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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
G2AIN PRICE NOT
FIXED SAYS CANDY
CHICAGO Man Appears at Price
Inquiry in New York.
BL4MES THE WAR FOR COST
goa-d of Trade Head Says There Is
No Danger of Wheat Shortage
Opposes Embargo on Expor-
tation of Grain.

New York, Feb. 25.-At the re-
sumption of the attorney generals in
yestigation of the increased cost of
wheat bread and flour, c. H. Candy,
president of the Chicago board of
trade, the first of several witnesses
Of national reputation on the subject
under inquiry, gave his views on price
advances
Mr. Candy denied speculation was
responsible for the high price of
wheat He asserted that the law of
supply and demand has caused a
steady rise in the price of grain and
that the present quotations are in
duced by the European demand.
Mr. Candy said that the United
States still has 775,00O,00O bushels to
export
There is no shortage and no dan
ger Of Cue," he continued.
The rate Of expectation has slowed
down and indications are for contin-
ued diminutiOn until the new crop is
harvested. The high cost of ocean
treights-practically double what they
we're at the outset CT the warts one
cause fer this lessening of the outward
tide. That has discouraged exports
and has resulted in a gradual lower
ing Of prices. There will be less buy
ing for future delivery from now on"
Nr Candy announced himself as OPP
posed to an embargo on the exporta-
ton Of wheat
That would be tampering with the
laws Of supply and demand" he said.
The farmer is really selling wheat
Tor less than it is worth, in world
sense. at the present time. Just think
What Germany would pay for 100000
VVO bushels if she could get it"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
U. S. SHIP HITS
MINE AND SINKS
American Steamer Evelyn Blown Up
in North Sea-AIl on Board
Are Saved.

Berlin, Feb. % (via London) The
American steamship Evelyn, which
left New York January 20 with car
go of cotton for Bremen. struck a
mine off Borkum island in the North
sea on Friday The vessel sank. Her
captain and q of her crew were saved
by German steamer 1t has not been
learned what nation placed the mine.
(The Evelyn was a single screw
steamship commanded by Captain
Smith. She belonged to A Fl. Bull
e Co. of New York and was chartered
by the Harriss-Trby Cotton company to
take cargo of cotton to Bremen. She
was built in 1883 at Southampton and
was 1887 tons gross burden. She
was 252 feet long and 36.3 feet BEAM
Washington, Feb. 22.-Ohcial an
nouncement that the American steam
ship Evelyn was blown up and lost on
Friday in the North sea was made
on Sunday when the state department
gave out the following cablegram re.
ceived from the American consul at
Bremen
The Evelyn, Captain Smith, agent
Bull & Co. of New York, blown up
Friday at Borkum. Crew saved. Ship
and cargo lost. This telegram via Rot
terdam.
Secretary Bryan at once had the
cablegram reported to the ambassa-
doris at Berlin and London with in
structions to see that every provision
was made for the crew and to report
all facts of the explosion as soon
as obtained.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
SPAIN BUYS U. S. WAR PLANES.

sends Special Agent to America to
Purchase Flying Machines.
New York, Feb. 24.-The Spanish
government has authorized the pur-
vuase in America of II aeroplanes
ut army use and a quantity of tools
ana machinery, the value of all to ex-
eeed 100000, said Henry S. Moos, a
spanish engineer, who arrived on the
Steamship Finland.
MT MoOs also said he had been ap-
poInted purchasing agent for Spain.
While 81 is not preparing for
war she is strengthening her defenses
generally" Mr.. Moos added.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
SECOND U. S. SHIP is SUNK.

Steamer carib, Carrying Cargo of Cot
ton, Destroyed by Mine.
Berlin, Feb. % (via wireless. 1.-THE
second American steamer sunk since
the German proclamation establishing
a war zone in the North sea went
into effect struck mine on Tuesday
in the North sea, off the German coast,
and sank. She was the steamer
Carib of the Clyde line, carrying a
cargo of cotton to Bremen from
Charleston, S. c., which port she left
January 81. There is no news OF the
fate of the Carib's crew. The steamer
was not following the route laid down
bv the German naval authorities for
neutral shipping when she was de-
stroyed
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
SWEITZER BEATS HARRISON.
Chjcago's Mayor Loses Nomination
for Reelection.

