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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
Repairing Harness.

Repairing H@rne81.
Most premises have old leather
traces about, and number Of parts
of harness, such as breast. pole and
holdback straps, can be made of these,
by one handy at such work. Select u
piece long enough for breast strap,
fasten snap at one end; 18 or 20
inches from this snap cut away all but
the best outside ply, riyet a buckle.
punch a number of holes, and there.
you are. The pole and holdback8
may be made from old light traces,
a belly band for chain harness would
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

The Southwest is the most promi-
nent producer of pecans. Last season
the output was possibly 1900 cars. 1t
is claimed by some that the yield this
season win approach two thousand
cars. The nuts are suitable for all
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

paper as they are twisted around
oranges and lemons. Have the eggs
strictly fresh Of good size and clean,
and you'll find that the tissue paper
conceit will sell them readily and at
good ces.-Indanapolis News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
|scRrT OF THE SPRING WINDS.

rcReT OF THE SPRING WINDS.
\. wind Of March has the call Of the
sea
! 10 wings Of the wind, do they never
tire0;
J. burrics tho cloud and it harries the
tree
With the Guttcr and roar of leaping
fire.
Oa and wild md eager to flee,
4 tho lure to loss or to liberty,
I Iight of the eyes and my Hearts De-
sire?
she April wind hns the scent Of rain
4 10 wings of the wind, do they never
tire0;
] oity it whispers and bushes again,
1 Warm MS the kiss of the pale sun atire,
Promise of bloom and the green Of new
grain
peace but the drowsy surcease OF pain,
& Light Of the eyes and my Hearts De-
sire?
lho wind Of May losses the petals white
% wings Of the wind, do they never
tirc9;
Chtc as the loyc-moon silvering the
night
Pure as the dew and tho hearts new
fire,
Bamy blessing and strong sweet might,
kberty peace, and the sure delight,
Light OF the eyes and my Hearts De-
Sire2
-Harpers Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

II Is a wonder that 1t is not demand
cd of the men that they put up ne"
monuments for their wives every ume
the style changes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
soldiers Kept Long Abroad.

After twenty years service abroad
tho First North Staffordshire regiment
of England lately arrived ut Southamp-
ton
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08
FOR MOVING WIRE FENCES.

can walk. TO unroil fasten wire to-
one of the corner posts, drive ahead
and the wire will unroli itself-C. ".
Gregory, in st. Louis Republic.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

j i, rcr rcg'Iur lcttcr-scemed she got ever day
t,ror WINS cuntented less she answered right away.
M horny pen an paper an we'd tease her till she'd sigh
% ,bo fore she'd marry she'd go lay down and die.
10 never WIS rcspectcrs of no persons, or kin
II Lm, m folks got mad-by gum!-we'd tease worse
asm.
m old days has departed an tn store amt quite the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

purposes, and are relatively cheaper
than almost any other BGrt on the mar
ket. a3.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-04-08

Poor Jones declares he's bankrupt an the Government
blame,
For when he KEEP tn office there tn folks would
To do little tradin while they waited for tn mail
So I've thought tn whole thing an I've just about
That while TIL rural route itself has filed longfet need
believe that I'd be wiin' to go git my mail
Just to live, an laugh an lie agin ut Lah Joneses store
w. NJ. Herschcll, In Indianapolis News.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14

