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King to Be Operated On.

Brussels, Belgium Leopold IL
king of the Belgians, is making 2
desperate fight with death. and the
odds are strongly against the aged
monarch AS a last resort the sur
geon's knife will be tried. If the
operation is successful Leopcld may
live If il fails. the end Is Inevitable.
1t will depend upon the kings strength
and vitality, which are fast ebbing.
The general opinion is that the kins
viii not survive the operation In
deed, he may die at any moment
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EIashIiahts on pistols.

In Colorado an inventor got a pat
ent or a fashiight put on smaller
arms. even pocket pistols. so that
wherever the searchlight strikes
there the bullet bits, making the TAX
ing Of aim unnecessary. This pistol
method was devised by the inventor
for policemen to use on burglars and
other night feIons
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great souls live alone and are lonely IN
the midst of men About beautiful life humanity loves
build legends simple life which leads TO splr
greatness be made unusual with nalo
miracles
Many told of the child Jesus having raised
people from the in the little known days OF MS
childhood 1t is related too when his parents took
him to Jerusalem-on the same journey when ne mad
the famous discussion the learned doctors in the
temple-he paused the sight of Jerusalem and splr
it O prophecy revealed to him its doom
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Pronhetie Beethoven.

anyone remarked the startling resemblance to
the sharp of those fourtmes repeated
double notes in Beethoven's Second symphony, which
imaginative genius may be far
contem porares? The classic example Is
Shakespeare telegraph When these familiar notes
heard the symphony the audience may be seen to
anxously the shoulder to cut and
run.-London Chronicle.
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saracenic Armor and Helmets Of
Priceless Worth in Irene Church,
constantinorle.

DR.. X. F. Martin. formerly drago-
nan g the Swedish embassy at Con-
ssantinople, has sent home an inter
esting account OF the valuable collec-
tions II ancient armor that are still
IT, be found in Turkey, according to
the PAIL Mall Gazette. He says:
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All Going out.

Judge tsternly)-Three times What you
make this, sir? -
Rastus lapologetically)-De dean make muffin You
fellows here only get any
airy profit of hauling up-Puck
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But why weepest thou?" asked
Jesus, who was with him. This
is readily amended Be at peace"
Then he directed Joseph to hold
one end of the throne, while he
took hold of the other. Both pulled.
and behold. the throne assumed
the proper size.
One Sabbath morning, with
half-dozen playmates. the child
Jesus, one old legend runs, went to
play by the banks of the River Jor-
dan. There had been heavy rain
the night before, and the tall trees
were still dripping and the sand
was wet
Sitting on the sand, the little
ones began to fashion, children
wise, ANIMALS of various kinds.
Jesus, fashioning dogs and cats and
all manner of wild things, raised
his hand and spoke-and, 10, the
animals of sand lived and moved.
The children shouted. Their
laughter of delight rang through
the fresh morning air. Some of
the animals ran away, others were
changed into sand again.
Then digging his small hands in
to the sand, the child said:
"I'll make u sparrOws."
And he sat them IN row be-
fore HIS.
BY this time several Pharisees.
who had seen the children playing
happily on the Sabbath, returned
with Joseph. whom they said
should censure Jesus.
Thou are breaking the Sabbath
my child" said the old man.
The child pondered, looked at the
birds Of his creation, then rising,
he
Clapped His hands and 10!
They chirruped. spread their wings
and flew away.
In these old legends there is a
great deal of the fanciful, the leg
end Of the boy and the animals of
sand shows the quaint conceits OF
the early Christians, who delighted
in miracles and whose imagination
was excited by this unknown period
of the Saviour's life.
One can well imagine him as a
child wandering away from Nazar-
eth, all alone, and sitting by the
Jordan or forest streams and COM
muning of the great things that
came to MIN.
He could not have been like 9TH
er children, for he was wise beyond
his years One can see him. as
fair as the lilies and roses them
selves, caressing the flowers as he
passed by in the meadows of Jul
dea, and of his sitting crowned in
an aureole of sunbeams, listening
to the divine rapture of the birds
singing their morning hymns.
He must of:en have been alone
for with the petty quarrels OF the
other children of the town, with
the little rivalries of his relatives,
he could have had little sympathy.
Doubtless as child, his poets soul
SCARED into the skies. and his seer's
vision saw the future IN the cumu-
III In
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weapons, in consequence of the new
and valuable material existing In the
Turkish collections
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Nazareth, In Judea, was astir, there
trooped from the village crowd Of
merry children. laughing for sheer
happiness, as If their hearts sang
with the song Of dancing sunbeams.
Running and skipping along the
road they went. blithe and gay, I'M
til they came to a great tree by the
roadside, where they stopped, and
clustering about a child in their
midst, proceeded 70 do = strange
thing.
They cast their nantes and tu-s
Eics from them to the ground and
FRUSTRATED themselves before the
one in their midst; then left him,
and, running into field, gathered
lowers. He that sat alone, a pen
sive look upon his youthful face.
had the appearance OF an angel.
Soon the little playmates. their
arms laden with blossoms, returned.
and weaving a wreath of glory flow
ers, crowned his head.
Into his hands they placed a scep
ter OF burning gladiolus. And abou.
him they joyously scattered, the
fresh. odorous blooms, and while
he smiled upon them they pro-
claimed the little playmate. Jesus,
the son OF the village carpenter,
their king.
While they delighted in their wor-
ship Of their little playmate, along
the road in the distance could be
seen two men coming, with heads
sorrowfully bent, carrying between
them the dead body of a boy.
What has happened?" the chill
dren cried.
Alas" responded one OF the men.
the child was playing in the forests
yonder and methinks, like many
: boys, robbed the nests of some little
birds.
Presently. climbing a tree, he
did put his hand into the nest. and
10! there was hidden a poisonous
serpent, that sank its fangs into
his flesh. He suffered terrible agony
and. sliding from the tree, lay until
he died. There we found him"
Come" the boys said, "and tell
our king"
Before the crowned one they
paused and told the story.
Rising. he said: follow me-"
Silently they wended their wav
back to the woods. Lead us to the
tree" said the child king. And
there he paused.
"Oh, treacherous serpent, I com
mand thee to come down" he called
And 10! above the nest appeared a
venonous head, and soon the long,
glistening body of a deadly snake
came writhing down the trunk.
GO, suck from that child's hand
all the poison thou didst place
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learned. He told
Zaccheus he had
lived from all
time and knew
all things. Fac
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NE bright, sunny morning
in the month of Adar, at
the end of winter, short
ly after the little town of
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Strange tales of those hid days-now at his toll
Touching plank it stretched rightfuI length.
Or shortened at his wiII-the dead WOO quick
To live again and him.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
TRADE OF THE PHILIPPINES.
The Grotesque Economic Situation
That Exists There Today.

