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The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01
Love Beaten by Loeksmlth.

A locksmith and a blacksmith play
ed an important part In the wedding
OF Miss Mabel Stevenson to George
Worden In her home at Silvermine, a
suburb OF South Norwich. Conn In
cidentally Miss Stevenson isn't ready
to admit that Howard Aiken, who serv-
ed as the bridegroom's attendant. is
deserving of a title
Soon after the 20 members OF the
wedding party and the officiating cler.
gyman entered Miss Stevenson's home
Mr.. Aiken picked up a dog collar to
which was attached an automatic lock
Jokingly he placed 1t about the neck
OF the bride. The lock snapped. Mr..
Worden and most OF the members OF
the wedding party hunted vainly for
the key There were no tools In the
house with which to open the lock.
When the hour set for the ceremony
came Mr.. Worden summoned an au-
tomoblle. placed his bride into IL.
climbed In after her and dashed to
town. The locksmith and the black
smith smiled at the brides predlca-
ment, and between them they succeed
ed in filing on the lock and the bride
returned to the waiting gathering In
her home and was married.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01

the matter of color because they
must. Great quantities of white, and
black and white, pieces are designed
and are salable every season. A we'll
made fancy feather is a very satis-
factory trimming. When hats must
stand constant wear, there is nothing
to be preferred before them. They
stand wind and weather and many OF
them may even be successfully clean.
ed with soap and water
The making of feather pieces is a
great industry. All domestic fowls
and many wild ones contribute plum
age for this purpose. Feathers are
so changed by clipping. bleaching,
dyeing and by combination with other
feathers that only the expert can tell
what the original raw" feathers
came from.
JULIA BoTToMLEY.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01

across large kitchens that were
roomy and cool In summer and roomy
and cold In winter. They had few
helps In the way Of pantries, cup
boards, shelving. kitchen cabinets and
other modern conveniences such as
are considered necessaries now. but
there was big woodworking cook
ing stove and benerous wood box
which the small boy OF the family
was supposed to keep well filled by
working nights and mornings between
school hours and bed time.
Those old-fashioned kitchens had
to be scrubbed once week and
swept every day, a cleaning task Of
no small proportions. There was a
big. fiat. heavy table in one corner
without a knife drawer and the pan
tries were generally partitioned OF
in the most awkward ways possible; !;
sometimes In opposite corners, which
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01
Proper Way to Fit Blouse.

Always begin at the shoulders in
lifting blouse. II the shoulders MT
in the proper manner, you need have
no fear about the rest of the bodice.
Always cut the center front OF a
bodice on the straight of the material.
If necessary. it may be taken in very
slightly at the waist when being fitted.
But II you slope 1t much the set OF
the blouse viii be wrong. and this is
true even when it is to tit a very
stout figure.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01

~ VERY season brings out many
q things new and strange In fancy
Il feathers. AS rule these feath-
er pieces are beautiful because
the feathers from which they are
made are beautiful, to start with, and
because the designers of feather trim
mings work with great enthusiasm.
A successful piece means a great de-
mand. which spells profit for the
manufacturer. Then, the variety and
beauty of the markings in natural
feathers, and the wonderful changes
which can be made in them by proc
esses of bleaching. dyeing and piec-
ing make possible an inexhaustible
variety of design.
Makers of fancy feathers govern
themselves, in a measure, by the hat
shapes which prove to be popular
They follow the lead of fashion in
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01

der 1t and the Dashboard behind IL
This manner OF living necessitated q
large kitchen, but we have learned
few things by experience and one Of
these bits OF knowledge has led US
into building smaller kitchens.
A visit to the cooks cabinet OF
lake vessel will give good idea OF
the value of close quarters when get
ting a meal ready for hungry
crowd. The cook at such times is
busy person. His little box Of
kitchen is so small that he can stand
by the stove and reach everything
necessary 20 use. but he has place
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01

