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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Hunger the Best Sauce.

There are many good old stories that
are worth reyiving. Here is one about
Henry Will, who took to the crown
all the property Of the church, and
who, during his reign, had many jokes
at the expense of the abbots and the
clergy. On one occasion he had been
hunting in Epping forest, and had
come to Waltham Abbey alone, dis
guised as one Of his own guard. Dinner
was just ready, and he was invited to
the abbot's table. His appetite was SO
good that the abbot at last exclaimed,
unaware whom he. was addressing, Il
would willingly give a hundred pounds
on condition / could feed as heartily on
beef as thou dostv' A few days later
the abbot was mysteriously sent for,
taken to London, and committed to the
Tower, where for some time he was
fed on bread and water, wondering the
while what crime he had committed.
One day, however, sirloin of beef was
set before him, and his hearty attack
thereon showed that the strict regimen
of his captivity had worked wonders.
Upon this the merry monarch himself
suddenly entered and demanded a
hundred pounds, the reward the abbot
had so rashly promised for the restora
ton of his appetite. The money was
in due course paid, and the prisoner
went home to Waltham rejoicing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

A st. Louis theater manager an
nounces through the newspapers that
mother-in-law jokes do not go' in his
playhouse. Since the days of Aristoph-
anes the senile joke has had a place
on the boards Of the theater. It's bald
headed appearance excites disgust in
people who enjoy real bit of humor.
Ill nature does not necessarily go with
wit, and the joke as to mothers-in-law
is founded on nothing less than lima
ture. The mOthers-in-law are like the
mothers, good, bad and Indifferent, but
mostly good. How any man can love
his wife and hate the woman who gave
her birth is almost inconceivable. OF
course there are exceptions, but the
exceptions prote the rule, and the rule
is that your mother-in-law is entitled
to your respect and gratitude.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
A Lecless Wheelbarrow.

Metal barrows are coming in slowly,
but none the less surely, this being an
other of the many instances in which
steel and structural iron are supplant-
ing the time honored wood. They are
designed for work in mines, and being
indestructible and cheap they are es-
pecially adapted for the use of contrac-
tors.
The body is hung very low, and is OF
such a shape and strength that little
damage can be done to it, even though
it be severely handled. The frame
bars and handles are formed of one
continuous piece of pipe. The wheel is
also especially designed, the hub con-
sisting of two interlocking clutches,
between which the spokes, consisting
Of pieces of bar iron bent so as to
form two spokes, are held. Not the
least valuable feature Of this barrow,
the invention of William James Freed,
of Eureka, Utah, is the fact that if
damaged it can be repaired by ordinary
mechanics, all the parts being simply
put together and designed with that
end in view.
The absence of legs, it will be noticed,
is interesting, and allows the barrow to
rest fat on the ground, SO that it may
be quickly and easily filled and
dumped. The legs, it is asserted, are
one of the weakest parts of the ordin-
airy wheelbarrow, and are apt to be-
come loose and rickety.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Frog Showers in Arizon

Every once in a while stor
brought out about extraordinary
ers of fish, of bloody snow, e
latest being Of a ship captain
on the Atlantic who ran into
shower so heavy he had to set \
Shoyeling the dust from the
when the weight began to 50
gerous. TO this be there added|
1T rains frogs in Arizona. \
timers believe there is no douq
though they can not explain
whence the frogs were Original
ed But this much IS Stralght-i
be a summer rain along the Ing
Southern Pacific in southwest
IONA, and behold, the next
every little pool has a myriad
lean green frogs, with ln'
croaking powers. They don't
nightfall like their more
brethren elsewhere, but Keep
music by day as by night y
where water comes only about
year.
,ptn
"They can't live over the ln'eI
der the sun-baked rocks; ln'a
eddy haven't hoped from tue
River, and they are all OIL "
boot. If they didn't come
ground or from the river tug
have come from the skies. any
what the Hassayampers Hid
lieye. Arizona Graphic
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Demand for Young Beef.

