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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
DECLINE CHURCH ATTENDANCE

The pulpit used to be the chief
means of instruction and of intel
lectual and moral stimulation for the
people The pulpit orator was the
peoples orator. The pulpit has in
great measure lost it's attractive power
in this regard. The daily and weekly
press have a greater influence in pub
lie instruction. The multiplica
ton of cheap books also takes from
the pulpit a large share of it's influence
in this regard. Oratory in legislative
bodies has to a great extent lost it's in
fuence. It's place has been taken by
simple, compact time-saving state
ments, often printed but not delivered
Committees do the work which used to
be done after discussion before the
public. So the people will not listen
now to the pulpit orator of former
generations. They demand short,
crisp sermons that bristle with points,
and are practical and helpful. In
other words, the oratorical and highly
intellectual character of the pulpit
which used to attract Worshippers no
longer attracts them. They feel that
they can get more benefit in this re-
gard by reading in the comfort of the
home. Multitudes of people can no
longer be induced to attend church to
be instructed by the minister or to
get his judgment on topics of the time,
or to be stirred by his eloquence; they
can get all these things cheaper and
easier by reading at home. When,
now, this is REINFORCED by the fact that
multitudes dislike the doctrines of the
church, and resent them when they are
preached, we can easily understand
that church attendance should decline
very greatly from this reason.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
HE KNEW WHAT HE WAS ABOUT

Among the stories told to the de-
served credit of such lawyers as have
no scruples against distOrting and
concealing the truth in order to shield
persons whom they know Or have eY~
cry reason to believe to be guilty, the
following is entitled to a good place:
An attorney had occasion to defend
man who was justly accused of coun-
terfeiting paper money, and he manip
ulated the case with such skill that he
secured the acquittal of the prisoner.
When the lawyer and his client were
alone together again the counterfeiter
overwhelmed the lawyer with thanks.
And now" said he, putting his
hand in his pocket.
And now the lawyer took up the
sentence, Il will have my fee, and [
will take it in hard currency, not in
bills, if you please. Youths Com
paniOn
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
THE TATTLING WITCH.

For it is we'll known that the
shame of mans sin liveth while he
liveth. old Annalist
He runs along the desert rim,
A leopards pelt his girth,
And red as rudy earth
The long and slender shape Of him.
A lissome witch beside him runs;
All yellow is her skin,
And dead her hair, and thin,
Bleached in a thousand thousand suns
One leprous finger follows back
To where a crimson stain
Sleeps on the blistered plain,
And oozes slow across the track.
She laughs because he will not see.
Between the day and night
I'll turn thy young beard white
| heard the slung stone sing" quoth
she
A tear falls just before he turns.
"Yon shadowy dune beside
| take another guide
That knows mott" Dry his eyelid
burns.
Beside the shadowy dune they rest,
And all the while he sleeps
The witch the night-fire keeps
Beneath a red moon in the west.
With morning wind another's there;
A moment, bone to bone,
They whisper, crone and crane,
And gibber in their hempy hair.
He slung the killing stone in wrath;
Now, till by day and night
His young beard turneth white,
Drag we the manhood on his path! :"
Then with the wind the first witch
flies
The second mutters fell;
Tonight one more [ tell,
And wakes him with her stealthy eyes.
-Maude Caldwell Perry in Century.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
PNEUMATIC TIRE FOR THE
FIORSELESS CARRIAGE.
THE

The most perfect spring we can have
is air under pressure, and a pneumatic
tire is the best way yet known of put
ting that spring into use. It's use
means defOrmable envelope, which
must be we'll and strongly made, cap
able of withstanding not only repeated
reformation at high speeds, but under
the worst possible conditions as to
We'ar-and-tear by the cutting and
abrading irregularities which effect
the worst of the reformation under
an insistent load. The envelope,
moreover, must be easily detached and
replaced and capable of Withstanding
high tangential tensile stresses as we'll
as the continuous stress due to an in
ternal pressure of so to 80 lbs per
square inch 1t does not appear to be
recognized, that, even with rubber,
there is a limit to velocity of trans
mission of impact, and therefore a linn
it to the volicity of impact under
which rubber will bend, or extend, and
not break 1he higher the speed, there
fore, the greater the effect Of road
abrasion and the more frequent the
conversion of an abrading stone into q
cutting stone. The past year has
probably seen the limit of endurance
approached by the distinctive co-ac-
ton of high speed and heavy weight,
W w Beaumont, in Engineering
Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
SOUTH SEA BUBBLES IN SCIENCE

