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Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-12

A man may have tho physique OF
giaut and still not be able to support a
frail little wife.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-12

ALL UP To DATE HOUsEKEEPERs
use Defiance Cold Water Starch, because
II In better and 4 on, more OF II for same
money.
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-12

So far as football Is concerned the
game In nearly over,
Hutchinson gazette., 1901-12-12
RED CROSS BALL BLUE

Should bo In every home, Ask your grocer
for IL. Large OF, package only cents
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-09
An EmbarrasNia; Query.

In city where children above the age of five years have to pay full fare on the tramcars while those who are younger go free the passengers i'll q car saw oue day q rather large boy. looking seven years old at least, held ln his mothers lap as though he were q baby. The big child seemed restless about something.
 Presently he cried: Mamma. Nam mar'
 The mother, as if With a premonition of something wrcug, tried to hush him. but he still kept saying: Mamma Mammal
 "Wcll, what is it." she asked at last.
 Mamma, whcn do l have to say I'm only fivc:'
 Then tho passcngors-somc of them laughed and the mother turned very cd.-L0nden Answers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-09
NO CONNECTION
Between Union Gospel Mission and
 Salvation Army.

h answer to the question. Is the Union Gospel Mission in any way con nected with the Salvation army? | will say that it is not. The work of the mission is not the building up If an organization. but simply an aux ilaY to all churches, while the army usually organizes a church or corps in every city where they go.
 We nave tried. in the three years that we have been resident of the city. to do all tho good that wo can ill serving the public, in relieving the needy and distressed, in holding meetings on the streets. and in halls. to try and reach the un-churched masses We take this liberty of thanking the people who from time to time have contributed to our mission and charity work
 It is predicted that we are to have hard winter. and that will mean suffering to the poor. and great many Hnimployed people who ara here, and will continue to come from time to time We have thought it best for the protection of the city for property and life, to reopen our poor mans shelter, taking care of those who have no place to go, mak- ing them work for what they get, finding them employment, so they would not wander about the steets day and night Very respectfully,
 REV. SAM s. HOLCOMBE.
 Superintendent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-09
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Reported for the Graphic by eco. w
 ByirGtor. Abstractor.

P. L. Trilnble. eXeeutor, t9 :. N. George; $ r lot 1 hlociz D Doris addition. west bayoU. SD.
 H. F. Eiunn to Ben Mazique; " | NE a5-4-to, ct al lands $4oo: $5o cash, balance in three years. Dorsey \. Ramsey Q BFunsoa Hammett; lot 1. block ,. Wiley Jones' ! adation .4e0.t
 E.1E.= Moss. trustee. to RE. Butts: NY sW 23=,.=7. &177s
 Richard Carroll to w White sides part of lot l ! =Allts survey. $50.
 John W. elarg to Willie Thomas sen and F. 3. podds lot block 2, Wabba#,E Ia. : a5.5o=
 Mary H. tveritt to Laura McNf- Ian; $ r. 1a lot 3. Allis, addition. $33225. |. r1#T'
 ". B. Alexander to Reese \. Bngks; sW sW 25g.9. ct T. lands, $l2oo.
 Prank Snpes 10 Ellen Brown; lot 1. block 9. snipes addition 10 Tucker, $40.
 Burke X Senyard to Sallie TerreI; lots T and 225. bloc. 9, Leroy.s addj- tion. $f0o.
 ! r. Webb to the Bluff City Lum- Der company; NV NV 35-3-11. $125.
 Burke {. Senyard to Martin Hicks; lot &. block II. Barney's addition $1J. Sylvester Rowan to Henry Simms; tract in the SW NE 17-G-9. $50.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-09

The action of Governor Yates or Y. linois in issuing a proclamation call ing for contributions to the Boer cause is not taken seriously at Wash ineton. Illinois members of Congress profess to believe that the executive is simply seeking notoriety,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-09
Suited His Flock.

The Colouel-Iou only have to preaen one sermon on Sunday, Uncle Mica jah /: l should think your congregation Would insist on an evening sermon too.
 Parson Micaiall-Dat's coz de con g'gation has hcrn ric preach. cunael. an' yo' han't-C Chicago Tribune.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1901-12-09

The heaviest metal is platinum, the lightest potassium. Tae latter wall float on the surface of water like q piece of cork.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
Our Railroad Xmas.

