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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-30
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Mr.. and Mrs. E. Ward we're
Wausau visitors over Sunday.
Mrs. Axel Oberg of Phelps was
a business visitor in town Satur-
day.
Finn LAWYER was a business
visitor at Madison the latter
part of the week.
Miss Ethel Small of Minocqua
was the guest of Mr.. and Mrs.
Alfred Morgan this week.
Geo. Gutenberg of Milwaukee
left for Rhinelander Monday. He
was the guest of Robt. Felt.
Mrs. Herbert Robinson left for
Clintonville Saturday after a
visit at the Grant Cook home.
Mrs. Chas. Hanke returned
from Black Greek Wednesday
after a visit with home people.
Miss Flora Vantwoud was
down from Watersmeet Satur-
day, the guest of Miss Rose We'll.
John Conant of Westheld spent
over Sunday at the Radcliffe
home returning last night on the
limited.
Mrs. NJ. Ely and daughters,
Miss Vivian and Miss Isabelle, OF
Rhinelander visited friends in
town last week.
Albert Martin of Two Rivers is
in town this week on business
pertaining to his residence prop
erty on Main street.
Miss Bertha Ziebell and Miss
Emma Bunke of Sheboygan are
guests at the home of the formers
brother, Robt. Ziebell.
Emmett Marco returned to his
home at West Salem Thursday
after attending to his farm inter
ests in this community.
Mrs. c. H. Shattuck of Sparta,
sister to Mrs. John Shattuck, ar
rived Saturday to spend a few
DAYS at the latter's home.
c. l.. Durkee, conductor on the
local passenger between Monlco
and Watersmeet, spent Monday
in Eagle River, the guest of his
friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mart Hirzel re
turned from Chicago Saturday
afternoon. They were accom-
panied by Miss Vernice and Mas.
ter Cecil Slattery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hogan and two
children returned to Milwaukee
this morning after visiting at the
Frederick home Mrs. Hogan is
a sister to Miss Ella Frederick.
Mrs. B. Moran, who visited
her brother and sister, p. D.
Walsh and Mrs. Kate Tierney a
couple of weeks, returned last
week to her home at Grand Rap
ids.
Miss Ella Thompson, who has
been at Oshkosh normal for sew
eral months past, is spending hei
vacation with home folks al
Rummeles and friends in Eagle
River.
Mrs. r. d. Mcleod returned
from Duluth Friday, accompan
ed by her daughter, Mrs. F. P
Clure and children of Sanborn
N. D., and two Colman children
from Duluth.
Mrs. Julia Kenney returned tc
Milwaukee Thursday after
lengthy visit with her mother
and sister, Mrs. Sarah Dockery
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-30

and Mrs. VIM. Walsh. Miss Ger
trude Walsh accompanied her
aunt home.
Mrs. F. ]. Strong returned
from Green Bay Thursday where
she had been called to the hos
pital to see her mother who was
ILL., She was accompanied home
by her mother-in-law, Mrs. M. 7.
Strong of Manawa.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-30

See Lloyd Raymond when
desiring to make a launch
trip up the chain of lakes.
Telephone either 81 or 1874,
day or night.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-30
FlREPLACES BUILT.

Call on me when wanting
a fireplace built in your cottage
or bungalow. | guarantee my
work.
Gus BENTZ.
7-tf. Eagle River, Wise.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-30
SWEET GREAT.

And buttermilk for sale. Leave
your orders with Mrs. Louis
Morgan. Phone "a Nj. Aft
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1913-07-30

LOW kOuHu Tip E'dIcS " NOhOiduO
Utah, California and North Pacific
Coast.
Go west now, while the low,
round trip, summer tourist tick
cts are on sale. Variable scenic
routes to choose from. Favor
able stopover privileges. Lib
eral return limits. Modernly
equipped trains from Chicago
daily via Chicago and North
Western Ry. make convenient
connections with service from
all points on this system. For
rates and full particulars apply
to ticket agents. 16-3t
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Ruskin as a Patient.

Matlock, so dear to John Ruskin,
brought him within sight of death in
1871. 1t was a wretched, wet sum-
mer; he went out in a miserable morn
ing to paint, took a chill, and ag-
gravated the internal Inflammation
that followed to a dangerous degree
BY refusing to take the doctors medi-
cines. The sequel is delightful. II
ritated at the doctors remonstrances,
he demanded What was the worst
thing he could take. Beef, they told
him, and beef he insisted upon having
at once. 1t was late at night and
k&t8ek was secured for some time
ests&e beef could be found. Then. says
Mrs. Arthur Severn, he enjoyed his
late supper thoroughly. and. though we
all waited anXiously till the morning
for the result, it had done him no
harm. And when he was told pepper
was bad for him he dredged it freely
uGAhis food in defiance"
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
MIDDLE NAMES.
In England at One Time People Were
Hanged For Having Them.

