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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
New York's Hotels.

The evolution of the American hotel
is, a very interesting study, and no
other city is so good a place in which
to pursue it as New York. The oppor-
tunity for contrast of the past with
the present still exists-not the re-
mote past when the hotel was a tav-
ern, but the recent past when the old
Aston was stately piece of hotel
architecture. It still strikes the OBJ
server as a dignified edifce, but it is
no more than a stepping-stone to the
new structure. Nothing could more
strikingly illustrate the radical adj
vance that has been made in this kind
of construction. The difference is al
most as great as between old and
present methods of travel. Whether
the comforts as any greater is another
question.-Boston Transcript.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
Beer Drinkers Knocked Out.

A dispatch from Columbia, S. c.,
says: ga petty quarrel in Charleston
as to whether the county board of con-
troll or the state board has the right
of appointing beer dispensers seems
likely to prove disastrous to many
people largely interested in that bust
ness in the state. While beer priv
ileges have been granted in many
towns and a big business is done for
the dispensary in Charleston, it has
been generally known that this
method of selling beer was illegal.
The people called for it, however, and
it has been allowed for years and has
grown in favor. Under the system
beer depots are maintained in the
cities and towns by individuals, who
sell and deliver beer without restric-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
THE cURFEW LAW.
Satisfactory Results of Its Enforce
ment in New England Cities.

Satisfactory Results of Its Enforce
ment in New England Cities.
Newport has back it's old bells and
is ready for the introduction of the
/ curfew law in this one particular. A
word from the chief of police in Cam
bridge, Mass. has just been published
in favor of this means for preserving
the innocence of the children. Cam
bridge was formerly one of the worst
towns known for the extent of it's
juvenile depravity. All this is
changed now, and the New England
air of responsibility is again a feature
of Cambridge life by night as we'll as
by day. The law affects the conduct
of the children at all hours. For those
who fear something too arbitrary for
our system of life in this curfew law
the explanation of the Bangor chief of
police as to it's enforcement may be
help in seeing the advantage of
having it. He writes of the curfew:
II believe it is a grand success. We
have very little complaint now of
children being out after hours, but
Wn0u Oll0 QOOS COIu0 Ill III is IIOm SOuu0
section of the city not covered by the
officers regularly, and an officer sent
few times to that locality speedily
breaks it up. l do not believe our
people would suffer the children to
be out to any great extent without
calling the attention of the police de-
partment to their duty in the matter.
1t was not long since that friend
who lives in section of the city
where children are, to say the least
very plenty, said TO me that it was as
tonishing to him how soon the chill
dren disappeared from the street
corners near his home at the stroke
of the curfew. I presume that some
people may have the same idea that
some of our own had, namely, that
the police were going to enforce this
ordinance in an arbitrary manner and
that no child near the age mentioned
would be allowed to be seen on the
street after the curfew sounded. We
did not intend anything of the kind.
Children who, for any good reason.
are on the street are never bothered
by the officers any more than before
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
Prince Adalbert's Dog Had to Go.

Prince Adalbert, who has entered
the German navy for course of train
ing, has received at the outset OF his
career a lesson in discipline. He had a
pet terrier, which accompanied him
wherever he went. He took the dog
with him on board the training ship,
but as soon as the captain heard of it
the prince was ordered to send the
dog ashore. The prince was inclined
to dispute the authority of the captain,
and claimed that orders which were
applicable to other officers did not
affect a prince of the imperial family.
The captain is said to have at once
communicated with the emperor, who
as promptly sent his son message
that entirely dispelled from his mind
all ideas of favoritism. The dog was
sent ashore, and the prince has dis
covered that as an officer in the Ger
man navy his only credentials for dis
tinction above his fellows will be those
he earns.-Westminst Gazette.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
HEAD FOREMOST.

