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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-20

and Is miles. Not field or orchard,
barn or cabin, wood or clearing, but
what passed daily beneath his watch
full eyes. His journal tells of a morn
ing spent in teaching rebelliOus coral
honey -suckle vine to entwine the
trunk of some stately forest tree; of
the clearing away of the underbrush
from a grove of favorite pines; Of max
ing drills for the sowing of holly-ber-
ries, etc.
Each day he gave personal direc-
lions to his overseers, regulating al
most with the care of a father the busy
life of the negro world, and sometimes
even attending directly to their needs
and complaints.
In a field of the richest grass and
clover Mount Vernon could afford, a
tall old sorrel horse, with white face
and legs, cropped, in it's season, the
luxuriant heritage or stood meditative-
ly, in the shade, doubtless dreaming of
passed glOries. Every day while max
ing his rounds of the farms, Washing
ton never failed to stop before this
field, lean over the fence and cali,
Nelson"
At the sound of his voice the old
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riages, he thought he would be in the
swim. So, stepping up to the caller,
he pompously said: Call $500 Loud
ly the man in livery shouted: Sixty
fxe-forty! and repeated the call. Just
as he was about to give up in despair
a street car clattered along bearing IN
its ide in large figures $50. The gall
lery god pointed to the number and
climber aboard, shaking hands with
himself on the good joke he had on
the caller"
Speaker Reed, when told last sum-
mer that Congressman Dingley was
very fond of Mark Twain and the
American humorists generally, made
answer: why, when Dingley was a
young fellow he preferred sitting up
nights reading the latest treasury re-
port to holding pretty girl on his
knee. Isn't that so, Dingley?" "Well," "
replied the author Of the tariff bill,
81 leave that to Mrs. Dingley."
A Yankee and an Irishman, happen
ing to be riding together, passed a gall
lows. "Where would you be-" said
Jonathan, eff the gallows had it's due?"
Riding alone, guess" said the Irish
man.
"The government have alleviated the
confidence of the country" shouted a
public orator, who had intended to say
the exact opposite. When his support
ers cried at him he recognized his
error. Gentlemen, should have said
alenieated," he continued, amid the
jeers of his listeners.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-20
IN OLD AGE.

"You will meet, sir, an old gentle
man riding alone, in plain drab
clothes, a broad-brimmed white hat,
a hickory switch in his hand, and car
rving an umbrella with long staff,
which is attached to the saddle-bow.
That person, sir, is General Washing
ton" This delightful portraiture of
washington in his old age, when the
storms had passed and life ran in
quiet grooves by the side of his beloved
Potomac, was drawn by young Curtis,
adopted son of the patriarch, and in
tended to assist the recognition Of
Washington by a gentleman who had
asked to be directed to him.
The wish of Washington when old
'eto move gently down the stream of
life until I sleep with my fathers" was
granted. The last years of his life
were spent in the peace and quiet of
beautiful Mount Vernon, attending to
the healthful duties of the manage
ment of his large estate, and enter
tanning with courtly hospitality the
many distinguished personages who
came to do homage to his greatness.
And yet, his latter days at Mount
Vernon were busy days; for, every
morning, rain or shine, he would
mount his horse and make the circuit
of his farms, distance Of between II
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QUICK INTUITION.

