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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Importing Butterine.

1t is now reported that the latest
scheme of the manufacturers of but
terine is 10 import colored margarine
from Europe, thus avoiding the ten
cent tax, and placing it in the list Of
food articles imported in the original
packages. Whether they expect to
send the oil to Holland and Denmark
and have it manufactured there, or
will export the completely made ar
ticle, either colored or uncOlored, and
then have it sent back as Danish or
Dutch butter, we do not learn yet
Possibly if they try the latter method
it will sell at higher prices when it
comes back, as Jamaica rum made in
Massachusetts, or French brandy from
California, or champagne from New
Jersey apples, sell for more after they
have made the two ocean voyages
Exchange.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
On Ruviur Fish.

Buy only that which is well in sea-
son, and therefore probably cheap,
plentiful, and good. Never buy cheap
ened fish--in other words, stale-for
your economy % may result in poison
ing your family. Washing in vinegar
and water is a doubtful and unpleas-
ant theory Select fish with bright
eyes, red gills, and also stiff and firm.
Sunken dim eyes or a fiabby, wrinkled
appearance always denote stale fish,
The coloring of all fish should be bright
and clear. In many places fish on
Mondays is merely that left over from
Saturday. Shell-fish should be heavy
for their size, and the tail of lobster
should clap back with a sharp spring
when it is Strengthened out.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
yourself. WHAT lk it,~


'Oh, my darling girl" he groaned,
Il don't know! l would give ten years
of my life to know what it is. am
only conscious that since that opera
ton some subtle change has been in
progress within me. There are two
souls at war, To one you are as dear
| as you ever were-nay, infinitely dear
er. To the other you are Indifferent
One soul loves you still; the other
soul does not know you as my Mar
garet at all, as my betrothed, and,
heaven help me, Margaret. but be-
tween the two l think / am going
mad!"
MY poor boy" said Margaret, you
want rest and quiet. We will put off
our wedding indefinitely if you wish,
and you shall stay at the manor and
will nurse you back to health and
strength again"
He shook his head gloomily, and
they spoke no more of these intimate
concerns.
The general was delighted to well
come his daughters lover home again,
and expressed no wonderment when
Margaret told him that Gilbert was
feeling the effects of the campaign
and that the wedding would therefore
be postponed
The next two or three days passed
quietly and uneventfully. Save for
Margaret's unfailing tenderness they
would have passed for Gilbert very
sadly, for as the hours went by he
became mournfully conscious that the
joy of being with the woman he so
fondly loved was growing less and
less.
He woke late on the Sunday morn
ing, and the sunlight streaming
through his window gave him
strange blissfuI sense of rest and
peace.
1t seemed to him that that strong
light was chasing away the gloomy
shadows from his brain and exercis-
ing the phantoms which haunted him
for so long.
The church bells rang out hopefully
on the morning air aud gave a joyous
note to his musings.
"All clear, all clear" he murmured.
MY sweet, sweet Margaret"
''It was magnificent operation, Sir
James," said DR.. Dale, looking at his
watch; "just two minutes and a quar-
ter from first to last"
Rather smart, think, Dale" said
Sir James. "Well, nurse, how is he?"
"He is dead, SIR said the nurse.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Modest Charleston Women.

Charleston. is the only city in the
United States in which the publica-
ton of womens names is objected to
by the women themselves and their
men folks. That shows what a relic
the grand old city of 1860 is. Up here
in New York our society boasts its
social secretaries, whose duty it is to
inform newspapers of the movements
of matrons and dowagers employing
them. The highest salaried secre-
taries are those young women who
succeed by hook or crook in captur-
ing the most space in the daily jour
nails. One bright girl receives SIS a
week from the wife of a paper gen.
eral for keeping that lady's name be-
fore the public.-New York Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16

The results Of experiments conducted
by different stations show that the de-
gree of maturity at which hay is cut
influences very largely the shrinkage
during curing. At the Pennsylvania
station early cut hay lost on an average
90 per cent in weight, while late cut
hay lost only 21.5 per cent. Timothy,
cut when just beginning to head, lost
75 per cent of water in curing; when
cut at the beginning of the blossoming
period, &c per cent, and when cut a
little later, or about the usual time, 81
per cent. The Michigan station found
a shrinkage Of about 60 per cent in
curing clover At the New York sta
ton meadow fescue mixed with little
red clover lost in one lot GIGS per cent
and in another 1926 per cent during
curing The moisture retained in cured
fodder varies with different kinds. At
water states that for New England
timothy hay retains on an average II
per cent Of moisture, clover hay IA per
cent and corn fodder % per cent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
THE SWIFT MISSISSIPPI.
A Mighty Stream Can Be Turned
Aside by Sticks in Sand.


