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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
OLD STREET CRIES.
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Somewhere about a score OF years
ago there was published in London
tiny volume Of most unusual interest
10 students of old-time manners and
customs. It was called "Old London
Street Cries." and contained several
hundred familiar calls, beginning with
the middle of the fifteenth century, in
which, as in mirror, one can see re-
1ected the life Of the common people
through the years-What they ate and
drank and wore, their furniture and
amusements, the toys their children
played with, and their luxuries, long
since become commOnest necessities.
A walk through London streets in
hose days must have been a veritable
running Of the gauntlet. A few speci-
mems of the calls which besieged the
travellers ears will suffice.
Buy my dish of great eeles !" Buy
fine slnging-bird ~ Buy my wax or
waters =" Hot baked wordens (stewed
pears) I" KNIVES or scissors to grind!'
Buy my four ropes Of onions!" Buy
IOOLe-SLOOle! RlDDOnS grOaL
Vard!' Buy horn book" Songs,
three yards penny !" Holly and mis-
:letoe" "London's Gazette here!' BUY
ny nice drops, twenty a penny, pepper
mint drcps!" Troop every one (toy
hobby -horses) " "Three rows a penny
pins, short whites and middle-ings J"
Nor were the eager merchants con-
tent with verbal solicitation. The be-
wildered wayfarer was often so pull
hauled" by one after another that re-
sistance must have been well-nigh i'm
possible.
But times change, and street life
with them. A generation ago a few
Iineal descendants of the old London
hucksters called UP and down our
streets. Now the rags and bottle men
have disappeared, the "cissars- grinder
merely rings a bell, vendors Of fruits
and and vegetables have been silenced
by law In many cities, and, save for
the sidewalk toys and the holly and
mistletoe Of Christmas-tim the news
boy is sole inheritor of all the street
cries.
Less picturesque? Possibly. But one
has only to spend an hour among the
takers Of a country fair to realize that
even the strenuous life Of the TWEEN
tieth century has its advantages.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Ocean freight rates are kept remark
ably firm considering the tremendous
increase in the worlds output Of ships.
There were put in the water on the
Clyde in June a greater tonnage than
was ever before flOated in any one dis
trict. Lloyd says there are now 81
100000 tons Of mercantile ships and
over 10000 vessels. OF these two
thirds are steamers and the others sail
ers. British yards alone foated 207
vessels during the first half Of the pres
ent year, the tonnage of which exceed
ed that Of any previous six months by
more than 100000 tons.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

These college professors may not be
so very far ahead Of future legislation.
We spend through Washington now
100000 a year in developing plant
life but not a dollar TO discover a pre-
ventiye Of pneumonia. In ten years
the department Of agriculture has ex-
pended nearly S5O,OOO,OO0 in develop
ing products Of the soil, but there is
no bureau with money for the develop
ment Of the more than 100000 infants
every year. 1t is true that Drs Wiley.
Atwater and Benedict have done Won
derful work, but within a limited
sphere, In the preservation of infant
life. While they have worried for n
little money to carry on experiments,
a million has gone in stamping out chol-
era among swine. Professor Norton
estimates that during the next census
period more than 100000 of infants
under two years of age must succumb,
yet with proper knowledge of prevent
able diseases this number could be cut
In two.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

has accomplished what he owes him
self and society. From an address re-
Gently delivered by President Marks
before the National Association of
Clothiers, at Cincinnati, the following
cOmmOn-Sense sermons are quoted ::
"We forget that the telephone and the
typewriter have crowded two days eff
forts into every days task. Have we
the right to work at such high pres
sure day in, day out, and at night
come to our homes exhausted? Have
wife and children no claim upon US
which a tired brain will not fairly
satisfy? Has society no claim? Va
cations are the coupons on the bonds
Of industry that mature semi-annually.
Cut these coupons regularly, so that
they, in turn, may be vitaliZed and
earn interest. The months rest makes
a man brighter, gives him reserve
strength, makes his business more at
tractive to him, and makes him more
attractive to his business. Some mer-
chants have the conceit that they can
not be spared. Let them go away and
their vanity will receive a shock. If,
however, mans idea of his indispen-
stability is really we'll founded, his
business organization Is failure" he
who loves outdoors and who believes
life has something for mans benefit
better than the grindstone, is the man
who finds life worth living and who
helps to make it so for others.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
Folks Confession.

