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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19

Neither do l. am afraid l do not
always understand Stephen; but-but
l always do as he tells me-"
And she looked up with the anxious,
questioning expression which Una
noticed was always present When
Stephen Davenant was mentioned
Was Mrs. Davenant afraid of her
son?
Una unused for minute in silence
then she looked up and said:
81 ought to do what Mr. Stephen
wishes. Do you know what he wants
me to do?'
You are to be companion to me, my
dear"
81 am very fond of fairy tales she
said"
Let me show you how to put on
your gloves DEAR" she said. Eyes, you
have got small hand, and beautiful
ly-shaped one, too. Strange, small
hands are a sure sign of high BIRTH
perhaps I am a princess in dis
guise. No! 1 am a woodlands daugh
ter in the disguise of a princess, that
is it,
Mrs. Davenant looked at her curious
ly.
"You are not ashamed of being a
woodlands daughter, Una," she said;
''but yet-perhaps the time will come
when you will
Una's opened-eyed surprise stopped
her.
"Ashamed?" she echoed, with mild
establishment. 'Why?"
"-I don't know. Never mind, my
dear,'' said Mrs Davenant, as the
brougham stopped
"You are a strange child, and-and
you say such strange things SO natur
ally to know how to speak to you
To be Continued.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
And she held out her hand.

And she held out her hand.
Leonard did not see it, and merely
raised his hat But Jack, who was
nearest. took the hand and held it for
moment.
Goodnight, goodnight he said. q
shall never forgive myself for caus-
ing you trouble"
And in his earnestness his hand,
quite unconsciously, closed tightly on
her white, warm palm.
Lady ell dropped back into her seat,
q. warm flush spreading over her face;
and Mrs. Fellowes, awakened by the
stopping of the brougham, exclaimed,
with a yawn:
Home at last!
"No, miles away said Lady Bell.
GO to sleep again, my dear"
Leonard took Jacks arm within his,
though there was no occasion for it,
for Jack was sober enough now, and
led him upstairs.
"My dear jack he exclaimed, re-
nroachfully. what have you been do
ing?'
"Falling under cab" said Jack,
gravely.
"A cab!" retorted Leonard; "a lady S
brougham, you meant"
And he took the card to the light.
'"Why!" he exclaimed, with an ex-
preston of amazement. Lady Isabel
Earlsley! Good Heaven! that's the
heiress.'
"Eh?" said Jack, indifferently.
whats her name? She's a brick, if
ever there was one. Oh, Jupiter, |
wish [ was in bed"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
CHRONOMETERS ON ICE.
How Uncle Sam Regulates Their Time
at Washington.

Brooklyn Eagle-One hundred ship
chronometers kept in cold storage is
one of the many remarkable things to
be seen at the United States naval oD'
servatory at Washington, To the lay
man it would appear that the auhor1-
les were apprehensive that the time
pieces would spoil One more ex-
perienced would reason that the pro-
cess had something to do with regulat-
ing their time-keeping qualities.
! Neither surmise is correct. The fact
of the matter is the chronometers are
allowed to go ticking merrily on in
their own way and time. No one hur-
ries them and no one tries to diminish
their speed. Yet so important is alb
soIutely correct time on shipboard
that a difference Of four seconds means
mile in longitude may mean a war
ship on the rocks.
While no one corrects the running
of these chronometers, a most accu-
rate record is kept of their manner of
running under different tempera-
lures. This is why they are kept on ice.
! The regular annual chronometer trial
! begins January and ends June %,
and during this period there is scarcely
minute of the day that the time
keepers are not under the closest OBJ
servation Of experts, who can tell their
variations to hairs breadth, all of
which are carefully noted on a record,
and, at the completion of the test,
! handed to the commander of the vessel
to which the instrument belongs. The
temperature varies at different times
| of the test from so to so degrees, and
the losing or gaining qualities of the
chronometers under these conditions
are accurately kept. Thus, with a
chart expressing in curves just what
he may expect from his chrOnOmeter
under different conditions of climate,
and, with his thermometer and barom-
eter close at hand, the sailing master
may calculate to nicely the correct
time and get his location to a GER
tainty.
The Importance Of a central station
where navy chronometers and other
navigating instruments may be stan
dardized is not appreciated outside of
those directly interested, despite the
fact that millions of dollars and thou
sands of lives are wholly dependent
on the efficiency of the service in this
line of work. 1t is essentially neces-
sary that chronometers should be reg
ulated by a common standard, and, in
order that this may be done successful
| ly, the same person who transmits all
over the country the standard time
should have charge Of them, In other
countries there are several naval OBJ
! servatories that do the work which the
Washington observatory is practically
doing alone.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
SOAK UP SUNSHINE.

