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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16

Frederick and of Louis XVI. OF France,
(Who also despatched Lafayette for the
same purpose) for this country's pres
emf independence. But Won Steubcn
was not the only great Teuton
who left his mark upon the country,
and the feast of roses" in the little
Pennsylvania town of Mannheim re-
veals the philanthropy Of Baron Steigel,
who founded a village which if less ia
nous than Pullman has been more ex-
emplary in it's less pretentious way,
and far more romantic.
Baron Henry William Steigel was
born in 1888 in Mannheim, Germany,
and arrived in this country in 1850
bringing with him a fortune of $780,
900 which probably constituted him
one of the very rich men of that
period. He invested his money in Il
glass l-ectoTy and became also one of
the pioneer ironmasters of the United
States, having purchased the old HUI
Der furnace. Huber was also a Ger
man, and when he erected this furnace
be had the following inscribed on it:
Johann Huber der este Deutsche
Mann
Der das EisenWerk volfuren kann."
The baron was not hard task-mas-
ter. He was a fine old gentleman of
the period-vain, benevolent and ex-
travagant, but the very soul of honor
He was respected and loved by his
people There was no such thing ever
dreamt Of a strike and the
attachment of the people to
their master was such that
every soul in the district 1isped
his name with Gods at their prayers
on the Sabbath. However, the dis
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
BRITISH AND SPANISH POLICIES

We have the two great examples
Great Britain has been, in the main,
and increasingly, benefcient and
strong. Spain from the very first,
as the records show, was inhumanly
oppressive to the inferior races; and.
after her own descendants in the
colonies became aliens in habit to the
home country, she to them also be-
came tyrannically exacting. But, still
more, Spain became weaker and
weaker as the years passed, the
tyranny of her extortions being par
TALLY due to exigencies of her pol
itical weakness and to her economical
declension. Let us, however, not fail
to observe that the benefcence, as
we'll as the strength, Of Great Britain
has been a matter of growth. There
is, therefore, no reason to despair, as
some do, that the United States, who
share her traditions, can attain her
success. The task is novel to them;
they may make blunders; but guided
by her experience, they should reach
the goal more quickly.-Capt. A. T..
Mahan in Engineering Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
THE LOLA MONTEZ LEGEND.

Lola MOnteZ's only child, Alice Dew
eaux, died recently and quite obscurely
in New Orleans. Whether or not she
was the granddaughter of Byron is
uncertain. There are matters which
history prefers to ignore than to
elucidate Concerning her father it is
dumb. What it said of her mother
was told so long ago that, although
there are fossils as yet unextinct who
saw her appear as Mazeppa in the
Broadway theater, already she has
retreated into the n1agnifcence Of
myth. To the great majority Lola
Montez is contemporary of Semi
ramis. To the great unWashed she is
unknown. There is an epoch, how
which, after pirouetting through an
instruction in Warsaw, she danced
into Bavaria and kicked over a throne.
A ballerine so energetic does not de-
serve to be instantly forgotten. Be-
sides she was a very pretty woman.
In the picture gallery at Munich she
looks a little as Psyche must have
Wn0n SnG lOSL u0r SOu. L u0EG Lie re-
semblance begins and ends. There
was nothing melancholy in her dispo-
sition, nothing tender and nothing
true. She was the last of those great
adventuresses who lived when the
world was larger, when there were no
railways, no telegraph poles and no
cant Born in Limerick, educated in
Calcutta, she took Europe for her
province and died in New York. Her
parentage was as variegated as her ca
reer. Sir Edward Gilbert, the hus-
band of her mother, was AN Irishman,
and Dolores de Montavio, whom he
married and whose child she was, de-
scended from a Hispano-Moorish fam
lily, which, because of the Arab adj
mixture, lacked what is known on the
peninsula as the sangue azul, the blue
blood of which only the hidalgo may
boast Even so, that which this lady
possessed was so heady that at four
teen she eloped. Developing subse-
quently into Countess of Landsfeld.
she coquetted with emperors, dis
turbed Dumas, disturbed kingdoms,
disturbed even California, and died on
Long Island, leaving one child and a
| few echoes of which the subsistence is
now omplete.-Collier's Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
WHAT A DREAM DID.

