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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
ganized in the reign Of James l., about
300 Years ago. These COMPANIES charge

ganized in the reign Of James l., about
300 years ago. These companies charge
exorbitant rates and give very poor
supply. A fourth of share in the
New River Company is worth about
$4,000. The water companies have
hitherto exerted tremendous influence
through their shareholders in Parlia-
ment, but the new and democratic
county council has put wholesome
fear into them. It now seems that
their last hour has come.
Last year the vast East End of Lon
don suffered from water famine, and
in consequence there was danger of
an outbreak Of all kinds of dreadful
diseases. Only good luck averted that
catastrophe. The County Council then
decided that it would have to settle
the water question once and for all. 1t
planned to carry the water supply to
London from the hills on the border of
Wales. about 200 miles away. This
would have been the greatest engineer
ing undertaking of it's kind in the
world and would have cost more than
$1OO,OOOOOO. Now comes the an
nouncement that an inexhaustible res
ervoir has been found but 100 feet be-
meath London. The County Council
will soon sink it's wells and there will
be little expense in the undertaking.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
His Denomin a ton.

At the close of service one Sunday
morning the pastor of city church
went down the aisle, as was his Gus
tom, to greet the strangers in the con-
gregation. "You are not a member Of
our church." he said to one of them.
''No, sir, replied the stranger.
do you belong to any denomination,
may l ask?'
WELL" responded the other, hesitat-
ingly, I'm what you might call a sub
merged Presbyterian.
"How is that?''
II was brought up Presbyterian,
my wife is a Methodist, my eldest
daughter is Baptist, my son is the Or
ganist at a Universalist Church, my
second daughter sings in an Episcopal
choir, and my youngest goes to a Con-
gregational Sunday school,"
"But you contribute, doubtless, to
some one church?'
Eyes, 1 contribute to all of them.
That is partly what submerges me-
Youths Companion.
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APOTHECARY EVEN LAST.

Finds Man Who Wants Medicine
and Turns Him Into the Street.
A man who lives above One Hun
dredth street thought he had the grip
and fastened to the nearest apothecary
shop. 1t was late, and the druggist
was routed from his bed by the night
bell, which went off like an alarm
clock. When he admitted the customer
the druggist said:
81 suppose you want some stamps?'
The customer denied this, and said,
with some vehemence, that he was in
no condition to appreciate a joke. He
was i'll and he wanted a remedy.
There's the city directory" said the
druggist, pointing out a demoralized
book.
THANK you," replied the customer.
II thought it was a canal boat. Now
will you be good enough to wait on
me?'
That's the telephone in the corner -
and the druggist pointed out the lung
tester and ear annihilator.
"And this is my prescription, said
the customer, producing bit of paper.
Did the butcher send your asked
the druggist, and before the customer
could interfere he added, "'cause he
sends women over here for change, and
for everything he doesn't keep and that
l never have. And that undertaken in
this block-maybe he sent you? He
went down town the other day, and as
he had no one to leave in his place he
stuck up sign in his window: Call
at the drug store Got a great laugh
on me. People came in here all day
and asked me when l went into part
nership with the undertaken. know
the sign out there indicates that this
is drug store. 1 pay an apothecary's
license. But tomorrow will have that
sign painted over, and the words intel
ligence shop painted on. Here's your
prescription. Drug store two blocks
above"
Bang went the door. One apothecary
was even.-New York Sun.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

A young woman was recently asked
by young man to become his wife.
He was a bright fellow and was ac-
cepted in general society because Of the
wealth and official position Of his faith
er, but his habits were known to be
bad. There were no evasions in her
answer. You tell me- she said, that
I possess qualities that you must have
In the woman who is your wife. l can
not say that I have then-but l can
speak Of habits that do not have. and
that l could not accept in a husband
who did have them. I do not smoke. /
never swear. do not indulge in wine.
am not in debt. Not moment of my
nights is spent with questionable asso-
ciates, and my days are not given to
idleness or to walking the streets with
silly, unthinking girls. Most women
avoid the indulgences I have men,
toned, and do not welcome them in
men who ask to become their husbands.
As you have them, or most Of them. |
am not willing to become your wife. l
am sure nothing but wretchedness
could follow from such a union" The
answer was sharp and decisive. It ia
q pity all girls under the same circum-
stances are not as frank and sensible.
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George Eliot's Manuscript.

