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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05

vehicle stock, due largely to the
prejudice of the manufacturers
against the use of red hickory 1t is
shown that in clear stock, weight for
weight, the red hickory is as strong
as the white. By bringing this fact
to the attention of the manufacturers,
it is hoped that much of the hickory
which was formerly left as waste in
the woods will be utilized by the
trade and thus prolong the rapidly
disappearing supply of hickory.
Such practical results as are given
in the report, which letter to the
forest service at Washington will Sc
cure free for any one who wishes it,
show conclusively the value of such
studies in solving problems connected
with the grading of stock, the utiliza-
ton of new for old woods, and the
conserving of our future supply OF
timber. The supply of good hickory in
the United States is known to be very
limited. The cut last year for lumber
was little less than $50 million feet,
amount was used for automobile and
carriage wheels, axle caps, gears, ak
les, poles, single trees and neck yokes,
and it is figured that at the present
rate of cutting the supply will last
about Is years.
Reports are made from time to time
of the discovery of suitable substitu-
ties for hickory in foreign countries.
The two woods which come nearest to
having the quality of the hickory seem
TO be one of the eucalyptus and the
crowfoot elm, both of Australia. Only
time will tell whether these woods
will prove satisfactory Substitutes. in
the meanwhile, American hickory
users will be obliged to conserve the
present supply and take steps to guar
antee a future supply by encouraging
private Planting of the tree, whose
wood is becoming more precious each
year
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
THE HEART SUPREME.

You may choose the heart that's beat
ing
AS thing of gladstone song,
With its dreams removed from sorrow
And it's deeds removed from wrong
You may take it, i'll its glory,
Kind and gentle though it be,
For l choose the heart that's beating
With a throb of sympathy.
Sing the glories of ths kindly
Hearts that beat in silent prayer
There's but one to Isoothe the wounded
Who are cropping in despair,
It's the heart1 bf hearts, pulsating
On to silent victory,
Tis the heart that's LAYING sorrows
In the tears of sympathy.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05

owner has been changed three times,
but the tenant has remained through
it all, and she has grown old and gray
in this room. Here closed the eyes OF
my old friend, after a long illness,
and ] tried to make the evening of
her life cheerful by my tender care,
and hearty sympathy in her pleasures
and her interests. y
"And after her daath l was always
glad, as I had been in her lifetime,
when the children and the grandchild-
rem came from the quiet little VIII
lage; otherwise l have dropped all pny
acquaintance, and have not tried to
make any here in the city.
II always go to the church-yard
every day. On lovely summer even
ings l take my work, and sit down on
the little bench by his grave, which
have had put there. When the lilacs
send out their fragrance and the roses
are blooming, l stay there for long
hours, and can hardly bear to go away
from the dearest place in earth.
And so my life has passed, mo-
notonous, uninteresting, and useless,
you will say, my child. You are right:
the position of wife and mother
has been denied to me; I have neither
joined their societies nor taken part
in any works for the common good
which would have brought me into
nature, but when l see the happiness
public notice. l am not of an envious
of strangers it hurts, me, and | am
better off at home, in my quietness
and loneliness. Besides, l had quietly
made little circle of usefulness for
myself, and l know that there are
people, poor people, who think of me
with love and gratitude.
Don't pity me too much, my little
friend for /, too, have my happy
hours. When l sit at my little piano
and play the songs that l used to sing
in my faFr-off happy youth, then those
old times come back to me with their
sweet enchantment of old; then
ride again on my fiery horse through
the green wood by his side: then
the moon looks down again and shows
me his dear dark eyes, and those de-
gotten sound in my ears again. Happy
is it for me that I can live through
that happy time-it is not every one
who has such memories in their I'M
happiness.
"And now all the others are dead
the proud Frau Won Bendeleben, the
beautiful and admired Princess Ruth,
the pastors gentle wife, and my very
good friend, Henry Won Bergen-the
one still young, the others already
weary of life.
"OnIy Pastor Renner is still living,
and his old friend with the white hair;
and God will soon call us both to
himself; and when a green mound
rises above our collins no one will
dream what joy and what sorrow
once agitated the hearts that are now
so still.
"Ah, wish for one thing more,
which cannot be granted. would like
to lie beside Eberhardt in the quiet
church-yard but it is impossible.
and now forgive me for dragging
out my story so endlessly, for going
SO thoroughly into detail. lost myself
again in old memories; 1 hope you
have not found them tedious.
farewell. l hope that the mild air
of italy may give your mother health
and strength. Don't stay away too
long, and sometimes think Of your
lonely old friend.
May God bless you! Hoping we
may meet again, l am, with warmest
love,
Your friend,
Margaret SiegismInd.'
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05
SOCIAL EVOLUTION.

