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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

diana, saw the carload OF boys ana
told his wife about the invoice Of
youngsters. She thought they ought
to take one. Every WELL" said the
Judge, 'sI'n pick out the toughest speci-
men Of the lot" He selected Brady"
Now, in homely phraseology, you
can't never tell what may become OF
a lousy calf" Mrs. Green got hold of
the boys heart. Her refining inf1u-
ence soon had it's effect on the young
barbarian. He saw the world would
give him chance. Ambition spoke to
him. He chung to the name of Brady
and left all his old life behind him.
Henceforth he was John Green Brady.
To make long story short, the boy
went through the grades and high
school at the head of his classes.
Partly by his own efforts and aided
partly by Judge Green, he went
through Yale College Then he was
sent as missionary to Sitka, Alaska.
He became the best loved man in that
country and was appointed Governors
Boy, young man, whoever you are:
Turn toward the world a brave and
smiling face and hold up your chin!
And woman: The turning of that
street waif Brady" was a nobler mir
acle, and as great, as that which
turned the water into wine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
But what can do for you? Speak

"But what can 1 do for you? Speak
out"
Oats what I'm er dom. I want
you to write letter up ter Genl Rose
we'll, de head man, an 'splain de case
right. Tell i'm Use got de oneasiest
job an de po'est pay Of anybody on
de line, an is tired out lookin' up and
down dat road fer de man what pays
off de mail-toter. Hyar it's mos
Christmas, an no money VT. amt
nuthing but a country niger, but hit
do look like eff I'm err working fer de
riches man what is, orter git er word
FUN i'm bout dat money. Looks ter
me like he done forget rs err workin
fer i'm.
Hid want so bad long in de sum-
mer, when folks was too lazy ter write
an de sack was empty; but bimeby
dey got ter sending out seed by de
bushel and books what weighs nine
poun's an wild corners on 'em like
err pillow pint, and den hit were sho'er
'sponsible job. Long in de summer
too, hit want so bad bout rations; wa
termelons growed long side err de road.
an plums and blackberries was hang
ing in reach; an de squirrels 'ud shake
down de muscadines at every branch.
But my foot's on de frost now, an
nuthing in sight on dat road 'cep'n err
stray rabbit what looks back over es
sholder an ticks his foot in es ham
when he saw pood-hvi
Il amt gone back on Genl Roosevelt
ner de folks what sot me free; I'm still
err toting dat sack; but it looks
mighty like dey have gone back on
me! You write Genl Roosevelt an
tell him; tell him rs poly an mighty
pestered about de stomach
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

The startling statement is made IN
Minneapolis that of the forty-one pris-
oners in the Hennepin County Jail not
one is above % years of age. The
condition that brings about this state
of affairs is worth while inQuiring into.
A Hennepin County judge, comment
ing upon the situation, says that he be-
neves the Increase of crime among
young men is due to their being forced
out of many sources of employment by
girls. The one thing certain is the
fact that there are more young men
occupying cells In iails and penitsR
haries than there We're a few vel NJ
ago, and 1t Dehooves those persons who
interest themselves in criminology to
inquire into the conditions that have
brought about this increase in the
criminal tendencies of young men.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
MARCUS. THE sUPPLlANTl
Colored Mail Carrier Was Getting
Anxious About His Salary.

"A n
An old colored mail-carrier, named
Marcus Anthony, has u grievance
against the Post-Office Department, be-
cause, although he considered himself
legally hired, he had received no pay
for his services. After waiting what
he considered a reasonable length Of
time he went into town to talk it over;
and this, according to the Washington
Star. Is the story he told:
well, l bin er carrying de mail
down yonner in Twiggs County, twixt
Irma and Billiards, sence last June;
going up an down, an down and up
er sandy road three times er week. an
nobody amt paid me nair nickel
not nair nickel Huccum I'm hyar is.
l wanter know bout it Is l er work
ing for wages or is l er working fer
nothingw
who hired Your
de postmaster down at Irma GIN
me de job. an he tell me hit'ud be all
right when de boss man come erlong.
But he amt never come erlong yit,
an hit don't look all right ter me-"
did you take the oath?'
mo, sab. / amt took no oath in my
life. Amt no man ever hear me swear.
I'm err wrastlin' deacon in de Shoal
Greek church"
Ibid anybody go on your bond-any-
body stand for your
Yes. sab. Mr.. Tom Bond down at
dc store stan fer me ter git er little
meat an bread"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