dressing. On every subsequent morn
ing during our stay glass of milk was
brought to me at precisely the same
hour, without instructions; and al
though the servant was told several
times that it was not wanted she did
not appear to understand, and con-
tinued to bring it just the same.
I'm the hotel were electric bells.
The first day I rang for something,
and a certain boy answered the sum-
mons. The next morning rang again
and again, and no one responded.
Finally I went, into the dining-room
and found there half a dozen servants.
Didn't you hear my bell ring?"
asked.
81, senior (Yes, sir), was the reply.
g Then why didn't you answer it?'
The boy that answers your ex-
cellency's bell has gone to market with
the manager
!" But you knew he was not here,
and you should have come in his
place.
:" NO. senior; it is his occupation to
answer your bell. I answer the bell Of
the gentleman in the next room
"And as long as I remained in that
hotel my bell was answered only by
the one particular boy. If he was not
in, could ring for an hour without re-
ceiving a response, although the house
was full of idle servants.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
THE JAPANESE THEATER.
Actors Reach the Stage by Walking
Through Middle of Audience.

TnrOuQn MtOOIG OT FAuQISNCC.
AS a rule the only things that fas-
cinate the tourist in Japanese play
are the quaintness of the stage ar
rangements and the weird unintelligi-
bility of the acting. The stage is enor-
nous and the actors reach it by walk
ing through the audience ON two plat
forms extending from the back OF the
auditorium to the footlights. Proper
ties are removed during the perform
ance by attendants in black cloaks
who are supposed to be invisible. AS
rule, two long plays are presented
consecutivoly, with a tableau between,
and the performances begin at 10
o'clock in the morning. You leave your
shoes at one of the many tea houses
around the theater, and enter your box
to find it supplied with tobacco box,
tea and cakes, with luncheon to come.
The voices on the stage at once strike
you as hard and artificial, and either
too shrill or too gruff. But the reason
is plain. 'The traditional samisen,
the three-stringed guitar, follows the
performer like a curse from start to
finish. Unless he pitched his voice
above or below it's notes he could not
be heard. There is no doubt Of the
effect on the audience. Especially do
the wonderful facial expressions of the
actors work upon the women. A rush
to the 'tear room" during a pathetic
passage is quite common. There the
susceptible playgoer may weep her
heart out i'm comfort.
AS men and women are not allowed
to appear on the same stage the fe-
male parts are taken by men; ON the
other hand, at some theaters, where
the performers are all women, you
may see male parts sustained by ac
tresses. This is only one among the
many conventions and restrictions
which hamper the drama in Japan.
Another is the extraordinary ascend
ancy of the actor over the author. A
successful actor is the darling of the
people, purses are thrown at his feet
as he walks toward the stage, and love
letters are sent to his dressing room,
for "the Japanese matinee girl is very
susceptible" He may make SIS 1000 in
four weeks. The author is only one
member of kind of committee which
devises the play and his remuneration
is trumpery.-The Academy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08

ton, paying the dispensary royalty.
To settle the dispute in Charleston
the state board submitted the question
of appointing the dispenser to the at
torney general, who has decided that
the beer privilege and beer dispen-
saries now operated in the state are
without warrant of law and are out
side the constitution of the state.
This decision is a bomb The board
of control did not want that kind of a
ruling, and it was unexpected. The
beer dispensers all over the state are
alarmed. The courts will probably
be appeared to, but from the present
outlook it would seem as if every beer
dispensary in the state will be closed
up just at the opening of the beer
drinking season"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
The Kernel of 1t.

An amusing episode occurred at a
political meeting at Lavendon during
the general election. After hearing
the speeches of the candidate and his
supporters, an aged conservative from
Wolverton mounted the platform and
caused some mystery by dramatically
holding aloft walnut, when he pro-
ceeded to say:
"This is a political walnut The
rough shell represents the radicals;
the next, the thin, bitter skin, is the
liberals, and the kernel represents
the good conservative"
A man in the audience cried out:
"Now crack it,"
The Wolverton tory did so, when,
10 and behold, the kernel was rotten!
The ad1nixture of laughter and cha
grin that followed may be imagined.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
Spontaneous Combustion.

