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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-07-07

Invitation is the sincerest fattery.-
Yale Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
INSECT CIGAR MAKERS.

to be found which is more care
beetles nests.
The so-called birch tree beetles eX-
eel at work of this kind. Beetles
which infest vineyards also roll leaves
in like manner, but, owing to the size
and shape of the leaves of the vine,
rarely succeed in doing very artistic
work. Moreover, they do not Join
the leaves together by means of a
sort of glue, as is the custom of the
birch tree beetles, but use instead
a cotton fiber which they gather from
the buds on the vines.
Other beetles closely akin to these
do not roll leaves in this manner.
and, on the other hand, there are
beetles of quite different families
which frequently make such nests.
An example of the former kind is
the sloe tree beetle, which lays it's
eggs on the fruit of this tree, and an
example of the latter kind is the
nut tree beetle, which also rolls
leaves into the shape of cigar, but
not in quite the same manner as the
birch tree beetle.
The reason why it works different
is because it is differently construct
ed. a very curious insect it is, with
red body, a very long neck and
head which is so small that it is al
most invisible. Under these condi-
tions it is naturally difficult for it
to grasp a leaf and roll it into a
circular form, as the birch tree beetle
does. Still, it does the work after
its own fashion, and though hardly
as faultless a structure as the birch
tree beetles very neat piece of
work it is.-N. Y. Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY.
For Army Use the Necessary ADpar-
atus Is Installed on n Special
Form of Automobile

The special value of the system of
telegraphy with which Marconi's
name is so indissolubly connected is
that messages can be sent thereby
to and from moving objects. Hence
the introduction of wireless tele-
graphic instruments on naval vessels
in Great Britain. But there is as
much need for Geographic commune
cation in the army as in the navy,
probably more. And the utility and
feasibility of the Marconi system
were admirably illustrated in the late
war in South Africa.
Lord Roberts operators probably
set up their instruments on tables on
the ground and erected their neces-
sary upright wires on poles fixed in
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH OUTFIT.

the earth. All of this apparatus was
carried in a wagon when not in use.
Packing and unpacking, setting up
and taking down, therefore, required
time and trouble. Marconi has now
found a way to avoid this incon-
venience. In combination with an au-
tomobile designed he has produced a
special self-propelled vehicle in which
his Instruments are ready for use at
all times. 1t is travelling telegraph
station. This automobile is driven
by steam, the favorite motive agent
with Englishmen. 1t carries storage
batteries to operate his instruments
and seats for the operators.
The most curious feature of the
vehicle is an enormous funnel which
it carries, and which folds backward
on the roof of the carriage when not
in use. When messages are to be
sent the funnel is raised to a YER
tical position. One of the many i'm
provements which Marconi has made
in his apparatus is the substitution
of a metal cylinder (or pair of
them, one inside the other) for the
pole and upright wire, which were at
first employed. The thing which
looks like a funnel on his automobile
is a cylinder and forms part of the
Geographic outft.-N. Y. Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
DESTROYS CITY TREES.
Electricity Is Fatal to All Kinds of
Plant Life on Park and
Boulevard.

A distinguished botanist in speak
ing of plant life in our cities and in
local parks argues that it is under
ever increasing peril constantly and
is liable to finally become extinct.
In the first place, there is the mat
ter of noise in all it's forms and the
vibrating rumblings which go with
the various augmented population.
Flowers need sleep. Trees sleep. All
forms of vegetable life must, at reg
ularly recurring intervals, be al
lowed to lapse into condition of re-
pose else some radical change will
take place in the form of the plant.
But noise is not the only de-
stroyer of plant life in cities. There
are many other things that threaten
to denude the cities of vegetation
finally. Plants and flowers and all
kinds of vegetation sleep best away
from the glare. So the lights of the
city, which blind all through the
night, must contribute somewhat to
this interference with vegetable
sleep. Dust and smoke and other
things that fill the air unquestion-
ably have considerable influence on
vegetation. in the cities. Electricity,
independent of its uses for lighting
purposes, has a bad effect on city
vegetation. The overcharged condi-
ton of the earth because of the cleo
trical currents that are constantly
finding their way back to the point
of generation cannot be healthy from
viewpoint of vegetation. The con-
struction of large buildings interfere,
too, with the natural flow of air cur
rents and the plants of city are in
a measure smothered.
But the same electricity that the
botanist tells us is gradually destroy
ing tree life in the cities is trans
porting the people far out into the
country cheaply and rapidly. There
is compensation, after all, in the
tendencies that make civilization a
failure to pessimistic eyes.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
THE FATIGUE BACILLUS.
Newspaper Writers Do Not Seem to
Take Prof. Gautier's Recent
Discovery Seriously.