AS Washington jOurneyed to Boston
to take command of his hastily gath
cred and i'll disciplined army of CONT
nentals, the news of Bunker Hill met
him on the way, and when he heard Of
the desperate valor of that militia
which had three times driven the Brit
ish regulars down the bloody slope, he
exclaimed that the cause was safe. It
was the quick intuition of a great COM
mander. The pluck, the courage, the
endurance; it was these he wanted 70
know, and upon these, under God, he
could rely for ultimate victory. Yes,
it was these which won at last, won
against the splendid discipline and
steady vaIor even Of that famous Brit
ish infantry which could climb that
Bloody slope Of Bunker Hill again, and
again, and even once more, in the face
of that murderous fire from those blaz-
ing guns.
SENTIMENTS FOR THE DAY.
The want Of France is a Washington.
-Lamartine.
interviewer is the love of liberty
with every ligament of the human
heart.-Washingto
Washington's a watchword such as
ne'er
Shall sink while there's an echo left to
air.
Byron, age Of Bronze"
A people that does not hold in honor
it's historical great men is like one who
denies his parents.-Auerbach.
The death of John Brown at Harper's
Ferry is more than Cain killing Abel;
it is Washington Staying Spartacus.-
Victor Hugo.
Unben0ed courage and compassion
joined,
Tempting each other in the victor's
mind
Alternately proclaimed him good and
great.
Washington's religious impressions
were in harmony with the rest of his
character-deep, rational, PRACTICAL
Edward Everett
The fame Of Washington stands
apart from every other in history,
shining with truer luster and a more
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penignant glory. Washington Irving.
Napoleon l. before starting to Egypt
said of Washington: Posterity will
talk Of him with reverence as the
founder OF a great empire when my
name shall be lost in the vortex Of rev.
OIutions''
The lights from city to city across
the continent in that day, are only one
light. From the hearts of the whole
American people, love and respect and
veneration for the name of the great
man who was the first president
John Boyle O'Reilly.
The American spirit, the American
flag, the American idea, the American
hope, may these find a new interpreta-
ton and awaken new devotion and
zeal in their maintenance and realiZa-
ton on this memorable day.-Arthur
Little, D. D.
John Marshall said, on the death nf
Washington, in 1893: "More than any
other Individual, and as much as to
one individual was possible, he has
contributed to found this our wide
spreading empire, and to give to the
western world it's independence and it's
freedom"
Popular hero worship Is to be COM
mended and encouraged when it con-
sists in the admiring contemplation OF
conspicuous virtue and wisdom. The
memory of George Washington is, and
ALWAYS will remain one of the most
important and precious possessions OF
the American people.-Carl Schurz.
Joseph Mandrillion, who was guillo-
tined by Robespirre in 1894, wrote:
when America overthrow by the
dreadful revolutions of nature shall no
longer exist, it will be remembered OF
Washington, that he was the defender
of liberty, the friend of man, and the
avenger Of an oppressed people"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-20
A SELF-PROPELLING BOAT.

In the Christmas number of Pear
sons some interesting particulars are
furnished by Herbert G. Fyfe of a craft
that propels itself, and to which the
inventor, Mr.. Linden of the zoologi-
cal station at Naples, has given the
designation of the Autonaut. Witt
out the help of engines, or steam, or
electricity, or man power" this curl
Gus vessel makes Roadway against
wind and wave at speed, it seems, of
from three to four miles an hour
Singular1y enough, too, the rougher
the sea the faster she moves-the ex-
PLANTATION being that she is propelled
by the action of the waves. The Sc
cret of her propulsion lies in couple
of pieces of apparatus, not unlike
gridirons, fixed, one at the bow and
the other at the stern about level
with the keel. These strips of steel
are what the ingenious inventor cans
"feathering fins" and it is stated that
he was led to his discovery by closely
observing the motion Of fishes fms,
especially the dOlphin's tail. In the
case of the Autonaut these so-called
fins" are moved by the waves in one
direction, and rebound back Of their
own elasticity Hence, it is explained
no engies are required to propel the
strange craft-London Telegraph.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-02-20

The treatment of itching, says a
medical contributor to Youths Com
panion, varies with the cause, but
some form of external application IS
almost always used, whatever may be
the underlying trouble. In case of
general itching much relief is often
afforded by an alkaline bath made by
dissolving three or four ounces of bor-
ak, or five or six gallons Of bicarbon-
ate of soda in 80 gallons of water.
When the itching is local, useful
plan is to mop the part with sponge
or cloth dipped in a saturated solution
of borax as hot as can be borne, or to
apply a hot-water bag. The Itching
is often made bearable, if not actually
cured, by application of dilute water
of ammonia, vinegar, brandy, solu-
ton of carbolic acid-one part acid in
20 parts OF water-or carbolized oil
of 20 per cent. strength. Finally, we
may repeat the advice which doctors
always give, and which few DO or can
follow-don't scratch!
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CLEVER LITTLE STORIES.

According to the Sioux City Journal,
a person who has just returned 20
Iowa from Chicago tells an amusing
theater incident which happened there
He says: cat all the large theaters in
Chicago is a man to call the number
of the carriages for the patrons as they
come out. At one Of these places the
caller was having more business than
a cranberry merchant when a man
came from the gallery exit, and, seeing
all the swells asking for their car
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HIS FIRMNEss.