Some sixty years ago Joseph Ever
est came into the Warsaw valley from
Hume and bought farm three miles
from that village. One morning he re-
lated a dream that he had the night
before, and which he had dreamed for
three nights in succession, in which he
had seen a vast treasure on his farm
by the vision that, having selected a
spot, he removed the earth to the rock,
and with improvised tools began drill
ing with a spring pole. After going
down some eighty or a hundred feet
and finding nothing, he gave up the
search, but still persisted in his belief
Of hidden treasure below up to his
death, which occurred many years
thereafter.
His nephew, H. T. Everest of the
Vacuum Oil company of Rochester,
some years ago, remembering his
uncle's dream, which was a household
word in the family, sunk a well for oil
in that spot, but found a twenty foot
deposit of salt instead of gold, thereby
fully realizing the dream of his uncle
Joseph of hidden treasure. Some
two years thereafter small set Of salt
works were built and from this small
beginning sprang the immense salt
plants and the large output of salt in
Warsaw valley which has revolution
ICED the salt business of the world
Buffalo Enquirer.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16

region of perpetual snow on a peak of
the earth if it should rise to such
height person in a balloon could
not hear friend in neighboring bal
loon, even if they were near enough to
shake hands. There would be no me-
dunn for the propagation Of sound
waves There would, however, still
be a medium for the cOnductiOn OF
electricity-a medium in fact of great
uctibility-almOst as good as
metal; and it is this medium at even
less height which Tesla proposes to
use in his methods of transmitting
power hundreds of miles through the
air without wires. We live under a
blanket OF air which protects us from
the extreme cold of outer space. This
low temperature becomes evident
fourteen or fifteen thousand feet above
the surface of the earth, and would, as
I have said, reach point far below
zero at a height of ten miles. At this
height we should no observe the
twinkling of the stars; for this scin-
tillatiOnis due to the movements OF
our atmosphere, which at the height
I have mentioned would be extremely
rarefied. IF one could photograph the
suns spectrum at this altitude we
could greatly extend our knowledge of
the shortest wave-lengths of light;
for the atmosphere completely alb
serbs such wave-lengths as are con-
cerned in the X-ray phenomena. That
this absorption really takes place, can
be proved in a laboratory, The heat
and light which we receive from the
sun are thus greatly modified by this
blanketing layer of air. The long
waves Of the energy from the sun are
called heat waves and we receive these
in full measure. The very short
waves, however, are stopped by our at
mosphere, and are transformed into
what?-Prof John Trowbridge in
Forum.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION.

The history of SPANS decline, and
the history of Great Britain's advance
in the latter of which the stern les
son given by the revolt of the United
States is certainly a conspicuous fac
tor as also, perhaps, the other revolt
known as the Indian Mutiny, in 1857,
alike teach us that territories be-
yond the sea can be securely held
only when the advantage and interests
of the inhabitants are the primary OBJ
iect of the administration. The in
habitants may not return love for
their benefits, -comprehension or
gratitude may fail them; but the sense
of duty achieved, and the security of
the tenure, are the reward Of the
ruler.-Capt. A. T. Mahan in En-
cheering Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
It's Rental
IA Rose


turbance OF business incidental to the
revolutionary war, made money
scarce, and the baron became fnan-
cially embarrassed in 1774.
His fortunes thus dissipated never
gathered again His factories have
disappeared with his titles. His man
sion is now one of the business houses
of Mannheim His hounds, horses and
outriders are all gone. There is little
to remind the Indifferent stranger Of
the owner of the pioneer glass factory
Of the United States, or of the print
tive stoves which he manufactured;
but still the representative Of the fam
lily proudly receives the annual rental
one red June rOse-as stipulated by
the benevolent baron whose romance
also recalls something of what Ameri-
cans owe to Germany and the German
people. Mrs. Rebecca G. Boyer, still
living in the town, is descended from
the nobleman.
Now the baron would have long
since passed out of recollection and
be utterly forgotten together with the
ten thousand other financial '1has
Deems" that this country has seen but
for a very simple incident. In the hey
day of his glory Baron Steigel had
decided piece of property to the trus-
tees of the Lutheran congregation at
Mannheim for the sum of five shilHngs
year and one red rose which was to
be paid upon the feast of roses" in
the month of June as annual rent for
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
UPPER REGIONS OF THE AIR.