In England at One Time People Were
Hanged For Having Them.
People have not always been allowed
the pleasure Of having as many names
as they wish. Indeed, 400 years ago
not even a middle name was allowed
in England. 1t was illegal. The old
English law was definite and admitted
of no infraction of its ruling.
The only exception made to this iron
clad regulation was in the case of per-
sons of royal rank. If they really
wished it they could boast a middle
name, but woe to the person of ordi-
nary rank who was sufficiently unwise
or obstinate to insist on having more
than two appellations.
For the first offenSe he would very
likely be tied to whipping post and
severely dashed. For a second offense
he would endure some more lasting
punishment, perhaps the removal of
his thumbs or his ears. And if he still
persisted in his stubborness he would
be hanged
There is a case on record of a poor
man, in all probability half demented.
who insisted on signing four names
every time he wrote his signature to
any paper. OF course he passed through
all the legal stages of punishment until
he was finally hanged.-Chicago Trib-
uQe
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
GAS METERS.
Sheepskins Play Leading Role In the
Work of the Registers.

Sheepskins Play Leading Role In the
Work of the Registers.
Consumers of gas are usually so IN
familiar with the operation Of a gas
meter, simple as it is, that it will be
surprising to many to learn that sheep
meters work. 1t is used, according to
Gas Logic, in connection with the
diaphragms, or the two bellows from
which the gas is drawn when the gas
is lighted.
A flock of 10000 sheep is required
in Manhattan and Bronx boroughs,
New York city. These skins cost about
$4,000 a year. To repair the meters
used throughout the United States in a
single year about 10000 sheep are re-
quired. Great care has to be taken in
the selection Of perfect skins before
they are put into use.
Each pelt, before it is accepted, is ex-
amined in dark closet by a man who
passes it over a table in. which there
is a hole about four inches square.
through which light is thrown up
ward. By this means it can quickly be
determined whether or not the sheep
whose skin is being examined has ever
had experience in bramble bushes.
Thin places, made by pricking of the
brambles or by the skin having been
injured in the dressing process, render
If unfit for I1So in q unator
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
HEAT AND THE BODY.
We Are Able to Drink Liquids That
Would ScaId Our Hands.


The human body can stand far
greater heat if it be dry than if it be
wet, and, strangely enough, it can
stand far hotter liquids inside than
out.
For example, the average tea drinker
sips tea at a temperature Of about
40 degrees F.-sometimes as high as
AS degrees. But he cannot bear his
hands in water at 100 degrees or his
feet in water higher than i12 degrees.
Few people can stand a bath in water
at 105 degrees.
In parts Of central Australia men
live in an average temperature Of 115
degrees f. in the shade and 40 de-
gress in the sun, while Isl degrees
has been registered. In the Persian
gulf the thermometers on ships vary
between 10 degrees and 40. A re-
cent explorer in the Himalayas re-
ports that he found at 9 q. N. in De-
cember and at more than 10000 feet
altitude temperature of 131 degrees f.
Drs. Bleyden and Chantrey. two Eng
lisb scientists. desiring to ascertain
how high a temperature the human
body could stand, shut themselves in
an oven, of which the heat was gradu-
ally raised and they were able to bear
it until the thermometer registered 212
degrees F., the boiling point of water.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
WOODEN CANNON.
Crude but Effective Weapons Would
With Strips of Rawhide.

Any one familiar with the construc-
ton Of modern weapons Of warfare
and the high explosives used in then
would naturally suppose a cannon
made of wood would be of little or %
value as weapon.
Wooden cannons have been used
with considerable success lsYertne-
less in recent revolutions in Cuba. in
Haiti and in the Dominican Republic.
The wood used in the construction
of these crude weapons is a very
tough variety, having a twisted grain
that curls about the log in such a way
that to split the timber with the or
binary means is almost impossible.
The best trees are selected, and a
piece of the log five or six feet in
length and about one foot in diameter
is cut After the bark has been re-
moved and the log made perfectly
round it is swung up on a crude truss,
and hole is burned into it from one
end. The log is wound with strips of
rawhide cut from the skin of a steer.
When the cannon is covered with the
strips of hide another layer is wound
on, and this is continued until the
weapon has increased several inches
in diameter
After the log is covered and the
bore is finished the weapon is treated
to a hot draft, which tends to con-
tract the hide binding, which becomes
almost as strong as wire.
These crude cannon have been used
with success in a number of instances,
and it is astonishing the number of
times they may be fired before they
burst or become otherwise disabled
Harper's Weekly.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Chopped Meat.

