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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
Confederate Money Still Used to
SwindIe Immigrants.
First Issue of Currency in South
Problems That Confronted the
Treasury of the Confederacy
During the War.

Observation-Disclosures money is still
man in his dealings with the raw i'm
migrant, though it is hardly a cur
rency to deceive any man acquainted
with the country's history or even
with the negotiable paper money of to-
day. 1t is not surprising that confed-
crate money is so plentiful after a
half century as to make it more
valuable to the confidence. man than
to the collector when one realizes the
immense amount turned out by the
Industrious presses of the Confed-
eracy.
The Confederate treasury kept on
printing paper money almost up to the
fall of Richmond A note dated Rich
mond, February II, 1864, declares
upon it's face: "The Confederate
States of America will pay $40 to bear
er two years after the ratification of
treaty of peace between the Confed-
crate States and the United States of
America" When the Confederate
treasury began business there was a
clear enough perception among the
public men of the Confederacy that
cheap money would be one Of their
governments perils. They had been
brought up in the old democratic
monetary theory Of a currency COM
posed of gold and silver at a fixed
ratio intended to correspond with
their relative bullion value, and paper
money based upon such currency.
Almost exactly fifty years ago the is
sue of $1,000,000 in Understanding
notes was authorized. This was the
earliest Confederate paper money is
sued. By July of that year the treas
ury had exceeded the authorized
amount, and the issue of double the
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
California Men Kept Strange Vows for
Many Years-Arrest OF One
Reveals Compact.

San Bernardino, Cal.-Never to set
foot upon each others sidewalk, and
always to be prepared to shoot to kill
if they should meet outside the city,
is the strange compact that for fifteen
years has been in existence between
C. w. Richardson and Joseph and
John Shafer, prominent business men
of this place. Their places of bust
ness are opposite each other on Court
street.
This compact was violated last week
when Joseph Shafer, trying to catch
a better glimpse of an aviator, crossed
to his enemy's sidewalk. Richardson
came forth with jump to make an at
tack. Shafer fed to his own side of
the street, but hurled back a chal-
lenge. This aroused Richardson, whose
high-voiced reply made it possible to
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
HOME POOR PLACE TO WORK
Best, Whenever Possible, That Man
Should Be Away from the House
In Daytime.

The man of the house should not be
the man in the house all day long, If
it can be helped If he be an artist
with a studio at home. minister with
a study at the top of the house. a ply
stefan with Office hours, or any other
man who is accustomed to carry on
his work at home, the household ac-
commodities itself to him, and in
sense ignores his presence. 1t is true
that he is constantly subject to inter
ruptions when he works at home, his
wife softly opening the door to say,
The milkman has called for his bill.
and cannot make change" or Some
body has asked for you at the door.
Will you not go down and see him?
or, DO pardon me for breaking in up
on your work, but Aunt Jennie has
Just telephoned that she is coming to
luncheon. Won't you step over to the
butchers end set porterhouse
steak?"
1t is not quite ideal for the man OF
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

REaO ADAPT any medium to the
purpose of communication is
the motto of the signal corps
in Uncle Sans army. Literally
this means to communicate by
sight, hearing and touch. using all
kinds Of instruments, from the most
sensitive and finely adjusted wireless
telegraph outfit to the crudest and
most hastily improvised method OF
wigwagging.
If they have no wires they can use
either the wireless telegraph or the
whistle at night, or if neither of these
is available, they can fall back on the
flashing of a light or Of the wigwag-
ging of a beam from a searchlight
During the light of day they have the
means to talk with each other by flags
and even by their arms and hands.
The most important part of it all is
that each member must become so ex-
pert in the use of these various kinds
of apparatus that he can act quickly
and effectively at all times. And he
is trained to use his wits in an emer-
gency. For instance, during the Span
ish-American war, while signal corps
party was accommodating a telegraph
line in Porto Rico and keeping Gen
eral Miles in communication during
his advance, they came to point
where the Spanish troops had cut and
carried away nearly a mile of wire.
With the exception of a few scraps
their supply had become exhausted,
and they could not keep pace with the
advance unless immediate materials
were at hand. Finally, one OF the mem
bers of the party discovered a barbed
wire fence running in the same direc-
ton. Then they connected one end
of the line to the top wire. ripped off
the second and third wires, and used
them to bridge the remainder of the
span. Thus, for over half Of the dis
lance they made the barbed wire fence
serve as a telegraph line.
Duties Vary.
The present complement of Uncic
Sans signal corps numbers about
1000 men and 125 officers These are
divided into ten companies of about
100 men and six officers each.
The duties of these companies vary,
though they are primarily used in
maintaining communication. To full
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

