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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22

tary's call the deposits to the credit of
the treasury in the national banks will
be reduced to SS7 .O00,0 600. The free cash
IN the treasury is now 500, 100000, and
probably will not be more than So, 00O,-
OO0 by the end of next month. By the
end of this fiscal year the government
VIII have in the treasury and the banks
margin of probably not over S6O,0OO,-
OO0 With which to ward off the evil of an
actual deficit in the treasury next year.
After ALL the present deficit is only
bookkeeping deficit An actual deficit
would call for borrowing to meet cur
rent eXpenses-a disagreeable eXpedlent
in time of peace Yet it has been grave
~ proposed that in spite of the condl-
ton OF the treasury Congress shall COM
NIT the government to vast and, as
many level-headed people believe. vision
airy schemes of internal Improvement
raising money TO carry on the same by
the issue of bonds. 1t is perilous
course, and the hope is strong that it
will not be followed.
The precedent which was made in the
case Of the Panama canal may prove Il
plague hereafter when careful conduct
OF the national finances is urged. but it
should be remembered that after all the
canal was decided upon not only as a
commercial but as a military necessity,
for the reason that it will nearly double
the efficiency of the navy. On behalf
OF internal waterways improvements no
such argument can be urged. Every
friend of republican government on this
continent would have reason to grow
grave if as a general policy the United
tates should take to raising money by
issues of bonds in time of peace.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
The Worlds Richest Women.

Many people if asked to name the
| richest woman in the world would IN
hesitatingly accord that distinction to
the Frau Won Bohlen, daughter and
heiress of krupp, the great German
gunmaker, who is absolute mistress of
the great works at Essen. If list of
the ten richest women in the world
which was recently published in Lon
don is correct, there are two American
women with larger fortunes than that
of Frau Won Bohlen.
Hetty Green comes first, the amount
of her holdings being left to imagination
Mrs. Russell Sage is next with an es-
timated fortune of $S5000,O00.
| Frau Won BOhlen's wealth is figured at
| SSO, 100000.
Mrs. Anne Weightman Walker is
fourth with $60,000,0O0.
| Nine. Creol, of Mexico, is said to have
an income of $5,000,00O a year.
The Marchioness of Graham, who fol
| lowing the death of her father, the
| Duke of Hamilton, entered upon the
| possession of an income of nearly $780,
| 600 year, is set down sixth.
| The seventh is the Baroness Won Eek
hardstein, the daughter of Sir Blundell
Maple. She recently has come into the
second portion of her fathers fortune,
making ak her yearly income S55o'O0o.
The Duchess of Roxburghe, who was
Miss Goelet, is credited with possessing
fortune of $25,0OO,0OO.
| The Countess Szechenyi, who was
Miss Gladys Vanderbilt, is placed low
on the list with only $12,0OO,00O.
| The last of the ten is Mrs. S. G..
Ascher, of London, whose father was
Harry Barnato, brother of the famous
Barney Barnato. When she was mar
ried her father presented her with So
| OOOO 600 as a wedding gift. His death
has brought to her an equal amount
which he had reserved for his own
needs.
There is no reason for believing that
these rich women are happier than the
average of their sex. Mrs. Green has
faculty for making money, but when
| it comes to spending it her discretion IS
| by no means remarkable. Perhaps IT
| is because she is aware of her limlta-
| tons in this direction that she spends so
| little A few months ago she determined
| to try the experiment of living in style
at fashionable hotel; but after the
novelty had passed off she returned to
the cheap fiat scale of existence, estab-
| fishing modern parallel with Dlogenes,
who preferred his tub to the finest resi-
dence in Athens. Mrs. Sage regards
! herself not as the owner but merely the
custodian or almoner of the millions she
has inherited from her husband, and
is endeavorng to distribute them as
quickly as possible in the furtherance
of activities which will benefit her fell
low human beings. The ambition of
Frau Won Bohlen appears to be-and it
is a very worthy one-to keep the works
at Essen up to the relative standard
they had attained at the time OF her
| fathers death.
| Some of the very rich women are
more or less engrossed in the pursuit of
social ambitions-iust the same as a
large proportion of women in general
whose family occupations do not occupy
all their time and thought.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
Race Discrimination in Paris.