made up Of twelve passenger cars and
weighing about 600 tons, exclusive Of
passengers and baggage. Such train
will accommodate 760 people, whose
aggregate weight would not be less
than fifty-seven tons, and estimating
their baggage at fifteen tons, the total
weight of the train behind the engine
will be 6l5 tons.
Such a train will have to be hauled
11O1a miles in two and one-half hours.
making two stops and three slowdowns
for railway crossings. This will reduce
the actual running time to two hours
and twenty-four minutes, and necessi-
tate an average running speed of forty
six miles per hour.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

Not so long ago an instructor at an
eastern university said to his class,
Always have a good book by you to
read when you ought to be doing some
thing else" This, like many other cpl
grams, is not a rule rigidly to be fol-
lowed. The idea finds fuller express
sion in some recent advice from Sen
ator Hoar: BE diligent in your bust
ness, but not diligent to the exclusion
Of everything else. Read. Take some
good author and soak yourself in him.
The man who does but one thing well
is only a one-armed man or a one-eyed
man" 1t Is not right to read when
one ought to be doing something else,
but it is right to set aside some part
of the waking hours, when the mind
Is fresh enough to grapple with good
ideas, and use 1t in work Of different
kind from that which we do for live
lihood. For those whose chief occupa-
ton Is intellectual, this secondary
work should be labor with the hands.
But for most people it might we'll con-
sist in reading good magazines or
books. There are so many cheap peck
ct editions Of standard works that the
equipment for such reading is neither
expensive nor cumbersome. Ones
principal occupation is supposed to fill
the pocketbook. That other pocket
book, a copy of an English classic, is
a treasury always full. This reading,
then, is not merely the lighter sort
done for relaxation in the hours of
rest. 1t is work of an important kind.
Every man owes it to society not only
to earn bread, but to be an intelligent
citizen, with ideas on life and knowl-
edge of affairs. To fulfill this duty
he reads, and to make the reading eff
fective he must approach it as serious
though joyous labor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

Marksmen are born. not made, as
Horace might have said. A man who
had been In the navy only three weeks
was q member of one of the crews
manning a six-pound gun on a recent
target practice cruise of the Texas.
He aimed the gun-the first time he
had ever done such n thing-and hit
the target at a thousand yards. Then,
just to show that it was not luck, he
hit the target nine times more in sue
cession.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
ALTON RAIL ROAD HAS THE
MOST POWERFUL ENGINE

The largest and most powerful pas
senger locomotive in existence has just
been built for the Chicago and Alton
Railroad. Another engine just like
1t has been ordered, and the two will
be used in the st. Louis excursion traf-
nc next year
The driving wheels are six feet and
six inches high. There are twelve
wheels in all. on the engine. The duty
Of these engines will be to haul trains
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
Wedding Anniversaries.

wedding anniversaries: First year,
cotton wedding; second year, paper
wedding: third year, leather wedding;
fifth year. wooden wedding; seventh
year. wooden wedding; tenth year. tin
wedding; twelfth year. the wedding Of
silk and fine linen; twenty-f1rst year,
china wedding; the silver weddiT
comes at the end of the twenty-fith
year: the pearl wedding is the thir-
tieth anniversary: the ruby wedding
Is the fortieth, and the golden wedding
the fiftieth; the diamond wedding is
the sixtieth.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
STORE SERVICE MACHINE.

