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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1901-09-28
AN ICE-CREAM TRAGEDY.
A stray Freezer In the Cause of =
Young Mans Discomfort and
UMhnppincsa.

The picnic party were hurricdly
scrnmbling together their boxes and
baskets, for the conductor had warned
them that the train would not stop
long Mt Riverside. The chnperone stood
like general at the end of thc ear d.
rccting the maneuvers concerned with
the detail of the forces, re latcs the Chi
caEo Tribune.
"lIcrc, Mr. Towers" said the chap
crone for the tenth time, "you must
stop talking with those girls and help
oft with all our things. II you don't
Won shan't have one single bite TO eat.
Not one bite" Mr.. Towers rushed Wild
ly nbou, after this terrible threat and
looked for something he might carry
off the car. When the party were all
safely out on the platform with their
boxes and baskets the perspiring but
radiant Mr.. Towers wa S deserted stand
ing triumphantly by the side of six.
gallon freezer of ice cream. The train
had pulled out when the chapcrone de.
serted him.
81 got the ice cream" said Mr.. Tow
crs, happily.
ayes, Mr.. Towers" responded the
chapcronc, colby, "and may ] ask,
where did you get it? 1t doesn't be-
long to u.s."
Towers face fell. but he still hung
on TO the ice cream.
II had to get something for my share
and the ice cream freezer was handy.
1,,1 rfh MIN
party why didn't they take care of it?
Anyhow, we've got it,"
The picnickers decided, however, that
it would be wrong to rob the other pic
mic party of their ice cream and SO the
chapcronc made Mr.. Towers remain be-
hind at The depot and wire up and own
the road to find the other picnic party,
and when they were located he had to
hire rig and take the freezer over
to them. Mr.. Towers was too mad to
talk when he finally found the rival pic
nickcrs, SO he just dumped the ice
cream freezer out on the grass
near them and drove back to his own
crowd. And he arrived just in time 10
hear q girl who had come out on late
train say: "Whcre is my ice cream7
| sent q man down with it and he said
he put it with your things" The chap
eronc was sorry, but she said Mr.. Tow
crs had insisted that the ice cream be-
longcd to somebody else, and as he hsd
tuken it over to another picnic crowd
would he please 60 and get it. And
Mr.. Towers went, but the things he
said on the way over and back were bad,
o, extremely bad.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
News of Minor Note.

Mary Bogus, -, Sheffield, Ala, died
OF hydrophobia.
Vermont is to have an "old home
week. in August.
A building of twenty stories is to go up
on Fourth street, Cincinnati.
Wolves are increasing rapidly IN the
forest districts of northern Canada.
Seventy Chinese were drowned by the
sinking of a Chinese steamer near Can
ton.
Two hundred and fifty thousand mill
ions of locusts were killed in Cyprus in
two years.
Chicago, with 10000 arrests in year
and 1000 miles of streets to be paroled,
has $500 policemen.
The United States consuls report many
lepers on the Canary Islands, there be-
ing 200 on Teneriffe alone.
Constable Farrell, Arlington, Tenn,
struck negro with his pistol. It ex-
ploded, the ball killing the officer.
The latest new building in New York,
besides extending fifteen stories into the
air, will have four stories underground.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

The Social Economics Club Of Chica
60 has been considering to how low
point the personal budget Of work
ing boy or girl or student living at
home can be reduced. Such calcula-
tons have a merit in so far as they
teach discrimination in expenditure
and aid persons to live within their
means. In so far, however, as they
tend to indirse and extend pinched
standard Of living, contends the Trib-
une Of that city, or tend to give the
impression that the primary aim Of So
ciety should be to realize and be con-
tent with a low standard of living,
they are not beneficial. Broadly
speaking, civilization consists in the
increase of production and consump-
ton, both of which interdependent
processes are naturally wholesome and
educative 1t is accordingly desirable
that the propely distributed consump
ton Of commodities should be increas-
ed instead Of decreased, provided pro-
ductive capacity be not overdrawn.
Nothing could be more obvious, how
ever, than that our productive capacity
is not overdrawn to-day. Notwith-
standing our enormous excess of ex-
ports, 1t is still one of our great mis-
fortunes that this capacity is not suffi-
GENTLY engaged. The discussion Of
ways for eking out life on the narrow
est possible margin may keep itself to
wholesome lines, but it Is always in
danger of slipping into that vicious cir
Gle in which want and idleness are both
condoned. 1t is the problem Of social
craftsmanship to-day to employ stead
lily, according to their capacities and
needs, the casually employed, and
through the gains thus realized as well
as through a more equitable distribu-
ton than now exists of good things in
general to raise, not lower, the stand
ard of life among the less well-to-do.
In any effort to deal with that standard
this fundamental problem should be
kept in mind. 1t is also important to
remember that wages should never be
based upon the necessary budget of one
who is boarded at home" without
charge The person thus s., sidized IS
constantly depressing the natural level
of wages, which should never fail to
match all the reasonable living ex-
penseS of the wage Garner.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

