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ally accurate astronomers explain that
it Is not a patch but rather something
which becomes visible by reason OF the
anomaly that it contains nothing that
Is visible. The lay mind, preferring
bald reality to abstract truth, is some
what startled to learn that an object
is seen because there is nothing in 1t
to see, but no one can dispute the fact;
the coal sack is visible because 1t con-
tains nothing that is visible. In other
words, it is a vast hole in the stellar
system in which there is not even
pinch Of stellar dust to shed flicker
of luminosity. 1t is typically and alb
solutely the quintessence Of blackness.
Because it is so, and in contradiction
Of all preconceived notions, the human
eve can see it without the aid of tele-
scope or other instrument. Between
the stars of the Milky Way there are
MANY little holes in the stellar system
little by comparison, that is to say
but one must have telescopes and pa
thence to find them. One need only
cross the line to the southern hemis-
phere and locate the Southern Cross in
order to see the coal sack.
With the wealth of legendary tale
and fable woven around the northern
stars by the highly gifted races gazing
on them through the ages that are
gone, one is tempted to speculate what
tales would not have been constructed
around that fathomless mystery had
it appeared north instead of south of
the equator. When it rouses the poeti-
cal impulse within the brain of abor-
iginal Australians. what might it not
lave done with the ancient Greeks or
still more ancient Egyptians? But
they were denied it The aboriginal
uses it, as he uses most things, in a
topsy turvy fashion. To him the world
is a fat plain crowned with a dome
shaped roof.
When a man dies he has to go up
| to the roof and slowly journey over it
till he can Chamber down to the fat
again and squeeze through, once more
man. The coal sack is the hole he
| goes through to get onto the roof and
| to get up to 1t is a very long climb.
| The journey over the roof Is also very
| long, and it is hard to squeeze through
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

ture will have to punish with increas-
ing frequency and precision if the lives
of the Individual members Of society
are to be properly safeguarded. To be
compared with it in some respects Is
the sentence of year in Jail and a
$1,000 fine recently imposed on an au-
tomobile chauffeur in st. Louis for run
ming down and killing child. Only
year or so ago, when sentence like
this was imposed abroad, it attracted
attention in this country as drastic
enforcement of desirable law. Yet al
ready the courts in our own land have
begun to place responsibility on reck-
less chauffeurs so vigorously that this
is not the first sentence Of the kind we
have to show.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Among toys, as among men, longev-
ity depends not wholly on individual
constitution, but partly on circum-
stances and treatment. Toys last long
er in some families than in others, but
in even the most fortunate there comes
a time when father signs as he exam
ines the wreck of the things he bought
at Christmas. 1t is a pleasant charity
which collects these broken or out
grown toys from the families Of the
| Well-tO-dO, and redistributes them
among the poor and not the least in
teresting of the observations made by
those who do this work is the care
| and skill with which repairs are some
times made by the new owners. 1t is,
of course, truism to speak of the enor-
nous multiplication Of toys which has
| taken place within comparatively few
| years. Every one notices it, and few
seem to find it anything but commenda-
BILE. There is, however, more than
| question as to whether it is not an
| injury rather than benefit to the
| child. Where in other days he had one
or two toys at a time. he now has a
| dozen. The result is that no one Of
| them comes to occupy the supreme
| place in his affections which the one
used to fill nor does he learn how they
| are made and what makes them CO."
| as he formerly did. There is loss in
| concentration and in knowledge. In
the case Of the elaborate mechanical
toys, there is also. perhaps, a loss of
| imagination. Why is it that the mute
old rag doll is preferred to the beauti-
full wax doll that cries so pitifully
when pressed to it? After all, is there
| any wiser plan than the old one of en-
couraging children to make their play
things? 1t was cheap, it occupied the
minds of the young people, it taught
them to observe and invent and execute
and these are useful gifts in after
| life
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The Wisdom of Experience.

