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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12

The libel law is a very pote4r FACTOR
in British journalism, therefore
yelled hints and thickly muff1ed sug-
gestions concerning the doings or
roval and noble folk usually take the
Mace of the interesting statements
such as one would be able to make in
a New York paper, for example. PEG
ple are always wondering why on
earth the second daughter OF the
prince and princess of Wales has
never married, and why she is so little
seen in public.
The explanation is simple enough,
only people are afraid to make 1t. rms
little known princess has, as matter
of fact. since her fifteenth year, been
subject to epileptic fits, which IN
fortunately have been increasing III
violence year by year. 1t is a matter
of comment how seldom she has APP
peared in public for the last three or
four years, but, of course, simple
statement of fact makes the matter
no mystery.
Princess Victoria, however, is not
the only member of the prince OF
Wales family in whom turks the sha-
dow of a tragedy. Princess Maud,
who has always been counted the
beauty of the family and who married
some years ago handsome young
Prince Charles. of Denmark, has since
her marriage developed an alarming
suicidal mania, which makes 1t I'M
uossible for her to be left alone for
minute. Since her childhood she has,
like her mother, the princess OF
Wales, been subject to fits of melan-
choly, but it is only within the last
few years that these more serious de-
velopments have occurred.
The first symptom of this dreadful
complaint appeared during the prin-
cess first visit, after her marriage, to
Copenhagen. After very dull state
dinner party she suddenly disappeared
into an anteroom, and being missed,
one of the ladies in waiting went in
search of her. A curious gasp1ng
sound was heard in one corner of the
room, and the royal bride was dis
covered lying on the ground with the
blind cord tightly drawn about her
throat and almost in the last stages of
strangulation.
Princess Maud also mas developed
other tendencies and tastes which
nave by no means increased the very
slight popularity which she was first
awarded when she arrived in her hus-
bands native land. Mysterious hints
are given concerning her other
manias, which are perhaps even more
distressing
The last time I saw her | was
shocked at her appearance, for from
being a pretty, dainty and smart look
ing woman she has changed into a
haggard, hungry-eyed creature with
dyed hair and painted cheeks, and
hands that were ever nervously grasp
ing and fumbling with fan and hand
kerchief
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
THEY SHOW ENTERPRISE.
Occupation in Which Women are
Achieving Success.

Occupation in Which Women are
Achieving Success.
The weaving of baskets seems a
means of support, yet it's discovery as
such as made only the other day by
Misses Mabel and Stella Campbell,
two young women scarcely out OF their
teens. The idea came through seeing
little baskets made of pine needles and
brought to hotels for sale by many
country women. These young women
learned how the baskets we're made
and, being in the far west-in the
Indian country-where grasses and
suitable material were procurable,
they became interested in the art of
curing the grasses, inventing, them
selves, numerous patterns and designs
for the novel little baskets. They are
making comfortable living at it in
their cottage near the Adirondacks.
Miss Margaret Oliver is an enter
prising young southern woman who
has made bulb-growing profitable
business. Her home is within few
miles of Augusta, Ca, and comprises
between so to Is acres of land which,
when she inherited it, the neighbors
said was too poor to sprOut cOWpeas.
Miss Oliver took this little farm as a
means of trying out-or-door fife for he1
health, broken by the confinement and
worry of the schoolroom.
Marjorie Deana of New York is the
romantic name of very practical and
successful young business woman and
perhaps the only femme landscape as
sistant to an architect in the United
States.
Miss Carrie Fl. Lippincott is not only
the pioneer seedswomen of America"
but has achieved the distinction of
being the sole proprietor of the largest
house in the world dealing exclusively
in flower seed. She declares she has
never had year when the balance
was on the wrong side of the ledger.
Her employees are always women.
When her work is heaviest she keeps
from 16 to Is clerks in her Minneapolis
offices.
AuOIuOl p1OIOo01oA III WAioA q Doo
ton girl has met with success is that
of bric-a-brac surgeon. She makes a
speciality of repairing all sorts Of
porcelains, statuary, fine cut glass and
precious pottery. In one year she
patched up 100000 worth of fragile
ware and she got nearly 10 per cent.
on the value Of the goods redeemed.
Another woman of many talents is
Mrs Madeline Yale ;. mn of Chicago.
Although a successful story-writer,
painter, modeler and designer and a
brilliant society woman she is also the
only woman silversmith in the world.
Marion Daniel Mcconnell in the
Alkahest.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
Idea for a Village Reformer.

