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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Wartime Romance Recalled by
Both Anniversary.
TASTY Marriage Of Divinity Student
Mawes Deep impression on Fa-
nous Preacher - Makes 1t
Subject of Article.

Danbury, Gonna wartime mar
riage, performed by Henry Ward
Beecher, then pastor of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, while making
visit to Washington, Conn, was re-
called by the celebration Of the f1f-
tieth anniversary Of the wedding OF
the Rev. and Mrs. Horace Q. Judd, at
their home in Bethel.
Mr.. Judd, retired minister of the
New York East Methodist Conference,
was a young divinity student at the
time of his marriage, and had just
enlisted for the war. His bride was
Miss Ellen E. Crofut, of New Preston
The wedding was decided upon the
day before Mr. Judd's regiment. the
18th Connecticut Volunteers. was to
march away to the war, and the youth
full soldier and his bride fastened to
Washington, the nearest village to
Miss Crofut's home, to find minis
ter.
Mr.. Beecher learned of their errand
and performed the ceremony. The in
cident so impressed the famous
preacher that he made it the subject
of an article that appeared in "The
New York Independent" soon after
ward, in which he wrote:
1t was Sabbath evening, calm, soft,
clear, sweet breathed, as If there had
never been sin or sigh among
these lovely hills. We wandered down
to Mr.. Gums school to find boy of
our liking, when lo posthaste, came
messengers, a wedding A young sol
died just going to the war meant to
give his girl the right to come to him,
should he be sick or wounded. To
morrow he leaves. Tonight they must
be married TO Mr.. Frank Brinsmade's
we posted.
How came it to be there? The
young volunteer had got his "certif1-
cate" of the town clerk, and he had
stepped across the street and told our
friend that the brave soldier was
hunting for a minister. Just then, in
stout, coarse soldiers blue, came the
man, and his flower by his side.
By one of those generous sympa-
thies that seize good people, out ran
q noble woman to invite them to
stop and be married there, and as
several connected families were gath
cred there for an evenings singing,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Welded BY BEECHER

there were a score of maidens to greet
the bride, and many men to welcome
the bridegroom.
Not one had ever seen the parties
or knew aught of them. 1t was enough
that the man was going to fight for the
old flag. We looked in their faces
and were satisfied. The rooms were
thronged The service proceeded and
closed. Then some one, unbidden, but
moved to do it, began to sing, Guide
Me, o, Thou Great jehovah" all
joined. Then America" and the "Star
Spangled Banner" were added.
Flowers were brought in for the
young wife-white day-lilies and ge-
ranium leaves. Little remembrances
were sought out for the guests, and
an enthusiasm of kindness filed the
house. Thus two strangers, at twi
light, came riding into town, seeking
a solitary wedding, in order that on
the morrow, he going to the war, she
might have right to wear his name.
They were stopped, caught out Of
their vehicle, borne into a refined
home, surrounded with loving hearts,
all delicately offering service and ma
king them welcome, and giving them
wedding that, for glow and Joy and
gladness. few even of those most fav-
ored can give their children. AS the
young husband and wife were leaving,
all gathered about the dooryard gate
and sang a parting hymn.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
IS RUDE TO GABRIEL