Aside by Sticks in Sand.
In this region, too, the river is Dor
dered with busy cities-Dubuque, Keo-
kuk, Quincy, Davenport, Rock Island,
Moline thriving railway towns, full
of factories, colleges, fine residences,
and all the evidences of energy and
culture. Most of them are built on
hills, and all on high ground. Seen
from the river they present the finest
views of themselves, something the
cities of the fiat country farther down
never do.
1t is a swift river that rushes past
these cities. At low water, which is
usually in summer and fall, the cur
rent drops to three inches an hour
or less. But at high water, when it
stands thirty or forty feet higher on
it's banks, it sweeps along at nine
miles an hour with irresistible i'm
petus.
Imagine what that means in a big
riYer-nine miles an hour. We are
so used to railway trains that run
sixty or seventy miles an hour that it
| But consider that when a railway
train is once checked it's power is
gone Interfere with the progress of
the Mississippi and the river piles up
against the obstruction, sweeps
around it, over it, under it, and mo-
mentarily grows stronger about it.
The power wakes until it sweeps away
the fret.
Yet such is the contrariety of this
mighty stream that while it will over
throw the strongest obstacle to it's
course that can be built, it will yield
to the slightest. One could hardly
find a more striking illustration of the
power of slight things than the sharp
contrast between the behavior of the
river against a powerful check and
against a slight one. For years gov
eminent engineers struggled to direct
the river with massive stone dikes.
When the river could not overthrow
one of these it dug under it, and so
wrecked it. Money without end was
spent on bikes. There was a mighty
one below Gold Dust landing in Ten
nessee. 1t stood longer than most of
them, but in flood the river at last
conquered and swept it away.
How, then, can the river be directed!
Simply BY few sticks set in the sand.
A row of pi1ing, sometimes with few
brush hurdles, accomplishes it. The
river sweeps through, eddies behind
it. dropping sand and building up a
bar Nowadays travelling. down the
river through stretches that once were
broad and shallow, one finds them mar
row and deep, with sandy sides. over
the tops of which can be seen just the
tips of the piles that accomplish the
mighty change.-Ainslee's Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Success with PouItry.

Those people who do not have good
success in Matching eggs under hens
usually will not do much better with
the incubator They may be divided
into two classes, one that is careless
and neglectful, and the other that is
altogether tco fussy, who wants to be
stirring the hen, or feeding her, or
handling the eggs three or four times
a day. For either of these to succeed
with the incubator there must be a
thorough reformation; determination
to follow the instructions given exact
ly, and do no more and no less than
is explicitly laid down, and to do it by
the clock
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
OBSCURE MANS CONsOLA-
TON.

OF ne the great world neer has heard,
Yet I in this am somewhat blessed,
Ny lowIy state has never stirred
Envy in any human breast.
And If | do not feel inclined
70 strive some mighty part to play,
IN this [ consolation find,
stand not in another's way.
n 81 ne'er seek wealth's lofty height,
One thing at least feel and know;
Rivals do not scheme day and night
To bring about my overthrow.
And if l am of lowly birth,
And a retiring life have led,
I doubt if there is on the earth
One soul that wishes I were dead.
TO make this great earth theirs alone,
Men have their days in scheming
passed,
But we the stubborn fact must own
Old mother earth gets all at last.
Thomas F. Porter, in Boston Globe.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16

Another inventive genius has forgot
ten the needs Of man long enough to
devise an interesting and novel con-
trlVance for the feeding of poultry,
which, if it works as the designer in
tended it should, will mean a large
saving i'll the amount of labor neces-
sary in the care of fowls, and also In
the amount of food.
1t consists of feed box equipped
with trap door in the bottom opera
ted by slide. which in turn is at
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Lime with Fertilizers.

