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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
Pain in Amputated Limbs.

One cold morning at Columbus, Ca,
we met a distinguished ex-confeder-
ate general, who had driven to town
in his buggy. We inquired as to his
health and he replied; Il am feeling
well except in this arm" He pointed
to an empty sleeve and added: my
hand and fingers are almost froze
and give me great anguish" Now
the hand and fingers aforesaid were
invisible They had long been buried,
yet they remained in some apparently
mysterious manner with the original
owner We once heard of a man,
whose leg had been amputated,
screaming with pain because, as he
said, his foot, no longer attached to
his body visibly, was being roasted
at a fire. Investigation demonstrated
that some medical students had re-
moved the amputated leg to an up
per chamber and left it near a hot
stove, foot foremost, and it was really
roasting. The doctors explain this,
we believe, by muscular phenomena,
sinews once used for the whole
limb The psychologists contend that
the real body is the invisible one,
which alone has sensation, and that
no surgeons knife can sever that
from the trunk of man. 1t is all very
curious, no matter how you look at it.
Augusta Chronicle.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
A Masuue of Love.

know you love me not, strange child
of passion!
Yet I have heard low words and
scented signs
Break GREATNESS at your lips-haye
watched your eyes
Deepen and droop and melt in mad
dening fashion
Before the hunger of my glad sur
mise!
Your soft, uncertain murmurings but
hide
The mirthful mockery of an I'M
touched heart.
When on my lips your clinging
kisses smart,
IT'S Pleasures Self you love; and
how, beside
That futile, phantom god, can man
hold part?
Oh, haunting dream of living lowell
ness,
Oh, royal rebel to the rules of love,
Love not at all. or love all else
above!
And yet ali, though you loved me
less,
Still-still must I my honest pas
sion prove!
r. w. st. Hill in November Smart
Set
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
How a Horse Kills a Snake.

Few of us have ever seen horse
kill a snake, but Mrs. Custer de
scribes the performance in st.
Nicholas:
AS they were pushing out of a
jungle on foot one day, the colonel
said: "Samanthy is a little too attent-
i've, ALI; he shoves himself alongside
of me, and when demonstrate he
backs a little, but keeps SO close he
almost treads on my heels" well,
father, I suppose he thinks nothing
can go on without him. He's been in
everything | ever did yet" AS they
came to narrow defle, with the
branches of the trees festooned with
moss and the ground tangued with
vines and thick underbrush, Samanthy
forgot his manners and crowded to
the front. There was hardly room
for two abreast. The colonel, peer
ing into the thicket for birds, heard
what he took to be the whirr of pleas
ants wings, and he lifted his gun to
take aim. The Kid, pressing on, saw
with his keen eyes that it was moth
ing so harmless as the rising of a
covey of birds. A huge rattlesnake,
overlooked by the colonel in his in
tense concentration on the thicket,
lay coiled directly in front of him,
the victims mouth Kissing, the eyes
cleaning with fire. ALT was in agony.
He could not fire, for his father or the
poney would have received the shot,
as they were placed. But more
vigilant pair of eyes than even the
Kids had discovered the reptile, and
with a spring in front of the colonel,
and with the incest exactitude, down
came the pony with buck jump, his
hoofs close together on the head of
the snake, crushing in the deadly
fangs, and flattening the skull into
the soft soil! Still there was an
ominous rattle of the tail, and the
little nag gathered himself again,
bowed his supple back, and drove his
hoofs into the notified skin of the
deadly foe of mankind.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
SAVING THE LOBSTER.
Good Work Of the Newfoundland De-
partment of Fisheries.

Good Work Of the Newfoundland De-
partment of Fisheries.
The Newfoundland department of
marine and fisheries is now operated
very much on the same lines as the
Canadian, though, Of course, on a
much smaller scale. 1t was first or
ganized as a fisheries commission" in
1890, previous to which date there
was no public department specially
charged with the supervision of the
fisheries.
The last annual report of the depart
ment contains some information
which may interest your readers. Re-
garding the artificial propagation of
Holsters the report states that in the
past from 30O,0O0,O00 to 4OO,OOO,O00
Holsters were annually Matched and
planted in the waters, at a yearly cost
of $1,100. If only small percentage
of these survive to reach maturity the
results can not fail to prove beneficial
in sustaining the stock OF Holsters in
the waters, and thus counteracting
the effects of such heavy drafts as
are now made, year after year. l may
explain that this propagation is carried
on by means Of floating incubators,
the invention of Mr.. Nelson. Two
hundred and fifty of these incubators
are operated by men around the
shores Of the great bays. There is no
other country where the artificial
| propagation of this valuable crusta-
| cean is carried on upon such an ex-
tensive scale-not excepting the
United States or Norway.
1t is well known that in nearly
every lobster-producing country this
favorite crustacean is threatened with
/ determination. The quantity secured
each year is lessening and the price
advancing. Newfoundland, I regret
to say, is no exception to the decline
in the lobster fishery. The export
each year is lessening, though the
number of hands employed
in taking it has doubled. The
size, too, is diminishing in most
districts. The report states the ex-
port for 1889 as 56,156 cases; value,
| Soo5,UUU. In the previous year the eX-
port was 1881 cases; value, $619, $40.
The department is using the most
vigorous measures to arrest the de-
cline; but the due enforcement of the
rules in regard to the size of Holsters
taken and the spaces between the
laths in the traps is very difficult.
The department has recently prohib-
tied fall fishing-a wise measure
which already seems to be attended
with good results and meets general
approval both among fishermen and
packers The report states that
there is "a marked improvement in
the mode of packing and much bet
ter article than formerly is produced,
though there is still great room for
Improvement Montreal Gazette.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15