spond. BY that time he had glanced
over the second-class passenger list
and had picked out for his own a
large unoccupied stateroom.
Gabriel was one of the first at table
for the first meal of the voyage, and
kept up the record for several days.
He was a cheerful soul, and in his
search for congenial spirits acquired
considerable popularity in the sec.
ond cabin.
For the first few days of the trip
the purser was visibly worried. Time
and again he wandered about the ship.
counting noses. One by one he call
ed the second-class passengers into a
private conference and quizzed them
The last to be cross-examined was
Gabriel. Every one else had been able
to point out their particular name on
the pursers list and show In other
ways that their passage had been hon
orably contracted for.
You are rude, sir" snapped Gabriel
when the purser suggested that hs
might have neglected to purchase his
passage. You are ridiculous, too
and / must refuse to discuss this at
fair with you"
Without delay the purser proceeded
to live up to the character given him
by Gabriel He moved the young gen
tleman from his comfortable state
room to the lazaret, which Is the
ships prison. And then-but no!
1t Is too horrible; it is monstrousu
the act of f1end-this rude, ridicu
lous purser dug up from the hold an
other who had started without tho
equivalent of a stowaway de luxe.
This person was Lucien Guiliermet
Swiss. who had worked with his
hands. He was dirty from his day.
of intimate contact with the cargo
in the bowels of the ship, and not al
all debonair. And into the lazaret
they put Lucien Guilliermet!
Gabriel sent an indignant message
to the captain, saying that he was I'M
used to occupying the same sleeping
quarters with another, particularly
one such as his present roommate
But the pig of purser intercepted
the note.
They turned both Gabriel ard the
Swiss, who confessed he wanted t.
work with his hands in the new worlf
SO badly that he had stolen a perfect
| ly good passage from La CampagniG
Trans-Atlantique over to the Ellis La
land authorities.
And the mockery of It is that they
- y a
plodding Swiss have his way, while
the most desirable Gabriel will return
whence he come.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Jonathan Wild, Founder of the Thief Trust"

was singularly fortunate in tracing
lost property. Most people were glad
enough to get back their belongings
without insisting on the thief's ar
rest. Wild grew rich, bought big
house and was highly respected. He
even added smuggling as ''side line"
to his business.
He managed to get thieves wholly in
his power by hunting up evidence
which (should he place it in the hands
of the law would hang them. BY hold
ing this threat over their heads, Wild
made the great army of crooks give
him slavish obedience and deal exclu-
sively with him. 1t was a regular
Trust" Once in awhile some stub
born rogue would disobey an order
or would refuse to dispose of his booty
through the trusts agency. Then Wild,
as reputable citizen, would lay his
evidence before the police and would
help personally in the capture Some
times these arrested slaves of his
would turn on him. His body, in fact,
was covered with wounds, and in one
tussle his skull was fractured. But
these cases of rebellion were uncom-
mon.
Robbery throve as never before. At
last parliament was forced to pass a
law making 1t a felony for any one
to take money on pretense of restor-
ing stolen goods unless he should also
produce the thief. Wild was rich
enough to have retired, but the spirit
of graft was too strong for him. Hith-
erto he had been on the right side of
the law. Now he found himself on the
wrong side of It. He continued to
wiring thieves ill-earned money from
them and to betray such as failed to
follow his orders. At last, in 1725, he
was arrested, tried, convicted and SEN
fenced to be hanged
As the hangman's cart bore him to
Tyburn London's place of execution)
the crowd mobbed him, yelling "Ju-
das!" and stoning the trembling old
rascal, leaving little work for the ex-
ecutioner to do when the cart at last
reached Tyburn.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
LIvelv chaaa After Hare.

A hare which swan across the
Thames into the grounds of Hampton
Court palace a few days ago gave the
park keepers an exciting time. They
dislodged it from several hiding places
in succession, and it jumped into the
river. It swan back again, and two
great rat, ran away screaming along
the tow path The hare re-entered the
palace gardens, and was chased by a
terrier and a small crowd. The hare
plunged into the water round the great
fountain, and the dog then secured it
by its ear. It was landed and liberat.
ed at a distance from the palace.-Lon.
don Mall.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
FORWARD MARCH OF JAPAN
Events Illustrate the Wonderful Prog
ress of the Country Since the
Year 1868.