fever which prevented her from sleeping.
DR.. Rixey lanced the felon twice and
gave her some relief in that way. Mrs.
Mckinley bore it all very brayely and
urged continually that the program at
the cities and towns en- route should not
be modified in any particular on her ac-
count.
1t was hoped that the rest at Del
Monte would do her good, but she slept
little at night, and in the morning she re-
luctantly agreed to go to San Francisco
at once The President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley left at 1890 o'clock for San Fran
cisco on a special train, consisting of
locomotive and the combination baggage
and smoker Atlantic and the private car
Olympia. The entire equipment was
made up from the presidential special
train. The run was made in three and
one-half hours.
DIR. Rixey said Mrs. McKinley's condi-
ton was not alarming. She is worn out
by her long journey and it was consid-
cred wise to take her to San Francisco,
where she could have proper nursing and
where specialists could be consulted. But,
a correspondent says, while the physician
in attendance talks thus reassurlngly, 1t
is believed that her condition is much
more serious than he is willing to admit.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

disappeared, the company owning the
remnant of those once important water
ways having decided to abandon its
investments, sell whatever assets were
salable, and go out of business. Alto
gether those canals cost about $780,
100000. They did an important work
in the earlier days Of the States COM
mercial development, but railway COM
petition has finally done for them what
it long ago did on most routes for the
stage coach and the teamster. Elk
cept as connecting links between nat
ural waterways, canals will probably
soon disappear forever frol4 the Amer
lean scheme Of transportation. The
application of slack-water systems to
our rivers may, however, yet have an
important development.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
Wool Substitutes

A little research into statistical rec
ords proves the falsity of the free trade
claim that the protective tariff is to
blame for the extensive use of shoddy
in the manufacture of woolens. In 1889
our imports of rags, mungo, flocks,
noils, shoddy and waste were $780,, 209
pounds. Two years later, under the
Mckinley tariff, this amount had fall
en- to 1,185,591 pounds; in 1892, '93 and
"a still further decreases took place,
the amount imported for 1894 being
143,062 pounds. In 1895, the first full
year of the Wilson tariff, with it's free
wool clause, imports of wool substi-
tutes jumped up to 14,066.050 pounds,
and in 1S96-'97, both Wilson tariff
years, the figures increased to 1851
100 and 49,913,732 pounds respectively.
Under the operation of the Dingley tar
if the imports of shoddy and other
adulterants fell off to 3,29S, 751 pounds,
while in 1899 and 1900 the figures were
314,540 and 435,854 pounds, respec-
lively. From this it is to be seen that
the Mckinley tariff cut down the i'm
portation of wool substitutes to almost
nothing, that under the free wool Will
son tariff tremendous increase occur
red, and that under the Dingley tariff
the importation of these substitutes
has again almost entirely ceased.
An immediate effect of the Dingley
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