Manila Letter to Boston Tran
script.-The Philippine ISLANDS nao
their trade relations under the Span
ish domination, and the term Manila
came to be applied as a fayoraDie
brand to their hemp and tobacco.
The war destroyed great many
farms, and even in the nelghDornoou
of Manila less land is under cultlya-
ton than fifteen years ago Mean
while the Improvement in shipping
has brought the islands products into
a great world competition. Ana
though there is no fiscal obstacle In
the way of exporting whatever the
islands produce, the United states
has so far taken the ground (Which IS
probably without parallel in history
that it will make no attempt to stimu-
late the trade of its own dependency.
There really is nothing more gro
tesaue in the world today than the
spectacle of a great nation taking pos
session of group of. islands on the
other side of the world. because
tropical colony was in some unde-
fined way to build up national trade;
and then shutting that colony out OF
profitable trade with the mother
country. One of the main reasons for
the American revolution was the be-
lief of Americans that the trade rela-
lions with England were SO arranged
as to give that country an undue
share of the profits, although England
gave to her colonies an advantage
over other people in the sale of CO.
lonial products. Either John Adams
and Benjamin Franklin were wrong
in refusing to bring the Philippines
alongside Porto Rico within the GUS
toms boundary of that union of which
they are politically part.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01

there has been no cessation in the
demand for them.
Seventy-five Berkshire hogs were
sold at the Morgan farm sale, netting
about $4,000. The highest price paid
was $500 for Pathfinder, the Sheffield
farm, Glendale. o.. being the success
full bidder Duchess Queen, sold to F.
w. Gregg, Elwood, H., brought $3.50
Much of the young stock was sold TIC
farmers of the immediate vicinity al
moderate prices as Mr.. Morgan de
sires to build up Berkshire center
here
Though the packing season proper
has closed at Manitowoc, the intro
duction by the Wisconsin Gamers
company this year of new product
pork and peas" will result in the
continued operation of the local fac
tory for some time, and it is said
with this branch of the business
fully developed, the factory may be
in operation most of the year in the
future. Estimates on the season s
crop place the output at from IS te
Is per cent which, in view of the Sc
iious troubles encountered during the
season, is considered large.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
FOREIGN.