Chica9o's Mayor Loses Nomination
for Reelection.
Chicago, Feb. 25.-Robert M. SWEET
zer on Tuesday defeated Carter H.
Harrison for the Democratic mayor
atty nomination by a plurality of APP
Fortunately $4,000.
ChcagC's ffye-time mayor met the
most crushing defeat ever recorded in
mayoralty fight since the enactment
OF the direct primary law.
The vote was the largest ever cast
IN a Democratic primary in Chicago.
Inc total was approximately 100000.
William Hale Thompson won the
republican nomination for mayor by
plurality placed at approximately
lVO0 over Judge Harry Olson. fusion
candidate.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
TURK FORTS ARE BATTERED.
British and French Fleets Engage In
TWo-Day Fight.

London, Feb. 23.-The Turkish forts
on both sides of the Dardanelles have
been subjected to constant lombard
ment lasting two days, in which the
united British and French Mediter-
ranean fleets were assisted by large
squadron of sea planes and aeroplanes.
The British official report issued on
Saturday said that the forts on the
European side of the straits were
silenced and that only one of the forts
on the Asiatic side were still firing,
while none of the warships had been
damaged. Many of the defenders
were killed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
RsRNHAR0T's LEG CUT OFF.

Sreat Actress Undergoes Successful
Operation at Bordeaux.
bordeaux, France, Feb. 21.--Mme.
SaFah Bernhardt has been success
.1ly operated upon. Her right leg was
stipulated at the knee as the result of
u INJURY suffered several years ago
VILE playing Joan of Arc" 1t was
stated that the operation had been a
complete success.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
MANY PLUMBERS ARE GUILTY.

Convicted of Trade Restraint by Jury
in Federal Court in Des Moines.
Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 26.-All SO
master plumbers who have been on
trial here since February 10 on charges
of violating the Sherman antitrust law,
were convicted by jury in the fed
eral district court on Wednesday.
Judge John C. Pollock will pass SEN
tence later.
The men are residents of Iowa, Ne
braska, Missouri, Illinois, Michigan,
Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota.
They are members and officials Of the
National Association of Master Plum
bers and of the state organizations Of
that body.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
And He Did.

A country deacon went home one
evening and complained to his wife
that he had been abused down at the
store shamefully. Zone of the neigh
bors," he said, called me liar" Her
eyes flashed with indignation. why
didn't you tell him to prove it?" she
exclaimed. That's the very thing
that's the trouble" replied the hus'
band; 81 told him to prove it, and he
did"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
FOUR DIE WHEN HOME BURNS.

Father. Two Daughters and Son Lose
Lives in East ST. Louis Fire.
East ST. Louis, ILL.,, Feb. 26.-John H.
stutzman, grocer, his two daughters
and a son were burned to death when
their home was destroyed by tire
ON Wednesday.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
Good Word for the Mule.

"sone men," said Uncle Eben, put
in DER lives kickin' at nothin'. Oars
dis much to be said fob de mule. II
he's interested enough to kick, he's
willin' to go to de trouble of takin'
aim"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
"DRY" LOSES AT ELGIN, ILL.
Shopen Elected Judge of City Court
by 81 Votes.

Elgin. ILL.,, Feb. 24.-Frank E. Sho,
pen was elected judge of the city
court by plurality of 81 votes over
Franz w. Castle, an attorney with
Offices in Chicago, who was supported
bv the Antisaloon league which made
Elgin dry last spring. 1t was the first
election under a law which separated
the courts of Elgin and Aurora. Ed
ward M. Mangan was reelected as
city Judge of Aurora without opposi-
ton.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
A Blunderer.

"Doppel is not tactfuI."
Not at all If he knew man was
fleeing to Canada to avoid arrest Dop-
pei is the sort of person who would
advise him to see America first
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03

Fraqrances Diminished by Sunlight.
Flowers are more fragrant when the
sun is not shining on them, according
to a French scientist, because the oils
that produce the perfume are forced
out by the water pressure in the plant
cells and this is diminished by sun
light
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
Queer Proceedings.

i've got to wait in my trade I'M
til there is a freezeout in the busi-
ness
That's remarkable. What is your
trader"
I'm an ice cutter"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
WILSON NAMES TRADE BODY.
Sends in Nominations for the New In
terstate Commission.

