Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-01

natives of his province to submit to
the new regulation. He had inoculated
cattle for the rinderpest three years be-
fore, as the Damaras saw, with good
results. He, therefore, announced that
he was read to vaccinate their rifles so
as to insure their shooting straight
and doing no hurt to their owners, and
the Damaras crowded to him to get
their guns stamped.
Two Christmas Days.
The Cook islands in the south seas
constitute federation under the Brit
ish flag, and have parliament of their
own, which for orderly conduct and
attention to public business affords an
example which the legislatures of
others and professedly civilized coun-
tries might advantageOusly emulate.
The whole of the members are natives
and regard it as a duty to uphold the
dignity of their Office. Recently they
had under discussion the rectifcation
of mistake made by the early mis-
siOnaries, who, fOrgetful of the long1-
tude in which the islands are located,
placed Sunday on the wrong day Of the
week. The Roman Catholic missiona-
ries, who arrived later, avoided this
blunder, with the result that there
have been, for many years past, two
Sundays in each week. To end this
anomalous state of affairs, the Cook
islands parliament has passed an act
whereby December "a and December
25 christmas day. will be kept as one
day, December 26 being made Tuesday
instead of Wednesday, thus enabling
Sunday to be observed in common by
the various religious denominations.
1t is said that the speeches made in
the native parliament on the occasion
were characterized by considerable in
telligence and common sense.
Railway VS.. Caste.
Many natives in India are now join
ing with Europeans in attacking the
system of child marriage, and a social
reformer has come forward with a
prepared set of rules for the
of girls, which, it is said,
eff duly observed, will be found to be
of great advantage" For it is thought
that by educaC4on reform will come,
and the 100000 married girls not yet
in their teens have plenty of time, even
in the midst of their domestic duties,
to devote to their lessons. The social
reformer, according to the London
Globe, advises their instructors to pro-
coed on these lines: Don't teach the
girl any language useless to her life.
Don't teach her work which she will
have no occasion to do. Dont't waste
her precious time in imparting KNOW
edge which she will have no occasion
whatever to use. Don't try to teach
her at school what she can better and
more naturally learn at home. These
and some others ofan equally homely
kind are the rules which the Indian
social reformer lays down for the anne
Iteration of the native girl. But it is
open to doubt whether education, even
on sensible lines, is sufficiently power
full to break down caste prejudices,
which are, of course the real reason
Of the native woman's undeveloped
state. The only European invention
which has done anything so far to de-
stroy these prejudices is the railway,
and it is unlikely that education can
be really usefully employed until the
railway has made a much further adj
vance in it's pioneer work. Certainly
the government can never take any
steps to interfere in the thorny ques-
ton of caste.
A Cure For Consumption.
The Neue Freie Presse of Vienna
states that lately Prof. Vincense Ger
vello of Palmero, Italy, succeeded in
finding an unfailing cure for consump-
ton and proved his invention before
that medical faculty. A distinguished
in Rome, the banker Floria,
is erecting in the vicinity of Palmero
a hospital with $50 rooms for con-
at his own expense to give
to manking the benefit Of Professor
Cervello's discovery.