Twenty-Five years ago the prize beef
animal was a 10 to II year old OK
which had served his day and genera
ton as beast of burden, doing farm
work, and then was fed a year until he
made a carcass Of 1900 or 1900
pounds. 1t will be remembered when
it was believed that the best beef was
that grown on to the framework Of
such an aged beast and when what is
now called beef was of no account.
Times have changed. A steer seldom
now lives more than three years, most
of them less. The public taste is de-
handing young beef, even baby beef,
which finds a market at year old.
The calf of the beef breeds which is
kept fat from the day it is born and
turns the scales at 1000 or /, 100 pounds
at fifteen months will bring the top of
the market and the most profit to it's
owner.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

accorded it's legitimate rights upon the
highways. The old rule of the road, re-
curing all vehicles drawn by horses to
keep to the right, has been in force so
long that all drivers, sober and in their
senses, obey it by force of habit. Its
extension to the bicycle is, therefore,
natural, easy and the most just solu-
ton Of the new problem that can be
furnished. No one will be compelled to
acquire a new habit or conform to a
new law
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

The history of the times is the most
wonderful record of the ages. Readers
ought to follow it closely week by
week, for it is the story of the world S
progress from darkness into light. Here
is Germany converted from a military
into an industrial and trading nation,
and no longer drawing it's inspiration
from the parade ground and military
barracks. 1t is building a great navy
in support of a commerce that is
whitening every sea, and is preparing
to open a new trading route between
the Mediterranean and the Persian
Gulf by way of Bagdad. German COM
merce is great modern force brought
to bear upon Asiatic Turkey and the
ancient seas of empire in the valleys of
the Euphrates and Tigris. Russia,
under cover of the British war in South
Africa, is approaching Persia, lending
money to bankrupt government, Sc
curing privileges for the Central Asian
Railway from the Caspian, and casting
covetous eyes upon Bushire or some
other port on the Persian Gulf. Russia
iI1IlS 10 COufSEL GISid, w HIGH WAS OuCG
q powerful empire, into vassal state;
and owing to the resistance which will
be offered by Germany and Great
Britain this once mighty realm will be-
come a center Of European interest
China completes the circuit of old-world
empires in Asia. Every great Euro
pean power is interested in the future
of the Celestial Empire, and the Amer
lean government has headed a move
ment for securing all nations equal
privileges in trade in the far East. All
these things are signs that Asia, with
it's memories of ruined empires and
ancient civilization, is passing out of
darkness into the circle of European
enlightenment. Darkest Africa re-
yeals the same truth. The coasts are
bordered with European settlements,
with spheres of influence widening
constantly in the interior. The Nile
valley has passed under English con-
troll to the equator, and whatever may
be the issue of the war in South At
RIGA, there will be white race there
to carry on the work of progress.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
The Family Cow.

Families that keep only one COW
should have only the best to be pro-
cured. More labor is required to care
for single COW, proportionately, than
for a herd. The COW for the family
should give large flow of milk for at
least ten months in the year, and the
milk should contain not less than per
cent of butter fat, as cream is one of
the essentials. 1t is better to have a
COW that gives even richer milk, but
the majority of family cows are select
ed without regard to merit in that re-
spect 1t is difficult to raise the calves
in such cases, hence in purchasing a
family COW it will be profitable to pay
a high price for a superior animal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Useful OH the Farm.

A good spray pump is useful artl-
Gle in many ways about the farm. 1t
can be used to spray the potatoes. 1t
is used to apply kerosene emulsion to
destroy the suctorial insects, such as
the aphides, or plant lice, on plums,
cherries and young apple trees, and OF
which I propose to treat in a future
chapter. And it can be used to white
wash the cellar, the poultry house, the
stable and other buildings. 1t can be
used to advantage in applying disin-
fectants for preventing the spread OF
contagious diseases, etc.
A word or two as to the cost Of spray
ing. Say you have four or five acres
of orchard. it will take about five bar
rels of mixture for each spraying.
Twenty pounds bluestone. at I cents
per pound, $1.40; Paris green, 80 cents;
lime, Is cents; total $2O5 for material.
A man and boy with horse will do It
In one day; say So for wages. and you
have the cost of each spraying, $500.
If SPRAYED four times. total cost, $500.
One good crop of clean, marketable
fruit will give big profit on the invest
ment.-Farmers Advocate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Where Lafayette Is Buried.