On March "a, 1868, an English min
lister was for the first time received
with ceremony by the mikado and the
story Of that reception illustrates re
markably the Transformation of Jap
an unde~ Mutsuhito. 1t had been
fixed l.or re- previous day, but on
his palace Sir Harry Park
Madison lacked by two Japan
g T1-..a - So sudden and furi.
lis VI. - $50 assault that nine of the
IeyenZnen(of' the escort were wound
cd The. nose Of Mr.. Satow's pony and
Sir Henry's belt were cut, but Sir
Henry himself was uninjured, and pur-
sued one Of the assailants. Mr.. Ere
man-Mitford found him at the angle
Of the street with the headless body
OF one Of our enemies at his feet" The
other, a Samurai was degraded and
executed, the reception came off next
day and the mikado issued a de-
cree foTbidding all assaults upon for
eigners.
The late Admiral Robley D. Evans
told some stories Of the Japanese
court. Hand kissing was not IA
vored," he wrote. Instead, / re-
ceived a handshake from a very shape
Iy and beautiful hand. I found the
empress a woman of great refinement,
perfect ease of manner, so delicate in
appearance and small Of figure as to
remind one of some fine piece of Dres-
den china, attired In Paris gown of
heliOtrope brooade whose bad fit was
accounted for in the same way as the
baggy trousers of the emperor. After
a year in Japan I was satisfied that
1t was due to the fact that tailor
would not touch the person of either
Of their maJesties, but just looked at
them and guessed what the measure
ment should bel"
Japans emperor belongs to the old
est reigning family in existence. Ac.
cording to native historians, his an
cestors can be traced back to $50 B. G..
Prof Basil Hall Chamberlain, despite
his philo-Japanese proclivities, thinks
this is going back about thousand
years too far. Still, he maintains that,
AL deductions made, the imperial
family stands forth proudly as the old
est in the world. We know positively
that 1t has reigned ever since the
dawn of history in Japan, and that
even then it was considered Of i'm.
memorial age"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02

of the queerest monopoly on record
"Thief Trust
Wild was born in 1852. He was Bir-
mingham buckle-maker by trade and
came to London as young man to i'm
prove his fortune A life of dissipa-
ton quickly landed him in prison for
debt. There he stayed four years, be-
coming acquainted with almost every
thief in London and gaining a strong
influence over most of them. BY the
time he had scraped together enough
money to buy his freedom he
had already outlined his flu
ture career. He saw that crooks
never really succeed in life. So he
decided to stay technically" honest,
and to profit by others crimes. Rent
ing a low waterside tavern, he made
had large enough following to take
up the profession he had planned.
Calling to him number of notori-
GUS thieves, Wild made them a lit
tie speech. He explained that the
new laws had made life hard for rob-
bers. Theft was not only hanging Of
fense," but the receivers of stolen
goods were SO closely watched that
they dared not do business. So he
suggested an improvement on the old
methods. Any one committing theft
was to come at once to Wild and tell
all about it. Wild in turn was to get
to the person robbed, and, on the lat
- cI~
to offer to return the stolen articles
In payment of a substantial reward.
This reward he would give to the thief
in exchange for the plumber, keeping
one-third of the money as his own COM
mission.
1t was simple arrangement The
victim would get back his property
by paying certain sum; the thieves
would make more money than by deal
ing with regular receivers" or
fences" Wild, with no danger to
himself, would reap tidy commission
on every robbery.
From the first his business prosper
ed He himself stole nothing, nor did
he in any way come within reach of
the law. A house, for instance, would
be robbed of $4,000 worth of valuables.
Wild would go to the owner and tell
him that for $500 he would find the
lost goods. The money was paid and
the goods were returned Wild clear.
ing 5000 on the deal The work was
profitable to him and to the thieves
alike. BY the world at large he was
regarded as = Ehrewd detective, who
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Historic Blackguards
By ALBERT PAYsON TERHUNE
Eric the Red, the Scoundrel Who May Have Caused
Americas Discovery
oooooooooooooooooooooOoooooooooooo
Co. Crhe New York World.
Jar to the westward.

