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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1901-06-22
GRAY-sMlTH.

At the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. j. Smythe,
Ala Park avenue. Baltimore, on last Tuesday,
their cousin. Miss Katharine NJ Smith, was
married to Mr.. Walter H. Gray, of La Plata,
Md The bride, who is the daughter of the
late Timothy Smith, of Charles county, had
been member of the faculty of Western
Maryland College, Westminster, for num-
Der of years. The groom is young lawyer
of Charles county. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. William p Painter, rector Of
Christ Church, Howard county, in the pres
ence of few friends. Mr.. and Mrs. Gray
will make their future home near La Plata.
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LAWN MOWERS kind that
cut, and at prices that sell
II, IA, 16 and Is inches
wide.
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DIVIDEND NO. A.
Westminster Deposit and Trust Company, /
Westminster, Nd, June 6, 1901. !
The President and Directors of the Com
pany have this day declared semi annual
Dividend of
THREE PER CENT.
upon the Capital Stock of the Company, clear
of all taxes, payable June go, 1901. Stock
Books close June %, 1901, reopened July lst
1901. GEO. NJ. PARKE,
june83t Treasurer.
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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-08-16

NAMn OF owxsa 10 WHOM
ASSESSED.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

danced on the deck of a flatbOat or
took the helm while her father took a
shot at the Indians" now appeared
short and swarthy and fat. Before
her arrival at the white house, in 1924,
the political opponents of the general
had set af1oat a hundred stories of her
rough looks and ways. A caricature
Of the day represented her standing
on table, the fashionable danes of
Washington engaged in dressing her
appropriately, with Mrs. Edward Liv-
ingston lacing her stays. But before
long death interposed to remove the
good lady from the scene, and Mrs.
Donelson, wife of Jackson's nephew
and secretary, took her place as pre-
siding genius of the white house.
Harriet Lane and Others.
Mrs. Van Buren,, daughter-in-law of
the president, preceded the charming
bevy of gentlewomen composing the
household of President Tyler, whose
marriage, to the beautiful Julia Gar
diner of GARDENERS island, N. Y, oc-
Cured at the white house.
Mrs. Polk, lovely, we'll bred and win
ming, was considered trifie austere
in her views of religious observance
as applied to the life of every day.
Mrs. Fillmore and her attractive
daughter were followed by Mrs. Pierce,
whose delicate health made her rather
a shadowy image in the white house
galaxy,
Miss Harriet Lane, the fair and
stately niece of President Buchanan
who had presided over her uncle's
household while he was minister to
England, had the manners and bearing
of the great world, and bore her part
in the executive pageant like one to
whom the right to wear ermine was
natural Inheritance.
The other ladies of the shining list
Mrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Johnson, and her
daughter, Mrs. Patterson, Mrs. Grant,
Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Garfield, Mrs. Nc
Elroy, sister of President Arthur; Miss
Cleveland and Mrs. Cleveland, Mrs.
Harrison and Mrs. McKinley-belong
to contempOraneous history
To look back upon these august
DANES in line, after Mrs Washington,
from the day of the first occupation of
the white house, is to see projected
into the foreground of the canvas Mrs.
Adams, Mrs Madison, Mrs Monroe
and Mrs. Polk among the bygones;
Miss Lane and Mrs. Cleveland in the
array Of moderns, each supremely pos
sessed Of the personal distinction,
social faculty and grace of the typical
American woman called to the fore
front of conspicuous position in her ma
tive land
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
GOING FAST.
Very Good Reasons for High-Speed
Railway Travel.

Very Good Reasons for Hgh-Speed
Railway Travel.
Turn and twist the problem round
and round about to ever so great an
extent, it will unavoidably resolve it.
self into the conclusion that there is
no fixed rate of speed that is in itself
an IDEAL, that the paying rate de-
ponds, and must needs always depend,
upon the particular circumstances and
requirements of each line, and that
no hard and fast rule can be laid down
on the subject that will be applicable
to every case. The one rule which is
of universal application is that it will
pay to run on any line at any speed
that attracts or retains or improves
profitable traffic. If this should in
involve augmented consumption of
fuel and larger working expenses un-
der other heads, what matter, if the
outlay yield profitable return? Is it
| conceivable that the Atlantic city
flyers would be timed year by year at
their unprecedented booked speed,
unless experience had shown that such
exceptional speed paid, or had the
probable potentiality Of paying? Is it
mere coincidence that the fastest
railway in Europe, the Northern of
France, pays to it's fortunate share
holders dividends of Is to 171a per
cent, or that the two slowest rail-
ways in Britain have drifted into such
a CHASTITY mess that their position and
methods are constantly characterized
in the public press as The Great Rail-
way Scandal? | cannot think so. My
experience conVinces me that where
you find consistently high speed, there
also you find, as rule, better per-
manent-way, better rolling-stock,
higher efficiency, and--their con-
comitants less proportionate cost OF
repairs and less liability for compen-
sation on account of delays and acct
dents due to ineficiency.-C. Rous-
Marten in Engineering Magazine
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
TRIALS OF coPY-READERs.
Authors Blame Them for Errors They
Do Not Commit.