Above us there extends vast I'M
explored space far more interesting
from scientific point of view than
the icy regions around the north pole.
No one can reach the limit of the up
per regions of the air and live, unless
he carries with him air to breathe and
fuel to warm him; for at the paltry
distance of ten miles above the earth
the air is too thin to support respira-
ton, and the thermometer would reg
lister far below zero. It would be a
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16

There was novel festival last sum-
mer, the feast of roses, which recalls
the indebtedness of this country to its
early German settlers, even sif we for
get the command of Frederick the
Great to Baron Won Steuben-"Go and
take some of my troops and drill those
of America in this mighty fight for
freedom
Won Steuben came and America was
not little dependent upon the aid of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16

ever. Accordingly the young and old
of the little community Of Mannheim
annually assemble in gay attire and
accompany the trustees Of the Luther
an church to pay to Baron Steigels
representative the annual June rose.
There is now a new and handsome
church on the old site, and here the
yearly celebration occurs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16

filled. Chris. Paulis of Milwaukee is
postmaster of the senate, F. w. Coon
Of Edgerton assistant chief clerk of the
assembly and Fred Nelson of Phillips
and Carl Wens of Appleton other
clerks.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16

Raleigh said that he owed all bis
po1iteness of department to his
mother.
Thousands of dead English sparrows
are said to be found in parts of Kansas
as the Snow melts.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
HE SAID ENOUGH.

when my wife starts in to give
me lecture just tell her to keep
quiet, I do"
"And does she?"
''Say! Look here! You're getting al
together too inquisitive. Detroit
Tribune
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-01-16
ADVICE TO SOLONs
BIENNIAL MESSAGE OF THE GOV
ERNOR READ.
MANY RECOMMENDATIONS

A BOLTON of Passes Advised and
Vigorous Demand Made for More
Thorough Taxation Of Corporations
The Lobby INSTRUMENTATION of
Legislature.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
BUG THAT LAYS
DANCING EGGS
Strange Phenomenon Of
Insect Life.
Special Dispatch to The Call

RFDDING. Aug. 2.-The sulphur smoke
and arsenical fumes thrown of into the
otherwise clean atmosphere OF Shasta
County by the smelling and roasting oper-
attons Of the Mountain Copper Company
have been responsible for more than one
strange phenomenon IN plant and insect
life but the latest expression Is perhaps
the greatest novelty Of all.
It has Just been discovered that the
leaves Of the common oak tree hereabouts
are swarming with embryonic life. Masses
of eggs. so small as TO give the appear
ance of an unhealthy splotch, adhere TO
the under side of the leaf, and as they ad-
vance toward maturity they drop TO tie
ground and dance about like electrical
autornatons By holding an oak tWlg
containing any number Of eggs TO one
ear a cracking sound may be heard like
the splitting Of electric sparks. The shell
contains a tiny grub, working for release,
but what shape II takes upon reaching
maturity is unknown.
The curiosity is attracting a great deal
Of local attention. In many places IN
town collections of the eggs are on eX-
hibition. a quantity is laid on table
and Immediately they begin TO disport
ing into the air sometimes TO a helghl OF
sixteen inches. They are particularly act
i've in the early morning.
No one is able to account Tor the phe-
this embryonic parasites presence in such
a abundance is probably due 70 the absence
of its natural enemy, the commoner IN
sect life which long ago fell VlctlIn 20
sulphur smoke and arsenical fumes. ms
latest insect novelty takes rank with the
sulnhl1r bug which is at home IN the req
hot roaster piles stretching along the
mountain side above Keswick.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
WIND PREVENTED
VERY FAST TIME