Oils from animal or vegetable
sources burst into flame spontaneous
ly when mixed with cotton waste,
rags, etc., and exposed to the air.
They take in oxygen from the air so
rapidly that they get heat enough to
burn. Drying oils flame up more
quickly than olive oil or other non
drying ons. Careful experiment has
shown that when exposed IN rooL-
to a temperature of from $50 degrees
to ITO degrees boiled linseed oil on
cotton waste ignites in II hours; raw
linseed oil on cotton waste in hours;
lard oil on cotton waste in hours;
COLA oil on cotton waste in hours;
olive oil on cotton waste in hours;
sperm oil on cotton waste in 4 hours;
castor oil on cotton waste in "a hours.
It has also been shown that the admix-
ture of 20 to so per cent. Of mineral
oil with any of the Vegetable or animal
oils will prevent them from igniting.
Furniture polish on rags and badly
cured hay are also dangerous.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
A Possible Marchioness.

The leading character in Mrs. Bur-
nett's new novette, "The Making of a
Warehouses" is thus described in the
opening insta1ment, in the Century,
AS she got out of the bus, and picked
up her rough brown. skirt, prepared to
tramp bravely through the mud OF
Mortimer street to her lodgings. Miss
Fox-Seton was positively radiant 1t
was not only her smile which was
childlike: her face itself was childlike
for woman of her age and size. She
was thirty-four and well set-pp crea-
ture with fine square shoulders and a
long small waist and good hips. She
was a big woman, but carried herself
well, and having solved the problem
of obtaining, through marvels Of
energy and management, one good
dress year, wore it so well, and
changed her old ones SO dexterously,
that she always looked rather smart
ly dressed. She had nice, round, fresh
cheeks and big, honest eyes, plenty
of mouse-brown hair and short,
straight nose. She was striking and
well-bred looking and her plentitude
of good-natured interest in everybody
and her pleasure in everything out Of
which pleasure could be wrested, gave
her big eyes a fresh look which made
her seem rather like a nice over
grown girl than mature woman
whose life was continuous struggle
with the narrowest of mean fortunes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
SHE MATCHES BUTTONS.
Peculiar and Paying Business of Old
Sarah Cohen.


Sarah Cohen.
In a little house just off Hester
street, says the New York Herald,
dwells an old woman who carries on a
most peculiar trade. She is Sarah, or
"Old SAL as she is more Familiarity
called, and east side residents know
her we'll and most Of them patronize
her.
On the window pane of her little
shop is a sign which reads: Buttons
Sold Inside Any Button Matched,
From One Cent to a Nickel" Her stock
in trade is stored up in thousands of
buttons in little heaps = pearl, glass,
bone, jet, shell. brass, cloth, silk, horn
and every other variety of button
made.
It is said the old woman's business
is profitable and that she has managed
to save about SIS 900 out of her curious
occupation.
''You see" she said to me, cit is Of
ten the case that woman buys only
enough buttons for dress, and then,
when she loses one, it is difficult to get
it matched at a notion store Those
who know me come along here, and
can always do it from my stock
II have my regular customers, for
most storekeepers around here know
me and send their customers to me
when they are unable to suit them, and
they seldom go away without the very
thing they are after.
where do I get them from? Many
of them come from jumkshops, where
ON the rags sold are buttons. All the
rag dealers know pay fair price for
buttons, and they save them until they
have a sufficient quantity, and then
they come to me.
Another way I obtain them is by
visiting the dressmakers, who often
have buttons left over, and their GUS
toners seldom ask for them. These
cam buy up very cheap. Although my
little board outside says that the high
est price charge is cents, my better
class of customers do not hesitate to
offer me quarter, or even fifty cents
for a button that they have lost, in
order to make their garments look
neat and complete"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
Advantage of Being a Cook.

Between eight hundred and nine
hundred of the poor law school chill
dren of London have been asked to
write essays on the theme What /
should like to be in life, and why"
The chief characteristic is their altru-
ism; they all want, or profess to want,
to help somebody. Even the girl who
would like to be- a duchess is solely
Influenced by the desire ito be able
to share in the government of the
country and to help those who need
helping" There is much force in the
reason given by another girl in favor
of being ,cook-that eff you have a
husband, and he is in a bad temper,
well-cooked dinner may put him in
good humor. London Post
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
MEN AND AFFAIRS.