"Most authors are furious at the
bare suggestion of editing their man
uscripts' said a man who used to be
reader in big publishing house,
'sbut you would be surprised at the
ludicrous plumbers made by the best
of them When writer is acces-
sible the usual plan is to mark the
bad breaks on the proof slips and
send them to him. with a discreet
note requesting correction. But
when a house is getting out book in
hurry, or when the author is abroad,
this is often impossible, and then the
situation becomes very ticklish.
remember, for instance, l was once
reading the proofs of a novel by one
of our best known and crankiest wo-
men writer's. She was away on a
visit to Mexico, and had left strict
orders to follow copy to the letter.
In one of her early chapters the hero
was shaving himself after a long hun
ting trip, and was exactly half through
when interrupted by the sudden ar
rival of the villain A stormy scene fol
lowed, and eventually all hands adj
journed to a fashionable ball The
authoress evidently forgot that the
man was still half shaved, and | took
the liberty of finishing the job. When
she saw the book she was as mad as
blazes because | had .interpolated
eight or nine words, and l swore never
again to play the barber to save any
body's reputation.
another writer for whom we got
out story made one of his characters
empty his revolver at a retreating
burglar, and a moment later sent two
bullets crashing through a window
to show a rival how quick he was on
the trigger I called his attention to
the inexhaustible pistol, and he never
spoke to me afterward. In an ear
| lier novel by the same gentleman you
will find reference to the hero's dark.
smooth-shaven face, and on the very
next page he is twirling his nous
tache.' | noticed it in the proof, but
remembered my experience with the
| lady, and let it go. 1t is common
thing for writer's to locate we'll known
streets, parks, art galleries and monu
ments in the wrong cities, and they
make the sun rise and set at all points
of the compass. We had to delay a
! book for a whole season once because
the author located the Windward
| islands off the coast of South Carroll
ma, and then went away to Japan be
fore anybody discovered the mistake
To make the correction involved
changing the whole action of the
story, which, of course, nobody dared
| to do."-New York Times.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY.
Method by Which Americans Have
Won It.


A very great proportion of the
present general prosperity, especially
in the iron and steel trades, machine
tool trades, and Woodworking in
dustries generally, is due to success
in securing orders in foreign coun-
tries. Gains in this direction are won
in international competition largely
by high adaptations of mechanical
equipment and works, organization,
and by the adoption of policies which
secure the fullest possible accord and
cooperation between employers and
Workmen in advancing economy of
production. The land which is to
gain or to maintain industrial SUI
premacy most perfect methods of deal
ing between manufacturers and work
men as she perfects her methods Of
building bridges and locomotives.
The operation of her factories and
workshops must proceed as smoothly
and continuously, with as little fric-
ton or heating or clashing, as do the
sewing machines, the planners, the
looms, or the engines with which
she supplies the four quarters of the
globe. She must hold to and extend
the resort to reason, justice, and
common. sense in the settlement of
trade difficulties, SO happily exem-
plified in the agreement reached last
May in the United States between the
National Metal Trades association
and the international Association Of
Machinists. She must send the lock-
out and the strike to the scrap-heap,
along with the thousands of other in
efficient and obsolete devices she has
thrown out Of her shops. Their
wastefulness is intolerable, and
should be abhorrent.-Charles Buxton
Going in Engineering Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

necessitate bringing him into vision,
she could not help but feel that his
gaze was riyeted on her face.
Suddenly happy thought seemed
to strike her. She turned her head
quickly, and calmly fixed her gaze on
the fellows feet Not once did her
eyes waver. At first his face began
to flush. Then he shuf1ed his feet I'M
easily. By this time other people in
the car had observed the little
comedy, and many smiled broadly as
they noticed his discontinue.
Seeing that she had succeeded in
thoroughly embarrassing him, the
young woman now changed her mode
of attack, and boldly raised her eyes
to his face, and then, with contemp-
tuous curve of her lips, quickly
glanced again at his feet This
proved too much for the masher, and
he suddenly beat retreat.
AS he alighted from the car there
was faint sound Of applause in the
vehicle, and when later the young wo-
man arrived at her street, an old man,
who was seated near the door, said as
she passed him:
"You deserve to be congratulated,
miss. It's too bad more young women
haven't your wit
She merely smiled an acknowledge
ment and hurried down the steps. =
New York Mail and Express.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
She Siuned the Bill.