The fate of the prosperous PunJabl
city of Dera Ghazi Kahn, which for
months past has been gradually slip
p ng in.o the River Indus, is now re-
garded as definitely sealed.
A terrible railway disaster hap
pened at Santiago, Chile, when two
rains came into collision thirty
miles north of Santiago. Many per-
sons were killed or injured. Both
trains were destroyed. The damage
is estimated at s150,00O.
According to advices received at
Rome from Teheran, Persia, the re-
cent attempt of the young Shah TO
commit suicide was really an attempt
to assassinate the boy made by his
father, the deposed shah, who struck
his son with a poniard.
The famous sociologist, Ludwig
Sumplowicz, professor OF political
law at Graz university in Syria, and
his wife Francisco, committed sui
eide by taking poison. The reason
assigned for the deed is that Prof.
Sumpliwicz was suffering from an in
durable malady
Finding that the vatican gardens
were not extensive enough to permit
of his motoring through them, Pope
Plus has given his motor car to Cardi
nal Merry del VAL the papal secretary
of state. The machine is a hand
some one with luxurious fittings, and
was given to the pon.iff by wealthy
Americans.
The date is fixed for the wedding OF
Anita Stewart and Dom Miguel Bra
granZa. On Sept Is the ceremony
will take place at Tulloch castle,
Dingwall, the place in Scotland taken
by Mrs j. Henry Smith for the sea-
SON. The wedding will be quiet, only
the members of the two families being
present.
have abandoned the search they have
been prosecuting for the missing
steamship Waratah, which left Port
Natal on July 26, for London with 300
persons on board and since has not
been reported. They still have a
slender hope that the Waratah yet
may be found, bv reason of the fact
that the steamship Menarandra, from
Madagascar for East London is
twenty-four days overdue. 1t has
been suggested that the Menarandra
may be assisting the Waratah.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
DOM ESTIC.

Robert Young accidentally walked
off dock at Marquette and drowned.
He was 35 years of age.
Plans are being worked out at
the navy department for the four sub
marines authorized by congress at a
cost of s2,0O0,000. Proposals will be
asked for construction soon.
Engineer William Bradley of Ionia,
Mich, and Fireman Frederick Graves
of Grand Rapids, were killed when
the crown sheet of Pere Marquette
engine exploded near Grand Ledge.
by the explosion of a threshing en-
CINE near Aberdeen, S. D., Roy Lang
of Vermilion, S. D., was killed, Will
liam Wackerow probably fatally hurt
and three other persons seriously in
jured.
Sparks from pipe she was smok
ing ignited the dress of Mrs. Mary
Riordan, aged go years, at the st
Joseph's home at Peoria, ILL.,, and she
suffered burns that resulted in her
death.
Claude Myers of Bertrand, Neb.
was drowned in the Sioux river, three
miles east of Jefferson, while swim
ming. Sheriff Gunderson and a
posse dragged the river all night be
lore the body was recovered.
Bert j. Williby of Pierre, S. D., was
allowed to make plea of guilty to q
charge of grand larceny and was sen
fenced to two and a half years. Will
by stole a horse the day after he
completed a sentence in jail on a
charge of embezzlement.
For the life of Patrick Dunlavy
killed on March II, while in the en-
ploy of the Iowa Telephone company
of DesMoines, the mother OF the de.
ceased, the only heir, was paid 5000
by the phone company and the Edison
Light company of Des Moines.
George Behler, aged IS, was fatally
injured in the Cedar Valley quarries
near Iowa City, and died an hour
later. He fell thirty feet, when over
come by the heat, and fractured his
skull His father, Leonard Behler,
died of sunstroke in a nearby hay
field a few years ago.
Frank Dadenheifer was stabbed by
Mic Burgard in a row at a celebra-
ton of Russian wedding in North
Aberdeen, S. d. At first the wound,
which was in the face, was deemed
of little consequence, but blood poi
soning ensued and Dudenheifer's con-
dition is serious. Burgard is under ar
rest.
A drink taken in a frolic proved IA
tai to Frank Kennedy, a young work
man from Nahant, S. d. Kennedy
sought to play trick on friend by
drinking bottle of liquor he found
in the mans clothes, but in the dark
he swallowed corrosive sublimate in
stead and fingered forty-eigtrt hours
in agony.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
CHICAGO MARKETS.