A railroad president and United
States senator were talking about GOV
eminent ownership of railroads.
81 believe" said the senator, that
it would be a good idea for this govern
ment to buy and operate all the rail
roads in the United States
Well" replied the railroad presi-
dent, smiling significantly, '.if the gov
eminent has the money to pay for
100000 miles of railroad, with an ag-
gregate capitalization of nearly $5,-
00O,0O0O,00O, I can point out the shop
where most Of the goods can be
bought
"The shop?' echoed the senator, in
quiringly.
''That is what it amounts to, Sena-
tor. There are seven or eight men
that control all the railroads of the
United States, and most of them can
be found in New York city on any
business day."
''Who are they?" the senator asked,
eagerly.
Propounded in Wall street or in any
assemblage of Well-informed railroad
men this question will invariably elicit
mention of these names: J. Pierpont
Morgan, E. Fl. Harrison, William
Rockefeller, James J. Hill, William
Vanderbilt, George j. Gould, Jacob
H. Schiff and A. J. Cassatt.-Ains.
lees Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

land waterways Of America, exclusive
of harbors, bays, and saltwater
sounds, is borne fully fifty per cent.
of our inland commerce.
So far the government has been as
lavish in it's donation to railways rs
it has been in its appropriations for
the improvement of our rivers, with
the difference that it owns the water
ways and does not possess a single
line in connecting railways. Almost
every navigable river in America IS
paralleled by railway lines; yet, our
rivers do not only hold their own, bdt
for the last decade their traffic has
roads of Long island and southern
New England from lighting steam
boat competition have taken to the
water; and they find it to their n
terest to increase the fleet of sound
steamers, both in number and
magniicence.
The Hudson river cannot be APP
preached on either bank, from New
York to Troy, without crossing one or
more railroad tracks; yet the traffic
on the waters of this river exceeds
that of the entire system of the Mis-
sissippi valley The railroads have
built numberless cities, and so las
river traffic. Each benefits by con-
petition with the other. It is i'm
possible to state accurately the
amount of tonnage brought down the
lower Hudson by the fleets OF
schooners and barges plying between
New York city and the brickyards of
Haverstraw and the coal termini ct
Newburg and other points. But the
government engineers estimate the
local traffic between Coxsackie AMI
Troy at 100000 tons annually, and
that of the through traffic from AL
bany to New York at 100000 tons.
These amounts possibly cover less
than half the total traffic on the river,
which some authorities place as high
as 100000 tons per annum
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
AVOID THE SUMMER HOTEL.
Take the Children to Farm for the
Vacation Time.

Vacation Time.
what possible excuse the average
mother can concoct to Justify her in
taking her very young children 20
summer hotel I have never been able
to discover" writes Edward Box, in
Ladies' Home Journal ct cannot be
the food. because in the few summer
hotels where it is not positively bad
and UNBEATABLE. it is cooked in such
large quantities and in such slap
dash manner than all the nutritive
qualities are cooked out of it. 1t
cannot be the freedom from conven-
tionalities, because conventionality
reigns as supreme at the summer
hotel as it does in the city drawing
room. There is all the slavery Of
dress and none of it's freedom. : : <
There is bigness, a freedom. an
honesty, a sincerity in the life OF the
farm and it's folks which thousands
of us know nothing about. The
sanest, the highest lives are led by
these people. and yet in our narrow
horizon we think their lives are con
tracted. The fact is, that we are
narrow: not they It is their lives
that are real: not ours.
ct is the essence Of the lives that
are lived in the country that we need
so much in our lives: the essence of
simplicity, of sincerity, Of freedom
from things which are external and
not worth while. We cannot, of
course live in the city and live as do
country folk. What we can do. how
ever, is to go to the country in the
summer time and live with them and
extract some of the wholesome
lessons of simple living which their
lives can teach us. The love Of
nature is implanted in all of us to a
more or less degree: the crime to our
selves is that we give it so little
chance of development or expression.
And the crime is double when we
withhold the expressions of natures
workings in our children"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

