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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

boon, who had stuck to the wagons,
was working bravely, picking up the
kits as they rolled off and holding fast
to movable articles that were bounc-
ing up and down wildly, as the wagons
jolted along the rocky road.
Not long afterward the monkey was
playing with the men in the Maxim de-
tachment when the Beers attacked
fiercely. A terrible fire was poured in
on them, and the colonel and several
men fell mortally wounded. Jocko, in
stead of scampering away, initiated the
action of the survivors and sought
cover. He found it behind an upturned
leather bucket, and remained there,
showing no fear, but taking infinite
pains to keep out of the way of projec-
tiles.
This exploit made him a popular ia
vorite with the entire army corps, and
the men even excused him when they
discovered, during an arduous march
in heat and dust, that Jocko had found
out how to unscrew the shoppers of the
canteens, and that he had drunk or
wasted almost all the water of the regi-
ment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

The growth of population about the
Great Lakes will be one of the i'm
portant revelations of the present CEN
sus. Six lake cities, Buffalo, Cleveland,
Toledo, Detroit, Milwaukee and Chica-
90, have added more than million
people since 1890, an increase of nearly
fifty per cent. The increase Is directly
related to the growth of commerce OF
the Great Lakes, which has doubled in
the last five years. The tonnage ca
pacity of vessels passing through the
canal at Sault Sainte Marie is now half
as large again as that Of all the vessels
which enter and leave the port of New
York, and two and half times as great
as the tonnage which passes through
the Suez Canal. The great lakes GER
tainly cannot be called "a waste of
water" They are teeming with life
and usefulness.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
AND TOADSTOOLS.

the statute books making the first Tues
day after the first Monday election day.
At that time but five of the twenty
six States had their State elections in
November. In Michigan and Missis-
sippi voting was carried on through two
days-the first Monday and the follow
ing Tuesday, New York had three cleo
ton days-the first Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday-bu had finally con-
fined voting to the middle day, or the
first Tuesday after the first Monday
Massachusetts chose State officers on
the second Monday in November. and
Delaware on the second Tuesday So
Congress selected the first Tuesday
after the first Monday to consult the
convenience of three States out Of five,
one of the three being the important
State of New York.-Chicago Tribune
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sAeooN AS A SOLDIER.
nTau.Like Animal the Pet of BaaSisn
Reriment in South Africa.

nrar.TiE~ Animal the Pet of a British
Regiment in South Africa.
During the war in South Africa the
amusing mad boulevard Parisians pc
came sadly wrought up about a rhmor
that the British were using trained pa
blooms and even gorillas to fight the
Beers. France seized on the story with
avidity, for it pointed at once to pleas
ing shortage of men in the British army
and a satisfying ferocity.
The entire story grew out or the 1act
that one British regiment, the Duke or
Edinburgh's Own Volunteer Rifles,
really did have attached to it an i'm
mense baboon as the official pet OF the
soldiers. He had been caught on the
Fraserburg road, and Sergeant Pearson
took him under his personal charge. 1t
was not long before the man-like AMI
NAL had made himself at home, and
after the first engagement, he took
positive delight in the sound OF artli-
lery fire. When the troops were cross
ing the Vaal River, General Warren
rode up to the officers of the d. Il. U.
Tvs and demanded, in hot rage, what
in the name of the God of War he meant
tby leaving the wagon with the mems
kits In charge of a monkey. Inyestlga-
ton showed that the conveying soldiers
had missed the road, and that the ba-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
AVOID TOADSTOOLs.
THEY ARE OFTEN MISTAKEN
FOR MUSHROOMS.
Some Interesting Information by DIR.
Far1ow, Professor of Cryptogamic
Botany in Harvard Uniyersity-How
to Tell Edible from Poisonous Fungi.

