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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-30
TENNIS TOURNAMENT ENDED.
Brock and Adams and Atherton Retain
Championship.

The tennis tournament was ended
yesterday, when the championship con
test for the doubles was played Brock
and Adams, last YEARS. winners,
against Elston and Ross. Brock and
Adams won, O-6, 60, 1913, 81 and as
Frank Atherton retained his last year
championship, the winners all round
are the same as last years
The game yesterday was an exciting
one and furnished the best fun of the
tournament for the spectators.
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-30
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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-05-30

Races begin at 10 A. NJ, promptly
on Tuesday June II, at 1870 o'clock on
June IA and Is.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
stand by the Teacher.

In conversation with gentleman
from the country recently he made the
remark that he expected to send his
children to school this year in another
district, as he did not like the teacher
in his own district. When we asked
him what was the matter with the
teacher, he said: ooh, l don't know as
there is anything the matter with the
teacher, but wanted another teacher,
and don't like the way the district
board acted in this matter" This is
about the kind of an excuse great
many people have when they object to
the teacher hired by the district board.
AS the gentleman was talking to us his
little boy was standing alongside OF
him. How can we expect that children
will have any respect for the teacher
when the parents talk against him.
District boards may sometimes make
a mistake in hiring teacher, but after
the teacher has been employed it is the
duty of every patron of the school to
stand by the teacher and try to make
the school as good as possible unless
the teacher violates some law.-Ex-
change.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
RICHES TAKE WINGS.

from S2o.ooo,OOO to Bankruptcy in a
Few Years.
The recent failure of John e. Searles
in New York created a sensation in
commercial circles which has not been
eQualed in years. He was looked upon
as one of the most substantial men of
the metropolis.
Mr.. Searles organized the Sugar Trust
in 1887, in which he made millions.
Later he Withdrew to become president
of the American Cotton Company.
which became very strong and sue
cessful enterprise. He was also cho-
sen president of the Western National
Bank. At this time he was worth 500
100000. But his support Of other ven
lures on Wall street cost him dearly
and his millions began to slip away
from him. One after another turned
out disastrously until but. fraction
of his great fortune remained. no the
outer world. however, he was still the
great financial magnate. To the as
constituent Of all but few he con-
fessed bankruptcy this week. stating
his debts were over $1,000, 900. wan
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

1t would be misfortune If the pas
sion for getting on" should narrow
our educational ideals and substitute
the man of facility in affairs and the
expert for the man of broad culture
and the man of freed imagination. The
movement in colleges and universities
to introduce practical courses may
sometimes appear to be tending in that
direction, but it is rather to be regard
ed as an effort to give young men and
women better Introduction to certain
typical phases of actual life, says a
Chicago Tribune editorial, and to af-
ford them in certain lines that special
lied preparation for particular occu-
pattons which, to a degree at least, can
be more economically attained in an
institution than otherwise. The School
of Economics and Political Science in
the University of Wisconsin has re
Gently announced certain modified and
enlarged courses, including one on
public Service and Diplomacy" and
another in Preparation for Journal
ISM" One of this country's greatest
editors once expressed the opinion that
no one could be prepared" out of hand
for journalism; and yet it is evident
that not only general culture but famil-
iarity with certain lines of information
and thought furnish the journalist an
invaluable background for his work.
Training for public administration and
for diplomacy is even more obviously
great present need in this country. Our
easy theory that the duties of public
life can, under our simple system, be
met by the ordinary citizen, is largely
chargeable with our pernicious prac-
tice of rotation in office" and with the
lack of vigor and efficiency in much OF
our public life. The action of Madison
University is part of a general move
ment during the last ten years among
American institutions of higher learn
ing, the valuable effects of which,
though not conspicuous as yet, are
bound to be increasingly felt as time
goes on.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
Vertical Writing.