while at the same time it analyses
with unfaltering purpose the mysteri-
Gus passions of the heart The maiden
embodies pure love, unshamed but
modest. The man is gentle, with a
certainty Of his possession. The scene
of the tropics, where the 'Sun Of the
south gilds even toll, until it becomes
poets pastime," are deliniated so
that consciousness of their beauty
rises as the lines run along.
Miss Hay of course has never seen
the southern seas or their islands, but
a warm friendship exists between her
self and Dr. Stoddard, the poet and
lover of these island paradises. Miss
Hay has also made considerable re
search into the literature of her sub
jects and portays with feeling the
simple customs Of the gentle savages.
Taking the little book as the work OF
a girl, a great. developing talent is dis
played. Her first venture in litera-
ture was a brochure styled Some
Verses. Her next a string of nurs-
cry rhymes, The Little Boy Book.
The value of her latest effort may
be estimated from the quotations, but
it is proper to say that these were
selected not so much for their SUI
perior merit as to help tell the story
of The Rose of Dawn somewhat in
the language of it's authoress. The
Rose of Dawn is a bloom of poesy of
which an older and more experienced
writer might well be proud. 1t shows
diligence in its polish and prolific
and almost riotous wealth of magma
ton
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
Coal in Rhodesia.

Rhodesia has, as yet, no largely
producing coal mines of it's own. The
coal seams are there, however, and
within year or two some of them
will have been opened up The coal
is situated principally in the Wankie
and Tui districts, and til also known
that there are carbonaceous deposits
along the southern bank of the Fam
best and elsewhere. Uutil such
times as the means of transport in
Rhodesia are greatly improved Fam
best coal must remain outside the
economic pale, and it is to the Wankie
and Tuli principally to the
and Minerals.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
Octopus PLAQUE.

The lobster, crab and oyster fish
cries of the British coasts are
threatened in the unprecedented
swarms of octopus or cutie fish which
have recently appeared on both sides
of the channel. Their increase was
first noticed in the spring of 1899
since when it has been so progressive
that the hosts of the predaUor!
cephalopods have become a perfec
marine plague, from the vast guam
titles of shellf1sh consumed by them
The Fishermen, on their side, are no
slow in retaliating, and take them a
the rate of about SO per man per weeI
practical culinary France they ar
sold and eaten, their flesh being sal
o be very delicate and resemblin
obster in flavor The so-called bon
used for polishing tie softer metals
Edinburgh Scotsman.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
HOW TO DETECT SPURIOUS SILK.
Hints That May Save Shoppers From
Being imposed Upon.


Pure silk, when it has been
through all the processes necessary
to bring out all its good qualities, is
worth it's weight in silver, said an ex-
pert the other day. Therefore, the
women who expect to buy silk at little
more than the price of cotton must
expect to be fooled, and there are lots
of ways by which the manufacturer
gets even with them.
They make stuff that is called silk.
and passes for it with credulous per-
sons who don't know any better, out
of nearly any old thing now One
favorite imitation silk is made OF
cellulose treated with chemicals. 1t
isn't a good material to get on fire
in. Then there are South sea island
cottons and some mercerized cottons
which, after treatment, look some
thing like silk, though of course, they
wear very differently and their sllken
appearance soon vanishes.
But it is in adulterating goods which
really have some silk in them that
the greatest skill is exercised to de-
ceive he buyer. To obtain the re-
ouired rustic and body rough floss IS
often used for the wool OF the
material. This soon causes them to
wear shiny.
Another trick is to increase the
weight and apparent solidity of a
flimsy silk material by using metallic
salts in the dye vast. Pressing, with
some kinds of silk, increases the
weight also, but at the sacrifice Of
strength. Cheap, crackly, stiff silk
which has heavy cords is good silk TO
avoid. It won't wear.
There are several tests which reveal
readily the purity of a piece of silk.
The microscope, of course, will show
it at once, even to an Impractical eye.
Pure silk has the appearance Of fine,
smooth tubes. Another good test is
by burning. Pure silk burns slowly
with slight odor; cotton flares up
quickly and would throw off a de-
cidedly disagreeable smell.
Then the tongue will readily reveal
the presence of metallic salts. There
is no mistaking their taste. But all
these may be disregarded, said the
expert, when silk is offered for the
price of cotton. You need not bother
to test that stuff
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
HOW HE SCARED THE TIGER.
Bluff Played Successfully by an Un-
armed Traveller in India.

