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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-18
Jefferson's Statue Unveiled.

Louisville, KY, Nov. 10.-The stat
ue of Thomas Jefferson the gift of l..
W. and B. Bernheim to the city, was
unveiled in front of the court house
yesterday afternoon in the presence OF
a large assemblage. Former Governor
Bradley delivered the grafton.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-18
FORMER NOTED ACTOR
GOES TO POORHOUSE.

Chicago, Nov. 8.-Henry William
Montgomery, an actor of the old
school, who in his time appeared with
Sir Henry Irving and other noted play,
ers, was sent to Cook county poor.
house yesterday by Judge Cover
Montgomery fifteen years ago was
known both in England and America
as one of the best character actors.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-18
BELLEvILLE SUFFERS BIG LOSS
Probably $4,000 Blaze Breaks Out in
Country Town.
Madison. Nov.

Madison, Nov. 10.
The village of Belleville suffered a
fire yesterday that will amount to a
loss Of $4,000 or more. The flames
broke out early in the afternoon and
ragged for nearly two hours until sub
dued by the village fire department.
The principal sufferer is E. A. oliver
whose loss will be $4,000 to $1,000. In
sucanCe covers but a small amount of
this sum The buildings destroyed
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-18
BIG DECLINE
IN CROP YIELD
GENERAL AVERAGE THE LOWEST
EVER RECORDED.
CORN HAS BAD SLUMP

Low. Record of 1881 Surpassed-Buck-
wheat and Hay Seems, However, to
not Have Suffered-Fruit Crop
Slightly Below Average and Some
what Impaired.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-11-18
DEAD MAN ENLISTS
HIS SUPPOSED CORPS THAT OF
MURDERED VICTIM.
INSURANCE SWlNDLE FAILS

N. C. Rathbun Arrested at Recruiting
Station While in Body Supposed to
be His Own is Found Poison
Enough to Kill TWO Men-Sup-
posed to Have Died in Indiana.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Society Detectives
Laugh At Protests
of Bellies

from the genuine society article. our
men always conduct themselves so
properly that, instead of complaints, |
am constantly receiving thanks and
congratulations from the very best
people of Chicago. Those Cleveland fel-
lows were probably not good imita-
tions of the real thing" Pat Suln-
van, who has been. a janitor in the
police department since Steve Rowan
was in kindergarten and who is re-
puted authority on all points OF good
form, Is great admirer of the dress
suit squad. Now. our fellows are not
only strictly onto their jobs, but have
got the real society dude on the run
in, many ways" said Pat" Now.
there's John de Sousa. When he gets
mixed up with lady's train, slips up
on the polished floor of ballroom or
finds things coming too swift for him
in the second round of tete-a-tete
with some grand dame, he goes back
with little Portuguese or Italian and
has things all his own way. The same
way with John Thompson, who looks
like western banker. and when he
gets tangled up trying to hold run
ming conversation on the merits OF
Tesla's latest discovery, watches for an
opening and insists on discussing
banking methods in Silver Hill Or
some other western metropolis. Frank
Corbus and James Bailey are strong on
the French language, while Sandy
Hanley can tell all sorts of stories
about the bloody west of years ago.
In fact. every one of the dress-su!t
squad has a special way of making
coed in case he is cornered by a crowd
OF society bellies who mistake him for
real dude l guess our boys can give
the dudes themselves some points on
society and the people we have met. ="
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
A PlNcky
Fireman This.

Herman Hanke, the driver of Truck
No. 4, of the Newark. N. j.. fire depart
ment. distinguished himself the other
afternoon by driving his apparatus to
fire attired in nothing but rubber
coat. He was taking a bath on the
upper floor of the truck house when
the gong changed for a fire at so Darcy
street. The horses ran to the pole,
and the men took their places, and
Capt. O'Brien was about to mount the
seat and drive when Hanke shot down
the brass pole absolutely naked and
leaped to his seat. AS he did so he
slipped on his rubber coat. and with it
only partly buttoned pulled the release
cord, and the apparatus rolled out so
quickly that Capt. O'Brien only recov-
cred from his surprise in time to catch
on to the rear and swing himself onto
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Pope Leo on Socialism.