1--WE visited the Convent du Sacre-
Occur, in the Rue de Picpus, where
Lafayette is buried" writes Edith, y
from Paris to the Ladies' Home Jour-
nal. Here birds of passage, like our
selves, seldom come. At the end Of a
where bearers of some of the oldest
names in France lie buried. Now only
descendants of those who died on the
guillotine are eligible to a grave there,
and in one corner, in the shadoF' 5fsi"f
great wall, are the graves of OK BUS
and his wife. Beyond the fiji a1eme-
terry is a second where the Bodies of
300 aristocratic victims of the revoll-
ton were buried
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

According to the Chicago Journal it
has been impossible to locate RESPONSE
bility for the demand for half-cent
pieces. This is strange, for it was
thought there could be no proposal in
connection with the cheapening of our
monetary system too small for some
one to father it. 1t is gratifying to
know, however, that there is difficulty
in locating the man who wishes to
level of that of China or Turkey. The
Ottoman monetary system is evidently
the beau ideal of the man who would
introduce the vulgar fraction into our
subsidiary COIN. In Turkey the unit of
value is the piastre, which is divided
into 40 paras, while the para is di-
vided into 3 aspes. AS the piastre is
only worth A cents, the para is worth
little more than a tenth of cent
and an aSpe is worth trifie over one
twenty-seventh of cent. When an
American in Turkey wants to feel rich
he goes forth and buys some 300
aspes, which he spends with lavish
hand over the bargain counters of the
oriental baZars. But Turkey is an
aspe country and America is the land
Of the eagle, the dollar, the dime and
the cent. The United States once tried
the half-cent in imitation of the cheap
and nasty farthing of England. For
more than half century, from 1893
to 1857, it INDUCED itself in coming
half-cents to the magnificent aggregate
of 1885, 222, worth $39,92611. Then,
having reached the age of discretion in
small things, it put away such childish
things as half-cents, and has never re-
GREETED it. There is no call nor reason
for giving the half-cent another trial
1t was nuisance before and would be
greater one now. The Journal is
right, this is not half cent country.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
OF Interest to the Farmers.

A Kansas City horseman has con-
tracted to supply the Government 400
cavalry horses at $112.50 head.
The prune growers of Washington,
Oregon and Idaho have combined to
advance prices, and if the rest Of the
coast producers join them they promise
raise shortly.
Many farmers who have marketed
much maple syrup from Vermont have
become discouraged on account of the
ravages Of a forest worm, which is
killing the sugar maple.
Oleo production in Chicago in Feb
ruary was 100000 pounds, compared
with 3,9S7 900 pounds a year ago. Six
ty-seven licenses to retail cleo were is
sued, against forty year ago.
unshorn fed western sheep at Chicago
at So per 100 pounds meant the highest
figure touched since 1898, when 1878
was paid. The sheep averaged 1872
pounds and were sent in from Winona.
Mimi.
The early sown plots Of sugar beets
have given larger crops than those lat
er sown at all the experimental farms
of Canada. The average results from
all the farms show a difference in the
crops of 1890 of three tons 200 pounds
per acre in favor of the early sowing.
From the Scientific American it is
learned that a horse can draw OH the
worse kind of road about four times
as much as he can carry on his back.
On a good macadamized road he can
pull ten times as much and on a paved
road twenty-five times as much and on
a street railway fifty-eight times as
much as he can carry on his back.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
WAS RUINED BY Hr,n,
Serious but Amusing Tv
Error that Cost M Sp0grau

