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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
POLICEMAN sTUNG BY BEES
Attempt to Herd Fleeing Swarm Dis
astrous to Jersey
Copper.

New York-From the beehive OF
William Hogslin of Bayonne, N. j.,
the bees recently fitted They had
done no work in the morning, and
as Hogslin had counted on serving
honey to his guests, he was anxious
to have them brought back. So he tel
ephoned to police headquarters and
Policeman LOBBY was sent forth to
round them up.
By the time Loof1y arrived at Hogs
Inns place the bees had bestowed an
affectionate kiss on every person with
in reach LOBBY was courageous and
he started after the most recalcitrant
bee. Whereupon the bee stung him.
And about a million other bees did
likewise.
LOBBY was becoming very warm,
and he removed his helmet. His head
is bald, and on this smooth and shin
ing surface rushed the bees and stung
him full merrily. The policeman call
ed for aid from Edmond Isbills. Is
bills. equipped with box, cooed to
the bees and drew them from their
uerch on a tree limb. They were re-
stored to their hive
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
RuiIt shins in the Weeds.

In Colonial days the shipping for
orr home trade and for sale abroad
was built chiefly in the district OF
Maine and in New Hampshire. These
two colonies built rather more than
one-half the entire American tonnage
in the days Immediately preceding
the Revolution. The older ports
could not compete with the new set
Elements amid the timber.
When the great trees had been ex-
hausted on the river banks, gangs
of shipwrights went a mile or two
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
ORIGIN OF FAMOUS PHRASE
Belief that Common Political lerm
sprang From a Horse Race HELD
In Tennessee.

The political term dark horse" is
thought to have had its origin IN the
following circumstances:
In the last century there lived IN
Tennessee a character" named Flynn
an elderly person who dealt in horses.
Flynn generally contrived to own a
speedy nag or two for racing purposes
if he could arrange for "a good thing
during his peregrinations throughout
the state.
The best of Flynn's flyers was
coal black stallion named Dusky Pete,
almost a thoroughbred and able to go
in the best of company.
One day Flynn visited town where
a race meeting was in progress. he
entered Pete. The people, knowing
nothing of the horses antecedents and
not being over impressed by his ap-
pearance. backed the local favorlte
heavily against the stranger.
Just as the beasts were being sad
died for the race, a certain Judge Nc
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07

- REIGHT on a sailing ship from
New York to London used to be
IA shillings a quarter of wheat;
now it is just over a shilling
quarter by steamer from New
York to Liverpool. Not all Of the en-
cheering which has brought about
this result has been done in the draw
ing office and the factory. Much of 1T
has been done by workingmen who
took the raw inventions out to sea,
struggled with their crudities and put
the naedful improvements into the
minds of the designers ashore. In big
ships and little the process is going on
and it Is a stern one still in spite OF
modern refinements. In the old days,
when boiler pressures were so low
that a steamer had to slow down to
raise enough steam to whistle with,
an upholstered settee was often pro-
vided in the engine room for the use
of the man on watch, so that he need
not stand more than was absolutely
necessary. Today it is probable that
not one seagoing vessel could show
such a thing. A man who cannot walk
hDQuL lOE IOuI AOuiS III bAO SSAAPSA~
ture of a Turkish bath is not wanted
now.
While the ship is at sea all the en-
gineers except the chief keep two
watches of four hours each in the
tweuty-four. The same man always
has the same hours. The third eng1-
neer takes the IL to 4 a. m. and p. m.
watch, the second takes the to s and
the chiefs watch, to II, is taken by
the fourth engineer, or by the donkey
man, If there are only three engineers
carried. In this case the chief is al
ways within call. The duties of watch
keeping largely lie in seeing that this
or that does not happen. AS we'll as
the main engines there are the pumps
and other auxiliary machinery and the
boilers always seeking to go wrong if
given a chance. Then in port all
hands are busy with the adjustments
that have been noted down as neces-
saTy while the ship was steamtng,
and these entail the handling of ire
mendous weights with hand tackle on
". Such work does not seem very for
mfdable, perhaps, but seagoing engi-
neers know that Commander Willetts,
u. S. N, spoke truly of their work
when he told the American Institute
of Naval Engineers that sit requires
the most strenuous and exacting atten-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
MUST WED RIGHT MAN
Fortune Awaits New York Girl If She
Makes a Good Match, but Trustees
Must Give Approval.

