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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-06
ITEMS OF. INTEREST

The finest livery stables In Chicago
are those Of the Erie Livery, 100 to 2O1
Erie street. and 1853 to 40 Ontario
street. The proprietor, Mr.. william A.
Hinkins, ID one of the best known and
best liked borsemen In the country.
He has recently purchased and has
subject to call the finest imperials,
French leather heads, victorias and
landau carriages In Chicago.
His broughams, coupes and hanson
cabs are the best.
His horses are frst.class, with rub
Der shoes; they never slip.
His drivers are well dressed, sober,
courteous and reliable.
Telephone 1910 North.
The finest carriages. most stylish
turnouts and most careful drivers can
be ordered by telephone from J. H.
Birren's elegant stable, PAT and 249
Webster avenue.
Man wants but little here below,
But, be y understood,
No matter whether high or low,
That little must be good;
Which may explain why men Of taste,
Who always get the best,
Their heads by Newton's hats are
graced
When they would be we'll dressed;
For Newton blocks, the critics tell,
In style and texture all excel.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1902-12-06

The telegraph manual issued By the
Western Electric Company will teach
any one the art Of telegraphy. To get
= copy address Department @, West.
ern Electric Company, 242 South JET.
terson street. Chicago, and inclose %
cents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
THE DOWN EAST COASTER.
Sailor, Farmer, Fisherman and Bus.
mess Man.

Of all the sailors on the sea, the
down east coaster does the hardest
work, braves the greatest dangers and
gets the poorest rewards. His Occu-
patton has been aptly described as
tempting fate at $25 month" The
coaster is an unsung hero, but he is
unconscious of that and would call II
square if freights were fairly good
from Bangor to Boston and there were
not more than 10 consecutive days Of
easterly wind in any one month.
The Maine coaster is a queer mix
ture of sailor, farmer and business
man, and frequently he is also an ex-
pert deep-sea fisherman. Many of the
masters of the little schoOners have
/ in their younger days sailed round and
round the world, finally settling down
| in some seacoast village and buying a
small craft of which they can be at
once the managing owner and skipper,
and in which they can make living
! by eight months sailing, hauling the
vessel up and taking comfort at home
from Thanksgiving or christmas till
spring. Some of the masters sail yes,
/ sells owned by other people, either for
a stated salary or "on shares and oc
casionally it happens that the vessel
is a sort of family affair, being owned
and manned by father and sons or by
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

of houses. AS the hour of the execu-
ton approached the hush OF ex-
pectancy settled over the town.
At noon the prisoner was brought
from the jail He walked firmly
across the jailyard, but at the foot OF
the scaffold steps he stumbled. He re-
covered his footing, mounted the steps,
and stood on the scaffold, motionless.
A woman's voice. at first thin and
wavering but gaining strength as it
went on, was lifted in song. 1t was a
familiar hymn and the woman who
sang it had prayed al night in the
house across the street. To her it
seemed an awful thing that a life
should go out for such an offense.
The prisoners hands twitched con-
vulsively. Back among the Georgia
hills, in the pause that comes between
day and night, white haired woman
would sing that song and wait through
weary years for his return-there was
no justice in heaven or earth.
Suddenly a look of quick anguish
crossed the prisoners face, which was
white and worn in the morning light.
She, too, had come to watch him die.
A barefooted and bareheaded girl,
! with garments stained and disheveled,
as though from long journeying, ran
through the jailyard like hunted
thing and fell at the scaffold steps.
For a moment she lay there spent-a
| flower from her own wind-swept hills
after a stOrm-then sprang to her feet
and waved the precious pardon high in
| the sunIit air. Again and again she
waved 1.-THE paper that gave life to
| the man she loved.
The mountaineers are a law unto
themselves. The governor, some 200
miles away, was but a fgurehead to
| them. the paper that held the pardon
a small matter-"but the slip O. a gal
! thet had ben missin' fer a month
! Hiram Greenlee's leetle gaI-thet she
had travelled, how the Lord only knew
the long, long miles ter the gunner
n had come back jes' in the nick O
time too; thet her leetle feet wal
! barefoot, her leetle hans torn n
bIeedin, that she had done all this tel
save the youngsters hide-LOrd tibet
mattered HOrsethief, or no horsethief
n the leetle 'un stuck to it tibet he
war'nt, it jes' natchelly changed the
, sitiwation."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