"Once when you asked for chopped
meat" said Il housewife. the butcher
cut off Il chunk, laid it on a block and
chopped it on the spot, using. one in
each hand. a pair of cleavers There
were not a few butchers who could
make ragtime music with the cleavers
and even suggest the classical. But
now?
when you want chopped meat you
may find it ready chopped if you will
take it so. But if you want some spe-
cial part the butcher will cut off a
piece for you. but he won't put it on
the block and play you tunes on it with
a pair of cleavers. He chucks the meat
into the hopper of a machine, presses
an electric button, and b-z-z-z-z goes
the motor. while your chopped meat
pours out of the spout. New York
Sun
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Changes of Climate.

A scientist who recently investigat
ed the causes of secular variations in
temperature at the earth's surface
thinks that they are more probably
due to changes in the amount of car
bonic acid in the atmosphere than to
variations in the heat of the sun. If
the amount of carbonic acid that the
air now contains was diminished
little more than half the mean tenn
perature all over the earth would it is
stated. drop about eight degrees.
which would be sufficient to bring on
another glacial period. On the other
hand. an increase of carbOnic acid be-
tween two and three times its present
amount would raise the mean temper
allure fifteen degrees and renew the
hot times of the eocene epoch.-BostOn
Post.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Willy KING EDWARD |.
Fooled the RebeIIious Welsh With the
Prince of Wales.


After lifelong struggle with the
Welsh, Edward l. of England sought
to ascertain the cause of their constant
rebellion and was informed that they
would never be content until they had
a prince of their own.
The willy old monarch asked them if
a prince born in Wales who could not
speak a word of English would be sat
isfactory. and they received the offer
with great enthusiasm, presuming that
the king meant one of their own flesh
and blood.
His queen, about to give birth to
child. was hurried to the famous Caer-
narvoR castle, where 600 years ago
Edward IL, the first prince of Wales,
was born. Thereupon King Edward,
carrying the newly born babe on the
ramparts of the castle. announced to
the multitude: Here is your prince,
born in your own country, who knows
no word Of English and who, promise
you, shall be reared by Welsh foster
mother and shall learn your language
Accept you him as your princeT"
In all the six centuries intervening
the eldest son of the king Of England
has been invested and known as the
Prince Of Wales. In the year 1911 the
present Prince of Wales and the future
king of England was invested on the
same spot as his predecessor 600 years
ago. IT. Owen Charles in National
Magazine.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
This Shipys Cat Was Saved

About7twenty years ago. when l was:
resident in north China. the British
squadron, then in far eastern waters,
was steaming out of the port of Che
fu when a little black cat fell over
board from II. NJ. S. Wanderer. Al
once the ship stopped, signaled to her
cOnsOrtS Cat OverbOard,' and the en-
tire squadron came TO a standStill. y
boat put off from the Wanderer and.
rescued puss. who was swimming for
dear life after the ship. The ot5ccT'
who told me the story said the sailors
would have been furious if the little
eat had not been saved, for not only
was she a great pet. but they firmly
believed that disaster would follow IL
4 black cat was allowed TO drown
London Spectator.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Greenland's Glaciers.

Nearly all the Greenland glaciers and
tongues from the internal ice cap ter
inmate in vertical faces from 100 to
1000 feet high. presenting facilities for
investigation The vertical faces re-
veal pronounced qualification on the
basal ice. even earth materials in the
bases carried by the ice being arranged
in layers Fine Nominations were seen
twelve or twenty to an inch. The lay
ers are sometimes twisted and con-
torted and even showed" over each
other. The glacier movement at the
ice border is a foot per day to a foot
per week
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Mother of Invention,

John and Mary married impecunious-
ly on $50 week and went to live in a
walk up" apartment, two fights up.
Then baby came and, besides adding
to the family, added to the impecuni-
Osity. Ingenuity went far toward solv-
ing the problems of living for two in
an inexpensive place. Baby strained
that ingenuity further. At first it was
no impossible task to carry him up
stairs, but he grew, as babies will, and
Mary's back became weary daily as she
carried him up.
What was to be done? Oh. for an
elevator!
The dumb waiter? OF course! There
after, when Mary and baby came in.
baby was put in the dumb waiter. Then
Mary walked upstairs and hoisted
baby. Baby liked it, Mary liked it..
and if you don't like it that doesn't
matter-New York Post.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
TRAVELS OF A COMET.
Last Seen In 1881, It Is Due to Visit
Us Again In 2256.