They call it Jaybird City now,
They used to call it Junction;
And since it's city on the map
Every barn dance, picnic, scrap,
Is called a social function"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1908-08-05

The work of re-making the 49tb
parallel as a boundary between the
United States and Canada will be
this summer.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23
WE'D EARLY TN PARIS
Figures Show that French
men Marry When Young.
VACANT CHAIR SOON REFILLED
Statistics of Police Department Re-
veal Fact that Popular Period for
Men Is Between Ages OF Twenty
five and Twenty-nine; for Women
Twenty and TwentJ-four.

Paris, Feb. 22-Most Parisians marry
between the ages of twenty-five and
twenty-nine, according TO the latest re-
port of the statistician Of the police de-
partment Those who take the step for
the first time favor Parisiennes who have
passed their twentieth milestone. but who
have not attained the dignity of twenty
four years. The exceptions, those who
prefer helpmates older than themselves,
are less than 10 per cent Of the entire
number. To be exact. OF II 900 who for
SOCK bachelorhood last year $40 married
women OF more mature years than them
selves.
Marriages among bachelors Of over thirty
are comparatively rare. but once a man
has lost. wife he seems anxious to trust
himself with another woman, for the fig
ures show that many more widowers than
single men marry in their third decade
Between thirty-fve and thlrty-nine Wild
overs are active in their search for a sec
ond wife. They show a decided prefer
ence for young women under thirty. But
wnen the widower has passed fifty. and
is still on the lookout for a companion.
ne usually seeks woman with some ex-
perience. about his own age. or, al any
rate, over forty. and he does not obiecr
TO the fact that she had been married be-
fore
Widows Preserve Their Youth.
Apparently French widows never grow
old. for in one year forty women over
sixty years OF age who had lost their
husbands contracted a second union with
partners about their own age When a
Frenchman between the-age OF thirty-fve
and thirty'nine has the misfortune 10 lose
his wife he apparently is inconsolable.
and he cannot endure the enforced loneIi-
ness Of his state for more than a year.
for al the end OF that period ne makes
haste to re-enter the bonds OF matrimony.
II he does not marry within q year he
usually allows several years TO pass be-
fore he seriously thinks OF seeking an
other wife. and statistics show that the
majority OF French widOwers remarry at
about forty-fve. after eight or nine wears
Of solitude Here, again. there are excep-
tions, and cases have been known OF hus-
bands who. having. az the axe Of seventy
FIVE, lost their wives. did not wait twelve
months before taking 10 themselves a
second spouse
On the other hand, during an entire
year there was only one woman in Paris
who, at the age OF seventy-five. was
courageous enough to marry for the sec
ond time
Men who have been divorced between
the ages Of thirty-five and thirty-seven
usually continue their quest for natri-
monial happiness with the aid of innocent
partners who have not YET attained their
thirtieth year. Divorces between thirty
and thirty-four easily find bachelor hus-
bands Of their own age. and even less
But widowers seem 10 look upon them
with distrust. and it is very rare TO ind
man who has been in the divorce court
taking TO wife another divorcee.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23
WOMEN ARE LESS HONEST.
Mary Heaton Worse says Sex Is Not
Equal to Men.