of the links Upon the bulletin board
of the clubhouse was posted a notice
requesting the members not to use
swear words when employing a girl
caddie. Two weeks later the golf
committee was surprised to receive a
petition signed by all the girls ask
ing that the order be rescinded. One
of the members went out at once in
search of more definite information
and got hold of the keynote Of the pc
tition when in reply to his question
came the reply:
None Of US girls has had job for
two weeks. We don't mind their cuss
words if we get their money"
The notice was removed from the
board Bar Harbor Life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
LATEST POLITICAL GAME.
Here is Chance TO Show Your Skill
at Checkers.

Here is Chance to Show Your Skill
at Checkers.
This problem in checkers repre-
sents symbolically the two great po-
litical parties and is supposed to be
played on Nov. g.
On the one hand the four kings,
all crowned monarchs of imperialism,
militarism and trusts, is fitting en-
blem Of the republican party.
On the other hand the six single
white pieces, not a crown among
them, is fair representation Of the
democratic party as it stands today.
Menaced by Imperialism and trusts,
honest toll seeking liberty, Justice
and equal rights. now has a winning
position on the political checker
board
The play is for white to move and
win. How many can work it out?
This problem was prepared by
Lyman NJ. Stearns of West Derby, N.
H.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
Frogs in Great Demand.

A dispatch from Chicago says
South Water street merchants re-
ported that over $4,000 frogs were
sold Saturday in Chicago. This is
much larger than the average Satur-
day sale, which is $4,000, while more
than $4,000 are sold each week. AL
most all the department stores sell
frogs at retail to fishermen, while
the fish merchants sell the big frogs.
whose legs are used for food The
frogs are shipped into Chicago from
all the nearby western states They
are raised on regular frog farms, ex-
cept IN low and marshy localities,
where the frogs raise themselves with.
out any cultivation. The cfoakers are
caught by small boys and put into
boxes full of wet grass. The depart
ment stores have their frog tanks up
on the top floors. The frogs are
hardy creatures and manage to exc
out an existence in their city homes
in the department stores for over a
month without being fed. While
enough frogs are secured to supply
the demand Of the fishermen the call
for big fat frog legs for the table is
away ahead of the supply.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
UqIy Women.

The mother Of the Regent d'Orleans,
who governed France during the mi
nority of Louis XIV, has been thrust
into public notice lately as the one
woman who ever acknowledged her
own physical ugliness. A New York
woman who is known to a great many
people said, not long ago: Il think
must be the ugliest person that ever
lived, for in all my life I have never
had a beau. No man has paid me
one moments attention beyond that
of ordinary friendship. Every wo-
man I know--and there are scores of
abominally homely ones among them
has had at least one offer. Most
of them have married, and the plain
est Of them all has had three hus-
bands! Does not that prove that I am
the very ugliest woman on earth?" If
anyone can give an instance Of frank
ness to surpass that confession it
should be printed Immediately
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
Paper Made From Leather.

A novel use of leather is in the
manufacture Of fibroleum, a new pa
per product, which is the invention Of
G. Brigalant Of Barentin, in France.
This is sort of leather paper on
board, which is made from waste
cuttings of skins into small bits, and
then immersing them in large vat
containing an alkaline solution, which
dissolves the glutinous matter, but
leaves the fibers unaltered. The
resultant fiber is then beaten and af-
terward pressed through a refiner.
The stuff is run onto the wire and a
very thin paper IS made, which is cut
into sheets, and while wet is placed
in piles and subjected to pressure to
squeeze the water out
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
WAR is OVER.
An American Army Officer Writes
About the FiIipinos.