Besides the chance that the toadstool
may be mistaken for the edible mush-
room, danger is said to Turk in that
which under ordinary circumstances
might be eaten with impunity. 1t is
absolutely essential that mushrooms in
tended for the table should be gathered
in their prime and prepared for eating
as quickly as possible. In their chem
ical construction they are much the
same as meats. In fact, many authorl-
ties claim that they are good substi-
tute for meats, and in some countries
the peasants and poorer classes have
no other meat for weeks and months.
Just as the meats faint and become I'M
fit for human consumption, SO the
mushrooms decompose and become dan
gerous.
Probably the deadliest of all, as well
as one of the most violent and fatal or
vegetable poisons, is the amanita YER
nus, and of all the poisonous varieties
it is the one that may most easily be
mistaken for the wholesome variety.
With this variety all tests for distin-
gushing, such as pleasant odor, boiling
with silver spoon, furnishing indicat-
ing poison, change of color when bro
ken and peeling of the cap are said to
be at fault. The amanita has an in
and it peels easily. The latter tests are
not considered conclusive, however, for
the reason that many Of the varieties
that are edible do not peel easily. The
one unerring mark by which amanita
may be distinguished is little socket
in which the stem sets and which is de-
nominated the poison cup. This cup
may be under ground and must be
searched for if the novice would be GER
tain that he has not plucked his own
death. Any mushroom that has even a
suggestion of such a socket should be
left severely alone.
In an extensive paper entitled "Some
Edible and Poisonous Fungi" prepared
by DR.. w. G. Farlow, professor of cryp-
togamic botany in Harvard University,
for the United States Department Of
Agriculture, are given some rules for
distinguishing the common mushroom
from the deadly agarics. DR.. Farlow
says:
1.-The common mushroom has pileus
which is not covered with wart-like
scale; gills which are brownish purple
when mature; a nearly cylindrical
stalk, which is not hollow. with a ring
near the middle, and without dubious
base sheathed by a membrane or by
scales.
'"rhe fly agaric has pileus marked
with prominent warts: gills always
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

Half Of the quarrels beta cen a man
and his wife start when sh3 is doing up
her hair.
We could stand having our enemies
hate us if our friends would only love
us, but they don't.
After girl gets married she tries to
look at an old maid as if she was some
kind of curiosity.
No man could ever live for very long
with the kind of woman that always
means more than she says.
Half the girls you meet are either
pretty or clever. The other half are
ones who would make good wives.
No woman's feet feel really comfort
able unless she has got them in pair
Of shoes that are too small for them.
Nothing makes a woman buy thing
she doesn't want SO quick as to have
the clerk act like he thought she
couldn't afford it.
The women have got up discussion
whether wife ought to open her hus-
bands letters. None of them ever
really does it, but she won't even admit
to the others That II is because she
doesn't dare.-Ee York PresS
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

The power to change the center
terest from wrong to right conSa
the highest disciplining ability
teacher can possess.-Hughes.
The young teacher should learn
that teaching and talking are quiz
ferent. Almost any recitation in
the teacher talks half the time is
ure. 1t seems that the teacher (
the pouring out of knowledge
main thing.-Intersta School I'd
Occasionally a teacher is so intd
gaining a present popularity tta
fails to do his whole duty TO his 4
This is a great mistake. These
pupils whose good will he has so
uously cultivated, by cajolery and
doubtful means, for present
gain, will in after years rise up I'M
ment against him.-EXchange.
"Pupils who have skipped the Sp
book are found to be poor spoilers
judgment beginning to form
spread. An Eastern journal says
later years there has been a retu
the spelling book drill, the multi
ton drill, to a system that bring
pupils to close quarters with tn
ments of education, no matter
hard the work" The spelling book
way to what was deemed
method of teaching reading. Our
are not as good spoilers as in the
of the spelling book and the SIP
school. Are they better readers?
will declare it?-Normal Teacher.
One of the profound mysteries i
world is the marvellous psych0i'
change that comes over respectaD
telligent and otherwise wise la
when they are elected by their II
citizens to serve on school COMM
Persons who would never dreaE
experimenting an electric plant
aging a railroad, building a bridge
Niagara, leading an army or conn
ing ship, enter upon the duties
school committee with the astonl
presumption that they can with
minister directly to the welfare OF
dren, mold society into right living
shape the destinies Of a natlo
means Of common education; that
can make courses of study,
teachers, examine pupils, and mi
the internal and pedagogical ana
a school system. This prevailing
of affairs would be ridiculous w
not so awfully solemn. The pres
ton of school boards Is the acub
tress of the nation; it is the cuIl
ton of bad politics, the very Wor'
product of democratic evolution
this presumption millions i'll none
wasted every year. countless en-
suffer, and free government is y
ned.-Colonel Parker.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