The advances in science lead to
hopes of the sudden accumulation Of
gold, just as the discovery of the new
worlds led our ancestors to invest in
many inflated enterprises of commerce
and conquest This older temptation
has passed away, for there are no new
worlds to discover, and this small
globe has been practically staked out;
but the mysterious domains of science
are still illimitable, and afford vast op-
portunities for inflated schemes which
have their prototype in the south sea
bubble. Let us refresh memory Of this
surprising delusiOn. It arose in the
reign Of Queen Anne, nearly one hum
dred and eighty years ago, and when
we consider the extent of the specula-
ton and gambling which it caused and
the number of those who lost every
thing and who consigned their fami-
lies to bitter poverty, we are tempted
to class it with those other calamities
which preceded it and which afflicted
England so heavily-the great fire of
London and the plague. The South
Sea company claimed to have enor-
nous sources of profit in certain ex
elusive privileges, obtained from the
Spanish government, for trading in
their possessions in South America
and Mexico; and it may be we'll for lis
in these times of the fotation OF
schemes for obtaining gold from salt
water and from sands, Of power from
air and something more ethereal than
air, to be reminded of the many bub-
bles that came into existence and burst
at the time of the collapse of the south
sea bubble.
The stock of the South Sea company
rose from one hundred to a thousand,
and an army of future victims crowded
the officers of the company, anxious to
invest in what they believed would
suddenly enrich them. Indeed, all
England seemed TO go mad, and the
craze of the time is reflected in the
writings of Pope and Swift-Popular
Science Monthly.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05

ionable quarter of the city, and was
the scene of many festivities.
Miss Luella M. Willard was the
stenographer in Dr. Galbraith's Of
flee She was very handsome, the
idol of a widowed mother living on the
north side.
The rupture occurred last May, when
Mrs. Galbraith applied for a divorce
Strong in the dignity of her grief, she
made strenuous efforts to keep the de-
tails from becoming public, and was
successful.
The suddenness of it and the mys-
terry Of it staggered society. DR.. Gal
braith was from that moment a chang
ed man. He became unsettled, er-
ratio. Miss Willard continued to
manipulate the typewriter for his
partner, but he started out alone to see
new lands. He visited Honolulu, and
there excited the admiration of the
medical profession by performing
more than one brilliant operation
He returned to Omaha a few weeks
ago, as suddenly as he had left. Soon
afterward Miss Willard asked for a
leave of absence, and obtained it. I'm
known to their friends, she and her
former employer met by appointment
in st. Louis, and thence, for secrecy,
went to the little town of st. Charles.
Mo-, and were married.
They failed to realize the desired
secrecy, for the news was telegraphed
to the Omaha papers the same night;
and that was the second sensation in
the Galbraith case.
Now comes the intelligence that the
infatuated physician and his second
wife are about to embark on a tour in
the orient, to last at least a. year. Mr..
G.. bennett, a nephew of President
Dole, will pilot them as far as Homo
lulu. Thence after being made much
of by the friends Dr. Galbraith made
on his recent trip, they will sail for
China and Japan. Probably they will
take a look at Manila.
That they will ever again be seen in
Omaha is doubtful. DR.. Galbraith is
in love with Honolulu, and so great
| is his prestige there professionally and
personally that he would be welcomed
as a permanent resident. He says
that he and his bride may settle there
| for life
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILWAYS.

The great increase of business and
industrial activity in South Carolina is
well illustrated by statistics from the
state railroad commission There it is
shown that the railways of South
Carolina, during the year ended June
80, made earnings of nearly $4,000 900
and a net income Of $2,700,000 being
an increase in gross earnings of 1921
900 over the previous year and a net
income more than 25 per cent. greater,
the gross increase being nearly 10 per
cent. of the total eanings. Our rail-
roads are prospecting. Yet this is but
beginning, for the volume of bust
ness since July has been far greater
than for the corresponding half of last
year and also greatly in excess of
those of the first months of 1899. The
report for the current year will doubt
less show gains even larger than for
the last.-Columbia Is. c. State
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
SCIENTIFIC SAFE CRACKING.