Of all Victoria's ministers she liked
Disraeli most and Gladstone least.
Disraeli made her empress of India
and she made him earl of Beacons-
field. He aattered, Gladstone die
tated. 1t is said that once Victoria OBJ
jected to signing bill.
"But you must, madam" urged the
grand old man."
Must, sir? You forget, am the
queen of England"
''You are, madam" returned Glad
stone, "and I am the people of Eng
land"
She signed the bill. But that is one
of the reasons why she had no love
for the foremost of the democrats Of
England.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
A CAR FOR "DRUNkS."
A New Feature of Suburban Railroads
in Stockholm.

eve fear that the Gothenburg is no
more preventative than the Maine
system of prohibition remarks the
New York Sun in commenting on the
dispatch from Stockholm, announcing
that the administration of the state
railways had ordered a special car for
intoxicated persons on every suburban
train at night. Other words uncom-
plimentary to the system are uttered
in the same paragraph. 1t is quite a
mistake to assume that there is any
thing in common between the Gothen-
burg system or any of its variations,
and the prohibition laws of the vari-
Gus states in America, say the Scandi-
navian systems advocates. The prin-
ciples involved in the two general
systems are vastly different, they add,
reasoning thus:
Whereas the subject of the one sys-
TEN is to prevent the sale of intoxi-
cants, the other is intended only to
regulate the saloon or barroom. It's
aim is to abolish the gilded dens of
vice with their many alurements in
the form of music, bright decorations,
games Of chance, free lunches, wine
rooms and the thousand and one other
devices to attract patrons. It's pur
pose is also to abolish the low dives
where crimes are fostered and the
vicious find their haunts.
Not everyone willing to live and
grow rich on the miseries and weak
ness Of his fellow men can become a
liquor dealer in Norway~or Sweden I'M
der the so-called Gothenburg system.
| The manager of a liquor place is on a
salary and has no personal interest in
the business. He is simply there in
semi-oficial capacity to enforce the
rigorous liquor laws. Moreover a con-
| siderable share of the earnings of the
business is devoted to various public
charities and enterprises.
] The institution on the Scandinavian
peninsula corresponding to the Brit
! ish taproom and the American saloon
by comparison is so different as to be
scarcely recognizable. 1t has not
abolished drunkenness, but it has re-
duced the per capita consumption of
| intoxicating beverages to a very
marked degree. To such an extent
have some communities been liberated
from the thraldom of the liquor evil
that they have closed even their
Gothenburg saloons" This is es-
pecially true of several Norwegian
cities. Thus while the primary idea
of the system was not preventative,
the practical results tend in that direc-
ton.
1t is quite unjust, say the Gothen-
burg systems friends, to consider the
recent order of the state railway adj
ministration as a reflection on the
| efficacy of the Gothenburg system. If
! it shows anything, they say, it reveals
humane consideration for drunken
persons who in the past have been
promptly elected from the trains at
the first station, sometimes with the
Thermometer far below zero. While the
drunk car is a boon to the victims
of the liquor habit it is much great
er one to the general public to which
an intoxicated individual is always a
nuisance. A separate compartment
for the class would be appreciated on
almost any railway.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
PUT A "MAsHER" TO FLIGHT.
Simple Method of Girl to Rid Herself
of Obnoxious Attentions.

It happened on a Sixth avenue sur
face car shortly after s o'clock last
evening. A young woman, well known
in musical circles of this city, was the
heroine. When she seated herself she
did not at first notice a fashily
dressed young man who was directly
opposite. But she was soon made
aware of his presence through his
impudent stare and smirk whenever
she happened to look his way. At
first she was simply annoyed, but
subsequently became positively en-
barrassed.
People in the car began to notice
his attempt at a Irritation, and, al
though she kept her eyes in any di-
rection other than that which would
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

Of the power developed at Niaraga
about 10000 horsepower is trans
mitted to Buffalo, distance of about
% miles. We speak easily of large
amounts of power, but how few of us
realize what is meant by the ex-
preston 10000 horsepower. An
army Of 100000 men, performing the
hardest kind of physical labor, could
not maintain a rate of working
equivalent to $4,000 horsepower for a
single day. The power which is
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
Of Maryland Lineage.