The person who would bring about
social reform is apt to be a stranger in
the village which he would improve, So
unless he puts himself in the back
ground and uses great tact in directly
bringing about the desired changes he
will more than likely involve himself
in trouble Since there are few vii
lagos indeed that stand in no need of
external improvement, | doubt in the
beginning that anything better than
village improvement society could be
devised to bring together the men and
women of different views, political and
religious for it is along these two
lines that the society of most villages
ranges itself. So after the call has
been issued for the proposed society a
good proportion of the one thousand
inhabitants, more q less, will begin to
wonder what there is to do in the
nature of improving the village, and by
the time the meeting is held twenty
men and women will have very definite
ideas on the subject. Before the meet
ing the reformer must have held in
formal consultations with some of the
more prominent men and women in the
village.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12

and about half the other premiums at
each. At the Massachusetts horticul-
tural he secured first on general dis
play; one first, two seconds and third
on cactus dahlia. first and second on
fancies and second and third on dec
oratives. At the other three fairs he
received in the aggregate, Is firsts, Il
seconds and gold medal.
A visit to his place in August or Sep
TENDER is an event to be remembered,
not only for the acres of beauty to be
seen, but for the revelation of love
illness and the exquisite coloring and
texture in the newer varieties of this
wonderful fiower.-New England Far
mer
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
CHINESE AS COLoNISTS.
What They Have Done in the Philip
pines and East Indies.

What They Have Done in the Philip
pines and East Indies.
Frank M Todd, in Ainslee's, says:
I'm the nude of the seventeenth cen
fury one Keuseng, or Koxinga, a
Chinese chief that had refused to sur
render to the Tartars, invaded For
mosa at the head of an army of 10000
men, attacking and driving out the
Dutch. In 1862 he opened correspon-
dence with the Chinese in Manila, and
the Spanish governor, fearing treach-
cry, slaughtered 100000 of them as a
hint to the survivors that any more
friendly doings with General Koxinga
would meet with his displeasure. In
the latter half of the seventeen hum
dreds they were massacred by thous-
ands in Papanga province. But in
spite of this Spanish method of deal.
ing with the Chinese question there
were 10000 of them in Manila at the
beginning of the century.
"They constitute an important part
of the Philippine population today,
often marrying native women and
sending their sons to China to be edu-
Gated. Rosario street, in Manila, is
given up to Chinese shops, and many
of those who have no capital invested
are employed as clerk and compra-
dores by merchants of other races.
"The Chinaman pervades not only
the Philippines but all the islands of
the seas from Colombo eastward,
wherever trade promises profit. Mr..
Bancroft says that the first Europeans
at Malacca, Penang, Singapore, and all
the important island ports of Eastern
Asia and Oceanica found Cinnamon
there before them. They have gen
orally chung to their places with all the
tenacity that characterizes the grip
their cousins have gained in this
country. They are thick in the Spice
Islands. The British say they are ex-
cellent citizens in Borneo. They
created Singapore. There were 10000
of them out of a population of LII, 00O
in Batavia in 1894 There are said to
be over 100000 of them thriving under
the tyrannical governments of tho
Dutch East Indies, most of them with
no apparent thought of going home ex
cept for burial. contented because
Wheir practical business talents and
ability to live without Injuries have
made them dominantin trade. Ontheir
account the Australian gold diggings
have had their race riots. and the
Australian colonies their exclusive
| legislation in defiance of the diplomacy
of the London government. Chinese
merchants have invaded Japan. where
they compete successfully with the
European trader. All over the East
ern seas the union of Chinese com
pradores has held commerce in the
hollow of it's hand, and it's law has
been the most terrible that could be
/ invoked to punish or to ruin the west
ern merchant that tried to do business
without them
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
A KING AS PARTNER.
Thomas Walsh of Colorado Associated
in Business with BeIgium's Ruler.

