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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
WHEN PEGGY GOES TO MARKET.

When Peggy takes her basket I'D
And off to market goes,
I'm Stupefied with wonder at
How very much she knows
She makes her way between the stalls
And with judicial air
Decides that this is $50 and So
And that is pretty fair"
She knows if fish are fresh or not,
And wise as any owl,
She differentiates between
A chicken and fowl
She thumbs the breastbone of the one
And pulls the others legs;
She squints her pretty little eyes
To test the new-laid eggs
The veg tables must be just right
For with critics eye
She scans them. not inclined to pass
Their imperfactions by.
She calls the market folks by name;
All, what a lot she knows
When Peggy takes her baske. I'D
And off to market goesl
When Peggy does the marketing.
My heart with pride she fills;
go along, useless thing,
Except to pay the bills
-Johnstone Murray in What to Eat
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
MEN OF LETTERS.

There was noted LII. D..
Belonging to the F. f. v,
A member of the c. o. p,
Whose son was in the u. S. V.
I'd sold the son things f. o. b.
| wouldn't ship EN- c. o. d.,
But sent letter, viz:
A bill, note, "R. S. V. P"
He hadn't paid a single SOU
| then decided what to do;
| wrote: 81 hold your I. .. u:
WIZ see your father p. d. O."
Full quickly then this U. S. ".
For fear the irate LII. D.
Might dock his monthly M. o. B..
Inclosed his check for twenty three.
Atlanta Journal.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
THE TREE OF LIFE,

Plant patience in the garden of tbv
SOUL i'
The roots are bitter, but the fruits are
sweet;
plete,
Beneath its tender shade the burning
heat 'S
And burden tden of the day shall lose con-
Plant patience in the garden of thy sou,,
Henry Austin in Harner,s
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

The sword is the most ancient of Weap-
ons used by mankind 1t has appeared in
every part of the world. The earliest
of attempting to improve on the savage
war club. They were paddle-shaBed and
brought to a sharp edge. fire hardened.
Their cleaving power in skillful hand is
surprising.
Sometimes sharks teath were inserted
in the edge of the wooden sword, or flakes
of flint, which made an edge like broken
glass The first metal swords were not
all satisfactory. Iron was scarce. cop
this was hard enough to cut it was brit
tie and soon broke. The weapons of the
early Greeks were these swords, though
the lance was the preferred Greek weap-
on.
The Romans liked the sword Their
weapons were like enlarged bowie knives.
for they struck with the point. This
kind of blow is more deadly than the
slash. which often only wounds instead
of kills
The mediaeval sword was the most
wonderful. The crusaders carried swords
double-edged and massive and the Sara
Gems had curved blade thin and kecn
as razor. AS the heavy armOr came
in the sword grew in size and weight till
finally the two-handed sword was in
vcge. Only trained athlete could hat-
die it.
Gunpowder did away With the sword.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
LOVES LABYRINTH.

My lady's heart is my despair,
So cunningly Its winding ways
All hope of entrance fout;
But were [ once an inmate there.
Despair were joy since from that maze
never could stray out.
Jessie Mills in Century.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
100000
$10s,95O

One wife

a tract of % acres of historic land in
BROOKLYN borough has been transferred
by sale. 1t was part of an original grant
from King George III. to Peter De Be-
voise who was a close friend of Peter
Stuyvesant. the sturdy governor of New
Amsterdam a century and half ago. 1t
has been in the De Bevois family ever
since But now comes the demand for
Brooklyn cottages. and away goes the
property into the hands of speculative
builder for a consideration of sos, 600. The
value of the holding can be estimated
fered $1l5,OOo for his holding as soon as
he completed it. and he declined Whe..
old King George gave it to the original
De Beyois YOU could probably have
bought the whole property for $500.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

Ordinary household accidents have no
terrors when there's a bottle of DR..
Thomas Electric Oil Ia the medicine
chest. Heals burns. cuts, bruises,
sDrains. Instant relief.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

Now is the time to plant bulbs for
spring Towering on the lawn, or for w n
ter Towering in the house. See May &
Co S collection, GA East Sixth street.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

Richer by far in gluten than the or
binary widely advertised brands of Flour
Is Apple BLOSSOM, 1t makes elastic
bread IN d.,ubie sense. 1.-THE second
meaning is; More bread
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

AND JUST THEN THE CLOWN HAD
TO SNEEZE.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01

Gunpowder did away With the sword.
though Ii is still in use to some extent.
The saber has held it's own for cavalry
purposes.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-01
ABOUT SWORDS.