Paris has often been spoken of as a
Caucasian capital in which there is alb
solutely no prejudice against any one
on account of color. Where else could
the elder Dumas, whose hue ana me
aments plainly indicated his African de-
scent. have lived his brilliant career!
So much signifed his genius and so lit
tle sicnified his color in the esteem of the
truly cosmopolitan Parsians that the
whole community sympathized with nm
in his triumph over coXcomb VINO had
presumed to catechise him on the subject
of his ancestry. The dialogue between
the two was short but entertaining is
II true" asked the curious inquirer,
s'that your father was a mulatto!
"Perfectly," Dumas replied.
rs it true that your grandmother was
a negress"
''Then what was your great-grandta-
ther?" r, Nv,
mas angriIy replied-''my family began
where yours ends
But the color question was brought up
TO the disadvantage OF a colored man III
Paris the other day. causing tilt be,
tween the French Prime Minister ana
the project of police.
M Clemeneeau. it seems. had negro
nroteoe he desired appointed as a ponce
man. but Lepine, the police project, re
fused on the ground that negro color
created so much curiosity and attracted
such attention that it prevented him from
doing his duty
This objection is one that, would wear
avay if the number of people of color III
Paris were large enough to make them
no longer novel spectacles TO the
n'1r;ons. In that case, however, their IN
d dustriai competition might cause them to
he disliked. 1t often happens that preJu,
dice di attributed to the race, of those 70
whose detriment it operates, has its or f:
in something else-usualiy something
which the person who conceived tne
prejudice rightly or wrongly appialse'
as detrimental to himself.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
COYOTES KILLING GAME.
Deer and Grouse Their Prey in Western
Colorado.

Coyotes in such large numbers that
they threaten to destroy all of the deer
and other game in the vicinity of Hot
Sulphur Springs are reported by Frank
G. Stanley, who yesterday appealed to
both the state bureau of child and ami
NAL protection and the state game and
fish commission for their support in pre-
senting a bill to the coming Legislature
to provide a bounty on coyotes through
out Colorado. These state departments
have agreed to cooperate to secure such
a bill.
During recent heavy snow the coy
otes dragged down and killed thirteen
helpless deer within ten miles of Hot
Sulphur Springs" said Mr.. Stanley,
"and fawns stand no chance at all with
the ravenous brutes. On every side can
be seen feathers of grouse and sage
hens which tell the story of slaughter,
and although there are pheasants in al
most every other part of the state the
coyotes have completely cleaned them
out in our county. There have been a
great many beaver near Hot Sulphur
Springs and these have been unmolested
by the settlers, but they are being killed
by the score. Unless some reward for
killing coyotes is offered there will soon
be no game left in that section of the
country. denver Republican.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
Why It Was.

A party of northerners was touring
Virginia. some years ago, and as the
crowded train was crawling through
Stafford county, near Fredericksburg, an
old and wizened woman, with a basket
bigger than herself, came aboard, and
edged ditf1dently into the vacant place
beside one of the men. After a while
her seatmate decided that it could be
no harm to draw her out little for
the benefit of the rest of the party.
''This is very poor land that you have
around here, madam" he began.
mighty PORE" she assented humbly.
81 never did see such worthless SOIL
"No. subj" with an air of deep de-
lection.
Don't you ever SOW any crops at
all?" he kept on.
The ancient dame did not lift her
head.
NAV, subj" she drawled. "This hyer
land around hyer was sowed bout 3-foot
deep with Yankees, long bout forty
years ago, and we amt been able to
raise nary crap since" -Harper's Week
w
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
The Child Critic.

Princess Lwoff Paraghy, the Hun
garian painter, was asked in Philadelphia
to address a women's club on portrait
painting-a subject that would have had
much interest, for the artist has done
portraits Of the Kaiser, the Gear and
other celebrities.
But she declined to deliver the address.
Il cannot speak impromptu," she said,
and what is more wearisome than a
speech read from notes?
"a friend of mine once spoke before
a class of school children on literature.
She had spent week writing the speech.
She read it to the little ones, as she
hoped, with great success.
But the next day she heard that a
boy, on being asked by his mother what
had happened at the school, replied care
lessly:
,,,'Oh, nothing much, except a lady,
talked to herself on piece of paper
New York Tribune
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
TOLD TO USE cUTICURA

