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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Woman Served Six Years in PriS-
on on Arson Charge.
While Incarcerated Spouse Failed to
Visit and She Believed He Was
III-Liberated, She Has Him
Arrested.

Philadelphia.-De she says,
by her husband after he had been &C
quilted of the charge of setting t1re
to the Point Chautauqua hotel, in
Lake Chautauqua, N. Y, while she
served six years in prison, Mrs. Nora
Allen turned on him in court here
and exclaimed:
AT the trial kept my mouth shut
to save your neck. l went to prison
and you went free. l gave you all but
$3.50 of the $1,000 1 received for set
ting the fire"
Mrs. Allen had brought her hus-
band to court on warrant charging
him with desertion, having taken this
action only after she had sought him
for more than a year, only to be re-
jected when she finally found him.
In the entire time she was in prison,
she said, her thoughts turned con-
stantly toward her husband, although
she received no word from him. With
tear-flled eyes she said in Magistrate
Germans court that sometimes while
in prison she thought her husband
must he dead at others he was Ill.
Numerous were the excuses she in
vented in her own mind to account for
failure to hear from him.
When she was released little more
than a year ago she started out to
search for her husband, intending, she
said, to aid him if he was in trouble.
Tracing him to Philadelphia, she
learned he had been living in No. 17O6
Sumner street, but had been taken to
the Medico-Chirurgical hospital for
treatment. Mrs. Allen visited the hos
pital and sent word to her husband
that she wanted to see him.
He does not care to see you," was
the reply she received. She then went
to police headquarters and obtained
warrant against Allen.
He still is my husband" she said
after Allen had been held in bonds of
$500, but my love for him has turned
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
CARE OF THE CANDLE SHADE
Lace Covers May Easily Be Arranged
So That Laundering Work VIII
Not Be Hard.

Keep the lace covers on candle
shades separate from the lining so
they can be laundered easily They
are quickly tackled to the linen or silk
lining with bead fringe and mica
lined, that comes in various shades
of green, white, pink, blue, red and
yellow and costs about 40 cents
apiece, according to the New York
Times.
Another cover for these Innings is
the lingerie one made of sheer
white linen, embroidered in mer-
cerized cotton in eyelet designs. A
distinctive set has fine buttonholed
scallop at top and bottom, bunch of
conventional forget-me-nots at one
side and on the other a medallion in
eyelet work with the monogram of
the owner done in raised satin stitch
within.
A popular shade Is made of over
tapping silk petals with bead fringe.
These come in green, yellow, red, old
rose, blue and pink The same shades
can be found in the electric shade
made to fit sixteen-candIepower
bulbs.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
SMART EVENING COATS
MAGNIFIcENcE OF MATERIAL is
UNPRECEDENTED
win Last Long, but Are Extremely
Costly at the Present Moment
Velvet in Particular Form Is
Extremely Popular.

There is always a peculiar seduc-
tiveness about a fine wrap, and now
this charm is more bewildering than
ever, for every point Of the elegant
garment strives for grace and beauty.
AS for textures, you can imagine how
grand they are when l tell you that
some of the more exquisite coatings
for evening use are marked as high as
forty dollars yard, while such prices
as twenty-five dollars and thirty dol
lars are as common as if every wom-
an had her pockets lined with gold.
However, the fabrics have lifetime
quality, for some are in substantial
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
GETS $4,000 ON MELON CROP
Undismayed by Failure Last Year,
Rancher Takes Bigger Chances
This Season.

Clifton, Colo.-To clean up neat
little fortune of approximately $4,000
as a result of a couple of months
work was the experience Of j. B.
Jobes a rancher west of town, who
decided that there was money in can
taloupes despite his own experience
to the contrary.
Jobes, who was practicing physi-
clan back in Pennsylvania, came to
the Grand valley to regain his health.
He bought a young apple orchard and
decided that he would pay his ex-
penses by growing cantaloupes among
the trees.
Doctor Jobes ran up against bad
year. however, and last season not
only didn't make profit, but for some
of his cantaloupes did not receive
enough to pay for the crates. Instead,
however, of blaming the melons or the
valley, or a hundred and one other
things, he decided that the only diff
ficulty with his returns was the way
that they were marketed. Conse-
quently he decided to market his own
melons and anyone elses who would
trust him with them
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13