Paul, Sept. IS.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12
HE CALLED HER IN.

He called her in from me and shut the
door,
After long struggling with my pride
and pain,
A weary while it seemed, in which the
more
l held myself from her, the greater
fain
Was I to look upon her face again;
At last-at last-half conscious where
my feet
Were faring, 1 stood waist deep in the
sweet,
Green grasses there, where she
First came to me.
The very blossoms she had plucked
that day,
And at her fathers voice had cast
away,
Around me lay.
Still bright and poisoning in these
eyes of mine:
And as I gathered each one eagerly,
I pressed it to my lips and drank the
wine
Her kisses left there for the honey
'ss9UI9p
-u9Q Su!I9SuI ql!M 'L!eq 4qS!Iq leu 10
ss9Il
eq4 q4!M m9q4 p!eI ppq I Ielye 'u9qL
eco
I, turning, crept on to the edge that
bound
Her pleasant seeming home-but all
around
Was never sign of her. The windows
all
Were blinded; and I heard no ripping
fall
OF her glad laugh, nor any harsh voice
CALI
But, clutched to the tangled grasses,
caught
A sound as though a strong man
bowed his head
And sobbed observation-disclosures
forted!
And then straightway before
My fearless eyes, all wildly was
wrought
A vision that is with me evermore;
A little girl that lies asleep, nor
hears,
Nor needs not any voice, nor fall of
tears;
And I sit singing DER and DER,
'GOd called her in from him and shut
the door,"
James Whitcomb Riley.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12

shadow thing most marvelOusly like
a scalping knife. Wherefore, the fol-
lowing day being the Sunday, good Mr..
Stockham, our minister at Weyanoke,
exhorted us to be watchful, and in his
prayer besought that no sedition or
rebellion might raise its head amongst
the Indian subjects of the Lords
anointed Afterward, in the church
yard, between the services, the more
timorous began to tell of divers por-
tents observed by them, and to re-
count old tales of how the savages
distressed us in the Starving Time,
The holder spirits laughed them to
scorn, but the women began to
weep and cover, and though I
laughed too, thought of Smith, and
how he ever held the savages, and
more especially their now emperor,
Opechancanough, in most deep dis
trust, telling us that the red men
watched while we slept, that they
might teach witness to Jesuit, and
how to bide it's time to a cat crouched
before a mouse hole.-Miss Mary
Johnston in Atlantic.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12

young man of Is he made reputation
by his vigorous opposition to repeal
of the habeas corpus act, and two
years later, in 1919, he made his his
toric effort to secure parliamentary re-
form, a subject with which his name
will be forever identified. He was
always the champion of civil and re-
ligious liberty. Although opposed by
the duke of Wellington's government,
in 1928, he secured the repeal of the
test and corporation acts. In 1887, the
year of the queens accession, he had
the criminal law SO amended that cap
ital punishment was removed from
forgery and all offenses but seven. He
took a prominent part in promoting
the education of the people and laid
the foundation of the existing system
of national education in England. His
breadth of mind was exhibited in 1858,
when he secured the passage of a
measure admitting Jews to parliament.
In 1865, on the death Of Lord Palmer
ston, he became prime minister for
the second time, holding office, how
ever, but year. On many subjects
the queen and Lord Russell did not
agree, but the wisdom Of the man
overcame the power of the pOtentate.
The great Lord Derby succeeded
Lord Russell in 1852. In his early
parliamentary career he took dis
tinguished part in all measures relat-
ing to reform in Ireland, and, as chief
secretary of Ireland, in 1880, he sig
nalized his administration by demand
ing system of national education in
that distressed country. Lord Derby
was one of the first to discover the
genius of DisraeE, and his loyalty to
that distinguished statesman was the
cause of his resigning the premiership
ten months after his appointment in
February of 1852. In forming his cab
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12
THE CRADLE OF Co-EDUCATIoN.
Some of the Prim Rules That Gov
erned the Girl Graduate Years Ago.

