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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
REMARK OF NAPOLEON.
Modern Warfare Making Saying of
French General Pertinent.

Passing entirely the merits of the
British-bo war" said United States
artillery officer of high rank, and the
various valuable and otherwise indi-
vidual opinions of the different CORE
spondents as to the warfare of the
future, I am most forcibly struck by
one substantial fact It is this:
THAT, however may be radically
changed the tactics and the methods of
conducting a battle on the field, the
great, underlying principles of war
ARE still not only undisturbed but ac-
centuated to forceful degree by this
contest, as were the great principles
|of naval evolution in the Spanish
American war
Nearly 100 years ago the greatest Of
military masters, the immortal Napo-
leon, made his famous remark that
God was on the side of the general
with the heaviest artillery Today we
paraphrase the axiom by substituting
high-powered' for heavy. Artillery
will decide the day in south Africa as
it did at Wagram and Austerlitz, and
in most of Napoleon's battles. An ar
tillery officer himself, he made this
arm the feature of his marvellous
armies Mark my prophecy:
"Old Dom Paul and his advisers must
have cherished we'll Napoleon's words,
for especial attention was given to the
secret importation into the Transvaal
of great numbers of new and improved
high-poWered guns The execution OF
these battalion destroying weapons,
and the consequent CONSERVATION of
the British, are already matters of his
tory, while it is admitted that the long
range naval guns alone saved Lady
smith from humiliation or capiulation.
Why, at Modder river the shrapnel
shells of the beers fuesd at $500 yards,
while those of the British fused at
400 yards, leaving a zone of nearly
three-quarters of mile in which the
British were entirely at the mercy of
the beers before they could even get
into a position to unlimber the fire.
And some people have criticised the
British for abandoning their guns! It
is wonder that the fragments of their
flesh and bones could be gathered to-
gether for burial.
Americans are born artillerists. In
our various foreign wars, and in our
civil war, this fact has been as COM
pletely demonstrated as that we take
to the handling of small arms by in
stinct But we cannot afford to rest on
this superiority of the man behind the
gun! The gun itself is now an intri-
cate piece of breech mechanism of
frightful life-destroying potency and
startling projectile penetrating and
carrying capacity.
would that Napoleon could come to
life to see the transformation. Would
that he could go down to the Indian
head proving grounds and witness the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
CABLES OF ALUMINIUM.

Twenty miles, or 100000 pounds, of
aluminium wires are to be strung
along the Northwestern Elevated road
in Chicago, as trial Of that metal as
a commercial conductor of electricity.
The experiment is to be tried because
Of its comparative cheapness since
copper has increased SO materially in
value. James r. Chapman, the electri-
cal engineer in charge of the new
road, says aluminium will carry the
electric load just as well as copper
would and will take less money out of
the stockholders pockets. He said:
After copper, aluminium is the best
conductor among the cheaper metals.
A poor conductor consumes and wastes
the current as it passes through and
for that reason is commercially i'm
possible An aluminium wire will
carry without friction about SO per
cent. of the current load which a
copper wire of the same diameter will
carry. To carry equal loads the alum
inium wire must be about twothirds
larger than the copper conductor. The
best iron wire would have to be six
times larger to accommodate the
same current Copper weighs three
and third times as much as alumni
ium, so that an aluminium wire of
any given capacity would weigh only
half as much as a copper wire de-
signed to carry the same load. With
aluminium at approximately 80 cents
a pound and copper at 18, the economy
of employing aluminium is evident. It
has the additional advantages of being
lighter to handle and of being nom
corrosive"
Until a Chicago man invented a
solder for aluminium perfect joint
between two pieces of aluminium cable
was impossible, according to Mr..
Chapman. There are soldiers
manufactured by eastern firms, but all
of them deteriorate with age and re-
quire renewing at intervals. Henry
Gronimus, a steamftter living at 9
Rees street, is the man who found the
right mixture of antimony, zinc, tin
and various other metals. Mr.. Chap
man believes the Gronimus solder is
nearly perfect, and the inventor has
been engaged to splice all the big sup
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
FRENCH DEGENERATION.