The memoir of John Blackwood, the
great Scotch publisher, recently issued
by his daughter, reveals many interest
ing things about authors, and none
more entertaining than the fact that
the best of them, certainly from the ar
tistic point of view, are modest and
listening sort of people, and not at all
pretentious.
George Eliot was conspicuous as a
person who was kindly and sympa-
thetic in high degree. She was lever
ready to be amused and interested in
all that concerned her friends She
had also a keen sense of humor, and
sometimes made her friends laugh, as
well as laughed with them.
She was solicitous about her manu-
scripts, and was afraid she should lose
them. Blackwood had occasion to send
her the manuscript of Daniel Deron-
da." She would not have it entrusted
to the mail, and Mr.. Blackwood said
he would send it by his footman the
next day
ooh, don't!' the author said HE
might stop at public house and for
get it!'
Mr.. Blackwood explained that this
footman was a perfectly sober man of
high character, and went on to praise
the mans virtues; but this did not re-
assure her at all.
IF he is the sort of chivalrous Bay
ard that you describe" she said, ''he
is just the kind that would stop and
help at fire!'
This was a contingency that Mr..
Blackwood could not bear to consider.
He promised that some member of his
family would bring the manuscript.
and next day, in fact, Mrs. Blackwood
drove over with it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
England's Blind Barrister.

There are many interesting and re-
markable men at the English bar; but
not many, surely, more interesting or
remarkable than George Griffiths, the
blind barrister of the Oxford circuit.
For fully twenty years now Mr. Crit
fths has been totally blind, yet during
all this time he has attended the Grim
inal courts in London and gone on cir
cult, just as he did for twenty-five
years previously, when in the full en-
joyment of his eyesight. This is an
achievement truly heroic under the cir
cumstances, and reflects the greatest
credit upon it's author. Indeed, one
would have been disposed to say it was
quite impossible to follow such a diff
ficuit calling during all these years at
such a terrible disadvantage; but Mr..
Grimth's plucky career puts it beyond
question.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

Now the critics have begun their
technical discussion of the late war,
and some of them superciliously de-
clare that it taught us little in it's prog
ress or in its effects that is Of value.
These facts, at least, contradict the
assertion. 1t taught us that we are again
q nation, united as one man. 1t taught
other nations that in armed conflict, as
well as in industrial competition, we
are to be reckoned serious factor.
And it has again shown our people the
often-taught but never fully learned
lesson that war is wasteful, cruel and
abhorrent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
cocoANuTs AND COCOA
The Difference Between These Two
Tropical Fruits.

Although cOcoanuts and cocoa are
both we'll known in every Northern
household, yet many people that daily
use these two useful products of the
tropics find it difficult or impossible to
exactly describe the difference between
the two. The cocoanut is the fruit Of a
tall and graceful palm tree, familiar
sight in nearly every tropical land
scape, and too well known to necessi-
tate any description, whereas cocoa, or,
more properly, cacao, is the powdered
seed of small and handsome tree,
bearing no resemblance whatever to
the cocoa-palm.
Perhaps no cultivated tree presents
SO odd and striking an appearance as
the cacao, and nobody that has ever
seen one will forget it, or mistake it for
anything else. The tree itself grows to
a height of twenty or twenty-five feet,
with rather smooth and slender
trunk, thick, bushy and symmetrical
top, and handsome, broad, oval leaves
of a deep purple or bronze color.
Instead of growing at the ends of the
branches or twigs, as do most bios
SONS, the cacao flowers bud out direct
ly from the bark of the limbs and
trunk. The flowers are small and in
significant, but the fruit, shaped like
a cucumber, grows to large size in
the better varieties eight or ten inches
in length and three or four inches In
diameter. Moreover, the fruit is bril-
liantly colored, orange, red and yellow,
and under favorable conditions fairly
covers the tree, presenting a very odd
and beautiful sight.
The fruit or pod is completely filed
with a soft, Shiny pulp, in which the
cacao beans are imbedded. When first
taken from the pod these beans and
the pulp as well emit fetid, disagree
able odor. After being separated from
the pulp the beans are placed i'll large
wooden trays and exposed to the sun
to dry.-Popular Science News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
DANGER IN ELECTRIC LAMPS.
Deaths Caused by Careless Placing of
fixtures on Gas Tubes.