Governor Folk had just returIeu !"
the state house, after a flying u4
around the Ohio Chautauqua cIIou-y
He was dead tired and looked tTa'"
worn. ,,A
Governor" said Secretary Woodsu'
"why do you accept all these chau'" "
qua invitations? Is it the speecn'',' -.
The Governor smiled suaVe SUM
my dear boy" he said, "ho" InD'
cent you are. It's the introductlonS'
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

h nations in the light of srvngs for economical auS
tage rather than for power and glory Inc tiLne
coming when some astute neuroogist is going 70 eac
tbe historian that only often the lives ana ~
+i hove danended upon rulers and statesmen whose
os 1roro too honeessly deranged to permit elther
their feelings or thoughts normal expression .
One consolation surely remains from such stuuS' az
we understand the nervous limitations OF otners we
into sympathy with them, certainly Wheh lnelA 'Ao
80 ~ no yav of their own seeking or making. Some
Of the most abect characters like Louis A Oh
fr oxonne were neurotics deserving pity quite as mucn
as blame.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

querors could not agree on a division
of the spoil, and the Brazilian army Of
occupation was withdrawn only in 1876,
eleven years after hostilities began. Yet
the man for whom the Paraguayans
battled so stoutly and sacrificed so
much was simply modern Nero.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
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IL ESe7Ss = AN'
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A singular spring lately discovor,,
in New Mexico discharges saturoh,
solution of sodium sulphate at 70.
perature of 40 degrees L. The waiar,
If the liquid is 10 % pounds Der r.I
lon, that of distilled water being on, ]
; 1-3 pounds. The overflow from ~
spring has solicited into a perfor,,, /
level, snow-white bed of sodium sat'
miles in extent.
In Brookside Park, Cleveland i,
concrete bridge has just been oDanos
to traffic which is said to possess Soma
novel features. 1t is believed to /,
the --LATEST semiellipse Of concrete pro,
constructed without a heavy ra.a,
forcement Of steel. It's ellptical fo,,,
is perfect, with major axis of %
feet and a semiminor axis Of onlv q
feet. In other words, the rise of N,
arch is less than one-tenth of the snon
The entire stomach was first sno
cessfully removed by Schlater of zn
rich in 1897. B. Vassallo, surgeon
Of Argentina, reports having now pp,
formed seventeen pylorectomies and
considers the gravity Of these opera.
lions more apparent than real. Fm,,
months after the last complete removal
Of this organ the patient was In exec.
lent health, with no Inconvenience ey.
cept the necessity Of eating often and
but little at time.
Seasickness is proven by Dr. Charles
Dawson to be a common effect of earth.
quakes. The feeling Of nausea NAV
be produced by shocks lasting not more
than eight or ten seconds, and whose
vibrations have total range of only
small fraction Of an inch, and in one
slight English earthquake-too small
to injure any buildings-about one Oh
server in fifty was affected. The feel.
ing usually lasts a few minutes
though sometimes persisting an hour
or more.
Prof. ]. H. Poynting recently de.
scribed before the Royal Society an
electric touch measuring machine
which gives results superior to any Oh
tainable with the usual ''mechanical
touch" machines. The underlying prin
ciple is that electric contact is subSti
tuted for mechanical contact IN de-
termining, for instance, the thickness
of a gage or plate. Readings with the
new machine are taken with ease and
certainty to one Northumberland -ffF
thousandths Of an inch, and even one
quarter of this can be obtained if de-
sired.
1t may surprise many readers to
learn that ores Of lead and other met
ais may contain sufficient water to in,
crease very materially their weight
This fact is the basis Of a decision,
recently rendered by the United States
general appraisers, that customs off,
Gals have no right to compel import
| appraisers to pay duty on moisture IN
ores. In the case on which the decIS'
| ion was based, one car Of lead ore,
coming from British Columbia, weigh
ed 62,050 pounds gross, but with the
moisture removed, only 60,373 pounds
The figures for another car were re-
spectively 65,1OO pounds and 63,ON
pounds. The local appraisers applied
to the moist ore the percentage Of lead
found in dried sample, and this the
general appraisers decided was wrong
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
PATRoNIzE YOUR HOME STORES.
By Gov. Joseph w. Folk.

