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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-17
BLOCK ISLAND.

Tie first nackerei fleet ~ the season
found harbor OF the island Thursday
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-17
BREEZY BLUFF HOUSE.

Edgewood Z. l., now open. one OF
the best homelike summer resorts on
the Bay. Everything first-clas and
prices moderate. Washington Park cleo
trio cars every 20 minutes. Thelephone
2S71-6
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-17
THE BERKSHIRE INN.

Amid the Berkshire Hills, tho favorite re
sort az most choice people. Golf. Tennis.
heeling, Maichless Drives aud Scenery
Ihe Inn provides for 200 guests. All modern
conditions. Frontage $50 feet Write
CALEB TICKNER X son.
CT. harrington Mass.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-17

Don't we folks just wish we lived in
the Philippines where they have a re.
liable rainy season,
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-17

II was a fine Class Day with all the
new gowns on all the new girls. as here
tofore for many and many genera
tion. God bless EN-.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-06-17
Furnished Cottages al ihe SEA-,

TO LET-AT SAUNDERSTOwN
cottage with rooms. all well furnished.
$l75.
TO LET--AT NEWPORT, SEVERAL,
cottages from $3.50 TO $4,000
TO LET-AT JAMESTOWN, A FEW
excellent cottages. still unrented, 500
and upwards.
Write for lists and particulars TO 4.
"A. O'D Taylor's Real Estate Agency
offices, 124 Bellevue avenue. Newport
and Narragansett avenue jamestown.
MAPLE LAWN M-PLEASANT
location. shaded lawn. nice veranda.
iirstclass table; Boston reference.
photo. on application: adults s.. chill
dren half price. For further particu.
lars address +. T.. r., G1bertvnle
Mass. box 81.
TENT LIFE FOR BOYS ON EAGLE
Island. Penobscot Bay. swimming. sail
ing, rowing. golf. under careful sunor.
vision aud instruction. Write TO PROF
j. l} TAYLOR. Chauncy- Han. Boston
HooD FARM HOUSE
now open FOR thirty guests: fine view:
shady lawn. piazza. fresh vegetables
milk aud eggs from farm. daily mail.
good board. livery connected. w w
BURNIAM. Milford. ". H.
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

Herbert L. Bridgeman, who COM
manded the Peary Arctic expedition Of
1899, arrived in Brooklyn. He be-
lieves that Peary will accomplish his
purpose and reach the pole before his
four years are up.
Fire almost destroyed the large
building at 107-111 East One Hundred
and Twenty eighth street, New York,
occupied by A. S. Nichols as factory
for wood and granite mantels and
CRATES. Loss 100000
Leaders of the different railroad en-
ployes' organizations are now con-
sidering plans for the establishment Of
employees grocery stores at the d.
vision points of the various lines
throughout the country.
Wayne MacVeigh, counsel for Cap
tain Oberlin Carter, who has been
abroad for his health, returned. He
refused to discuss the Carter case,
but said he expected to go 10 Washing
ton within a day or two.
Mrs. Eliza Barber, mother of o. G..
Barber president of the Diamond
Match company and widow of George
Barber, inventor of the match which is
now in general use throughout the
world, died at Akron, aged SO years.
Charles Alfred Pillsbury, head of the
milling system of Minneapolis, died.
The cause of his death was heart
trouble, resulting from an enlarge
ment of the stomach, due to INSULT
cient exercise. He was 81 years old.
The president has appointed Henry
w. Diederich, United States consul at
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
WAR.

A discharged Colorado volunteer
charges the main officials at Manila
with corrupt practices.
General Brooke reports the death of
John S. Love, civilian employe, of
tetanus, on September II, at Santiago.
The thirteenth Minnesota regiment
will be allowed to bring its arms home
"a concession granted thus far TO no
other regiment.
Captain Nehemiah Dyer, who COM
manded the Baltimore in the battle OF
Manila bay, was in Washington and
called at the navy department.
Can't. Tillman of South Carolina is
authorized by the war department to
form a company of Chippewa and other
Indians for service in the Philippines
Aguinaldo is reported to have re-
fused $4,000 a year said to have been
offered by the Schurman commission,
to be paid while the Tagalos remained
peaceful.
Rear-Admiral Schley seems to have
been assigned to the south Atlantic
station without having been consulted,
an unusual procedure Ill the Case VI OH
officer of flag rank.
Governor Frank Stennenberg of
Idaho, has complimented the war de-
partment on it's reception of the
Idaho troops at San Francisco when
they returned from the Philippines.
Secretary Root has ordered the
twenty-eighth volunteers, Lieutenant
Colonel Leonard, from Camp Meade,
and the twenty-ninth, Colonel Hardin,
from Fort Mcpherson, Ca, to San
Francisco to embark for the Philip
pines.
General D. M. Dodge of New York
announces that subscriptions for the
Dewey memorial building fund in New
York now amount TO $4,000. The
building is to be erected at North
field First Assistant Postmaster
General Perry S. Heath has been des-
ignated by the postmaster general to
represent the postoffice department
on the reception committee appointed
to meet Admiral Dewey. Bungling
about the stands for the Dewey cele-
bration will cause the public to pay ex-
orbitant prices for seats on private
platforms.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
FOREIGN.