And by her graceful walk the Queen
of Love is known.
The mention of the foot in poetry
has often been used purposely to ex-
press reverence, as when Ben John
son declared that his love for his
mistress was so great that he would
adore the foot, and, if slipper was
left off, would kiss it, too Every
one is familiar with is highly
poetical:
And where she went the flowers took
thickest root,
AS she had sowed them with her
odorous foot.
Or a similar reference thy Butler:
Where'er you tread, your foot shall
set
The primrose and the violet.
That fascinating combination OF
loneliness, arrant coquetry, and rigid
virtue, Nine. Recamier, worshipped
her own beauty. 1t is on record that
! she preferred dinners to any other
! form of entertainment, not for the
sake Of the pleasure of the table, but
because her feet, which were not
pretty, were hidden and her exquisite
hands and arms were well displayed
She was a coquette to the last
keeping up her platonic fiirtations
till the day of her death, and she
lived to be very old woman.
A woman's foot, when perfect, is
followed out well, both inside and
out, with high instep, short heel
and long, straight toes slightly
spatulate at the ends.
This is the type Of the most beauti
full foot. 1t is, on the whole, a foot
not frequently seen in it's perfection
for. often one or the other element Of
beauty is wanting. The rarest point
of beauty is the following Of the out
side Of the foot.
1t used to be that shOemakers' lasts
were made upon the Greek principles
but now a hump is made on the out
side of the last, just above the point
where the slight hollow should be.
If any one would convince himself
that the hollow on the outside of the
foot is rare, let him watch the prints
that seaside bathers leave when they
step on q dry plank walk. Most Of
such footprints show a greater OF
smaller hollow on the inside of the
foot, but nearly every one shows {
straight, wet mark on the outside.
That water could flow under the
arch of the foot, without wetting it
is an old rule where feet are con
cerned. That the foot has an arcl
under which an apple could be rolled
is said of one well-known beauty o
the present day.
She is so proud Of her lovely fee
that she has them photographed il
every possible way-in twentieth
century slippers, in sabots, skates
Louis Quinze slippers, Japanese an
Russian shoes. She has also an,
number of plaster casts shown;
every graceful curve and dimple.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
Woman's Perfect Foot.


A great writer once said: ''The
vanity of woman dies hard
Foolish man! 1t never dies at all,
and of all the prides there is none so
hard to subdue as that a woman takes
in her little feet and trim ankles.
Little feet, however, are a de-
formity, or rather feet too small to
harmonic with the figure are.
Better that the foot be too large, if
shapely, than too small.
Think of a Juno who stands feet
z inches and tips the scales at $50
pounds lettering to and fro on No. 1
or No. 2 feet! She should have a No.
foot at the very least, and num-
Der would not be out of proportion.
To judge by the ideas of the
Greeks and Romans, beautiful feet
are those which are large enough to
carry the body most gracefully.
The ancients admired a stately car
riage Latin poets speak of the gait
of their beauties, rather than of their
feet.
Shall l be tried in this manner?''
says Juno, 81, who walk the queen OF
the gods?''
! In the "Iliad," Homer paid homage
to Thetis, the silver-footed queen, and
Paris, when making choice among the
many beautiful maidens brough be
fore him, did not forget the attrac
lions of their feet.
Their gait he marked, as gracefully
they moved,
And round their feet his eye
sagacious roved.
Poets and romancers have evel
raved over the beauties of the
human foot divine How beautiful
are thy feet with sandals, o prince:
daughter" was the greeting of thu
bride of Solomon's song, and in spit
Of the rich adornments of Judith
dress her sandals "ravished the eye
of Holofernes, their buckles beini
studded with precious gems, fash
ion which later was forbidden to tn
Roman matrOn.
| Petrarch admires in his Laura he
) walk above all else. He counts
, chief of her four principal charms.
! Dryden, too, is not proof agains
! the charms of the female foot an
walk:
( In length of train descends he
, sweeping gown,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
PouIt, y Pointers for Farmers.
ssss< a< EEF ~ n.y. ~. -4~~ ~