Pope Leo's encyclical on socialism
explains his former utterances on this
subject. 1t maintains the opposition
of the Vatican to the idea of socialism
in the sense of communism. The pope
draws distinction between socialism
and what he calls Christian democ-
racy. Socialism concerns itself solely
with material possessions and seeks
to establish perfect equality of wealth
and a common holding of goods The
Pope sets the stamp of his disapproval
upon this idea and the whole system
Of which it is the center On the other
hand, Christian democracy continues
to receive his support. 1t is, he con-
cludes, system that starts with a
recognition of divine law and seeks to
improve social conditions through in
dividual efforts.-Chicago Tribune.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
A Unique
Cycle Path.

There is now nearing completion in
Southern California most remarkable
cycle way, one of the most remarkable,
in fact, in the world The track will.
when finished. unite the cities of Pasa-
dena and Los Angeles, which are about
10 miles apart. Pasadena is rendez-
vous of the elite OF California society,
and the terminus of that remarkable
mountain railway which carries pas
sengers up Mount Lowe. in the Sierra
Madre range. The aim of the cycle way
is to provide the wheelmen with per-
feot road with a minimum grade be-
tween the two places 10 miles apart
and at different attitudes. This cycle
way is remarkable piece of engineer
ing. The object was to give wheel
men a grade from Los Angeles to Pasa-
dena uphill. and decided rise. which
wouid not De appreciable; and this
has been accomplished. The roadway
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Women a. BIRD Doctors.

One Of the latest schemes of a clever
woman forced to earn her own living
Is establishing herself as a bird doctor.
Canaries are her speciality and she has
established a hopital where she at
tends to the ills of these pets. Bro
ken limbs, disordered digestive appa-
ratus, catarrhs and fevers are treated
by the woman with benefit to the birds
and profit to herself. Other song birds
and house pets, and even the repulsive
parrot, are treated for their ailments
by this bird doctor, who is said to be
the only woman in the world making
a specially of this business. So well
established is her fame in this direc-
tion that she makes visits to Philadel-
phia, Boston and other cities when
called, and has established a regular
clientele there, as well as here, among
dealers who make the handling Of birds
an incident to their other business, as
is the case at some of the department
stores.-New York Times.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
SleNthS
at Balls

Much amusement has been caused
among Chicago detectives of the CEN
trail station because of the news that
the society bells of Cleveland are in
dignant after discovering that they
unwittingly danced several numbers
with, were escorted to supper by and
were otherwise thown into the COM
pany of "horrid detectives at Senator
Hanna's recent ball for his daughter,
Miss Ruth Hanna. says the Chicago
News. According to the story from
Cleveland. dozen of the handsomest
men on the Cleveland police force were
disguised by dress suits and clean col
lars and detailed to mingle with the
guests at the Hanna party. Now the
society women Of Cleveland, it is said,
demand that hereafter detectives be
confined to the cloak room. 1t is not
generally known but under Capt Col
leran there is a regular staff OF "soci-
ETY. detectives'-that is, men who are
always detailed to social gatherings,
balls and banquets of importance. In
this line. as in all other detective
work, the men have different special
ties. Some keep their eye on the wom-
en- wearing the most valuable jewels,
others watch the portable property at
hand. and still others scrutinize faces
to ascertain If any one has gained ad-
mittance who ought to be on the out
side. Our society officers are the
handsomest set of men that ever en-
tered a ballroom or graced a banquet
board" proudly asserted Capt. Col
leran. "There Is one thing certain,
and that is that they don't look like
walters when they don their dress
suits. When they are on society
stunt, which is not relished by the
average thief-taker, it would take an
experienced eye to distinguish them
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Our Vosf Country.