Washington belongs, as a soldier,
not with the brilliant military gen
fuses, like Marlborough, Frederick and
napoleon, but with the safe and solid
commanders like Wellington, Scott
and Grant. If he was not quick to
comprehend a situation or devise his
enemy's intention, and was sometimes
little puzz-ed, as when Howe sailed
from Staten Island and assembled the
Chesapeake, or on the field Of Brandy
wine, he was never rash, and no gen.
eral ever completely surprised him.
We can only surmise what he would
have done with larger opportunities on
the great fields of action in European
warfare. I believe that under such cir
circumstances he would have been a
great commander of the solid, safe and
enduring order. His firmness, persist
ence and tenacity have rarely been ex-
celle6
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AIRsHIP FOR WAR DEPARTMENT.
Governments Practical Encourage
ment to Prof. Langley.

The war departments recent appro-
priation to Prof. Langley for the con-
struction of man-carrying airship
for military purposes has reminded
many interested persons of the scores
of extravaganza schemes which have
been Matched out by heat of the boil
ing Yankee brain since gossip first
learned that our military authorizes
yearned for an aerial as we'll as ma
rine navy. The notion has been we'll
nigh universal among latter-day fly
ing machine enthusiasts that the first
airship to be launched for practical
purposes would be vessel of war, but
these genuises have disagreed as to
whether the pioneer aerial war ship
should be based upon the principle of
the purely mechanical aerodrome Of
the dirigible elongated balloon, of the
captive kite, of the rocket or of the
soaring apparatus. During practically
every congress Of recent years some
good-natured legislator has been
leased into introducing bin appro-
priating money for flying machine of
some sort but needless is it to state
that no such bill has ever made en-
couraging progress along the congress
sional gauntlet.
The decision of the war department
authorities to perfect the mechanical
aerodrome was not reached without
considerable controversy as to the
relative merits of this principle and
those of the dirigible balloon being
ndustriously experimental necessarily
accentuates Yankee originality and
ambition to show the world more of
our ability to walk as victors in paths
unbeaten. The balloon will doubtless
remain as a valuable accessory to our
signal corps, but it has long been rec
ognized that, although an important
vehicle of defense in some emergen-
cies, and an all-seeing factor in aerial
espionage, it is, nevertheless, in con-
tinual peril, presenting a conspicuous
target to the enemy and moving but
slowly across the heavens. The first
use of an aerodrome would not be to
take part in actual battle, perhaps,
so much as to serve as a vehicle of
communication. One might be guided
over hostile territory, upon which it
might drop high explosives, destroy
ing Notifications, arsenals, vessels of
war, bridges or other means of com
munication. A machine based upon
Prof Langley's aerodrome would be
very much less likely to be hit by
gun aimed from the earth than would
a balloon, on account of it's much
smaller size, combined with its ex-
IRENE speed, which some aerodyna-
mists prophesy will one day reach as
much as 200 miles an hour. Owing to
the small area exposed by the light
frame and vital parts, it will be very
difficult to hit, and if struck the
chances are that projectile would
pass through one Of the thin cover
ings of the wings without shattering
any other part. It is believed that an
aerodrome will carry guns heavier
than a Maxim repeater, which weighs
about 60 or 70 pounds. washington
Correspondent of the Globe-Demoerat
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steed would prick up his ears and run
neighing a greeting, to curve his neck
under the caressing touch of his mas
ter's hand. This was the war-horse,
Nelson whose strong limbs had
borne his master safely through the
carnage and tumult of many bloody
battle to the browning honor at York
town, where, sitting on his back, the
communicative Of the American
armies had received the surrender of
Lord CORVALLIS.
In this active, transformations way
passed the last years Of the noblest
man of his age-perhaps of any age.
In the national museum at Wash
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SMALL BOYS VIEW OF WASH
INGTON.