If fowls are properly housed and
cared for and given the right kind of
feed, sickness viii be of rare occur
renee.
1t is usually possible to give the
fowls free range on the farm, and they
are nearly always healthier on the
range than if confined in small runs.
According to the Ontario station,
wheat and bran make a white flesh,
and corn a yellow one. The difference
in fat and protein content, no doubt,
accounts for these effects.
Proper ventilation of the poultry
quarters does not necessitate open
windows or cracks so that there is a
constant draft on the fowls. Drafts
induce colds, Group and other troubles.
Ventilate well, but provide ventilation
at the top of the house.
1t should not be nececacry to cross,
breed in order to introduce new vigor
to the flock Inbred fowls, and not
necessarily pure-bred ones, are deli
cate. Care in the introduction of new
blood will obviate the necessity OF
crossing to build up the flock. KeeI
the breed pure; cross breeding, wher
Cnce begun, will ultimately produce
/ the scrub.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
Value of By-ProduCts.

then a pure concentrated essence of
meat
Gouffe says that beef broth is the
soul of domestic cookery but how to
get that soul from the old-time
shin of beef has proved a difficult
problem to many housekeepers. Now,
with a pot of beef extract at hand, the
cook has, without time or trouble.
the best Of stock for making soups,
sauces, beef tea and other delicacies.
As the consumption of beef extract
has grown, SO too have the varieties
of preparation. One may obtain it as
a solid or fluid, in tablets with a
combination of vegetables, or in the
form of asparox, which is extract of
asparagus and beef extract, or in
tomato to bouillon, combination of
tomatoes and beef extract.
A few years ago physicians sug-
gested to the packers the preparation
of beef that would be a nutritious
food upon which life could be sus-
tanned; that this was needed par
ticularly for the invalid and con-
Ivalescent, and pointed out that the
position and means Of the packers
made such an extensive investigation
possible. Instructions were given to
chemists to start the work, and as a
result they have placed upon the
market soluble beef. This differs
from beef extract in that it is the real
substance Of the meat (iber and alb
concentrated and predigested. An
idea of its nutritive value may be
had by comparing it with raw beef
juice, which has high reputation as
a food for the sick The London
Lancets analysis of soluble beef
shows that it contains "a per cent.
food value, while raw beef juice con-
tains from 2 to per cent only. On
that basis one teaspoonful of soluble
beef is equal to from ten to twenty
seven teaspoonfuls of beef juice. 1t
may be used with hot water without
affecting the nutritive value.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
GO AFTER THE BULLHEADS.
You Can Catch Them With Bait, Witt
Your Hand or With Stoveppe.