ct is now about sixty-fve years
since for the first time in the history
of our country young ladies studied
the higher branches in the same class
room with young men, and publicly
received the degree of Bachlor of Arts
from Oberlin college, the cradle of
-co-education," writes Edward A.
Steiner in the Woman's Home Com
panion. ''In the year 1841 three wo-
men graduated, and were the first
young women to receive a degree in
the arts; and in 1874 two women APP
piled for admission to the theological
seminary, we're admitted, and finished
the course, although they did not re-
eceive a degree. One coveted privilege
these young ladies were not permitted
to enjoy, that of reading their essays
on commencement day. The profess
sOr of rhetoric was their proxy. Such
an ardent womans rights advocate as
Lucy Stone had to suffer under this
humiliating discrimination, but not
was not read by the professor of
rhetoric, for the simple reason that it
was never written. In 1859 that bar
rier was broken down by the pent-up
energies of many generations of irate
female students, who here as every
where obtained their rights if they
wanted them.
'The living of the young ladies
must have been very plain, for they
paid only seventy-five cents a week
for board, and they paid that by work
at the rate Of three cents an hour. I
find nowhere a record of class parties,
and not trace of class picture, and
know that there existed no such
frivolous thing as a chocolate-drop.
There were four women to enter the
first regular freshman class. Though
the frivolities of modern college life
were not permitted, love could not be
kept out, and Mary F. Kellogg, one of
the four, afterward became the wife
of ex-President Fairchild. The mother
of DR.. Barrows, the recently elected
president, was also one Of those
pioneers of co-education, and she GER
fainly did not dream that at a crisis in
the history of her alma mater she
would give her beloved son to be the
leader Of that noble institution"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12

off the lower part of the spinal column
and the patient has not only lived
but by that means health has been in
sured
Doctors now say that when any or
gan becomes burden it should be
Topped off like the dead limb of a
tree. The other organs will rally and
do the work of the lost member.
If Juan Patritti should become filled
with heroic aspirations in place of or
gans, and, shouldering his gun, go
forth to do battle, he might meet with
another calamity. A bullet might
shoot away his liver. Such cases have
happened. More than that, the soldier
has lived to fight for his country on
other fields. So might Patritti.
If this victim of misfortune should
be attacked by consumption, which
would rob him of one lung, he might
live to a hale old age with the other
1t is true he might be but the hol-
low mockery of man. Cynical peo-
pie might talk about him as an empty
shell, but, so far as appearances go
he would still be the perfect figure Of
a man.
There are good many external or
gans that he could be robbed of by
the knife. His legs could be cut off
both arms, his ears and his nose, anG
while he would be a little disfgured he
might be still in the ring.
1t would seem by these operations
| been successfully performed, that 81
long as a man has sound heart ht
can lose each and all of these externa
and internal organs and yet have /;
firm grip on life and perhaps live t.
the good old Biblical age of threescor
and ten.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12
VIRGINIA IN 1921.

The work of the day being over,
sat down upon my doorstep, pipe in
hand, to rest awhile in the cool of the
evening. Death is not more still than
is this Virginian land in the hour
when the sun has sunk away, and
it is black beneath the trees, and the
stars brighten slowly and softly, one
by one. The birds that sing all day
have hushed, and the horned owls, the
monster frogs, and that strange and
ominous fowl Cf fowl it be, and not,
as some assert, a spirit damned) which
we English call the whippoorwill, are
yet silent. Later the wolf will howl
and the panther scream, but now there
is no sound. The winds are laid, and
the restless leaves droop and are
quiet The low lap of the water among
the reeds is like the breathing of one
who sleeps in his watch beside the
dead. I watched the light die from
the broad bosom of the river leaving
it a dead mans hue Awhile ago, and
for many evenings, it had been Grim
soma river of blood A week before,
a great meteor had shot through the
night, blood-red and bearded draw
ing slow-fading, fiery trail across
the heavens; and the moon had
risen that same night blood-red, and
upon its disk there was drawn in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12
LADY CURZON's PALACE.