Foreign trade has picturesque fea-
lures which greatly relieve it's coldly
commercial aspects. For example, in
sending to Zanzibar hundred thou
sand dollars worth of kerosene oil last
year the United States was doubtless
trying to light up the dark continent.
American locomotives are going to At
RIGA in such number that the continent
cannot much longer be called slow.
Ivory, an ancient source of Africa's
wealth, is becoming so scarce that earn
est efforts are now making to preserve
the herds of elephants from wanton
slaughter. What wonders modern COM
merce works!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
ELECTION DAY.
How 1t Came to BE Tuesday After First
Monday in November.

Monday in November.
The designation of the day for hold
ing the presidential election is left to
Congress. The first act passed by 1t
relating to that subject was in 1892. 1t
provided that presidential electors
should be appointed within thirty four
days before the first Wednesday in De
cember.'' This left each State free to
select day to suit itself within those
limits. Pennsylvania chose electors on
the last Friday in October. Other States
elected theirs on different days be-
tween the beginning and middle of No
vember.
When Harrison was elected in 1910
the Democrats asserted that his sue
cess was due partly to fraudulent vOt-
ing, which was made possible by the
lack of definite election day. 1t was
alleged that Kentucky and Ohio Wings
had voted in both States, the election
being held on different days. So in 1S45
the Democrats passed the law now on
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white; a stalk with large ring around
the upper part, and hollow or cottony
inside, but solid at the base, where it is
dubious and scaly.
'"rhe deadly agaric has a pileus with
out distinct warts; gills which are al
ways white, and a hollow stalk with
large ring and a prominent bulb at the
base, whose upper margin is membra-
nous or baglike. Other minor points OF
difference are the different places in
which these species grow, and also the
colors, which, although they vary in
each case, are brilliant yellow or'red in
the fly agaric, white, varying to pale
olive, in the deadly agaric, and white,
usually tinged with little brown, in
the mushroom.
"A word should be said as to the size
and proportion Of the pileus and stalk
in these three species. In the mush-
room the pileus averages from three to
four inches in breadth and the stalk is
generally shorter than the breadth Of
the pileus and comparatively stout. The
pileus remains convex for long time,
and does not become quite fat-tOpped
until quite old. The substance is firm
and solid. In the fly agaric the pileus,
at first oval and convex, soon becomes
fat and attains breadth of six to
eight inches, and sometimes more. The
stalk has length equal to or slightly
exceeding the breadth Of the pileus and
is comparatively slenderer than in the
common mushroom, but nevertheless
quite stout. The substance is less firm
than in the common mushroom.
1.-THE pileus of the deadly agaric is
thinner than that of the common mush-
room, and, from being rather bell
shaped when young, becomes gradually
fiat-topped, with the center a little
raised. In breadth it is intermediary
between the two preceding species. The
stalk usually is longer than the breadth
of the pileus and the habit is slenderer
than in the two preceding species. All
three species are pleasant to the taste,
which shows that one cannot infer that
species is not poisonous because the
taste is agreeable. The fly agaric has
scarcely any odor. The other two spe-
cies have certain odors of their own,
but they cannot be described"
While there are over 100 varieties Of
mushrooms and toadstools which may
be eaten, there is no general rule for
their identification, and each must be
learned as species. The gatherer may
safeguard himself to some extent by
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
POPULATION OF THE CAPITALS.
A Decrease, as at Albany, Since the
Last Census Not the Rule.

