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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-03-25
Stove Repairing

SEE ELLIS for anything your stove
needs. repairs, coils, connection,
castings made to order from broken
or burned castings. 1S43 Com. NJ.
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Lost

A COONSKIN Cur on the Indianapo-
lis Sunday night. Will the party
who picked it up return 1t. 131Sh
So. C ST., or phone Main 1T10. Lib
eral reward.
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WANTED-100 boys to sell Sat
Evening Post. See Md. Murphy,
727 Commerce.
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WANTED-Agents for city and
towns to sell an article in good
demand. Good profits. 1901 So, 6 ST.
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Salary Loans

MONEY FOR SALARIED PEOPLE,
women keeping house and others
furnished upon their own notes.
without security. Cheapest rates.
cipai cities. D. II. Tolman. 33I
Provident Bldg.
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Scavengers

AMERICAN GARBAGE co Re-
moving carnage ana refuse OF all
kinds. 1T1S Pacific. M. SO. A 1897.
TAG. GARBAGE CO. 1910 A ST, M.
1913. A 1893. Res. NJ. 6406. A 4O2s.
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100000
SUMNER. WASH.

FOR SALE-7-room modern house,
fine corner lots; lots of choice
bearing fruit trees and flowers;
streets graded and cement walks;
one block from Commute car SER
vice. See owner at premises. 1888
SO. l. ST., or 901 C st. o. II. Christof-
fersen.
FOR SALE acres cleared, 100
fruit trees, 7-room modern house,
electric light, city water, woodshed
and chicken house. Convenient to
Two car lines. See owner, Geo. A.,
Andrews, So. ] and 65th SITS.
FOR SALE-Nice 30-acre farm at
Long Branch, partly cleared, all
FENCED, house and barn, 3-acre or
chard of young trees. Price very
reasonable. Address Chas. Rey-
mondaz at Long Branch.
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For Sale BY Owner

Two corner lots. Easy terms. No.
18th and Fife. Clear title. Phone
5616.
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For Sale-Miscellaneous

~~re~~~>~~s>~N~>~-~ ~r~~~~~s~ses>ses
FOR SALE at once, two hundred
laying hens. /. S. Knowles, 44th
and IL. NJ st.
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For Rent-Halls
Mortgages for Sale

COLUMBIA HALL, $40 mo. to lodges
low rate for dances. 9O4h Tao. av
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2518 n. 18th St, rs, water. 7-0O
APARTMENTS
Several modern, up-to-date
heated apartments in the
choicest residence section
for rent at from. SD 90 to 65 90
KARL II. THOMPSON e. co.
e. M. Sherwood. Karl r. Thompson
III 10th Street.
Insurance Leans
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For Rent-Stores

FOR RENf--First-c class store IN
best location. 280k No. seth st
Reut &2k Inquire Andrews. 1879
<1ElA1 ava
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Japanese Employment
EOS Bankers Trust Bldg.

Oriental Employment Agency. help
furnished to all employers. 1891 So.
9 1t. NJ 1900. A 35s7.
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Note to Homeseekers

I want to sell my furniture and
7-room house, built two years, full
in fine bearing fruit; or If you want
more lots l have 40 lots here, lay
fine, on Goth and Pacific ave. Phone
1852, Re-. Going to Alberta.
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FOR SALE-Fine black Walnut bed
room set. 307h SO. j. A 1857.
Mrs, Pitcher
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WATERFRONT
McColley & Hall
$40O-BIG SNAP-$4OO

Phones: Main 1904, A 1855.
407 California Bldg.
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FOR SALE-2h acres west side of
Fox island, 100 feet waterfront;
springs on same. c. M. Mitchell, sic
So. Steele. Phone M. COOL.
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$1,000 MORTGAGE for sale bearing 8
per cent interest; security, choice
residence property. fully insured. in
terest collected free semi-annually
and mailed to purchaser. Call at Of
flee for full Information. Lennox
Trust CO.. 952h Pacific ave.
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IT lots at American lake, close to
lake, to trade for house and 2 lots.
Apply 1904 So. ID st.
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Furnished Rooms

>>~>>~-~~~>~->~-~-~>>>>-- ~
FOR RENT-Nicely furnished room
with alcove, for 2 gents or ladies.
board If desired. 93S So. E, Main
5T67.
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SCHOOL SECTION 36