Mrs. John Quincy Adams, daughter
and statesman, was born in London
and lived abroad for years, her mar.
riage with Mr.. Adams occurring while
he was minister resident at The
Hague, position he afterward ex.
changed for st. Petersburg and Lon
don. Her life in Washington during
the eight years that Mr.. Adams was
secretary of state had given high evil
dence of her grace and ability as an
entertainer, but while in the white
house she was overshadowed by ill
health, withdrawing from all but those
formal appearances in public which
she could not officially avoid.
A letter penned by long gone hand
concerning domestic life at the white
house in Mrs. Jackson's time supplies
the following:
'"The large parlor was scantily fur
nished; there was light from the chan
delier and a blazing fire in the CRATE
four or five ladies sewing around it;
Mrs. Donelson, Mrs Andrew Jackson
Mrs. Edward Livingston, ct cetera
Five or six children were playing
about regardless of documents or
work baskets. At the farther end OF
the room sat the president in his arm
chair, wearing long, loose coat and
smoking long reed pipe, with bowl of
red clay, combining the dignity of the
patriarch, monarch and Indian chief. y
The "bonny brown wife, of that
soldier-president, the 1.-THE, dark
Rachael Donelson, who in her youth
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

Modern knowledge and appliance
have reduced the business of butcher
ing to an exact science. Every part
of the animal is put to the best pos
sible use and nothing is wasted. Be
sides the different cuts and cures of
beef, mutton and pork, including
tallow, stearine and lard, every other
portion of the different animals has
it's use. Horns and hoofs are made
into tortoise shell combs, buttons and
other ornaments. From the bones of
the feet, neatsfoot oil is extracted.
Hair and the finer bristles are worked
into upholstering materials and the
different kinds of telling. This is an
extensive line of manufacture which
comprises many interesting and COM
plicated processes in making the
different grades which range from
saddle and harness pads to the finer
and more expensive grades. Car
tilaginous substances are made into
gelatine and the bones are steamed to
they are ground into meal for chicken
foods and fertilizing purposes Blood
is used in variety of ways, but is
principally valuable for its albumen,
which is extracted, and the residue
made into different kinds of animal
foods. The offal is dried in furnaces
especially constructed for the purpose.
1t is then mixed with certain mineral
constituents and ground into a
powder which is used for fertilizing
purposes, the composition depending
upon the kind of soil on which it is
intended to be used. Bristles are
made into every variety of brush
known to the trade, from the finest
hat brush to the coarse heavy polish
| ing brushes used for smoothing and
cleaning rough surfaces Baltimore
III 4
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25
WHITE HOUSE WOMEN
FIRST LADIES OF THE LAND DE-
SCRIBED IN A MAGAZINE.
WIVES OF PRESIDENTS

Spriehtly Abigail Adams the First TO
Occupy the Executive MANSION
Dolly Madison's Career arrlet
Lane and other Famous women
Folk Before and Since.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-02-25

transmitted silently and invisibly
along six conductors less than one
inch in diameter would easily break
six steel cables of equal diameter,
moving at a rate of 10 miles an hour.
This is accomplished by the now very
moderate potential of 1900 volts,
and when this potential is doubled,
as it soon will be, the power trans
mitted will, of course, be doubled
Electrical Review.
The closing year of the nineteenth
century gave to the world an inven-
ton which, in the minds of those most
capable of Judging, solved the
problem of ocean telephony and per-
mits the spoken words to be trans
mitted over land telephone lines of
any length. 1t is the invention of DR..
M. l. Pupin, of Columbia College,
New York.
DR.. Pupin last week sold his in
vention to the American Telephone
and Telegraph Company (Bell intec-
ests). The figure paid was 100000
cash and salary of 500 per annum
during the IL years of the life of the
patent.-The Electrical Review.
It will be somewhat startling news
to most people in this country to
know that Bengal pig iron is being
sold on equal terms with Middles-
borough iron in Sydney and in Mel
bourne, in Hongkong and in Shanghai,
says the Iron and Coal Trades Re-
view, of London. Yet such is the
case, and it is said that the Bengal
iron is much liked and has come to
stay. To the Bengal Iron and Steel
Company, Limited, belongs the credit
Of such enterprise. The company is
of English origin.-The Engineering
and Mining Journal.
Maximite, g high explosive invented
by Mr.. Hudson Maxim, was tested at
Sandy Hook last week. According to
accounts, a 1,000-pound 12-inch shell
was filed with 20 pounds of Maximite
and fired through a seven-inch plate
without explosion, thus making it
equal to wet compressed gun-cotton in
this respect. BY exploding the Maxi
mite 12-inch shell was broken into
about 10000 fragments, as at least
1000 pieces were recovered En-
gineering News.