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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
THE EASTER RABBIT.

The wonderful rabbit with lays the
red, white. and blue Easter eggs is one
of the oldest historic characters. In
fact, wise men who have tried to
trace the story to its source have gone
back far beyond the earliest begin
nings of written history only to find
. its big, woody ears sticking up through
the mists of tradition and supersti-
ton.
But the strangest thing about the
Easter rabbit is that you will find him
in every part of the world--in Africa
and Asia as well as in Europe and
Amefica-and if he is not laying Eas-
ter eggs he is doing something equally
remarkable and noteworthy.
People who think the rabbit only a
timid, stupid, and commonplace mem
Der of society are entirely mistaken.
They ought to read the volumes that
have been written about him. And as
for the childreni Mother Goose may
be more familiar where English is
spoken, but the Easter rabbit is
known to the little ones in every Ian
guage.
Not even the greatest students have
ever been able 70 learn how it happens
that the rabbit lays Easter eggs. All
they know is that little children, and
particularly little children in Ger
many, make. as their grandfathers
did before them, warm nests of hay
during Easter week, in which they
find on Easter morning a lot of beau
tifuly cOlored eggs. laid there, OF
course by the Easter rabbit. Some
times the Easter rabbit even leaves a
little candy or china image of himself
behind him in the midst of the eggs,
by way Of a card. But really no proof
is needed. Years before the oldest
man can remember it was always said
that the rabbit laid the Easter eggs,
and there is no more reason to doubt
1t now than there was then.
In Chicago the shop windows are
now crowded with Easter rabbits, and
the Easter cards as often as not show
the Easter rabbits picture Ask some
body why it is a rabbit instead OF a
woodchuch or any other animal. You
will find nobody that can tell you.
Nobody knows. All they can do is to
make shrewd guesses at it.
Going back behind the first books
men have found that the rabbit was
regarded as a sacred animal by widely
scattered people all over the world.
Even the American Indians, who had
never, so far as we know, heard OF
Easter, had their feast of the Great
Hare, or rabbit, and in the sixth CEN
fury after Christ. before the early in
habitants of what is now England
had been Christianized, the hare or
rabbit is said to have been sacred to
Ostara, the goddess of. dawn and OF
Spring.
Among the natives of south Africa
There has been for centuries and still
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
THE BAIT TOOK.

In the beautiful eyes the love light
Shone
Of the young and attractive wife,
And she said to her husband: Il love
you, John;
You are dearer to me than life
He said; You're to me the same sly
darling still
And | know what you're driving
at"
So he gave her a twenty dollar bill
To purchase an Easter hat
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
WENT AGAINST HIM.

He made a bet that he ould eat
A sore of Easter eggs,
But the eggsertion proved a feat
That knocked him off his pegs.
Eggsasperated, he eggsclaimed,
With an eggspressive smirk
This Easter lay, which me has famed
Is most eggs-hoisting work.
Detroit Free Press.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
NINE. CAMILLE D'ARvILLE TO WE'D