In one great historical movement,
however, France has not occupied as
prominent a place as Germany and
England, namely, in the religious and
moral reformation which became
widespread in the sixteenth century,
and is still operative in all Teutonic
countries, says George Mclean Harper
in the March Atlantic Every attempt
to establish generally the reformed
principles in France has been crushed
by the arm of despotism, or thwarted
by the folly and shallowness of Pro-
testant mobiles, or nullifed by the luke
warmness and moral feebleness of the
middle classes. To the failure OF
France to grasp her opportunities in
this respect, I believe, we must at
tribute decadence, moral and physi-
cal, which is becoming precipitate,
and which bids fair to reduce her to
a secondary rank among nations
George Mclean in Atlantic.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19

place with their elephants. Couriers
are also dispatched to the natives own
ing elephants, with instructions to
have the mammoth beasts at the APP
pointed place in good time. III this
way -four or five sportsmen and ooz-
en- elephants with their native atten-
dants are congregated at the chosen
place.
When everything is ready for the
real hunt to begin, howdahs are placed
on the four Or five elephants to be
used by the hunters. The howdah
elephants are always the best trained
in the bunch and are selected because
|of their experience and ability to stand
like rocks while heavy magazine
rifle is being exploded over their heads.
Each sportsman is mounted ON a sepa-
rate elephant, and in addition to him
the hoWdah contains a native, well
trained in the handling of guns. Just
in front of the howdah sits the guide.
The elephants carry two and three
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
CAME TOO LATE.


A horseman burst into the prison
yard.
4Reprieve!" he shouted, and waved
paper aloft.
TOO late!'' replied the warden
sadly.
rs the man hanged already?"
NO; but he has eaten the hearty
breakfast Of ham and eggs, coffee and
potatoes!"
Executive clemency was all right in
its place, but it could not be suffered
to interfere with the conventional
course of events. Yes, the horse
mans steed was undeniably foaming,
but even that awaited little or nothing
under the circumstances Detroit
Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
GOOD MANNERS OF THE SEAL.

The harbor seals at the Aquarium
know well enough what they ike to
eat and when they can get that they
won't eat anything else. AS between
Goldfish and herring theyprefer herring,
and herring is fed to them when it is
obtainable and as far as is consistent
with their welfare. They do better,
however, with some variation in their
food.
The seal is graceful, and apparently
of good manners. If two pieces of
fish, food for the seals, one of herring
and one Of cod, are tossed into the
water together the seal rejects the
cod, or pays no attention to it what
ever, and eats the herring If, as is
often the case, the seal were up on
the platform beside the man with the
food, taking the food from his hand,
it would in all probability take a
piece of Goldfish handed to it in that
manner, personally, as it were, thus
being polite to the man Offering it,
but it would not be likely to swallow
it, 1t would incline it's shapely head
downward and drop the piece of cod
fish out of it's mouth onto the stone
platform and then lift its head again
to the man, with a look that means
what apparently it would say if it
could speak:
THANK you, but I prefer herring"
New York Sum-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
E. ]. PHELPS DEAD.

New York, March 10.-E. J. Phelps,
ex-minister to England, died yester-
day afternoon of pneumonia, which
developed in January. The end was
peaceful and for several hours before
he passed away he was unconscious.
Though Prof. Phelps recovered from
the pneumonia attack he was so weak
ened that he was unable to regain vi
tally. Funeral services will be held
Sunday and the remains will be taken
to Burlington, VT, for interment.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19