Lord Wellesley built this palace.
copying it from the mansion which
has descended to Lord Curzon from
his ancestors, and in which he spent
his boyhood. That house is Kedleston
Hall, in Derbyshire, one of the noted
mansions of Great Britain. Welles-
ley had visited it's owner, and was so
impressed by it's stately grandeur that
when the opportunity came for him
to put up the first English govern
mental palace in India he could think
of nothing better than to copy this
noble pile. He improved upon the
original He made the four great
wings each three stories high to match
the central building. They are story
lower in the Curzon mansion in
Derbyshire. 1t is a strange trick of
fortune which now brings Lord Cur
zon to rule Indiaa, Burmah, and the
other allied dominions under his con-
troll from what seems the very hall in
which he spent his boyhood in the
mother-land. More curious yet is the
tale now whispered by those who are
near to him, to the effect that when
he saw the palace on his first visit to
India strange but powerful super
stition seized his mind, and he said to
himself 'tI shall one day be the mas
ter of that house Also Another bit
of viceregal gossip, a trife more SEN
timental and moving, is that which
couples Rudyard Kipling with this.
grand advance from the English cOun
try-seat to the oriental palace. It runs
thus-that when the gifted English
man wrote his name in Lady Curzon's
album, some years ago, he said to
her, ''The next time + write my name
in your house it will be in govern
ment house, Calcutta. Julian Ralph
| in Harper's Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12
GALE REPERCUTEE."

Napoleon Bonaparte, as first con-
sui and as emperor, was the victim of
a malady which caused him to seek
the advice of the most distinguished
physicians of Paris. It is little
shocking to modern sensibiIities to
read that these physicians, except
Corvisart, diagnosed the distinguished
patients malady as 'gale repercutee'
that is to say, in idiomatic English
itch ''struck in" 1t is hardly neces-
sary to say that no physician Of to-
day would make so inconsiderate a
diagnosis in the case of a royal patient
If by any chance distinguished
patient were afflicted with the itch
the sagacious physician would care
fully hide the fact behind circumlocu-
tons, and proceed to eradicate the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12

disease with all despatch of
which goes to show how easy it may
be for masked pretender to impose
on credulous humanity; for nothing
is more clearly established in modern
knowledge than the fact that "gale
repercutee" was simply a name to hide
profound ignorance; no such disease
exists, or ever did exist. Gale itself
is sufficiently tangible reality, to be
sure; but it is purely local disease
of the skin, due to a perfectly definite
cause, and the dire internal condi-
tons formerly ascribed to it have
really no causal connection with it
whatever. This definite cause, as
every one nowadays knows, is no
thing more nor less than microscopic
insect which has found Judgment on
the skin, and has burrowed and made
itself at home there. Kill that insect,
and the disease is no more; hence it
has come to be an axiom with the
modern physician that the itch is one
of the three or four diseases that he
positively is able to cure, and that
very speedily. But it was far other
wise with the physicians of the first
third of our century, because to them
the cause of the disease was an abso-
lutte mystery.-Harper's Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12
A GOOD EXAMPLE.

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie has sold his
interests in the Carnegie company's
steel business to his partners. The
price paid to him has not been dis
closed, but it seems possible that he
received as much as S1500 ,000 An
other estimate is $100,000,00 At all
events, Mr.. Carnegie retires a rich
man, even according to modern stand
ards. He says his action is based on
a resolution, formed not long since,
that he would not spend his old age in
business struggling for more dollars.
After sixty, he thinks, a rich man
should devote his energies to wise
administration of his surplus wealth.
Mr.. Carnegie has set good example.
One of the complaints that are made
Of American business men is that they
don't know when to stop work. Many
of them have no mental recourse ex-
cept business, and dare not stop try
ing to make money, because that is
the only thing in life that really in
terests them, and if they abandon that
resource they are in danger of finding
themselves completely out of a job,
and of dying of dry-rot after a few
years of remorseful inactivity. Mr..
Carnegie need have no fears of that
sort. His mind is incorrigibly active,
and he will always be sure of finding
congenial employments. He has vari-
Gus places of residence scattered about
the world-in New York, in Pittsburg.
| in Scotland, and elsewhere, and he
| likes to move about. He also likes to
give money for objects which promise
| to promote the progress of civilization.
Even if he concerns himself no longer
with steel-making, and only tries to
spend his income, he will find an oc-
cupation in that, for the distribution
of even four or five million dollars
year is matter that invites thought:
and though will be sure to go into any
distribution that Mr.. Carnegie makes.
A great millionaire is never out Of
business; but, besides being a mill
lionaire, Mr.. Carnegie is philan-
thropist and a writer-E. S. Martin in
Harper's Weekly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12