There was no doubt in the minds of
the Hobart family that young James
had remarkable gift. 1t remained
for an obscure uncle from the Cape to
drop a word of caution and of world
ly wisdom.
You say he's wonderful far-seeing
and can tell folks just how things are
going to turn out?'' he inquired.
Yes, it seems So" said James ador-
ing mother
well, now, If you want him to be
the most unpopular man anywhere
round, you just let him foretell and
prophesy and forecast" remarked the
old uncle, grimly.
III you want him to keep a few
friends you must shunt him off onto
some other track Let him work ont
sums In his head. That's a harmless
practice"
But why?' faltered the mother.
Just this" answered the authority
from down On the Cape. when he
prophesies things'll go wrong and tbav
90 go wrong, the heft Of the blame1l
De laid straight on his shoulders. When
he says they'll go right, and thew do
folksn be too busy enjoying them
selves to remember your James. And
when he says they'll go wrong and
they 60 right, they'll call him q fool
Now I'm above 70, and you mind what
l tell ye!"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
QUEEN WEARS FAKE RUBIEs.
"Aren't They Beautiful" Asks
Alexandra.

"Aren't They Beautifully" Asks
Alexandra.
Queen Alexandra is having much
amusement with the imitation rubies
which she, possessing some Of the most
magnificent jewels in Europe, can dare
to wear Her majesty rarely wore any
thing but pearls and diamonds former
ly. so the rubies attract the more at
tention and arouse admiration, which
the queen perfectly understands, is not
provoked utterly by their beauty
When any one praises the rubies her
majesty says, as if much gratified: do
you like them? Yes; they are very
fine, aren't they? Beautiful" But
then she adds, smiling:
Between you and me, they are 1mi-
tation."
The rubies are such astonishingly
good counterfeits that only an expert
in gems can discover that they are
false.
The Duchess OF Roxburghe, the
queens close friend, bought some or
the rubies from a foreign peddler for
a joke, and then Alexandra first saw
them She purchased some, too.-The
Record
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HER FIRST EXPERIENCE.
Observation-Disclosures

Like many another inexperienced
Bates went to housekeeping on scale
beyond their means, in a house much
larger than they really needed. When
the first months bills came in Mr..
Bates, after frowning and signing over
them, gravely but kindly pointed out
the necessity Of watching expenses very
carefully.
You shall see how economical l can
be-" cheerfully announced Mrs. Bates.
1t was late autumn, and Mr.. Bates,
wishing to avoid the dirt caused by
using coal, had arranged to burn gas
in the furnace. This was something of
an experiment with furnace not built
for that sort of fuel and after he had
been brought by the bills to q realizing
sense of the surprising and manifold
expenses of maintaining a home, he
btgan to fear that he had made a mis-
take.
1--WE won't keep the house boiling
hot" he said. "Of course We'll be COM
Portable, but we won't weaken our
selves by an Overheated house, as so
many people do nowadays"
Acting on this plan he did not often
turn the gas on at full force. One even
ing he came home to an icy cold house.
"Why, what's the matter?" he asked
Mrs Bates, who, wrapped in steamer
rug, was shivering miserably.
Ruined? What do you mean?"
"Why, we owe $25,OO0!" she sobbed.
II don't see hoy you can ever pay such
lot"
TWENTY-FIVE thousand dollars! My
dear, what are you talking about?'
THE house got quite chilly this
morning, Ned" she sobbed, land I
thought it was really more healthful to
be little too warm than a lot too
cool, so | went into the basement and
turned on some more gas in the fur
mace. although / didn't mean to be eX-
travagant At noon the house was hot,
so | went to turn the gas down, and as
| passed the meter | thought I'd see
how much we were using because /
knew we couldn't afford a great deal.
When I saw we had used $4,000 worth
l just gasped. l turned it right off, for
I'd almost rather freeze to death than
to have you embarrassed financially"
Mr.. Bates, who had been looking at
her in establishment, began to laugh re-
assuringly. In a moment more he was
calling to her from the basement, Its
just as 1 supposed, Dora! The meter
says $4,000 feet, and it is a dollar a
thousand, not dollar a foot, Besides,
my dear, the reading includes all that
we have used for the past two months,
for light as we'll as heat. 1 guess we
can afford to keep the house above a
pneumonia temperature"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