After Specialist Failed to Cure Her
Intense Itching Eczema - Had
Been Tortured and DisAgured but
Soon Cured Of Dreadful Humer.
81 contracted eczema and suffered
intensely for about ten months At
times 1 thought l would scratch my
self to pieces My face and arms were
covered with large red patches, SO that
I was ashamed to go out. was ad-
vised to go to a doctor who was a spe-
cialist in skin diseases, but 1 received
very little relief. / tried every known
remedy, with the same results.
thought 1 would never get better until
a friend of mine told me to try the
Cuticura Remedies. So l tried them,
and after four or five applications of
Cuticura Ointment | was relieved Of
my unbearable itching. used two
sets Of the Cuticura Remedies, and 1
am completely cured. Miss Barbara
Kral, Highlandtown, Md, Jan. 9, 1908. !"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Sole
Props. Of Cuticura Remedies, Boston.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
SIT UP IN YOUR CHAIR.
Device by Which Writer Strengthened
His Spine

Nothing is more likely to cause drowsi-
ness or laziness than leaning in comfort
against the back of a chair.
Very few people sit" The vast ma
iority recline. Their bodies touch The
chair all the way from the shoulder
blades down to the back of the knee, a
stretch of about one yard. Many
muscles and nerves are benumhed ly
compression and some $50 square inches
of skin is rendered inactive. The spine
becomes weakened by artificial support.
An excellent preventive of this habit of
repose was designed by a writer, one
who had suffered from inertia number
of years His backbone was almost
devoid of energy from the fourth clavicle
down to the tip of the coccyX, just from
half reclining in the chair in which he
worked.
Resolved to rid himself of the habit of
leaning on his spine nearly all of his
working day, he hung on the back of his
chair a strip of thick leather a foot wide,
through which he stuck thousand pins,
more or less, and the points of these
kept him very erect. His health has i'm
proved.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22

Proved a wise, Good Friend.
A young woman out in Iowa found
wise, good friend in her mother n-laW,
Jokes Notwithstanding She writes:
"It is two years since we began using
Postum in our house. / was greatly
troubled with my stomach, complexion
was bHotchy and yellow. After meals
often suffered sharp pains and would
have to lie down My mother often told
me it was the coffee I drank at meals.
But when I'd quit coffee I'd have
severe headache.
while visiting my mother-in-law
remarked that she always made such
good coffee, and asked her to tell me
how. She laughed and told me 1t was
easy to make good coffee when you use
Postum.
II began to use Postum as soon as
| got home, and now we have the same
good coffee (Postnm) every day, and
I have no more trouble. Indigestion is
a thing Of the past, and my complexion
has cleared up beautifully.
"My grandmother suffered great
deal with her stomach. Her doctor told
her to leave of coffee. She then took
tea, but that was just as bad.
'.She finally was induced to try
Postum, which she has used for over a
year. She travelled during the winter
over the greater part of Iowa, visiting,
something she had not been able to do
for years. She says she owes her pres
ent good health to Postum
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Greek. Mich. Read THE Road to Well
VILE" in pkgs There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A
new one appears from time to
time. They are genuine, true. and
full of human interest.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
A Pleasant Prospect.

A Philadelphia woman, whose given
name is Mary, as is also the name Of her
daughter, had recently engaged do
nestle when, to her embarrassment, she
discovered that the servants name, too,
was Mary.
Whereupon there ensued struggle to
induce the applicant to relinquish her
idea that she must be addressed by her
Christian name. For some time she was
rigidly uncompromising.
"Under the circumstances" said the
lady Of the house, 'there is nothing to
do but to follow the English custom and
call you by your last name. By the way,
what is it?"
"Well, num-" answered the girl,
obviously, Its Darling. Harper S
Weekly.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
Tho National Treasury.

It is the dire necessity OF the gS Sacre.
ment for cash that has !no oa1I for the
tary Cortelyou to eos 1sen sue n of the treasury
payment n oo f- on deposit in national
moneys o fo This al amount S15,OOo,00o is to
banks b ns;d % On ' on before January g. and nd
be p pamai p on or before February ~
1 The re gan between the income ana nd f far
aI NJ of the government , so la ~
during the present year now a am GOO oo N
SOS OOO.O 900. and will reacn a th When
By the end 6 Of the responded to the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22