A Decrease, as at Albany, Since the
Last Census Not the Rule.
The population Of the capital cities
Of two States, New York and Nebraska
is less at present, according to the CEN
sus reports, than ten years ago. AL
bany's present population, "a 900, shows
a decline of 772 compared with 1890,
and Lincoln's present population, 49,
OOO shows a decline of 1895. This
fact has suggested that State capitals
throughout the United States may have
declined in population-such is not the
case. Thus Providence, the capital Of
Rhode Island, has gained % per cent in
population during the last ten years;
Hartford, Conn, has increased from
$1,000 to nearly $4,000, or SO per cent;
Trenton, N. j., has increased from 81
600 to $4,000, a gain of q per cent, and
Columbus, Ohio, increased from $4,000
to 125,OOO, a gain of AZ per cent.
In fact, considering that the capitals
of American States have been fixed
chiefly with reference to their geo.
graphical situation and without refer
ence to their facilities for business COM
municaton with other places, it is cause
for surprise that American capitals
should show SO large an increase this
year. Thus Indianapolis, the capital Of
Indiana, almost exclusively dependent
upon railroad connections, has increas-
ed from 10000 to nearly 10000 popu-
lation in ten years, a gain of more than
so per cent, and per cent greater than
Cleveland's and so per cent greater
than Cincinnati's. Des Moines, the
capital Of Iowa, has increased in ten
years "a per cent in population. Har-
risburg, the capital of Pennsylvania,
has increased so per cent. Denver, the
capital of Colorado, shows gain Of
25 per cent; st. Paul, Mimi, a gain of
% per cent, and Salt Lake City, Utah,
Of 10 per cent. Richmond and Nash
vile, the capitals of Virginia and Ten
nessee, show a considerable gain in
population, and Topeka, the capital of
Kansas, shows per cent increase,
though census figures indicate some
falling of in the population of that
State Trenton, the capital of New
Jersey, has gained more proportionate-
~ during the last ten years than Jer-
Sey City.-New York Sun.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
Lost Arts of Egypt.

Analyses Of weapons and tools, dating
from very ancient times in Egypt. have
convinced M. Berthelot, the French
chemist, that the old Egyptians used
pure copper in the manufacture of such
objects. They displayed much ingenu-
ity in manipulating that metal. A
chisel was made by folding thin strips
Of copper over one another and then
forging them into solid blade, while
hollow needles were formed from cop
per leaf by method very similar to
that which is employed at the present
day in making helical tubing for BIZ
cycles
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
STILL A sPRY OF
Mrs. Nancy Jones, Aged

Mrs. Nancy Jones, Aged )
a Revolutionary s
There are now on the IL
.olls just four widows of
soldiers. Mrs. Nancy jog
IN her little farm nea'
Tenn, is one of them, a
,ady she is, in spite of her
and her husband were al
settlers of Tennessee and
EASTERN part of the State
years, up to the time OF
death. The venerable W.
around every day when S
ut all tolerable and stieI
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
BELLE ARCHER.

A welI-Known Actress Who Died Re-
Gently of Embo1ism.
Belle Archer, the well-known actress,
died recently of embolism at hospital
in Warren, Pa. She had been long
known as one of the most beautiful and
talented members Of the theatrical pro-
fession in America. Before she made
her hit in "a Contented Woman" Miss
Archer won fame as the leading lady OF
Alexander Salvini, whom she was COM
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
Freak Potato i'm Maine.

A most curious freak potato was
raised on the farm of j. G. Hammond,
Of Greene, Me. The potato not only
had eyes, but good-sized tooth. prob
ably horse tooth, and grew until the
cavity was filed and the tooth hard
and fast in the potato.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
Extraordinary Township.