160x130 TT. way below the market
for cash. 1t is level, plowed and
in clover. Owner, Main 9152.
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Furnished Houses

GET MARRIED-Matrim paper
containing advertisements mar
riageable people from all sections
of the United States, Canada; rich,
poor, young, old. Professionals, Catho-
lies, mailed sealed free. b. G. Gun.
nels, Toledo, Ohio. t,
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Situations Wanted
Female

WANTED-A position as stenogra-
pher or cashier; references. NJ.
S177.
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RATES FOR CLASSI-
FLED "WANT" AD-
VERTISEMENTS

One cent a word, &c per line each
Insertion for all lines of business. i.
-Four insertions for the price OF
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A COMPETENT, willing woman
wants work by day or hour of any
kind. Phone A3053.
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Boarders Wanted

BUSY MEN AND WOMEN find 1t
convenient to telephone their
Want" ads to the Times, Main 733,
Ind. A 1893. Times ads cost only
one cent per word. 10 words cost
10 cents.
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Help Wanted-Male

rk by the day ironin,
or laundry. Phone A 1892.
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$50 monthly and expenses, either
sex, put out catalogues and ad-
vertfse large mail order house. S
Scheffer, Treas, i a24, Chicago.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
Beautiful Peroration of 5laine's Eu-
logy of Garfield sprang into the
Orators Mind Without Effort
on His Part.

One of the famous American class
les of oratory is James G. Blaine's eu
logy of James A Garfield. 1t mas
been said by students OF oratory that
this eulogy is one of the two Amerl-
can oratorical classics uttered since
1860, the other being Lincolns Gettys-
burg address.
The peroration of Blaine's great eff
sort has, of itself, been described as
one of the most wonderful and effec-
tive conclusions OF a speech ever
written. | shall never forget the 81
tence that lay on the vast audience
gathered in the hall of representatives
On Washington's Birthday, in 1882,
when Mr.. Blaine read his peroration.
We were silent as though the place
were unoccupied, and when he had
finished no one stirred for some mo-
ments.
LAS the end drew near read Mr..
Blaine, with a wonderful cadence sug-
costing the solemnity of his theme,
his craving for the sea returned.
The stately mansion of power had
been to him the wearisome hospital
of pain, and he begged to be taken
from it's prison walls, from its oppres-
sive, sitting air, from its homeless
ness and its hopelessness. Gently, 81
lently, the love of a great people bore
the pale sufferer to the longed-tor
healing of the sea, to live or TO die,
as God should will, within sight of
It's heaving pillows, within sound OF
it's manifold voices; with wan. fevered
face tenderly lifted to the cooling
breeze, he looked out wistfully upon
the oceans changing wonders-on its
far sails, whitening in the morning
light; on its restless waves, rolling
shoreward to break and die beneath
the MONDAY sun; on the red clouds of
evening, arching low to the horizon;
on the serene and shining pathway OF
the stars. Let us think that his dy-
Ing eyes read mystic meaning which
only the rapt and parting soul may
know. Let US believe that in the ST.
lence of the receding world he heard
great waves breaking on farther
shore and felt already upon his
wasted brow the breath of eternal
morning"
Some years later Mr.. Blaine was
asked whether this peroration reject
I'd the utmost care in composition. or
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
MILITARY DISPLAY
WILL CLOSE FAIR
Semi Centennial of the Civil War
Will Be Celebrated.
REUNION OF WAR VETERANS
Survey to Be Made by Experts and a
Comprehensive Diagram of Camp
ing, Parade and Battle Grounds
Will Be Provided.

