Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-30

Mormonism has met a foe at LOST +b,.
will test all its prowess. The voroo, AZ
jamestown, n. Y. have passed strong vas W.
buttons against Mormon elders who have
been doing missionary work in thar nlaoo
and a tight to which the fair comhatantS
VIII give no quarter is being waged Ia
cultured women the religion founded h,,
Joseph Smith and practiced by BRIGHAM
Young is particularly repugnant. It mat,
ters not that the law of the land has do
clared against the polygamous featura a.
Mormonlsm or that some elders in Tho
Church of Latter Day Saints NAV haro
spoken against polygamy; the fact ro
mains that, according to popular heller
the creed which made it right for mon to
transgreSs one of the most profound ola
ments of the strongest human passion hos
in no way been altered. Woman was tbo
greatest sufferer through the fullest ov-
ercse of that creed and it is not surnriS.
ing that she should be the bitterest onamr
Of those who would seek to mako oon
verts to it. A religion which has aronSq1
the antagonism OF women is sooner or
later bound to become morbund.
We are likely to have statue of Vosb-
ington as well as of Lafayette to uuvou
in Paris on the 4th of July, 1900, for thn
association of American women which
has been engaged for several years in
raising funds to present one to the people
of France in exchange for the Lafayette
statue which stands in Jackson park in
Washington has made d contract with
Daniel G. French, the well-knoWu sculp-
tor, to make an equestrian figure of he
roc size, with the understanding that it
sFall be completed and ready for unyeil-
ing on the day named. Mrs. Field, wife
of the associate justice of the Supreme
Court; Mrs. Hobart, wife of the Vice
President; Mrs. Mcmillan, wife of the
Senator from Michigan, and Mrs. Phoebe
A. Hearst are the committee in charge,
and have the cooperation of many promi
nent women in different parts of the c0un-
try. A large portion of the funds has al
ready been raised, but $4,000 more is
needed, and an appeal will soon be made
for contributions from the patriotic wom
en- of America.
There has been an enormous falling off
both in the number and the value of draft
animals in this country since those faith
full friends have had to compete with the
bicycle and the electric motor. According
to the statistics of the Agricultural De-
partment on Jan. 1, 1893, there Were 49,
23S, 900 horses in the United States, rep
resenting a value of 81 ,O07, 593 G36, which
was an average of about $50 each. On
Jan. 1, 1899, there were only 13,96l,0OO
horses, valued at SITS, 362, 900, or IN aver
age of $34 a head. On Jan. 1, 1893, we
owned 2,315,O00 mules, valued at S11o-
100000, and last January only ,, 19O,2S2,
valued at S96, 100000, the decrease in the
value per head in six years being from
$75 to $44. Texas owns the largest num-
Der of mules and New York the largest
number of horses. Pennsylvania because
of the coal and mining industries, has
more than ten times as many mules as
New York. Illinois comes second in the
list of horses and Missouri second in the
list of mules.
All the volunteers in the Philippines are
armed with the Springfield rifle. All the
regulars now there and the re-enforce-
ments now en- route have the krag-Jor-
gensens. The volunteers use the Spring
fields because the military commanders
consider it the more effective rife in Their
hands. They are using smokeless powder
and the effective range Of the Springfield
is almost as great as the Mauser, Wnlcn
is being used by sharpshooters among the
rebels. The complex mechanism OF the
modern rife is difficult to care for ana u
use, while the Springfield will stand any
amount of rough handling. This reason
more than any other, influenced the eX,
perienced army officers to recommend
their use by the volunteers. The destruc,
tiveness of the Springfield 45-callber pau
is far greater than the Mauser, az II Is
almost sure to kill, whereas the latter ohly
wounds. The mechanism of the modern
rifle would scarcely become familiar to tne
volunteers during their term OF ehlI''
meGt. -
AS the bill for the establishment OF
bureau of domestic sciences in the ~
partment of Agriculture failed III Con.
gress, Secretary Wilson has consented
take the matter up and encourage Such
instruction in the agricultural colleges anu
such investigations at the EXPERIMENT.
oldllOuS 40 Will tdllS Oul LIZ '''J
National Domestic Science Association ~
seeking this legislation. The oI%'o
oranges and farmers institutes VIII ao1 1
encourage the movement, and 1t IS nopsa
that at the next Congress authority may
be given for the Secretary of Agrlcui' v,o
to disseminate information that VIII niaA
farmers homes happier and Iaiin rair
wives more competent in feeding INV w
families as the farmer is now ena93leut ~
the aid of the Government in feedins
cattle and sheep.
Since the approval of the war ie ',ndor
act on June 10, 1893, the collections " hore
it have been $50, 012, 1925. IhFle ,'" m
also been collected an additional Ia. "a Ia.
tobacco of SITS, 4S7 and on terlllei', oo- 81,
uors stored in warehouses w ',.r;rM
making a total of $3.50, Goo.S' pe' time
from the war revenue act from u hr,arr.
of it's passage up to the 1st Of Ie aoq 40,
The largest part of this sum- >-o torr and
comes from the sale of documehts" LAY, t1a
proprietary stamps, S20,0S4. 49o 30 5IVi 21G21
increase in the tax on beer 9o ~ snuff
renresents the increase in the laA o and