The subject of vertical writing is
still being talked about whenever the
question Of penmanship is discussed.
The Brooklyn Eagle has this to say
about it: "Since it's introduction a few
years ago, just for noyelty's sake and
to give room for enterprise on the part
of enterprising statesmen, it has gained
much ground. Its one merit is legl-
bility. The warmest advocates claim
for it little more than this. 1t violates
every principle Of beauty, puts stop
on the free expression Of character
through the pen, like a gag in the
mouth of speech. Compared with slant
in speed, it is as the tortoise to the
hare Should any one given to the
study of temperament receive letter
in this bolt upright, rigid hand, he
would be likely, not knowing the
writer, to quickly assign the person 10
mediocrity in station and insipidity in
regard to character. Besides, the ver-
teal is not freely used in business. 1t
is true that the typewriter has SO far
taken the place of the pen that, except
for figuring, the latter is little used,
very strong argument against the wide
spread diffusion of the style complain
ed of, when it's only recommendation,
as / have said, is clearness. The more
the vertical is continued as an educa-
tional agent the grosser will become
the impediment to free manifestation
of character Sanguine, nervous per-
sons and phlegmatic temperaments
will be jumbled into one dead monot-
ony tinctured mostly by the latter,
which is the least desirable. The only
good this vertical style can accomplish
is to do away with the crowd of ex-
perts on writing for where all write
alike there will be nothing left for
them to squabble over"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
Teachers Needed.

A professor in a Western normal
school lately said at an institute, "In
my boyhood | attended district
school for four winters. was in the
highest class each term. We inyaria-
bly, commenced at the beginning in
each text book, SO for four terms |
went over substantially the same
ground; it grew monotonous, and l
finally refused to go to school any
more, and spent two years in saw
mill, starting as general helper and
coming out as an engineer. At II my
mother wanted me to try school again;
I was sent to high school in neigh
boring city. Here l was started into
real work far above my preparation,
but not above my mental ability. |
was constantly stimulated to strong
mental activity. Then l saw what
was needed in my first school and what
is needed in all schools-a person pos
sessing the power to teach, not mere
possessor of knowledge"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

81 am no longer young" said an
Alaska pioneer the other day, ''but
expect to live to see a continuous line
of railway from New York to st. Pc
tersburg by way Of Boring Strait. In
fact, work on one Of the connecting
links will be begun within year." The
line he referred to will extend from
Port Valdez on the sea to the Yukon
river at the mouth of the Tanana.
From this point another road is project
ed to Nome, and if that should be built,
a railway across the strait to Siberia
might become at least possibility. If
expanding trade should demand such
road, neither the engineering nor the
financial difficulties would be insur-
mountable. 1t is an interesting thing
to speculate about, at any rate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

A cooking school for doctors has been
established in Berlin, and among the
numerous attendants are physicians
from several countries besides Ger
many. Branch schools are to be open
ed in other European capitals. The
medical man needs to be a good nurse.
He ought to be able to apply the prin-
ciples of wholesome cooking likewise,
If need be, in preparing delicacies for
the sick room. A supervision by the
doctor, himself competent to cook what
he orders for the patient, would turn
many a kitchen into a serviceable addi-
ton to his equipment.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

whom are now living His Oldest child
is 50 years of age and his youngest .
years.
Riley Sheppard was born in the
mountains of North Carolina, and lived
there until he was q years old. Since
that time he has been continuously a
resident of Fortyille When he was
so years old his second wife got a di-
yorce from him and obtained a decree
giving her possession of his worldly
goods. He was left to begin life over
again. with seventeen children as his
stock in trade. OF his twenty nine
children, sixteen have been boys and
thirteen girls. He has more than fifty
living grandchildren.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

