ::
kitson and Smith. Umpires-Swartwood and
Hunt. Attendance, 1,2J0.
AT Louisville-Louisville. runs, IL hits and
errors; Philadelphia, runs, l3 hits and o,
rors. Batteries-Woods and Zimmer; Piatt
and Mcfarland. Umpires- -Emslie and Dwyer.
Attendance, LOO.
At ChicaSo-Chicago, 2 runs. z hits and 5
errors; New York, Q runs, o hits and errors.
Batteries-Garvin and Donahue; Gettig and
Wilson. Umpires -O'Day and Mcdonald. At
tendance. 900.
AT ST. Louis-St. Louis, runs. l3 hits and 3
errors: Washington, l6 runs, II hits and err
rors. Batterie5-Powell and Criger: Dineen
and Roach. Umpires-Mannassau and Con-
molly. Attendance, 60I.
At Cleveland-Cleveland, run, hits and Z
errors; Boston, runs, 10 hits and / error.
Batteries-Kneppcr and Duncan; Nichols and
Bergen Umpires-Snyder and McGarr. At
tendance, 800.
Second game-Cleveland, 8 runs, IL hits and
errors; Boston, IL runs, Is hits and errors
Batteries Collifiower and Duncan; Meekin
and Clark. Umpires-Snyder and McGarr
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
POLICE
Were Asked to Locate a
Book Agent.
Young Men Are Alarmed Because
Goods Have Not Been Delivered.

D. B. Zimmer of Rochester, n. Y,
is wanted by the police here on the
charge of defrauding a number of
young men.
Zimmer came to Akron on August
IL and stopped at the Bcchtel hotel.
He represented himself as an agent
of the book firm of r. H. Woodward
& Co., of Baltimore, Md. He made
it his business to secure young men
as agents to sell books of 1.-The Life
of Dewey" History of the Spanish
American War" and that class of
reading matter. He charged every
applicant 1915 for an outfit, which
was to arrive here about September
1st. He sold outfits to over ten men,
but they have not yet received the
same. They are very desirous of a
meeting with thinner, who left
Akron week ago.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
DON'T WANT QUAY.

Over in Pennsylvania Boss Quay is
trying to ride back into power astride
of the Mckinley administration.
STAND by the administration" will
u he his cry. State issues will be COM
DIek.i.--l-
tion which indorsed Mckinley in
dorsed Quay who ex-Postmaster
General Wanamaker denounced as
''stench in the nostrels of decent
men,
But the anti-Quay Republicans do
not intend to fight the campaign on
national issues. The following cir
cular, just issued to voters explains
their position.
"This is campaign devoted solely
to State issues. The election of a
State Treasurer can in no way affect
the money question, Imperialism,
expansion, trusts, tariff or other
national issues. These questions
will come up for a proper solution
next year, when we will be ready and
glad to meet and discuss them.
Neither can the cry stand by Nc
Kinley or indorse the administration
be raised. We trust and believe that
no president of the United States de-
sires to have his administration in
dorsed at the humiliation and shame
of our State. Such an Endorsement
no President wants or expects"
There will be a warm campaign in
Pennsylvania this fall.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30

throat, weak lungs, bleeding lungs, and
kindred affections, which, if neglected or
badly treated, lead up to consumption If
you ask for DR.. Pierce's remedies and the
dealer won't supply you, go to another
store. Your health is of greater import
ance than any extra profit he may make on
the substitute. The imitation substitute
can not initiate the cures. DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery is absolutely
non-alcoholic and non-narcotic. 1t can be
safely relied upon by temperance people.
1t is not only the safest, tut also the
surest remedy for the stomach, blood,
throat and lungs.
My wife had severe attack of pleurisy and
lung trouble" writes Abram Freer, Esq, of
Rockbridge, Green Co., Ills. The doctors gave
her up to die She commenced to take DIR.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, and i'm
proved from the first dose. By the time she had
taken eight or ten bottles she cured, and it
was the cause of large amount being sold here.
/ think the Golden Medical Discovery is the
best medicine in the world for lung trouble
For 2I one-cent stamps to pay postage,
you can get free copy of the Common
Sense Medical Adviser, a work cf roo8-
pages. Cloth bound 81 stamps. Send to
DR.. r. v. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
FAITHFULNEss REWARDED.