People to the limit of 100000 are
now served by free. delivery in our
cities and towns. and 1t is calculated
that of the remainder of the popula-
tion OF the country it will be practic-
able to reach through rural free deliv
cry about 21.000.000. scattered over
100000 square miles of territory. 1t
is estimated that the cost of this en-
tire service will be about 500 .555, 900.
but that there will be a saving from
the discontinuance of existing offices
and star routes and an increase in re-
ceipts which will reduce the net in
crement over present disbursements
for this territory to $13,7S2,000. The
current appropriation for this service
-~-~..roo,uvv, ana une report recon-
mends its increase to s3,500.000 for the
fiscal year ending with next June.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

were content to live by hand. as it
we're; now we live chiefly by compli
Gated machinery. A century of prog
ress has created demands which forced
the dormant inventive skill of the
world to put forth its best efforts The
world has made more progress in ma
terial things in the last 100 years than
1t did in all the centuries preceding.
Civilized mans mode of existence has
been totally altered by his inventions.
The world has gone patent mad. In
the United States alone there were
6z3,536 patents granted in the sixty
two years from 1887 to 1898. During
Its existence the patent office has re-
ceived more than $40,0O0.0O0 in fees.
On carriages and wagons more than
10000 patents have been granted; on
stoves and furnaces. $4,000; on lamps,
gas fittings, harvesters, boots and
shoes and receptacles for storing, 10,-
300 each. The total of patents for the
civilized world is easily twice that of
the United States. Thanks to these
hundreds of thousands of contrivances,
what were luxuries to our forbears of
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
A lO-mile Path in Cali
fornia Thnt Will
Cost 100000.

ranges from three to fifty feet in
height, and winds away through the
hills like a gigantic snake 1t is at
present wide enough to hold four
wheels abreast, but the company has
the right of way for a duplication of
width. The timber used for the struc-
ture is Oregon pine. andd ,250,0O0 feet
were required to complete it, and TWEEN
ty miles of heavy wire netting were
also called into requisition. At inter
walls over the center OF the track in
candescent lights are being placed, and
the terminus stations will be equipped
as railway depots. The cost OF build
ing the cycle path, which is declared
to be the only one of its kind in the
world. will be about 500 900. toll
OF ten cents will be charged. This
toll permits bicycle. or motorcycle,
to enter the cycle way and ride up
and down all day. II desired.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

the agency of steam, as did land trAJ
ell, but the progress in comfort an
safety was greater. In 1880 John Fitc
constructed steamboat-andw was con
sidered raving lunatic. This Opinion
was confirmed when his experimen
proved failure. Seventeen year
later Robert Fulton, another so-calle
visionary, backed by Joel Barlow an
Robert T. Livingston, built the steam
boat Clermont. She was soon dubbe'
"Fulton's Folly" and when she starte
for Albany on Aug. IL, 1907, all Ne'
York was out to witness her failure
She went to Albany in the astonishin
time of thirty-two hours. returning Il
two hours less. Now when antI
ocean liner. with lifeboats as large a
the Clermont. crosses .hef ,tlantic i
less than six days. we redd the new
In a bored sort of way, displeased tina
steamers should be so slow. Fulton
experiment led. years later, to tn
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Meteor 500 Mile. from Earth.

DIR. Herbert Howe of Chamberlain
observatory. Denver. is collecting data
concerning the largest meteor seen for
more than thirty years. 1t was OBJ
served December 8, between and 4
O'Clock in the afternoon. Reports
come from both sides of the Rocky
mountain divide as far north as Sara
toga, Wyo., and as far south as Delta.
Colo. Judging from these distances
Prof. Howe estimates its height above
the earth as, at least 500 miles 1t
appeared nearly as large as the moon
and was incandescent. When appar-
emily just above North Park, Colo.
1t exploded with accompanying phe-
nomena resembling an earthquake
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
The senior sovsrnm..t Enploy..

Among invited guests at the com
ing Inauguration of President McKin-
ley will be Roswell Bardsley, who is
81 years old, and VINO for seventy-two
years has been postmaster of North
Lansing, Tompkins county, N. Y. Mr..
Bardsley was appointed postmaster on
June 2S, 1928. John Quincy Adams be-
ing then president and John Mclean
OF Ohio postmaster-generai. He is not
only the oldest man in the postal
service, but he is believed to be the
senior government employe in any ca
pacity. No complaint against his Of
flee has ever been filed. He has always
drawn the same salary-$176 per year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
SHOWED HIM A MINH
Trading Rat Left Gold In Place OF .,
Spoon.