The modifying influence Of death,
which Is SO often felt in private family
relations has been manifested on
large scale, internationally, since the
death Of Queen Victoria. The English
people have been often irritated by
the German Kaiser. His commercial
and naval schemes have seemed to
them to be aimed against England. His
message Of sympathy to President
Kruger, after the Jameson raid, still
rankles in their memory, and more
than once they have taken offense at
some inpulsive thing which he has
said or done. But when, as soon as he
knew that the Queen was seriously ill,
he left the scene Of the festivities with
which the Prussian bicentenary had
just been celebrated, and hurried
to the death-chamber at Osborne, they
were profoundly moved; all the more
so because he waived official formali-
ties, and joined the waiting family
group simply as the grandson of the
Queen. The same influence was felt
elsewhere There was no jliscordant
note in the worldwide expression Of
sympathy The French and Russian
journals, which are apt to be critical.
If not hostile, toward England, joined
in the tributes to the Queen. American
journals were as cordial as If there
never had been any Alabama claims or
Venezuela difficulty Or Alaskan bound
airy Or other vexatious question be-
tween the two countries. Under the
reciprocal kindness thus induced,
English journals began to suggest that
perhaps too much had been made Of
annoying amendments to the Hay
Pauncefote treaty, and that it might
be well to concede to the United States
the disputed points. So it came to pass
that the good Queen, who has all her
life striven for peace, in her death ex
erted strong influence in the same di-
rection.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

er's pies" have formidable rivals in
'my daughters doughnuts." Even col
legiate straws show which way the
wind blows. Themes recently chosen
for senior theses in several leading
women's colleges include 'The Ser
want Problem" "Household Econom-
ics'' and Foods in Relation to Intel
lect and Sanity" and stand in marked
contrast with the poetic and platitudin-
Gus graduating essays of only genera
ton ago. ITO be "a good housekeeper,"
said Shakespeare, "goes as fairly as to
say :. >. a great scholar To-day,
as never before, the two accomplish
ments walk hand in hand.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

1t is not only the rural resident from
up the creek that buys gold bricks.
Sometimes important sales of this sort
of merchandise are made to wise ones
who dwell In cities. A certain s'pro-
fessor" of fortune telling appears to
have done particularly neat piece of
gold-brick work in an Eastern city. He
has been telling some of the social
lights of that town that his insight into
the future would be wonderfully sharp
ened If he We're allowed to sleep over
night on jewelry belonging to his eli
ents. He intimated that the larger the
quantity of precious metal he had to
sleep ON, the better he could forecast
future events. One of his clients was
the Wife of a well-known manufac-
furer, who Willingly gave up her jew
elry and what gold coin she had in the
house. The next day the professor had
left town. His inspection of the future
was perfectly satisfactory to him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
street speculations he owned had ruin

street speculations he owned had ruin
ed him.
Mr.. Searles was the son Of the pastor
of the old st. Johns Methodist Church
in New Haven, John e. Searles. he
began work at 10 in sugar refinery ID
that city and rose rapidly. He married
an heiress, Miss Petit, and went to-
New York to engage as an importer IN
sugar. He soon became millionaire
and kept on adding to his riches unite
the time came which has steadily re-
duced his accommodations and finally
bankrupted him.
Mr.. Searles has organized Sunday
schools everywhere. He gave $4O,OOO
for the new building of the New York
Avenue Methodist Church, in Brook
Ign, where he passes the plate, and he
represents the church in the General
Conference He has given thousands
of dollars to the Brooklyn hospitals.
He is described as long-armed, long
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
Sticky.

An inventive turn of mind sometimes
leads its pOSSessor into peculiar Difficult
ties. A Boston daily paper tells of a
man who devised one-piece rubber
lined cotton undergarment, which was
intended to be soft and warm and at
the same time waterproof. He expect
ed to make a fortune by the sale of the
same to miners, seafaring men and
others whose occupations are pursued
in damp or wet places.
Unfortunately, however, when he
donned the new garment and it became
warm, the rubber melted and stuck to
his body, and the fabric was only re-
moved with the aid Of pair of scissors
and scraping knife.
Something similar, although from a
different cause, happened to an Indiana
tramp who was proving around in
search of shelter for the night and
found convenient barn. It was dark,
and he felt his way up the ladder into
the loft.
While walking around there he STEP
ped into an open shaft and down he
went to the floor below. That was not
the worst of it. There was vat Of
sorghum molasses directly beneath the
shaft, and the tramp went in up to his
neck
He crawled out and tried to scrape
on the mess with hay and straw, but
when he emerged next morning he was
such assight that the dogs were afraid
OF him. In thezend he was forced to
surrender himself to the police, so that
he might get a change Of clothing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
When Trees Reach MATURITY.