The use of lime on farm lands is
largely for the purpose of sweetening
the soil, and as it has little or no manu-
rial value there is no good reason why
it should be applied in connection with
commercial fertilizers, but many rea-
sons why it should not be so mixed. If
the commercial fertilizer contains nj
trogen in the form Of ammonia the ac-
ton of the lime will be to set free the
ammonia and it will escape into the
air; Of course if the fertilizer was APP
piled to the soil at once after being
mixed with the lime the soil might re-
tain most Of the ammonia, but it is
taking risk that ought not to be
taken. The same loss of fertilizing ma
terial takes place when lime is mixed
with some other chemicals, and the
loss is even greater with some than in
the case of mixing with the nitrogen in
the form of ammonia.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Lemon Pie.

For lemon and cream pie the crust
must be baked first and allowed to cool
before filling. Three eggs, leaving out
the whites of two for the top, the graf
ed rind and juice of lemon, one cup
full of sugar, a small cupful of water,
a heaping tablespoonful of cornstarch,
and a small piece of butter. Wet the
cornstarch with little cold water, add
the remainder of the water, boiling,
then the other ingredients. Cook all
well together; when cold fill the crust
and after putting on the merngue
made with the whites of two eggs and
one-half cupful of powdered sugar,
place in the oven just long enough to-
brown nicely.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
whitewash.

Whitewash is the cheapest disinfect-
ant we know of. A coat of whiteWash
in a poultry house sweetens it up won
derfully. 1t is not necessary to try to
do an artistic job. Any brush or even
an old broom may be used to apply the
wash. A spray pump can be bought
cheaply and will save time in white
washing. Whatever is used, don't for
get TO whitewash.-Exchan
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Coffee Ice Cream.

mill will let you and put With one
pint of cream into an oatmeal boiler,
and let it scald for ten minutes or more
over the fire; then lay a clean cloth
over your sieve and strain all through
it; then stir into it half a pound of
sugar and when cold, add another pint
of cream, and freeze it in the usual
manner
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
A Few Table "Don,ts. y

Don't smack your lips.
Don't take large mouthfuls.
Don't blow you food, in order to cool
it
Don't use your knife instead of your
fork.
Don't find fault and pick about your
food.
Don't talk with your mouth filed
with food.
Don't soil the table-cloth with bones,
parings, etc.
Don't commence eating as soon as
you are seated.
Don't laugh loudly, or talk bolster
ously, at the table.
Don't retail all the ISLANDERS you can
think of at the table.
Don't take bones up in your fingers
to eat the meat from them.
Don't call attention to any little mis-
take which may have occurred.
Don't make yourself and your own
affairs the chief topic of conversation.
Don't take another mouthful, while
any of the previous one remains in the
mouth.
Don't reach across the table for any
thing; but wait until it is passed to you,
or ask for it.
ioont put your elbows on the table,
COZ lounge about; if not able to sit erect,
ask to be excused.
Don't frown or look cross at the ta-
bic: It hurts your own digestion, as wen
as that of those eating with you.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16

proof paper, is well ventilated and the
inside is treated to a coat of parafiine
so that it is moisture-proof and odor-
less. If manufacturers can get the
price of this box down so that 1t is
cheaper than the splint boxes now used
the paper box is destined to have a
large sale. 1t carries the fruit in good
condition for long distances and, APP
parently, it does not dry out so readily
as in the splint baskets.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Scrambled Eggs.

Economical scrambled eggs are best
made by putting some dripping or but
ter in a saucepan. Let it melt, then
beat two eggs, pour them in, add a
breakfast cupful of fine bread crumbs,
pepper and salt and tablespoonful of
milk. Stir we'll until the eggs are
cooked to taste. Spread on three rounds
of toast or bread fried in dripping.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Pneumatic Canning Device.