The action OF a rat led N r. Ingolds-
by to the discovery of a rich gold mine
in Arizona. He named the proper ty
the Rat Hole mine. Mr. Ingoldsby lad
been spending several months near
Mammoth, on the San Pedro river, in
Arizona. His purpose was to enjoy
the hunting and make a collection OF
the animals and minerals of the South
west. He pitched his tent in the can
yon of the San Pedro, in the Santa Ca
tarina mountains. He had no neixh-
bors, and was for a long time unable
small articles that he left lying about
his camp. At last he noticed that when
anything was taken something was
left in its place. This was usually a
bit of wood or stone. The culprit he
found to be a large rodent of the spe-
cies known as the trading rat. The
habits of the animal made an interest
ing study for Mr.. Ingoldsby, and he
often lay awake at night to watch for
his visitor. A silver spoon was MISS
ing one morning. but in it's place was
a piece Of quartz carrying free gold.
This still more excited Mr.. Ingoldsoy's
curiosity, and after several attempts
he succeeded in following the animal
to Its home. Near by was the Ledge
from which the gold bearing quarts
had been taken. Mr.. Ingoldsby made
an examination thorough enough to
prove that mis- discovery was Of -
siderable value. II
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

1900 are commonplaces OF existence to
all Glasses, rich and poor. Ia 1900.
with the invention of the steam en-
gine the world shrunk at bound to
a twentieth of IS former size. is vast
distances ceased to be formidable.
Where the numbering stage coach or
the plodding caravan took weeks the
flying express covers the distance in a
few hours. The trip across this con-
unent used to be a matter of life and
death. Now 1t is a matter Of 500 and
take your ease as you go. Without the
railroad a close-knit nation thousands
Of miles broad. such as this country,
would have been an impossibility. In
1925 the first steam railroad was op-
ened between Stockton and Darlington,
England year later a similar ex-
pertinent was tried at Quincy. Mass,
where the engine hauled stone for
distance of four miles. The first pas
senger road in this country was the
Baltimore & Ohio. opened in 1890, with
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Drove to d Blaze In
the Cold Attirsd emily
In o Rubber Goat.

the ladders. Within two minutes the
drivers hair was frozen stiff; he had
not even waited to put on q cap. The
water on his legs froze, and with one
bare foot upon the gong and the other
upon the brake he sent his horses fly
Ing down the street. HALF way to the
fire an old countryman driving a horse
and wagon became confused and stop
ped his rig directly in front of the
truck. Hanke by quick work carried
his horses around, and the tillerman
succeeded in getting his end past the
frightened countryman by couple of
inches. The fire was soon out. and
Hanke was supplied with a pair of rub
ber boots and a couple Of coats, one
of which was wrapped about his legs.
and thus drove his truck back to the
house. When the house was reached
Hanke resumed his bath.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Current Topics
EcctorY Girl in Luck.
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For fourteen years Miss May Love
of Bridgeport, Conn.,, has worked hard
to make a living for herself. Now she
has suddenly become heir to one-f1fth
of a fortune of s2O,000,O00 The tired
girl went home from the corset factory
where she is employed the other night.
and found letter awaiting her. 1t
was from her brother, George, in Mont
clair, N. j. He informed her that I'm
Gle Ashbel Clark" had died in Austria
liza leaving a great fortune, and that
they and their sisters were the nearest
of kin. A letter was an. event in the
quiet life of Mary Love, and such a
letter as this was something which
dazed her 1t was tale of fairy god
mothers and all that sort of thing,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
NO LONGER TRACKLESS.
Captains Follow Routes Laid Down by
Sailing Directors

Captains Follow Routes LAID Down by
Sailing Directors.
1t is no longer "the trackless ocean" ="
II two vessels sail from New York for
Calcutta, they will, II intelligently
navigated, follow so nearly in the
same course that their paths, if plot
ted on a chart, will hardly diverge by
fifty miles at any point. The same is
true of any other route. Let us consid-
er the case of a vessel bound for New
York from Liverpool. Her captain
might, if prepared for constant bat
tie against adverse winds and currents
and winter gales. select route not
very different from that followed by
ocean steamers between those ports.
Otherwise he would follow the south
ern route laid down by the sailing
directors; and after beating to the
westward few hundred miles to make
sure of clearing the coast of Spain,
would shape a course to the southward,
passing as far west as MADEIRA as the
westerly winds of these latitudes will
permit. Between Madeira and the Ca
naries, but few hundred miles to the
westward of both, he would fan his
way across the battling Gains of Can
cer," and pick up the northeast trade
winds. With these astern and fresh
ening every mile, he would sweep
down to the south and west, and when
we'll over toward the West Indies, haul
up to the northward toward Bermuda.
Here he would have to work again
across the "Calms of Cancer" and then
with tho uncertain buf Drobably west
ern winds of the Atlantic coast. and
with the Gulf Stream in his favor. he
would stand on and make his port,
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
ABOUT CONvICTS.
Kindness Works Very wen on Those
Released from Prison.