octroi. At the beginning of the En-
der the condemnation of Napoleon.
His journal was suppressed and he
was exiied from Paris. He located
in a near ry-Switzerland, per-
haps-and, being of an artistic tend
ency, began the manufacture of
bronze statues. Hundreds of busts of
the emperor were sent into Paris for
sale. The great number of these
finally excited suspicion, and upon
careful examination each was found
to be but thin sheeting of bronze,
closely packed with copies of the bor-
hidden journal. This was SO much
like breach of the law forbidding the
seething of a kid in it's mothers milk
that no more bronZes were admitted.
1t is hardly likely that women go
ing abroad will be content to return
without investing i'm laces. Many will
be unable to reach Brussels, in which
case they will purchase in Paris. 1t
is not always wise to purchase from
makers direct Those on Ave de
POpera are we'll known, but their
prices are high, and some rare bar
gains are often picked up by ''fan-
eurs" in the little out-of-the-way
streets Many an impecunious lady of
rank goes at night, enveloped in lace
| hooded domino, to dispose, at any
price, of her jewels and laces. The
old shylocks, who try to force prices
ON won xxybo cro To CO 0n1JIH
piece out many bit of family and
state history The gold-woven bro
cades, yellowed laces-aye, and rusty
swords and golden spurs-are data in
some of the most tragic and romantic
incidents in the history Of the great
public. There is Rue de Grenelle,
near Champs de Mars; Rue des Cor
biers, in the Latin Quarter; Rue
des Ecuries d'Astors and many others.
Go back of the Madeleine from Boule-
ward Capucine-or, better, go down
Chauveau Lagarde from Boulevard
Malesherbes to Place de la Madeleine.
Before you turn the corner, however, if
you wish to get some souvenir of your
days in Paris, stop at the little shop
on Boulevard Malesherbes, just facing
ST. Augustine Church, and invest in
one of the unique little clocks ON sale
there. Many of these are designed by
students of the Latin quarter, are sur
prisingly cheap and wear we'll, besides
having the advantage Of trif1ing duty.
Then down Chauveau Lagarde until
you come to Place de la Madeleine,
somewhat away from the throbbing
pulse of the boulevards Here to the
right are the alabaster carvers. Many
a half-hour may be whiled away
watching the kind-eyed old master
and his ''garcons. One day a curly
headed boy of IA stood at the bench
by the window carving the face of a
cherub. His eyes were bright and
his face wore an eager smile, while
as he worked he puckered his lips and
inflated his rosy cheeks in imitation
of the cherub he wished to produce,
utterly unconscious of an on locker;
but the old man, catching the admir-
ing glances bestowed by passers-by,
smiled and nodded in proud apprecia-
ton. This short street holds many
curios and is well worth a visit from
a connoisseur.
In making purchases you will find in
nearly all the stores what the nom
English-speaking French call speaks
English" glish-sp speaking assist
ants. Clerks are very eager to learn
i the language and many amusing mis-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19

bursement; not so in France, where
a womans pocketbook is controlled
by her husband.
Three years ago on the streets of
Paris, in cafes, theaters and private
salons, placards were circulated that
awakened masculine curiosity. These
proved to be petition from long
list of prominent women, headed by
Nine. Adam, urging all interested to
bly, that women might be granted the
privilege of controlling their own
earnings. French women are able
money-makers, but unless the law has
been recently repealed husbands con-
troll the entire income and may pre-
vent their wives from spending one
franc of their own earnings.
An energetic Chicago girl married
in Partisan impecunious French
man of good family. With her dot
she opened lunch and tea room for
Americans, directing it so successfully
that fortune seemed assured. Her
husband declined to share the re-
sponsibility and labor, but assumed
control of the profits, spending so
fast that at the end of two years she
was compelled to sell out. This case
is we'll known to American residents.
1t can hardly be this type of American
woman that M. Max O'Rell has in
mind when he makes his famous
prayer for reincarnatiOn.
A strange incident of female SNUG
Cling which occurred in '94 has become
a part of French history Following
the assassination of President Carnot
was an anarchists plot, propagated IN
Italy, to murder his successor. Paris
journals announced that three assas-
sins had started for that city, zone by
Iland, one by sea, one by rail" A few
days subsequent to the announcement
an American or English woman
American more likely-chanced to be
resting on the grassy plat at ST. Cloud
when her attention was attracted by
an aged peasant woman, in short
dress, dust-stained wooden shoes and
snowy cap. She carried small Das-
ket and seemed much fatigued.
You are very tired, mother, SAID
the foreigner.
Il am exhausted" replied the old
woman, sinking to the ground, ''but |
must get on. My daughter in the city
is very i'll and nothing will do her but
fresh eggs every week from her old
home in the country. Alas! 1t is I'M
just that I should pay toll On eggs for
| the dying" She was shrewd, the old
lady, and knew her listener, who free
ly volunteered to pay octroi at the
gate but the anxious mother would
not accept money. IF the kind lady
would but spread the skirt of her dress
when they mounted to the imperiale
(the top of the train) what harm in
that, and the douanier would not then
suspect"
The kind lady did Kind ladies
often think cheating charity, and the
ruse was successful. The next morn
ing's papers contained an announce
ment that the lone by sea- had sue
ceeded in entering Paris disguised as
an old woman carrying a basket of
eggs. He was discovered throwing
one at either some part of the execu-
tive mansion or into the state car
riage Those eggs were laid by
anarchism to hatch death and riot,
some of them being made of china
and filled with nitroglycerin.
There are numerous historical in
stances of efforts to avoid paying
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19