Get out and soak up the sunshine
While the days are blue and bright,
And the fields are sweet with harvest
And the world is filed with light,
And the orchard trees are heavy
With their burden of delight.
Get out and soak up the sunshine
While the woods are waving green
And the corn on a million uplands
Is shot with golden sheen,
And the stub blefields, all barren
And stripped, lie in between.
Get out and soak up the sunshine
While the sumac leaves burn red
And the grapes are turning purple
And the prairie rose is dead,
And the hayfelds softly glisten
Where the thistledown is spread.
Get out and soak up the sunshine
Afar from the dusty town,
Where the first fair leaves of autumn
In silence flutter down,
And the greens that graced the sum
mer
In a golden deIuge drown.
Get out and soak up the sunshine
On the top of some high knoll
Where the sun in glorious pillows
In a tide of life may roll
And sweep with wave of glory
Your shut-in, darkened soul.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
A GHETTO GLOBE MAKER.
Curious Occupation of a DwelIer on
New Yorks East side.

New York Post.-In a tenement
house in the Ghetto lives a. skilled
Jewish globe-maker, whose handiwork
finds its way into the homes of his
countrymen and the museums of curio
hunters uptown. The mapped spheres
of manufacture are seen everywhere,
| but his globes are not of this ilk. The
ball of wood which is the foundation is
tenderly covered with a papery sub
stance until he thinks it is thick
enough. Wire painted a bright red
or green is strung through the poles;
wire also makes the axis. With the
aid Of instruments which have been in
his family for generations, he divides
the surface into hemispheres; then
the equator is designed the lines OF
latitude and longitude are painted in.
The maps which lie uses are import
ed from France, and come in nearly
hundred pieces. 1t requires the great
est possible skill to fit them on to the
globe in exactly the right position.
But the old mans fingers have become
accustomed to the work, and he rare
F! ly makes a mistake. He does not
seem to be thinking of his work,
either, but intones in an absent-minded
way from his beloved Talmud. The
fingers from long rubbing and fitting
are as sensitive at the tips as those of
a piano player "Ah,'' he says to the
writer, when hold the globe that way
! l know my thumb will be in a certain
town in Russia, and my small finger
! in an island in the Atlantic ocean
| if these things are not so, l am sure
/ the map is incorrect"
For his own people and few Gus
| toners he INDUCES in novelties such
as putting in moon, sun and stars OF
different metals The bases of the
globe are often of picturesque char
acter One was made of different woods
from Jerusalem, fashioned to repre-
sent the steps to Solomon's temple;
the symbolism being that the globe
rested upon the foundation of the
holy structure. Another had crudely
painted upon it, various scenes from
the sayings of the prophets with such
lines as:
Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold
your God.
And the ransomed Of the Lord shall
return and come singing unto Zion.
Break forth into joy, sing together,
We waste places of Jerusalem.
The old globemaker does not toll
by the hour; his work is his day
dream and fills all his waking mo-
ments. The children of the teneme1t
rush into his humble abode to see him
decorating his spheres before they go
to school in the morning; at twilight
they come again when their tasks are
over; they gaze with wondering eyes
as he pastes on Asia, Europe and
Africa, late in the evening. When
they have grown too tired, have kissed
him goodnight, and are fast asleep in
their beds, he is still making stars and
moons or carefully fitting together the
tails of recalcitrant rivers that have
become mixed up with mountains,
states, lakes, and oceans having no re-
lation whatever to them.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
ON THE RIGHT SIDE.