When the captain of the steamer
General Slocum, which burned near
New York with the loss of almost a
thousand lives, was tried because of
his negligence and failure to obey the
legal requirements for the safeguard
ing Of the passengers he was sentenced
to ten years Imprisonment. That SEN
tence has been affirmed by the United
States Circuit Court of Appeals, and
the appearances are that the captain
will have to serve out his term. This
is a sentence for an offense committed
directly against society in the mass. 1t
was an offense of a kind that to-day is
difficult to punish because the great
bulk of past punishments have been for
offenses committed directly against sin
gle individuals. Such offenses are the
kind, however, which society in tie fu,
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

The retirement of John Mitchell from
the presidency of the United Mine
Workers of America, because of i'll
health, will be a matter of regret to
many persons besides the members Of
the organization which he has SO ably
represented for the past nine years. In
his combined firmness and tact, his
courage and his courtesy, he has been
TO the people of the United States dur
ing the coal strike of few years ago
will not be forgotten. The country
wishes him we'll.
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IDEAS ON GOVERNMENT.
By Gov. Charles Hughes.

There is nothing that l desire
more than to see our institutions work
as they were intended to work, with
every department of government per-
forming it's functions to the highest
degree of efficiency, with every man
true to his oath of Office, and the en-
tire administration revealing no i'm
projections except those that are the
invariable result of our fallible hui
man mind. In other words, free in
stitutions for the benefit Of all, with
a majority in control, and energetic
effort on the part Of all to make that
majority intelligent and expressive of
the real progressive sentiment Of the
IL,
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gratifed: our affairs albeit the most embroled, olsen
tangle and clarity If by magic the people we meet
have only amabe things to tell u.s. the leters we eA
pect arrive charged with everything desire; 1t is on
these days that should ask for we are sure 10 re-
ceive to seek because in seeking are sure to lind
Good huor is often nothing but the consciousness OF
being loved When in position where we reel
ourselves loved we know that ali pleased and we
are in joyous humor. AS general rule order produces
good humor, disorder embitters U.S. Make every day
what ought be; do not remit do not let accumulate
the necessary obligations In order to be In GOOD hu
NOR If is necessary and it is enough that we do our
duty.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

he had lived there only since last Sep
TENDER. In preparing his body for
burial 1t was found that he wore steel
chain with sharp points adjusted to
pierce his flesh constantly. He came
from Paterson, n. j., to which city the
remains were sent for interment. In
Paterson Father Heinriehs had charge
for three years of st. Bonaventura's
church. Previously he had been In
charge of an Italian congregation at
Crogan N. 7. He was born in Koeln,
Germany, Aug. Is, 1857, entered the
Franciscan order in 1886 and was or
dained in 1901.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
Cheese. olive and Nut Salad.

One roll cream or Neufchatel cnee's'
one-half cup ripe olives, stoned ana cu'
in quarters lengthwise; one-half Guy
pecan meats, one head lettuce, French
dressing. Mash the cheese to q paS'
and if necessary add d little CREAM
Form into tiny balls; mix the NV
meats and olives and place IN leI'l,'
CUPS: surround with the cheese O"''
and add the French dressing.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Put two cups of corn meal nn
bowl; pour over one cup Of boltr
milk; add a tablespoonful of bntta
cover the bowl; allow the mixture
stand until cool; add a cup of ca
milk, the yolk of two eggs, well beo
en-; a half teaspoonful of salt, HI
cup of -four and two tableSpoonfuls
baking powder. Beat thoroughly, tn
fold in the well-beaten whites Of II
eggs. Bake in gem pans in a mod
ately quick oven thirty minutes
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

underlying all think do is the determination that
there shall be no placed upon the adminstra
ton that there shall be perverson Of
it's administration which shall be impartial to the serv
ice of any particular interest," that there should be
equal Justice ability and intelligent desire to the
interests of ALL and that in all complications of
policy should swayed by desire to win the favor
of the moment but by constant desire to build
during structure in which people live happy,
useful lives.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Half an hour before dinner place /
d kettle, two cups Of hot mashed tu
nips, one chopped onion fried Mgh
yellow in a tablespoonful of dripping
and one pint of hot water, Smmt
twenty minutes, then add one quart
rich sweet milk, one tablespoonful
corn starch and two of butter, nike
smoothly together. Boil five minute
then add to one well-beaten egg Oh
cup of the hot soup and stir all into Il
kettle. Serve at once.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