In the experiments made in a bur
glarious way, among others, three
thousanddollar square safe of the
most approved construction was at
tackled by inserting in the crevice
about the locked door four and eight
tenths ounces of nitro glycerin, and in
eight minutes after the operation of
loading was begun the charge was
fired, with the result that the whole of
the jamb below the door was blown
out and a hole made in the door of suf
ficient size to admit the hand and
arm, while the doors and divisions of
the interior compartments were COM
pIetely shattered On repeating the
operation with four ounces and a
quarter of forcite dynamite the door
was completely torn off. Among eX-
periments made to demonstrate the
resistance of structures to attack by
a mob was one upon safe twenty
nine inches cube, with walls four
inches and hre9-Quarters thick, made
up of plates of iron and steel, which
were REINFORCED on each edge so as
to make it highly resisting, yet when
hollow charge of dynamite nine
pounds and half in weight and I'M
tamped was detonated on it a hole
three inches in diameter was blown
clear through the wall, though a solid
cartridge of the same weight aud Of
the same material produced no mate
rial effect-Popular Science Monthly
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
THE STORY OF A MALARIA GERM
What the Germ Has to Contend With
in the Human System.

Theodore Waters, in Ainslee's, has
edited the life-story of a malaria germ.
Here is the GERMS description Of a
fight with the phagocytes: Just then
a lot of our newborn brothers began
crowding upon us from behind, and
when we turned to demonstrate, we
saw, away to the rear, a great commo-
ton. A fight and a retreat were going
on. 1t was slaughter of the most nor
rible kind There at the head OF TIDE
of blood were columns of phagocytes
cutting into the rearguard OF malaria
germs, killing them, swallowing them
whole, and growing lustier as the pro-
cess went on. 1t was an awful spec
tacle. [ hung back, fascinated
phagocyte would race down the cur
rent with a swift overland stroke,
reach out and grasp a microbe from
behind. Then the arm of the phago-
cyte would shorten, and, as it seemed
to me, retreat into the white monsters
interior, dragging the germ with It,
Sometimes a phagOcyte would grow
facetious, and would bump against a
poor germ as though shOuldering him
out of the road. Away would go the
poor germ, swimming fast in order to
avoid the encounter, but his enemy
would then swim faster, striking him
fair in the middle, and, with a slow
motion going inside out like a glove,
and actually taking the germ in with
him. UGH I should have remained
there in d sheer spell if my companion
had not pulled me along with him.
Make for a red blood CELL" he
called as we went onward.
What, said l. a red cell? We
have just come from one!'
Never mind, he replied, find red
cell and eat your way inside. 1t is our
only chance See, the others are do
ing it!
"Sure enough, many of my brethren
had selected good red blood cells and
were penetrating the skin and climb
ing inside to escape the phagocytes.
1t seemed to me so unfortunate, just as
we had gained our freedom, but it was
better than death. So we looked for
cells Every cell We came to, however,
was being occupied, and it seemed to
me that the phagocytes were gaining
on us when my companion suddenly
pulled me to one side and cried
Look out! look out! Keep away
from that current near the center
there 1t is worse than DEATH
What is it?' I cried, for l could
see nothing.
Don't you see?' he said, hugging
the wall of the tunnel, there it is, that
discolored streak, running near the
center of the stream. 1t is caused by
what men call quinine, and it is de2d
| ly if you swim in it.
How does it affect you" | asked.
If you swallow it, it numbs YOU
makes you incapable Of mOtion-sture-
fes and prevents you climbing into a
red blood cell-it is living death, and
the friend of the Phagocytes!'
Il shuddered and swan on. At the
end of a sewer-like opening, my friend
darted to one side and seized a red
blood cell which was unOccupied. He
began work on it at once.
Goodbye, brother!' he said Here
| is where I stop. I've work to do.
Hope you'll get out of the wet before
our white friends catch you. Look
out for the quinine streaks.'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
POINTS OF METRIC SYSTEM.
Difficulty Encountered in It's
Working.