Last Wednesday afternoon a gray
bearded man on a bicycle, wheeling
rapidly down Seventh street, encoun-
tered loaded beer wagon at the cor
ner Of Stark. The biker wanted to
turn down Stark, and the teamster
wanted to turn up Seventh. A collision
resulted, from which the elderly biker
escaped with astonishing agility. His
wheel was less fortunate sustaining"
bent frame and broken rim.
The teamster had promptly brought
his horses to a standstill, else it had
gone worse for both bike and biker.a
dot vos too bad!" exclaimed the
driver, sympathetically as the wheel
man gathered his damaged property
from under the horse.
''Too bad! Well, should say so,
but that don't buy bicycles. Now what
are you going to do about it?"
'Vot vos / going to do aloud it?"
eyes, you were on the wrong side
of the street. I was on the righthand
side. If you had been on the right
hand side, where the law says you be
long"
Bud vos on der same side nit you
if you vos on der right side, | vos
too"
s'No, you wasn't. Now want to
know what you're going to do about
this?"
'"Vot vos l goin' to do''-the driver
was now thoroughly roused-'T tell
you-you chust go py hell und ged out
oof my way. Ged-ap!" -Portland Ore
gonian.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
The Horrid Man of 1t.

WELL" said Adam, when he awoke
and found Eve waiting there, 81 don't
suppose We'll get any wedding pres
ents, but I'm glad of it,
"You horrid thing" she replied,
why do you say that?'
eff we had friends they'd nearly kill
us with breakfasts, dinners, suppers,
balls, theater parties and other func-
lions, at which we would have to be
exhibited prior to the wedding"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
TRAINING HIS MEMORY.

Games what are you doing to Will
Iie?" asked the school teacher.
"He wanted to know if you take ten
from fifteen how many would remain.
So 1 took ten of his marbles to show
him, and now he wants them back"
''Well, why don't you give them to
him them"
'"Coz he'd forget how many is left"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
The Burning Question.

Molly my heart is burning for you!'
Mercy me! That makes me think
[ left some bread in the oven"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
Washington Co., Nebraska

Editor Independent: My time on
The Independent is nearly out and, Is
l am trying to support wife and four
children under Teddy's prosperity, l
have not dollar to spare just now,
but | do like to read your paper so
well that you may send it right aloLg
and fear not for your pay.
voted with the union labor party as
long as it lasted and then for the
peoples independent and lastly for
the populist party, so think am TIT
to be enrolled as one belonging with
the Vanguard of Populism. You maJ.
enroll me as one of them and send the
paper.
There isn't a person living that
would like to see the pops get control
of this government better than the
fellow that writes these lines. But
I have always been opposed to fusiol
with any party. The pops have the
best platform Of any party and ousnt
to win out on its own merits without
getting any good quality from the
democrats, especially as they have but
few. JEROME BAILEY.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
For : Straight Ticket

Mr.. Frank B. Weber, Oxford, Neb.,
writes to the chairman of the stale
committee as follows: Il will say tor
myself that think the state commit
toe ought to be called together nCf
!stnr than June /. am strictly III
favor of straight populist ticket. NO
Hears. boom goes with me. AS for
Mr.. Bryan, If he should get a place on
the ticket it might be all right. but
let us old line populists see to it that
there are none but populists put on
guard from now on forever, and when
we go to Springfield from the great
state OF Nebraska, stand openly and
above board for straight populist
ticket We will carry the day. Inc
whole United States Is anxious 70
know what Nebraska is going to 40
The silver democrats will not and
cannot 90 to the gold democrats &c
with the silver republicans. The mos.
of them, like us populists, stano
against imperialism which is running
our free country. The thing for us
to do is to nominate straight pop
ulist ticket and stay with it,"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28

per year to two widows who have no
lawful claim on the government. Each
one had a net income greater than
they could possibly spend Plenty Of
old soldiers who served three years or
more that have a lawful claim are
thankful to get $144 per year. PERHAPS
the strangest part of this is that peo-
pie who all their lives have voted for
such system would not think OF
practicing such system in their bus
mess. Suppose Secretary Shaw or
other public officials had practiced
such a system in their private bust
ness. they would have never been
heard OF outside their own township
unless 1t might have been at the
county poor house. Just imagine a
business man paying from his own
pocket sum of money to a person
with net income Of perhaps more
than he was worth, or helping pay the
funeral expenses of a man who was
worth more than he. And then think
Of our hired men squandering the
money of the taxpayers. and think OF
the people submitting.
J. II. OSBORN.
Hopkins. Mo,
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
How the Socialists Exdgglrate