BUFFALO, Aug Am immense crowd
greeted the travellers as their carriage
drew up in front of the News office. The
trip from Batavia to Buffalo was smooth
enough. Until BowmansviIle was reach
ed the machine maintained a rate OF
twelve miles an hour. But at Bowmans,
ahead. and the speed of the machine fell
off perceptibly in the face OF the wind,
and the dust began 10 blow in great
clouds This was not conducive TO much
speed either. The automobile behaved
spIendidly in spite of the adverse condi-
Forks Station was reached at n:40
O'Clock This station is only two miles
from the city line and the automobile
party expected to be in Buffalo, running
over asphalt pavements, in a few min
utes They were disappointed. for the
vehicle came to sudden stop. 1t did not
take Mr. Davis many minutes TO learn
that the supply of gasoline had been eX-
hausted. There was no extra supply
the city and bought quart. which he
sent TO the stranded machine. Mr.. and
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
SAYS THE HARVEY
JURY WAS BR|BED
Charge Made by a San
Rafael Woman.
Special Dispatch TO The Call.

SAN RAFAEL, Aug. 2.-The poolrooms
operated at Sausalito have been the
source of some ugly scandals. in which
the names Of prominent citizens have
figured, but Mrs. J. P. Roberts of this
city gave a story to the Marin County
authorities to-day which caps the climax
She alleges that Joseph Harvey gave eX-
Sheriff Henry Harrison $50 TO be distrib-
uted among three jurors who voted for
acquittal at his recent trial and that the
money was secured by Trustee Sylvia of
Sausalito. District Attorney McIsaac will
Immediately investigate the charges and
if he deems them susceptible of proof
will bring the matter before the Grand
Jury
few days ago Mrs Roberts husband
disappeared. She tried to get a warrant
for his arrest on the charge of having
elOped with Mrs. Josephine Nelson Fail
ing in this she saw Sheriff Taylor and told
him that her husband, who had served on
the Harvey jury, had admitted to her
that Trustee Sylvia had procured $50 for
three jurors-Roberts, Ramon Valencia
and man whose name she did not know
Ex-Sherif Henry Harrison, now chief
cused of having brought the money TO
San Rafael for distribution.
Sheriff Taylor held a long consultatio
with District Attorney McIsaac to-day
While both officials refuse TO divulge any
facts, they promise a sensation in the
near future.
EX-Sheriff Harrison when seen at San
Quentin tonight, denied that there was
any foundation for the story.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
HAS
REACHED BUFFALO
All Difficulties Being Overcome in the
Westward Journey Across the
Continent.
BY JOHN D. DAVIS.

~ UFFALO, n. Y, Aug. 2.-In heavy
rain and hail storm the transconti-
* mental automobile arrived to-day at
2:50 o'clock and ran down Main
0 street at a good rate of speed. The
run from Bergen was made in good time
and at rate of twelve miles an hour
until near Monroeville, when a strong
head wind and clouds Of dust were en-
countered and headway was delayed
However, the run of fffty-six miles was
made IN four hours and a half. We were
delayed at the forks, nine miles out. TO
get gasoline and TO wait for the automo-
bi1e escort. A thunder shower delayed
the latter, and in a heavy rain we ran
into town alone. The motor has worked
nerfectly all day and not hitch has oc-
Cured This is the first day without
some trouble since leaving New York;
and from now on I think everything will
work satisfactorily. At the forks to-day
a newspaper man being carried into into. town
slipped on the tailboard and broke IT.,
and we will delay TO have IL repaired, but
viii get away tomorrow afternoon.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
MARYLAND DEMOCRATS
MAKE NOMINATIONS