Authorities on forestry say that
seyenty-five years are required for the
oak to reach maturity; for the ash.
larch and elm, about the same length
of time; for the spruce and fir, about
eighty years. After this time their
growth remains stationary for some
years. and then decay begins. There
are, however, some exceptions to this,
for oaks are still living which are
known to be 1000 years old.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
Telling the Farmers
OF THE WEST
How to Grow Trees,


The problem Of how to grow foro,.
trees IN the dry, semi-treeless rAoon'
of the West is discussed in all IT,
phases in bulletin just issued hv ~.
forestry division of the Department NJ
Agriculture.
The bulletin was prepared by Georca
B. Sudworth, dentrologist. There IL
little in the bulletin that is not alrooas
known to professional nurserymep bnt
to the farmers and those who annrn
ciate the need, especially in the Trans
Mississippi prairie section, of the pron
agation Of forest trees, it is of ppcu,ia,
value.
1t Is appreciated that the art of rais
ing forest tree seedlings and plantinn
trees is little known among farmers
although it is of great economic int0,
est to them. The information furnish.
ed in the bulletin, therefore, is directed
toward the production of plant mat0.
rial which will succeed best under in.
experienced management.
To the Eastern farmer the tree ouos
ton has not assumed the importance n
bears to the agriculturist in the West
The greater interest centers about the
Western planter because of his greater
need for wood material, and becausa
the growth Of trees under his condi.
lions is most difficult The proyident
farmer cannot afford to buy frewood
fence posts or building timber anv
more than he can afford to buy corn
and wheat. The necessity for raising
trees is, therefore, no less obvious than
of raising staple crops. In a sem-tree
less region the possession of wood
lot to a Western farmer is of grea
value. Distance from the source o.
wood supply makes prices high fol
wood material. The Eastern farmeI
is less dependent, even if his timber
cut off, as he lives in wooded coun
try where posts, fuel and lumber arr
comparatively cheap.
Mr.. Sudworth says the scope of til
farmers tree planting will necessari
be small. To be successful useful ra
suits should be obtained within on
mans lifetime. To accomplish thA
end he recommends that the tree plant
er confine his attention chiefly to Quic
growing trees.
The failure to establish forest growt
in the plains region of the West undo
the Timber Culture act is ascribed NJ
to the fact that trees cannot be grow
there, but to the need of a better sy
tenn and a more intimate knoWeda
of the special requirements of trees
der trying conditions. Thousands
bushels of black walnuts planted lntl
West did not fail to germnate,
many of them failed to produce ire
because the seedlings lacked co
tinued supply of soil moisture WIZ
out shade and with few or no SUNNI
rains and no irrigation, it was natuF
that the hot, drying winds should VII
er the tender seedlings.
The problem now is to oVefco1
these unfavorable conditions. luis
lieyed that this can be accomplish
by starting the Seeding in the 81
bed and growing it in the nursery ~
it is strong enough to maintain lH
in the plantation. If this IS dole'
Sudworth argues, the Western lalu
can grow trees as successfully ID
can farm crops.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

a sum sufficient to provide y Th
teacher for her for two years u h
that snm was exhausted the state y \
islature was prevailed upon -. " turt1
a special appropriation for n 9ao -" N
education. The result mas Os yea n
less than marvellous. WITHIN n, .asd
she has acquired the power , -, fm
all the various systems oil p ~ 4h rii
blind, she is able to write pu potter
lead pencil and on typeMr I.arsat
uses her voice readily in COWS ,ors
while with her wonderful nn g snd
is able to read and understand n.s +
language Ia aple e. In pathetic ints re i
story is on level with l"os
Bridgman and Helen heliei'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
When Thomas Sings.
goes on.

