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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
BOMBS HURLED LIKE A BALL
French Devise Scheme Whereby Fuse
Is Set After the Grenade Is
Thrown.

Paris.-The hand grenade devised
by the French to throw into the en-
emy's trenches when they are within
reach is about as large as baseball.
string, tied to the wrist of the throw
or, pulls out a plug from the ball af-
ter it has left the hand A spring is
released, which sets the fuse for the
explosive charge going This fuse
may be regulated from one second to
,wo or three seconds, or intermediate
FACTIONS, and thus adjusted to explode
hen it reaches the hostile trench
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
Phillip Hears Farmers Protest.

Twenty or more Rock county farm
ers called upon Gov. e. L. Philip at
Madison to protest against the objec-
tionable features of the quarantine
imposed by the federal government
following the foot-and-mouth disease
epidemic, and to secure an early lift
ing of the restrictive regulations.
Attorneys M. G. Jeffris, Charles
Pierce and John L. Fisher presented
the facts to the governor. 1t was
claimed that stock raisers and breed
ers of Rock county are suffering
losses of $1,000 a day as a result of
the quarantine which practically pre-
vents all trade in live stock, despite
certain notifications in the quaran-
tine order 1t was pointed out that
stock which is now shipped TO outside
markets, especially the Chicago stock
yards, under the approval of an IN
spector as recently provided, is con-
signed to the quarantine pens and
sells at prices averaging one dollar a
hundred less than is paid for regular
receipts.
In addition to this auctions cannot
be held in the county, stock cannot
be driven over the highways. the gov
eminent orders requiring transporta-
ton in wagons is a severe hardship in
the case of large numbers of sheep
and cattle. and stock for breeding pur-
poses cannot be shipped in or even
carried from one farm to another.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
ARTIST HONORED BY FRENCH
troll of AIsace-Lorraine, Gets
Decoration.

Paris.-The Alsatian caricaturist M.
Waltz, who is known as "Hansi," has
been decorated with the Legion Of
Honor. Some time before the war
broke out "Hansi'' was sentenced to
one years Imprisonment at Leipzig for
cartoons he drew ridiculing everything
German in Alsace-Lorraine. He es-
capped, however, and volunteered as an
interpreter in the French army. He
has been mentioned in dispatches for
his courage and as being splendid
example for his comrades.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
ARE BEST OF FORTS

fort is to be built. Ships trying to
get into Chesapeake or to the James
would find themselves under fire from
the Cape Henry guns befo-, they get
within range of the Fortress Monroe
or the Hampton Roads guns. 1t is
believed by military experts that no
fleet In the world ever can force its
way into Chesapeake bay or the James
river thence to go with its lighter
draft vessels by the water route
either to Baltimore, Washington or
Richmond.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
HONOR GRANTS SoN-lN-LAW
Prince cantacuzene Decorated nv
Gar for Bravery in Cam
paign In Galicia.

Washington. = Prince Cantacuzene.
husband of Julia Dent Grant. has been
decorated by the czar for heroism in
the Galician campaign, and Wilhelm
Won Rath has received the iron cross
for distinguished service on the
French and Russian frontiers. Won
Rath, who is engaged to be married
to Cecilia May, has been inyalided to
MS home in Frankfort, where Miss
May is a guest He was formerly a,
tached to the German embassy her
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
WIDOWS MITE FOR WOUNDED
French Servant Earning Ten Cents
an Hour Gives $50 to
Red Cross.

Paris.-A Paris woman servant of
the numerous class which works out
at ten cents an hour has given no
less a sum than $50 for the French
wounded. Her employer had difficulty
in making her confess it. When she
did own up to it, she explained that
though the Red Cross agent had ad-
vised her strongly to keep her saw
ings for rainy day she had got round
his objections by showing certificates
for further savings of $4,000.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
United States Defenses, How
ever, Are Short of Men.
Works on corregidor Almost as I'M
pregnable az Gibraltar or HeIgoIand
Great Fortifications Which
Guard National Capital.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.