softly as yelling, and yet looking
warm and permitting rich fur edges.
+ But to return to the coat of dinky
cut which is so popular now, and
which always offers a splendid idea
ior the top garment of a tailored suit
in one fabric; for 1t is the difference
between the coat and skirt materials
which makes this model trying to
most figures. The style is shown by
the figure illustrated, the material be-
ing tan wool ratine and the trim.
ming black panne velvet. AS a one.
piece dress of black panne is worn
with this garment it is here presented
in its most aristocratic phase, and the
get-up is admirably topped BIZ a very
dashing hat of black panne and vel
low and black paradise plumes.
Ready made, coat in this style
can be had from fifteen dollars up.
Woolly coatings in two colors, wide
vale serge coating, wool chevict,
chinchilla, ETC., are some of the prac-
teal materials. If the garment is to
be made at home 1t can be varied as
the type needs, and if the dressmaker
wants a very swagger coat cut for
stout suit of cordur1y or serge she
could do no better than to use this
model. If the coat get-up is to be for
reception purposes, and there is every
chance of it's being as we'll the only
garment for the theater, have the coat
of velveteen and the dres of cloth in
the same color Taupe, in that very
smart shade called eclipse, would be
a splendid color for it, although many
rich shades of plum are equally fash
ionable.
MARY DEAN.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
HOME IN POWDER MAGAZINE
Queer Spot Where Library of the
State University of Louisiana Had
Its Beginning.

The curious beginning of the Chi
cago public library, which was once
housed in an abandoned water-tank, is
matched by the library of the Louis
ana State university, which had its
first quarters in an old powder maya
zine, asserts a correspondent of the
Dial The State university occupies
the buildings and grounds of the old
army post of Baton Rouge, which was
abandoned as a result of the electoral
controversy of 1876-1877. The follow
ing extract from Fay's History of Ed
ucatiOn in Louisiana" gives a descrip-
ton Of the library as it was from
1865 to 1903: Far off to the north
eastern corner of the garrison inclos-
ure is a long, low building, entirely
without windows, save for two small
grated apertures at each of the mar
row ends, while for entrance a heavy
iron door is swung in the center of
the southern front, place more like
a prison house than scholars quiet
domicile among books. Few have ever
seen such a building; and as you en-
ter for the first time it fairly Cypress
es you to observe that you pass
through a doorway whose walls are
1--WE or six feet thick. Within, the
room presents an equally strange
sight Along the walls book shelves
extend around the whole parallelO-
gram, save for the trif1ing space of
the small windows. The ceiling is
so low that you can almost touch it at
the bookcases, but it rises in low
heavy arches, only to sink again arch
wise on massive square pillars in the
center of the room. Thus are formed
two long corridors with low arches
that fall into a succession of vaults
down the passage. The central pillars
are girt around with square book
shelves, all with their burden Of vol
umes.
The building was the old powder
magazine of the barracks when sol
diers, and not scholars, were station
ed there. You would think it dark;
but the wilderness of the ceiling coun-
teracts in some measure the def
cheney of apertures for light, and on
fair days, at least, one reads without
difficulty until after sunset. So thick
are the walls that it is cool there on
hot summer days, and never very
cold on the rawest days the southern
winter Affords
Since the books have been re-
moved to a more modern structure,
the power magazine has been used
as a storage place for agricultural i'm
plements, farm produce and expert
ment station publications.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
TRIP THROUGH DARDANELLES