far to the westward.
Eric was uncertain how long Green.
land might prove safe asylum for
him, and he was ever eager to find
new haunts for loot and pillage. Sc
he decided to explore this strange
westward country and establish col
ony there. In the year 1000 A. D.. or
thereabouts, he babe his son Lief to
join in the expedition.
Lief was wellnigh as fiery and brutal
as his father, but he had many finer
qualities as well. He was high in the
service of King Olaf of Norway and
was known as "The Kings Guards
man" His constant good fortune had
also won for him the nickname of
"Lief the Lucky" Like the rest Of
King Olafs court, he had embraced
Christianity, forswearing the heather
Morse gods and forcing his followers
to do the same. Eric was furious at
his sons conversion. A fierce quar-
rel arose between the two, but their
differences were at last patched up
and they made ready for their joint
voyage of discovery.
AS the Vikings FASTENED down to the
waiting ships Eric rode at their head
His horse, according to the story,
stumbled and threw him just as they
reached the waters edge. To Eric's
superstitious mind this seemed an
omen of disaster. He refused to go
on the expedition and sent Lief as its
commander This filed the Vikings
with Joy, for they hated Eric and loved
his gallant son.
After a long sail westward Lief
came to a gloomy, cloud-wrapped coun-
try (probably Newfoundland and
sailed southwark, looking for less for
bidding shores He found them. He
is supposed to have landed somewhere
along the southeastern New England
coast The place seemed a paradise
to these men from the bleak north.
The soil was rich and verdant. Wild
grapes grew everywhere. Lief, be-
cause of the multitude of grapes, call
ed the country "Vinland," or wine
land"
Here he is supposed to have found
ed colony before carrying back to
Greenland the news of his wonderful
discovery. Other Morse colonies are
believed to have followed him to New
England, but their fate and their very
existence is shrouded in doubt.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
MAY KISS ON THE STREET
Philadelphia Magistrate Rebukes Po-
Iiceman Who Arrested Lad for Kiss
Ing Sweetheart.

Philadelphia-It is no crime to kiss
a girl on the streets of Philadelphia
harold Luders was arraigned before
Magistrate Scott for kissing Miss
Hilda Young, his fancee, whom he
was leaving to board car for his
home. A policeman who stood on the
corner had blushed, then arrested Lu-
ders for disorderly conduct If a
girl is good enough to be kissed she
ought to be kissed out in the open SO
that everybody can see," said the
magistrate in dicharging Luders.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Profound Criticism.

A story is told concerning q famous
man of letters who visited Washington
and appeared at a dinner party. He
sat next to a young girl, who ratified
away at the famous man. He wanted
to talk to his hostess, but hadn't a
chance. The girl said to him: I'm
awfully stuck on Shakespeare. Don't
you think he's terribly Interestingly"
Everybody listened to hear the great
mans brilliant reply; for, as a Shake
apearean scholar, he has few peers.
YES" he said solemnly. Il do think
he is interesting. l think he is more
than that. 1 think Shakespeare is
Just simply too dear for anytbing!"-
Philadelphia Call.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02

chief of band of sea robbers and all
around ruff1ans, whom he held In
check by brutality even greater than
their own. He was born in Norway
about $50 A. D., and was the son of a
Jarl, or Earl In the intervals between
his voyages of piracy he ruled a
group of barren farms and fed at his
table a throng Of hard drinking, loud
voiced Vikings who had sworn al
legiance to him.
Laws were few in that land, and age
of violence. Human life was cheap.
Yet Eric committed murder so re-
voting as to shock even the hardened
Norsemen. To save his own life he
was forced to flee from the country.
With his followers he sailed to Ice
land. There he established new
home. But his stay was brief. His
bloodthirsty yearnings would not con-
form to any law, and in 984 he fed
once more for his life, after a second
murder
Homeless, an outlaw, price on his
head, Eric the Red sought for head
to make a safe abiding place for him.
He and his men secured the northern
seas in their serpent-prowed galleys,
until at last, after doubling Cape Fare
well, they came upon vast tract Of
ground covered with high green grass,
on which thousands of reindeer were
feeding. Here Eric landed and found
ed city. He named the country
Greenland" Rumors of its where
abouts had come to him from another
Viking
Nor was Greenland the only strange
country of which wandering Vikings
had told Eric. These sea robbers
in their restless journeys in search of
plumber were often swept out of all
known routes by storms. More than
one survivor of such voyages had
spoken of having sighted great land
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
MARRIED AT THE ACE OF $50

his poverty prevented him from far
ing very sumptuously. He was mod
crate drinker of native liquors for 165
years, and his memory did not go
back to the time when he began
smoking Mexican handmade ciga-
rettes.
This Methuselah of modern times
was born and lived within the shadow
of Mount Colima, Ell Cano. He was
witness to the destruction of Tuxpan
by an earthquake in 1906, when over
1000 people we're killed"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02

Let US believe in the great mass of
the people-not because they are in
tellectually clever, not because they
are independent thinkers, but because
in the long run the safest and sanest
safeguards of national character are
to be found not In the mental attitude
Of the few, but in the sound, sane feel
ing laid down in the fundamental
character of the great mass of the
nation.-Prof George E. Vincent.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
/ BRAVE DOG GIVEN FUNERAL
Tige Got Ten Cents for Every Rat He
Killed and Had Bank Account
of His Own.