Serious but Amusing w.
Error that Cost MAJ y. ypograI
Amusing Typographical ' s rap
newspapers that have at t,a e'tO1|
to the mirth of nations were rns
eussion by a small crowd Of n uuu
men in a favorite resort ono ' ",
last week. Among the numo, IL
ries that were told the followin]
the most amusing example of ~ y
lousness and recklessness Of NJ
time travelling COMP"
Il was working on a Dat,o,.
in the early $685." he said. "wba.
a chance to buy a sheet in . sms,
back in the State. Of course
tuted the entire editorial STAFF
took up from Detroit a nrin,o'
| meant to make my foreman
the exception of requiring . tw.
drunk each week, and one mo,
to sober up on, he really had few
for a printer-and | was al,S /
him. N
"t'or quite a time after we %,
lished everything went we'll, RI
was good, / had the indorsemor.
right people in the town, and Al
myself that at last | had spcu,,
the position suited to my eminenI
ties. Here came my undoinp
II had been there nearly three
when the daughter of the most
nent citizen of the town died
was a leader in all church and
events, and extremely popular
obituary notice l got up for tbI
sion was about the best could
really was fine, and with itTJ
'splurge' head that think was al
too.
1.-The paper was printed I'M
night and that morning | waJ
moned to Detroit. | left most
instructions with the foreman Al
posed l could trust him. Nat
was out early next morning I'd
copy of my paper. | got it. and
came so near fainting in my life
scoundrel had given the obitd
tice the most prominent place
sheet, as l told him, but | had
the headline One More in Heavd
had made it One More in the
"There was nothing to be done
back as soon as possible, but nj
man had gone and left no add
put in the day explaining, ofe
print the whole issue again, a
everything l could to square thd
but / was done for in that tow
sold out soon afterward.
1.-The scoundrel who ruined
the impudence to write and say
had a few drinks that day and
my writing | have never Sc
since, and maybe it is just as
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

ates the foot-marks, and they imagine
no harm is done, but they are greatly
mistaken. No farmer ever gained any
thing in the end by blowing kis SOIL
when not in proper condition. FER
haps there is some advantage In marx
ing out lands in field that is naturai-
" wet and heavy, as the burrows tnus
made act as surface drains, and II tue
land be nearly level the water is drawn
from the surface soil to distance Oh
several feet upon each side, and II II
can he drained off at the end of fur
rows a positive gain will be accom-
plished.- Orange Judd Farmer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Fertilizing for Corn.

Crops of corn have been reported ex.
ceeding 100 bushels of shelled corn per
acre, if we remember correctly, but we
do not believe that any man can grow
corn profitably if he tries to grow one
hundred bushels of ears to the acre,
unless he is unusually favored by the
season, and we doubt if he would sue
coed one year in ten. The strongest
and richest land en- the farm is not
good corn land. Corn needs a warm
soil and a warm season, and while
dry season lessons production because
there is not moisture enough to perfect
the crop, a wet season does the same
thing because there is not enough heat
to make rapid growth. Heavy manur-
ing makes rank growth of leaf and
stalk, and that keeps the ground so
cool by shading it that ears do not de-
velop, and possibly the dense foliage
also prevents pollen from the tassel
from reaching the silk as it falls. We
think the man who wants 100 bushels
of shelled corn can grow it on three
acres with less labor and fertilizer
IMAM lie can OH one, duu NC LuOIc
sure of it in an ordinary season, while
possibly a favorable season may in
crease his crop to $50 bushels on the
three acres, but would not be apt to do
so on one acre. There are crops in
which the yield can be much increased
by extra fertility and extra labor on
small plot, but not the corn crop, un-
less some new variety is found
Am erican Cultivator.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

serves as a tongue in the new arrange
ment is so large that when it is untast-
ened it gives free access to the shoe, so
that the foot can be slipped in over the
counter Instead .of laces or buttons
the shoe is fastened with ball fasten-
ers. one row on either side fastening on
to the tongue or quarter" thus secur-
ing the shoe to the foot and doing
away with overlapping edges.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Kansas Farmers Salt Their Land.

Kansas Farmers salt 1AClA AAaAUs
" Two farmers living near lola, ran,
have received a 40,OOO-pound car OF
salt from Hutchinson, which they VIII
use on their farms, says the ADllene
Chronicle. Both have extensive IarN
interests which they look after them
selves and they propose to sow the SAT-
with oats, wheat and fax, on the the
ory that land so treated is given the
chemicals required by those grains ana
in the belief that chinch bugs Will shun
the fields. Some of their unpracucai
town friends have rather a hankerlnS
for the belief that wheat so treated
will grow loaves of self-rising bread.
At any rate the test is one which Will
be watched with interest and the farm
ers may reap good returns from the
500 or more invested by these gentle
men in an experiment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Nursing Bottle for Calves.