Camille D'Arville, who has won the
loving admiration of countless Ameri-
can men, and retained their respect,
and who is idoliZed by her own sex be-
cause she has maintained her woman
illness even when she was wooing for
tune in tights, announces that she is
about to be married to E. W. Crellin.
a wealthy wine merchant of Oakland,
Cal. All Miss D'Arville's admirers from
New York to the Golden state will re-
jOice-till they learn that she is going
to forsake the stage for domesticity
Mr.. Crellin is 50 years old They met
twice by chance. She has won a for
tune from the stage, but he is rich
She tells the story of her new romance
it is her second venture-as follows:
1T is true she said 1--WE decided
before | left California Here is his
picture and she took up a portrait
from her dresser, Yes she con-
tinued in reply to an opinion that the
prospective bridegroom was handsome
Il believe he is considered to be by
most persons. But that is of small mo-
ment to me. He is honest; he is
straightforward; he does not lie That
means much to me. / cannot tolerate
a man who tells you one thing and
does another" exclaimed Miss DAT
vile, her eyes flashing Because can
trust him, because | can look up to
him. | will marry him. But not yet.
He wants to marry in the coming June.
| have promised that our wedding will
be one year from next June.
Not that we are chance acquaint-
ances!" she exclaimed. do not under
stand that Seven years ago I first met
him-and then forgot all about him
He was ON the ferryboat with his
mother and sister and I was intro
duced to the party
He had bought flowers for Flora
Finlayson of the BOstonians. Poor
Floral" said the comic-opera queen,
ref1ectively as her thoughts turned
from her present happiness to her
former rival; "she is dead | did not
see him again until my last engage
ment in California when he renewed
the acquaintance by bringing flowers
to me-" and as Miss D'Arville smiled
she laid the smallest accent on the
me"
MANY times l met him in society.
was dined and feted by the Four Hun
dred in San Francisco. oh I had a
very gay time | will be strictly in So
ciety when ! return there to live. Yes,
l will live in San Francisco when /
marry and give up the stage.
There is another reason why I do
not want to marry now" she said. 81
am making piles of money I have
worked for many years to reach the
point when the name of Camille DAT
vile is worth big money. 1t is now
and | do not want to stop it just yet.
II never could ask a man for money.
My future husband says l must get
over that. I cannot. All my life have
made my own way in the world. 1t has
always been the other way Others
have depended upon me for aid ]
have always called myself the little
pony because I ever bore burdens for
others. For twelve years I supported
my husband. then my sister and my
SON. Money would be no inducement to
me to marry. 1t is simply that I have
found a man to whom I can look up
one whom | can trust"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
HARD TO DECIDE.

Cobwigger-You seem rather re-
Elective, my dear.
Mrs. Cobwigger-I was thinking
where l should sit in church on
Easter. If I take a front seat every
body will see my new bonnet, while
if | sit in the rear | will be able to
see all the others
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09

Il am proud to say that I did not
spend a dollar to secure my election. -
Il congratulate you," answered Sen
ator Sorghum. you got off cheap
but you took terrible risk Wash
ington Star
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
CURIOUS EASTER CUSTOMS.

Some of the most curious Easter
observances prevail in Hungary, the
home of dance and song. Miss Janka
Frankel, a singer who was heard IN
opera last winter in Philadelphia and
other cities, gives an interesting &C
count of the strange customs OF her
native land.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
EASTER PREPARATIONS.

Mamma, Bobby has gone and
painted tn oil hen red, an blue. an
green"
"Of course, mamma, else how's she
goin' to lay all them colored eggs
Chicago Record
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09

dominate and all are to be faced to the
seams with silk of corresponding
color. There is no change in evening
dress except that vests are to be cut
slightly narrower
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09

He--How did you enjoy the service
today?
She-Oh, it was simply charming
never saw so many lovely bonnets in
my ife-Detroit Free Press.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
THE EASTER SEASON.

A garb both radiant and demure
She sweetly wears with placid
brow:
Her Lenten is passed. that's sure:
Her husband does the penance now
Washington Star
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-09
FASHIONS FANCIES
DEGREES ON MANS APPAREL FOR
THE COMING SEASON.
ORACLE SARToR SPEAKS

Utters Something Anent Dress Men
Will Dress Better This Season Than
eretofore-Creased Trousers Are
Passe But the Crease Must Not
Reach to the Knees.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

transaction: when in South Dakota, and
a South Dakota blank form was used.
When it came to the filling out Of the
bond, it was done without taking care
to substitute North for South Dakota,
in the printed form, and Marshall
went On record on the bond as certify
ing that he was a resident and free
holder of the state o. South Dakota.
The error vas purely clerical, but
Marshall's political opponents in
Dickey county got hold of the matter
and circulated copies of the certificate
through the county, in the campaign
against him, claiming that he was a
resident of South Dakota by his own
statement. No stock was taken in
the matter there and none is taken in
the revived canard through the state.
Marshall is a resident of Cakes, this
state, and the state committee will
hardly take any steps to look into this
already exploded sensation"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31
republican administration. Have tn,