The buIlhead is not a pretty fish,
with its staring eyes, two horns and
Shiny body, but it is not bad for the
table when skinned and fried in corn
meal, and it may be taken until the
lakes freeze over, long after bass have
quit biting.
The bullhead is night feeder and
is generally fished for at night. 1t is
common in almost any small lake from
New York to the Rocky mountains,
and is to be found in most of the small
streams.
The man who wants bullheads gets
into boat after dark, puts a bright
lantern or lamp in the bow, rows out
into fairly deep water and anchors.
| The fish come to the light in dozens
swimming slowly about in its rays,
and are almost always hungry.
The bait is anything that they can
bite, fresh beef, pork, mussels, craw-
| fish, minnows or angle worms. A man
can capture thirty of them in an hour
if the night be dark and he wears a
pair of heavy gloves.
! If his fingers are unprotected they
will be sliced and punctured by the
! horns, and bullheads horns, like the
| fins of the cat family, are poisonous
| producing painful and highly infiameC
, little wounds that will give trouble fol
| days
In the streams of northern New York
the bullheads made their homes il
holes in the bank a foot under water
There are two bullheads to a hole
male and female, and they live to
gether in beautiful harmony, their mar
ital existence being one grand swee
song.
They are captured by men or boys
who paddle along the bank feeling TO
the holes with their hands. When ;
hole is found a hand is trust in a littlt
way. One or the other of the bull
heads butts his COse against the hant
to find out what it is.
The hand is held perfectly still, 70
if # is moved a horn will be jabbe
!. INFO it. The bullhead is satisfied b.
the stiffness that the intruder is harm
less anu IUIIlS " 80 IuI IHSi IIlO III
, hole, probably to report progress to it
, mate.
Then it is grasped suddenly an
| firmly by the tail and yanked into tn
| boat The remaining dweller in tn
home is served in the same way an
| the boat moves on.
The people who live about CedA
; Lake in Indiana have the most Orit
: inal method of taking bullheadG. Yea
. ago some one of them discovered
5 peculiar trait of the bullhead.
4 A wild turkey in a trap looks alway
D up and never down, and so fails to di
/ cover the hole by which it entered.
: bullhead in a trap looks always dow
i and never up.
, So the Cedar Lake people when the
want bullheaGs get three-foOt cectiG1
d of stovepipe and stick them perpe
d dicularly into the mud, tanning the
d down until the upper ends are S
5. inches below the water, and they st(
d up the low ends with wooden disk
5. Into the stovepipes they put lit
d pieces CT meat, wrapped about buc
d shot to make them sink and lie still {
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

brothers In times of disaster this ar
rangement is most unfortunate, for
when the vessel goes down the whole
family is likely to go with her, leaving
behind pitiful array of widows and
orphans. Such a case occurred in the
loss of the schooner Ella Brown. sew
eral of the Peabody family of Jones'
port having gone down in that vessel
in the great November northeaster last
year.
The natives of the Maine coast
| towns and of the islands that are
strewn along shore from Portland to
Quoddy Head are among the finest
sailors in the world. They are sailors
from force of circumstance, hardy
from inheritance and cute" because
they are Yankees. No other men
, could make living out of coasting in
these waters, and how the natives do
it is a source of wonder to every one
who ever studied the subject The
coaster begins going" when he is II
or IA years old, and quits when he is
too old to stand watch at the wheel,
that long. Man or boy, he is general
ly lank and lean, with a skin like
leather, a constitution of iron and ca
! pacity to endure great hardships with
out complaint His vessel is generally
of great age and small siZe-50 to $50
tons and 20 to 60 years old, rugged as
a two-masted schooner. Generally she
is dull sailer, and almost always she
leaks like basket. Only the fact that
he carries lumber accounts for her be-
! in so long afloat-hundreds of the old
hookers now going would have been
on bottom long ago only their cargoes
wouldn't let them sink.
! An average size coaster trading be-
| tween Maine ports and Boston carries
a master, mate, one seaman and
''cook and hand; many of them make
! trips from Bangor to Boston with but
| two or three men all told, and last
summer the schooner Angler, so tons,
was navigated from Boston to Calais
and hau-way back again by her mas
! ter, single-handed. The coasters car
| go is, nine times in ten, lumber, and
she gets $3.50 to $1.75 a thousand feet
! for carrying it from Bangor to Boston.
! Out of this he has to pay for loading
and discharging, for towages, commits
sions to brokers, crews wages and
stores. 1ne stores are salt pork, salt
Goldfish, flour, molasses, potatoes, bak
| ing powder and kerosene; there may
be a chunk or two of cOrned beef, and
in the fall of the year the skipper
will add cabbages, apples, onions, etc,
to the MENU but at no time is the fare
so rich and varied as to worry the
cook or invite the govt. A man who
wants to go must be both strong and
willing, not only to reef, hand and
steer, but to work cargo as well, for 1t
frequently happens that there are no
stevedores available or that the skip
per is unwilling to pay for loading and
discharging. If man sailing before
the mast manages to put in a year at
$25 month, he is doing as well as the
average of coasters; the mate and the
'cook and hand" gets a little more,
and the captain gets whatever circum-
stances, weather-luck and his business
abilities allow. This may be consider
able, or it may be nothing at all.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
How to Keep Cool.