BALTIMORE, Aug. 2.-The Democratic
State Convention, which was held at
Ford's Opera-house in this city to-day,
resulted in the nomination of the follow
ing ticket:
Governor. John Walter Smith of Wor
cester County.
Attorney General, Isidor Rayner of Bal
timore.
Comptroller, Joseph n. W. Herring Of
Carroll County.
The convention was unusually harmoni-
Gus and all the nominations were made
by acclamation, Edwin Warfield, Mr..
Smiths principal opponent withdrawing
at the last moment and placing the sue
cessful candidate in nomination.
John Walter Smith. the nominee for
Governor is a banker and resides in
Snowhill Worcester County. He has
served in the State Senate for three con-
secutive terms and was elected to Con-
gress last November from the First Dis
trict.
Isidor Rayner. the nominee for Attorney
General is a lawyer and has long beer
prominent in political and social circles
of the State. He served in the Fiftietn,
Fifty-second and Eifty-third Congresses,
and is regarded as one of the best politi
cal orators of Maryland. All the candi-
dates are favorable to a gold standard.
The date for holding the Republican
State Convention has not yet been an
nounced Governor Lloyd Lowndess has
practically no opposition for renomina-
ton.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
ELTRINCHAM
GOES FORTH
A FREE MAN
Killing Of Clark at Angels
Camp Regarded as
JuStif1able.
DEFENDED HIS HOME
Public Opinion Approves the De-
ciSiOn Rendered by Justice
Sheppard.
speelal p.spateh . ~. can.

ANGELS CAMP. Aug. Henry FL
trfngham. who shot and instantly killed
John W. Clark on July II at the home of
the former near TalleCito, was given
preliminary hearing before Justice Shep-
hard at Murphys to-day. Frank J. Sollh-
sky defended Eltringham and District At
torney McSorley appeared for the prose
cution.
The facts as brought out were substan-
TALLY the same as those given in The Can
ct the time Of the killing. Eltringham was
in court and took the stand to TESTIFY IN
his own behalf. The once rugged noun
taineer is now but a shadow OF MS 1or-
mer self His face displayed the torture
he has experienced since the eVenttuI Gay
when Clark met his death. ~
Dr. c. H Freeman, the autopsy surgeon >
testified TO the nature OF the Wound. ne
45-caliber ball entered the left arm, Shat-
tering the bone. and, continuing on Is
fatal course, completely tore oGI mo
heart, leaving the body near me L1SrI S;b ~
pie. This testimony CONNECTED WIZ nc nc
statement made by Eltringham before the
Coroner's jury and the prosecutor d.
tempted TO build d case around TINS l3o+ItI ~
CLARK was shot in the left side and El-
tringham testified at the lnqueSt 70 ne
effect that he fired at the man Il6LC S51e
and strengthened his statement by Qe-
sCribing the relative positions OF the pIlh-
cipals. --,.-.--,--.- 4o.La- and brother
being in the vicinity OF the scene OF the
tragedy according TO previous arrange
TeRt and both being armed, the story
was circulated TO the effect that Clark CARR
ran after being shot at by EItrlngharn
e~5 Vas killed by another shot from a
gun In the hands of some one else. h;
tringham explained that when he tesuhed
q the inquest he was nervous ana eA-
Cire5 and had no clear recollection of the
proceedings. After Mr.. Solinsky finished
with the witness the case of the prosecu-
tion went up in a mist
Justice Sheppard took the case under
advisement and rendered his decision at
: o'clock tonight. The defendant was
discharged and went out among ms
friends. who filled the town hall to wit
sess the proceedings. General satisfac,
ri1n is expressed at the decision rendered
Tv Justice Sheppard in upholding one IN
projecting his home from a fiend such as
Ozark proved himself 10 be.
The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03

There isn't one man in fifty thousand who
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In most cases when a woman s general
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Husbands should know that Dr.. P1erce's
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The San Francisco call., 1899-08-03
MEYER-STRAUSS.

Miss Nelly Meyer, daughter of Moritz
Meyer and niece of Daniel Meyer, the
banker, was married last evening at the
home of the brides parents, 2714 Pacific
avenue, to julius Strauss, a prominent
export merchant of Yokohama, Rev. DIR
Voorsanger officiating. Miss Jeanette
Meyer, sister of the bride. was maid of
honor and Leon Meyer of London was
best man. Only relatives and a few of
the most intimate friends of the contract
ing parties were present.
Mr.. and Mrs. Strauss will take q we'd
ding tour to the South and then depart
for Yokohama on the 18th inst
During the evening many cablegrams
and kilograms were received in congratu-
lation of the happy event. and two rooms
filled with costly presents attested' the
good wishes of the friends of the new
made couple.