The great difficulty that has been
encountered on the continent Of
Europe in working with the metric
system is the seeming hopeless task
Of standardizing screw threads, ETC.,
under it. Whether it be the natural
tendency of mankind to count by tens,
or to continually multiply and divide
by two, it is certainly very difficult
even to suggest any satisfactory sub
division of the centimeter for screw
threads. Another important point is
that the WhitwOrth thread, in inch
sizes, is standardized all over the
world, that innumerable screws and
bolts and taps and dies are in ex-
istence with such threads and that
practically all the machinery that is
now at work in the world is dependent
for repairs upon the ease in getting
standard sizes of these goods. To
change them would involve mechani-
cal confusion for a generation, and
even today, in Germany, notably,
where machinery is made on the
metric system, the screw heads are
cut to Whitworth inch gauges.
The difficulty Of adopting a cent?
grade thermometer scale is apparently
not difficulty at all, but involves
only the awkwardness due to change.
1t gives satisfaction in general use in
France 1t is strange that no serious
effort has been made to fix upon a
standard of length that shall be really
what the meter was intended to be
fixed and immutable, and rediscover-
able if lost. Such a standard is
found in the wave length of light
This can now be measured with ex-
IRENE accuracy, and it could be made
the basis Of practical standards ap-
proXimating either the meter or the
foot. Some suggestion of this sort
has been made, we believe, by Pro
fessor Nicholson, but nothing practical
has been done toward adopting this
most scientific unit Of length, except
in refined physical research work.
Electrical Review.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05

Frankfort, KY, Jan. Ex-senator
Goebel was shot and probably fatally
wounded at IL this morning. The
shooting was done by a man at pres
ent unknown Goebel was walking up
the sidewalk leading to the senate
when man in the second story of a
building Immediately to the east of the
capitol fired upon him. Five shots
were fired and Goebel fell He was
carried to the Capitol hotel The wild
est excitement was instantly created.
Within ten minutes the streets were
filled with men carrying rifles and re-
volvers. A guard was instantly
thrown around the building from
which the shots we're fired and finally
John Whitaker, farmer of Butler
county, was arrested.
The ball struck Goebel in the right
side and passed through the body,
coming out below the shoulder blade.
At noon Goebel was resting easily.
He may live. Goebel is the democratic
contestant for the governorship. He
himself has killed his man.
Goebel Sworn In.
Frankfort, KY, Feb. 1.-Wm. Goebel
was shortly before o'clock last night
sworn in as governor of Kentucky and
]. G. w. Beckham five minutes later
took the oath of lieutenant governor.
The oath was administered to both
men by Chief Justice Hazelrigg of the
court of appeals. GOebel was too weak
to say word, and the oath was taken
while he lay in bed. He is regarded as
dying. AS soon as he was sworn in
he issued orders for the militia which
Gov. Taylor had assembled, to dis
! perse Taylor gave a proclamation
dissolving the legislature and ordering
it to meet Feb. 6, at London, little
city in the mountains. Democrats re-
fuse to heed it and confusion reigns.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05

1t is an utter impossibility to catch
cold if the surfaces of the body are
kept at an even temperature. The
trouble may be from without or it may
be from within-that is, by not being
either properly or sufficiently clad, by
not having perfect circulation, or by
not eating such food as is needed to
furnish the required heat of the body,
The chilliness you experience in the
winter arises from one of two causes:
first, lack of sufficient carbonaceous
food; second, poor circulation, posi-
bly, due to lack of xercise.-Ladies'
Home Journal.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
WHITTIER ON BLAINE'S FIGHT.
1.-The Smartest Thing Since the Days
of Clay" Wrote the Poet in 1876.