Science, which has way of upset.
ting old theories, has come to the re-
lief of the lazy man. Instead of be-
ing personally responsible for his
condition it appears that he is really
the victim of disease, caused by the
fatigue bacillus specimens of
which have been isolated and exam
ined by Prof. Gautier, a member of
the French Institute of Sciences. Ac-
cording to the professor, the IA
tigue bacillus can be easily exter-
minated by the use of disinfectants,
so that we may soon expect to see
fatigue institutes starting up all over
the country to which the constitu-
tionally lazy may be sent for treat
ment. Before the discoverer of the
fatigue microbe can be absolutely
certain that he is on the right track
he should experiment with half
dozen specimens of the great Amer
lean tramp family. If by incubation
or any other course of treatment he
can provoke in DUSTY Rhodes"
weary Walker" and others of the
SAINT CIiSS hcdluHN dppeUlJe IOT
saving wood or hoeing potatoes he
will be hailed with gratitude as a
great benefactor of the race. The
new cure for laziness should also
have a great sale among wives who
are forced to support their families
by taking in washing while their
bler-bodied husbands writhe under
the awful ravages of the fatigue ba-
cillus. In fact, there are endless
uses for the remedy. Even men who
suffer from nothing more severe than
occasional attacks of that tired
feeling" will be glad on occasion to
use the wonderful elixir of the
French professor. A bottle of it
will be kept in every household. The
children will be given a dose of it
before they start for school; the mis-
tress will revive her failing energies
with it if she has been out to a ball
the night before; the maids will find
it sovereign remedy for tired
nerves and muscles, and every MEM
Der of the family will use it daily.
Unless the Importance of Prof.
GATHERS remedy has been exag-
gerated he seems to have discovered
the long sought palliative of the pri-
NAL curse of man.-Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
CIGAR-SHAPED NESTS.
Novel Nurseries Constructed by In
genious Little Insects for
Their Little Ones.

Among beetles there are, says a
naturalist who has been recently
studying them, a few families which
spend much of their time in con-
structing novel nurseries for their
little ones. A nursery of this kind
looks at distance like a cigar hang
ing from a tree, but it is really a
number of leaves which have been
rolled by beetle into the shape Of
u cigar.
In doing this work the little in
sect displays remarkable intelligence,
for each leaf is rolled deity and
carefully, and nowhere in the hollow
interior is there even tiny hole to
be seen. There is not a birds nest
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
One Naturally wonders.

WELL she said, in some astonish-
ment, as she looked up from her pa
per, woman certainly is invading all
lines~of business. A girl burglar has
just been caught
"lwonder,' he commented, thought
fully, "if the time is coming when
timid man will be worried at night
for fear there's woman under the
bed. Chicago Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Parental Consideration

Have you ever made any effort to
improve your mind?" asked one of
Farmer Corntossers feminine rela-
tives.
Nope" was the answer. We've
improved our boy Josh's mind, an we
want him to git the full benefit. Eff
some of us didn't eat with our knives
IN say them there we wouldn't real
lie how refined Josh is. "-Washington
Star,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
IN ExTRsMls.


When the face of the dying turns gray,
And the time has come
When the soul must wend its way
To its last long home,
Who is II bends over the dying
OF all that are human
Last seen by the sufferer helpless lying?
IT'S the form of a woman.
Mother. or sister, or wife,
Or some sweet daughter,
Nurses the ebbing life,
Vets the parched lips with water,
Plies every loving art
To comfort the one that Is going,
From her own half-broken, aching heart
A last sad smile bestOwing.
o women of all the lands,
In the future as in the past,
To your plying hearts and tender hands
We all must come at last;
We may trifie, neglect, disdain,
But to you and to none other
We turn in our sore distress ard pain
Wife, sister, daughter, mother.
The Late Thomas Drifill in N Y. In
dependent
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
1ayTZ5FI III JRS4aga
Science and Religion.

Miss Lily, young lady of five, was
recently visiting friends. Many of the
rooms of the house were ornamented
with embroidered notices framed and
hung on the walls. She asked what one
of them was
"That t." answered the hostess, "says
God bless our home.'"
Miss Lily looked puzzled, so her en-
tertaiuer inquired:
Don't you have them at your
house,"
"Oh, no." was the quick reply; "we
have lightning rods."-Leslie's Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

Housekeeper-This is the twentieth
time to-day that I've had to come to
the door to tell peddlers that 1 did not
want anything.
Peddler-Very sorry, mum.
Housekeeper-It's some comfort to
know that you are sorry, anyhow.
Peddler-Yes, mum. I'm very sorry
you don't want anything, mum.-N. Y,
Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Better Excuse Needed.