Washington, Feb. 24-President Will
son on Monday nominated the mem
bers of the interstate trade commits
sion. He sent to the senate the names
of Joseph E. Davies, at present COM
missioner Of corporations; Edward
Nash Hurley of Chicago, William ].
Harris of Georgia, at present director
of the census; William H. Parry Of
Seattle, Wash. and George Rublee OF
Cornish. N. H.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
PLAN TO POSTPONE BIG FIGHT.
Promoter CurIey Decides to Delay
Haavvwejoht Bout at Juarez.

Ell Paso, Tex, Feb. 26.-Of1cial an
nouncement made on Wednesday by
Promoter Jack Curley that the fight
between Jack Johnson and Jess Will
lard for the worlds heavyweight
championship will not be held until
at least two weeks later than March
6 settles the question that has been
the big topic of discussion here
since Johnson began to lag in his jour-
new from Barbados to Juarez.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
Export 10000 Bales of Cotton.

savannah, Ga, Feb. 24.-Forty thou
sSud bales of cotton, valued at approx
r.Ilstely S1,500,00O are on the way to
-u'ope from this port in six steam
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
EleHT-HouR LAW is VALID.

California Statute for Woman work
ers Upheld by Supreme Court.
Washington, Feb. 25.-The Cali
fornia eight-hour law for women pro-
viding that no woman shall be en-
Moved more than eight hours a day or
more than As hours week in any mer-
camille establishment, factory. hotei,
hospital or apartment house, was held
constitutional by the United States Su-
preme court on Tuesday.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03

When the Lafayette kits were sent
over to the French army one of the
cards giving the names of contribu-
tors was that of Miss Adele Leuville.
Her kit was received by Maurice Du-
bois of the Sixth French cavalry, who
wrote to the Lafayette fund man
ayers that he went to school with
girl of that name seventeen years ago
In Nancy, France. Inquiry proved it
was the same Adele, and now she has
gone over to help nurse the wounded
Frenchmen-and to see Maurice.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-03-03
TWO KILLED IN IOWA WRECK.
Passenger Train Meets With Accident
at TaImaoe

Des Moines, Ia, Feb. 24.-The en-
elneer was killed, a mail clerk fatally
injured, the fireman lost his life and
e'sht passengers were injured on Mon
Jay when Chicago Great Western pas
Senger train No. 1, bound from Des
.lUlneS to Kansas City, was wrecked
81 .Ialmage. la. The engineer was
Games Maxwell of Des Moines.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

passed a large share of the territory
that now is and surrounds the Dis
trict of Columbia. The Washingtons
mad their seat at Mount Vernon; the
Lees came into possession of the mag
nlncent tract that was the home of
Robert E. Lee and is now Arlington
cemetery; the Blairs, somewhat later,
attained yet other great tracts in and
around the District of Columbia, and
the ancestral home of Senator Lee,
only a few hundred yards beyond the
District line in Maryland, is one of
the historic places of the country.
1t was there that Senator Lees
mother, a woman who lived to be
ninety years old and linked the De-
mocracy Of Andrew Jackson with the
Democracy of Grover Cleveland, wit
messed what she considered the most
dramatic scene of a most dramatic
epoch-the struggle between her
father, Francis P. Blair, and John C.
breckenridge, his kinsman, over the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise
Exchange.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
FINDS LESSON IN THE WAR
Dean Hodges Points Out Four Things
Learned as Result of Great
Struggle.