The Simla assembly passed the cur
rency bill.
A German spy has been arrested at
Lacroix-sur- Mouse, France.
In London the failure of James
David Barry is announced.
H. Rider Haggard, the novelist, has
gone TO the Atlin gold fields.
Sonora Diaz, wife of the president of
Mexico, is seriously i'll with gastric
fever.
The Montreal liner Cervona and the
steamer Silverdale have conceded the
strikers demands.
Miss Anne Russell Allen of St. Louis
was married to the duke of Monte
feltro at Homburg.
1t is reported that General MERCER
will stand for the French senate for
the department of Larthe.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier will leave Ottawa
for Chicago Oct. Z, to participate in the
postoffice cornerstone laying.
The long-expected papal encycl1cal
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

next century may see the spider indus
try a large one.
Men of science say that spiders do
not belong to the insect kingdom at all.
They differ in many respects, but par
ticularly in being pulmonary creatures,
breathing with lungs, that, instead Of
being looked upon as insects, they are
classed with mites and scorpions. Of
all fighting animals the spider eXcells-
He fights for the mere love of it, and
the vanquished is always devoured by
the victor.
Spiders have four, six, eight and ten
eyes, according to their species and it
is only by the number and position of
their eyes that they can be classified.
The attempts to class them by their
nests and habits have proved unsatis-
factory The most wonderful part Of
the little creatures body is that con-
tanning the "spinnerets," whence pro-
ceeds the silk. Some have four, others
six, and some have them placed further
in the abdomen than others. The silk
is formed by a chemical process of the
juices of the food concocted in the nat
ural laboratory, the large silk reser-
voir, and as it condenses, passing into
the smaller. 1t is used by the spider
according to her wants. Each of the
nipples has a thousand or more small
tubes, called spinnerules, through
which passes a thread. All these
threads are united at the creatures
desire, into a large or small cable,
composing a thread finer than any hui
man mechanism has yet had the power
to produce. A scientist says it takes
100000 of these threads to make one
as thick as hair of the human head.
The ground spiders, which have not
so much use for silk as those which
spin on the trees and walls, do not
elaborate such an elastic material, but
it is infinitely stronger. Some of them
spin but little and only then to line
their nests and make cocoons.
Robert Browning is known to have
had near his writing desk number of
skulls in which he allowed various
spiders to play and spin at will, and it
was Pindar's Susan who said:
Strange that I've been so blind to
form and feature
I think spider now a comely crea-
ture"
Had Robert Bruce been as frightened
of the little thing that climbed beside
him as Miss Muffet was, he would not
have been reyivified into the doer
whose deeds have passed into history's
most heroic stories-New York Trib-
une
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
WILL SHE REPORT HIM?

This postman has long route in the
Piety Hill district, and the lively cor,
respondence carried on from that Sec
ton makes it necessary for him to call
at almost every door. He was hand
ling his forenoon delivery at his best
speed the other day when novel
interruption occurred. He had handed
a letter to the woman of the house and
was hurrying on his way when she ran
excftedly to the sidewalk and hailed
him. eli, there!" she shouted. "Come
back, please; want to talk with you.
That was very important letter you
gave me-" as he approached, "and ]
must answer it at once. Just sit down
here on this side porch and wait
won't you? It'll not take me more
than fifteen minutes"
.Td like to accommodate you
madam, but it is impossible. Tn
crowded as it is and can't lose a min.
ute
Gust you do as tell you," recall
ing how she had heard her husband
talk on occasions. |'I'd like to know
what we pay taxes for. can ge3
through in ten minutes.
"But it would be liable to lose mt
my job"
ooh, I'll see to that" with mascu
line wave of her hand. what? No
going to wait? See here, sir, I'll re
port you to the mayor, that's what II
do. Don't you think because I'm
woman that I don't know my constitu
tional rights TIL do worse thar
that. I'll report you to the governor,
as she kept pace with him and gestic,
ulated with both hands. "You nigh
just as we'll be looking for another
BERTH she shouted in her final appeal
''for I'll write to the president this
very night. The very ideal" Still
he hurried along, while she returned
to regale her neighbor with an ex
citing narrative of what she had done
and was going to do.-Detroit Free
Press.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
IS A CORNER IN IPECAC.
Brazilian Variety Very Scarce Article
at Present.