the volume, Stearns allows himself to
make this singular mistake.
He (Jefferson) knew that he was
in the direct line of promotion and
that he had only TO hold on in order
finally 70 reach the Presidency. from
which Hamilton was debarred by his
foreign birth" If the author had re-
membered his history of the Federal
convention he would have recalled
how the efforts Of Hamilton's friends
themselves succeeded in inserting the
qualification of article II, clause 5:
No person except a natural born
citizen, or a citizen Of the United
States at the time Of the adoption of
this constitution. shall be eligible to
the Office of President"
Machiaveh though Stearns conceives
Jefferson to be, that astute states
man certainly did not have the reason
assigned him for holding on
q. 3. Lippincott Company. Phiia-
delphia; price 81 SOD
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the ocean currents and tides, turn the
trade winds in new directions, make
high lands into swamps and deserts
into gardens of the Lord!" Thus
speaks Starleigh on page 10 OF The
Promoters" after having had but one
drink-and that a short one-since
the story opened. That this miracle
Is to result from the simple trick of
firing 10000 13-inch guns simulta-
neously from a fat plain in Western
Nebraska the reader soon learns. This
act will serve to kick" old earth of
his balance just as a shotgun kicks"
the small boy off his feet and the
cataclysm scheduled above will then
overtakes all tenets of physical geog-s
raphy Of all time.
Now as an opening chapter to tale
this first installment Of Mr.. William
Hawley Smiths book certainly has
merit of unusual order. Even the
most blase reader will find himself
pricked on to a reading of the second
against the possibility Of missing
something that will happen to the
ringed Saturn or the third satellite OF
Jupiter therein. He finds the second
equally as startling; how Nova Zem-
bla Is to be plated into town lots,
Lake Albert Nyanza made a summer
resort and Cuba converted into deep
sea aquarium. The third chapter,
even, keeps up the strain with promo
ton schemes such as the world never
heard. dollars many as star dust and
power llimitable-then the story
snaps, drops down to something below
mediocrity and trails away to the
S67th page Of hub-dub.
1t is as If the author had been hoist
by one Of his own cannons for three
chapters of inspired fight IN the
mists of fancy only to fall sickeningly
into slough Of the commonplace.
Grand. McNally & Co., Chicago; IL
luStrafedO
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The lunatic. the lover and the poet
Are OF imagination all compact.
Illus saith Shakespeare, but 1t Is
- with the restriction born Of mea-
~ ger knowledge. The great bard
knew not William Hawley Smith,
else would he have included this gen
tleman, author of The Promoters"
in his category as one apart from the
three others. THE lunatic and Mr..
Smith, the lover and the poet" should
that line read did but the laws Of
meter permit of such Interpolation.
The shades of Captain Memo, of
Phineas Fogg and all the rest of Jules
Verne's galaxy of immortals must un-
cover before the overwhelming pres
ence of Goldsby and Starleigh, "the
promoters" For theirs is not to sail
20, 900 leagues under the sea, nor vet
to journey to the moon; theirs is to
move the earth, twist the poles out Of
shape, make mountains into subter-
ranean peaks and toy with rivers as
with the stream from a garden hose.
Listen:
I'm going to change the location Of
every zone on this globel I'm 60
ing to change the climate and rainfall
on every foot Of ground on the whole
earth's surface. I'm going to readjust
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was equivalent to the concise French,
"J'y suis. Jy reste." So he stayed in
Peking. and ever since the Manchu
dynasty has ruled over the Chinese
and evidently from this story by di-
vine right.
In the Prologue to the Crisis" occurs
this prophecy: The cutting of the first
sod of the great Siberian railway by
the Czarewitch in 1891 near Vladivostok
was really the official opening OF
question which may yet make Russia
bleed to death" Further on in the
book the Russians attempted con
quest by railway is we'll told and the
reason for its futility pointed out. 1t is
a too costly, too thin Russian string
through a wilderness that cannot be
Russianized. Chinese cunning, Chinese
preponderance, Chinese deadly cheap
competition. even just Chinese wis in
ertiae." make the plan impossible.
The author gives a good account Of
the uselessness of the Russian financial
scheme which was to assist the con
quest by railway" He calls it "the
travelling ruble" The Chinese redeem
the Russian rubles instanter and the
swift cashing process cancels all hoped