republican administration: Have the
people made money, built more COM
Portable homes, paid off their mort
cages and are enjoying peace and
plenty? There appears but one an
swer to these questions-yes. If this
is true-and it is-why should the peo-
pie desire a change? Do you,. reader;
want any change for PERSONAL reasons?
Il you do not, why should your neigh
Dor? If you and your neighbor are
satisfied why should the next farmer
be dissatisfled-and if all are pleased
would any change be desirable? The
democratic party do not come to you
with a single valid reason why YOU
should vote for their candidate; they
haven't a single reason to show that
they could, or would attempt, to bet
ter your condition morally, physically,
Intellectually or financially-no, all
they ask is to have a change. And
why? For no earthly reason than that
they get the office and as these offices
would benefit none but the incumbents.
and as onlv me politicians would get
the handling of them, it is safe to leave
them in the hands of a party who has
a record for filling them with intelli-
gence, fairness and honesty"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

Referring to the recent attack of the
Grand Forks P%laindealer on D. H. Nc
MILAN, the republican candidate for
state treasurer, the Hannah, Cavalier
county, Moon, says:
The cowardly attack of the Grand
Forks Plaindealer in a recent issue at
the expense of D. H. Mcmillan of Lang
don is to be deplored by all honest
men-republicans and democrats alike
and the Moon is pleased to say that
there are such in both political parties
of our state. In the first place the
people Of Cavalier county, McMillan's
home, know that eight-tenths of the
statements made by the midnight as
sasin of the Plaindealer are as black
as the heart that prompted the un-
manly and cowardly deed. Editor
Carruth is making republican votes
faster than he ever did in his life when
he lends his columns for the libelling
of North .Dakota's best citizens-and
the man who will attack anyone
through a newspaper-and then be too
cowardly to sign the article is not fit
to associate with Chinese Boxers.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

1t is alleged that the principal reason
for investigating foreign insurance
companies is to ascertain if they are
giving in correct reports as to their
North Dakota business. If it was
thought necessary to investigate the
Travellers and other insurance COM
panies on this score it would have been
in much better form to have addressed
the companies direct than to have is
sued a rowing commission to whom it
may concern" Commissioner Har-
rison is at least guilty Of the grossest
indiscretion. He will be charged with
much more serious and reprehensible
motives by partisan and personal enc
mics but Governor Fancher's telegram
of inquiry brings, a response that the
commissioner-while acting within the
law-has stopped further examinations
and there will be no further ground
for complaint.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31
lican state ticket in the Red river. val

lican state ticket in the Red river. val
ley. The Argus says the republican
presidential electors will. be chosen by
a. large majority but insists that. the
people Of the valley are sore owe the
result of the state convention, and
chat the soreness will show. when the:
votes are. counted. This view is not
taken by republicans who have been:
through the state since the feeling in
cident to- the: convention had.died away.
Lieutenant Governor Dev1ne, the re-.
publican candidate for state superin-.
tendent, says he does not believe there
will be much detection in the republic,
can vote except in Walsh and one or,
two other counties. Grand Forks and;
Cass, supposed to feel particularly bad
over the result, he looks, to- support the
ticket earnestly. Walsh has v
been anything but an off county for the
republicans. 1t has been carried by a
few republicans, notably Driscoll,, the
present state treasurer. but on the
ticket as a whole it has been decidedly
off color.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

The members of the executive com
mittee of the republican state central
committee met at Grand Forks last
week, every district being represented
with the exception of one. The plan
OF campaign was submitted and ap-
proved and other matters that were of
Importance were discussed. Secretary
Jewell said that favorable reports had
been received from nearly every quar-
ter, and that Notwithstanding the fact
that victory was assured to republican
forces, the fight would be as vigorous
as though there were possibilities of its
being close. Arrangements are under
way for the appearance on the stump
OF many prominent speakers, and when
the public speaking campaign opens
the state will ring from one end to the
other with oratory.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31
MAKE VICTORY SURE.