Madison.-Tha semi-centennial of
the Civil war will be celebrated in
state fair park on the closing day of
the state fair, September 16, with a
mobilization of state and federal
troops, reunion of Grand Army and
Spanish war veterans, a sham battle
and military maneuvers.
The survey of the grounds will be
made by military experts and a COM
prehensive diagram of the camping
grounds, the parade grounds, the bat
tie grounds and the exhibition plaza
will be provided to work on. With
this portion of the work completed,
William MacLaren, Milwaukee; James
A. Nelson, Amherst; A. w. Prehn.
Wausau; F. A. Cannon, Citizens Bust
ness league; William George Bruce,
Merchants and Manufacturers asso-
citation; A. w. Bishop, Chamber Of
Commerce; Gen. Arthur Macarthur,
Gen. Charles King and Gov. F. E. Nc
Govern will petition the secretary of
war and the commander of the d.
vision of the lakes to assign regi-
ment of infantry, battery of artillery,
three troops Of cavalry and mounted
regimental band as the governments
representation in the anniversary.
]. ]. Nelson and A. w. Prehn have
received the assurance of the partici-
patton in the maneuvers by the COM
panies at Marshfield, Wausau, Eau
Claire, Hudson, Ashland, Superior,
Marinette and Menominee, and Mr.
MacLaren has been assured by the
commanders of the companies sta
toned in Milwaukee that they will
take part. Mr.. MacLaren also report
ed that the infantry from Racine, Fort
Atkinson, Whitewater, GAINESVILLE, Be-
lott, Madison, Sheboygan, Manitowoc,
Fond du Lac and Ashland will take
part.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
Gentle Threat Got Loan

Of his own Importance, pulled up with
sort of heavy dignity. there stood
before US in the person of the secre-
tary Of the treasury, man of very
gentle manner, modest in his de-
meanor and apparently with no sense
of great authority. We were favora-
bly, impressed.
Then he made It clear to us that
he regarded US as the real financiers,
and that he was only an administra-
ton officer. He told us that he want
ed to negotiate for the government at
Washington loan of fifty millions in
gold, for which he would give us gov
eminent bonds upon per cent.
basis. | shall never forget the looks
of inquiry that passed from one to
another of the bankers who were
gathered around the table. For a
time no one said a word. 1t was evil
dent that we were all wondering
whether the credit of our govern
ment justified agreeing to these terms.
Il think Secretary Chase noticed
our hesitation and understood its
meaning, for at last he said:
Well, gentlemen, | hope you will
think it advisable to accept the offer
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
How Secretary of the Treasury Sal
mon P. Chase Persuaded the
Bankers to Take $5o,ooo,0oo
100000 of u. S. Bonds.

Il have always thought that 1t was
Jhase's gentle threat, made to a group
If bankers whom he met in April,
1861, that decided the bankers of the
east to accept his proposition that we
AXE fifty millions of government
bonds on a 6 per cent. basis and pay
fifty million dollars in gold therefor"
SO said the late George s. Coe. one of
the leading bankers of the United
States at the time of the Civil war.
And as | look back upon that first
meeting with Lincoln's secretary of the
treasury-a meeting which occurred
about six weeks after LincoIn's in
auguration, ! am often impressed by
he idea that this was, both personal
y and in its effect upon national
dnance, the most important of the
meetings of the bankers of the United
States with treasury officials during
he entire Civil war.
I'VE bankers knew that the credit
Of the United States was practically
gone. In the latter part of Buchan-
ans administration 1t was practically
impossible to negotiate a loan by the
government excepting upon ruinous
terms. There was no money in the
treasury when Secretary Chase took
charge. 1t was a question whether he
was going to be able to meet current
expenses. We knew the secretary of
nC n N yTThn 0d
prominent in politics, very active in
anti-slavery movements, governor and
senator of his state, but there was
nothing, so far as we knew, in his
career that justified us In believing
that he had the slightest practical
We supposed that he had been made
secretary of the treasury solely for
political reasons
AT the secretary's request there
was a gathering of eastern bankers in
April 1861, which, for convenience
sake, met in New York city. He came
over from Washington to talk with
the bankers. OF course, we were all
very curious about him and the plans
which he intended to lay before us. A
lurking belief was in the mind of
each one of us that here was a
neophyte or amateur financier ready
to expound to us very practical gov
eminent finance. For we knew that
he wanted to borrow gold But what
was he going to say? How was be
going RI OorSuado uSP
We'll, instead of a man conscious
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
Col. George Bliss Said This Honor
Belonged TO F. c. Barlow, Who
Became Youngest Union
Major General.