a story that deals with the reuniting
of father and daughter. Gilbert Miller
has been separated from his little
daughter for more than a year. The
mother of the child is known on the
stage as Jessie Glendenning. She is
travelling with another show. Their
baby was sent to Washington rela-
tives.
when Gilbert Miller reached here
he sent for the child, and every hour
of the day he finds it, possible you
will see him with that baby. There
are automobile rides, parties, shows.
sweets and other entertainment for
the little miss, until we are beginning
to wonder whether she can survive
under the attention she is receiving.
Henry Miller, the grandfather, seems
to take as much delight as his son in
the company of the little lady, and
makes the third on most of the auto
mobile parties. He is great favorite
with his grandchild. Washington
Post
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

simply asking my husband to come
and see him. ! went out to do some
work and did not return home until
evening. The letter had reached my
husband in the afternoon at home. I
suppose that since the letter did not
speak of a position, and as my hus-
band was conscious that he was guilty
of the forgery, he became crazed with
the thought that his act had been dis
covered at the bank and that the letter
telling him to call meant that he would
soon be in the clutches of the law.
81 suppose the terror of his posi-
ton drove him insane, for he went into
a shed on the rear of our lot and killed
himself by hanging The letter, taken
out of the envelope, was in his coat
pocket, a mute witness of the cause OF
his self-degtruction / found his body
later in the evening when l went to
the shed and was almost crazed with
grief, the sudden changes from despair
and fea- to joy and then again to hor-
ror and anguish being more than
could bear.
THE president of the bank has new
er ceased to reproach himself for
what he terms his negligence in not
giving more complete explanation
when he wrote the letter, and since
my husbands sad death the kindly
bank official has seen to it that have
all he work at dressmaking that
caa do"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
Husband Out of Work FORCES
Wife'S Name to Check.
Banker Goes to Her Aid and Writes
to Offer Position, But Woman's
Spouse, Fearing Prosecution,
Ends Life.

Chicago. Receipt of letter by
Chicago man recently, letter Whlcn
should have brought employment and
happiness, caused the man who re-
ceived it to commit suicide. The
strange story Of how her husband, who
had long been out of work, took his
life upon the receipt of letter which
meant the offer of job and. future
comfort is told by the suicides widow.
my husband, after being long de-
spondent over sickness and his 1naD1l-
ity to obtain a position, in moment
of weakness took my bank book,
which recorded a small amount OF de-
post. and forged my name to check
for s12. l know that he used the
money in an endeavor to find employ
ment and that he would have paid 1t
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
ROUGH ON THE PASSENGERS
Americans Unable to See Any Fun in
Serving as proxies" for Fight
ing Drivers.

To illustrate the assumption that
a Frenchman reasons very differently
from an Anglo-Saxon, the following Is
told by an American whose business
frequently takes him to the French
capital.
This American was riding one day
in the Bots de Boulogne, when there
was tremendous disturbance Just
ahead of his motor car, and he saw
two thoroughly angry tourists stand
ing in the street, rubbing their heads
and denouncing somebody in language
that presently proved them to be
Americans. Two empty cabs were
standing near. the drivers of which
were hurting objurgations at each
other. The American in the motor
car could not restrain his chauffeur
from taking his part in the excite
ment. He was in due time persuaded
to go on. but not until he had ascer-
tanned the cause of the trouble. The
American asked him what it was.
why, you see. monsieur" he said,
Henri ran into Pierres cab and
scraped some of the paint from the
wheel. Pierre was angry and swore
at Henri, whereupon Henri said: If
you don't keep still / will hit your
patron upon the head with my whip
Pierre answered: If you strike my
patron I'll strike yours!' Then Henri
hit Pierre's patron a sharp rap on the
head, and Pierre resented the insult
by striking Henri's patron as hard
blow as he could"
And it did not strike the assembled
Frenchmen that this was anything
else than a fair retaliation.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
Old Fued Comes to Light