trance, that although there was no
Italian loss the flotilla never got much
farther, and that Turkish gunners on
shore If they struck anything must
have hit their own destroyers. In his
article, Signor Zoli says:
Commander Milo said that when
he reached the second cable under the
Baikouch Tepe battery, the Spica
stopped, and that this stop permitted
him to observe the water space be-
yond the narrows. By looking at the
plan it will be seen that this water
space is the Bay of Chanak. From
this point the commander watched the
firing from the Hamazieh battery, and
considered it impossible to pass the
zone of action commanded by this bat
terry without sacrificing all the squad
ron, and therefore gave the order to
return. Therefore the truth is that
the Italian torpedo boats did not pass
beyond the KiIid Bahr- Chanak line.
"In the report of Commander Milo
there is one certainly involuntary In
exactitude-his persuasion that he
saw the Turkish fleet and that he was
fired on by it. If he did not pass the
Kilid Bahr-Chanak line, he could not
have seen the Turkish fleet anchored
in the Bay of Niagara, and most GER
tainly he could not have been fired on
by it. The Turkish feet did not fire
a single cannon.
But it is clear that Commander
Milo was misled by the numerous
steamships and by two or three Tur-
kish torpedo boats anchored in the
Bay of Chanak; it was probably these
vessels that. hidden in the darkness
of the night and the shadows of the
numerous searchlights were mistaken
for the opposing feet. and he could
easily have mistaken for the guns OF
this fleet the guns fired from Hama
zieh and Chanak Kalessi
There is nothing strange or mad
MISSILE in this explanation, given the
conditions of time and the nervous
tension produced on all. 1t is even
more possible when we think that "a
high parsonage of the ministry of ma
rine furnished one Of the most i'm
portant newspapers with sketch map
of the raid in which the Bay OF
Chanak was confounded with Magyar,
placing Chanak on the other side OF
the narrows and fixing the anchorage
of the Turkish fleet exactly in this
Bay of Chanak where Commander
Milo thought he saw them"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13

silks so interviewer with gold and sill
yer threads as to suggest the absolute
defiance of time. For a long period
at least, bits of such materials will
endure, and when they are looked at
in the years to come everybody will
marvel at the magnif1cence of our
time. For, Of course, there must be
revulsion Of feeling at last, and then
we will come down to the most coun-
trified simplicities. The present gran
deurs are ascribed to the needs of the
manufacturers, who, seeing no way of
getting women to use more material,
have happened upon the lucrative no
ton of making textures more splendid.
One of the loveliest fabrics for both
evening and fine day coats is cut vel
vet, which is now shown with gauze
background, the texture falling as
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Soft New PorceIains.

Have you seen the fascinating Dan
ish porcelains in soft gray and white
that are being shown in interesting
vases, candlesticks and fruit bowls?
One attractive piece that could do
duty for flowers or fruit is Danish
peasant girl in her native costume,
with quaint cap and sabots. Her frock
is gray, her apron, cap and sabots
white. She leans gracefully forward,
apparently walking, and drags beside
her great baskets, each fully six inches
in diameter, Of plated gray and white
porcelain.
Besides the beauty of this vase, 1t
permits delightful effects with short
stemmed flowers, and is especially
graceful as a center piece filed with
purple and white grapes, or blue
plums and green cages.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
FUR EDGING COMING BACK
Garniture That May Be Made Very
Charming Is Returning to
Popular Favor.

With our pretty round walking
skirts fur edgings are coming very
much to the fore again, although 1t
must be owned that the fur is as often
as not used with thin materials as it
is with cloth and velvet.
For instance, there is a charming
frock made of mousseline de sole In
two tones, the top and upper part of
the skirt which reaches half way to
the knees, being carried out in rich
emerald green, while the rest of the
skirt is in snuf-colored mousseline de
sole with a border of skunk. This is
a very successful toilette, the color
scheme being both original and pleas
ing, while the skunk lends it special
note of richness. In detail the gown
is simplicity itself, the corsage join
ing neatly at the throat where there
is frill of fine lawn, while the sleeves
are put into a seam just below the
turn of the shoulders, and the fronts
are fastened with crystal buttons set
into little bows of dark brown velvet.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Character in "Rasselas" Said That
Aviator Would Be Next Step
After Swimming.