New York-Fearing that the large
sum of money" she bequeathed to her
granddaughter might attract moon
petent and designing persons to her,
Mrs. Caroline Falconer Butterheid
provided in her will that the grand
daughter may never marry NC
Keague, and that when she does mar
ry the man she chooses must meet
with the approval of at least four or
the five trustees of the estate. The
girl, bound by this odd codiciI OF the
Butterfleld will, which was filed In
New York city, recently, is Miss Dor
othy Billiard Smith. She is just dos
soming into womanhood and mas spent
most of her life in London.
Six codicils in the will are devoted
10 the granddaughter and the problem
81 marriage. She is cautioned against
a hasty marriage advising that she
consult her mother. She Is warned
never to marry a McKeague. 1t ap-
pears the grandmother was a former
friend of Mrs. McKeague. None OF
the three McKeague boys have ever
been attentive to the young woman
If the codicil is broken the money set
aside for Miss Smith goes to six char
table institutions.
Miss Smith will enjoy the income
from the Butterf1eld estate until she
is thirty when 1t will come into her
own right, unless she marries not in
accord with the directions in the will.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
SCHOOL AIDS ALIENS

plot of land conveniently situated on
the left bank of the Seine, close to the
university In order to raise the
necessary funds to buy the land and
build and equip the necessary prem
ises, stock company has been form.
ed under the name of the Society OF
Friends Of the Alliance franchise
with a capital of $4,000.
The mountain sickness experienced
by mountain climbers and the species
of same ailment affecting aviators at
great heights can be prevented by
hypodermic injections of oxygen, &C
cording to DR.. Roux, the director OF
the Pasteur Institute.
DR. RoUx read paper before the
Academy of Sciences, demonstrating
the results of a series of experiments
made with rabbits at the summit OF
Mount Blanc in Switzerland Some Of
the rabbits were treated with oxygen
and the others were not treated.
Subsequent examinations showed
that the blood of the treated rabbits
was Of the natural red-purple which
would be found when at their normal
altitude. The blood of the remaining
rabbits was blaekish and unhealthy.
The scientist says the injections
may be made very easily and that
very little oxygen is required.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
GUARD GOLD AT SEA

specie room, situated next to the pro-
vision department. This is about IL
feet in length by in width. 1t fire.
quently happens that both strong
rooms are filed to their utmost capac-
ity, and on one occasion this liner car
ried some $50,000,000 in gold bullion,
packed in small kegs bound with steel
hoops.
Gold usually is brought to the YES
sci on which it is to be shipped the
day before the date of sailing, and it
Is stored away carefully before pas
sengers embark. It arrives at the
pier in ordinary trucks, under the
guard of armed men. The customary
method of getting the gold on board
chute to the deck by means of hoist
ing engine, but this method is not fol
lowed invariably. Sometimes each
keg is placed in a sling and carried
on board by men detailed for this
service
The receipt given by the steamship
company sets forth that so many kegs
nave DSoA lSSClNCu 1OI SA1plnC1AIy AOI
for any stated amount Of gold to the
value of so much The kegs bear the
government seal in many instances,
and in such cases, when they have
been safely put in the strong room,
the iron doors thereof are sealed with
government wax, the impression be-
ing broken only when the official on
the other side comes to receive the
gold. The kegs are checked thrice
when they are taken from the trucks,
when they reach the gangway and
when they are placed in the strong
room.
Although no armed guard stands by
the strong room, two men watch the
room constantly so long as the ship is
in sight of land. AS q matter of fact
there is little danger Of any one steal
ing gold in transit on ship. 1t would
be necessary that he should shoulder
keg weighing some two hundred
pounds and vanish with 1t without be-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07

ton of any known pursuit, and, while
requiring skill and intelligence to ac-
complish well, it has to be performed
under such severe stresses and in such
dirt and heat as to rob it of all interest
except in its speedy completion.
In the Silent Hours.
An engineer does not readily forget
his first voyage or that first night in
the graveyard" watch az to a. NJ
when he sat on a bucket to consider
the novelty OF his surroundings and re-
vile the heat, and woke up from few
chief engineer vigorously kicking the
bucket away from under him. In
few weeks he becomes ashamed of
wanting to sit, even in the tropics;
but he has not conquered human weak
ness even then, for after few voy-
ages nature will have provided him
with the trick Of sleeping while he
solemnly PAGES the engine room. Usu-
ally this only happens after spell Of
exhausting labor, such as is conse-
quent on breakdowns, and usually it
er-room bulkhead and wakes, feeling
foolish and uncanny, after, perhaps,
fifteen seconds of jerky somnambula-
ton. Then he learns to keep bucket
of cold water handy to dip his head in
to, and the same intelligence that con-
trives this antidote warns him that 1t
were unwise to mention the circum-
stance in the messroom. Indeed,
hint of even feeling sleepy is as hor-
rifying to the ear as the smell of a
heated bearing is to the nostril. A
hot bearing once smelt is never for
gotten 1t is not by any means an
overpowering smell-just burning oil
but to the man on whose watch 1t
occurs it reeks of certain disgrace.
When he has eased the engines and
hears the other engineers warned by
the change of speed, coming tumbling
down the ladders, while he is franti-
cally searching for the source Of the
smell he would give five years Of his
life to undo the oversight of the last
| five minutes.
Discipline in the merchant service
| begins well enough at the top, but 1t
does not work all the way down. 1t
stops at the lowest grade of man who
has a certificate to lose, the junior en-
gineer. In the evidence at recent
nautical inquiry one read of man
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07