An american Army OlllCGT WHITES
About the FiIipinos.
The war has become for all practi-
cal purposes thing of the past.
Travel is as safe as it was in the
west from 1870 until the suppression
of train-robbing; fields are being cul-
tivated, and trains of pack-ponies are
carrying the produce of the country
to market. People are poor, and near
ly every family wears mourning; but
the cheerfulness of oriental fatalism
tempers their grief, and the habits Of
obedience formed during three hun
dred years of slavery to friar, church,
state, and taX-farmer have we'll pre-
pared them for new masters. 1t is
here the American must pause to
realize his own need of information on
the habits and ideas Of these new
fellow-citiZens, before forming a
judgment of their characteristics and
necessities. The preconceived ideas
of Americans about them are nearly
all wrong.
/. Although they are fighting in a
manner generally contrary to the
laws of civilized warfare, yet they are
not an uncivilized people.
They are uniformly polite, both to
each other and to foreigners; they
are intelligent, and generally able to
read and write; they are very relig-
ious people; they have always been
! accustomed to a system of law and
legal settlements Of disputes; they
have produced generals poets, law
yers, painters, and business men OF
recognized ability some of world
wide reputation; and they are eager
to learn the ways OF advanced civil
cation.
2. Like ourselves, they are mon
grel race, formed by the survival OF
the hardest-lived traits in a varied
and cosmopolitan (orientaD ancestry
Far from being degener2ting race
they are virile, young, and healthy
new stock, probably destined, from
their geographical position and racial
peculiarities, to play an important
part in the great drama of the proxi
mate future in the neighborin2
orient. Their race type is to their
world what that of the Americans is
to the western civilization Com
bining many of the best traits OF
their varied ancestry, they have
however, contracted the vices that
usually flow from contact of feeble.
ness with INSCRIPTIONS strength
Long used to naughty dominance
they are sometimes servile; never
having been able to resist by force
they have learned to use falsehood
and deception as a shield; accus-
toned to play an inferior part, their
learning is too often superficial But
they are hospitable, charitable, must
CAL and ambitious. Surely these are
good traits on which to build
8. Numerically, they are a very
strong race, and they have the rich
est garden-spot of the world for their
heritage. They are capable of pro-
longed and sustained effort, are con
slant under reverses, and as indus
trious as the necessities of their
! habitat require-Review of Reviews.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
lynn, lynn, Sym, and Mynn.

lynn, lynn, Synnn, and Mymn.
lynn Pymn, lynn Pymn,
Had no learning and couldn't spell
hymn"
But he had hat with a wide, wide
brymn
Had pair Of glasses, for his eyes
were dymn,
Had an awful accident and broke his
Had very thin son-called him
lynn,
Had very thick son-called him
Symn,
Had a daughter Miriam, and called
her Mymn;
Had little dairy where the milk
she'd skymn,
Filling up the pans to the rymn, Iymn,
rymn;
When she'd done her dairying her
dress she'd trymn,
The better to bedeck her form so
slymn.
What a happy family, full of wynn,
lynn, lynn, Symn, and slymn
Mymn Pymn
Grace Fraser in st. Nicholas.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
Girls as Caddies.

Girls are employed as caddies on
several links, and the curiosity with
which they used to be regarded on the
Oakland links, near Bayside, L. l., has
practically worn away. From a
New England club, where a few girls
we're quick to avail themselves of the
financial remuneration obtained by
the caddies, comes an interesting tale
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15

Elias P. Kincaid died at Palmyra
aged about 72 years. He was an old
soldier.
1t is officially announced that Lord
Roberts has been appointed com
mander-in-chief of the British army.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
Contentment is ambitions under
taker.
LOVES ROSES.

The roses bloomed beside Loves gate
| saw them there, but turned my eyes
To where the blue hills touched the
skies
And passed along. I never tried
To gather them. I dreamed that fate
Must hold me satisfied.
The hills are far, and life is drear,
[ turn and see you by the gate;
I may not come to you; I wait
Here by the dusty way stand
Oh Chart, my hearts own true love,
draw near,
Loves rosebuds in your hand!
Julia e. Goodwin.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15

may seem, there are more cards used
per capita in the east than in the
west, where gambling is supposed to
be general.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
THE SHEEP STATES.
New Mexico and Montana Lead, Ohio
Doing Very Well.

New Mexico and Montana Lead, Ohio
Doing Very Well.
To-day the seat of the sheep-rear-
ing industry of the Union has shifted
from the Middle West to the plateau
region between the Rockies and the
Sierras. Ohio is still doing very we'll
in the business, with nearly 100000
head, but she has dropped from first
to fourth in the list Of mutton pro-
ducing states New Mexico is at the
head with more than 100000; Mon
tana has nearly as many, while Wy
oming leads Ohio by few hundred
thousand head. Idaho closely follows
Ohio in the rating. Oregon, Cali
fornia and Texas each has about g.
100000 sheep. The Navajo Indians of
Arizona are a material factor in the
wool market. The tribe is wealthy
through it's focks. The tribesmen
are believed to own little short of
100000 head, the care of the focks
and the weaving of wool being almost
the sole occupation of the $4,000 In
dams. Singular to relate, only a
small part of the Navajo wool crop
is worked up at home into the won
derful blankets that have made the
tribal name famous. Only the coarser
and cheaper blankets are now made
of the native wool The up-to-date
Navajo weaver uses Germantown
yarn and Diamond es."-Capt. J. H.
McClintock in Ainslee's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15