fstaf Correspondent Western Newspaper
Union)
Washington.-Since the war broke
out in Europe much has been heard
about Helgoland as an impregnable
fortress. In some statements it has
been said that next to Gibraltar, Hell
goland Is the hardest fortress nut to
crack In the whole world.
Now comes the United States to
maintain that 1t has fortress that
Is not only not second to Helgoland
in strength, but perhaps not even to
Gibraltar itself Army and navy men
seem to think that the fortress of
Corregidor which guards the entrance
to Manila in the Philippines can hold
OF any of the worlds forces and alb
solutely prevent any possibility of
successful attack on Manila by way Of
its immediate front
Corregidor oniy recently has been
put into trim. Now 1t is understood
that its big guns are all manned and
that soon it. will have a trained force
of men equal to the occasion of
working the weapons Of offense for
a period as protracted as any war Is
likely to be. In some respects 1t is
said Corregidor resembles Gibraltar.
Much has been written recently
about the Notifications on the sea
coasts of the continental United
States. During the discussions in the
committees Of congress on the sub
ject of the military preparedness of
the United States 1T has been said
that our forts and our guns are all
right, but that we have not men
enough to man them. From the re-
port of the chief of coast artillery,
General Weaver, it is apparent that
what has been said just about sums
up the situation. Congress it is ex-
pected will provide men enough to
man our guns, for otherwise we will
be in position of having spent lot
of money for tools which we cannot
use.
In the year 1914 the British at
tackled Washington. In order to reach
this city today foreign foe. unless
it can land an army, will be compelled
to run by the Notifications at the
mouth of Chesapeake bay and by 9TH
er Notifications which protect the
reaches of the lower Potomac.
Fortress Monroe which is one of the
guards to the entrance of the Chesa-
peake, is an old post and the layman
who looks at it and sees the old par
apets with their granite facings can
not conceive that it would withstand
the shots from modern guns. The
truth is that old Fortress Monroe is
occupied only for show purposes and
for the uses of peaceful garrison life.
Connected with the old fort are the
new Notifications with their big dis
appearing guns Fortress Monroe
commands not only the entrance to-
the Chesapeake but the entrance to
the James river.
In Hampton Roads, whose waters
are at the mouth of the James and
mingle with those of the ocean, there
is a low-lying American fort with
powerful guns. 1t is an aid to For
tress Monroe, and between the two any
fleet, no matter how powerful, would
have a hard time of it trying to
break an entrance either into the
James river or Chesapeake bay.
Recently the government purchased
land on Cape Henry and there another
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
FOR AID OF QUAKE VICTIMS
Illinois Senator VIII Introduce 6ih
Urging an Appropriation OF
$4,000.

Chicago, Jan. 20-State Senator Ed
ward j. Glackin yesterday drew up
resolutions of sympathy and a Dill
asking for the appropriation of $25,OOV
for the relief of earthquake sufferers
In Italy. In the resolutions the gov
error is asked to appoint committee
to receive contributions throughout
The state.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27

Map or part of central Italy that
suffered most from the awful earth
quake. The territory from Naples
northward to Ferrara and across the
peninsula from the Tyrrhenian sea to
the Adriatic is dotted with demolished
towns and villages.
-~o~.~~-~-~o~->-~~o~~o
accuracy the number Of lives lost in
the earthquake or do more than esti-
mate the monetary damage. One I'M
official estimate places the property
loss at above sixty million dollars.
Subscriptions for the relief of the
suffering are being raised throughout
Italy, and the people are responding
generously.
King Victor Emmanuel again has
gone into the stricken region to give
what services he can to the distressed
people.
Queen Helena today sent trainload
of foodstuffs, clothing and medical sup
plies to the people in the ruined
towns.
Members of the royal family, high
officials and leading legislators are
busily engaged in relief work Thorn
as Nelson Page, the American ambas-
sador, was among those who went to
the earthquake region today to dis
tribute relief stores to the destitute.
Ravenous Dogs Are Killed.
At Avezzano all the dogs in the town
have been killed because they had been
prowling in the debris among the boo
les of the dead.
At several places wolves have come
down out of the mountains and parties
have been formed to hunt down and
exterminate them
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
Approves the Princess.

Berlin.-While distributing gifts at
Camnez, the German crown princess
was approached by a soldier of the
landsturm battalion, who, unaware OF
her identity, said: You're mighty
nice girl. When / get back from the
war I'm going to marry you"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27

After completing his task, the officer
wriggled back to his own lines I'M
harmed.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
Articles Of Incorporation.