President Kruger is said to have
tried a strong drink but once. 1t was
champagne. He tried to drink glass
to the Free State alliance, but didn't
like the fizz, and showed it.
By the author of George and His
Paw; read every day before going into
Wall street:
Fate plays as children do,
Lies but an airy bubble;
Mans days on earth are few
And full of borrowed trouble.
Swineburne has marvellous mem
DRY. He once recited several pages
of Millions prose twenty years after
reading them.
An electric express railway is to be
built between Liverpool and Man
chester.
Senator Culberson of Texas is a
distinguished and conspicuous mem
Der of the fraternity Of baseball root
ers.
''Uncle Sam" Gibbons, who is now
on the retired list, carried mail in
Kentucky for sixty-one years and
never lost a sack. He lives at Hold
genville, three miles from Lincoln's
birthplace. He insists that but for
the railroad he would still be in SER
vice.
A short while ago the city of Ports
mouth, N. H., received $4,000 by will
for monument to Fitz-John Porter
to be erected after his death. The
general is now very feeble.
Ex-Mayor Armstrong of Rushville,
Ind, has just been taken to the poor
house. He was elected twice, served
six years and left office poorer than
when he went in.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
A Juvenile Critic.

Deliver me from the unfavorablc
criticism of child" said an old actor
1T hits the hardest.
ga year or two ago." he continued,
1--WE were playing in Cincinnati
theatre. I was cast for the part Of a
doctor. The business of one OF the
scenes required that should come on
the stage deeply absorbed in thought
and smoking a cigarette.
II had noticed family party i'm one
of the boxes nearest the stage. The
youngest member of the party, little
boy, was completely wrapped up In the
play. 1t was all real to him. AS
came from the wings during the scene
i'm question I passed within = few feet
of the box in which he sat. He turned
to lady who sat behind him, and |
distinctly heard him say, with a gasp:
" Mamma, he's no doctor! He
smokes cigarettes!'
81 have never smoked a cigarette in
that scene since. youths Compan-
ion
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
CURIOUS FADs OF COLLECTORS
Irish Potato Rings Which Bring a5 an
Ounce

OQIlGGs
The rage for antique silver is fairly
notorious; perhaps the least account
able feature of the business is the high
valuation of old apostle" spoons. A
great many have been sold in recent
years, but in most cases only single
| specimens are obtainable. In 1893 an
Elizabethan spoon dated 1889 was sold
by auction in London for G19, and
others realized from Ell to e17 each.
Mr.. Butler, a well-known London auc-
tioneer, estimates that a complete set
or fourteen would realize little short of
10000 guineas. A set of eight, dated
1927, was sold in 1890 TOR G252; and
two sizes in 1892 for e4OO The rec
ord-price was reached in 1898, when
Messrs. Sotheby, the London auction
GERS, sold a seal top spoon of the six
teenth century for $50 los. This
weighed one ounce six pennyweights,
and was intrinsically worth a little
over shillings. The Avery collection
of spoons in the United States is prob
ably the finest in existence, including
as it does 800 specimens of all ages.
Old Irish potato rings are also much
sought after by collectors; at recent
sales they have sold for nearly e5 AN
ounce
Although less valuable than antique
silver, Sheffield plate'' is much priced
by connoisseurs. This is a combina-
ton of copper and silver, a thin sheet
of silver being welded upon a thick
piece of "copper" and then rolled out to
the required size for manufacturing.
It's value depends largely upon the
condition of the surface, as it is a sine
qua Mons among collectors that "Shef-
field plate" must remain in it's original
state.
One of the more recent hobbies for
which the dealer caters is the collec-
ton of old picture watch dials. These
are sometimes genuine ename1s, and
occasionally (and not less valued)
hand painted. Scriptural episodes
we're very commonly selected for treat
ment by these old dial-painters The
earliest specimens of enameled dia1s
date from the seventeenth century; but
the majority of those to be found in
the shops are probably at the most
one hundred years old Very high
prices are put upon the small mourn
ing brooches so commonly worn by
our grandmothers; those containing a
centrepiece for hair and a surrounding
border of pearls are chiefly in vogue.
Two or three guineas are often OBJ
tanned for good specimens Chambers
Journal
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
SUGGESTED BY THE CLAM.
BivaIve Gave General Mcclellan a
Valuable Idea in Engineering.