so WILLIAM A. PRESSER, 1922
Third Ave, Moline, ILL.,, writes:
~ 81 have been suffering from catarrh
l.. head for the past two months
u, t,iad iunumerable so-called RENE
% rtbor avail. No one knows how
-. qlfered, not only from the DIS
VT ;tceN but from modification when
=. n" man of friends or strangers.
y %b bsye used two bottles of your med
:, n, a short time only, and it
9tsd c0rapfete medical cure, and
IN Is better yet, the disease has not
"TI .sp most emphatcally recommend
,,.ns TO all sufferers from this dis
Pead This Experience.
" A. Thompson, Box Is, &. r. 1,
u~d Ohio, writes: When I began
-, la' treatuent my eyes were infamed,
vas Sfop0ed up half of the time,
NJ WAS sore and scabby. l could not
= # night on account of continual
,gEior and splitting.
i had tried several remedies and was
inr to give up but thought l would
4 g Psuna.
n+tIe I noticed a difference. / am
4 NV cOmpfeteiy cured. after suffering
m catarrh for eighteen years.
q think if those who are afflicted
nh catarrh would try Peruna they
< w1d never regret it.
peuna is manufactured by the
gana Drug Mfg. Co., Columbus, Ohio.
Ask your Druggist for a Free
Am1s Almanac for 1909.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
American Agriculture and the Cost of
Living

w. M. Hayes, of the government De-
partment of Agriculture, prepared for
| the annual special edition of the New
| York Journal of Commerce an elaborate
| table showing changes which have taken
place in the United States during the
past thirty or forty years in the agrlcul-
| tural output of the country considered
| on per capita basis. Two generations
| ago two-thirds of the population was
| agricultural. Now the conditions are
reversed-one-th third only being agricul-
tural while two-thirds are gathered into
towns. The ratio OF nome consulllpIion
| of American farm products has en0r-
mously increased, and as corollary the
proportion of the agricultural producC
available for export has diminished
OF course deductions from statistics
| like this should be carefully made, win
| due allowance for other important Iac-
| tors in the situation, such, for instance
as the rise of agricultural machinery and
[ the Introduction of scientific farming IN
| Mace of the crude methods OF carrier
| times. az
The production Of corn amounted TO
34.9S bushels per capita III looo alie u
only 29.67 il 1907; wheat rel from II1.S o. 10
from "a to .16. The per capita. of cat
| tie has fluctuated 1t was 791 IN =, 1851
| 921 in 1890 and SIG in 1907. Sheep,
avcIuding lambs. have greatly fallen on.
| the figures being for 1880 .S4l ana 1oo'
Coz Swine. 1880 .992; 1907 .642.
There are some food products, hke
rice. produced in greater proportion 10
| tbe population now than formerly, put
! the trend has been the other way. IL IS
largely because of this trend that the
most nrosnerous class in the community
at the present time is the. agrlcultu.ral
class. and that the cost OF supportilills
| life. SO far as it is dependent upon the
consumption of farm products, mas au-
vanced. ., 1;r,;,-
MI HAYES looks for a further dlnlin-
ution of the relative number employees ~
| agriculture. but not for greatly nlSHlel
nrices for food products. Indeed ne ne
thinks that in the long run these VIII
decrease. Economies certain to De n
reduced in American farming VIII sleio
| so much greater results from equaI sttels
that it will be quite possible Tor prlces
To no lowered without curtalhng ihe M
comes of farmers In the language u
| tbe Journal of Commerce:
| when the Industrial equilibrium Is 80
| IN +his country where our land VIII MY
| 1,,orn Than supply the wants or our own III FL
Mo for tbe products for which II Is aH ~.
tbere should be such an increased e5ie+ih,;;
ond economy of production ana OF uls u ~ 10
tion that the benefit will be an useu n ace
| the cost of living will less tnan AL ~, - nv
| with the capacity for proVlulhs
/ which men live sooms
| This is a cheerful view, ana seems
iustifed by the facts ana the ie"o0A
| ING marshaled to support II.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
BLACK Cigars Tor Nerves.

Many people have in their mind that
or,ono Jewish characteristics that of be-
ing strong smokers is decidedly, mark ed !
aS racial bent When the villain of
q melodrama is Christian with a point
ed moustache he always smokes Gig,
orotte When he is Jew with pointed
1 a. he always smokes a big black CT
nor As matter of fact, Jews are
Strong smokers by habit and are prob
CIV made so by temperament. and be-
ing highly strung nervously as we are,
we use tobacco, as the old lady liked
her tea. ''strong and often" - Jewish
Chronicle.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
Post Cards for Sale.