The ordinary way is to mix the mus
tard with water, tempering it with
little -four, but such a plaster is Slmp,
abominable. No water should be USED
but mix the mustard with the WHIT
of an egg and the result will be pla'
ter which will draw perfectly, Ou
will not produce a blister. The PIT
pared mustard leaves that can nov
purchased cheaply, save much time an
trouble.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Cut cold boiled potatoes lnto w. Nv,
dice. Make a cupful Of sauce oS st ttor
ing together a tablespoonful u O tbpn
and one of -four and adding 10 tD 4
a generous cupful of milk III! ,n,oy
double boiler, add potatoes anu So ritb
for fifteen minutes. Season We" ""
salt and pepper and serve
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Do not take eggs to the table a
though they were fresh from the war
no yolks whole-no, not one,
French secret for serving them vii
prevent the catastrophe. Stir tea
spoonful of vinegar into the bOjl
water into which the eggs are to b
dropped" drop them into deep watel
and the yoIks will come forth coveFe
with the whites, looking like coyeFe
yellow ball.
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when he reaches the fat again. So
long does it take that by the time a
man has completed the journey not
only his hair but the skin has grown
white with age. Wherefore the black
fellow who has made the journey re-
joins his tribe as a whitefellow. Thus
1t was that when the white man first
came to the land the aboriginals re-
garded him as a long-lost comrade.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Sentences aggregating 1,461 years in
Jail have been imposed upon lottery
swindler in Germany. BY good be-
havior he may succeed in getting one
or two hundred years Topped off.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
Philosophy.

After ALL" said the optimist, "the
best of luck is only what you made It
yourself"
It's all well enough for Won to
talk growled the pessimist, ''but /
never get anything but bad luck"
well, then, it's up to you to make
the best Of 1t. '-pAiladelphia Press.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
A Kitchen blackboard.

The most useful article IN Tue NJ,
chen is a child's Blackboard OIL "n'D
are written articles to be ordered lEOn
the butcher or grocer, as fast as '1 III,
run short, also any orders III 'D'
maids if they happen to be absent '' ~,
porarily. There is no danger u -.
being overlooked, as is the case "D''
one depends on pencil and paper
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
THE COAL SACK.

Astronomical Mythology of the Aus
tralian BlackfelIOw.
Immediately below tie lower stars
of the group which forms the Southern
Cross there Is a black patch in the
sky, dark, sack-shaped and mysterious,
says Macmillan's Magazine. Scientific
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

SIBERIA says a German contestant
in the New York-Paris motor race,
will be a promenade compared with
the roads we have encountered between
New York and Albany" Evidently ST.
beria's highways have been worn
smooth by the feet of the countless ex-
lies who have travelled them.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Prof. Starr says I'VE are a nation of
TESTERS" One can't blame the professor
for coming to this conclusion. He has
been trying vainly for years to find
some one who will take him seriously.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

New York courts have given boy
thief nineteen years, which may not re-
form him, but is sure to cure him of be-
ing a boy thief
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Hetty Green intimates that the New
York Central is in trouble. Perhaps
the system could do more for its stock
holders than it has been doing lately if
it Topped off lot of pensioners of the
ChaunceY NJ. DepeW stripe.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
FATHER HEINRICHS.