Articles of Incorporation.
Articles of Incorporation were FLED
in the office of Secretary of State DON
aid as follows:
c. E Blodgett & Sons company,
Marshfeld, capital, $125.000; incor-
porators, C. E. Blodgett. N. E. Blod-
gett, ]. B. Blodgett.
Caseyille Investment company, Su-
perior; capital. $4,000: incorporators,
Client r. Smith. R. A. Jones.
Foreign corporations filing state
ment for authority to do business In
che state:
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27

jackson Named Commissioners.
Governor Philip appointed Carl d
Jackson of Oshkosh member of the
state railroad commission to succeed
John II. Roemer of Milwaukee.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-01-27
Nelson Is Re-Appointed.

Nelson Is Re-Appofnted.
Governor Philip re-appointed
George B. Nelson. Stevens Point, Nor
NAL school regent for five years He
named c. NJ. Hillard (Dem), district
attorney of Pepin county to succeed
the man who was elected in Novem.
Der but moved out of the county.
The Spectator., 1915-10-19

fast in the wake of its sounding. She knew only that it fitted in with her childhoods conception of the Indians warwhoop. But she did know that in an instant after it had been borne along the wind she had seen a thing happen which she would have disbe lieved had she heard it from the lips of a narrator.
 She saw in one breathing space the halfraised figure of Fletch McNash un- der the quilts of his bed, and that of young Jeb under the covers of his pallet. She saw in the next breathing space, with no realization of how it had happened, both of them crouched low at the center of the floor, the ia ther's eyes glued to the front door. the sons to the back. The older man bent low, like a runner on his mark awaiting the starting signal. His right hand held the rife at his front. his left lightly touched the floor with fingers spread to brace his posture, and his face was tensely upturned.
 So, while she counted ten, father and son crouched in precisely similar poses one covering the barred door at the front with a repeating rife, the other seeming to stare through the massive timbers of that at the back with leveled pistol. No one spoke. No one moved, but the regular swelling breath of sleep had died, for every ir nf in holding it's breath, bated.
 Then came a fresh pounding of hoofs and scattering of gravel and chorus of angry. incoherent voices sounded above the noise of fight-or was it pursuit? Whatever words were being shouted out there in the night were swallowed in the medley, except wake of oaths that seemed to float be- hind.
 The noise, like the other which had preceded it. died swiftly, but in the instant that it lasted Fletch McNash had lifted his left hand and brought his rife to the ready" and his son had instinctively thrust forward his cooked revolver.
 For full minute. perhaps, the girl in the bed had the picture of two fig ures bent low like bronze emblems of motionless preparation, yet not a syl- lable had been spoken. and when. from quite a distance beyond, there came the snap of single shot, followed by the retort of volley. they still nei-
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where it might mean a pitched battle. So it had been awaited. too. up and down the creeks and branches that crept from the ragged hills. where men were leading morbid lives of isolation and nursing grudges.
 During the three days that the sus- pense continued each recess of court found the long-limbed frame of Milt McBriar tilted back in a split-bottom chair on the flagstones at the front of the hotel His dark face and pierc' ing eyes gazed always thoughtfully town to the reposeful languor of the piled-up, purple skyline. Likewise. each recess found seated at the other end of the same house-front the short CT, heavier figure of a fair-haired man with ruddy face and sandy mustache. Never did he appear there without two companions. who remained at his right and left. Never did the dark giant speak to the florid man. yet never did either fail to keep a glance directed toward the other.
 The man of the sandy hair was Breck Havey. next to Bad Anse the most influential leader of the clan. His in fiuence here in Peril made or unmade the officers of the law
 When these two men came together as opposing witnesses in a homicide case the air was fraught with ele- ments of storm.
 "Thars war a-brewin'," commented a native. glancing at the quietly seat ed figures one noon. An them fel lers air in ther bilin'"
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ther spoke nor moved. But at last, as if by one impulse. they rose and turned to face each other.
 Then. and then only. was there ut terance of any sort inside the house.
 In a voice so low that Juanita would not have heard it save that every sense was painfully alert. Fletch said to his son: 'I reckon ther wars on again"
 The boy nodded sullenly. and the dible undertone:
 Lay down."
 The boy went back to his pallet and the father to his bed. For a long time by one they took up again their chorus of snores. Tomorrow might bring chaos but tonight offered sleep. Still the girl lay gazing helplessly up at the rafters and wondering what things happened out there in the grim, un. communicative silence of the slopes.
 A little while ago she had been dreading what might come. Now, in an access of terror. she thought of what must come.
 'Ther wars on." That was enough. Evidently there had been hell" over there at the dance. She had reached the country just in time to see a new and sanguinary chapter open.
 She would in all probability see people she actually knew. with whom she had spoken, and whose hands she had taken, the victims of this brutal blood-lust.
 And in the face of such things these human beasts could sleep, But one was not sleeping, and after a while among the snoring slumberers Good Anse Talbott rose and knelt be- fore the hearth There were still a few glowing embers there. and as he bent and at last took the knotted hands away from his scanned face they cast feeble light upon his features and upon the bare feet that twisted convulsively on the stone fireplace
 It was tortured face, and as the girl watched him she realized for the first time the significance of the words ito wrestle in prayer" It suddenly came to her that she had never before seen man really pray. For an hour the hackwoods missionary knelt there.
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ary kick off his brogans and shed his coat Taking off her own boots and jacket. she slipped between the faded "comforters" of the sheetless couch.
 In five minutes the taper was out and the place was silent save for the cracking of the logs. The little girl at her side lay quiet. and her regular breathing proclaimed her already asleep. In another five minutes Jua- nita. with closed eyes and burning lids and aching muscles. heard the nasal chorus of snoring sleepers. She alone was awake in the house.
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Copyright by Charles Neville Buck)