We have a series Of sixte en- post cards
Vtrh We offer for sale for Is cents in
anps-S cards illustrating views in
b Washington Park zoo and the bal
IN taken of animals in the Ringing
aNhers menagerie. This is very in
|asdng lot of cards. If you do not
Fa the entire series, send 5 cents in
Ea2s ior samples. THE EVENING
tISCONSlN CO., Milwaukee, Wis.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
The Head of the Glass.

'This." said a teacher to her class Of
mall arithmeticians, ''is a unit" She
Md up a pencil. This book is a unit,
b." said She "And these are units"
4 I'D she showed them a ruler, a flower,
4 Id an apple.
Then she peeled the apple, and, hold
i up the peel, said, ''Now, children,
1 bat is this?"
s Silence.
Come you know what it is" she
{ C!d
Little Bills hand went up slowly.
Well William" said the teacher.
Peathe, ma'am, the skin of a unit. "
PHILADELPHIA Record.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
Repartee.

This is how driver of the prison van
known as ''Black Maria" distinguished
himself. A would-be wit on the cause
way hailed him:
"Got any room inside, Roberto
''There's room for one," replied the
driver; "we KEEP it for you"
Not entirely disconnected, the wit made
another shot.
whats your fare?' he asked.
The answer entirely extinguished him.
Bread and water-same as you had
before. "-Tit-Rits.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22

A Chicago firm of contractors is
about to undertake what is said to be
the greatest house moving task on rec
ord. The operation is part of the
cleaning up work on the site of the
new $2OOOO,OOO station of the North
western railroad.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22

The Chinese have undertaken to
ca their forests, and the officials of
Y Celestial government have engaged
Japanese expert from Toxic to act as
2i master for the proposed school Of
lsS at Mukden for a term of four
-S with two Chinese as his assistants.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22
MEMS FASHION NEWS.

In spite of the fact that nrohob,,- +bo
majority of the members of the Younger
set are wearing boots these DAYS instead
OF the low cut Oxford ties. nearly All
OF them continue to wear their tro11snrs
foled up at the bottom In fact. some
o. these neither garments are worn so
nigh above the instep that an inch ~, 60
of the sock is visible every fine +bo
Wearer takes a step forward Nothing
couid be ugller than this particular fad
II IS one thing to wear the trousers
rolled up III balmy weather, when low
shoes are III order and the handsome
socks of the present vogue are q '.raisOn
q etre Tor so doing, but the high wa
ter effect of the rolled up trousers worn
with the high shoes of daily business
usefulness is particularly hideous. Young
America IS, as a general rule, so ey-
ceedlngly we'll dressed that it seems
curious that a fad SO inartistic as the one
under consideration should be so wide
~ affected by we'll dressed men, who
ought TO know better, to say the least
New umbrellas suitable for the winter
months have beautiful handles made of
ivory mounted in silver. Canes also come
IN these new mountings, but the sticks
that are being shown at the present
time are often quite light in weight and
are curIously suggestive of spring, al
though they sometimes appear in a win
dow filled with heavy underwear and
winter socks. The popular stick of the
moment is made of either bamboo, or
else in some one of the heavier woods,
stained japanese gray, the handle being
of leather in a basket-weave effect.
New scarfs in knitted effects have
quite elaborate patterns in stripes both
III vertical, horizontal and diagonal de-
signs. Many of these scarfs are made
out of mercerized fiber silks and look
quite like the real thing" A new
design has narrow vertical stripe of
the fiber material interviewer with cot
ton in sister tone-an extremely rich
and effective design.
A very striking wastcoat for wear
with the dinner jacket is made of cloth
of silver. The new chased silver but
| tons and studs may be worn with this
very appropriately.
The smartest men in Baltimore are
wearing fold collars made of white
madras and crossed by narrow colored
stripes about three-quarters Of an inch
apart. These stripes are either blue,
hello, black or brown, and are worn
quite Independently, as far as the shirt
is concerned. A black and white collar,
| for instance, is worn with a blue shirt
or tan shirt. The stripes in the collar
bear no relation whatever to the stripes.
either in color or design, of the shirt
| that Milford happens to be wearing ut
| the time.-Fairchild's Magazine.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-01-22

the time of the Civil
war. There was con-
slant pain in the
back and head and
the kidney secre-
lions were painful
and showed a sedi-
ment. The first rem
edy to help me was
Doan's Kidney Pills.
Three boxes made a