required travelling back and forth a
great many times in fetch-and-carry
process.
People seemed to live to fetch and
carry In those days. They carried
burdens Of considerable weight into
those big old-fashioned kitchens and
some OF the packages were stored
there for future use There was a
barrel OF apples, bags OF potatoes and
flour bin. all of which had to be
moved at cleaning time. The wood
box had to be hauled away FROM the
wall SO the floor could be cleaned un-
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01

for everything; and II he is good
workman everything is in Its proper
place. 30 he can reach a Ash plank.
a beefsteak broiler or a bacon skillet
Instantly; and the same holds good
through the whole list of culinary
utensils. A single cook will prepare
meal for twenty hungry sailors in
one of these little box kitchens when
the same man would want three or
four helpers II he had to do the same
work In a room 20 feet square.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01
veIv.t puster.

There is nothing better than piece
Of velvet for removing dust from vel
vet. 1t is equally good for cleaning
taffeta garments. II the velvet is made
into cushion like the ones which
come with mems silk hats. It ~ little
hsndisJ to work with.
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01
For chapped Hands,

A remedy for chapped hands takey
from an old country Doctors note
book calls for one ounce each OF
glycerine and aqua rosA. with sl
drops OF carbolic aoid
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01
His staying Powers.

Nothing serious the matter with
your fathers lungs. Is there Jerry?"
Il should say not! He's been cough
ing for 81 years. and he can cough
louder now than ever"
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01
Get a camorra Chief.

The great chiefs OF the Camorra
we're quite at ease. Erricone Alfano
who had been the chief since 1893,
resigned that high post and contented
himself with his district leadership of
the Vicaria. He even made trip to
New York. where he was feted and
banqueted. Fucei reigned In his stead.
Then the blow fell. One night the
carahineers gathered in over two score
The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1912-02-01
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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29
Too Frequent Gags" From 0xy-
gen Dangerous.
Proposition of Sir Edwin Ray Lam
kester Denounced as Unsports-
manIike and Unscientific-
Will Shorten Life.

London.-The lay press reports that
Sir Edwin Ray Lancaster has inquired
if the Swedish authorities, who will
have charge of the coming Olympian
games, will permit Marathon compe-
titor to carry an oxygen tank or bag
and take from it an occasional Whit
during that cruel and grueling twenty
six odd miles that must be run by
those who would be in at the finish.
The competitors, he observes, will
presumably be allowed to consume re-
freshments while racing. "It would
be extremely interesting to see wheth-
er such breathing Is of material assist
ance to the runner, and as oxygen gas
is not a drug but as natural an article
of consumption as water, there seems
to be no reason why the runner should
be disqualified for refreshing himself
with 1t, as he may with soup or wa
ter"
Stimulating drugs are, of course,
rightly barred from any athletic con-
test worthy the name, the Scientific
American remarks. Oxygen is in these
circumstances certainly drug, mas
much as it "dopes" the recipient, quite
like many another drug. Pure oxygen
is a powerful and most valuable stimu-
liant for the sick who require it-pa-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29

the coast stations Sitka is typical, It's
mean of SO degrees for the coolest
month, February, is practically iden-
teal with the January mean of Saint
Louis. Extremes are rarely known
there.
In the Saint Elias region westward
to the Alaskan peninsula the winters
are usually considerably colder. Earth
err to the northward the coasts are
washed by the Boring sea, a cold
body Of water with an average tenn
perature of about 80 degrees. In con-
sequence of the cold sea and its ad-
verse winds, 1t is natural to find a
harsher climate on the northwest
coast
In the interior of Alaska the climate
becomes continental, with great
ranges of temperature between the
short, comparatively hot summers and
long, cold winters. Within 100 miles
of the coast the oceanic influence
largely disappears.
Whether the greater nearness of the
Japan current would change this in
terror Is not known. The southwest
coasts of the territory would be af-
fected most The agricultural supply,
which would be Influenced by a milder
climate, has in the past been valuable
only for supplying the local market.
Heretofore views of all kinds, opti-
mistic and pessimistic. have been ad-
vanced on the possibilities of success
full agriculture in Alaska. A number
of successful farmers live there. all in
welI-chosen localities, In the vicinity
of towns of considerable size.
On the outlying islands. such as Bar
anof, where Sitka Is situated, and Ke-
mai, grain has been failure for the
most part, except when cut for hay. At
Sitka, where potatoes do well for some
years, they fall off In size and quality.
and other vegetables are raised only
with care and in favorable seasons.
Fa. rs Now Cultivated.
AS one enters the valleys of south
ern Alaska the agricultural possibilities
improve Potatoes and other vegetables
have done well in the past, but as a
rule grains fail to ripen and are valu-
able only for feeding stock. Farther
north, in wat is known as Copper
valley, condj ions are more favorable
| for vegetable ), and quite a number of
good gardens and small farms are now
cultivated The growing season here
! tofore has stretched over six months
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29
DOOMED MAN DRAWS BRIEF
Murderer Signs Appeal With inItialsw
Showing Number in Death
House.