Are women more or less honest than
men? The question is an old one, and
no answer that can be given is likely
to satisfy more than half OF any given
number OF persons.
1t IS raised again by Appleton's
Magazine In March number. and the
answer. although given by we'll
known women-Mary Heaton Vorse-is
against her sex. She does not assert
that women are more prone 20 commit
those crimes OF which the courts take
cognizance. but that their sense OF
honor is less keen than that OF the
masculine half of humanity. She
quotes judge as saying that women
are more willing than men to perjure
themselves on the witness stand, al
though usually they do It TO fuvlher
what they believe are the ends Of
justice, admits that women are more
willing than men 10 use their influence
or position unscrupulously to further
their own ends. and adds that they are
more likely 20 betray condolences.
This last. OF course is the old charge
OF woman's inability to keep a secret,
but coming as IL does from a woman
herself IL is likely TO have more weight
than ordinarily IL would.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23

after pause, that it's a mans fascinat-
ing masculinity that cosnes out in tobacco
smoke and expresses itself in violent Ian
guage and fist fights and a derby hat
and dissolves IN cocktails and whisky
sodas and"
"Of course II is agreed the Bachelor
Girl promptly. IT you smell like hello
trope or lily Of the valley and wore ros-
cites on your derbys and curls on your
foreheads and fiounces round year trous-
ers we'd hate you. But don't suppose.
she added. studying the ceiling thought
fully, that any man ever pretended TO be
Drawer or bigger or wickeder than he
really was. OF got his tailor to pad his
shoulders or grew a mustaehe TO hide a
weak upper lip. or wore a silk nat TO
make himself look tali and imposing.
or"
oh well,' broke III the Mere Man des-
perately. have II your own way. We
smoke pipes and drink highballs because
We think it's manly and attractive, and
go TO the prize fights for the atmosphere.
and fall in love with women-because we
don't know them
-Of course. you do. =. agreed the Bache-
lor Girl. triumphantly. twisting curl
over her ear
Il don't love you" began the Mere
Man.
"What?r
But the seven yards of lace on your
skirt
Seventeen, Mr.. Porter"
And the spangle lace scarf round your
shoulders, and the bows on your slippers.
and the delicate essence Of-of-what IS
it2" he demanded, euriously, picking up a
long white glove that lay on the table and
shifting it delightedly. 1t makes me
think of moonlight and Venice and poetry
and old love and II Trovatore' and Car
men all put together"
ITS the expression Of my soul, Mr..
Porter" exclaimed the Bachelor Girl:
its the subtle secret of my personality;
ITS my femininity and my attraction
and What are you dOing?
For the Mere Man had walked across TO
the little toilet table and was interestedly
examining a small silver bottle.
Acacia blossom" he murmured
thoughtfully. at S2.9S an ounce. That's a
reasonable price-for a sou.-"
It's enough TO pay" ret0rted the
Bachelor Girl, rising nonchalantly, for
any sort Of scent-or any masculine senti-
ment."
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23

came upon her day dreaming at the foot
OF a huge chestnut As he approached,
she looked up wonderingly: then. after
a moments pause, she sprang 10 her feet
with outstretched hand.
For a moment I thought you must be
a vision she cried. as he hurried 20
ward her. Mt Perkins told me just
before he left that you had gone abroad
for the winter"
II did go across he confirmed, but
couldn't stay. I wanted 20 come back
and ask you If your decision was final"
My decision?' she echoed.
Yes" he explained. 4 know you told
me that you would not marry me- but ]
could not be content until I asked again.
went 10 London and Paris TO try 10
forget you. but the farther from home
got the more l seemed 20 want you. and
so-here I am
But the hundred or more who were
ready TO accept you and your millionsg'
she reminded.
There might be a million or more VINO
would be ready TO accept my hundreds. %
he replied impatlently. but the whole
million in one big seraglio would not be
you. dear. II was "A silly, braggart
speech. that I am heartily ashamed OF
now. Il was that which brought me
back. I wanted 10 tell you how well I
realized what fool had been. 1 love
you too much 20 give up without another
appeal I've whole lot 20 learn. Marion.
but-Wil you be the teacher. dear, and
show me that the cursed money Is not
everything
Il think 7 should like To try" she
whispered, as he caught her hand
And 1 came over here prepared for
the argument Of my life" he said Won
deringly
You said this time what you should
have said before" she replied THE last
time you offered me wealth and position.
This time you have offered me your love.
II Is love that a girl wants. Tom It's
not always the money she seeks. ] liked
you before, but I could not be bought. "
But I loved You then" he cried
Not in the same way" she explained.
"or YOU would have told me so. You
wanted me 70 teach you. That was the
first lesson
Then here endeth the first lesson. 80
cried Treadway with a laugh as he bent
to touch the soft brown hair with his
lips Let's hope the others viii not be
so drastic. You've been pretty hard on
your pupil sweetheart"
Copyright 1905 by n NJ Cunningham
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23
WINTER SUNSHINE.