Senator Hanna sounded a note of
warning to republicans in his address
at Asbury Park, and all republicans
would do well to read his speech. He
called attention to the necessity for
work on the part of all republicans
there must be no apathy, no over-con-
fidence in the fight. Senator Hanna's
speech was short but pithy. He said:
This is a campaign second to no
other campaign in Importance in the
history of this republic. Individual
duty to strive toward the welfare and
we'll being of the country is paramount.
o cannot place this duty on the
shoulders of friends or relatives. No
man in this country, no matter how
powerful or occupied by personal du-
ties, a be permitted to ignore the
paramount duty at this time to work to
~perpetuate this administration, be-
cause, beyond all question of doubt,
the policy of the republican party and
the administration of President Nc
Kinley means the welfare, the we'll be-
ing of the country.
Every man of family, every man of
property, and every nan with an atom
of patriotism must realize the neces-
sity of his making the utmost effort 20
continue the administration in power.
have noticed in the papers recently
a note of warning that originated with
the national committee. In fact.
was responsible for that note of warn
ing. l understand such as no one else
can understand or realize that we can
take nothing for granted in this cam
paign or miss a trick. We have a
desperate foe to meet. The fate of
Organism hangs in the balance. If it
is killed now, it is killed forever.
quote a few words from the speech OF
Governor Roosevelt a. St. Paul. He
said every one who loves his country is
called upon to stand shoulder to shoul-
der to protect the country that has
done so much for him.
'! want to point out to you an OBJ
]ect lesson. Go back to the midst OF
the prosperity and happiness that pre-
vailed in 1892. Then furnaces were
blazing, spindles were spinning, bus
mess was hurrying us back and forth.
You wanted a change, and you got it
Well, what was it? 7 need not pic
ture how fires went out in the furnaces
how spindles ceased to spin, how un-
employed men went hungry, how han.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31
CALLS SIZER DOWN.

Rev. J. l.. Sizer distinguished him
self in a doubtful manner recently by
making a vicious attack on President
Mckinley on the alleged ground of in
temperance. Steers diatribe has been
the cause of some severe criticisms,
and Rev. William Edwards, chaplain
Of the republican state committee in
on open letter to Mr.. Sizer, says:
During the late unpleasantness with
the Spanish government, and during
the time that has interviewed, our pres
ident and his cabinet nave become the
targets for wholesale ridicule and in
uendo. Who are villifiers of the AM
erican government? Are they the
lapsed masses, the ignorant and de-
based? No! Ministers of the Cos
pei rally to this standard of villifca-
ton. They pour out the walls of their
wrath upon the government of their
country. They gloat in d~enunciation.
They damn, but do not bless the land
OF freedom whose flag covers them
with protection. Under the guise of
temperance, or any other disguise, they
give vent to their vile unchristian, UNI
Christ-like spleen.
They are ministers, but not the min
listers OF Christ. Sons of Belial, they
are of the same stamp as those chap
lains who, when they came back to the
United States, endeavored to build up
a name by cheap notoriety. Now does
it not seem incongruous that men of
Rev. Steers measure should seek pop
ularity by insulting the government?
If you insult the government you in
suit the flag. and if you insult the flag
you insult the citizenship of the coun-
try, and in doing that you are a traitor
to the American commonwealth, and
the mildest penalty is deportation.
But a few short hours have elapsed
since the news come that fourteen men
were under arrest for conspiring
against the life of. our chief magistrate.
Where do you stand as a minister? If
an assassin by Domb, gun, or dagger
succeeded in killing President Mckinley
would you say that it was the act of
God?
President Mckinley is a soldier pa
triot, a Christian man with Christian
convictions. I am not a Methodist
but our president is a Methodist of the
methodical kind, and if you live to see
next November you will find that the
people of this country will by their
votes testify that there is no madness
in the method if William Mckinley of
Ohio.
So Brother Sizer, l must say to you
what the Master said to Zaccheus:
Come down." Come down, and help
your brother ministers to perpetuate
good government. No man reformed
the world by hatred. Low: is the full
filling of the law.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