He must a been bully chap, that fell
Ter Washin' ton,
Coz | have often heard my pa wish he
had SIGH a son;
M ma says it must a filed his moth
er's heart with joy,
Coz she could tell the folks next door
she had little boy
Which wuz the bestest boy in town; n
on her back yard fence
Could lean her chin n tell Miss Brown
she didn't have no sense
Bout raithin' chilern; ef she had
there WIZ no reacnon why
Her Johnny wuzn't like her George,
who never TOLD a lie.
My! I've told lois O WhOppers! n
George must a been a goethe
'E'e never told lie when it went
better'n the truth.
When my mas jam is missin' n she
takes me on her knee,
Pulls off her thIipper, n think lick
in won't suit me,
| don't mind a-sayin' | saw little
Wully there,
N that he couldn't reach the shelf, "a
so he TUX chair.
l guess they had no jam them days, n
that's the reason why
That little boy George Washin ton
never told lie.
l heard pa tell the story wunst about
the cherry tree,
M about the little Ratchet. I'll bet
if it Wuz me
l would a chopped the thing clean
down n ct the cherries, too.
m I'd "a said that Wully done it
that's what | would do.
Ill bet, though, Mister Washin' ton
lived to be old an gray,
He never had no little boys like We
uns; anyway,
He never told that yarn hisself, N
that's the reason why
The great n good George Washin' ton
never told lie.
My pa run for office wunst, n prom
Used if he'd win
He give each one bully job who'd
help to git him in;
seat, he found
There wuzn't jobs enough to go one
tenth the way around;
NJ so he wuzn't 'lected the next time
that he run.
I guess there wuz no jobs them days, or
mebbe Washin ton
Never run fur office, n that's the rea-
son why
The Father of His Country never told
lie.
Me n my pa went fishin' wunst n
didn't get bite;
But | heard pa say that we caught
nineteen the. other night;
N when 1 SAID: why, pal" his face
it jes' got awful red,
M e slipped penny in my hand, m
l looked up n said:
why, pa! found twuz twenty when
[ counted 'em again"
Well, l guess the presidents never went
a-fshin' then
Like they do sometimes nowadays, m
that's the reason why
Pa says that Mister Washin'ton never
told a lie.
&C. H. Conrad.
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Jingley-Ah, there comes our min
lister. He's the most unreasonable
man I ever saw.
HensOn-In what way?
Jingley-Why, he tells me I ought to
give more thought to the future, and
in almost the same breath he wants
me to reflect upon the past. Now,
hoW's a fellow to do both at the same
time?-Boston Transcript
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-11-19

To meet the demands for Pe-ru-na as n
catarrh remedy during the fall and win
ter three carloads per day is required.
Few people comprehend what an inn
mense amount of Pe-ru-na this is. 1t is
eighteen hundred dozen bottles of Pc
ru-na, each bottle containing twenty
ounces. This amounts to twenty-one
thousand six hundred bottles, or four
hundred and thirty-two thousand
ounces, or three million four hundred
and fifty-six thousand doses.
Three carloads Of bottles Of Pe-ru-na
placed end to end in single row would
extend over four and half miles; ar
ranged in q column one foot square they
would make column nearly two thou
sand feet high, four times as high as the
highest cathedral tower in Europe, and
nearly twice as high as the famous Eiffel
tower. Remember, this amount of Pc
ru-na is shipped daily to meet the enor-
nous demand for this wonderful catarrh
remedy.
The facilities of the Pe-ru-na Medicine
Company are taxed to their utmost to
keep up this remarkable output, week
after week, and month after month.
This ever-increasing stream of Pe-ru-na
finds its way into thousands of homes in
every state in the Union.
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I'M MUNE TABLET Comply,
WASHINGTON. d. c., U. s. A.
Mechanic & Investors Union

A State institution Of Raleigh, N. q.
organized May, 1898, and managed by
John @. Drewry, president, j. S. Wynne,
vice-president; b. S. Jerman, treasurer;
J. n. Holding, attorney, George Allen
secretary and manager. w. S. Primrose
and G. G. Latta. ali of whom are direc-
tors.
This is one Of the best managed and
most prosperous investment and lean
companies in the State.
The investment plan assures the mem
bers the return of all payments, togeth-
or with a profit of fifty per cent in 100
months. The payment Of 2 cents per
day, which is IS cents per month, for
100 months, natures one share of 500
The ioaning plan guarantees the re-
turn to the borrower Of all his payments
less three per cent per annum on the
amount advanced to him. Both the
investing and borrowing members are
fully protected by the guarantee fund,
which promises and agrees to mature the
stock, making the monthly payments for
the widow should death occur. This Sc
cures the home to the family without
tnrtheT cost after death. For full par
eiculars read the printed matter of the
company.
GEORGE ALLEN, Secretary.
20 Pullan Binding. Raleigh. N. q.
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AMERICAS MOST PICTURESQUE RAILWAY
Scenes Along the Chesapeake and Ohio From Old Point
Comfort to Cincinnati