Deaths Caused by Careless Placing of
fixtures ON Gas Tubes.
DIR. H. e. Keyes and his wife were
found dead recently in room at the
Ardsley Casino, at Ardsley -on-the-
Hudson, N. Y. They had been acct
dentally asphyxiated by gas, which it
is believed DR.. Reyes inadvertently
turned on just before retiring. The I'M
fortunate couple had been attending a
dance at the residence Of General Grit
fin, first vice president of the General
Electric Company, who lives at Dobbs
Ferry. DR.. and Mrs. Reyes had ar
ranged to stay over night at the Casino.
From the accompanying sketch it will
be readily understood how it was that
DR.. Keyes caused the accident which
resulted in the death of himself and his
wife. The Casino is equipped with
both electric and gas light, the electric
current having been in use on the even
ing in question. In turning off the key
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

The English language does not suf-
fer in the test of musicalness when
compared with the speech Of the
Doukhobortsi, who have just come
from their homes in the Caucasus to
settle in Manitoba. Some of the col
onists have been married since landing.
Their names are not adapted to rapid
utterance, nor do they suggest melody.
VASTLY Ribin has taken a Malachof to
wife, and other surnames of the newly
welded are Slastouchin, Obedkova,
Gridchin, Chliachova, Ziberova, Lege-
bokof. Nevertheless, the people be-
hind the names have some excellent
qualities in common with the rest Of
the sect.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
AN HISTORIC SHELL,
1t Danced Fandango on the Deck of
the Cruiser Baltimore,

1t Danced a Fandango on the Deck of
the Cruiser Baltimore.
Admiral Dewey found two remark
able qualities in Spanish shells at his
first battle of Manila-they rarely sue
coed in hitting anything, and when
they did hit they were comparatively
harmless. The experience which the
Baltimore enjoyed with one of these
shells is one of the most remarkable
recorded in the history of gunnery. If
what happened was not vouched for by
so excellent an authority as Joseph L..
Stickney, who was acting officer under
Admiral Dewey at this battle, it would
be hard to believe.
The Canacao battery was one of the
shore defenses of Manila used vigorous
Iy by the Spaniards on the morning of
May 1, 1898, when Dewey, Gridley, and
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der Of the port six-inch gun on the
quarter deck, disabling the carriage.
Following the curve Of this shield Ut
could not pass through it, the shell
came out on the forward side of the
carriage, travelled in direction directly
opposite to that which it had come,
reached the starboard side of the ship
again, struck a steel ventilator and
stopped. In all it's journey it did not
strike a human being, but after enter
ing the vessel did the mischief that
wounded eight men. 1t struck and ex-
pIoded two three-inch shells.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
LoNDoN.s UNDERGROUND LAKE
Water Problem of the Great Metrop-
oils Solved by the Discovery.