| told recently Of chat which the
late Col. George Bliss, who was on
the military staff of New York's great
war governor, E. o. Morgan. had Win
Gen Joseph R. Hawley some 10 years
after the close of the Civil war, chat
in which General Hawley told ColoneI
Bliss that after long investigation ne
had discovered to his own satisfaction
there was no one man entitled to the
honor of having been the first to en-
list in response to Lincoln's call Tor
volunteers on April 16. 1861. There
was no one man, General HaWley
said, because there were hundreds all
over the north who were enlisting
simultaneously within three or four
hours after Lincoln's proclamation
was published.
Colonel Bliss, however. was always
of the opinion that he could identity
the first man in New York city, and
probably in the state. to offer himself
for enlistment; and he told me the
story of this first enlistment as fol
lows:
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Netu NRluH s
ot yrhtfrnq11s1 y.
- by e. J. EArarnH

now make you II you do no..
shall have to make use of other re-
sources which | have as secretary OF
the treasury. want to say to you
that we are entering Upon a civil war
which may be long continued and very
expensive, and | also want to say to
you that If | cannot secure funds
needed to carry on that war in any
other way | shall issue government
notes and keep on issuing them, until
this rebellion is suppressed, even
though in time it costs you a thousand
dollars to buy a beef steak and ten
Thousand dollars for a barrel of flour.
Behind the jest we saw the earn
estness and determination OF the Sec
rotary, and everyone of us from That
moment had confidence in the purpose
and ability of the government to sup
press instruction. We also had per-
feet confidence in the ability OF the
government to redeem its bonds when
the time came, and | think before
Secretary Chase sat down we were
him that he could return to Washing
ton with the full assurance that we
would make the loan upon the terms
he requested And we never had to
pay a thousand dollars for a beef
steak"
Copyright. 1911 by E. j. Edwards All
Rights Reservedl
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
Classic That Wrote Itself

whether it really was what 1t seemed
tc be, perfectly spontaneous SYM
bolism of Garfield's death.
Cautiously enough" said Mr.. Blaine,
that peroration was pronounced by
me almost exactly as ! first wrote it.
Other parts of the eulogy entailed in
tense thought and great labor; |
wanted to depict Pre- ent Garfield
exactly as he was. | wanted to frame
the picture in appropriate and sympa-
thetic language. and | toiled with my
pen as | probably never did before or
since. But the final sentences formu-
lated themselves in my mind before
began writing any part of the eulogy;
| might say they sprang into my mind
full clothed without any seeming men
tai effort on my part. Those solemn.
wonderfully pathetic last hours of Gar
field, when he turned his face towards
the sea and seemed to see eternity
after his death; | simply wrote them
as | remembered. And If there be
any merit in the peroration, it is be-
cause 1t contains sincerity, simplicity
and solemnity all appropriate to the
subject. | was not conscious of hav-
ing written anything especially dis
tinctive from the point Of view of lit
erature, and | do not now know that |
did But what did write was the
truth, and it was the truth as simply
told as all the great narratives are"
Copyright, 1871, by E. j. Edwards All
Rights Reserved.)
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
All Pastures Alike to Him.

Edward Stearns of East Cleveland
is but a wee vessel, hardly four, but
his father is pouring all manner of
knowledge into the child's head.
Among other things he has taught him
to reply, when certain picture is
pointed out to him. that it's that Of
George Washington, to be followed
by the information that George was
the Father of His Country.
They had callers the other day One
of the party picked out a portrait OF
the boys Uncle Ned on the wall, but
to make certain asked Edward If he
knew whose picture 1t was.
"Oh, yeth," replied the young gen.
tleman. That's my uncle George
Washington and he it'll the Father OF
hith Country"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
New Inheritance Taxes Collected.


Another big sum was turned
into the state treasury when At
Attorney General Bancroft, co-operat-
ing with the tax commission and the
treasury department, effected settle
ment of the claim Of the state against
Hegller of Ottawa, H., whereby the
state receives $49,8O2.55 The estate
was represented by Quarles, Spence
& Quarles of Milwaukee. The claim
was based on stocks owned by Hegl-
Ter in the Northwestern, st. Paul and
Northern Pacific railroads, all incor-
porated in Wisconsin.
The attorney generals department
has thus far this year collected about
100000 in inheritance taxes and it is
engaged in the work of collecting still
further sums from estates which have
not yet settled.
The Milwaukee road, represented
by Attorney Van Alstine of Milwau-
kee, paid into the state treasury $45,-
496.46 in settlement of the claim of
the state for license fees due since
1905 when suit for payment of the
claim was begun.
The Omaha company is the only one
now against which suit was brought
that has not paid. 1t is expected that
corporation will pay in a few days and
clear the record of the litigation that
has been pending for six years.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
To Place Saloons on Hlahsr Plane.