Editor Independent: Some time
ago the Appeal to Reason, largely
edited by Mr.. Allen w. Kicker, said IN
an editorial: Eighty per cent OF the,
neople live in rented houses, owned by
other people. How their breasts
should fill with patriotism as they go
out to fight for the country owned
by other people! Fighting for a rent
ed home must be great"
The above quoted editorial Is far
sample of the gross exaggeration IN
dulged in by the socialist press and
orators. There are not 80 per ccLt
OF the people living in rented houses
and If the editors of the Appeal to
Reason don't know any better than to
print such rot then they certainly are
not fit men to instruct the American
citizen.
The census for 1900 (see Abstract
18th Census, page 91) shows that there
were 16,1S7.7l5 families in the United
States and that 7,259.S62 families liz ed
in a home of which 4,761. I'll families
owned free.
Another fact brought out by the
census is that the number OF home
owning families increased from 1880
10 1900 by over 100000. Counting
those unknown" as the census de-
PAL tment does we find (see page a.
Abstract 18th census) that 31.s ner
cent OF the families owned homes free
while lat owned mortgaged homes;
SIS OF the families hiring.
i Another important fact is that In
the divisions Of territory we find that
The lowest percentage Of homc-owEiae
families Is In the North Atlantic
states. being but 22.3 per cent. II Il
In this very section Of the nation
whtre We find the largest number d
savings bank depositors. there beinl
over 100000 In New York alone.
i have seen II estimated that their
are 100000 well-to-do middle clas
families living IN New York city VIM
prefer To rent an apartment or hoe
rather than own home which the!
Lsight | do not say that this las
statement IL correct. but wa do kno,
that there are thousands upon thou
sahds " well-to-io families In all IN
, Iai 3ef cItias who hire home, Socla.
, lzt ssAtistisians TODD awe the mark!
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
Custom and Funeral Crafts

/ Editor Independent. Keep it con-
tinually before the people that we
have forty-five custom districts where
1t costs over dollar to collect dol
lar. At Galena. ILL.,, the total col
lected for the last fiscal year was 70
cents. The expense of the Office for
collecting this 70 cents was S378. 06.
In another district dollar was col
lccted at a cost of $540.07. Here Is a
fine chance for the democratic con-
grcssmen To do something for the
taxpayers. Such business methods
should damn any party In power.
l might say also that 1t ought to damn
any party with respectable minor
ity. Another system without any law
IN congressional funerals. For a New
England senator the senate made q
funeral that cost the taxpayers $3.-
7G5, and for a southern senator 81. zoo
was expended. There are thousands
OF dollars spent for trains Of alccpinl
cars. special dining cars and atterd.
ants. plenty of "commissary sup.
plies" for the mourning committee;
payments on liberal scale for sing
ers. and organists 10 play plain tune
or two. There Is no 'aw for thes.
funerals: they are paid for by n,
people.
Keep II before thu people tina
the president wanta $4,000 for q new
stable. The majority III our count,
court houses eost hut little more thar
halt that much W. arr paying $500
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
Lafayette Co., Missouri

Editor independent: assure you
that | will do ell I can in the cause
of reform, but owing to sickness / am
unable to make much of canvass.
Living in county that gives an over
whelming democratic majority, any
thing that smaclxs of reform or would
interfere with the pie-counter brigade,
is looked on by them as worse than
treason. They are blind to reason and
to their own interest.
/ have often thought that If Nebras-
Ka and Kansas populists could go
through one campaign In Missouri it
would effectually cure them Of all fu-
sion inclination The democratic
party of Missouri is run by the cor
porations and in the interest of cor
porations. At the Cardwell trial, when
Sam Cook, chairman of the state dem
ocratic committee, was put on the
stand, he admitted that the railroads,
stock yards, street car lines and brew
cries furnished the money to run the
party.
So you can readily see that our faltn
| in the old democratic party is just
about as strong as yours in the re
Ideemefs" of Nebraska.
AS to the present status of the pop
ulist party IN our section, it is in an
unorganized condition. But by the
help of God, there are a few Of Us
that will be found in the last bitches
fighting for what is right and fol
principles that will elevate the masses
of the people and bring them into Tho
possession of their rights and liber.
ties. With best wishes for The hide.
pendent and the reform cause
GEO. A. CAMPBELL.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28