A recent writer on nitro-glycerin
saws the stuff makes a fatalist of any
man who handles it. You never can tell
lust why it does or does not unhinge
itself. Once a ten-Quart can of it drop
ped off house and did not explode; at
another time a man struck with his
cane an empty can that had once con-
tanned the stuff, and he thought he had
been kicked by a battery Of mules
enough, again it requires hammer. At
the best the compound is ''touchy," and
II is always well to stand over in the
other lot and let the hired man play
ball with it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

law was to greatly improve the 4
of woolens consumed in this "A
Not only was there a marked al
almost a total cessation, Of tho
tation of low grade shoddy-fillpd 4
as the result of higher duties N
domestic manufacturer, once md
sured of the home market "A
and rapidly improved the oualjtvI
output, until to-day 1t is the eoI
anything made in the world
Dingley tariff has made wool Of,
once more a profitable occupatI
the United States, and in spite
growing tendency to use eotto,
other substitutes in the low price
RIGS, It has also immensely INN
the quality of domestic wooden ed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
THE MAINE WILL FLOAT.
Unique Method to Be Employed in
Raising the BattIeshiP.

Unique Method to Be Employed in
Raising the BattIeshiP.
Newton f. Chamberlain, who is en-
gagged in raising the wreck of the battle
ship Maine in Havana harbor, says that
the vessel whose destruction precipitated
the war with Spain is not as badly dam
aged as has been generally supposed, and
that she will be afoat and ready for
business again some time next fall.
The proposed manner of raising the
ship is unique. In order to float her it
will be necessary to first build a dam
around the battleship and pump out the
water. When the water has all been re-
moved from the wreck, the hole in her
bow will be repaired. Then when the
water Is turned in again she will rise to
the surface and will be towed into the
Havana docks for complete overhauling.
The machinery in the Maine does not
seem to have been damaged at all. Steel
does not rust until exposed to the air. AS
fast as the water is removed the ma
chinery will be covered with oil to pre-
vent corrosion.
When the ship sunk she had on board
about 100000 worth of ammunition, and
as this Is Theoretically sealed in the
vaults, Mr.. Chamberlain does not appre-
bend that it will be at all damaged 1t
will take the best part of the summer to
complete the dam, but within two months
after it is finished the wreck will be
afoat. All the machinery necessary for
the work Is on the ground
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
The Other Lady.

Speaking Of the misuse of the word
lady, story Is told Of poor woman
whose arm had been severely bitten,
and who was being cared for by the
house surgeon Of a London hospital.
AS he was dressing the wound, the sur
geon said: II can't make out what
sort of creature bit you. This is too
small for horses bite. and too large
for a dogs" "Oh, sir" replied the
patient, at wasn't an animal, 1t was
another lady" A similar case occurred
not long ago at one of our own hos
pitals One poor little fellow had a
badly bruised head, and the visitor
asked him how 1t happened. "Oh," he
explained cheerfully. 'the lady down
stairs came to call on mother, and
while they were talking got excited
and threw a pitcher which hit me-"
Isn't 1t about time to either reform or
drop the use Of the beautiful Anglo
Saxon word which should mean wo-
man of refinement?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

OF course it's nice thing to be born
is pleasant to have money and luxuries
without working for them. But to gain
those things by personal effort Is bet
ter, and there are young men who re-
fuse to be the pampered children Of
fortune simply because of manhood and
the good blood that is in them. In a
box car at Madill, I. T., lives Roger B.
Whitman. He is assistant station mas
ter, and the car is the railroad station.
1t is as rough as the country in which
1t Is located. Who Is Whitman? A
millionaire's son. There is home that
is almost palace, waiting for him in
New York. He can have horses and
dogs. He can ride In Central Park
with a groom behind, and hear people
say: That's young Whitman, son Of
the old millionaire" He can have any
thing that money will buy, and he is
working for the st. Louis and San
Francisco Railroad Company for $50 a
month. He is building up his body
with beef and beans, when he might
wreck it with champagne and rich
foods, and he sleeps well on bunk In
the box-car station. All this because
Roger Whitman wants to be a rail
roader. He doesn't believe that trade
can be learned in a day, or that one
can cut across lots to success. He is
going to learn as other successful men
have learned, by hard, unceasing toll,
and rise only when he merits promo
ton. That kind of spirit will bring al
most any young man into prominence.
1t will doubtless make big man of
Roger Whitman. 1t should make even
greater successes Of the young fell
lows who, spurred on by necessity, and,
who are not handicapped, as he surely
is, by money.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