piness disappeared, bad went to worse.
1t was deplorable. Well, O wanted
another change, and you got it. What
a change. my co%untrymen! Furnaces
are glowing, spindles are singing their
song. Happiness came to us all with
prosperity. DO you want, another
change. to get back to 1897? Not
this trip. OF course, you don't. Well,
you must work to prevent it. want
10 sound my warning so that none can
mistake or underestimate my mean-
ing. No one can be blamed for feel
ing comfortable. After that splendid
administration that has made us all
feel satisfied and comfortable after the
uncertainty and hardship that preceded
it, it is natural that some should lie
back on their oars.
1T behooves lis not to be confident,
lest that-well, l don't know what to
call it unless l call it the cuckoo party
steal a march on us. l speak to you
for the first time this campaign and
perhaps for the last to urge you % ut
most efforts, your plain duty. We
have a never-sleeping enemy in the
democratic party. This party contains
all the political acrobats, and, besides.
every crank, every socialist and every
nihilist in the land is arrayed against
us in this fight. Consequently we must
get to work and work increasingly if we
would make victory sure"
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad COM
pany has appointed an industrial agent
who will be in charge of the agricul-
tural interests of the road. The pur-
pose is to apply une latest and best
knowledge of scientific agriculture to
the farming interests in the Baltimore
& Ohio territory. The conditions of
the climate and the soil will be stud
led, and the results will be published
in pamphlet form and distributed to
the farmers along the line and the
tributary country. The idea undoubt-
edly originated with General Manager
Fred Underwood, who had seen the
mutual advantage of it to the farmer
and the company in the northwest
while connected with the 500 road.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

Congressman Dolliver of Iowa, who
was in the state during the Chautauqua
meeting at Devils Lake. and made ad-
dresses before the Chautauqua and the
newspaper fraternity of the state, has
just been appointed U. S. senator from
Iowa to succeed the late John H. Gear,
Inc members of the newspaper frater-
nifty of the state will have pleasant
r~ecollections of Dolliver, and congrat-
ulate him upon his preferment. He
is an able speaker and a capable man.
While in the state he promised Senator
.Hansbrough that he would endeavor to
return and make some speeches in the
campaign. Dolliver is a forceful and
effective campaigner.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

The Fargo Call thinks the putting
up OF a prohibition ticket this year in
North Dakota is bordering on ingrati-
tude. The republican party put pro-
Inhibition on the statute books, the re-
publican party has kept it there, the
publican party has kept it there, and
adopted at the Grand Forks convention
recently pronounces for the mainten-
ance and enforcement of the law. The
Gail wants to know what more can
fairly be asked?
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31

The demand for Governor Roosevelt
from all parts of the country is SO
great that the republican national COM
m1ttee is finding it difficult to satisfy
all localities. Roosevelt is popular
everywhere and he is the kind of cam
palgner the people want-a square,
clean cut fighter. North Dakota may
count itself fortunate that it will Sc
cure two days of the governors time.
Fargo and Bismarck should make his
presence in the two cities the occasions
OF the greatest rallies the state has eve
seen.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1900-08-31
THE PARTIES ON LABOR.

Here are the respective planks of the
two platforms on the question of the
improvement Of the condition of the
American workingman:
Republican Platform.-We renew
our faith in the policy of protection to
American labor. In that policy our
industries have been established, d.
versifed and maintained. BY protect
ing the home market competition has
been stimulated and production cheap
ened. Opportunity to the inventive
genius of our people has been secured
and wages in every department of la
Dor maintained at higher rates-higher
now than ever beforehand always dis
tinguishing our working people in their
better conditions of life from those of
any competing country.
Democratic Platform.-1n the inter-
esting Of American labor and the up