Water Problem of the Great Metr0p-
oils Solved by the Discovery.
London has suddenly found itself in
possession of cheap and inexhausti-
BILE supply of pure water, the existence
Of which it had never suspected. Wal
;er Mosely, the engineer Of the London
County Council, has informed that
body that underneath London is an
immense lake of pure cold water, in a
chalk basin $500 square miles in ex-
tent and 100 feet below the surface Of
the ground.
The annual rainfall that sinks below
to the lake is at least 100000, 100000
gallons, which would give daily yield
of 1905, 100000 gallons. 1t is believed
that the discovery Of this lake will for
ever put an end to the old vexed ques-
ton Of London's water supply. 1t is
only necessary to sink sufficient num-
Der Of deep wells in order to obtain all
the water necessary. An artesian well
has already been sunk to this lake at
Chaplain, near London, and is produc-
ing daily yield of 100000 gallons. 1t
SeeuS SIIdASe tAdt AOAuOA oAou1u Lave
existed for more than 1000 years and
not have discovered that there was a
great lake beneath it.
The discovery of this lake brings a
solution to question which has been
distressing London terribly of late.
The greatest city in the world has a
very inadequate water supply. 1t is
furnished by certain private compan-
les, conspicuous among which is the
New River Company, which was Or
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

The Conservative, a Nebraska City
weekly paper edited by J. Sterling Nor
ton, contains in recent issue long
plea for the addition of bird day to the
school calendar. The article first ap-
peared among the departmental reports
at Washington in 1896 and is reprinted
for the purpose of directing attention
anew to the subject. G. A. Babcock,
superintendent of schools at Oil City,
Pa, is credited with being the origina-
tor of the idea of bird day. He wrote to
Mr.. Morton in 1894 urging the estab-
lishment of such day on the same
general plan as arbor day, and his sug-
gestion met with the hearty approval
of the then Secretary of Agriculture,
who was himself the founder of arbor
day. May of the same year Oil City
gratified the wishes of it's school super
intendent by giving effect to his idea.
This was the first bird day. A similar
movement was started in Iowa, and in
other States there was an awakening
of interest on the subject. It engaged
the sympathies of the crusaders, who
deplore the sacrifice of birds to mil
linery, and of those who would check
the murderous and predatory instincts
of small boys, but there has as yet been
no such general support of bird day as
has been accorded to arbor day. Time,
however, might well be spared to it,
both because of the instruction and the
pleasure it would bring. We note
stimulus that is real inspiration to
study. Tiresome routine makes way
for series of object lessons in the
preparation for which the youthfuY
demonstrators have had their faculties
of observation exercised to the utmost.
In larger cities the study of bird life
might be made in the parks and in
those delightful books of which pub
fishers are so lavish nowadays. Never
was there time before when children
could get at so many charming and at
tractive volumes on any branch of nat
ural history, never time when so
much was done in literature to correct
the ignorance that has attacked the
feathered allies Of men in field and for
est as if they were enemies. 1t is a
good work that deserves the general es-
Enlistment of bird day to further it's
object.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

SoiVW WlCclcrSA
have so superseded all others in scbaS
histories and in the public mind ths ~
few realize that other commonwoo,.l'
have erred in the same particular a'
Massachusetts,. Yet 100 wears oftas
old Rebecca Nourse was hanged n
Salem, Mass, a man was condumras
by an Illinois court to be burned alivs
at the stake as a penalty for sorcarv
Nor was his execution the only an.
that has taken place In Illinois for ths
same "crime."
The warrant for the burning alive n
the Illinois sorcerer, whose nama wos
Manuel, was signed by John Todd
Lieutenant Governor of the Territory Of
Illinois, in the year 1873 Todd was f
the famous Todd family of Kentucky
from which sprung the wife of Abra.
ham Lincoln.
Manuel was slave. He had cast an
evil eye on a number of people, who
were willing to swear that the inau
ence of the glance was baleful in the
extreme. The great court of the dis
trict Of Kaskaskia was convened to try
the negro for his life. The court
speedily declared the guilt of the pris
oner and condemned him to death at
the stake, after which his ashes were
to be scattered to the four winds Of
the prairie. There seems to be sons
conflict of authorities as to the manner
of ManuePs execution. Some of them
declare that the negro was shot bya
mob while on his way to the burning
others agree that the sentence in aAM
horrors was carried to the cruel end
The preponderance of evidence is in
favor of the latter account and the
Governors warrant makes it certain
that burning at the stake was the in'
tent and the veritable record Of the
court. The law which Illinois people
invoked in order to burn the slave
Manuel for sorcery was the statute q
Virginia, to which the Illinois Terri
tory was then tributary.
1t was twelve years after the burnhs
of Manuel for sorcery when the next
victim suffered. He, like Manuel was
a slave, and was called by his masters |
name, Moreau. This master he bad
killed by "devilish incantation," The
man was tried for witchcraft and sen
fenced to be hanged. The sentence
was duly carried out. He was CONVICT
ed by a legally constituted court lnefs
was q white woman of English descent
living on Silver Greek, ILL.,, who IN tne
early part of the century or the very
end of the last was charged with being
witch. She was repeatedly DeaIel
but her ultimate fate is uncertain
much credence was placed in her pow
er to work harm to those about n1
that her evil doings were made a mat
ter Of record and the record STANDS uf
til this day.
The witch days do not seem SO la
removed when it is thought tha
Gently one Peoria man solemhly ",
dicted that anothers death Would 'a%
place on a certain day and the plVps
ecy was as solemnly believed lheI ru
on record in the coroners othce III w.
cago a verdict rendered in 1877 D! ~
citizens to the effect that tine deee'' ~
came to his death by having llls O''''
sucked by the house cat"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