The new members Of the house of
representatives are classified in the
following occupations: Barristers 40
bankers 43, farmers AZ, journalists 30
merchants q, ex-government officials
8. government officials s, traders 7,
land owners 8, cattle breeders 3,
weavers 2, ex-Buddhist priests 8, edu.
cationalists 2, printers 2, notary pub
lie. tea trader, sake brewer, timber
merchant, communal mayor, transport
agent, hotel proprietor, marine prod.
ucts trader, l each; while those hav-
ing no fixed occupation number 153.-
Japan Weekly Mall.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07

into the forests, and here on the up
lands they would build vessel of
100 tons or more, mount her on strong
sledges Of timber, hitch on a team
of 200 oxen and drag it in one steady
pull over the snow to the frozen sur
face of navigable stream.
Such a team of oxen would be a
quarter of a mile long, and it took
the teamstership of a major general
to start them all at once. 1t was
called raising them" and this work
once done nothing must stop them till
the ship rested on the ice.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07

Minamee. who was the oracle" of
that part of the state, arrived on the
course and was made one of the race
judges.
AS he took his place on the stand he
was told of the folly of the owner OF
the strange entry. Running his eye
over the track the judge instantly rec
ognized Pete. Gentlemen said Nc
Miuamee, there's a dark horse in this
race. as you'll soon find out
He was right. Pete, ''the dark horse,
lay back until the three-quarter pole
was reached, when he went to the
front with rush and won the race.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
Means by Which Ocean Liners
Carry Enormous Sums.
Fifty Millions in kegs-Contents of
Strong Rooms Sealed by Govern
ment Officials Are Secure
From Theft in Transit.

New York.-The natural assumption
would be that In the safeguarding of
the treasure which the various coun-
tries are constantly sending one an
other by the big ocean liners there
would be required the vigilance of
many men. This, however, is not gen.
orally the case, since, once the gold Is
stored away in the rooms set apart for
that purpose on the big ships and
ed guards are necessary.
Taking the specific case of one liner
sailing under the British flag, We find
that it has two strong rooms, the
smaller of the two being in close prox-
unity to the captains office. This one
compartment has no doubt sheltered
gold enough to pay the cost of the
liner many times over. The walls,
the roof and the ceiling are lined with
two inch steel plate, and the room
contains nothing in the way of fixtures
save shelving. The locks, which are
of the double variety, are rendered
still more secure by steel hasps cover
ing the keyholes, and they are pro-
vided with massive padlocks. The
strong rooms, being in the most fire.
quented portion of the vessel where
persons are passing them at all hours
of the day and night, thus receive the
best protection after ALL There are
two sets of keys, one of which is re-
tanned by the agent in charge Of the
consignment of gold and the other of
which remains with the captain.
In the case of the British vessel
mentioned there is another and larger
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07

ing seen. Masters of vessels declare
gold is the safest cargo of any to ham
die.
The total weight of one consign-
ment of gold shipped by the British
vessel in question amounted to some
thing like 10000 pounds. or sixteen
tons, and the freight charges amount
ed to $4,000, or, roughly speaking,
one-eighth of / per cent. Specie thus
shipped is insured at its full value.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
Very Unusual.

From Chicago, isn't she?"
Eyes. A very unusual woman She
has such remarkable luck in keeping
her help"
Flows that?"
why she told me she had four hus.
bands and only one cook"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
undesired superIatixe.

He-If you'd only consent to marry
me you would help to make me bet
ter man.
She-I can't do that; but I'd be Will
ing to help make you best man
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
naker KilIed in DOUGH Mixer.

New York.-Samuel Krampler a
baker lost his balance while at work
IN a Harlem shop, and fell into a
dough mixer equipped with revolving
rriyes He was instantly killed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
Dies PLAYING Sacred HYMN.

Scranton, pas he was playing
Nearer, My God, to Thee" on the
piano, at his home, Augustus Laubach
suddenly fell forward on the keys and
expired
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-08-07
To a Finish.