The second instalment of series
of hitherto unpublished letters that
passed between Gail Hamilton and
Whittier, printed in the Ladies Home
Journal, contains this one from Whit
tier written in 1876 during the height
CT the canvass for the presidential
nomination:
How splendidly Blaine bore him
self in his fight with the committee!
I hope thee saw it. 1t was the smart
est thing done in congress since the
days of Henry Clay. I am, sorry that
he, like almost everybody else, has
been making haste to be rich, but
don't see that he has cleared himself
of the charges against him. He has
had an awful ordeal. The game of
the presidency isn't worth such can
ole Any man who is named for the
white house will soon be in the con-
dition of the man out west who was
everywhere we'll spoken of until he al
lowed himself to stand for general
court, and found himself so abused
that he had to call his dog to see if
he was himself or somebody else"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05

the source of life insurance or death
benefits at a low cost per capita and
per $1,000 of insurance, there is no
possibility of doubt-Albert c. Ste
vens in American Review of Reviews.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
GOEBEL SHOT DOWN
HORROR GROWING OUT OF KEN
TUCKY'S POLITICAL TROUBLE.
A FARMER is ARRESTED

Assassination Occurs at
The Very Door of the Capitol-Yic-
tim Fired Upon From Nearby
Building-Bullet Passes Through
Body but Patient May Live.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05

Vera Goodheart-Mrs Won Tauk is
a great social light, isn't she?
Ida Nownce-Well, rather! Regular
400 scandal power.-Life.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05

Smoking is almost unknown in
and is punished as a crime
when practiceG French explorers
have to smoke their cigars in secret.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05

Never talk in your sleep unless you
are quite sure what you are going to
say.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-02-05
A SOCIAL EXPERT
CHAPERON, GUEST. CRITIC OR AU-
THORIrY ON ELEGANT USAGE.
DESCRIBES HER WOKN

Her Patrons Not All Rich Folks, I'm
tutored in Ways Of Upper World
Her Business, She Says, Is to Gulu@
the Ignorant in Society or Ala the
Overburdened Hostess.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-11-17
WI RECEIVES The NEWS
Strong Disaproval Expressed Here of
Won Waldersee's Attitude
CALCULATED TO PROVOKE OUTBREAKS
The Animating Purpose Of Our State Depart
ment Declared to be 10 Prevent the Des-
truc'on of Chinese Territorial In.
tegrity on FIimsy Pretexts.
(By the Associated Press.)

Washington, Nov 16-Minister Wu,
has received from Director General Sheng
the following cablegram, which he COM
municated to Secretary Hay today:
"An imperial decree of November 18th,
deprives Prince Tuan and Prince Chwang
of their rank and offices and orders
them to be imprisoned for life; Prince
Yih and Secondary Prince Ying to be
imprisoned; Secondary Prince Lien to be
deprived of his rank; Duke Ian and Ying
Men to be degraded in rank; Kang vi be-
ing dead no penalty can be imposed upon
him; and Chao Shu-Chiao to be degraded
but retained in office, and Yu Hsien to be
exiled to the farthest boundary"
The State Department has not heard
from Minister Conger for four days past
But his last report upon the progress of
the negotiations now going on at Pckin
between the ministers, taken in con-
nection with the departments ample in
structions relative to this subject, war
rants the officials here in confirming the
Pekin view that the end of these consul
tations is in sight 1t cannot be conceal
ed, however, that strong dsapproval is
entertained Of the attitude of the Ger
man military commander in China, and
though our government has not protest
ed against the punitive expeditions, which
it regards as ingenuiously calculated to
cause fresh outbreaks among the Chi
nese it fears the results. There is no
hesitation in energetically denying the
European implication that the United
States Government is moved in it's course
by sentimental and unbusiness- like con-
sideration. On the contrary it is point
ed out that while sentiment is on the
side of our Government in this matter it
is accompanied by the soundest business
consideration, for the animating purpose
of the State Department now is to prevent
the destruction of Chinese territorial in
tegrity upon trivial pretexts; to maintain
the open door for which our Government
has contended and to secure indemnities
for past and guarantees for the future. 1t
is felt that these objects can be secured
without breaking the implied truce en-
tered into between the ministers and Ii
Hung Chang and Prince Ching Advices
from the most influential Chinese sources
agree in stating that American prestige
has been greatly advanced in China by
the moderate and humane course adopt
ed by the United States.