The principal cause of the spelling OF
ton of the air inside, which induces
fermentation of the alcohol in the juice
of the fruit, ultimately passing to the
final stages of decay. By ordinary
methods of canning it is almost impos-
sible to exhaust this air entirely, and
it is to aid in this work that the APP
paratus here shown has been designed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
The Roots of Corn.

me NOOtS Oh (OTHs
Any person who will make a careful
examination of the corn plant will find
that first system of very fine thread
like roots are formed as near the sur
face of the ground as they can find
heat and moist soil. These spread out
horizontally, and are almost certain to
be destroyed or pruned by the cultiva-
tor shovels. AS the plant develops
and has more need for food a second
set of horizontal roots are formed larg-
er than the others. These are the main
feed roots of the plant and in loose
soil they grow five to seven feet long,
If the condition of soil will permit,
these roots will develop at such a
depth below the surface as to be safe
from the cultiyator shovels, but as
they branch out into numerous fine,
fibrous roots they actually fill the fine
cultivated soil to draw food from ev-
cry particle, and only shallow cultiva-
ton will prevent injury to them.
Besides the two sets of horizontal
roots rs described, there are usually
two or more sets, beginning at or near
the base of the stalk as brace roots
and go straight down into the subsoil.
They have been traced as deep as four
feet. These vertical roots have few
fibrous roots attached, but serve an i'm
portant end in being able to bring
moisture from the deep soil, late in the
season, when droughts are likely to
prevail.
AS will be seen, the roots of the corn
plant develop as the top grows, also an
understanding Of the root development
suggests the method of fertilizati ton
which should be through all the sur
face soil, and not in the hill nor in the
row only. The cultivation should be
done so as not to interfere with the
roots that want to occupy the ground
prepared for them, yet at the same
time prevent evaporation of the moist
ure by maintaining a surface mulch Of
fine earth by frequent shallow cult
yation.-Up-to-Date Farming.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
co++orseed Meal for Horses.

Cottonseed meal is successfully used
as a feed for horses and mules. 1t
may be better in winter to combine
the meal with corn. though some have
had complete success with the meal as
an exclusive grain ration fer both
horses and mules.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16

The paper berry basket has been re-
Gently introduced, and if one may
judge from the opinions of those who
have used it the present season it will
be most welcome The illustration,
from a photograph, shows the form of
the box. 1t is made Of so-called water
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16

tons OF this character are always more
or less illusory, but there is no doubt
whatever that in the humid region of
Argentina only about one-sixtieth of
the surface is as yet under the plough,
and that the supply of wheat lands
seems to be equal TO any possible fu
ture demand for years to come. Since
1890 when Mr.. Robert Woods Davis
was predicting that the United States
by this time would be importing wheat,
the world supply of wheat has more
than kept pace, in good years, with
consumption.-Phi Philadelphia Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16

which hogs may
pass and W b i C b
will restrain the
cattle and calves
from f o IL o w i ng.
Make a small gate
and hang it with a
pairof small hinges
as shown in the il
IlIS+ra+ inn T of th q
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16

gate hang downward so it can swing
both ways and the hogs will soon get
on to the combination of opening it.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Gate for the Hogs.

RAY Eveland sends the Iowa Home
stead a sketch Of a gate through
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1902-08-16
Saving Nitrogen in Stables.

Saving III SJaDI6Ss
Experiments in Europe have proven
that the loss of nitrogen from the ma
nure in stables amounts to 63.6 per
cent where only straw is used for bed
ding, and but 4S.3 per cent where peat
was used. In the sheep shed they
found a loss of 500 per cent where
straw was used, and about half as
much where peat or earth was used.
Dry earth itch Il kuma8 or vegetable
matter is about equal to peat. A good
plan for using them is to put the earth
or peat over the straw where the ma
nure drops.
Ne Wheat Famine Imminent.
Argentina, according to a book just
published by a German authority. *.
Gerger. has 157,OOO,OO0 acres suitable
for wheat This is three to four times
our present wheat area. At present
Argentina produces about 95,OO0,OOO
bushels a year. Herr Kerger asserts
that it can raise at least twenty-four
times as much, or over 2,2S0,000, 900
bushels, when all the land capable of
growing wheat is under cultivation.
This would about double the existing
wheat supply in the world. Calcuia-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-02
WENT WITH WADDELL
GOVERNOR WITHDREW REQUISI-
TION FOR KASSELL.
BUT PEDDLER AGREED TO GO
WITH ALABAMA OFFICERS BY AD-
VICE OF HIS ATTORNEY.