If not interfered with the tiger
attack man. A writer from India
tells story of how, having sent his
guns and luncheon on before him, his
attention was arrested by a rustic in
the jungle, and, looking that way, he
saw tiger crouching low coming rap
idly toward him. He says: my first
feeling was one of horror, for it
seemed all up with me, the tiger being
very close and in rush. Of course
it was not me but the pony that he
wanted, but had he knocked out the
latter his own fears at finding man
under him would have made him maui
me too. There was but one thing to
be done, namely, to put bold front
on it and try to brighten him, and |,
therefore, instantly wheeled the pony's
head toward him shouting at the same
moment The tiger stopped short and
stared at me, but he did not offer to
retreat. I then moved the pony to-
ward him shouting loudly as I did SO,
and the tiger then turned his tail to
me, and, having retired about thirty
yards, he sat bolt upright on his
launches and stared al me.
Il was naturally DESTROYS of with
drawing from an interview SO IN
pleasant to me III my unarmed condi-
ton. I therefore rode straight at the
tiger, waving my arms and sternly
ordering him off, and before reached4
him he decided to move himself, this
time somewhat hastily and in marked
contrast to his previous orderly, not
to say dignifed, retreat, and, having at
last routed him [ lost no time in can
tering over the remaining portion of
the jungle cart track until it emerged
upon the high road. Spokane
Spokesman-Review.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
An Epoch Maxine Cycle.

Old Mother Shipton, long ago,
The future scanned with sibyl's ink
ling,
And saw men moving two and fro
With all the feetness of the roe,
And making milestones in a twink
ling.
And they who then, in ribald jest
Declared that "bats were in her at
tic
(SOme even thought the dame possest)
If living now would call her blest
Whom they'd reviled as a fanatic.
For 10, her dream stands verified,
AS if bespoken by st. Michael
And ancient Helios did not ride
His chariot with a livelier pride
Than mortals do the modern cycle.
When Rudyard Tennyson, one day, !
while haunting" in four-Wheeled
torture)
Said On the Road to Mandelay
Was worth a cycle in Cathay,'
He had not seen the high-grade
9NOA 1AAO1s
There was time when men COM
planned
That birds and antelopes and horses
Were lowered with a speed Gun
trained)
That man himself had not attained,
With all his Wanted nerve-re-
sources.
But in due time necessity
The fecund mother of Invention
Developed mans capacity
And hence. the wheel-an asset he
Will never be ashamed to mention
Just one thing more the wheel de-
mands
To bring it's uses to perfection
Improve the highways of all lands,
And wheelmen will extend their hands
With greetings warm from every
section.
The wheel, the wheel, tbs all the rage;
1t ringeth out the horse, the pony,
The spider, phaeton, cart and stage,
And ringeth in the golden age
For those who value time as money.
The toiler rides the wheel to work;
The Chappie spins tin fair
weather.
The merchant and his pretty clerk
Exchange the old familiar smerk-
And wheel the longest route to-
gether.
Behold a paradox: You rest
While hast'ning on with expedition;
You sit while running; laugh and jest
While doing time your level best,
And kick" with cheerful DISPOSE
ton.
In sooth, good friends, have not told
The half, in this impromptu letter.
The cycles points" are manifold
A good ones worth it's weight in gold,
albeit the lighter-built the better.)
The wheel is mans best gift to man;
And when all motors pass, the bike'll
Be found conspicuous in the van
Of things wrought on the Cosmic
plan
The swiftest since the race began,
When Tuban Cain his FORCES ran,
Outclass, good masters, if you can,
This all-round, epoch-making cycle!
j. G. Ochiltree.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
BUCHANAN NEVER MARRIED.
The Image of His Dead Fiancee Never
Faded from His Heart.