trenton, N. J.-For the first time
In the history of New Jersey a man
convicted of murder and in the death
house at the state prison, has pre-
pared q brief in his own behalf for
presentation to the court of errors and
appeals in an endeavor to get new
trial
Frank McDermit and Chauncey H.
Beasley, as counsel for Allison M. Mac
Farland, filed with the court an elabo-
rate brief prepared by MacFarland,
who stands convicted of poisoning his
wife in Newark.
The case was carried up on a writ
of error and in addition to the law
yers brief the brief of mcfarland
was filed. The man goes into the
case in detail and has an explanation
for every questionable phrase in the
now famous Bunny" letters. AS Mac
Farland is an educated man, the brief
was intelligently prepared. He sign
ed it ID. H. 1851" The initials stand
for death House," and the numbers
are his prison designation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29
What Horse Power Means.

Very few people realize just what a
horse power, as expressed in engineer
ing terms, really means.
When it is stated that the worlds
largest Curtis steam turbine, which
drives an electric generator in the Wa
terside station, New York, develops
10000 horse power the meaning is
vague and incomprehensible. Imagine
this term reduced to man power and
almost every one can grasp its full
meaning. If 1t takes twelve men to
equal one horse power then this man.
moth turbine engine develops IL times
$4,000, or the working energy of $780,.
900 men, If these men worked in
eight-hour shifts each day it would
require the services Of 1.0S0.000 men
every twenty-four hours to produce
the working energy of this turbine
unit-Electric News.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29
HEADED OFF BY DIPLOMACY
Kitchener's Smooth Way of Keeping
EGYPTIANS From Mixing In Turco-
italian War.

Egypt is actually a Turkish province,
although the British control is so
complete and tenacious that the SOW
ereignty Of Turkey is of the most
shadowy kind. None the less Turkey
has the nominal right to order the
Egyptian army to cross the frontier
into Tripoli and to help il the discom-
future Of the Italian invaders. But al
though Turkey has wisely refrained
from issuing orders that would not be
obeyed there has been desire on
The part of many Egyptian officers to
volunteer in her cause. and these Of
fcers have asked Lord Kitchener's per
mission to absent themselves from
their posts for that purpose. Lord
Kitchener's reply, quoted in the Fort
nightly Review, shows a certain sar-
donic humor that must be classified
among the finer weapons of diplomacy.
He says he would gladly give the de-
sired permission, but he fears that the
upward pressure in the junior ranks Of
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29