Columbus, dying In little
white silver handled casKet in local
hotel and properly embalmed was the
body Of Tige, the dog who saved sew
eral lives in hotel fire three years
ago. Tige was carried to cemetery
in a real hearse.
Since the fire which threatened the
masters hotel and the lives OF many
people Tige ran down the corridors
and scratched on the doors until the
guests were awakened In time to es'
cape.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
To Held the Partisan Poor.

The Marquise de Guerry has left
$40, 600 to the city of Paris to be de-
voted to the ransom of articles pawn
ed by the very poor who are subse-
quently unable to retrieve them The
marchioness was moved to this by
once seeing an old couple staring
through pawnshop window at the
christening gift of their dead child,
for which they had been paying dur
ing many years.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Not to Be Thought OF.

mo, / cannot consent to be your
wife. I have been told you are intern
perate."
Darling, If you will be mine, I'll
promise never to drink another drop
as long as I live"
Yes, but you wouldn't keep your
promise"
Il would. I swear It'll"
'If you can quit why don't you do
so even If l refuse to be your wite?"
THAT wouldn't leave me anything
to promise the next girl. "-Pittsburg
Post
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Purser Elects Him From AppFc'
priated Stateroom.
Polished Nails and Manners of Stow
away de Luxe Falls to Win Ships
Officer-Goes Into the
Lazaret.

New York-You have to hand 1t to
Gabriel Ranches for the polish on his
finger nails, his manners and his
nerve. The officers of La Lorraine
of the French line have handed it to
him already.
Gabriel went aboard the vessel at
Havre with SIS in the coin of La Belle
France reposing close to the exact
crease running down the right lef
of his trousers, and the money was
still in his pocket when La Lorraine
steamed into New York harbor.
When the French equivalent for
"All ashore that's going ashore" was
sung out at Havre, Gabriel did not re-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Insect RuIns Frsneh Pea crop.

Owing to the prevalence of an In
sect pest known to science as the
thielayia ibisicola, the green pea crop
in parts of France has been complete
ly ruined. At one country center
where. in an ordinary season the pea
crop amounts to about 40 tons, the
amount available has been scarcely
one ton.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
chinese Cure Falls, sculptor Dies.

ChInese OuFe r aIIsJ oCuIP0UT DIes'
Seattle, Wash.-Louis Potter, the
New York sculptor, died here while
undergoing treatment by a Chinese
physician for minor skin disease of
long standing. Mr.. Potter came hers
ten days ago on tour of the west.
The exact cause of his death has not
been determined. The coroner Ia
conducting an investigation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Almost an Atheist

Byles-Did you ever come across a
more conceited fellow than Bulger?
They say he is an atheist, ana l be.
lieye he is.
Bonter-I wouldn't like to go as
far as that; but I do know that he
doesn't recognize the existence of q
superior being
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
usa shakespearean Names.


London.-The Times announces that
Winston Spencer Churchill, first lord
of the admiralty, in search for names
for 20 new torpedo boat destroyers
has gone to the works OF Shakespeare
and Scott.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Down Below.

satan-What do you think OF TT
New Arrival-An of the seats seem
30 be smokers seats.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02
Copyright, by the Press Pub

A MORSE pi-
"a rate - fiery
of hair and
t e m p e r;
shaggy, gigantic,
cruel - committed
a murder that led
indirectly to Amer
C "a s discovery.
Here is the story:
Eric the Red
was a Viking;
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-10-02

p ON A T H A n
WI L D was
al a thief who
never stole, a
business man with
no legitimate bust
ness, a scoundrel
who helped the
law, and a man of
the law who help
ed scoundrels. He
was founder of one