When Thomas sings his nightly lays,
His hearers know the pain it brings
To hearts as dead-for fulsome praise
He cares not nor whose soul he wrings
Beneath the moons bewitching rays,
His voice it scars, as it had wings,
And many list'ner guerdon pays,
When Thomas sings!
Yes. as the cadence loudly swings
From off the woodshed. windows raise
And neighbors hurl all sorts of things
Observation-Disclosures are bouquets
When Thomas sings!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

mediums. Tie fortune thus made was
squandered by DR.. Canning Woodruff.
Mrs. Woodruff left him and married
Col. James I'll. Blood. The two sisters
now began agitation for women's
rights, suppression of population and
other programs which brought them
into ill favor. They left America for
for England early in the sos. Miss
Clafiin married the wealthy Sir Fran
els Cook, and her sister took a third
husband in the person of rich stock
broker.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
Small Horseshoes.

Horseshoes weighing an ounce each
and just a trifle larger than a silver
dollar were turned out In California
shop recently. They were made for q
Shetland pony 6 months old. and small
for its age.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

his fourth wife and
ten C h j ! d r e n to
comfort his declin-
ing days. In the
number of his i'm
mediate descend
ants Uncle" Riley
is a formidable ri
val for the patri-
archs of old. In all
he is the father Of
twenty-nine C h i | :
49, ~ G
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

A Vanderbilt descendant has proved
capable Of something more than spend
ing ancestral money. 1t may yet be
fashionable for hereditary American
wealth to have brains and disposition
to use them. Young Corneels" firebox
shows some inventive power beyond
the mere talent Of devising new dissi-
patton.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

A woman whose husband beat her
regularly once a day for forty years
has at last appealed to the police. 1t
seems that there was a point where
even a patient, loving woman could
stand it no longer and the head of the
household tried it once too often when
he started to take his daily exercise on
the first day Of the forty first year.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
Any FRANCIS COOK.

Eormer Tennessee C1afiin One Oh tine
Richest Widows In England.
LADY Francis Cook. whose husband
the rich shawl importer and ware
houseman, has died In London, is one
of the wealthiest widows in England.
She was formerly Miss Tennessee
C,af1in of New York, the sister Of Vic
toria Woodruff. The two women were
horn in Homer, Ohio, of poor parents.
They were pretty, witty and talented,
and began to earn their living as spirit
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
Education in South Carolina.

The superintendent of education for
South Carolina shows in his annual
report that while more money is appro-
priated for the education of the whites
than for the blacks, there are more
blacks than whites in attendance at
the public schools. There are 155, 6O2
colored children attending the schools,
for which there was appropriated
5000, III, this being at the rate of $1.3O
a pupil. There are at the schools 1885,
395 white pupils, for whom there was
spent 500, $40, or $5.54 a pupil.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28
pa,brooms in Cincinnal,l',

An ordinance recently @ law
Cincinnati provides that u' for
ments shall have a bathroom n,ate
suite of rooms having d o,f tonepl
way, and that remodele "a. escbb
shall have one bathroom io'
rooms.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

nosed, big-boned Yankee, with smooth
upper lip, and beard like conference
preachers, he wears the ill-fitting frock
coat and white choker and hymn book
eyeglasses that can be seen in any and
every country church. His smile is
benevolent and shrewd.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-03-28

of her life a llVi !
child. Then Gang
series of illness
and in the end I
baby was left ds !
dumb, and blind i
sixteen years /
mental deyelopn']
was slow, Then /
sad case attra'i
the at tenti0DI
c.1e w h 0 ray