That there are four great lessons
being taught by the present war in
Europe was the declaration of Dean
George Hodges of Cambridge Theolog-
ical seminary, former rector of Cal
vary Episcopal church, Cambridge, in
a sermon on "The War;" from the pull.
pit he used to occupy in Cavalry, re-
Gently
THE war will teach that a nation
is not exalted by material strength"
said he. ITO be exalted a nation must
have, beside material strength, the
true ideals of brotherhood. The sec.
ond lesson that this war is teaching is
that might is not right, and any nation
that thinks so to the contrary will re.
greet it. The third lesson is that peo-
pie have been wrong in saying that
men are invincibly selfish, for this war
offers thousands and thousands OF
cases of men gladly giving up their
lives. The fourth lesson is that the
old belief that war is glorious is a
false belief. War is far from glorious
and we are realizing it today as never
before. Because of the neglect of ma.
tional Christianity we find this war
existing today. Christianity is for ma.
lions as we'll as for individuals and
that will be the one great, comprehen-
sive lesson this war will teach"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
The Human Touch.

There must be a sensitive touch.
A visitor to mandatory saw man
molding clay into pots. Noticing that
all the molding was done by hand, he
said to the workman: "Why do you
not use a tool to aid you in shaping
the clay?" The workman replied:
There is no tool that can do this
work. We have tried different ones,
but somehow it needs the human
touch" And how true it is that in
shaping lives for God there Is need Of
the human touch. We cannot do the
Lords work by machinery. Jesus
touched men, imparting health, cleans.
ing and salvation.-Biblical Recorder.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
Queens All in Flames.

Obeying tradition, a bonfire was
lighted the other night at the gypsy
camp, Simonsville, and will be kept
until it consumes all the effects OF
Tryphena Mcneil, queen of the tribe
of her name, who died in a hospital
here.
Fuel has been furnished by costly
clothing, including $3.50 fur coat and
everything she owned or handled, val
ued at thousands of dollars.
Mrs. Mcneil was the wife of King
Samuel. Her reputation as a seeress
brought many rich clients to her
Waterbury Comm Dispatch to New
York World.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
rickster.

John H. Finley, New York's COM
missioner of education, said in AL
bany, apropos of an argument on BIZ
BILE reading in the schools:
This argument is straightforward.
1t does not shift and jump and beat
about the bush. 1t isn't like the tricky
schoolboy.
Which would you choose his
teacher asked this schoolboy, the
tenth or the twentieth part of an
apple?'
THE boy answered that he would
choose the twentieth part, and then,
noting with his shifty eyes his teach
er's frown, he added, hastily:
"T don't like apples, you know -
Washington Star.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
OF ANCIENT BLOOD
Maryland Senator May Boast His
Ancestry.
Descendant of Some of the Most Dis
tinguished Families of the Ma
ton, Blair Lee Has Name
Linked With History.

Imagine, if you can, a congress
meeting in Washington, among whose
| new senators could be counted scion
! OF the Washingtons of Virginia, an
other of the perennially famous house
of the Virginia Lees, yet another rep
resenting the only less famous Blairs
of the day of Andrew Jackson and
the kitchen cabinet" another whose
mother had lived in the White House
as the intimate friend of "Old Hick-
ory," and yet another descended d.
rectly from the war cabinet of Abra-
ham Lincoln.
Add to that a group of representa-
tives of the colonial aristocracy that
founded Maryland and Virginia, that
received its vast landed estates from
the old Stuart kings, that fought in
the colonial wars, that represented,
through ancestral utilization, some in
innate association with half the adj
ministrations that have presided at
the White House from the beginnings
of our government, and, finally, in
clude in that group the most intimate
personal friends of the present admin
istration-that would be quite a not
able representation of the old Ameri-
can aristocracy, wouldn't it?
Yet there is among the baby SEN
ators of today one man who repre-
sents all this aggregated association
of distinction and ancestry. He is
Senator Blair Lee of Maryland-a Lee
of Virginia, a Blair of the old Vir-
observation-disclosures family Of
that name, gist of the colonial gists,
distinguished for nobody quite recalls
how many generations, a relative Of
the Washingtons.
The Lee stock came over with the
conqueror," if there is any American
stock that can claim such a distinc-
ton. Their holdings in Virginia and
Maryland date back to the time of
Charles l, the first of the line being
Richard Lee, who came as secretary
of the colony of Virginia, and was
given extensive landed holdings.
AhCy uOlpCu W SSLdullou Iu6 carly
greatness of Virginia, they served in
its burgesses, fought In its Indian
wars, distinguished themselves in the
old French struggle. Light Horse
Harry" Lee was one of this line. Not
everybody, even of those who have
read their history well, remembers
that it was yet another of this family,
Richard Henry Lee, who on June u,
1776, introduced the resolution in the
Continental congress declaring the
colonies free.
Senator Lees mother, Elizabeth
Blair, lived at the White House as
little girl, the protege and intimate
friend of the Jackson family. She
was a pet Of the hard-flsted old
Tennesseean, and her father, in turn,
was a member of the Kitchen cab
met"
In the olden days, when the Lees
and the Washington family intermar-
ried, the great immortal estates COM
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