US AGAIN IN zoo.
There is a comet that comes withip
sight Of the earth every SO years. It's
tail is millions of miles In thickness
and many more millions Of miles in
history records. 1,769 years before the
birth of Christ. In a few weeks il
faded from the sky, only to return in
1874 and GIG B. C. The year that
Julius Caesar died-44 B. Cit came
again, returning in 531 and HOG A. D.
when Sir Isaac Newton beheld it and
discovered that comets are kept iD
their orbits by the sun, the same as
the earth and the other planets.
Over two and a quarter centuries
have now passed since the comet dis
appeared. Even if it has been travel
ing no more rapidly than the earth
goes around the sun its enormous bulk
has been shooting through space at
the rate Of about 100000 miles a day.
Yet in the year 2256 this same old
comet that was already a well knowD
visitor when it looked down upon the,
deathDed of Julias Caesar viii again
come within sight of those human be-
ings, yet unborn, who will then in
habit the earth.
Talk about a railroad train going
halfway across a continent in three
days and reaching its destination oD
time! What is such performance as
compared with that of a comet that
makes a trip of 31O,OOO,0OO,OOO miles
in 575 years and keeps so closely to it's
schedule that it always bursts from
the darkness at the moment when the
astronomers expect it?-New York
Press.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
To straiqhten a Warped Board.

The amateur craftsman is sometimes
in doubt how he can flatten a bOard
that has warped. One way is to lay n
thick mass of wet sawdust or thicklt
folded wet cloth on the cOncave side
and expose the convex side to gentle
heat or very dry air. The moisture en-
tiers the fbers of the wood of the CON
cave side of the board and causes them
to swell. Heat, on the other hand, OF
very dry air, removes the moisture
from the convex side and causes the
6bers to shrink. In consequence the
board gradually f1attens.-YOuth's Com
panion.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20

American athletic sharps are deeply
interested in the ANNOUNCED intention
of John Paul Jones. the sensational
Cornell university runner, to go abroad
late in the summer to compete against
the British cinder path stars.
Jones is apparently dissatisfied with
his share of American laurels and seeks
more worlds to conquer. He will be
greatly missed in forthcoming events
on this side of the big witness.
Jones made new worlds record for
the mile at Cambridge last May. COW
ering the distance in 4 minutes ii %
seconds.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
VENETIAN LACEMAKERS.
The Methods by Which Their Famous
Fabrics Are Produced.

The Methods by Which Their Famous
Fabrics Are Produced.
The lace Of Venice has been cele>
brated for many centuries. 1t was
made originally by nuns within the,
walls of converts for ecclesiastical
garments. Then, with the fall Of the
Venetian republic, the converts were
closed and the lace industry ceased to
exist for an entire century. In 1870 the
Princess Margherita, afterward queer
of Italy, took measures to revive it,
especially az a means of providing EN-
ployment for Venetian women. At
present there are several schools sub
sidized by the government in which the
art is taught
The pupils are women of all ages
Each sits on a low stool and holds 8
plump square cushion in her lap. On
this cushion is pinned 4 strip of paper
marked with the pattern to be follow
ed, and into this pattern the nimble'
fingered worker sticks glass headed
pins. about which she twists her
threads
FROM twenty TO nifty shuttles GepenG
from all sides of the cushion, and these
are thrown across and back with the
rapidity of Il typist handling the keys
Of her machine.
The process is so simple that it looks
like play. but the lace produced repre-
sents thousands of dollars. The simple
laces grow rapidly under the dexterouS
fingers of the women, but the exquisite
rose point and other similar sorts are
evolved much more slowly.-Harper'
Weekly
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
THE CURIOUS TURTLE.
Neither Fish, Flesh Nor Fowl, With
characteristics of All Three.