tents with coma or pneumonia in ex-
tremis. But, as with all stimulants,
excessive use of it is dangerous. 1t
first excites and then depresses; fire.
quent oxygen intoxication will prema-
turely exhaust the individuals vitality
and will surely tend to shorten his
days Such indulgence will make the
cardiac beats most pathologically rap
id and powerful; the blood will flow
in excessive volume and strength and
the collapse will be in reciprocal pro-
portion. The ears sing in an Oxygen
lag" as if one should hang head down
ward over cliff; speech is hesitating.
"ideas swarm, but it is hard to seize
them"
Sir Edwin's proposal is amazingly I'M
scientific in a scientist of so great rep
utation and it is most unsportsman-
like, especially in an Englishman, the
Britisher being nothing If not lover
of fair play in sport. What folly to
declare nascent oxygen as natural an
article Of consumption as water! Pure
oxygen is far from being such thing;
it is natural only to be breathed when
it is diluted with several times its
volume of nitrogen.
Pure oxygen has before been used
in athletics, but all that kind of thing
is altogether cheap and improbable
and it has yellow streak. Yes, rec
ords have been broken by this means
They should not stand; they do not In
the minds of the sporting aristocracy
And the reason why is that they are
not tests of Drawn and endurance un-
der the inexorabie conditions in which
human life must ordinarily be lived
An oxygen drunk might make an un-
trained. undeveloped, soft muscled, or
dinarily short winded specimen sue
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29

cessful for the brief span of a given
contest; but for all that he would be
poorer, and not the really triumphant
man. All competitions should be held
under natural conditions, such as must
be CHANGED and COPIED with in nature.
The only safe and sane way to
breathe oxygen is in combination with
nitrogen as it exists in the circumam-
bient air, in the form to which, dur
ing the ages, human and all other life
has become adapted. Normal living is
ever "the right adjustment of internal
relations to external relations"
After all, why should marathons be
run, anyway, except for the glorious
and sufficient purpose of announcing
in the Athenian market place the vic
tory at Marathon over the Persians?
How utterly purposeless is today this
terribly taxing race, which must for
many a participant result III disease
and in shortened existence.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29
Many of Leading Citizens, Including
a Venerated Priest, Hanged by the
Cossacks, Says Correspondent
in Letter.

Faris.-DetaiIed accounts OF the
atrocities committed by Russian troops
in Persia during the last two or three
months are at length available. The
League for the Rights of Peoples has
obtained two letters from Persian cor
respondents Both letters are from
Tabriz, the chief commercial town OF
Persia, which the Russians bombarded
and seized. The first is dated Janu-
airy IA:
December 18 the Russian army en-
tered Tabriz without having warned
the authorities of the city. This act
only served to make the population
indignant. as it saw it's rights violated.
The nationaIists, at sight Of foreign
ers mixing in the affairs of their coun-
try, became exasperated. Fighting
was imminent between them and the
Russian Cossacks. December % the
Russians began a heavy bombardment.
Shells fell everywhere in the city. The
population became maddened. The
flag from the American consulate wee
struck off by shell.
ION the 23d the nationaIists seized
the Russian barracks, which are in the
Armenian quarter. More than twenty
Cossacks were killed or wounded.
Atrocities began. The Russians entered
houses, burning, sacking, killing and
pilIaging. They struck down the chill
dren who resisted before their fathers
and mothers and carried off the young
girls when they could. Others came
On t. the Adgi bridge over the River
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29

or more in the islands and the inlets
to five months at Skagway, and Is
about four in the interior.
While the Seward peninsula and the
arctic coast have no agricultural pos
sibilities, yet considerable parts of the
Yukon basin are suitable for garden
ing to degree astonishing to the I'M
informed. The best-known instance OF
successful farming is that at the Holy
Cross mission, on the Yukon, 81 de-
grees north There cattle have been
raised for II years and more, and the
products of the land under cultivation
excite establishment in all visitors. All
through the valley of the Yukon pota-
toes and vegetables mature when
proper ground is chosen and skilled
attention given.
At Fort Gibbon, at the junction or
the Yukon and the Tanana rivers, and
at Fort Egbert, near the arctic circle,
the military garrisons have raised
large quantities of vegetables, pota-
toes being especially successful. Even
at Coldfoot, within the arctic circle, at
IS degrees north, potatoes, cabbage,
peas. turnips rhubarb and berries are
grown of large size and good flavor.
Truck farming and hay farming are
dourishing industries in the lower Ia
mana valley, where it is said that more
than 10000 acres of land have been
homesteaded While grain will ripen
only under favorable conditions, pota-
toes, with other vegetables, do very
we'll, and the native and selected for
eign grasses are productive of good
crops.
That the productivity Of Alaskan
agriculture is important, both In guam
tity and in value, is clearly indicated
by the diminution of the shipment OF
potatoes from the United States to
Alaska which dropped in two years
from 211,215 bushels to 1908 bush
els. In the same length of time the
value Of all vegetable shipments fell
from scoops to $483,S55. a decrease
of more than 80 per cent.
A warmer climate in Alaska would,
no doubt, cause these figures to dimin-
ish rapidly and soon disappear. In
fact, 1t is not an extravagant state
ment, according to men who have in
vestigated the subject to say that the
switching of the Japan current may
mean that Alaska will forge ahead in
it's agricultural products until its ex-
ports will be the very things which in
the past were imported.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29
Make Life Worth Living.