Nobody can learn all there is worth
knowing in lifetime" said Mr.. Mylde
wisely. and" he continued, ''a man
ought never to assume that his educa,
ton is finished. I'm going to keep
ahead with mine; I'm going to study
astronomy"
His wife looked at him sharply, and
then, in a cold, hard tone, exclaimed:
John Henry, you'll have to think OF
some better excuse than that for stay.
ing out at night" -Tit-Bits
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Out of the Ordinary,

THAT foreign nobleman who wants
to marry you"
Yes, father" answered the fair
girl. Il am sure he loves me-"
But are you sure he's a genuine
foreign nobleman?"
why do you doubt him?"
81 asked him about his debts, and
he said he didn't owe cent
Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
UncaIIed-For Sarcasm.

81 see," said the boarding house mis-
tress, at the head of the table, that a
Frenchman has just invented a new ar
tifcial leather"
81 wish you'd try few pounds of it,"
said a sarcastic boarder, who was vain
ly trying to make an impression on a
piece of steak with his knife.-Y onkers
Statesman.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Weary WiIIie's Wisdom.

Angry-Loolling Woman-You go
away from here or I'll call my hus-
band.
Weary William-Yer husband amt
at 'ome.
Woman-How dyer know he amt?
Weary William-I've allus noticed,
mum, that when a man is married to
woman what looks like you do, he's
never at 'ome except at meal times
Tit-Bits.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Political Evolution.

"What are the several steps in the
evolution of a politician into a states
man, colonel?" asked the hopeful
young aspirant for public honors.
well" replied the grizzled veteran
in the art of converting public trust
into a private snap, "the first is to get
on, the second to get honors and the
third to get honest" Town Topics.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Too Late for Regrets.

Tired of life and the ever-presens
necessity of earning his daily bread
by working, he had taken dose of
carbolic acid and lain down to die.
But the meddlesome doctors
pumped him out and saved him to So
ciety.
"Oh, Horace!" moaned his wife,
leaning over him, "why did you tale
that awful stuff? Laudanum would
have been less painful and SO much
surer!"-Chicago Tribune.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
On an Errand.

A little fellow was sent a message
by his mother to lady. When he
had delivered it he did not seem in a
hurry to go; and the lady noticing
this, asked him if there was anything
else his mother had hidden him say.
She was not prepared for his reply:
''She said 1 wasn't to ask anything
for coming, but if you gave me any
thing l was to take it."-Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

Dobbs-Why, hello, Hobbs. I under
stand you've married an authoress. 1
congratulate you, though it is said
that they don't make very good wives.
Hobbs-They make the best wives
in the world, old man. Now, my wife
writes almost all day, and woman
can't write and talk at the same time.
Boston Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

Scribbler-I wish l knew whether
the editors read my poetry OF send it
back without looking at it.
Friend-They don't read it.
you think so because they always
decline it?
Because they always decline 10
with thanks IN. Y. Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Fishing with Horses.

Among the many curious sights the
traveller in Oregon witnesses in the
lower Columbia river are men on horse
back, wading about in what appears to
be a most aimless manner. They are
really fishing for salmon with hugs
seines, which are so heavy as to make
the assistance of the horse imperative.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Its Special Use.

"Why do you carry such an expen.
sive watch, Clingstone?" asked Per
kasie. "A cheaper one would tell the
time just as WELL"
"Quite true" replied Clingstone,
"but it would not pawn for so much"
-Leslie's Weekly.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Not Qualified.

$50 you want position in my COM
pany, madam"
eyes"
Can you sing?"
"No."
"Can you dancer"
"No.'
81 thought you said you were an
actress ?'-Brooklyn Life.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
A Slight Error.

81 guess Wen have to put that 'ad.'
in again as a free insertion" remarked
the foreman.
"What 'ad.' is that ?" inquired the ed
itor
"Why, Sellem's announcement of his
'storeful of furniture, bedding and
rugs We've made it bugs in to-day's
issue" -Philadelphia Press.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Some Big Match Factories.

In New Jersey there are two match
factories with capacity together of
90, 900, 900 matches day. The larges st
factory in the country. at Barberton,
G., can turn out 100,oOO,OO0 matches a
day, probably one-seventh of the en-
tire consumption.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

"She married for home, 1 believe.
Eyes. l suppose that was one rea-
son why he was glad to give her that
$4,000 house as a part of the ALI
ny."-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
When Her Hour Strikes.