To Place Saloons on Higher Plane.
The saloon in Wisconsin is to
be placed on a higher plane, and
the uplift movement is among the sa,
loon keepers.
Beer kegs and whisky barrels no
longer will adorn the premises, there
will be no more loafng, and patrons
will be selected with more care if
declaration of principles adopted at
the closing session of the Wisconsin
State Liquor Dealers Protective asso-
citation at Ashland is lived up to.
One other thing There will be no
more Christmas presents for custom
ers. The officers, among them four
Milwaukee men, John Koerner, w A.
Conover, William Gleason and E. J.
Hundt, are pledged to see that the
new order of things is carried out
The declaration of principles, which
affect 1890 members in the state, are
in line with those adopted at the ma
tional convention of brewers held in
Milwaukee in 1908.
They are as follows
A declaration that the liquor bust
ness is an honorable, legitimate and
necessary form of business activity,
and Is conducted by high minded, self
respecting citizens when not restricted
by local enactments. A protest against
the imposition Of progressive or re-
strictive regulations and taxation.
A plea for the cooperation of all
branches of the liquor business, for
the elimination of any actual condition
from which the business suffers. A
protest against continued agitation to
harass the liquor interests.
declaration that prohibition and
local option are one, and both failures.
Prohibition in any form tends to the
establishment of direct taxation, the
Illicit sale Of liquor, the abridgement
of liberty, discrimination against the
poor, and in favor of the rich, the cur
other places.
The Anti-Saloon league is a menace
to good government, the quietude Of
communities and vested property
rights, and exists for no other purpose
than to provide occupation and reve-
nue. for the members of a close cor
poration, by the processes of perpetual
agitation. Local option is confiscatory
of property rights, without the pre-
sentation Of any plan Of compensation,
or the substitution of revenues to off
set those that are proposed to be de,
stroyed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
Liquor Dealers Bar Brewers.

The State Liquor Dealers conven-
ton closed at Ashland with the adop-
ton o. an amendment to the consti-
tuition, making a radical change in the
conditions of membership in the asso-
citation. The references made during
the convention to the equaling of the
interests Of the brewers and retail
de-. ers eliminated with the adoption
of this amendment, which provided
that no persons may be members of
the association except owners of retail
saloons. This shuts out all brewers
or their representatives from mem
bership and the action caused much
feeling to be displayed on the part Of
the representatives of the brewers
who were delegates.
The resolutions committee, consist
ing of Conrad Hangertner OF Marion,
Jesse Geimer of Two Rivers, Charles
Anderson Of Milwaukee, George Kei-
sulour of Appleton and Phil Canon Of
Superior, reported a resolution which
was adopted by the association, recon-
mending the revoking of the license
of any saloon keeper who sells liquor
to habitual drunkards or minors.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1911-08-09
Corporations Pay Heavy State Tax.

That Wisconsin derives about sew
enty-one per cent. of it's total state
taxes from corporations and that this
percentage is the greatest of any Of
the eastern central states, is a point
made in a report on state taxation Of
corporations prepared by Herbert
Knox Smith of the bureau of corpora
tons and submitted to the president
by Secretary Nagel of the department
of commerce and labor at Washing
ton, D. c.
The report affords a concise COM
parison between the tax laws of the
states in the light of judicial decisions,
practical administration and revenue
returns. Other reports already submit
ted cover the New England and mid
die Atlantic states. Mr.. Smith says in
part:
Michigan and Wisconsin make elab-
crate physical valuation of steam and
street railway property, which, with
earning capacity, forms the basis Of
state administered ad valorem taxes.
Reversing the tendency almost univer-
sal elsewhere, these two states have,
with respect to the taxation of rail
roads, gone from the modern gross
earnings method to the ad valorem
tax. They also use extensively the "av-
erage rate" method. i. E., applying to
certain public service corporations a
rate which is the average of the state
and various local rates.
"All of this group exempt shares of
stock in the hands of holders, when
the corporate property is taxed"