Queen Victoria has had ten prime
ministers in her reign of sixty odd
years, and in tracing up the causes of
the wide expansion of British power
since 1887 it at once becomes appar-
ent that to these level-headed states
men is largely due the glory which is
being showered upon the old lady who
has outlived all but two of them
Lord Roseberry and the marquis of
Salisbury.
When the girl queen assembled the
throne over sixty years ago, Lord Mel
bourne had been premier for two
years, and he continued to hold the
important Office until 1841. 1t was he
who gave Victoria her first lessons in
ness of governing the government.
That he was an efficient instructor the
wisdom of the queens conduct in
times of adversely and prosperity is
abundant evidence. Aside from this,
the administration of Lord Melbourne
was not noteworthy, and, while he
was never popular, the queen pre-
served an affectionate regard for him
until his death.
Sir Robert Peel succeeded Mel
bourne, and continued in office until
1916 Among other things, Sir Robert
was the grandfather of the young Rob-
ert Peel who not long since disgraced
the famous name by writing an al
legged exposure of London society. Sir
Robert did much during his premier
ship to unite the lower classes and
the government on various vexed
questions, and by the working people
he was greatly esteemed.
Lord John Russell succeeded him,
serving from 1916 to 1852, and his SER
vices were of vast import to the queen.
although he was generally opposed to
the governmental party. When only a
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12

and brushes, she was asked to paint a
picture of Henry M. Stanley, then new
ly returned from his last trip in the
Dark Continent. She writes: Take
care of my eyes was one
Of the first requests he made, and
when the sitting was over and had
left, he placed the portrait and a large
looking glass side by side to compare,
and made notes of the alterations ne
would like, and when I next came SOL
EMMY presented me with a piece of pa
per on which was written: Nose not
straight enough, forehead too low, hair
too gray, etc. . Stanley is not the
first man to suppose his own nose, fore
head and hair to be more beautiful
than the fact.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-06-12

ward Lord Beaconsf1eld. After five at
tempts to secure election to parlia-
ment he was at last successful, in
1897 He was 80 at the time, and his
maiden speech, made in a high-foWn
style and with extravagant gestures,
created so much merriment that he was
forced to stop, but before taking his
seat he uttered the prophecy: Il
shall sit down now, but the time will
come when you will hear me-"
For the next twelve years he made
a careful study of the methods of the
ablest parliamentary speakers, and it
was not until 1849 that his oratorical
ability began to attract attention. He
had made few speeches until then, but
when he felt the ground beneath him
secure he flashed out like meteor.
During the seven years that the lib
erals were in power, from $50 to '66,
as leader of the opposition Disraeli dis
played talents as a debater and a
spirit of persistency under defeat
which won him the admiration of the
country. When first chosen premier,
in 1868, he served but a few months,
because of a hostile majority. In 1874,
when the conservatives secured large
majority, he was again selected, and
he remained in power until 1880, when
it was necessary to dissolve parliament
because of it's existence for the full
limit of seven years.
Little need be said of England's
grand old man. Mr. Gladstone as pre-
mier four times, from 1854, 188O-5,
1885, 1924. The achievements of this
monarch of statesmen are too familiar
to need recounting here.
Lord Rosebery, the most luckless of
all the prime ministers, held office
about a year Lord Salisbury has been
twice premier, 1862 and 1895 to The
present time.