The Image of His Dead Fiancee Never
Faded from His Heart.
''Mr. Buchanan, who was the first
bachelor elected to the presidency,
was IS years of age when elected, and
had deliberately given himself to a
life of celibacy," writes William Per-
rine, in the Ladies' Home Journal.
I'm the days when he was a young
lawyer of Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
he had loved Miss Coleman, beauti-
full daughter of citizen of that fowl
They had been engaged to be married
when one day he was surprised to
receive from her a request to release
her from the promise. According
to George Ticknor Curtis, the separa-
ton originated in misunderstanding
on the part of the lady, who was I'M
usually sensitive, over some small
matter exaggerated by giddy and in
discreet tongues. Soon after the
estrangement she was sent to Phila-
delphia, and there died suddenly.
Throughout the rest of his life, or for
nearly half century, Mr.. Buchanan
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body the circumstances of this ro-
mantle tragedy. He would only say
that it had changed his hopes aai
plans, and had led him more deeply
than ever into politics as a distrac-
ton from his grief. In his old age,
long after he had retired permanently
to private life, he called attention to
package containing, he said, the
papers and relies which would ax-
plain the causes of his youthful
sorrow, and which he preserved evil
IDENTIFY with the idea of revealing them
before his DEATH But when he die1,
and his will was read, it was found
that he had directed that the package
should be burned without being
opened, and his injunction was
obeyed.'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
The shadowinq Past.

"He followed, me with hound-like-
tread,
He logged me night and day.
Each time I dreamed that he was dead
There at my door he lay.
Though once I harbored this old
Hound
BY what right does he stay?
So him at last | caught and bound,
And rode long miles away.
Dark paths with many a twist took,
Strange woods with twilight dim;
Through by-ways thick with turn and
crook
Alone / carried him.
His last cries in a tarn l drowned,
And hurried home once more.
Lo, waiting there, my old gaunt
Hound
Stood whining at the door,"
Arthur Stringer in Ainslee's.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
Arsenic.

The English victims of arsenic poi
son in beer now number more than
115 dead and more than 1000 i'll. The
area affected is confined within a hun
dred-mile radius from Manchester, but
the panic among beer-drinkers has
spread almost throughout the whole
country. 1t has been completely es.
tablished that the cause of the poison
ing is arsenic in the sulphuric acid
used in the manufacture of glucose
which the English brewers employ in
place of malt and hops in making
cheap beer. The poison has thus far
been traced to only one establishment,
which supplied glucose sugar to sew
eral breweries in the Midlands and
the north. An analysis shows that
some beers sold in saloons contain
arsenic sufficient easily to kill any per-
sistent drinker, as much as one-sixth
of grain being found in pint. The
fact that arsenic is a cumulative poi
son makes it more dangerous Popu-
lar Science.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17
AMERICAN RIVERS.
Some Thoughts on Our Neglected and
Prospective Inland Waterways.

Some Thoughts on Our Neglected and
Prospective Inland Waterways.
Alexander Hume Ford in Forum:
While the last century belonged to
the steam engine, the present seems
destined to bring the steamboat as a
means of transportation to an equality
with the railroad train.
Incomplete government reports
place the annual traffic of the rivers Of
America at something over 100000
tons. It is, however, certainly more
than that figure. The total freight
traffic of the great lakes amounts 70
124,00O,000 tons; but as all Of this
leaves one lake port to enter another,
the figures are divided by two, giving
the traffic on the lakes 100000 tons.
The river traffic, however, goes large
ly to, and comes from, the harbors of
the sea coast, so that the same rule
cannot be applied. Probably 100000
900 tons would be q fair estimate of
the tonnage of our rivers, exclusive
Of the coast harbors and inland water
ways which are arms of the ocean.
The average distance travelled by
freight on the lakes is 841 miles; on
he rivers probably not very much
more than $50; SO that the mile ton
lage borne on the rivers is probably
)Ee-fOurth that of the great lakes
The mile tonnage of the great lakes
mounts to forty per cent. of the
otal mile tonnage carried on the rail
ways; that of the rivers foots up an
Jther ten per cent; so that on the in
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

She-F'Do come back to the ball
ROOM
He-"No; want to be alone"
She-fNow don't be angry. Really L
only danced with the others so they
couldn't see I was all the time dancing
with you
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

The department of agriculture
issued statement regarding cannon
firing to prevent hail.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-06-17

A car of dynamite exploded in
collision on the Lackawanna and
Eilled six men and fatally injured
three more.