secure Richardson's arrest for disturb
ing the peace.
At the trial the strange compact
was made public. Richardson was
found guilty, but the jury recommend
ed mercy. The feud started fifteen
years ago, when as a bachelor Rich
ardson and the Shafer brothers occu-
pied adjoining houses. Richardson
broke the bachelor atmosphere by
marrying, and the fight was on. Sew
eral court cases have grown out OF
seemingly trivial quarrels between the
contestants.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
OId-Tima Oelicacjes.

Swans are coming back into favor
as a dish for the table. This rever.
sion to the tastes Of our forefathers
may lead to a demand for other deli
cacies once held in high esteem. In
the thirteenth century the heron, the
crane, the crow, the cormorant and
the bittern were considered excellent
food.
But for some undiscovered reason
the hare and the partridge were de-
spised, and in the houses of the
mobiles neither was ever seen. Anoth-
er dish favored by our ancestors was
dillegrout. This must have been a
special delicacy, for the lord Of the
manor of Addington held his tenure
on the condition of his presenting the
king every year with a dish called
Dillegrout, and if fat be added then
it is called Malpigeryum.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

fill this mission they are divided
among the various army posts of the
country. Some of them are scattered
among the wireless-telegraph stations
in Alaska and along the cable and
telegraph line which the army main
tains from Alaska to the states, and
there is still another portion provided
with mounts and stationed at various
posts, ready to take the field at mo-
ment's notice.
The great efficiency for which the
signal corps has in late years be-
come noted is the result of the great
change which came over the United
States army with the outbreak of the
Spanish-American war. Prior to that
time the while signal corps numbered
hardly a battalion, and about all of
their duties consisted in operating the
few telegraph lines which the army
owned. and few field experiments.
At the outbreak of the war, con-
gress provided for an increase in the
corps to a full regiment. There was
a rapid enlistment because it was con-
sidered "a preferred job, and because
Of the fact that the men selected
were either trained electricians or
telegraphers.
Manner of Signaling.
Those few weeks before the CORPS
took the field were strenuous ones for
the members. Tn military feature of
the training included bareback riding
foot and mounted drills, and drills
with small arms. The greatest fea.
ture, however, was that which in
cluded all manner of signaling. Every
member, in both the telegraph and the
electrical departments, was impressed
with the necessity of mastering the
codes. They were told that old but
effective story of how two of Crooks
men, back in the Indian campaign
days, planned their escape from an
Indian camp by signaling with their
code in the winking of their eyes,
Day after day, therefore. these men
covered the broad drill ground at
Washington barracks from sunrise to
sunset, and worked first with wands,
then with flags and photographs, and
far into the night with lights The
result Of these efforts brought an ex-
pertness that permitted the corps to
highly distinguish itself in the field
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

the house to do his work at home.
For his personal convenience and COM
fort it is preferable that he should do
it elsewhere. The temptation to run
in upon him, to read a letter, tell a
bit of news or ask advice, is too great
for the average woman to overcome.
Also, he gains something in the es-
timation of the family by going away
in the morning and returning at
night, while for himself there is the
manifest advantage of charming and
restfulchange of scene when he steps
within his front door to be stormed
upon with kisses by the children and
welcomed by his true comrade and
partner on the road-Woman's Home
Companion.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