A nursing bottle may be used as a
feeder for the calf by which it's wean-
ing will take place at a much earlier
date than by the old method, and by
this device the calf absorbs the thin
blue substitute fed to it in way so
entirely natural thatit remains in ignor-
ance of the deception being practiced
upon it. A bracket or supporting device
for the milk receptacle is first provided,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

In the Plymouth congregation there
was at one time a woman who was a
thorn in the flesh. She had a harsh
voice and a stiff manner of speaking.
Her long-drawn-out, dull discourses
wearied the congregation. But Mr..
Beecher was patient. At last he, too,
reached the limit of endurance. and one
evening when she sat down, after talk
ing nearly half an hour, he arose. and
in his deep tones said slowly: Never
theless, still believe in women speak
ing in meeting" She spoke no more
Ladies' Home Journal
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

Naturally collisions occurred be-
tween wheelmen and pedestrians and
between wheelmen and drays, and one
Of these cases, that of a boy who was
knocked off his wheel and run over by
garbage wagon, found its way into
court and by appeal to the court of last
resort, which has recently rendered a
decision defining the legal rights of
wheelmen in Pennsylvania. The deci-
sion of the Supreme Court in this case
is that the bicycle has the same rights
on the highway given by law to any
other vehicle. Wheelmen must keep
to the right, and in doing so if run
over by wagon or cart are entitled to
the protection of the law. This is a
sensible decision as well as sound law.
While the bicycle is not so popular as
at first it has come to stay and must be
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

Those who declaim about faults in
our public schools and their manage
ment give no alarm to DR.. Winship, of
the New England Journal of Education.
He sees with satisfaction "a tendency
to better teaching, better supervising,
better books, better methods, and to
higher-toned men, intellectually and
morally" Doubtless he would allow
that this tendency to Improvement is
due in part to the frank exposure of
defects. The best friends of free insti-
tutions will welcome all reasonable
criticism.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Both Vegetarian and Cyclist.

Count Tolstoi is an enthusiastic cy-
clist. He declares that he has to thank
his bicycle and his vegetarian diet for
the robust health which he has so long
enjoyed. Twenty years ago his ply
stefan advised Tolstoi to avoid too
much muscular exercise, but the pa
tient was obstinate, and did exactly the
contrary; in fact, he has ever been a
lover of sports of different kinds.
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proof Sufficient.

Mother-Are you sure you wv
Daughter-Am l sure! ~
this dress? -,
"Of course I do. What OIL =, ~
"Will you kindly tell me Ill. h
the slightest resemblance "
fashion,"
"Well, really, it-er-''
at DOESN'T
NO" =. hocs|
"Well, I'm wearing II
likes it."-Tit-Bits.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Stone Drains.

The accompanying cut shows an ex-
cellent way of making drain where
there is plenty of stone available. AA
are two fiat stones placed as shown,
one upright and the other sloping; the
rest of the drain, B, is filed in with
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
and to this frame horizontal bar is

and to this frame a horizontal bar is
attached, carrying at it's extremity a
rubber nipple of ample proportions.
Connected with the nipple is a flexible
tube extending into the liquid in the
pail. Inside the nipple there is rub
Der tubular reinforcement, having
cross Sits in it, which acts as valve.
With this device the calf may be fed
LIQUID nourishment, receiving it slow
ly and by natural sucking.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

saved the constant jar resulting from
walking over hard pavements, and tnat
consequently his health will be greatly
improved and his life prolonged. They
are particularly recommended for use
by city jewellers and by those whose
business requires them to be constant
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26
Not a Burning V"

Bobbie entertaining NJ +,
while sister Ethel dresses y, e
vincent, how did you feel V
were in the oven! -, ,
Mr.. yincent-In the oven IL r,
you mean, Bobbie? l never V
oven. ,Uhv, 0
Bobbie-You Wefei, - 100
this minute, when Moran aid :" +
card upstairs, mamma no S hall
Vincent is only just ''''
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1900-04-26

Our friend Rudyard Kipling will OBJ
serve that Adam-Zad, the bear who
walks like a man, is walking right
through Persia i'll the general direction
of India.