Poet Ito his wife)-'Now, let's have
a race and see whether you finish
your cake first or l my sonnet
Fliegende Blaetter
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azzQBo4RD EmzuNE 8Fx Mu0ERwz1NEp

ton of any known pursuit, and. while
requiring skill and intelligence to &C
complish well, it has to be performed
under such severe stresses and in such
dirt and heat as to rob it of all interest
except in its speedy completion.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-04
TRAYELING d. PAsOANs.

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Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, and
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ATLANTIC CITY - Columbia News
Co.: Empire News Co., Is South GeOr-
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ATLANTA, GA.-WOrld News Co.
AUSTIN, TEXAS-Hotel DriskilL
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Culver.
BALTIMORE, MD.-WOrld News Co.
BIRMINGHAM, ALA.-DeLayes News
Agency 10 North 18th street.
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BUFFALO-IrOquois, a. SchurmaD.
81 William street
CHICAGO-Auditoriu Great North
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stand. corner Clark and Randolph; En-
pire News stands (wagOns); Chicago
Newspaper Agency, 10 Madison street
(wagOn).
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Co.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-04

A POOR, bewildered, disguised mar
"A ried man asks me this question.
1 \ why do middle aged married
women flirt?"
The answer is, because they are fools.
Nobody with a grain of sense in her
head would risk so much for so little
as the married woman does when she
engages in a Irritation. On the one
side are the love and trust Of her hus-
band, the respect of the community,
home, children, social position, an as
sured income On the other, the pleas
ure Of having her vanity tickled by
the thought that she can still attract
the attention of men. With the price
of divorce and the loss of everything
worth having for a woman.
There is no other such one-sided
game IN the world, and the marvel OF
1t is that any human being outside OF
the home for the feeble-minded, could
be found reckless enough and silly
enough to engage in it. Yet there are
thousands of women who stake their
happiness on this desperate venture.
1t is incredible, but it is true, that
there are women who have all the
goods the gods provide; who have
kind and generous husbands, luxurious
homes, beautiful clothes, lovely chill
dren, who are not satisfied with all of
these blessings-but are never happy
unless they think they have secured
the admiration of every man in sight
oucn women carry on claQu6SLluG
acquaintance with men their husbands
do not know; they write foolish, SEN
timental letters that compromise them,
they run after celebI>Ies, and they
form the following and make the for
tunes of all sorts of false prophets
and eXploiterS of new cults. Without
them the fashionable preacher could
not go to Europe for six months in the
year nor the fashionable doctors roll
around in limousines. Nor is there any
extent to which they will not go in
their mad desire to attract the atten-
ton of men. If there is nobody else
about, they will make eyes at the dis
reputable old FOUNDERS that hang about
cafes and roadhouses, or the very wait
ers that serve them.
Age, that should bring intelligence
And beyond all this is the folly Of
and discretion, seems to bring to these
women only an additional recklessness
and folly, so that they are less careful
of their conduct than the flightiest
girl would be. Yet they know, if they
would only stop to think that the
faults that the world excuses in youth
it does not excuse in sober maturity.
silly, Fat and Forty.
1t is a curious fact that the most
not when she is sweet and twenty, but
when she is fat and forty, and old
enough to know better. But she
doesn't. A young girl may suspicion
mans motives and essay his cOmp1-
ments to see how much of veracity IS
in them, and weigh his vows of devo-
ton to ascertain how heavy they are
woman's vanity is so hungry and so
voracious that she swallows whole
every honeyed speech man makes her.
Possibly this explains the middle
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-04

Illinois and Washington streets; Yoma
News Co.
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Co, Kemp News Co. (wagoLs), Hoff-
man News Agency. 224 South Spring
street; Alfred V[imbush (wagonl
LONG BEACH-Kemp New Co.
LOUISVILLE - International News
stands.
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ATEMPaIs-WorId News Co.
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Store, Am. Book and Sta Co., Ave. san
Francisco No. %.
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way and 32d streets, Broadway and
22d, 400 Broadway, Grand Central sta
ton.
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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-04

Of serving oranges popular m ulIIerenL
countries, especially in the south,
where the orange grows
A Cuban method impales the peeled
orange on a fork after it has been
peeled with a sharp knife A round
slice is taken off both the top and bot
tom Of the orange. One of these pieces
is put on the fork making a resting
place for the orange, which comes next
and the last piece is placed over the
orange.
The orange is eaten without soiling
the fingers and only the pulp is left on
the fork. The ordinary way Of serv-
ing an orange is to cut the fruit IN
half around the center and place it in
cracked ice. When the orange is eaten
in quarters, too much pulp is consumed.