The republican twenty-fourth sena-
torial district convention nominated
Frank McDonough of Eau Claire for
senator by reclamation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15

Joseph M Chapple, editor of The
National Magazine, published in Bos-
ton, which he has made a great sue
cess, is visiting at his old home in
Ashland.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15

FIRST MADE TO AWUSE AN IN
SANE KING.
CONCERNING THEIR ORIGIN

The Question Is In Some Doubt-At
Present Time American Manufac-
turers Turn out Millions of Packs
MISREPRESENTATION Simply En-
ormous.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
BAD TASTE IN PULLMAN CARS.
Their Interior Decorations Show the
Most Glaring Inharmonies of Color.

Their Interior Decorations Show the
Most Glaring Inharmonies of Color
In the Ladies' Home Journal Ed
ward Box sharply criticises the in
terror decorations of Pullman cars as
A Riot of Bad Taste, that is absolutely
inexcusable, for "the Pullman com
pany," he contends, ''is a rich corpora
ton which can have what it wills. If
good taste does not exist in it's fur
nishing department, as indisputably
seems to be the case, the company can
and should buy it. For the same
amounts now expended on these cars,
effects of harmony and of truly arts
tic drapery could be obtained which
would be a credit to the company.
These cars could have an incalculable
influence on the community. The new
cars which the company constantly
builds could, better than any other
medium that l know of, be made to re.
fleet in a panoramic manner the new
est and most progressive steps made
in artistic decoration and furnishing
They could be made the most effective
travelling educators of the public. In
stead, they are simply vehicles of the
worst taste imaginable-in fact, of 10
taste whatever AS amazing con-
Generations of the most glazing and
grossest inharmonies of color, they
stand absolutely supreme. They VIC
late even the simplest canons of good
taste.''
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-10-15
Works of Art.

At one time an experiment was
tried OF having beautifully engraved
pictures of women and men in royal
robes for monarchs of the deck, and
they proved really beautiful works
Of art. But the result was a failure
and pecuniary disaster. A big stock
of these cards was later auctioned off
in California, and brought something
like cent per pack.
The manufacture of cards in this
country has been so improved that
now the American product finds a
great market abroad, readily under
selling the English, French and Span
ish articles of the very best make.
The manufacture of cards for the use
of clubs is a speciality in itself. the
backs of these cards being decorated
with each clubs monogram, and
many English clubs now buy directly
Of the American makers. Wealthy
private individuals also have cards
made with their monograms or crests
upon the backs, and it is only a short
time ago that one of the wealthiest
gentlemen in this city had $1,000
worth made at single order.
The consumption of playing cards
at present is enormous. The people
seem to have passed the era Of the
real cheap article, and there is a re-
action, the demand everywhere being
for the better grades. Strange as it
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-11
HEPBURN ON WICHITA VALUES
He says They are Not Half YhatThey
Shnrlh Re

After his speech Thursday evening Con-
gresham Hepburn CT Iowa looked Wich-
tia over and before leaving said: values
IN Wichita are not high enough " half.
or more than that. They are Rot inrch
higher than my town in Iowa. Cla-iada.
a place Of 1900 inhabitants. WITH W!ch-
tta's location surrounding and tributary
territory, can see where there IS a lcng
advance IN Wichita business properly il
prospect I know OF no place IA the coun-
Try which offers better investment to-
day. The city was mere than expected.
The foundation of q great blessing has
been laid in Riverside park. as those who
live 10 see Wichita a large city viii in
time testify"
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-11
THAT CONFETTI HAS ARRIVED
IL VIII be- Thrown at the wichita
street Fair

A big box containing 500 pounds Of con-
fetu for the Street Fair and Carnival ar
rived yesterday. Confetti is, new to
Wichita. but Il will probably be many a
day after Wichita has played with it
once that it will let an occasion go by
without using it. Confetti is an Italian
invention and was first used hundreds OF
years ago when the average Italian town
gave carnival about once a week and
business became 50 demoralized that a
law was passed making it a m3sdemeanor
20 wear a mask on the streets. During
the fun-mal1ing confetti was thrown and
has been thrown ever since
The confetti which has arrived in
Wichita VIII be thrown over everybody
and everything, ana is put up in ore-
ounce packages and consists Of verY
minute discs of colored paper. It is veTy
light and scatters easily. That received
IN Wichita was made in Germany.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-11

on the bridge. and Il The exp.anztsoa Is
not satisfactory. q me may be tae re-
suit