We are proud Of our splendid cities,
and want them to Increase in wealth
and population, but we also want our
country towns to grow. We wish the
city merchants to build up, but we
also desire the country merchants to
prosper. / do not believe in the mail
order citizen. If a place is good
enough for a man to live in and to
make his money in, it is good enough
for him to snend his money
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

No merchant can succeed without advertising in
way another Paronize your town papers, build them
up they will build the town and build up in
creased trade and greater opportunities. Do not be
that business is going to be hurt by the recent
exposures of wrong-doing in the commercial world No
man who doing honest business be injured by
the light All business will be better for the cleansing
going through and for the stamping out of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Edison says he is going to make 1t
possible to build a $4,000 house for
$500 by simply pouring concrete into
molds. 1t isn't likely, however, that
this will put an end to unhappiness.
People who have $4,000 houses will
worry because they can't have $4,000
residences.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Intellectual Sentimental Heterogeneous however
much they distress the mind
To be in good health should feel good II we do
not feel good something has gone The study of
diseases times has brought out curious
pathological interpretations of character.
An ocuist Of repute Philadelphia has written book
in which he shows many of the miseres of authors
were due to eye troubles which the medical science of
their day had not recognized diseases at all One
begins to understand of Milton for example who
was his home the would like to believe him
to be from reading his majestic verse
Only nowadays, when the pace of twentieth century life
Is bringing more and more of into neurasthena or
nervous prostration coming to understand how
real and how the obscure troubles which may
leave man in seemingly robust health almost hope
less invalid With every vital organ in the best of con-
dton something happens to the tiny flaments which
connect these with the brain and with one another and
not onlv is state misery induced but the char
acer and disposition changes absolutely and always for
the
Karl Marx taught historians to read the annals of
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

1t would seem about time for the
car to discharge the spiritualist me-
dunn who is giving him advice and
hire one who can recognize foregone
conclusion when he sees it on the other
side of the street
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
The Useful AInhahe+

There's one good thing about it."
chuckled the ancient Phoenieian as he
invented the alphabet; ''some of those
politicians will be sure to write letters
now that will knock them into
cooked hat when they run for office"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

King Edward certainly made a mis-
take when he decided not to visit Can
ada. 1t would have done him an ines.
Unable amount of good to get that
close to the United States.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Rudyard Kipling in his latest poem
refers to England as freedoms chosen
land" We can see very plainly that
Rudyard Is trying to regain the pub
lies attention by starting up an argu-
ment with us.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

It has been ascertained by expert
ment that diet of pickles and vinegar,
If persisted in long enough, will remove
not only the fat, but likewise the lean,
from the scene of action.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

The gallows Is the legitimate cure for
the homicidal mania that has become
almost epidemic these days. 1t Is old
fashioned, but effective.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
Tn1king Behind Her Back.