If you are going West you can not
do better than go by the Chesapeake
and Ohio, whether for the mere creature
comforts of luxurious travel or for the
beauty of the scenery along a route
that must appeal to the AESTHETIC sense
OF even the most obtuSe. \ strange and
almost whimsical result of the increas-
ing ease and rapidity with which men
90 from place to place is the boredom
of travel. There are few things more
wearisome to the Az rage man than a
n hours continuous ride on a railway
train through country that is an ever
shifting. but never ending, series OF
the commonplace. That's why the trains
all have agents Of the news companies
abroad. The passengers demand some
thing to look at beside the country.
OF the c. and O. Railway, however,
it may be said that from end to end
of its line there is no time for mOnotony
and no room for ennui. The building of
the road is often and justly spoken of
as one of the greatest engineering featS
in railway construction. The passenger
over its route often feels that
the projectors We're hardly
less artists than engineers; he
is treated to constantly unfolding and
always varying panorama that makes
him feel that he is being whisked along
rather for entertainment than because
it is necessary to put him down any
where in particular, and ON time. Yet
if he be in a hurry, and he usually is,
he will find that hurry also is a part
of the programs of the G. and o. Rail-
way.
How wisely and how we'll the pro
jectors of the line have builded is only
of late years beginning to dawn in its
full significance upon the general pub
lie, to be understood that whether for
business or pleasure there is no line Of
railway that threads greater possibilities.
1t starts at the seaward end from what
is far and away the finest harbor on
the Atlantic coast; it ends in the rich
est agricultural section of the world.
Year by year the sea-borne commerce OF
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scenery about White Sulphur Springs,
the Hot and the Warm Springs, and the
other famous watering places of the
region. The road continues it's ascent
of the mountains until Allegheny Station
is reached. The tunnel here is a mile
long. and is a wonderful piece of engi-
neering skill. In the tunnel is spring,
some of the water Of which flows into
the Atlantic through the James river,
while the rest escapes into the Gulf Of
Mexico by way Of the Greenbrier, Kan
awha. Ohio and Mississippi rivers. The
State line between Virginia and West
Virginia also crosses the tunnel. Soon
after leaving Allegheny the road follows
the course of the Jackson river TO Clifton
Forge, where the Jackson meets the
James, and where the James river divis-
ion of the Chesapeake and Ohio leaves
the main line. From Cincinnati to Cliff
ton Forge, $3.50 miles, the road follows
the banks of streams, go miles Of
which are navigable This fact material
ly aided in the construction Of the road
through this rugged country, and con-
tributes in no small degree to the com
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fort as well as to the enjoyment of the
traveller
After skirting Elliott's Knob, which
has an elevation of $500 feet. and is
the highest point in Virginia, the road
passes through Buffalo Gap, natural
opening in the North Mountains. Then
on, at a flying pace, to Staunton, and the
Valley of Virginia. So past Waynes-
boro and through the Blue Ridge tun-
mel. Then comes Alton, and then the
Piedmont This is broad valley that
stretches away like garden. There is
no fairer place in North America than
this which now delights the tourists
eyes When Governor Spotswood first
gazed upon it, he called it 1.-THE Valley
of the Euphrates," on account of its
exquisite beauty. Then comes Char
lottesville, and at Gordonsville the choice
of a ride over the hattlefelds to Wash
ington, or a trip to Richmond and down
the PeninSular, along the banks of the
James. across the ChickahOminy,
through the swampS, past Williamsburg
and 50 on to Newport News, Hampton,
Old Point Comfort, Norfolk and Ports
muth which towns cluster about the
mouth of the James river and the en-
trance to Chesapeake Bay. Every fea-