Thomas Walsh of Colorado Associated
in Business with BeIgium's Ruler.
A dispatch from Paris says: A
business partnership has been entered
into between Thomas Walsh, the Colo
RADIO millionaire, and his royal high
ness, Leopold, king of the Belgians.
Walsh attracted the attention Of
inanciers, who sought to interest him
in various business schemes. among
others Charles Naegelmackers, the
Belgian president of the International
Sleeping Car company, which controls
the train de luxe service throughout
Europe. Through outside specula-
lions the company had become some
what embarrassed.
Three months ago Naegelmackers
arranged for meeting between King
Leopold and the Colorado millionaire
at Ostend. Walsh was then pushed by
King Leopold and Naegelmackers for
his decision on the proposed business
deal, but the American millionaire ex-
claimed: Your company may pay
under the best conditions 8 to per
cent handle my capital in such
way that it brings in 10, IL. and even
20 per cent.
LET us talk no more about your
sleeping cars"
King Leopold, who, since the mar
velous recuperation of the Congo Free
State, owns enormous private wealth
and is a keen money-maker, upon hear
i ing Walsh descant upon and explain
the possibilities of the kind of opera
lions that are familiar to American
millionaires, changed his tack, inquir-
ing where a king who had some little
available money himself could come in
on the American field.
Walsh, fearful of the whims of such
a lofty partner, was singularly I'M
responsive and at first did not answer
the query.
King Leopold, however, who had al
ready made exhaustive inquiries in the
United States and had received the
most irreproachable repl1es concerning
Walsh's uprightness and financial
solidity, had become favorably i'm
pressed by the brilliancy, holiness, and
prudence of the Colorado millionaire
His royal highness overwhelmed
Walsh with such attentions that the
latter finally realized the advantages
of such partnership which, in adj
dition to bringing him high social dis
tinction, would also provide him with
unlimited capital for the execution Of
some of his vast projects.
After a few weeks consideration
Walsh finally yielded, through the
representations of Naegelmackers and
consented to become King Leopold's
financial adviser and partner. Several
contracts have been signed, each in
trusting several millions in dollars in
Walsh's hands.
It is believed that the operations
contemplated will be confined mostly
to mining with some incidental stirring
up of the stock markets, in order to
bring to terms those powerful tinan-
ciers who have been opposing Walsh's
speculative operations.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
FORTUNE TELLING.
Some Tricks of Trade Now Quite in
Vogue.

Vogue.
eff I had room to describe all my ex
periences with these modern witches
and wizards, I should like to tell you
about the amiable old fraud that cast
my horoscope. He has been to states
prison for swindling, but he advertises
in the Sunday papers just the same as
usual, and his office is full of people
whose dollars burn in their pockets
should like to describe the doctor with
three framed diplomas, two medical
books and half-pint of pills, that went
into a trance for me hardly distin-
guishable from the early stages of a fit.
His wrist shook like fiddler's playing
Schubert's 'Serenade, and his eyes
rolled up till they looked like hard
boiled eggs with the shell off.
should like to tell about the psychic
medium that did little miracle for me
in the way of reading the answers to
my questions through the envelope in
which they were sealed. | could eek
plain how he gave me dummy to hold
while he opened the real envelope I'M
der cover Of washing his hands.
should like to tell how wrong in every
particular was the lady that read my
palm by the light of pure science. NO
fortune-telling about it, oh, dear, no.
7 should like to tell about the true and
reliable fortune-tellers' that ran the
cards for me, and saw trouble from a
dark man and luck in the lottery with
the number 8, or 800. or 5000. and how
there was money coming to me in a
letter from across the water. ct has
to come to me that way or I could not
pay the grocer for live in Brooklyn,
and Brooklyn is on Long Island, and
my little girl has just come home from
school with the information that an
island is a body of land completely
surrounded by water. I had suspect
ed as much. Harvey Sutherland in
Ainslee's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
CIucking for Eggs in Paris.