The late General George B Nc
C1ellan, U. S. A, is credited with hav-
ing made the statement many years
ago that the sinking of CLAIMS into the
sand along the ocean shore by closing
their shells and ejecting the water
from them in thin stream, first
suggested to him the use of the water
jet was so used, by General Nc
Clellan's advice, in putting down the
piles for wharf and warehouse.
Water was forced through an ordi-
nary rubber hose, with a piece of gas
pipe on the end of the nozzle. This
was placed close to the point of the
pile on the bottom, the jet of water
scoring the sand away from the pile
and making hole, in which the pile
sunk rapidly.
From that time on, as recently re-
corded in paper by L. Y. Shermer-
horn before the Engineers Club, Of
Philadelphia, the water jet method
has been similarly employed in maly
different places by different persons.
In the United States, in the improve
men of the Mississippi and Missouri
rivers, large numbers of piles have
been driven for the construction of the
brush and pile bikes and in the sink
ing of these piles the water jet has
been in use since 1881.-Cassier';
Magazine.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.
For military and naval purposes the
nations Of Europe annually spend
$3.50, 100000, and keep under arms
more than three million men.
An amateur magician boasted in an
Omaha saloon that he could produce a
five dollar bill from the hat of tramp
who passed by. He did the trick, but
the tramp refused to surrender the
money, and treated ''the house," calm
ly placing the change in his pocket.
An hour later the bartender dis
covered that the bill was counterfeit.
The police are looking for the pair.
what ever made you write the
drama in seven acts?"
ooh, you see, law suit is begun in
the third"
During the passing of circus pa
rade in an Oklahoma town twenty
seven watches were stolen in one
block
Says rural exchange: "A horse
struck by a train at the crossing yes
terday and instantly killed. The ami
NAL met with a similar accident six
months ago.
One-third of the dominion of Cana
da has never been explored.
Among the odd scenes at the recent
flood in Bradley, Me-, was a woman
padding about her yard in a rowboat,
taking the weeks washing from the
line.
1t is alleged that some women in
the Sweat shops" of Chicago earn
only forty cents per week Of full sixty
hours.
While it's a common superstition
that the handing over of a sharp
edged tool cuts friendship between in
dividuals it hardly applies to nations.
Mexico gets almost al articles of that
character from gimlets to swords and
sabers from this country.
In the case of bankrupt recently
| examined in a New York court there
was bill for pew rent amounting to
$26 and a beer bill for $50.
MANY are opposed to the sexes
studying together, but there goes a
man who has made success of joint
education" ;
"Who is he?"
Zone of our leading dancing mas
ters.'
The orange packing industry in Cal
| ifornia is controlled almost entirely
| by women.
Instead Of crowding her insane pa
tents into one building Kansas is
going to revolutionize the system of
treatment by putting them in cottages
| furnished and SO far as possible con-
Quoted like private homes.
1t has no necessary connection with
piano practice and playing often being
long drawn out that there is a mile of
wire used in the average instrument.
New Orleans, with 700 miles of
streets and an average record of 49,
900 arrests year, has only 800 police
men.
In Prussia medals are given to
couples that celebrate their golden
wedding anniversaries. Twelve hun
dred of these decorations were distrib-
uted last year.
The gross receipts of the Metropoli-
tan and Brooklyn Rapid Transit COM
panies for last year were greater than
the combined receipts Of all the
street railways in England, Ireland
and Scotland.
Miss Lucy Coolidge recently re-
ceived the largest vote ever cast for
one person in Portland, Me. She was
elected to the school board by Sab
ballots.
81 wonder if there really is anything
healthful in that old Kneipp idea of
walking barefooted.'
tits hard to say, but it should be
quite as healthy as walking on ones
uppers."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1901-07-08

tria by fire. The picture was horrible
spectacle of drowning humanity, the
flames being represented as leaping up
to the topmasts. Hundreds of bodies
were depicted floating in the water
The men tore the picture down be-
cause they said it did not do justice to
the scene which they had just wit
nessed. New York Sun.