There's something in this peaceful winter scene.
The dazzling earth agl0w with golden haze.
That makes me think Of lons-forgn,ten days
Sweet days whose ghosts walk ever By unseen
far-od shaft CT sunlight turns 10 gold
The window Of a fsr-of house: see
The long. wide porch. the graceful willow tree
And boyish dreazas come troopiug back 10 me.
Just - the winter sunshine used 70 fall
On afternoons upon the porch al home
Like uDspent echoes Of Speut sounds they ccms
Because a sunbeam lies upon the wall.
For though Il shines Just as Il used 10 do,
All else Is changed. few bright JOYS I've ~oa,
But with each dsrkcnirg Of the blazing sun.
The light of some sweet hope has darkcned too.
Still ! have found some bleSscdness IN tins
SunbeaT1s UnpTizGd in hOyhOOc hzury Gays
Have lent 70 manhood all their cheering RAYS
To-day find the light which then J missed.
Roy Winchester, in National Magazine.
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23
What a Good play Must Have.

a play should have continuous action
all the way through. When I allude 10
action. I don't necessarily mean physical
movement and pistol play" says Daniel
Frohman in Harper's Weekly - sue
cessful play must contain continuous
struggling and battle; the struggle
of love with duty, 70 name the most
frequent example. The characters may
be sitting in their chairs. talking
pleasantly together. and still fulfill this
purpose And the action must go for
ward by leaps and bounds. from one
climax 10 another. The ideal play will
have the fewest characters, but il VIII
bold the attention so that you won't
know whether there are six or sixty.
ard two persons upon the stage will
hold the audience entranced as in the
Greek drama. Like the Greek charac-
ters. TOO. they will appear as puppets
upon a dark background OF necessity.
victims of the circumstances which
they have helplessly brought into ex-
istence" /"
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23

Of fear in his eyes. that I've got an
! Illusion In my law Office, and when
I marry I will wed an atmosphere.
and
You're human" nterposed the Bach
elor Girl succinctly.
"Of course"
And masculine"
Il don't deny il"
And that means that you will never be
able TO disentangle any woman from the
mental impression you get by looking at
her. Ask any man you know why he ever
fell IN love with any woman and he won't
be able TO tell YOU
Il guess he WON'T exclaimed the Mere
Man mockingly. "A man in love isn't
capable of telling why he does anything
He'll probably say, pursued the Bach
elor Girl. that IL was because she re-
minded him of picture or poem or the
sunlight on a daisy field
or a joss house, or n Turkish mosque,
or Burmese wedding, or"
He may be wise enough 10 know that
! il wasn't her beauty" continued the
Bachelor Girl NOR her wit, nor her good
ness. though she may have all OF those;
but he will never know enough TO realize
that it was her subtle femininity peeping
from the folds Of her skirt and the cor
l.ers OF her eyes and the undulation in her
pOmpadour and the bows of her slippers
and the feathers on her hat: her real ma
ture coming out in frills and fiounces and
expressing itself in
pillows and bangles and gew-gaws,"
broke ia the Mere Man enthusiastically.
And dissolving IN acacia water and
bouquet damour," added the Bachelor
Girl, with a laugh
The Mere Man leaned back on the couch
and hummed softly:
Not that you are fair dear. not that you art
true
And I suppose" he remarked cynicaIly
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23
CAPTIVATOR OF NAPOLEON
CHARACTER SKETCH OF JOSEPHINE.