Kindness Works Very Well Those
Released from Prison.
Maud Ballington Booth tells in Sue
cess how seventy-five per cent of the
discharged convicts who have come un-
der her notice have proved themselves
trustworthy. Her words are highly in
teresting: THE drink evil is. of
course, the primary cause of most
crime. Crime follows drink as tiger
does blood, and We find that most con-
victs families are left destitute, and
we have to help them along, too. 1t
is they who furnish most of the heart
breaking pathos of criminal life. Many
sad stories could be told of the family
left behind the man who goes to pris-
on. But there are many happy stories
Of the reformed convict restored to
wife and children through Hope Hall.
We confine our work to no creed or
sect, but Protestant, Catholic, Jew and
infidel are alike welcome to our
homes the only condition being that
they must conform to the rules. and
first the most difficult part of our
work was to procure employment for
released convicts. With all our as
surances men would not entrust the
man with criminal record with their
business. The reformed convict was
looked upon as an impossibility. but
these poor fellows had won my con-
fidence, and i pleaded with business
men to give them small chance -
live With success the prejudice
gradually disappeared, and now in
Chicago, where we receive twelve men
Per week from the prisons, we have
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Young Hay r,ins The Boers

Adelbert S. Hay. United States con-
sui at Pretoria, is now on his way
home. He will have an interesting
story 20 tell. For nearly a year he
has been in the center OF the South
African conflict. He witnessed the
withdrawal of the Beers from their
capital and the short-lived triumphs of
the British. and has seen their re-
awakening to the fact that their Con
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Turning n dhrase.

But after nigh six months Of palpi-
tating negotiations with the adorable
Mrs. Glamorys, the poet, in a moment
Of detection, penned the prose
apothegm 1T is of rs use trying to
change a changeable person. Israel
Zangwin, in Leslie's.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
pr,nc,, Cl.,m A,c,,nt L,n.,r,,

All the princes of Caucasus claim
direct descent from King David, ac-
cording to the Vienna Neue Freie
Presse, and some of them base their
descent from Noah or the landing OF
the ark on Ararat, which is nearby.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

more positions than we have men. l
have some fine letters from business
men concerning the trustworthiness
and reliability of my boys
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
MISS MAY LOVE.

MISS MAY LOVE.
such as she used to read when she was
a child but 1t was hard for her to
comprehend that it was a real letter
announcing real facts. She was 30
years old. and most of those years had
been years OF toll for her daily bread.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Altered Condition of Dffe
For All MAnkind In the
Century l8OO-l9OO. y. ~

miles an hour. The Empire State
press made q record Of 112 miles
hour in May. 1893.
Marine travel did not make 90 "
derful an advance in speed, thror
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

having sailed $500 miles between two
countries. This route is laid down on
winds and current almost universally
favorable. and with fine and bracing
weather
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
Epoch of
Mechanism

a mileage of fourteen miles. Today
there are 1906 miles of railroad in
this country; 1926 in Europe; 26,-
S34 in South America; 81, 102 in Asia;
9,97S in Africa and 14.384 in Australia.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

The nineteenth was a most material
site century, an age of mechanism.
We have progressed wonderfully in our
capacity for luxury, extravaganza, com
'ort A hundred years ago our forbears
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12
ADELBERT S. HAY.

ADELBERT s. HAY.
quest was a hollow sham. Consul
Hay has seen the war in a new light
He is an ADVOCATE of Boer independ-
ence. and says the British never can
win.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

st. Petersburg is soon to have
home for self-supporting working
women W
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

Early in the history of railroading
twelve miles an hour was considered
recklessly fast. In January, 1899. a
train on the Burlington route, in a
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-02-12

building of the Savannah, which aelu-
ally crossed the Atlantic. to the great
astonishment of the entire world