Learning at II o'clock on Saturday
night that the wrong package of laun-
dry was delivered at your house.
Going on Sunday excursion and
having your train sidetracked to let
all the freights go BY
Getting a letter addressed in fem
mime handwriting and finding that it
contains a bill from the plumber for
$167.59.
Having a man abscond on Tuesday
when he had asked you to take an
automobile ride with him on Wednes.
day morning.
Getting out your perfectly good last
summers two-piece suit and finding
that the moths have made it resemble
a piece of Swiss cheese.
Living upstairs over family where
there is young lady who thinks she
has voice.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29

CCORDING to meteorological
- experts there was a complete
A change of climate in Alaska
Il ~ last winter, which may be
permanent The change was
caused by the switching of the Japan
current toward the shores Of that
country This is likely to cause
great change In the raising Of agricul-
tural products and will, perhaps, open
up new fields of endeavor. Records
show that 1t was Alaska's warmest
winter. Capt Harry S. Knapp. the
governments chief photographer, de-
clares that the Japan current probably
has been switched from its former
course to a position very near the
Alaskan coast by recent earthquakes
In the Aleutian islands. Scientists are
now at work on the problem endeav-
Oring to ascertain whether their sup
positions are correct.
The Alaska known to the tourist,
says the Philadelphia Record, is a
strip of land and a fringe of islands
about 425 miles long by 100 miles
wide This extends north to Mount
Saint Elias and is about one-twelfth Of
the country. The main territory, be-
ginning at Saint Elias. stretches north
ward about 700 miles to the Arctic
ocean and the same distance west
ward to the Bering sea. The total
area is probably about 590.SS4 square
miles.
Heretofore, the climate of Alaska
has varied In different parts of that
country. The impression is general
that the Alaskan climate is arctic in
its severity, but this impression is
misleading. There is no typical Alas
kan climate any more than there is a
typical European or American climate,
The extremes Of latitude and longi-
tude in Alaska find their parallel in
Europe between Norway and Sicily.
EquabIe Climate.
The Aleutian isles are favored by
most equable temperatures through
the influences of the Pacific ocean.
These modifying oceanic influences az
feet the northern Alaskan coast to the
peninsula, and at Sitka and the coun-
try Whereabouts is found northerly
extension of the temperature condi-
lions of the California and Washing
ton coast region. The Sitkan archi-
pelago has a humid equable climate,
with cool summers. warm winters and
FREQUENT falls of rain and snow. or
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-05-29

the Egyptian army would compel him
to place the absentees on the retired
list. which would be a grievous return
for patriotic valor. So he advises them
TO curb their heroic ambitions, so
natural to. Egyptians, and stay at
home. To a number of nomad Bedou-
irs, who made similar applications
Lord Kitchener expressed his surprise
that they should wish to fight at all
Not having regarded hem in the light
of warriors. be had never included
them in the Egyptian CONSUMPTION, an
error that should be hencefortb cor
rected in view of their martial in
clinations. Thereupon the Bedoufns
decided that there was no place like
home.