The saddest words of tongue or pen
For her who used to star are that
She cannot be engaged again
To sing and dance and dazzle men
Because she's grown too fat.
Chicago Record Herald.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

No matter how you toll and strive
To make this thankless world your
debtor,
Some man who never tried at all
Will VOW he could have done it better.
washington Star
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

The man who viewed the world askanc.
With lofty brow contracted,
Some wondrous theories did advance
But he who really got the chance
Was the simple man who acted.
Washington Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
AN EVERLASTING SUBJECT.

Capt. Mashem (staying at eminent
stock brokers' country house)-Ah,
Miss Cresus, I've been admiring your
fathers stocks.
Miss Cresus (the daughter of the
house)-Oh, for mercy sake, don't
talk shop.-Ally Sloper.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
The Largest Inland Sen.

The largest inland sea is the Medi-
terranean, 977,OOO square miles, or
more than three times the size Of
Texas.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
Matrimonial Flyer.

Upon the wings of love he flew
To buy the maid a diamond ring;
They're married now, and he to-day
Flew back to see what it would bring.
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16
An Easy Mark,

IT'S saying trite and true
That pride goes before a fall;
IT'S easy quite to trip a man
Who thinks he knows it all.
Chicago Daily News.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

Farmers Wife-You said you would
saw my wood if l would give you
good dinner.
New. r. Work-Well, madam, 1 saw
your wood, didn't I?-Kansas City
Times.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

Customer-This suit isn't well
made.
Tailor-If it were it wouldn't fit
you.-Journ Amusant.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-01-16

With argument a man doth fight,
To prove that he is in the right:
While instinct is by woman sought,
To tell her if she's right or not.
Chicago Daily News.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-14
M,CARDY,S m4RsL1pn

4" CAhD4>S '3BSGRD RESULTS"
1t evidently keeps the district court of
this district reasonably busy to keep
track of Comptroller McCardy's necuIiar
views Of the requirements of the CITY
charter and the significance of his own
relationship to the problem of munictnal
government. Two decisions in one day
from that tribunal discarding McCardy's
views and pretensions is exceptional, Of
course; but it is a circumstance which
may find duplication at any time. The
city comptroller is an official who does
not lightly surrender the position he
once occupied as not only keeper of the
city's books, but also of the city's con-
science and intelligence
Judge Otis refers to the absurd re-
suits" which must inevitably follow the
comptrollar's decision. Judge Kelly, on
the other hand, takes cognizance of the
worthlessness of McCardys bookkeeping.
which is pleaded before him as tending
to show that the necessary moneys were
not in the general fund to pay claim
which the council ordered paid OUT Of
that fund. Each jurist is compelled
officially to set the seal of his condemna-
ton in indelible terms on the CONN.,
troller's methods of doing the citv,s
business.
Since Mr.. McCardy is a candidate for.
denomination by his party, and since
I b e has no disposition what
ever to interfere in the internal troubles
of it's friends, the enemy, it seems proper
at this time to be little considerate
Of the comptroller. It is needless, how
ever, to point out even for the benefit
of Republicans the false position in which
the comptroller places himself and his
party before the community through
the absurdity of his several contentious
from time 20 time, and the folly Of his
prefcations 70 be Of more Importance
and authority in city affairs than even
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-14
SOUTH DOING WELL
INCREASE IN POPULATION HAS
PROGRESSED QUITE RAPIDLY
IN LATE YEARS
WEST IS FALLING OFF SOME
Rapid Growth OF the Frontier states,
as Indicated by Former Gem
suses, Has Begun to Assume
Normal Aspect.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.-The director
Of the census announced today the per-
centage Of increase Of population in diff
ferent parts Of the country, showing for
the last decade a rapid decrease from
previous rate Of growth Of population in
the West, a less marked, but decided
decrease in the North, and slight in
crease in the South. For the first time
in the history Of this country the popula-
ton Of the South has increased some
what more rapidly than that Of the North
The East, geographically, is included in
the term North The rate Of the growth
in the North, West and South is far more
nearly the same than it ever has been.
The official announcement divides the
country as follows: West, from the Pa
cific to the eastern boundary Of Montana,
Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico;
North and South, the respective sides Of
a line formed by the Potomac and Ohio
rivers and the southern boundaries Of
Missouri and Kansas. The percentage of
increase, from 1860 to 1880, was 61.9 in the
North; 43.4 In the South, and 1876 In the
West, while in the last twenty years. 1880
1900. it was 4S.7 In the North; 49, South,
and 1916 West
Prior to the Civil war the Northern