One disagreeable feature Of trade in
a retail store is the necessity which
often arises of climbing to the upper
shelves on ladders for goods out Of
reach from the floor, and there Is no
doubt that the delay often caused by
failure to move quickly in the ascent
and descent loses the sale for the clerk.
The object of the apparatus shown
here is to provide a simple and rapid
means for handling merchandise, and
with its aid the clerk may stand on the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
The Other way Around.

do you think that cigarette smok-
ing causes a deterioration of mentali-
typ"
II am not clear on that point" said
the man who makes a speciality OF
profound opinions. THE Impression
to that effect may be due to the fact
that people with brains naturally
avoid them. "-Washington Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

Love of gambling in one form or an
other seems to be in the American
blood and the American boy Is easily
led astray by temptations to take
chances" on the various gambling
schemes that have been allowed to be-
come part of the ordinary merchan-
disc of the shops that he frequents.
These things should be put out of the
reach of our school children.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
Bad Designs.

The citizen spoke mysteriously as he
pointed to the man skulking in the
shadows, and the policeman saw the
road to promotion loom up before him.
THAT man has bad designs on that
building" the citizen said.
bad designs on the building? He.
ha! a ffrebug!"
mo; the incompetent architect that
designed the house!''-Baltimore Her
aid.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
Birds Make Fog Signal.

The cries of sea birds, especially
seagulls, are very valuable as fog sig
nails. The birds cluster together on
the cliffs and coast and their cries
warn boatmen that they are near land.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

The cost of extra knots of high speed
was elucidated by recent experiments
with a new armored British cruiser,
Cape Of Good Hope, Of 14,100 tons.
On her eight-hour trial she made
mean speed of 23.05 knots. Her coal
expenditure for various speeds was
plotted with surprising results. To go
from Ills knots to % knots needed,
roughly. 10000 additional horse power,
while the last knot alone absorbed
s,621 horse power That is to say.
TO progress from 30 to % knots needed
as much power as the total required
to drive the ship at about 16 knots; or,
to put 1t in still another way, the
power needed TO drive the Cape OF
Good Hope at full speed would propel
two similar vessels at about 10 knots.
The coal consumption at full speed
was, roughly, twenty-Sx tons per
hour; at 10 knots, about IL tons per
hour. Again. at full speed the ship
would steam 0.S5 knot for each ton of
coal burned, while at 10 knots the dis
lance would be double for a similar
consumption of fuel.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
The Lion Sea Rridpe.

The bridge which crosses an arm of
the Yellow Sea at Sangung, which is
known as the Lion Sea, has total Of
five and one-quarter miles This enor-
nous stretch is supported on rather
more than 800 pillars of stone.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
A WelI-Kent Secret.

In 1859 a Milan student is said to
have discovered the secret of petrify-
ing human flesh. In 1866 he was
drowned in shipwreck on the Medit-
terranean Sea, the wonderful secret
perishing with him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
penance for sins

AS a self-inficted atonement for
sins committed thirty years ago
Moscow beggar has ever since worn
an iron chain from which two heavy
weights depend
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

John Green Brady. the governor of
Alaska, has never known the name of
his father or mother. Years ago when
he was street gamin In New York
city. selling newspapers and backing
shoes, he was just Brady" So the
other street arabs called him. One day
with carload of city waits he was
shipped out West Judge Green, of In
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
TO CORRESPONDENTS.

All communications for this paper shoHid be accom-
naned by the name of the author; mot necessarily f
publication evidence of good faith on the part
of the writer Write only side of the paper. b
particularly careful In giving and dates to have
the letters and figures plain and distinct
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

The Chicago police raided ten get
rich-quick concerns In one week. What
a strenuous job, this keeping the fool
and his money together.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

1t must have come easy for Adam
when he wished to flatter Eve. He
could call her the fairest of her sex
without bothering his conscience in the
least
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

The typical American public official
never seems to doubt that he is chosen
to make q judicious selection of which
laws ought to be enforced and which
ignored. Every sheriff or police chief
is his own legislator nowadays.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

There are few people who strug-
gle all their lives in the hope that some
day they may be wealthy enough to
exude aphorisms on how to attain sue
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