Stories about the eccentric conduct
of Americans in Paris were to be eX-
pected, and the expectation is being
fulfilled One of the earliest to arrive
concerns a newly-enriched country
man from Chicago who, not knowing a
word of French and desiring ham and
eggs for breakfast, went through a
pantomime that set a whole restau-
rant in panic He first drew what
he intended for pictures of eggs and
showed them to a waiter who failed
to comprehend He then rose and
hoped madly around the table, cluck-
ing like a hen. The more substantial
element of our national breakfast dish
was indicated by eloquent grunts.
About the time the other guests were
whispering that an epileptic had es-
capped from the custody of his keeper
the delighted waiter fell to the idea
and the Chicago man was appeased.
So charmed with his idea was the
American that at dinner he sug-
gested to his wife that he should
bleat for roast lamb. and was only
restrained by her threat to separate
permanently from him.-Paris Letter
to the Chicago Journal
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
THE IDEAL BED-CHAMBER.
1t Should be as Large and Airy as Pos
sbIe, and Not Overfurnished.

1t Should be as Large and Airy as Pos
sible, and Not Overfurnished.
The Importance of the sleeping and
bathing arrangements of a house is not
half appreciated,' writes Maria Parloa.
in the Ladies' Home Journal. giving
some suggestions as to furnishing the
house. Every bedroom should be
provided with the essentials for health.
full sleep and the daily sponge bath.
AS nearly as possible, the room should
be kept free from anything that would
tend to contaminate the air. It should
be as large as one can afford. and the
windows so arranged that they may be
opened at the top and bottom. If pos
pible the floor should be bare and the
rugs so small that they can be taken
outdoors with ease for cleaning and
airing. Everything about the room
should be washable. The bed should
be light and fitted with strong casters,
SO that it may be readily moved; the
springs ought to be firm and strong,
and the mattress of kind that will
not allow the heaviest part of the body
to sink, and SO cause the sleeper to lie
in a cramped position. My own pref
erence is for cheap hard mattress
next the springs and a light one OF
hair on this, but any kind of a firm
mattress is better than one that is too
soft. Above all, do not overfurnisn
the bedroom"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
OPIUM SUICIDES IN CHINA.
The Chinese Destroy Their Own Lives
on Small Provocation.

on Small ProVocation.
Rev. John Graham of the China
inland mission, in the Missionary Re-
view of the World, gives a terrible
picture of the prevalence of opium
suicide in China. In China human life
is regarded very lightly, this being
due, in part, to the swarming popula-
ton, the stenuousness of the struggle
for existence. the gray dullness of the
life which many of the people lead,
but more particularly to the lack Of
those supreme motives and that spirit
ual uplift which Christianity alone can
supply Mr. Graham kept record OIL
the cases of opium poisoning which
came under his notice for Is months
while he was at Yunnan Flu, and they
number 243 These deaths were not
due to the habitual use of opium, but
to opium taken with suicidal intent,
and Mr.. Graham said that they formed
F'only a fraction of the terrible total"
During this time in this city of $4,000
inhabitants the missionaries by medi-
cal treatment tried to save the lives of
213 attempted suicides, being success
full in more than one-half of the cases,
and they found that of this number ia
were women and girls, showing that
the blackness of despair rests moss
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
Woman SpeIIbinder for Bryan.

Not content with engaging an In
dian chief as one of it's staff of cam
paign orators, the democratic COM
mittee has now completed arrange
ments to secure the services of Miss
Margaret ingalls, of Kentucky, who
has already taken the stump for Mr..
Bryan Miss Ingalls, for several
years has been prominent in the excit-
ing political life of that state. At the
last stormy session of the Kentucky
legislature she was chosen head clerk
of the house, and she has won name
for herself as an orator in several ex-
citing state campaigns. She is a
ready speaker and is said to rival even
Mr.. Bryan himself in the facility with
which she turns brilliant epigrams
which stick in the memory. She is
also noted as a wit and is a good
story-teller. Her first speech outside
the state was made before the demo-
cratic congressional convention at
Charlottesville, Ind. A good many of
Indiana's male spellbinders were pres
ent and let the eagle soar to the best
of their powers, but Miss ingalls, east
ly carried off the oratorical honors in
spite of them
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12
Tattooed Girls.