Another loyal Republican, who,
like Senator Alexander of Akron,
insulted his own friends to pleas e
Mark Hanna, is about TO receive his
reward. Read what the Youngstown
vindicater says about the matter:
In the politicians vocabulary
there is no such word as gratitude.
When Congressman Weaver of the
Springfield district, headed mob to
insult Governor Bushnell, to find
favor with Hanna, it never occurred
to him that as he measured to others
it would be meted out to himself.
Congressman Weaver, during the
Hanna fight, led pack of dervishes
into the governors Office at Column
bus to abuse and intimidate Bush
nell. This he did TO make standing
with Hanna. He sacrificed man
hood that the blackguard might
flourish. 1t was an act of british in
science that even his master did not
require of him, and how it was ap-
preciated is discovered in the order
lately promulgated by Hanna for
the retirement of Weaver. The boss
sees the clouds lowering and he
wants none but trusted agents on
guard. A congressman who could
doff his dignity to insult the execu-
tive representative of the state. was
a mental service that failed to COM
mend the actor even in Hanna's
eyes. In arranging his list of con-
gressmen to be retired for better
men, Hanna has named Weaver, ,and
he accordingly will be guillotined on
seeking a denomination.
There is interesting reading in the
above for few Akron men who re-
Gently measured their Republicanism
by loyalty to Mark Hanna.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Times When 1t Sends the Cold shiv-
ers Down Your Back.

Times When 1t Sends the Cold Shtv-
ers Down Your Back.
Ever sit," said Mr.. Goblinton, late
at night alone in a room, reading or
studying, everybody gone to bed long
ago, the house, the whole city, quiet,
and see presently across the table un
the other side of the room door open
ing slowly? That's a hair raising eA-
perience. You don't know by what
means the knowledge that it was open
ing was first conveyed to you, but you
see it now, opening slowly and steadi-
ly and silently, and you get up and
grasp the chair in which you have
been sitting and stand up, with the
table between you and him for f,ii
ther protection. and wait for him, but
he doesn't come.
'Then you go around TO the door. 1t
has stopped now and is standing dead.
1t yields with no resistance except that
of its own weight when you open It
wider, and, holding to it, you look
around the door jamb into the han.
Silence there. perfect and complete;
nobody there; those were ghostly fin
gers, if any. that turned the knob.
And so you shut the door securely and
go back to your reading.
Presently you find the door open
again, but this time there is an air OF
vacancy about it, and now you realize
what it all means The back of the
catch bolt that you turn with knob
is worn off little, rounded, or the
metal frame around the socket into
which the bolt enters may be worn. or
both. Or it may be the door has
shrunk or the jamb has drawn away
from it, so that only the tip end of the
bolt catches in the socket and has a
constant tendency to work free. The
slightest shaking or jarring starts 1t,
and gradually it works itself clear Of
the socket, and then, if it happens to
be hung just so, the door slowly opens.
"And there you are, and it is all very
simple when you come to know about
it, but it's never altogether agreeable.
You never really get used to the door
that opens."-New York Sun.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
PERSONALS.

Mrs. R. c. Gingell is in the east for
a week.
Ford Lilly has returned from a
two weeks visit with friends in Chi
cago, Ill.
Mrs. Nellie Bishop, of sll Bowery
street, has returned from Canada,
where she has been for the last five
weeks. being called there by the ILL
ness of her father.
Chas. G. Taylor of 315 Carroll ST.,
who for the past four weeks has been
seriously i'll with typhoid fever at
Chautauqua Lake park. is now i'm
proving, although he is still con-
fined to his bed. Mr.. Taylor is
manager of the Assembly Herald,
printed at Chautauqua during the
summer season.
M. H. Cahill, train dispatcher on
the B. & o., after a months vacation
is spending a few days with Akron
friends prior to going to Chicago
Junction to which place the division
office of the road was removed
recently. Mr.. Cahill, who is
one of the jolliest and most popular
dispatchers on the road, says that
his month S vacation was the most
pleasant he ever enjoyed. Two
weeks were spent camping with
friends in the vicinity of Butler, and
the rest of the time was spent at his
home near Lexington, o.
Mr.. Claude Thardo, direct from
Keith's Union Square Theatre, New
York city, is at Summit Lake Park
this week and must be seen to be
appreciated. Take Rapid Transit
line.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Buckley Post Special to Philadelphia.

General Passenger Agel
Southern Ry., Louisville, KY.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Wants a Race.

WANTS nate.
Abe Williams has returned from
Nebraska. He is very anxious to
have swimming race with William
or Edward Chippy, of Cuyahoga
Falls.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30

AT New CaStle-New Castle. runs l2 hits
and errors; Toledo, 3 runs, 4 hits and errors
acknowledgements and Graffius; Butler
and Arthur
At MISUNDERSTANDING, runs, II hits and 0
errors; Dayton, runs, hits and errors.
Batteries-Poole and Donahue Moore and
Cawley. Ten innings
At Mansfeld-Mansfield, runs II hits and 8
errors; Spring field, runs, hits and : errors.
Batterles-Irwin and Wente; Dolan and Be-
vile.
At Youngstown-Youngst runs, 18 hits
and errors; Fort Wayne, II runs. IL hits and
2errors. Observation-Disclosures and Lattimer;
Guese and Bergen.
Second game-Youngstown, 8 runs, hits
and 8 errors; Fort Wayne. runs, 10 hits and
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Buckley Post Special to Philapelphia,