Neither Fish, Flesh Nor Fowl, With
Characteristics of All Three.
According to Macdonald, a Scotch
naturalist Of wide repute, the turtle
is the strangest of all living things and
the most unfathomable. 1t can live
in the water as we'll as out of it and
can seemingly go for indefinite lengths
Of time without air or food or light.
1t is neither fish nor flesh nor fowl,
and vet it has the characteristics of
all three. AS for its eating, it seems
quite superfluous, for 1t can remain
shut up in a barrel for number of
weeks and emerge at the end Of the
time apparently none the worse for
the lack of food and light and air.
The baby turtle seems also just as
Indifferent to its surroundings as its
parents are. As soon as it comes forth
from its egg it scuttleS off to the sea.
1t has no one to teach or guide it.
In its brain seems implanted the idea
that until its armor becomes hard it
has no defense against hungry fish.
And so it seeks shelter in gulf weed
and feeds unmOlested until its armor
gets hard.
BY the time that it weighs twenty
five pounds. which occurs the first
year, it knows that it is far from all
danger, for after that no fish. however
hungry or well armed with teeth, can
interfere. The turtle Immediately with
draws its head into its neck between
the two shells. and all intending de-
vourers struggle in vain to impress it.
Exchange.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Smith Praises FOREIGN Golfers,

-Four American professional golfers
who went to England to compete in
the British open championship return
on the foreign links.
In the party were Alec Smith, for
mer national and metropolitan open
champion: John j. McDermott. the
present national title holder; Tom Nc
Namara, the metropolitan open cham
pion; Michael J. Brady of Wollaston
and Alec Campbell of Brookline. Mass.
"Our treatment could not have been
better" said Smith. land we were all
delighted with France. We are glad
to have met the Frenchmen and Eng
lishmen on their own stamping
grounds and hope to give them all they
are looking for when they come here
next month for our championship.
Yes, Vardon, Ray and Reid are COM
ing from England, while Arnaud Mas
sy and Louis Teller of France will
come along. We surely will have tc
go some to keep the title in America.
but guess we're equal to it.
II have no regrets nor excuses" con-
tinued Smith. 1--WE had a glorious
time and were treated like princes
We were beaten at La Boulie by golf
ers who knew the ground, and they
simply putted like fends. The criti-
cism sent to America Of the links there
was true to the extent that the man
who pulls and slices can get away with
it. which more than offset our own
method of keeping everlastingly on the
flag"
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Evils of Betting.

Betting is not crime, but it is not a
virtue. 1t is an ineradicable foible of
human nature. 1t is generally an I'M
healthy excitement and an expensive
amusement. 1t is very seldom, l think.
real enjoyment to those who indulge
in it. Legislation cannot stamp out
this passion. but it need not foster it.
1 have never heard of any wise and
affectionate parents who advised and
encouraged their children to bet.-Lord
Durham to Turf Guardian Society.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Wanted IL All.

Darling" he murmured as soon as
they had been seated in the high priced
restaurant. you can have, anything
you want on the bill of fare. Shall !
read it off to you?
NO" replied the dear girl; lust read
it to the waiter"- Daily
News
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
As Times Change.

when a family seemed pinched Ira
circumstances the first thing we asked.
was whether Il woman's husband play
ed the horse races"
"Yes." replied Miss Cayenne. Nov
the first thing we ask is whether
mans wife plays idge."-Washing~
hon Star.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Coles No Hit Game.

Leonard C"King') Cole former star In
the Chicago National ranks and now
with the Columbus association team,
recently pitched a no hit game at Mil
waukee, defeating the locals by 3 to /.
Cole struck out four men and
throughout showed the form that
brought him his sobriquet of King
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
Curious Mixture

A want advertisement from a seriols
French journal reads:
"A young person having received an
excellent education. including writing.
geography, history, mathematics. dane
ing, music and art, would like to enter
a respectable family to do washing
and ironing :
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
StahI to Quit Baseball.

Garland Gake) Stahl has been reliev-
ed Of the management of the worlds
champion Boston Red Sox. Catcher
Bill Carrigan has been exalted to the
post.
An air of mystery pervades the
whole transaction. Jake says that he
is through as an active figure of the
national pastime. He will retain his
stock in the Boston champions, the
value of which is variously estimated
at from $4,000 to so. 900.
The Adair County news., 1913-08-20
ONLY One of a Kind.

why do you think he is such a re-
markable MANI"
Hes the only one ever knew who
had nerve enough to make the re-
sponses in the marriage service loud
enough so that any one could hear
him."-Chicago Post