Catttle-ReceiptS estimated at
5000; market. natives steady; west
erners, weak; beeves, 4.4O@7.85; Tex
as steers, 4.00@5.40; western steers,
4.40@6.40; stockers and feeders, 3.15
OOPS; cows and heifers. 2.25@6.40;
calves, 6.00@S.50.
Hogs-Receipts estimated at 5000;
market 5010c higher; light, 1850
$40; mixed, 7.50@S.25; heavy, 1900
S.25; rough. 7.20@7l50; good to choice
heavy, 750@S.25; pigs, 7.0O@S.O0;
bulk of sales, 7.65@S.10.
Receipts estimated at 90,
900; market steady to weak; native,
2.75@415; western, 3.0O@4.65; year.
lings, 4.4005.50; lambs, native, 4.25@
IT'S; western, 4.50@S.50
Dairy.
Butter Strong; creameries, FAC
CSC; dairies, 211a @25c.
Eggs STEADY; receipts, 1888; at
mark, cases included, 1Sc; firsts, zoe;
prime firsts, 2115c.
Cheese-Firm; daisies, 157a @15ac;
twins, IN @14Ac; young Americas
.15h015%c; long horns, 151a @15Mc.
Produce.
enthusiastically choice to fancy
56@5Sc; fair to good, 53@55c.
Poultry Steady; turkeys, 15c,
chickens, 141ac; springs, 1Sc.
Veal Steady; so to, SO pound
weights, S09c; 60 to So pound
weights. 91a m1O1bc: #S5 to 10 pound
weights, 11@1115c.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The apple yield of the state or
chard on the farm of Ed. Gensman
near Wausau, is estimated at $500
bushels. The entire crop has been
sold to w. H. Marsh, Amigo
AS a sequel to the troubles of the
First National bank at Upton, Ind,
the bank, which recently reopened.
had receiver appointed for the
Beeler Manufacturing company in
Upton.
AS an evidence of reviving business
conditions in the coke region OF
western Pennsylvania, coke operators
have sent broadcast advertisements
for 1000 miners, coke drawers and
laborers.
The shipments from the Allouez ore
docks for the first half of the month
were 503,129 tons. The ore dock Of
ficials predict that if the shipments
continue good during the remaining
half of the month the monthly record
for shipments made in August, 1907,
will be broken.
Plans for the Badger automobile
factory at Columbus, are complete
and the building will be begun as
soon as material can be placed on the
grounds The building is to be rec,
tangular brick structure with cement
floors and fireproof doors. The fac
tory proper win be 50x150 feet.
The nineteen grain clam pearl
found in the Catfish river by Horace
Pease of Fulton has been sold to
John A. Young, "a prominent pearl
buyer. The estimated value of the
.,earl was about $4,000. bu. what Mr..
Pease was paid, neither he nor Mr..
Young would state.
The Lauson-Lawton company Of De-
pere, is making large shipments to
different parts of the country. Last
week a car load of gasoline engines
number re fifteen was shipped TO
Manitowoc. Many others are being
made in smaller eonsignments to dit
ferent cities in the state. This week
large consignment will be shipped
TO Norway.
Thousands of people are arriving in
Aberdeen, S. D., every week in search
of South Dakota lands. One hotel
turned away over 100 applicants for
rooms, and the other hostelr;es were
similarly crowded While farm lands
which sold for $40 an acre ten years
ago are now bringing S45 and s5o
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
BADGER BRIEFS.

A thief cut screen and entered
Yot Chin;s laundry at Eau Claire and
took $432 in cash and $500 in checks
Alfred Secret, a young Englishman
and expert plasterer, dropped dead
on the street of Madison, of heart
failure.
An unknown man, aged 40 years.
was killed by a freight train on the
Milwaukee road, two miles north OF
Caledonia station.
Mrs. George Weitman of Fond du
Lac, has been refused pension be-
cause her husband is serving life
sentence in the penitentiary for muir
der. The Judgment is according to
law.
Lawrence Horner, aged years, son
of Joseph Horner, was drowned in
the Fox river at Appleton Two lads
about the age of the boy who was
drowned were with him at the time
of the accident.
Gov. Davidson witnessed the first
big haul for carp under the direction
of the game wardens at Lake Kc-
gcnsa The governor has purchased
a lot in the Evansville camp at the
lake and will erect a summer home.
Frank Rudolph. a stone mason liv-
ing near Tomah, took his shotgun
from the wall in a fit of dependency,
walked to a nearby woods, and, s t
ting upon a log with the muzzle in
his month, pulled the trigger with his
toes. His head was blown off.
Frank Sorenson and John Helm.
dorf, two lads of II, were brought
nto municipal court ct Oconomowoc,
charged with having stolen a watch
valued at $40 and 80 in money from
Peter Burns the theft being alleged
to have taken place at Waukesha
beach
The two dog heads sent to the
state health department at Mad son
firm Amigo, were found to have been
afflicted W tn rabies. One of the two
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01
THREE REASONS.
Each with Two Legs and Ten
Fingers.