The most extraordinary township in
England is that Of Skiddaw, in Cumber-
land. 1t contains but one house, the
occupier Of which is unable to exercise
the privilege Of voting, because there
is no oyerseer to prepare voters list,
and no church or other place of wor-
ship or assembly on which to publish
ono
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

One of the yellow papers refers to its
cartoonist who gets salary of about
$4,000 a year as "a poor man." 1t
does not, however, go so far as to call
him one of the plain people.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

New South Wales, which has sur
plus of over 100000 in it's treasury,
should be very careful that it does not
import any American politicians along
with it's next cargo Of American rails.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

Professor Proctor's theory of the per-
petuity Of matter through successive
collisions of the planets is fanciful, but
it has the negative merit that none of
the professors contemporaries is likely
to live long enough to refute it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

PEELED to sue for her contract money in
1895. Soon afterward Salvini was at
tackled. with the disease of which he
died not long ago in Italy. Since thai
time Miss Archer had been very sue
cessful as an actress. She was born at
Easton, Pa, in 1860.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

Some Industrious scientists are now
proclaiming the earth is not round, but
is larger on the equatorial line than
around the poles. If these eminent
men keep at work they will soon know
the elementary facts taught in the geog-
raphies for the last hundred years.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

Four persons were killed in political
dispute in Porto Rico, which is not SO
bad considering the short time the Por-
to Ricans have had to acquire practice.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

avoiding all varieties that give out IN
unpleasant odor, those which are tough
or in state of decomposition, and by
examining the insides to see that they
are free from grubs and the larvae OF
flies and beetles.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01
Probably Not.

Elsie--Yes, dear, my husband
doctor, and lovely fellow, but nv
absent minded.
Ada-Indeed!
"Only fancy! During the MAJ
ceremony, when he gave me the
he felt my pulse and asked me
out my tongue"
Ada-Well, he won't do the
again.-Spare Moments.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

party, just as wager is. Or the par
ties might be bound In some way, as
those who quarrel are bound by court
to keep the peace. With sufficient
forfeit or penalty, young couples might
be expected to wait until their minds
were actually made up, instead of rush
ing into wedlock and then attempting
to rush out of it again at once.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

The Boxer is said to be responsible for
rise in the price of tea. Alas, the poor
consumer is called upon to settle for
everybody's dofngs.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

Emerson's law of compensations still
holds. While one end of the modern
university sends out football players
another end turns out surgeons.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

Andrew Carnegie may be ambitious
to be poor, but he always keeps enough
money so that when he writes a book
he can afford to have it published.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-11-01

The ideal horse that can trot a mile
in two minutes seems to be not far
away. Every time a fraction of a Sec
ond is knocked off from a trotter's time
the two-minute horse comes nearer. The
Abbott, a 7-year-old gelding, trotted
mile in the unprecedented time of
2:O3A. The fastest previous time on
any track was made in 1894 by Alex
her admirers called her 'Sweet Alix''-
in 2:O3A, at Galesburg, Ill. The 40
bott is comparatively a young horse.
The great trotters of the past made
their best time when they were old, as
the age of horse is counted. Flora
Temple, Jay Eye See, Goldsmith Maid,
Rarus and other queens and kings of
the turf did not show their best speed
until after they had reached ten or
twelve years of age. The reason why
trotting horses do not make their best
time until ripe in years is obvious. A
very fast trot is an artificial gait. Any
green horse, if pressed to a fast trot,
breaks" and begins to gallop. The
expert trainers of the fast trotters show
their skill in teaching the horse to main
tain the trotting gait without break
ing'' into running gait. The ablest
teachers and the most teachable horses
have accomplished this result. 1t is
a gift in the teacher and in the scholar
The mind of the man must move in
sympathetic accord with the receptive
instinct of the horse. BY this method
the greatest results are produced. But
it is a task of years for the trainer and
the animal. That is why aged horses
tagged" is a technical word meaning
a horse out of it's first youth-alone have
made the fastest time on the trotting
turf. A running gait is as natural to-
the horse as to all other animals max
ing their greatest speed. Young horses
run faster than old horses The spur
of youth and ambition animates them.
They do their best under their native
impulses. They need no education to
develop their highest capacity, for
achievement If The Abbott should
reach the age of ten or twelve years,
and not be overturned in the mean
time, he might become the ideal two
minute horse. It must be remembered
that few horses can run a mile in less
than two minutes. The best racers
have made their mile in about minute
and forty seconds. When we reflect
how short second of time is, only one
tick of a watch, we can appreciate the
remarkable effect of animal culture In
educating horse to trot a mile in only
a few seconds more than the fastest
running horse has shown in speed.