Chicago.-Among the prophecies OF
conquest of the air, the account of an
inventors faith that men could learn
to fly since they have learned to
swim, as found in Johnson's "Rasse-
las" is interesting. The mechanic
says:
81 have been long of opinion that
instead of the tardy conveyance of
ships and chariots, man might use the
swifter migration of wings; that the
fields of air are open to knowledge,
and that only ignorance and idleness
need crawl upon the ground"
This hint rekindled the princes de-
sire of passing the mountains; having
seen what the machinist had already
performed, he was willing to fancy
that he could do more. Il am
afraid" said he to the artist, that
your Imagination prevails over your
skill, and that you now tell me rath-
er what you wish, than what you
know. - so" replied the ma
chinist, fishes have the water, In
which yet beasts can swim by nature,
anu men Dy arr. ne ludI Se1A S"AAA
needs not despair to fly: to swim Is
to float in a grosser fluid, and to fly Is
to swim in subtler. We are only TO
proportion our power Of resistance 10
the different density of matter
through which we are to pass. You
will be necessarily upborne by the air.
If you can renew any impulse upon IT
faster than the air can recede from
the pressure"
The prince promised secrecy. and
waited for the performance. not who'll
Iy hopeless of success. He visited the
work fror. time to time. observed It's
progress, and remarked many in
genious contrivances to facilitate mo-
ton and unite levity with strength
The artist was every day more GER
tain that he should leave vultures
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
FIND HAIR IN GIRLS STOMACH
Fourteen Ounces Is Removed From
Organ of Child in Los An
geles, Cal.

Los Angeles.-Relieved of fourteen
ounces of hair, which she had swal-
lowed a little at time since last No
vember, Virginia Field an eleven
year-old girl, is resting easily at a
hospital and is practically sure to re-
cover.
The girl was injured by fall last
from a nervous affection that caused
her continually to bite her hair. In
this way her stomach was gradually
filed with broken strands of hair, and
several days ago she was taken vio-
lently i'll.
The surgeons found the hair balled
up in the child's stomach.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Rarhnr Had Reen Busy.

Louis Wolf, advertising agent of the
Colonial theater, brought downtown
one Of his own animated half-sheets
for a hair cut He planted him in a
barbershop and went away, saying he
would return.
Various business matters combined
to make Wolf forgetful, eliminating
in a trip to one side OF town to see
how his house was billed. From there
he went straight home. kidless, to
meet an alarmed wife.
He chased back to the center of the
city and found the youngster complac-
ent enough, but with no hair to spare
to fill in time.-Chicago Pot.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
RIP VAN WlNKLE is BEATEN
Believed Dead for IS Years, Veteran
Returns to Wife Who Had Been
Drawing His Pension.

Cincinnati.-Old Soldier Robert
Mentzel has Rip Van Wrinkle beat
several blocks in the way of being lost
and forgotten by the world and then
coming back. Mentzel, who is now
living Ill Dayton, O., is seventy-five
years old. For the past 80 years he
has been considered dead by his wife,
who for % years of that time has
drawn a pension from the government
as a soldiers widow.
Mentzel disappeared in 1877 and
was no more heard of till a few weeks
ago, when he applied for service
pension. His wife had been getting
a pension of $12 a month for years
back as a soldiers widow.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
To Kansas City at Any Cost.

The small daughter Of a Kansas
farmer, making her first visit to Kan
sas City, was quite carried away with
the charms of city life and she went
home bent on persuading her father
to move to town. But father remain
ed firm in his decision to stay on the
farm.
Finally, one day, after a long spell
Of detection, she exclaimed hopefully:
Mamma, If We ever get a divorce.
Wen move to Kansas City. all right"
Kansas City Star.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
New Light Thrown on the Famous
Raid of italian War Vessels
on Turkish Forts.

Rome.-Corrado Zoli, the war cor
respondent of II Secolo of Milan, who
is now in Rome, has cleared up the
mystery surrounding the raid made
through the Dardanelles on the night
of July 1919, by six Italian torpedo
boats, of which, according to Turkish
reports, three were, and according to
Italian reports, not only was none
sunk, but the fotilla actually engaged
the Turkish fleet beyond Kilid Bahr-
Chanak.
Signor ZoIi finds, after examining
the reports of Admiral Viale and Com
mander Milo, that the fotilla never
came within striking distance of the
Turkish fleet, and that it's approach
was first discovered by the vedettes
on the Serril Bahr fort, near the en-
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13

ribbon about seven inches in length
and two inches in width may be uti-
lied is the making Of serviette bands
to take the place of the ordinary
rings In the accompanying sketch
we show a band of this kind, and the
ribbon should be cut into point at
one end, lined with sateen and bound
at the edges with narrow ribbon, or a
fine silk cord may take it's place If
preferred. 1t can be made to fasten
either with small button or button
hole, or a snap fastener cut from an
old glove may be used.
An initial or number can be worked
in the center of the band in some
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Ready Answer.