Fingers.
Boston woman who is fond
rs,ther writes an amusing article
ABOUT her experience feeding her. boys.
Among other things she says:
Three chubby, rosy-cheeked boys, Bob.
Jack and Dick, aged 6, 4 and 2 years
respectively, are three of our reasons
for using and recommending the food,
|Grape-Nuts, for these youngsters have
been fed on Grape-Nuts since infancy,
and often between meals when other
children would have been given can
dy
Il gave package of Grape-Nuts to
a neighbor whose .sr-v-< sid child was
a weakened little thing, i'll half the
time. The little tot ate the Grape
Nuts and cream greedily and the
mother continued the good work and
| it was not long before a truly wonder
full change manifested itself in the
child's face and body. The results
We're remarkable, even for Grape
Nuts
Both husband and use Grape-Nuts
every day and keep strong and well
and have three OF the finest, healthiest
boys you can find in days march
Many mothers instead of destroying
the children's stomachs with candy
and cake give the youngsters hand
full OF Grape-Nuts when they are beg
ging for something in the way of
sweets. The result is soon shown in
greatly increased health, strength and
mental activity
There's Reason
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, The Road to MELVILLE"
Ever read the above letter? A
| new one appears from time to time.
They are genuine, true. and full OF
human interest
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1909-09-01

dogs bit Mrs John Nelson, who will
be taken to the Pasteur institute at
Chicago for treatment.
Torrance Brady, a former Sheboy-
gan boy, was killed. at Ell Paso, Tex
on Aug IA by the caying in Of a con
crete wall which he was inspecting at
the time. He was buried under
twenty tons of concrete and was dead
when taken out eight minutes after
the wall had caved in.
The badly decomposed corpse of a
man thought to be Rasmus Hanson,
residing with a son at Elk Mound.
was discovered in manger of the
Anderson Brothers barn. Hanson
was last seen about two weeks ago
in Eau Claire. 1t is thought to be a
case of suicide.
Miss Erb, the daughter of we'll
known Appleton banker, proved her.
self a heroine at Waverly beach
when she rescued Frank Tuchscherer
the 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
J. Tuchscherer The lad was rowing
in a skiff when his craft capsized
Springing into nearby boat Miss
Erb made her way to the boy and
rescued him.
Miss Anna Christensen, the Is year
old girl who had been missing from
her home at Kenosha since Aug. 8.
was found Tuesday evening at the
home of her aunt. The girl stated
that she had gone to visit with a
friend without asking the consent OF
her mother, and fearing to return
to her home, she had been hiding at
the home of her aunt
While Eva, the 3 year old daughter
of Rollo Clemmons of Barron, and
her 6 year old brother were playing
with matches, her dress was ignited.
Passersby were attracted by her
screams, but in her pain and fright
she ran about SO that before they
could catch her and put out the
flames, she was fatally burned about
the back and shoulders.
| Fred Albrecht of the town OF
| Salem, Kenosha county, has brought a
| SulJ III Lie CllCluI SOul L, as ollloe
James Buckley, a Chicago contractor,
demanding damages for personal in
juries in the sum of 100000 Albrecht
was injured while in the employ OF
Buckley in gravel pit at Salem. He
was struck by an arm OF steam
shovel and claims to have been per-
manently injured.
August Anderson, 81 years of age
and said to be a member of good
| family at st. Paul, was sent to jail
! for four months at Kenosha, after
he had pleaded guilty to robbing his
employers, the J. E. Stubs company
of Chicago The Stubs company
! had big contract with the Chicago,
| Milwaukee and st. Paul railway COM
(; pany at Truesdell and Anderson was
IN charge of the commisary car OF
the company He admitted that he
had robbed the company for some
| time.