rency and a fall in prices, with the
consequent enrichment of some OF the
desperate gamblers that hung about
Richmond and fattened upon the hard
ships of the Confederacy. After each
contraction of the currency the con-
venient presses were set going again.
and instead of a circulating medium
of $175,000,00 as the treasury once
planned, of of N$2O0,00000O as 1t
planned at another time, the outstand-
ing paper money swelled and swelled
until it had exceeded the $1,000.0O0.-
900 of midsummer, 1853.
The banks of Virginia tried to pro-
tect themselves and the treasury by
refusing to receive the deprecated
currency, but in vain. When soldiers
in the trenches of Petersburg were
paying $40 for tin plate from which
to eat their frugal meals, and $500 or
$500 for a pair of boots, the people
were still clamoring for larger issues
of paper.
You may still buy crisp, fresh look
ing Confederate notes at prices vary
ing from two cents to two dollars per
hundred notes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

But 1t also proved a much greater
benefit for the future of Uncle Sans
army. Out in the Philippines they
discovered that the most important
feature in the field was rapid action.
and in the reorganization of the corps
when the whole army was reformed
this feature was the guiding one in
the plans.
When recruit now enters Uncle
Sans signal corps he is first trained
in the mastering of the three signal
codes used. These are the American
Morse code, the continental Morse and
the army and navy code, Just why
three are used is the query that often
arises in the mind of the layman, but
the answer is convincing when he
realizes that the three codes are adapt
ed to circumstances, that telegra-
piers prefer the American Morse
when they can use the wire because it
is faster, the continental Morse when
sound instruments are employed, be-
cause it is surer. and the army and
navy code when sight signaling is
used, because it is easier
But they are flexible codes and may
be used under any circumstances.
Thus, when a repair party was cut
off from the main body during the
Philippine insurrection and shot had
disabled their only telephone, they
had merely to tap the wire and use
the bells to signal by the army and
navy code to make their plight known
and effect their rescue 1t requires
usually about six months to become
proficient in all three of these codes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
Plot of Play Enacted in Real Life.

1T is not often that you see a show
being staged at your theater with one
of the important persons connected
with that play enacting in real life
the central thought Of the play" OBJ
served Henry Garden, at the Willard.
You can see 1t here every day.
There goes Gilbert Miller. son of Hen
~ Miller, with his two-year-old daugh-
ter. Henry Miller Ia now playing here
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17
Has erspared 100000 Chops.

Has Prepared 100000 Chops.
London.-Of very few men can 1t
truthfully be said: "He has cooked
a million chops" Yet William Of
Edwards in Fishmonger alley, Fen.
church street, who will presently
celebrate the jubilee of his profess
sional career, is believed to have
cooked 100000. About 10000 OF
these he has eaten himself
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-04-17

Taking everything together. there
is no reward that is quite so lasting
and satisfying as the good will of om
fello Christian Register.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-15
CONTRACTS AND RELEASES
Announced BY President B. B. John.
son of American League.

Chicago. June 1i.-President b. Il.
Johnson Of the American Baseball
League today, announced the follow
ing contracts and releases:
Releases-By Chicago to San Fran
cisco l.. w Delhi; by Detroit (uncon-
ditionaD, Maroney; by Cleveland to
Toledo. James, Bronkie and Holm
horst; by Washington to Allentown.
Guy Johnson toptionaD; to Baltimore.
i. Walker: to Montreal. Becker, Ack-
ers and Cunningham; by Montreal to
Washington, Chick" Gandil, by Phil
adelphia 10 Atlanta, Clarence Russell;
to Baltimore, II. w Martin; by New
York to Portland, Gus Fisher; to At
lanta. G. Coleman; to Rochester. A..
Dolan.
Contracts-With st. Louis. w. i. AL
exander, VI. Allison; with Cleveland, A..
Griggs;l with New York, r.. Fisher, II.
c. Thompson.
Re-instated by-Detroit, II. II. Mp-
ran.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-15
Puts Spell on Erisky poa.