When revolutionists kill a President
in Honduras they call it an accident,
probably because of the well-known
fact that accidents will happen.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

Women will tell you that they ''aim"
at truth. Perhaps that is why they do
not hit the target.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

Speaking of unhappy lots" remarks
the Baltimore American, what about
the graveyardT" Usually the fence
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

Put big white apron on any wom'
an who is good natured, and she Will
look motherly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

If Hetty Green had only been Rus
sell Sage's wife, then both Of them
would now be satisfied with life.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

These girls with active imaginatiors.
make very suspicious wives!
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30
Cranberries.

Cranberries are used internally and
externally in cases of erysipelas
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

The first cigar and the first baby are
Rlike-you wonder why other people
seem to like them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

Thomas A. Edison's pipe still seems
TO be burning.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1903-05-30

A soft answer often maketn man
sick.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13

kindergarten ranges herself alongside the
mother. i'm the attitude of one come. not to
guard, but TO guide.
Children go TO Kindergarten to play; as
has been remarked 1.-The kindergarten is
one unbroken round of pleasure" Ideally
that is true. play is the work of the child"
1t is his legitimate business. In the first
months of its life the infant has nothing
to do but eat sleep and wax strong in
body. When sense-impressions begin, the
instincts awaken, play comes like diges-
tive process of the soul. and the spiritual
man has started into life! 1t is very hard
to distinguish (and not at all worth while)
between the physical and the spiritual man.
ifestattions of this early time. The first
uncertain play of the limbs comes no doubt
of an animal instinct for exercise. But who
shall say that those kicking feet are not
straying into first stupendous realization
the realization of self? For the baby smile
with which he greets his mother when his
foot strikes her. is token of his knowledge
that she and he are twain.
Every mother can testify to the care and
even anxiety with which she has watched
the food taken into the body of her child.
She knows by experience. the things he
may take with advantage, and those he
must leave.
Not nearly so definitely. and yet with wise
intuition, mothers have, for centuries, min
istered to the spiritual hunger of their chill
dren. Sense-impressions of the pure, the
true, the beautiful-these are the food they
have striven to bring.
Froebel saw the peasant mothers of Ger
many take their little ones into the fields
and point to flying birds, to clouds and
stars, to flowers and stream. He tried 20
catch their prattle. which was of the in
nocence, the lovingness and happiness
among living creatures. Froebel went to-
school to these mothers. Afterward, he
told us-as If we did not know!-that the
things which are lovely and of good repute
should not fail to surround the child, who
has in him the hope of the perfect man.
But that was not all Froebel had to tell
US.
When a mother has fed her child she
knows the work is not done. 1t has passed
out of her hands-for in the beginning
the child was endowed with a digestive ap-
paratus of his own. She can only provide
the food, and endeavor to that the
digestive apparatus stays in order. Only!
Still, that is little compared with the
greater problem which confronts her-the
judicious ministry to her childs soul.
Where mothers cannot give their children
vistas of snowy mountains. glories of au-
tumn woods, or even a little field, teem-
ing with the life of nature, from singing
wild birds to toiling, moiling ant and worm
mothers who have not such things for
their children, as city mothers have not
must do their best with the panorama of
the skies. and city parks and lawns. Even
that little is much If one expands to see
it. But when all is said and done. this is
only food for the child To him, after all,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
At the City Parks.

Good programmes are promised at the
various city parks this afternoon. in the
free band concerts. If the weather is fair
there will be great crowds i'm attendance at
all OF these musical entertainments. At
Riverside Park the concert will be given
by Arndt's Military Band, and the pro-
gramme will be as follows:
March-"The Gentleman from Indi-
dhd ..s........-......... bOeHeI
Selection-'"The Little Duchess. De Koven
A Webfoot Promenade-"A Lucky
OuCh w nltney
Waltz-"The Blue Danube" ......... Strauss
Cornet Solo-"Sea Flower Polka, 49,.
Robinson
Ben Schreckengost.
March-"Dixie Girl .................. Lampe
Selection-"When Johnny Comes March
Ing Home .-..::.................E dwards
Intermezzo-"Anona' ....................Gr Grey
Sextet, form Lucia ............. Donizetti
Selection-"The Sleeping Beauty and
the t5edSt ..............-......C ndttaWay
Barn Dance-"In Old Alabama" :. .Cruger
March-"Down on the Farm Won Tilzer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13