Ten or twelve years ago one could
buy all the Rio ipecac root he wanted
for S1.25 an ounce. Now it costs $4.25,
and it is quite as likely TO grow more
expensive as to become cheaper. The
supply has almost ceased, and the
worlds stock is said to be in the
hands of a few American dealers.
There is much talk, however, at the
present time about the frmness of
the Carthagena or New Granada root
as an efficient substitute for the
Brazilian article At least two points
of difference have been noticed be-
tween the two. One is merely in ap-
pearance. When cut open the Cartha-
gena root shows certain rings less
distinctly than does that from Rio.
The other distinction is more i'm
portant. The alkaloid upon which
the Brazilian ipecac depends for it's
activity is known as "emetine." This
is found to only a small degree in the
Carthagenian root. The character
is'tic principle of the latter is known as
"cephaline," and it's action is some
WudI uulIhG L1dL I'll Cu1VL1uC.
Commenting on the situation week
or two ago, the American Druggist ex-
pressed surprise that more study had
not been given to cephaline by ex
perts than it has thus far received.
Whenever new varieties of a vegetable
drug are discovered it is customary to
investigate them with great particu-
larity. Thus far, however, the ply
Biological chemists are unable to
speak with confidence about the active
principle of the New Granada root.
One secret of the diminution in the
output of the Rio ipecac is the labor
of digging the roots. The operation
involves bending over, and is said to
be exceedingly tiresome. But this is
also true of the Carthagena root. The
real explanation, therefore, is probably
the discovery by the Brazilians that
rubber culture is just now more
profitable than digging ipeoac.-New
York Tribune.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

addressed to France, issued at the vat
lean, ignores the Dreyfus case.
A new ministry has been formed at
Sydney, N. S. w, with w. J. Lyme, the
leader of the opposition, as premier.
There have been forty-two deaths
from the bubonic plague at Magude,
near Lourenco Marquee, Delagoa bay.
The Paris Matin asserts that the
French cabinet has agreed to pardon
Dreyfus and that the decree will be
signed Sept. 10.
The premier of France says the re-
pnblic narrowly escaped overthrow at
the hands of the Orleans, antiSemites
and Patriotic league.
In an interview in London, Perry
Belmont said Mr.. Bryan's views on the
currency were such he could not sup
port him for the presidency.
Transvaal government prepared a
pacific reply to England's latest com
munication, but insists upon strict ad-
herence to the convention Of 1884.
At Madrid fifty-nine cases of typhoid
fever were reported. Since the out
break of the disease the proportion OF
cases resulting fatally has been small.
Private advices from Sonora, Mex.
show that Chief TetaIbiat of the va
quis, who remained loyal to the Mexi-
can government, was seized by the
rebels and cruelty tortured.
Marius Jokai, the celebrated Hun
garian poet and novelist, who is "a
years of age, was married at Budapest
Saturday to Arabella Grossnagy, a
pretty Jewish actress of % years.
At Montreal the southeast corner OF
the Queens Hall block, in which was
located w. H. Scroggies retail dry
goods store, fell in. Loss, 100000 on
building and 100000 on Scroggie's
stock. No one was injured.
Advices received at st. Kits from
the Island of Anguilla, one of the Brit
ish West India islands, leeward group,
say that hurricane during the night
of Sept. destroyed 200 houses and
rendered 800 people homeless.
The Santo DOMINICAN government
proclamation destroying the value OF
paper money created Sucn violent OPP
position that the minister proclaimed
acceptance Of paper at the same rates as
silver, namely, S. to 81 American.
The first military train for the Pa
cific will leave Halifax Saturday. 1t
viii have a contingent for Esquimault.
On it's arrival the Notifications OF
Esquimault which have taken years to
complete, will be formally handed over
to the military authorities.
The French budget for 1900 shows
an increase in the estimated expendf-
ture of 45,OO0,O00 francs. The war and
marine ministries ask for 36,000,000
francs increase for the supplementary
force in Algiers and the building of
new warships. The national debt
amounts to thirty milliards.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
SPIDERS NOT INSECTS.
They Breathe With Lungs and Are
Classed With Scorpions.