board the Indiana, and the scene at the
blowing up of the Vizcaya. 81 offered
him cigar, 10-cent Key West" said
Fighting Bob, land he looked at it a
moment and then drew from his own
pocket a long, beautifully rolled, pure
Havana, and, holding it up, he said:
I left $4,000 of them on board the
Vizcaya.' He paused a second to al
low his auditors to fully appreciate the
fact, and then continued: Il am the
last person in the world to deprecate
the bravery of American seamen ami
mated by pure heroism, but if we had
known those cigars were on board, the
effort to save the Vizcaya would have
been positively heroic. '-Philadelphia
Record.
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in the lamp socket it is probable that
DR.. Keyes' thumb or fingers struck the
gas key, which must have been quite
loose and accidentally turned it about
three-fourths around. The result was
that sufficient gas escaped to kill the
two occupants of the room.
The proper design for the combina-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23
Captain Eulate's Lost Clears.

An incident in connection with the
surrender of Captain Eulate of the Viz
caya, after the battle of Santiago, was
told by Captain Robley D. Evans of
the Indiana, at the Glover Club dinner
during the jubilee, which illustrates
the amenities of naval warfare. Cap
tain Evans depicted the arrival of Cap
tain Eulate, covered with blood and
dirt, and soaked with salt water, on
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

The dread of premature burial injects
misery into the life of many person.
Modern civilization should remove this
dread. A law should be passed COM
pelling the retention of the subject in
q proper place for certain period until
the fact of death is esta blished by I'M
mistakable signs. Every man alive
now should have the assurance that the
awful death that follows premature
burial will not be his.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

The methods Of the Salvation army
are objected to by some good people,
and by other people who are not SO
good; but methods which succeed in
rescuing the social outcast; bring help
and hope into the abodes of poverty
and sin; feed the hungry and clothe
the naked-are not the methods Which
civilization should reject or prejudice
condemn.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

That amusing genius, Frank Stock
ton, declares in all seriousness that all
brain workers should claim q second
Sunday in the week. His plea is that
while Sunday, with It's sermon and re-
ngious meditations, is a change and
holiday for the manual laborer, it is
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

ton of electric and gaslight fixtures Is
a subject of vital Importance, and the
location of the two respective keys
should be as far apart as practicable
It seems to the Electrical Review that
the designer of a fixture of the sort here
sketched comes pretty near being guilty
of criminal Observation-Disclosures Re-
view
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

Talking of France, a nation that can
be deprived Of President one day and
elect another the next, is not likely to
lose its head for very long.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

A dispatch from Boston announces
that the fertilizer combine grows"
Nothing strange about that. Any trust
will grow If properly fertilized.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1899-03-23

81 wish 1 was warship," he said, re-
gretfully, after opening and examining
his salary envelope. "Cause why2"
they asked, with natural curiosity. II
wouldn't mind being locked then,' he
answered. Chicago Post