for outreach Of power by credit or Rus
sianiZing of Manchu millions by fixing
on them Slav financial system. The
ruble travels so rapidly its nimbleness
makes it non-effective, and spot coin
might as we'll be paid for the goods, or
so soon after for the suspected paper.
The light thrown on the corruption of
Russian methods of doing business-the
bribery, the bare-faced demands by Of
ficials for percentages on contracts
show good reasons for Russian failure
besides defeat in war. There is a story
Of an American firm losing many
thousands on a big hay contract be-
cause they refused to pay an unjust
commission to the officials who passed
judgment on the quality of the hay.
The Notifications Of Port Arthur are
described as being well nigh impregna-
bic, and there is supposed to be great
trap in their arrangement in which to
catch the enemy just when he thinks
he is about to be successful. Contrast
ing with the details Of cannon sites and
carnage preparations there is an ac-
count of a lavishly projected church at
Port Arthur, over which is to be the
cross Of the Greek Christian church.
This brings US to think of one of the
most puzzling features of the great
struggle for supremacy in the Far
East. Is the triumph of the cross of
Christ much concerned in the matter?
Are the Japanese by outdoing the Rus
SLAMS in practical righteousness, really
more Christian than those who name
the Name in prayer and bow to the
symbol Of the cross? Will the victory
of the japanese be setting back Of
the advance Of Christianity, or but, by
checking the Slav, make swifter way
for the Saxon to set the seal of high
er Christian ideal on the awakening
soul Of the Far East?
The author is certainly Of this opin-
ion. Nor does he hesitate to invoke the
god of battles in behalf of the Japanese
armies now striving in Manchuria.
(The Macmillan Company, New York;
price $3)
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toned it on the same score; still the
Interrogation remained unanswered.
Then, as if becoming Whitaker at last
had caused to bubble the springs of
Inspiration, Regina determined that
the emancipation of her sex was her
sacred endowment of duty and she
became a remarkable woman forth
with. The two little Whittakers were
allowed to grow strong and weedy at
their hearts own promptings, for Re-
gina was president of the Society for
the Regeneration of Women. Papa
Whitaker was nothing else than
Dear Alfy'' and that only during
spare moments, for Regina was on a
dozen committees. She had answered
the question propounded to the mirror
on that twentieth and thirtieth year.
Then came the disaster. Dear
Alfy' had bought a golden bracelet
surreptitiously; he had been kept
many evenings downtown at his office;
he had dined at the Trocadero with an
unknown of darkly designing counte-
nance. Regina's suspicion waxed into
certainty. She was losing Alfy. Then
did the president of the S. r. w. be-
stir herself, for it must be through her
alone that the black and somewhat
corpulent sheep be led back to the
fold. To the doctor she went that
she might reduce her waistband to its
erstwhile lissomeness, the dressmaker
was importuned for something artis-
tically adequate with which to grid
that reconstructed waist, the hair
dresser, the masseur, the milliner
were commanded to practice their
finest handicraft. At last from the
chrysalis of her strenuous devotion to
womankind emerged Regina, a woman
regenerated, to find that she still pos
sessed Dear Atty" and something
more-true womanliness.
About this slender thread of in
cident the author has constructed a
delicate web of true comedy. Not
only do Mrs. Whittaker's little vani-
ties touch a sensitive chord Of humor
in the reader, but the complacent de-
votion of Ally himself, offering incense
before the presiding genius of his
hearth without ceasing, has something
of the Noddy Boffin about it, delight
fully reminiscent. julie and Maudie,
the two girls. reveal themselves COM
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pletely when poor mother" is their
comment upon Regina both while she
is a woman OF affairs and during her
distressing period of mental and ply
sical reorganization.
Through the entire story the charm
of the home is felt convincingly.
Either over the salmon at dinner or
around the library lamp at night we
see the members of the Whitaker
family exchanging little tendernesses,
doing kindly little offices-those small
amenities which make the home a
bright and cheerful abiding place. Had
John Strange Winters story no other
charm this alone would make it pleas
urable reading.
(Funk & Wagnalls Company, New
York; price So
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n HENRY S4UAGE LANDoR, authc