Sunday Sept Srd, via c., A. & c.
and Pennsylvania lines. Train will
leave Union Depot 2:S0 p. M, arrive
Philadelphia $50 n. m: No change
of cars. Rate Sll round trip. Limit
Sept u, subject to extension until
Sept. 80, upon payment of so cents.
Stopovers going and returning
allowed at Baltimore, Washing
ton and one other station
east of Pittsburg. Order sleep
ing car space early. For further
see Q. ID. Honodle, Tkt,
Agt., Union Depot.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30

of president. For years the custom has
prevailed whereby the vice president
has been by common consent elevated
to the presidency. Two names will
undoubtedly go before the money
changers for president of the organiza
tion. The present vice president
Walker Hill of st. Louis, will be nom.
mated, and the name of Alvah Trow.
bridge of New York will likewise be
presented.
Mr.. Hill Is president of the American
Exchange bank of st. Louis, and Mr..
Trowbridge is the chief executive Off
Ger of the North American Trust COM
pany of New York city. Mr.. Trow-
bridge is chairman Of the executive
council Of the association, and his
friends claim he has done more than
any one member to build up the bank
ers' organization.
Many of the western bankers are re-
ported to be favorable to the candidacy
of the st. Louis man because they feel
that the regular custom of the society
should be pursued. They grant that
Mr.. Trowbridge has done much for the
association, but do not think he has a
better claim than Mr. Hill on the presi-
dency. 1t has been suggested that this
contest, which will be good natured if
sharp all the way through, may settle
down to spirited engagement be-
tween east and west.
The present officers of the association
are: President, George II. Russell, pres
ident State Savings bank of Detroit;
first vice president, Walker Hill, presi-
dent American Exchange bank of st.
Louis; chairman executive council, AL
yah Trowbridge, president North Amer
lean Trust company of New York;
treasurer George NJ. Reynolds, CASH
Ter Continental National bank Of Chi
cago; secretary, James r. Branch, 20
Broad street, New York city.
The membership of the association
is, In round numbers, 5000, the repre-
sentatiOn being as follows: National
banks, 1900; state banks, 800; savings
banks, $50; trust companies, $50; pri-
vate banks, go. with combined capital
and surplus of about $1,0OO,00O, 900
and deposits Of about $500, ,00O, 900,
making the enormous grand total of
about $4,500OOO,0OO These figures
are not given as absolutely exact, but
they are not too large
SAMUFI TIURRARD
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Visit Boston Ledges
Labor Day. Dancing free.


Talleyrand's sarcasm about Language
serving to conceal our thoughts" was
possibly suggested, says writer in The
Arena, by the fact that silent nations are
generally honest, and the contrast be-
tween the chattering Greek and the taci
turn Turk is not greater than that be-
tween the laconic Castilian and his gas
conading neighbor ''Buena noche.
amigos s''-"good night, friends was the
only remark of one eyed Aragon fcnc-
ing master, whose remaining eye had
been extineuished by laundering tyro.
"They call me erande in my fathers
house." said Castiiian noblemau whom
Charles " had tried to quiz about his
physical shortcomings, and even Spanish
pariahs affect that breviloquence.
"Are you not ashamed to begT" Baron
Won Ense asked an Andalusian vagabond
who had solicited the loan of small
copper coin; "a big, stout fellow like you
ought 70 stop loating and go to work"
II didn't request your advice, SIR" re-
torted the vagrant; II asked you for
pdnny"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Do humbugs offer your
money back?
Your grocer sells Fels-
Naptha soap for SC, and your
money back if you want it.
THE DOOR THAT OPENS.

49, s Cn. makers. Phlladelphia.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Strong Bank Notes.

So firm is the texture of genuine
Bank of England note that burning
can hardly destroy it. The authorities
have in little glazed frame the re-
mains of a note which was in the
great fire of Chicago. Though COLI
pletely charred and black, the note is
sufficiently legible to establish it's gen
uineness and be caShed
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Examination.

The United States Civil Service
Commission directs that the regular
annual examination for the postoffice
service in Akron, Ohio, be held by
the local board ON Saturday, Novem-
Der Is. Applications must be on file
in correct and complete form with
the secretary, board of examiners at
the:post Office prior to the hour of
closing business on October 23, 1893.
GEORGE w. SCHICK,
Secretary.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-08-30
Battleship,s Successful Trial Trip,

LEwEs, Del, Aug. 3O.-The. builders
trial trip Of the battleship Alabama re-
suited N the development of maxi
mum speed of III knots. Edwin S.
Cramp OF the William Cramp & Sons
Ship and Engine Building company
said the builders were delighted with
the showing made. Several officers of
the Russian navy, who were aboard,
expressed favorable opinions Of the
Alabama S going qualities.