Whether He VIII Be Tried for Eel
Ony Undetermined-The withdraw
al of the RequisitiOn Granted to
the Alabama Officers, the
Ground That KnsseH Was Wanted
in Observation-Disclosures General
Wadde1 of Scale County in Charge
of kasscn on His Return to Ala
bama.
A. Kassell the peddler wanted in
Russell county. Alabama, left last
night for Scale with Solicitor General
Waddell. Just how long he will re-
main there and whether he will go to
trial on a felony charge, are questions
yet to be determined.
The case was called to the attention
of Gov. Gambler yesterday morning, but
the merits were not placed before him.
He was simply asked to withdraw the
requisition on the ground that Kassell
is wanted here, and upon this show
ing the legal document giving the Ala
ALBANIA officers the right to carry Kas-
sell from this state was temporarily
withdrawn. The Governor simply de-
cided to withdraw the requisition I'M
til the case has been heard.
Solicitor General Waddell of Russell
county arrived in the city in the morn
ing and called on David c. Barrow,
Esq, counsel for Kassell. The Ala
bama attorney took decided exceptions
to the charge that any in his state
was trying to shake down" Kassell.
He declared that this is not true and
that under the laws of Alabama the
Savannah man committed grave Of
Tense when he represented that he
owned property belonging to another,
and was benefited by such a false rep
reSentation.
Mr.. Barrow and the Alabama solicit
tor had several conferences during the
day and finally reached some agree
ment. Although the Governor had
withdrawn the requisition Kassen and
the solicitor left for Scale during the
night. The prisoner did not have to go
and his return to Alabama was volun-
tary Just what compromise was eff
fected was not stated, but certainly
matters were understood before kaSSell
left the station house to take a train
for Alabama with the Russell county
prosecuting attorney. Mr.. Barrow
stated that his client will probably
be back in Savannah tomorrow. Mr.
Barrow would say no more but made 1t
plain that settlement had been made
and that his client will suffer no great
inconvenience by his visit to Alabama.
Although sufficient to cause the
requisition to be suspended the charge
against Kassell in this city is not a
serious one. His counsel stated that he
is charged with having failed to take
out a license for peddling; the same Of
Tense that he first committed in Ala
bama, and which caused him, to make
false pretences in order to secure
bondsmen.
The Savannah warrant issued
against Kassell was taken out in
a Justice court and is now in the solicit
tor generals Office, according to Mr..
Barrow. 1t was issued, Mr.. Barrow
says, at the request of one of Kassell's
relatives about four months ago. The
attorney says that Kassell had a dis
pute with his relatives about business
matters and that the issuing of the
warra Mt followed
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-05-02
BURNED RED HOT STAND.
Flames Consumed "POke Chop
Greasy" On BrOughtOD street.

Flames Consumed "POke Chop
Greasy On BrOughtOD street.
Fire destroyed red hot" stand on
Broughton and Drayton streets last
night and there was plenty of excite
ment for time. The apparatus from
the Central Fire Station answered a
telephone alarm and extinguished the
flames.
The fire occurred towards the close
of the thunderstorm and while it was
raining. The proprietor of the stand
had received an order for a red hot
and was preparing that style of sand
wich when the fire started. The grease
and the gasoline flame got together in
some way and the fun began. 1t was
a full fledged bonfire until the Central
Station chemical engine put in an APP
pearance and brought the fun to a
close.
When the firemen arrived on the
scene the entire stand was in flames
and was burning fiercely. Tongues of
flame shot in close proximity to ada
cent bars, and for a few min
utes, previous to the arrival of
the firemen, it looked as If
Broughton street was going to have
a serious fire. The proprietor of the
stand was in a great state of excite
ment. Not only had his order" been
burned, but his entire stock in trade
was going up in flames, for the greasy
stuff made but little smoke. Those who
witnessed the burning of the stand
were amused by the conduct of the
owner although they felt sorry for his
loss. The fire was the first that has
attracted the attention of the firemen
in some little while.