n HENRY S.4UHGE L.4JNDOR, author of
~ the book of traUet in the Malay Islands,
"The Gems of the East, recently published by
Harper g. Brothers, is grandson of LLdLter
Savage L0Hdor, the English man of letters. Mr..
LdRdor LU0S born at Florence and received his
education there and at .Julian'S ia Paris as an
art student His career trQUeter began
NTH tour through Japan, China, Korea, South
Mongolia, Tibet, america, australia and
northern africa L1ith the true gift of the ers
pLorer Mr.. L0Rdor soon turned his steps to-
LUord unknOUn lands. He tUaS the first LUhife
man to reach both sources of the Brahnaputra
RiUer and his thrilling experiences of inlprison,
n1ent and torture in Tibet are narrated in his
book 'rIn the Forbidden Land" He marched
tUith the allied troops to Peking in 1900 and
WaS the first AngLosSdxon to enter the "Fors
bidder City,"
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14

7~HE life of Michael D0Uitt, tOhoSe book
The Fail of FeuddGSnl in Ireland" has
been noted in these columns, runs like a ro
nance. He LUoS born in Ireland in 1916. FIT
the age of Z he had his first experience Of being
evicted by a landlord .4t 10 he tO0s working
IN q Lancashire cotton mill LUhere he suffered
the loss of his right arm in the machinery. Thus
handicapped, he became successfully a neWSs
boy, q printers deUu and assistant letter
carrier. He Joined the Fenion brotherhood
and after fiUe years UaS arrested and tried for
tredSOnsfeLony and sentenced to fifteen years
penal SerUitude. In IT he uUdS released as q
''ticket.Of,LeoUe man, but, far from taking
any UGrning from this experience, he joined
PdrneH and other dgit0toFS and founded LUith
them the Irish Land League. Several times he
landed again in prison for short terms.
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Whether Queen Elizabeth was a vain
coquette, or worse. is debated by Mar
tin Hume in two chapters that he has
added to the new edition OF THE
Courtships Of Queen Elizabeth" which
McClure-P Phillips viii bring out in the
fall The first issue of this book treat
ed the "courtships" merely from a pO-
htical viewpoint. These added chapters.
containing the original documents un-
earthed by Major Hume, are in re-
sponse to the demands OF curious read
ers who realized that the author, in
charge OF the Elizabethan state papers
at the British Museum, must be able to
throw new light on Elizabeth as q wo-
man no less than as a Queen.
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Light Reading
for Spare Moments

EFT us hope. for the peace Of mind
\ Of Stephen Conrad in this life and
L. his salvation in the hereafter, that
as the prototype Of his Second
Mrs. Jim" there is no avenging Mary
Bass, with her tub Of dirty suds for
obnoxious visitors and her maledictions
for the author. For, though Mrs. Jim's
oracular disquisitions have not the rare
flavor that comes Of a cabbage patch,
they are very much OF the Mrs. Wigs
Wiggsian. and If no downeast step
mother arises in her wrath to accuse
the author Of meddling in her private
affairs we may credit him with rare
good fortune. At least let US hope that
Conrad's worthy optimist will not dis
pei all Illusions before the bar Of a Po-
lice Court, as did Mrs. Rice's.
This Second Mrs. Jim" is quite the
genial philosopher that Mrs. Wigs
showed herself to be, but OF a far more
subtle strategy and polished finesse Of
action. Where the mother Of Europina
was wont to fight it out along her ac-
cepted line If it took all summer, the
astute stepmother in Conrads little
book achieves quick success by meth
DDS almost Machiavelian. No more di-
verting piece of maternal maneuvering
could be found in fiction than that ex-
hibited by Mrs. Jim when she desired
to break Jimmie OF tobacco, nor can
one withhold an admiring smile for
that crafty lady's manipulation Of
James senior in the matter Of the de-
tails Of the honeymoon to the circus.
Mrs. Jim is a diplomat rarely precious.
OF homely saws and quaint aphor-
isms THE Second Mrs. Jim has a
plenty. Though this sort Of thing has
been David Harumed and Eben Hol-
denied nigh to extinction, Conrad has
put into the mouth Of garrulous Mrs.
Jim some Yanktown-on-the-Pik bon
mots that may easily bear quotation.
There's two times to get a man to
agree to lhings, an. OF course, after
he's agreed to 'em it's a poor stick Of a
woman that can't hold him to EN- One
of the times is when he's just married.
That does for young married men. The
other times when he's courtin'. That's
the time to get things out Of widow
ers." Thus speaks the oracle. And yet
again on the subject Of marriage per-
tinently thus:
eff a man is henpecked right he don't
know 1t, an thinks it's fun"
IL. c. Page & Co., Boston; price 81
To the much that has been written
in the last year concerning Parsifal,
Mary Hanford Ford has added with her
book, The Legends OF Parsifal." This
little work, thoroughly scholarly and
written with the sureness OF knowI-
edge, has interest for all students OF
xr-olI g.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14

Two new English books published by
the Macmillan Company show how
deeply the British ara agitatins the
subject Of a tariff. A large volume en-
titled The Return to Protection" by
Professor William Smart Of the Uni
versity OF Glasgow. enters extensively
into the principles OF protective tariff.
retaliation. dumping, and preferential
tariffs and their price. Lord Avebury's
volume on Free Trade" Is a full and
informing statement OF the present po-
sition OF British commerce, and an able
argument against the reversal OF the
present British system
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14

After a period OF three years new,
long novel by the author OF "Sir Rich
ard Calmady' is announced for publ
cation "Sir Richard Calmady" had the
rare distinction OF meeting with an ex-
cellent sale the first year. while the
second years sale surpassed that OF the
first. This was due 70 the strong and
enduring lines on which its bid for
popular favor was based. It possessed
a striking and powerful plot; 1t was
written in mastery style. Mrs. st.
Leger Harrison ("Lucas Malst'O, the
laughter Of Charles Kingsley. possesses
intellectual and literary ability which
places her among the very foremost
women novelists OF the day. The new
novel, to be published in the autumn.
by Dodd, Mead & Co.. Is to be called
The Paradise Of Dominic"
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-14