ply wires of the system The Groni-
mus solder, Mr. Chapman thinks, will
give a new impetus to the manu-
facture of cooking utensils of alumni
ium by providing for satisfactory
joints heretofore the weak point in
aluminium wares.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19

tests Of armor VS.. projectile. And then
would that he could go up to the capt.
tol and give congress a short talk
about the need of big guns and plenty
of trained artillerists to man them. L
think he would startle some of our leg
islators Washington Star.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
SOUTH AFRICAN NAMES.

Following are some names made
prominent in connection with the
south African war with the pronunci-
alton thereof indicated as closely as
possible in English letters. In each
case, except where otherwise indicat-
ed, the native pronunciation, whether
English, Dutch or Portuguese, is given.
1t should be explained that the sound
of TX and ''g" in Dutch is usually
like the hard sound of 'tch' in English
heard in the word "loch" Thus Kru-
ger is pronounced by the Dutch
"Chroocher,' giving the hard sound to
"ch.' The Literary Digest is author
ity for the pronunciations adopted
Baden-Powell ..... hayden powell
Cecil Rhodes .......... sessil roads
.(accent first syllable)
Waucnope .................. Walk-up
|Clery NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. cleary
Lourenzo Marquee .loo-ren-so marker
Joubert ............. You-bert (Dutch)
Joubert ........... Zhoo-ber (French)
DOM Paul ................. Dam powl
CronJe .:............... kron-yuh
Dotnd ................... boat-ah
Leyds ............... lides Tin collides)
Ultlander ................. oyt-land-er
Jacobsdal .a........... yah-cobz-dahl
|Magersfontein 49,. ma-chers-fon- tine
(accent on last syllable)
IBlOemfOntein .. blOOm-fon-
ITugela ................. tyoo-ghee-lah
(accent second syllable)
Gfas ran ................. grabs palm
Elandslaagte ...... ay-lahnts-lach-tuh
(accent third syllable)
Spion kop ........~..... spee-on cop
Johannesburg ... Johannesburg
MaJuba ................. mah-yoO-bah
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-03-19
PARIS EXPOSITION
VISITORS FROM UNITED STATES
ESPECIALLY DESIRED.
PoLITENEss IN VOGUE

American Cars Provided for Passen-
gers-Feminine Weakness for
Smuggling to Purchase
Laces-Clerks Speak English at all
the Big Stores Now.
Evening star., 1900-03-23
OFFICIAL NOTICES.


2627o r. D. EXECUTIVE OFFICE. COMMIS-
sioners Of the Distrifftf of Columbia, Washington
March %. 1000.-Ordesed: That the schedule of
Limitations and proyis9ps replye to the projection
adopted as the basis-of the Commissioner con-
currence under the act of Congress of March s.
1891, is hereby amended by iucluding balconies
therein, follows, subject to the general restric
tons applicable to other projections provided for
in said schedule: Said balconies shall be limited
in width to three feet frem the building line on
business and other streets less than seventy feet
wide, and four feet from the building line on resi-
dence streets seventy feet or more wide; and shall
be unrestricted to length, except that at each
end wall space of not less than nine inches from
the party line shall be preserved JOHN ID
WIGHT. JOHN W. ROSS LANSING H. BEACH,
Commissioners of the District of Columbia. 1t
EXECUTIVE OFFICE, COMMISSIONERS OF
the District Of Columbia Washington, March 20.
1e0o:.Special Notice:-Au paper and other COM
bustible waste should hereafter be hauled to and
delivered for burning at the erematory at the foot
Of South Capitol street. which has secured for
such purpose until July 1, 1900, and is now In
operation The deposit Of eombustible materials Of
any kind upon public dumps vacant lots of the
city is prohibited. JOHN B. WIGHT. JOHN W.
ROSS. LANSING H. BEACH, Commissioner "a
. mh21-et
Evening star., 1900-03-23
PROPOSALS.

SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED AT
the Office Of Joseph E Willard Wyatt building, on
Or before II O'Clock. noon, March 30 1900, for the
ture known Wtllard's Hail tbGiers and macilin-
demoish building and remove material from site
within three weeks from the date of acceptance of
bid nih23-6t
PROPOSALS FOR THE COLLECTION AND DIS
posal of Garbage, Dead Animals. Night Soil Mis-
cellaneous Refuse and Ashes, in the District of
Columbia.-0fice of the Commissioners of the Dis
trict Of Columbia, Washington, d. c., March 20
19oO-Sealed Proposals will be received at this
office until TWELVE O'CLOCK NOON, on The
TWENTIETH DAY OF APRIL, 1900, for the Col
lection and Disposal of Garbage, Dead, Animals.
Night Soil. Miscellaneous Refuse and Ashes in the
commencing on the 1st day Of July, 1900, or as
thereafter practicable. SPECIFICATIONS and
blank forms for proposals. and other Information On
the subject be obtained application therefor
to the Health officer of the District Of Columbia
Only bids such forms will be considered. The
Commissioners Of the District Of Columbia Will ex-
anime all bids which may be- submitted, and will
ask authority from Congress to enter into n
tract contracts for period of five years for the
performance of such work, II any. specified In such
bids may be, in their Judgment, advantageous to
the District of Columbia The Commissioners
serve, however, the right to reject any and sl
bids. Bids must be inclosed in a sealed envelope,
the outside of which must be indorsed Pro-
posals for the Collection and Disposal of Carriage
Dead Animals" etc. JOHN B. WIGHT, JOHN
". ROSS. LANSING Il. BEACH. Commissioners,
D. O. mh2o-6t
Evening star., 1900-03-23
LEGAL NOTICES.

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
Of Columbia, the 18th day Of March. 1900, Albert
Equity No 2IIsi Docket as On motion Of the
plaintiffs by Mr. Fulton Lewis. their solicitor it is
ohiopyle Pennsylvania; Augusta s. Shirley. An.
drew s. Swearingcn Charles f. Swearingen and
entered herein on before the first rule day oc-
curring forty days after this day. Otherwise the
cause will be proceeded with as in of default
The object of this suit is to obtain the sale of
certain real estate in the county of Washington
District strict Of Columbia belonging to Alberta Stewart
In Berry and Middleton. trustees, subdivision Of
the trsSt n;. Of 1ss land known MetpolIs View
court a copy Of which plat appears of record in
dl once % saa folio ii the
mofe particularly st described in the bin Of com
Law and Df EIsnns Star In one ae
week for three successive weeks prior to said
sqs ssle day ,rns BY tasx the court, HASSEH issss
BY R. J. MEIGs, Jr., Assistant Clerk. mh2s -Iaw3w
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE DISTRICT
OF COLUMBIA. IN BASkRUPTcY,-In the matter
Of carSely the e city of %ash she
ington % ID. e: bankrupt Notice is hereby given
James l. Carberry was duly adiudicated bankrupt
upon his own petition and that the first meeting of
signed resree No. 45s Louisiana ea avenue er hg !,
the city city Of Washington, D. C., in Room No. .,
am. at which time the said creditors may attend.
prove their claims. appoint a trustee. examine the
prHPerly come before said meeting CHARLES ii.
AfMES. Referee in Bankruptcy. LAMBERT &
LAMBERT. Attorneys for Bankrupt. 1t
BANKRUPTCY NOTICE-TO THE CREDITORS
of John F. King of the District of Columbia a
bankrupt Take notice that the above named bank
the District Of Columbia for full discharge from
all debts provable against his estate under the
that a hearing has been ordered upon the same On
the II o, 9TH day of April 1900 before said court, Mt
Evening star., 1900-03-23
LADIES' GOODS

FUR GARMENTS MADE TO ORDER; REMODEI.
ing Of old fur wraps to the latest styles u sDe-
cialty; ladies' taiior-made suits made to order
fit guaranteed. E. HORGAN, sos K st. NV
Evening star., 1900-03-23

Sewing Machines Repaired
And warranted for $1.O0. Mail orders
promptly attended to-at
3az&am.6 OPPENHEJNER'S, 6ll 9Th ~.
Evening star., 1900-03-23

! fiat, l106 Pa av. .25.0O
l09 K l ave, Or. .20.00
904h Mass av. Ar. .13.0U
1910 Sd st Sc, 5r. $50
Offices in Metzerott bldg.
1872 Balls ct. Ar. s.. SO
SCH BROS, 1907 F st.