Priest Who Was Murdered While
Administering Holy Communion.
Father Heinrichs, who was murdered
by Giuseppe Guarnaccio, an avowed an
archist, while administering the holy
communion in St. Elizabeth's Roman
Catholic church in Denver, was a Fran
ciscan and popular in Denver, though
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

perforations iii the masher Is Vi
idea, and aids materially in the mad
ing. AS the potatoes are crushed III,
are forced up through the perforafon
In this way all of the potatoes ,
reached by the masher. and not a,
those on the top, as in the ordor
maSher.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
German Butter Dun,pIings'

Three tablespoons butter oe1.r l.
until creamy, quarter teaspoon - ' s,n
Add three egg yolks and about nai,' wy,
white -four and then whites u s w.
beaten stiff. Put in enough more Wv ",
to form a spongy mass so tnat you ar.
cut it with a spoon. Drop the o"L ,o
lings in boiling soup and COOK tel DD
11tnC
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
Annie Fritters or F-anoake''

Make a batter Of one egg' n,iIk.
ter teaspoonful salt, one good cup 81 u, q,
about three-quarters OF a c"pl .nDd:,
-four. Pare and cut apples IL err ID
throw them in the batter anu LIZ ,,,,s
plenty of lard. When done Spi'D
sugar on top.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
Hountuy Balls.

To one pint of hot boiled homl 11;,SrIf
salt to taste, and two eggs ms rolf
beaten. When cool shape III IT, =, deep
in fine cracker crumbs and ny - Liable
fat. Serve with meat as yegs'''
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Countess Gladys is building a $780,
600 house in New York. She and the
count will need place in which to stay
when they come over after fresh sup
plies.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Judge Hargis must have had pre-
monition of what was going to happen.
Anyhow, he didn't order his coffin any
too soon.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

Japan IS worrying great deal about
high taxes. But come to think of it,
that is the way this country got its
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

PROPOSED $3O0OOOO0O WATER LADDER
Caminada has the
with Constance
be
dswitth
the canal will be easily frozenLndon
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

"Do men love women?" asks a
Washington minister of the gospel
Well they say they do.
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Perfectly Peaceful.

$50 you have decided to leave your
manager:" said the interviewer.
Yes" said the prima donna.
Quarrel with your manager?"
mo. indeed; but the only way to
avoid one is for us to separate. -
Washington Star.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

The United States Senate now has
ninety-two members How many of
them do you read about from day to
day?
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13
GOOD HUMoR THE SAVING GRACE OF LIFE
By Camille MeliIand

The benefits Of good humor cannot be ex-
aggerated. The ideal would be always to be
in good humor or, at least, to be able to put
ones self in it at will to have only to press
a button in order to see everything rose-col-
ored This is an invention which would sur
pass in utility all the others; unhappily, the
inventor is still to come.
/ do not fear TO proclaim that good humOr
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man. It is equal
useful for be ssa
eggs, puddipss. i
Or for MASKING |
tatoes, In the \
die is a s9.rl
groove for rotat'.
the 0eater h ,
usual manner.
Fixed to the 10
er portion Of :
stem is the bes,
Loosely noun
upon the stem
meath the 5eater
q circular Derl
1+Ql O,ozh
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

The next thing on the royal program
will be to marry the new King of Por-
tugaI.
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q p. ROWFN. Publisher.

To err is human; to own up to it is
more than some men can do.
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sacrifice to preserve friendships and do orbear to
do certain things because they do not meet with the ap
prova of another nation The trend of the immigration
the white people in the past has been from the East
to the West. There has been none from the West.
Inst across the water there is country with i'm
mense population whose seeking. There
are 4OOOOOOOO Chinese, strong physically and men
tally as There is there another nation
whose people are progressive and ambitious We may
some day see skilled army in Japan from 100000
to 100000. They will say: you claim Europe as
your country. This is Get OUT"
| don't think they have any such idea now and we
have no hostility them But there will be
between yellow and the white that will
shake earth When it comes want to this
try with a navy both that will be strong
enough.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-03-13

creates good 1t is truth Of the best evidence
Have you not noticed that in days of good humor
fortune mysterousy favorabe Those are the days
when all succeed when we all SMILE all wishes