Don't walk too fast;
Don't fume and fret;
Don't VOW twill be
Much hotter yet;
DON'T eat too much;
Don't drink at all
Of things composed
OF alcohol.
Don't read about
The sunstruck folks;
Don't read the old
Hot-weather jokes;
Don't work too hard;
Don't try to see
The rising of
The mercury.
Don't fan yourself;
Don't think you're hot;
Just cool Of with
81 think I'm not.
And, more than that,
Don't read a rule
Reneath this head:
How to Keep Cool"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

the bottom of the pipes
These iron traps are left out all
night, being marked with buoys In
the morning the fisherman goes about,
pulls up the stovepipes and empties
the bullheads into his boat. The fish
never know enough to come out the
way they went in and, having swal-
lowed the meat, buckshot and all, lie
Still-New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
Wbat the EaW De ides.

The rule that a drawee is presumed
to know his drawers signature and
hence cannot recover back money
paid through a mistake of fact upon
a till to which the drawers signature
was forged, is held, in Woods &
Malone VS.. Colony bank (Ga.), Sc l..
R. A. 929, not to be available in favor
of a holder who by his own negll-
gence contributed to the success OIL
the fraud practiced and whose con-
duct had a tendency to mislead the
drawee, who, was himself free from
fault.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

"The spirit moves mel" exclaimed
the poet.
WELL said a friend, that's
cheaper than paying house rent"
Atlanta Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

Saymold Storey-"Say, pard-"
Goodman Gonrong Cooking cautious
ly around)-"Ye blamed fool, hain't'ye
got no more sense than to talk to a
deaf an dumb MANI
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

The maker of a check given, after
full opportunity for investigation, in
accordance with a storage contract
requiring a return of the property,
or eff it is destroyed to pay its
value" under the belief that the prop
erty had been stolen, is held, in State
Savings Bank VS.. Bull (Mich), Sc,
L. R. A. 944, to have the right to
stop payment and avoid the settle
ment as made under a mutual mis-
take of fact, where the property is
discovered in the storehouse the day
after the check is given.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

A project for pensions to aged
workingmen was presented to the
American Federation of Labor, in ses-
sion at New Orleans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04
Short STORY
Of the DAY
HANGING OF THE MOUNTAINEER
By Sara Lindsay Coleman.

THE Jail stood in the cen
ter of the one long street OF
the mountain town. The
prisoner watched the dawn
come, his face pressed
against the IRON grating. A
ghost of a moon, a rim OF
fire, hung in the east; above
it the morning star glowed
The moon rim faded in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

The constitutional right of liberty
and property is held, in re Davies IN.
", Sc L. R. A. 855, not to be illegally
impaired by requiring one to appear
before a referee and furnish evil
dence to aid the Encouragement IN
instituting proceedings for the sup
preston of monopoly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

A majority of the stockholders of
a corporation are held, in Maynard
VS.. LOCKER (Mich.), Sc l.. R. A. 94t,
to have no vested right to elect the
directors, which will be infringed by
statute giving the minority stock
holders Lne power by cumulative vot-
ing to elect a Representative mem
bership in the board of directors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

Under a statute providing that, in
case of the illness and discharge of
juror in criminal case, another may
be chosen and the trial commenced
anew, if the illness occurs during the
process of impaneling the jury, after
the accused has used some of his
peremptory challenges, it is held, In
People VS.. Zeigler (Cal), Sc L. r. A.
882, that the number used must bf
restored to him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-12-04

A street-car conductors trip re-
port as to fares taken is held, in
Callihan VS.. Washington Water
Power company (Wash), Sc l.. R. A.
772, to be admissible in evidence in
confederation of his testimony that
he received no transfer on a trip, for
alleged injuries during which an
action has been brought against the
company by one claiming to have
ridden on that trip and to have paid
fare with a transfer, where it was
made before he knew of the accident
or that any question as to his having
taken a transfer would arise.