ordered, her shoulders and bust hid
behind no covering. and Of her little
feet and shapely ankles just enough
was seen TO please the eye and stimu-
late the Imagination.
: As 20 her costume and general toilet.
I il was All that studied art and eulti-
waited tsst could co for generous nature.
Nine Tallien was more beautiful and
more qUeenly than Josephine. many
others eXcelled her IN wit. accomplish
faeuts and mere good looks, but il
may be doubted whether any lady OF
I that court. or other courts. ever ex-
| celle0 The gentle JCSephlns in the grace.
i the tact, The charm. which unites in
/ the makeup OF a facinating society
woman.
Add 10 this that she was sensual. ele-
gantly vOluptuous finished in the
subtle mysteries OF conquetry- fully
alive 10 the power which the physically
tempting woman exerts over the pas
sions OF men. and il can be better
understood how this languishing but
artful widow OF thirty-three intoXi-
Gated Napoleon Bonaparte. the raw pro-
vincial OF twenty-seven.
That he was madly infatuated there
can be no doubt he loved her and he
never wholly ceased 20 love her
Never before. never afterward. did he
meet woman who inspired him with
feeling at all like that he felt for
her. II he did not know AZ that time
what she had been, he new after the
marriage what she continued TO be. and
he made desperate effort 10 break the
spell lie could not completely do so
She might betray his confidence.
laugh ~ mis- love letters neglect his
appeals. squander his money. sell his
secrets. tell him all sorts OF falSehOOds
uRderrste his value, I1iscOnceive his
character. and befoul his honor with
shameless sin; but against her repen-
tance and her childlike prayers for
pardon. the iron of his nature became
as wax. Before those quivering lips.
/ before those tearnlled eyes, before
that tender sweet voice. all broken
with grief. he could rarely stand
Il viii divorce her. he said fierce
" 10 his brothers, when they put be-
fore him proof of her guilt. after the
Egyptian campaign. But through the
locked door came the sobs of the
stricken wife, came her plaintiye plead
ings.
Mon ami shefcaI softly. called
hour after hour. piteously knocking at
the door. II was TOO much. the cold
resolution melted; the soldier was once
more the lover and the door few open.
When the brothers came next day to
talk further about the divorce. they
found little Josephine happy as a bird
sitting on NspOle0n's knee, and nestl-
ing in his arms
Listen. BOUrrienne"' exclaimed Ma
Poleon. JOyOusly. on his return 10 Paris
from MarengO. listen TO the shouts OF
the people. 1t is sweet to my ears.
this praise OF the French-as sweet as
the voice of Josephiner'
Even when cold policy demanded the
divorce il was he who wept the most
Josephine. my noble Josephine, The
few moments IF happiness have ever
enjoyed I owe 70 you
And in the closing scene at St.
Helena IL was the same. The dying
man thought no more of the Austrian
woman Even in his delirium, the
wandering memory recalled and the
fast freezing lips named Josephine
The Washington herald., 1908-02-23

Napoleon had never come under the
spell OF such society as that which ne
had now entered. says Thomas f. Wat
son -la his Life of Napoleon" That
neeting glimpse OF polite society which
no had caught at Valance bore no COM
parison 20 this. In his limited eX-
perience he had not met such women as
Nine. Tallien and Josephine lie moved
in a new sphere. Around him was the
briliance Of a court. IN apartments
adorned with every ornament and
Ilxury. night was turned into day. and
with music the dance, the song, the
feast. men and women gave themselves
to pleasure.
lie. the uns0cial man OF books and
camps. was not fitted 20 shine in that
social circle. He was uncouth. spoke
the language with an unpleasant ac-
cent. had no grace OF manner or speech.
had nothing imposing in figure or
bearing. and he felt almost abashed in
the high presence of these elegant
nullities of the drawing groom
Shy. III az ease. he was not much no
ticed and not much liked by the ladies'
OF the dircctoriaI court. with one ex-
ccption-Josephine. Either because Of
the alleged return Of the sword. and the
good impression then made. or because
OF her natural tact and kindness or
heart. Nine. Beauharnais paid the un-
eOUth soldier those skillful cOmpli-
meAts which fattcr and almost before
he was aware Of II Napoleon was fas-
cinated.
Here was woman 10 take a man or
his feet. 20 inhame him with passion.
She was no longer young but she was
in the glorious Indian summer OF her
charms Her perfect form was trained
in movements OF grace Her musical
voice knew its own melody, and made
the most Of IL. Her large. dark eyes
with long lashes were soft and dreamy.
Her mouth was sweet and sensuous
Her chestnut hair was elegantly dis