dear for that Boer war. In spite OF the
increased taxes the chancellor OF the
excheduer was forced to report de-
felt Of $142, ITS, 900. Increased rev
enues were a necessity and they
clapped the taxes onto the wage
workers, by increasing the tax on
tea and tobacco. Tea is the universal
beverage among the common people
and nine-tenths of the extra taxes Will
come out of them. The Independent
hasn't much sympathy for them. Iney
are the ones that voted for the Boer
war and made London pandemonium
eyery time word came that few more
brave BOer farmers had been killed or
captured. Now let them pay the Dill.
$$$$SSH
1t having been generally conceded
that Folk will secure the democratic
nomination for governor of Missouri,
a good many papers of that party are
remarking, "Of course he will be
elected" but that by no means nee
essarily follows, although Missouri
usually piles up big democratic ma
iarities. The democratic party in
Missouri is just as much divided as
it is in the nation. The boodlers,
grafters and thieves are In the party
there, and they number thousands.
They will do just as Cleveland ana
Hill did in the last presidential CAM
paign. They will vote the republican
ticket.
I. M. Smith of McCook, Neb., says:
eve old line pops are thoroughly
alive now. are anxious for scrap anc
want to get at the enemy In an or
ganized way. Is the state asleep
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
Hopkins. Mo.

Mr.. John Y. Bowen. Byron. Tex,
writes: "If can induce any OF my
neighbors TO subscribe for The Inde-
dependent will take pleasure In for
warding the names and money. I
wish to see the populist party grow.
have always been middle OF tie
road populist. prefer to so down an
defeat To winning by suppressing prin-
ciples. | am for the principles. the
party and The Independent"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28
| these with the proletarion

reckon all these with the proletarion
class.
Moreover, the families who live IN
Llortgaged homes own about % per
cent of their value, being in debt but
70 per cent. It's no use to appeal To
the average socialist to tell the truth.
f. G. r. GORDON.
Reading, Mass.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28

Jacob Jones. Polk county. Ncb.: a
enclose my choice as candidate for
president. With no change OF name
Of our party. with Omaha platform
and referendum added. and then
trust We viii have platform that wi.l
suit most All popmllstA. Please Accepe
the dimes 10 help ON the cause"
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28

y IA Chamberiain's iInsoism has put
~ nlm0rt unb<nFnhle burden ON the
lEuelInh psople. They are paying very
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28

II YOU have republican redemption
you must pay the bill. Here In Nc
bronkA the extra cost OF Il for two
Yooru haa been n 40. ts7.ao. There u
- ether course left now than 10 pay
~ bill. To do II. taxes must be In
oroonod % per rent. Vote or straight.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28

Thu Hearst men are setting an OK
simple that they will DO well to follow
When they get 10 st. Louis. When the
Dave Hill and Parker men get the
upper hand. they bolt.
The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-04-28

B. H. Roberts. who was refused q
eeat In congress because he was a
poIyenmist, has been before the Smoot
senate committee and told just n dis
gushing . story as President Smith.
He II cohahiting with three wives
and has thirteen children.
The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-05-20
SUGAR AND OTHER THINGS.

With sugar nearing four cents-it is
now 1876 or $3.50 per ton-Hawaii be-
gins to breathe easier and take cour>
age. So long as the life of the land
is established in sugar, common hopes
and fears will be regulated by the
market report of the one commodity
This is not healthy condition for a
country to be in, but one may not COM
plain of that unduly while the great
Hawaiian staple is rising in price
Nevertheless the best friends of Ha-
wall are those who hope and work for
the time when the quotations of sugar
will inspire no more eagerness here
than those on a half dozen other
agricultural commodities. Then we
shall not he unduly elated by rise
nor deeply depressed by n drop; and
the choice between Hawaiian wealth
and poverty viii be beyond the power
of any one trust to fix.