The aggregate Importance Of little
things is again curiously illustrated.
Great tracts of Maine woodland are
now said to be menaced by no more
significant foe than the common,
everyday spool. The members of this
devastating army are small, but their
number is legion, and each year the
drain upon the white birch forests
the only wood used for that purpose
grows more severe. Seventeen spool
mills now devour thirty-five or forty
million feet of birth timber every year.
The output is eight hundred million
spools, on which could be wound thread
enough to reach around the world at
the equator three thousand six hun
dred times, and still leave ends enough
to tie. Fifteen or twenty million feet
of birch are annually shipped to Scot
land in the form of spool bars.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
Bryan and 1904.


One does not have to dig very
tofind the string attached to the a.
alton Of Bryan that he is not b
date for another nomination fol
Presidency. The way st. Louis n
Gratis disregarded his advice In It'd
municipal campaign is sufficient, ii
ever, to cause him to hedge.-Om
Bee.
Mr.. Bryan presents a menace h
tones which will make some of hid
mics in his party interpret his w0ra
q "countercheck quarrelSome. Il
not planning for another nomina
but If it be offered to him he vii.
cept it. This makes his position n
vance of the convention Of 1904 "a
ly what it was previous TO the &
ing of 1900. He did not announS
1897, 1893 or 1899 that he was plan
for the nomination in 1900, but hi
his party friends understand tha
would accept it if 1t were offered.
is the situation now, except that
chances for getting the CandidacA
the next convention are not Quit
good as they were in advance of
of getting the nomination that
The Democrats who imagine that
can quietly abolish Bryan and go L
on acting as if he never existed i
preparing a surprise party for II
selves.-St. Louis Globe-Democratl
1t does not now "seem probable"
Mr.. Bryan's candidacy will be nd
sary for the advancement of his prI
pies, but If the necessity should
and the party should knock at
Bryan's door he is not the man I'd
cline the burden Of leadership. III
does not mean that Mr.. Bryan is
ing, even anxious, to be CandiI
"for the sake of his prinCiples1
means nothing at all, and this altel
tive is not reasonable. But the nd
sity will not arise. The DemocH
party is drifting and showing no i
of reconciliation, but it is almost
tain that none of the issues Of the
election will survive the year 4
Free silver is dead beyond peradj
ture, and the question of imperial
will be settled by the Supreme Cd
The Filipinos will be pacitied and HI
ed toward substantial autonomy
independence. New issues will dol
less arise, for stagnation IS not a
dition familiar to Americans but Z
will call for new leaders, and the u
ocratic party is vigorous enough to
nish them without galvanizing thel
litical dead. Mr.. Bryan stood ia
body Of doctrines, and he will dig
pear with it.-Chicago Post.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

ing his refusal to call an extra session Of
the legislature for general business, as
requested by members, by saying he can
not justify himself in reassembling the
body until the corruption accusations are
investigated.
A special from Washington says: OFF,
cials who are acquainted with the Presi-
dents views regarding the legislative sit
uation in Hawaii do not believe Mr.. Nc
Kinley will be inclined to take notice OF
the memorial from the Hawaiian legisla'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
WANT DOLE REMOVED.

Hawaiian Legislature Demands that
Mckinley Gust the Governor.
The removal of Gov. Dole has been de-
manded of President Mckinley by a
large majority In each house of the Ha-
waiian territorial legislature. The law
makers accuse the governor Of obstruct-
ing legislation and of being responsible
for the adjournment Of the legislature
without passing single one of the inn
portant measures to which the home-rul-
ers were pledged, except the county gov
eminent act, which the governor killed
by a vest-pocket veto. Gov. Dole, in
turn, denounces the legislators, making
general charges of bribery and explain
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

There was a time when returning
tourists kicked vigorously over the
European system of tips for any and
all services. They kick no more. Tips
are just as often demanded here as
abroad and are great deal larger. You
get shaved, you dine, you take a cab,
you have your coat brushed, you ask
even a question and there you area
dime or quarter or more.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