Don't you know, dear" saiu IL. IL
wife, sweetly, "that it is wrong 10 '"'''
behind a persons back" II.
He was trying to button her wa y,
at the time, and really there seelne n,' y
be provocation for his REMARKS
adelphia Public Ledger.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Business men-successful business
men-are becoming converted to the
idea that recreation is a profit-paying
Investment, and that the work-weary
man who cannot afford to take time to
rest generally wears out before he
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Consul J. G. Kellogg advises farmers
who wish to get rich to take COWS to
Panama, where milk is scarce. This
seems like a good steer.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

There are too many Helen's babies
Of mature age in Russia who are fool
ing with a revolution merely to "see
the wheels go wound" -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

A st. Louis girl lived on a diet Of
pickles and vinegar for the purpose Of
reducing her flesh. She has succeeded
in getting rid Of 1t altogether.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Wealthy young socialists who are
eager to get back to the soil" will
have little difficulty in exchanging
worldly lots with ambitious farm
hands
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Count Boni frankly states that no
does not know when he will be able
to pay his bills. Naturally, he will
not be able to act until the court fixes
the amount of his alimony.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

When man catches a big sIilns =,
fish. how he loves to carry Il a!UD S
the main street Of the town ID VIZ
he lives. All Of us like to display w.
big catches in other lines.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

John D. Rockefeller says he is not
a pessimist. Having had his digestive
apparatus put into good working order,
why on earth should he be a pessimist?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

If he doesn't watch out, those Rus
sian revolutionists will get after Stoly-
pin with a rolling-pin.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

With the kind Of game he is play
ing, it is very natural for the car 10
have cold feet
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

The Tennessee man who asks legisla-
ton barring peek-a-boo waists ought TO
wear binders.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Jabez Wolfe has failed to swim the
English Channel Jabez may now re-
turn to his regular job.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

In his manifesto Nicholas Of Russia
writes of "our imperial will' as glibly
as if he actually had one.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Many a mans so-called dignif1ed ST.
fence is due to the lamentable fact that
he doesn't know what to say.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

When the stork brings girl after girl
to farmer, the only way he can break
even is to plant his grain fields into
fruit, something that girls can handle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

The Russian Declaration of Inde-
pendence seems to be next in order.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
n p. ROWEN, Publisher.

Learn 20 swim and then avoid deep
water
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Sometimes a man attempts 10 c0 !.
up his sins by donating SnlaH =
cent Of the spoils to charity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
I'LL FEELING AND ILL HEALTH.
BY Wallace Rice.

When we have been deliberately guilty of
excuses in food or drink and awake the next
day with a feeling that everything has gone
wrong, few of us are selfdeceving or hypocrit-
cal enough to lay the blame for i'll feelings over
to anything but self-induced i'll health. But we
have not progressed SO far that most of us real
ze that almost all bluenesS, mOrosenesS, Ian
guor and indispositon are rather due to bodily
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Every bore thinks he IS pestered by
q lot Of bores.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
sELF-REsPECT CAN BE RECLAIMED.
By Ian MacIaren.

| M tpe are nag RIDDEN by the paSI-tne lnlHSs
| MI (which have happened. 1t is common to renon
W strate with people about vain anxiety, but little
| n is said about vain regret. Yet the darkest mis-
IL lery of life is for the things which have
<AN Ibeen and which cannot be changed.
80 No has ever lost person he loves but his
conscience held court with memory prosecutor Had
this or that done the dear life might have been
spared We recall in minute detail treatment Of those
who gonethe sins of commission in hasty, unthink
ing unmeaning words, sins of omission in endless
opportunities of kindness lost The worst of all regrets
remain and it makes purgatory for mans thoughts
and secret life.
It is right to condemn sin and right to condemn the
sinner; is right also that he should for the
thing he suffer What is not necessary by
any morality is that long afterwards
still be hanging his head in disgrace and Judg
ing himself to be leper cast out of society Can man
his back upon his past and begin again with self
respect the respect of his fellow men? Society by
sound instinct requires to prove his repentance
by his works; society also by sound instinct IT he Is
repentant refuses rake the past and fling 1t in his
face. Why should not humbly but boldly forgive
himself his fellows have forgiven him, and may one
not add without preaching the Eternal has promised to
forgive repenant sinner why should that sinner be
more righteous more severe than God?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