already spent four more days I'm this town
than | meant to- I'm due home now. Don't
keep me here to testify against him. for
heavens sake"
''Well?'' said the chief turning TO the
proprietor.
Il don't care TO make any complaint"
the hotel man answered. for IL is part OF
the business not to let the public get hold
OF such things, even though they. are un-
avoidable in the best of houses.
The chief turned to the cuIprit
1.-The next train leaves for the East at
l." he said, "snd it's now 4. You go home,
bid your family goodbye and be sure to
meet me at the station in time TO catch the
train. ] want you to go Esst-and TO stay
there. IL you don't meet me" and the
chief finished with significant click Of his
jaws.
That night he pleasantly shook hands with
a companion who got aboard an east-bound
train. Then the chief called on his friend.
the clerk.
How in thunder did you know he had a
queer pocket in his coat? he asked.
The clerk was modest.
II didn't" he replied. II just thought he
ought to have one, to be able to slip a big
pocketbook of a table in broad daylight
without anybodys noticing him.
CASE OF REMARKABLE MEMORY.
This clerk is known TO many a detective
for his remarkable memory OF faces as
well for his ability to recognise a man
the first time he has seen him by means
of description. even a fleeing glimpse
of photograph.
A detective in another city once wrote to
the clerk:
Il inclose pretty poor photograph Of
Slim Pete the safe blower. xho L. cominxy
your way. He wouldn't keep still when we
took it. He tries to appear the gentleman
when travelling. and he may. therefore, try
to put up with you. IL he does do me the
favor of nabbing him.
The clerk got local detective assigned
to sit on a sofa placed on the opposite side
of the office. so that ii faced the desk. Here
the arm Of the law lolled until the after
noon of the second day, when a stranger
every inch the well-groomed man of the
world, walked up to the desk with an easy
air and began registering. He was just
reaching out to get the key from the clerk
when the latter raised a hand as If to reach
for the letter box back Of him. 1t was the
preconcerted signal, and next second slim
Pete" the safe blower, was under arrest
He had been instantly recognized by the
clerk. despite his natty get-up and be-
coming Van Dyke beard not shown on the
photograph. He had made the fatal mis-
take of not giving heed to his eyebrows.
One was sweeping and long. the other de-
cidedly shorter, and the clerk had noticed
the difference in the roeues' gallery photo
graph that his friend down East had sent
him. THOMAS G. CLAYTON.
copyright, 1907
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
Spades Place.
THE MEANING OF PLAY.

Mere and more parents are coming to
feel that the kindergarten has a distinct
educational value in the life of the child.
Even when they have no clear conception Of
the purpose of the kindergarten. they have
reason for respecting it, reason why
they wish their child to be there.
The mother realizes her own responsible
ity I'm rearing her child. She is very often
engrossed in 1t to such an extent that she
cannot conceive of outside influences having
to enter in. But the average mother is grow
ing more enlightened. She understands now,
as she did not a few years ago. that the
child she has carried under her heart. be-
comes the worlds child almost soon as
his eyes recognize the light. She cannot
keep him to herself. and she ought not. If
she could. Instead of throwing herself be-
tween the child and the thousand influ-
ences that crowd in upon him she is far
wiser II she turns and welcomes them. The
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-09-13
What's a Heart /:

What's heart?
Just basket for the ills of lie,
And all its meat
Just ,ender net to compass Love,
And find IL sweet.
What's a heart?
Just keyhole for the Masters key.
That wind1 US we'll:
To show the time OF day in Heaven.
or night In Hell
T. carol ). Turvey. In The .