Miss Lizzie e. Cottman, the Nebras-
ka school teacher whose pluck, inge-
nuity and endurance saved the children
of her school from almost certain death
in flood, has furnished an example
of heroism which should be heralded
throughout the country as an inspira-
ton and model.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

In many an urban street and avenue
boys and girls going home from school
are seen to be carrying thick and
weighty bundles of books. Is it not pos
sible that they are expected to study
to excess outside of school hours? Is
there not now and then tendency to
do too much stuffing in too short a
time in our methods of education?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
MRS. M'KINLEY is ILL
PRESIDENTS WIFE WORN OUT
BYLONG JOURNEY.
Physician Says Rest In All that La
Needed-Hurried Trip to San Fran
cisco to Consult Specialists-Cabinet
Ministers Carry Out Program.

President McKinley's tour Of the West
was suddenly interfered with by the Sc
rious illness Of Mrs. Mckinley. A spe-
cial train bearing President and Mrs. Nc
kinney, Miss Barber, DIR. Rixey, Secre-
tary Cortelyou and Henry I. Scott and
Mrs. Scott arrived in San Francisco at
4 o'clock Sunday afternoon from Del
Monte. Mrs. Mckinley was taken there
by the President in advance Of the regu-
lar program that she might obtain COM
plete rest. Upon arrival the President
and party We're driven to the residence
Of Henry T. Scott.
Mrs. Mckinley has not been we'll since
the long journey began and the trip has
fatigued her very much. Her condition
became such that both the President and
DR.. Rixey considered it wise to take her
to San Francisco, where she could have
complete rest for a few days at Mr..
SCOTS residence and where DIR. Hirsch-
felter, Mr.. SCOTS physician, could be
consulted If necessary. The cabinet and
other members of the party carried out
the program as arranged, arriving in San
Francisco on Tuesday.
The illness Of Mrs. Mckinley cast a
shadow on the other members of the par
ty who remained at Del Monte, and there
was talk at first of abandoning the en-
tire schedule between there and San
Francisco, but Mrs. Mckinley especially
requested that the plans of the party
should not be disarranged by her depart
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

Rev. Agataadoros A. Papageorgopou-
lous has been forced to resign his
charge in New York for riding red BIZ
cycle. This is a shame. A man who
could balance that name on red BIZ
cycle ought to have encouragement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

Emperor Williams complaint Of the
decentralization Of public opinion in
Germany and the growing lack of re-
spect for authority" is a condemnation
of himself. No ruler can be respected
In these days who thrusts men into
prison for expressing their opinions.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

There is altogether too much of fad
in modern educational methods. The
idea seems to have taken root and firm
" established itself that some pic
turesQue method must be used or the
results obtained are valuless. The
more absurd and outlandish the meth
cd, apparently the better.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

A New York woman married recent
" a French count who turned out to be
a horse doctor. 1t is not often, how
ever, that these foreign matrimonial
alliances turn out so well. This wo-
man, for instance, might have married
a horse doctor who turned out to be
French count.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

The pareats Of Gen. Funston were
much annoyed a few days ago on receiv-
ing from New York paper request for
a signed statement regarding the life of
their son, with anecdotes of his baby
and boyhood days. They speak of the re-
quest as impertinent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

DR.. Nagusha, the Japanese scientist,
says rats cause all the worlds plaques,
and favors their extirpation. Now If
the doctor will go on and explain how
the extirpation may be done he will
have the world still further in debt to
him
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

The Boston Globe proposes that Mas
sachusetts shall tax her old maids.
That should raise quite an amount of
revenue. Also quite an amount of
Cain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

The kaiser is having buckwheat
cakes like our grandmOthers used to
make and genuine maple syrup. Does
he realize the inevitable sulphur and
molasses following such a diet, which
our grandmothers used to use?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16
TO CORRESPONDENTS

All communications for this paper should DO aceenA
panied By the name Of the Author not necessarily ion
publication evidence Of good faith on the pa'
Of the writer Write only side of the paper bs
particularly careful In giving and dates to nave
the letters and figures plain and distinct
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-05-16

ture urging Gov. Dole's removal-cer-
tainly not without full explanation from
the governor. Officials who discussed
the matter said Gov. Dole has acted with
in his authority.