In these last days of the nineteenth
seems to be respected without a pedi-
gree. Well, the little spiders can boast
the highest distinction and one of the
Oldest genealogies. Their great pro-
genitress was the famous young woman
of Lydia who challenged the goddess,
Minerva, to a spinning match and was
on the point of excelling her when the
goddess flew into a rage, tore up her
competitors work and struck her on
the forehead with a spoke of the wheel,
to despair. But even goddesses some
times relent, and Minerva, in pity,
turned her antagonist into spider.
Any housewife who follows broom
stick in it's peregrinations upstairs,
downstairs and in my lady's chamber
would naturally be inclined to think
the spider a useless and even abhOrent
creature These insects are not use
less, however, in the economy of ma
ture. To begin with, some species OF
them are the food of many tbarbarous
nations-the Blackfeet Indians and
several tribes of the Southwest used
them as such-and there is one speci-
men to be found in the Everglades Of
Florida which was not only eaten by
tho Indians, but esteemed by them as
necessary to health on account of its
medicinal properties. Travellers also
say that they are eaten in Africa. An
authority on the subject declares that
the Bashie men consider them dainty
The inhabitants of New Caledonia
spend much of their time in roasting a
large, long spider over the fire and eat
ing it. Another use spiders are put to
every school-boy with a pocket knife
knows, as we'll as did Shakespeare, who
makes Bottom say: Good Master
Cobweb, if I cut my finger I will make
bold with thee"
Many efforts were made by Reamur
Bon, Kolt and other men of science 10
render the silk of spiders useful to
man, but without avail. Lately how
ever, it is reported to have been tried
with comparative success, and, as all
things are possible for the future, the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
WHERE THEY EXPECTED TO GO.

The man who had his coffin painted
a fiery red, and kept it for two whole
years at his front door, had evidently
a very clear idea Of where he was 60
ing when he had departed from this
world.
He is not the only man, however,
who kept hades in view so continually.
1t is related of the late marquis of
Anglesey that when he married and
settled down in life the many sins
of his past youth troubled him not a
little.
There was a slight fire at the castle
one night, and orders were afterward
given that hand grenades should be
placed in every room, which were
faithfully carried out.
Some dozen of these fire-extinguish-
ers we're left over, however, there be-
ing no place for them, and the butler
approached his master as to their
destination.
you'd better put them in my coffin, %
replied his 1ordship gravely.-GOlden
Penny.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

Washington, Sept. 20.-Secretary
of War Root Tuesday received a cable
gram from Gen. Otis that seemed to
indicate a weakening on the part of
the insurgents in Luzon. 1t contained
a proffer to deliver the American
prisoners, who have been many months
in the hands of the insurgents, and
also sought permission to parley with
Gen. Otis. The cablegram formed the
main topic of discussion at the begin
ming of the cabinet session. However,
upon reading the message carefully it
was apparent that it's importance
seemed to diminish. Secretary Root
himself did not regard the matter as
of Importance at this time. He re-
called the frequent efforts on the part
of the insurgents in the past to gain
time at critical moments by opening
negotiations ostensibly toward making
peace However, the secretary was OF
the opinion that it would fail to at
ford the insurgents any advantage.
There is a possibility also thai the in
surgents may have become disheart-
ened at the renewed and intense activ-
ity in the direction of reinforcing Gen.
Otis and concluded in view of the great
force gathering, not to open the cam
paign in the dry season for future re-
sistance would be useless. 1t is a
noticeable fact that Aguinaldo's
name does not appear in
Gen. Otis dispatch. Some army
Af hn of
there are serious discussions among
the insurgents and perhaps some of
the discordant elements are acting
on their own responsibility.
The text of the dispatch from Gen.
Otis is as follows: Macarthur re-
ports from Angeles visits of TWO in
surgent officers with request for per-
mission to send into our lines Ameri-
can prisoners and to send to Manila
prominent insurgent general officer for
conference. The requested interview
granted and insurgent officer at Ange-
les returned north this morning with
information" The war department
has approved the action of Gen. Otis
in refusing to allow Spanish ships to
go to ports controlled by the insur
gents to take away Spanish prisoners.
These ships, however, will be allowed
to proceed to such ports under the es-
cort of vessels of the United States.
The navy department has received
the following cablegram from Admiral
Watson, dated Manila, Sept. Is:
Davidson, in Paragua, had sharp
engagement on the 18th at San Fa-
bian, Lingayen Gulf, with about 300
insurgents heavily entrenched at a dis
lance Of from LOO to 700 yards. The
insurgents fed. Their fire was weak
and ineffective On the Paragua there
were no casualties. The senior COM
mends Davidson highly"
The Paragua is one of the gunboats
turned over to the army by Admiral
Watson, and Davidson, the command
er, is young ensign. The scene of
the battle was on the north coast of
Luzon, off the port which forms the
northern terminus Of the island.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25
CONDENSED SMILES.