When a Chicagoan hears of VoodooiSm
and lncantations he usually thinks of be-
nighted savages and painless forests,
but mild suburbanite did a little in
eantatinB and mysterious "riting the
other day, all to save his vegetable gar
den from the raVageS Of pet collie.
Jones tthe suburbanite is always called
Jones unless he is called "Sububs")
lives in one of the western suburbs and
comes In on the 7.2S every morning,
When he gets home in the evenings
these days he wrestles with the stubborn
slehe III his bacn yard and lust week
mad Just about completed his work of
putting in the onion sets and setting out
tie tomato plants when his pet collie dis
covered that the newly-turned soil Of
fered superior advantages when ii came
TO burying bones and rolling for eNer-
else and feas.
Mrs. Jones threw things at the dog.
which only, made things worse for the
gardens prospects. The children chased
him, bat he thought they We're bent on a
frolic and trampled down the tender
young plants. When he was tied up the
netghbors complained of the noise. When
he was let loose he dug up his bones and
planted more of them for a rainy day.
At last Jones hit upon an idea. He
was sitting disconsolately on his front
porch watching the children play with
their tops and marbles when he noticed
his dog put up its hristles at top which
was humming meffily. Here was his
chance. He remembered dimly of having
read in the remote past of his college
days weighty tome ON the origin and
growth of the religious idea and how, so
the savant said. we 90 to church today
on the same principle that the wolf howls
at the moon and the dog hides from the
thunder and other mysterious sounds.
SO Jones, in the quiet dusk of his or
DERBY suburb. warpainted his face and
dragged his unwilling collie into the back
yard, where, for half AN hour or so he
made faces at the wretched animal and
performed strange ceremonies over each
individual patch from artichokes through
to the zinnia bed. The collie nearly
choked himself Juggling at his rope to
get away before the last spell was cast
and now shuns the garden day and night,
leaving his buried bones to feed phos-
phorus to the Thriving vegetables
IT'S the first time | ever found any
practical use for what | studied at col
lege," adds Jones.-Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-15
SMALLEST PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Curious Little Building Was Oriei-
nally Built for a Band Stand.


The curious little building shown in
the first photograph is situated at Pine
bluff, n. c., and is believed to be the
smallest public library in the world
Pinebluff is only a small place, with a
population of fewer than 100 In summer,
and when the ladies of the village de-
cided that they ought to have a public
library they found themselves without a
building suitable for the purpose. Final
w. gentleman offered them a band
stand which he had built in the hope
that Pinebluff would become city, and
the offer was accepted with thanks. BY
giving entertainments and so on, the
ladies' were able to raise funds to pur-
chase materials to fiji in the openings OF
the bandstand. and generally fit it up
into the snug little building shown. over
500 books have been given, and the tiny
library of which Pinebmff is very proud,
is now in fun working order-Wide
World Magazine
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-06-15
sP0R TING NOTES.

The following elections took place
at Phillips Andover Academy, An
dover, Thursday. Manager of the
baseball nine for next season, John ID.
Hamilton of Topeka, Kan; manager
Of the track team, William G.. Wilson
of Dunmore, Penn; manager of the
tennis team, John II. Mcmillan of
Minneapolis; assistant manager of the
swimming team, William l.. Dickey of
Kansas City.
T. j. McCarey. under whose aus
pieces AID Wolgast of Cadillac, Mich,
lightweight champion. will meet Joe
Rivers of Los Angeles at Vernon July
4, announced, Thursday that James
j. Jeffries will referee the fight. Me
Carey said Jeffries had suggested he
act with two judges, one for each side.
After conference with Owner John
w. McCue of the Brockton team,
Thursday, Eddie McLane, Lawrence,
who had threatened to resign as man.
ager, said that he was to continue in
that position Affairs had not been
running to suit McLane, it is said.
After Thursdays le-Princeton
game at New York. it was announced
that Sterrett first baseman and catch
er for the Princeton team, had signed
to play with the New York American
League Club. Sterrett is accounted
the star of the Orange and Black team
and has a record as hard hitter.