mo need to go to the dime museums
or sideshOws of the circus these days
to see the tattooed girls said a man;
call the summer resorts but particu-
Iarly the seaside resorts, TEEN with
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12

William Segelson. an Iowa cattle
man, was found dead in a room full of
gas in the Metropolitan hotel in Chi
cago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12

She-I do hope I'll have fine day
for my wedding. Goodness knows
deserve it!
He-You do, indeed. You'll have
plenty of stormy one after it-Tit-Bits
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-11-12

Young Woman Said to be Under Con-
slant Surveillance in Copenhagen
Sorrows of Royalty About WhIcn
the Public Knows Little-A SuIcI-
dial Streak.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-17
TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.
h"sehHh Players Turned Down b.
hagnnte- Issue a Statement OF
what They Muu DO.

New York. Dec ls.-The committee OF
the Protective Association OF Professions.
Baseball Players. composed OF Hugh Jen-
nlngs. c. G. Griffith and Charles l.. Zim.
mer, who presented their claims To the
National League magnates. during the
week. to-day issued the following state
mont.
The refusal OF che National League
maguates 10 consider and discuss with
us seriatim, our requests as representa-
tives OF the Protective Association OF Pro-
fessional Baseball Players aud their tall
less resolution. which Is probably intend
Ell 20 express in words thelr complete ig-
noring Of said requests collectively. with
out any adequate reason therefor seem
TO require us. as such representative. 10
make the following statement 60 all the
members ~ our association and 20 the
public:
-. We shall continue 90 stand. as We
nave always stood. Tor tho avoidance ol
a baseball war u that be possible
We recognize and shall respect the
inVioiahliiy Of an actual coutractual OBJ
legations
3. No member of our association. who
curing the past season. played last 10 the
American League. shall at present sign
CONTRACT TO play the coming season 200
me National League. or vice versa.
T. Pursuant 20 our hy-laws. none %
the members Of our association shall SIGN
contract Tor the coming season which
has not been approved by our associa-
ton.
Charles l.. thinner. Hugh Jennings. c.
~. Grifnth committee
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-17
WEEK IN CONGRESS-
MATTERS TO CONE BEFORE THE
HOUSE AND SENATE.
CANAL TREATY ON CALENDAR.
SENATE NOT LIKELY TO TAKE ~
APPROPRIATIONS.

Chances Are Against the senate Act
inE on the Array am UntiI After
the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Important
Looked for In the oousc Unless
the river aud Harbor Committee
Makes "A Representation Matters TO
Come ~.
Washington. Dec. i6.-Undcr tho con
current resolution already passed the
House viii adjourn over tho holidays on
Friday.
The week ia tho House is not likely to
b. important unless the river and harbor
appropriation bill should be- taken up
Wednesday or THURSDAY There has been
no decision upon this point however. the
bill not having been yet reported 10 the
House.
Tomorrow is individual suspension day
under The gules. but only "a brief time Will
be occupied with suspension business.
Several bills to divide judicial districts
and the Ianham Texas claim bin probably
viii be- PASSED. The rcma inder Of the day.
under an order made yesterday. win be
devoted TO the consideration OF private
pension bills
Tuesday has been set aside for District
Of Columbia business.
uny-Pnuncefote Treaty.
The Senate will devote the greater part
Of It's time this week TO consideration of
the Pauucefote treaty. q IL should
be necessary TO DO SO In order 60 get
the ratification resolution acted upon. an
boz case there IL any surplus time 10 will
be devoted 90 the consideration OF the
ship subsidy bin.
None Of the appropriation bills can b.
reported 20 the Senate IN time Tor con
sideraton during the week or until after
the holidays, and the same way b. said
81 the army bill There will be an eror,
made 10 report the army bill during the
week and 10 may be successful but Il
raunc, possibly boz taken M before the
Senate conveues after the holidays
Senator Lodge is very hopeful % secur-
ing an agreement Tomorrow 10 vote upou
the treaty before the holiday adiou. n
ment next Friday Tho present pro-
gramme Of the opponents % the treaty Is
to have Senator Money speak D-morrow
and other senators Of the opposition "a
succession number Of speeches have
been promised on the subsidy hill II op-
portunlty offers