Why Men Eat More Than Women.
That men eat five or six per cent
more than women-not because Their
are gluttons, but because they actually
require that much more nourishment
appears as a result of an investigst
ton made in the nutrition laboratory
of the Carnegie institute at Washing
ton by Francis G. Benedict and L. e
Eames, says the Literary Digest. The
reason for the discrepancy seems to
be that women have smaller proper
ton of active tissues than men OF
the same weight and more inactivS
material, such as fat. The investig,I-
ton disclosed that the average wonl-
an generates only 1856 heat units IN
the "a hours, as against 1888 pro-
duced by the man, or about two Fer
cent more for the latter per pound of
body weight. When groups were cCm-
pared, after careful selection of ind
viduals of nearly the same height ant
weight, the men were found to pro-
duce about IL per cent more heat than
women.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

According to a Melbourne dispatch
to the Sydney (Australia) Herald, re-
produced in a commercial report,
strict economy in the use of safety
matches is being advocated by mer-
chants who know how limited the
stocks in Australia are at present, and
how difficult it is to procure further
supplies while the war lasts. AL
ready prices have risen 1873 per cent
In the wholesale market, and only a
most careful use of these matches
can prevent an actual shortage. The
chief reason for this state OF affairs
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

is said to be the regulation in force
in England that compels the factory
which supplies nearly all the Aus
tralian matches to show no lights at
night, it being situated close to the
Thames estuary. Consequently, the
output is reduced to one-third Of
the normal quantity.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
Applled Art.

What's your hired man blowing up
your front yard for, Blinks?"
MY daughter has new camera,
and the instruction says to break up
the foreground before taking picture,
and l couldn't very we'll let her do
that hard work"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
Matrimonv's Cost.

Timid Youth--What do I have to
pay for marriage license?
Facetious Clerk-Well, you get it on
the installment plan.
Timid Youth-How's that?
Facetious Clerk-Two dollars down
and most Of your salary each week
for the rest of your life.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
Essential Elements,

We cannot remove the conditions un.
der which our work Is to be done, but
we can transform them. They are the
elements out of which we must build
the temples wherein we serve.-West
colt.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

Something Wrong Somewhere.
Does my new dress fit?"
"Splendidly."
"Then 1t Is unbecoming?"
ION the contrary"
"Then why does everybody praise
IT."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
Easy.

"How did you manage to win the
hand of an heiress." asked the en-
vious friend Of dancing man."
"Oh-er-I glided into her affec-
tions."
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

There was an increase of nearly
700,000,000 in the cigarette output in
the United States last year.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

You would be dismally lonesome II
everyone in the world were as good
as you think you are.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03
Select Circle.

Don't any of your friends come to
see you on visiting days?" asked the
kindly old lady. "No'm," responded
No. 777,444; they're all here wit
me-"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

Beauty may be only skin deep, but
1t is nearly always effective.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

Barcelona, Spain, does large bust.
ness in the manufacture of paper
drinking cups.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

A man who is tied to his wife's apron
string certainly isn't fast
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-06-03

Camille Saint-Saens, the famou.i
French composer and the first delO-
gate of the Franco-American commits
sion for the Development of Political,
Economic, Literary and Artistic Relsr
lions, photographed as he landed tl
New York. The composer, who ~
eighty years old, looks forward with
uncommon pleasure to revislting thu
United States. He will be entertained
extensively by the French societies
in the many cities he expects to visit
during the three months OF his stay
here.