A member OF the Bohemian Club.
who withholds his name because OF
some right stinging criticism ineor-
porated, has brought out IN paper COW
ers "reminiscences OF the early days OF
the organization in the form Of the
jinks invitations issued BY the sires
Of the seventies. Many OF them are
sparkling with epigram and the true
Bohemian wit which the compiler
mourns in a foreword as having de-
parted from the halls OF present day
Bohemia.
paul Elder & Co., San Francisco;
price T5c.)
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Mrs. Whitaker
With Her VanitieS

- DELIGHTFUL little comedy Of
II human nature, refreshing in its
simplicity and atmosphere Of
sweet living, is John Strange
Winters latest story, '%rhe Lit
tie Vanities Of Mrs. Whitaker" In
these days of the novel Of matrimonial
infelicity, of divorce, of the rotten
ness of the moral fabric Of social life,
such a wholesome reflection OF pure
home life as that of Mrs. Stannard's
book brings a happy lift to our pes
simism and makes US believe that alPs
right with the world still. Ye Dene
is home among homes and its people
are of the salt of the earth.
At the age of 20 Regina-whittaker
to be-gazed at herself in the glass
and questioned, What shall 1 do with
myself?" Again ut 80, Regina-stilI
Whitaker to be-looked at her round,
pudgy face in the mirror and Ques-
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the remote dawn OF classic literature.
The great epic, PARTIAL" written in
the early thirteenth century by
Wolfram von Eschenbach and the di-
rect inspiration of Wagner's MASTER
piece, is outlined at length by the
author with comparative analysis both
Of the German cycle and OF its COM
panion, the Galahad theme OF Ar
thurian legend. Very carefully does
she emphasize the difference OF moods
in the two epic cycles-that OF Parzi-
fal the mystical. that OF Galahad the
religious. With keen perception OF
the esthstic value Of the Grail theme
the author closes her study by a we'll
worded resume OF the powerful
spiritual influence exerted to-day, as
of old, by the story Of the mystic cup.
CH. N. Caldwell Company. New
York;
Ruth Ashmore codihed might be a
term expressive enough and compre-
hensive enough to characterize "a
Dictionary OF Etiquette" w c.
Green's red book on social good form
All Talks to Girls and Ready Helps
to the Helpless" Of all the ladies'
magazines OF these fifteen years passed
are herein incorporated in ready ref
erence for the use OF those who would
know the intricacies OF polite society.
CANE: A cane is the correct
thing for a man when walking. except
when engaged in business. 1t should
be held a few inches below the knob,
ferrule down. and should. like UNI
brellas, be carried vertically.
REPORTERS: If such Is the wish
OF the family Of the bride the best
man attends to the reporters Cat we'd
dings) and furnishes them with the
name Of the groom, bride, relatives.
friends, descriptions Of gowns and
other suitable things to know"
These are good things to know. No
household is complete without "A
Dictionary on Etiquette"
(Brentano's, New York; price
81 25.)
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Beyond the Hen
of Verne's Widest

The lunatic. the lover and the poet
Are OF Imagination all compact.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1904-09-15
THAT RUSSIAN CRUISER.

Undoubtedly there exaggeraon report that the flag
ship OF the British squadron the Pacific making prepara
tions and the should
permitted leave San Francisco where refuge
Nevertheless the circulation
that there possibilities connected with the decision
government connected with this Russian fugitive
There is hope and expectation that the government will by
amicab hold the vessen the harbor
until the the far end The problem is
delicate and involves many dbatabe points but the govern
ment Washington safely without pei-
ace and with entire justice So far appears the
"h0h the Lena the OF American
vesss engaged transporting articles war The
haVy increase IN marine insurance
@ Dooe ate significant indication of the feeling appre
hnsion that prevails shipping and circles
II the Lena permitted repair go out again before the
enc OF the war she will no doubt prey upon with
the Orient and estimate OF the inconvenience and DAMAGE she
cause can be made While she should be accorded eer ,
TO which begeren ship is entitled neutral port She should
not be permitted to make that port of her forav ON neutral
commerce