A committee had the state senator
on the carpet.
Didn't you promise, If we elected
you. to get our county good roads ?"
Why. certainly, gentlemen"
Did you do it?"
No. You see airships are getting
very common now. l thought we'd
better wait few years. Maybe we
won't need any roads at all then. Fine
weather for corn, isn't it?"-KansaS
City Journal
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Infant Solomon.

Nov, boys" said the schoolmaster,
suppose in a family there are five
children, and the mother has only
four potatoes to divide between them.
She wants to give each child an equal
share. What does she do?"
Silence reigned in the room. Every
body was calculating diligently. Final
ly one little boy put up his hand.
Well. Johnny, what would you do?"
asked the teacher.
Mash the potatoes. Youths Com
paniOn.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
MANS PROPHECY OF FLYING

and eagles behind him, and the con-
tagion of his confidence seized upon
the prince.
In a year the wings were finished,
and on a morning appointed, the max
er appeared furnished for flight on
a little promontory; he waved his
pinions awhile to gather air, then
leaped from his stand, and in an In
slant dropped into the lake. His
wings, which were of no use in the
air, sustained him in the water, and
the prince drew him to land.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
RECORD YIELD OF WHEAT
Montanan Gets 1850 Bushels From
Forty Acres, an Average of
Over Fifty-eight.

Billings, Monte. L. Wilcox, living
FIVE miles from here, is claiming the
championship wheat yield of the pres.
ent season in this state. He thrashed
1850 bushels of hard winter wheat
from forty acres, an average of 5S%
bushels per acre. The top notch price
of the season, 70 cents, was paid fol-
1t by local milling concern.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
JAILED FOR HUSBAND

to hatred. / am sorry now spoke
of the Chautauqua hotel fire, but my
temper overcame my judgment. Moth
ing / might say now, however, could
be used against him, as he has been
acquitted of the arson charge"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Taking No Chances.

Miss Perker, 1 presume you have
read Tennyson's poem about Lady
Godiva?"
No. indeed. My mother is very
strict and will never allow me to read
anything risque."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
RULES COUSINS MAY WED
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says
They Must Go to Some Other
State to Do 1t.

Philadelphia.-Th supreme court
of this state has decided that mar
rage between first cousins. although
prohibited by statute in Pennsylvania,
is not illegal if contracted in a state
where such marriages are recognized.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
Including Both Kinds.

Every time put a new ribbon on
my typewriter, 1 get my fingers stain
ed with ink"
"Oh. I'd rather get my fingers stain
ed with ink than be jabbed with
shatpin."
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
strongly contrasting shade of color.

strongly contrasting shade of color.
The upper sketch shows the band
spread out perfectly fat, and in tn"
lower illustration it is shown bent
into shape and fastened together.
AS these little articles can be cas-
lily made at very trif1ing cost, they
should not be forgotten at those times
set aside for preparing work for ba
Ears.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1912-11-13
USE FOR RIBBON REMNANTS
Make Attractive ServIette Bands
When They Are Carefully
Put Together.

Small ribbon remnants have a
knack of collecting in large numbers,
and 1t is not easy to find useful pur-
poses to which they may be put One
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1912-11-06
Declare War on Colds.

A crusade of education which aims
that common colds may become un-
common within the next generation"
has been begun by prominent New
York physicians. Here is list Of the
don'ts'' which the doctors cay will
prevent the annual visitation of the
the cold: .....
Don't sit in draughty car"
''Don't sleep in hot rooms"
Don't avoid the fresh air.
Don't stuff yourself at meal time.
Over eating reduces your resistance.
To which we would add-when you
take Geld get rid of it as quickly as
possible. To accomplish that You will
find Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
most excellent. Sold by all druggists.