organizing an imperial army 1t is said that there are a
present ten divisions 10000 men, properly equipped
and +ronod nv FOREIGNERS 1t is hoped that within the
naxt ten wears the numbers will mount up to half mil
lion Enlistment voluntary, and for three years win
the coors after which the soldier passes Into the nrs
and second reserve Recruits carefully chosen a1ter
noriod Of nrobation They be between 20 and 70
wears Of age five feet five inches tall and able to lift
weight of $50 pounds. No opium smoker is accepted
nor any one who get recommended by the heao
man of the village
If Chinese soldiers many occasions fought SO
bad1v that the army came to be considered negligible
quantity this is simply they badly fed and
badly led But it is not true that they have always
fought badly At Tientsn six years ago they were not
more in numbers than defenders and yet they nearly
took the CITY, And admirable in which Chinese
gunners then worked their guns surprised every one
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24
REORGANIZATION OF THE CHINESE ARMY.
By Rev. e. J. Hardy.

Thinking Of the 4O0,000,0o0 inhabitants or
China and of the wonderful resources OF the
country, Napoleon said at ST. Helena w heh
China is moved it will change the race OF Tue
globe" Well, China is moved with a vengeance
for past bad treatment and some VIII naVe
oo,,sa RI regret that sleeping dogs were not al
lowed to lie.
China has recently started an army council for
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1906-08-24

Trade journals devoted to the inter
ests of retail druggists, are well sup
piled with advertisements, offering, for
a consideration, formulas that will pro-
duce ice cream" at a ridiculously low
price. Whether such concoctions will
pass inspection as articles Of pure food
may be quite another question.
One of these advertisers, doing bust
ness in Mississippi, says: Il use no
eggs, no gelatine, no cooking. My
cream is rich, highly favored smooth
as velvet, heavy body. Cost, not to ex-
coed 40 cents a gallon. Receipt for 81
Another says: lice cream made with
nv -- is as smooth as velvet, adds
richness to poor cream, cheaper than
good gelatin. Cannot be detected where
gelatin can. Replaces egg whites In
sherbets and ices"
Yet another says: - improves
quality. decreases cost; the only pro-
duct that does not taste in ice cream,
when a liberal quantity is used; de-
creases cost of ingredients, increases
bulk" etc.-Indianapolis News.
The Dolores star., 1906-05-04
English Canal Building.

a roya! commission has been ap-
pointed tc consider the advisability of
opening UP the numerous canals which
extend all over England like veri-
table network. Most of these canals
IN modern years have been put out OF
use deliberately by railway companies
VINO have acquired them for the ex-
press purposes of closing them up. Up
ward OF 100000 tons OF goods were
carried on English canals last year:
Out IT is stated that were all the canals
opened three times this amount could
have been transported. The royal COM
mission is to investigate and report
on the entire subject Of English rail-
way canals. and the new government
Is following Compbell-B -Bannerman s
lead when he recently said: Few
Things are more capable of benefiting
both town and country than the deve..
opment of our system OF canals. 1t
Will facilitate transit. open markets
and bring town and country together. u
The Dolores star., 1906-05-04
sritain's Drink Bill Decreasing.

We have spoken of the sure and
steady growth of temperance in the
United States. due to various factors,
Industrial, social, legislative and sani-
tary. In England figures have just
been furnished which confirm the gen.
eral impression that, in the words of a
London paper, there is gradual slid
ing of the nation into habits of So
briefly" Dr., Dawson Burns, analyzing
the official returns of the quantities of
intoxicating liquors consumed In the
United Kingdom during 1905, concludes
that there has been a decrease ,f
nearly $25.000,000. The year under re-
view. moreover. is not exceptional in
this respect. 1t is, in fact, the sixth
registering consecutive decreased
expenditure on alcoholic beverages
The decrease for 1904 was over S2S.-
100000. The total decrease in the ma
tional drink bill in the six year:
amount to about 100000 ,000.-Ch,
cago kecord-Herald.