The orator: "Longfellow said tina,
in this world man must either be
anvil or hammer" Voice from the
rear: "How about the bellows ~
Cassell's.
A. Conan Doyle says that for absent
mindedness he holds the worlds cham
pionship, but we doubt if he could wiz
out against the Colorado woman WHIT
put her baby in the oven to roast ant
sang lullaby in an endeavor to sootht
to sleep the stuffed turkey she rookie
in the cradle.-Denver Post.
Edith: "'Tis love that makes tn
world go round" Ethel: Eyes; blu
there are not eligible men enough t
make the love go round"
Dear mel" exclaimed the fond fs
Their, anxiously, whatever can be tn
matter with the baby? 1t isn't cry
ing. "-Tid-Bits.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-09-25

Chicago September wheat, 7178c.
Senator Hanna arrived from Europe.
Wall street had something of a
panic.
The export exposition opened in
Philadelphia.
Ten thousand carpenters struck in
New York.
In Virginia a negro was hanged for
highway robbery.
Lake lumber rates reached the high
est point ever known.
William Mclean died at Chillicothe,
ILL.,, at the age of SO.
Sycamore reports the first frost for
this season in Illinois.
At Cleveland ex-Mayor VIM. G. Rose
died of rheumatic govt.
Iroquois, premier stallion of the
Belle Mead (Ky.) stud, died.
President Mckinley made a promise
to visit Galesburg, ILL.,, on Oct. Z.
The United States government will
take no action in the Dreyfus case.
The Chicago trust conference adj
journed without passing any resolu-
tons.
Jews assembled in Chicago and pro-
tested against the verdict in the Drey-
fus case
Willie Smith of Chicago won the
golf championship of the United
States.
An adobe house five miles from
Mora, N. M, collapsed, killing eight
persons.
F. w. Alex, an instructor in fencing
and teacher of language, killed himself
at Racine.
President Mckinley is said to have
announced positively that he will be in
st. Paul Oct. II.
In New York Tammany officials asked
increased allowances for 1900 amount
ing TO $1O,78O,54S.
A lone highwayman held up stage
coach near Napa, Cal, and escaped
with the express box.
Robert J. Burdette was stricken with
vertigo while lecturing before Han
ford, CAL, audience.
The meat trust has nearly doubled
the price of pork and advanced that of
veal about Is per cent.
New York grain men believe an at
tempt is being made in Chicago to cor
ner the wheat market.
James H. Todd, one of the prominent
old settlers of Lee county, died at
Dixon, Ill, aged "a years.
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Saltwater
lumbermen bought a large tract of
pine on the Cloquet river.
In New York James M. Nixon, once
well known as proprietor of travel
ing circus, is dead, aged 80.
Gen. R. A. Alger is said to have an
nounced that he will not be candi-
date for United States senator.
Special Master Carey's sale of the
patented lands of the Northern Pacific
was confirmed by Judge Jenkins.
Mrs. Therese Graham Blackburn,
aged SO, the wife of former Senator
J. C. S. Blackburn, died at Versailles,
KY.
California health authorities are
considering the question of establish
ing a quarantine against consump-
tives.
At Toledo, Mayor Jones, in his an
nual message to the city council advo-
Gated municipal ownership and free
baths.
Richard Croker and Mayor Van
Wyck again appeared before the Mazet