tunes, since the plural rather than the singular fitted their dimensions, had come to her with his wish that part or them should go to advance education in the Alleghenies. She was to De his stewardess in overseeing the work but that she should go in person and permanently to that crude environ ment had not been anticipated. Those who had known her in her life of nor nal luxury, of dancing and playing, and of deliciously rhythmic person ality, would have laughed at the idea as absurdly incongruous. Of this fact the young man had heatedly reminded her on the night when she gave back his engagement ring and announced her determination.
 "Juanita," he had expostulated, with suffering of hopelessness in his eyes which she ached to comfort "Juanita, dearest, courts and juries and the bayonets of militiamen have struggled to civilize those savage people, and for a hundred years they have utterly failed Their one god is Implacable Hatred"
 'I shant go with juries or bayo- nets," she had retorted.
 You will go without knowing them, their ways, their point of view
 "I don't know them now, but I will know them"
 You haven't even letter of in- troduction."
 T never heard"-her voice rang futility of argument-"that the Savior needed letters of introduction"
 And so an imagined heartbreak and a crumbling world of illusions-as she fancied-had driven her suddenly into self-appointed exile-and a mission.
 Her education had been pointed to fitting her to oversee such work-done by the hands of others. Even then. had not he and all the rest goaded her with their insistent refrain, You cant do it?" Now she was here.
 She drew herself up straight as she sat on the stile and impatiently dashed away the moisture from her eyes. If that other man had only had in him the iron wasted on this desperado Anse Havey! She rose at last and went unwillingly back to the cabin.
 The host sat barefooted before the fire and talked with the missionary. The girl heard their conversation through the dullness of fatigue, won dering how she was to sleep in this pigsty. yet restrained from asking per mission to retire only by her embar' rassment and unfamiliarity with the native code.
 At last she heard Brother Talbot suggest: Hits gittin' ter be late an we've got tolable long way ter jour ney termorrer. reckon we'd better lay down"
 Juanita began counting heads. There were six in the room, and the boy Jeb was yet to return from the dance, and while she was still trying to work out the problem the woman pointed to a corner bed and suggested: 'I reckon you'd better bundle in with Dawn"
 She saw the girl crawl into bed just as she was and the mission
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SYNOPSIS.

Juanita Holland, Philadelphia young woman of wealth. on her journey with her guide, Good Anse Talbott. into the heart of the Cumberlands to become a , teacher of the mountain children faints sat the door of Fetch McNash's cabin. While resting there she overhears talk between Bad Anse Havey, chief of his clan, and one of his henchmen that ac- quaints her with the Havey cBriar feud. Juanita has an unprofitable talk with Bad Anse and they become antagonists.
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CHAPTER III.

It is related in the history of the Hatfield Mccoy feud. which burst out between neighbors over stray pig,
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cannibsi God.

Fijian cannibals worship god named Mata Waloo. who has eight stomachs, and is always eating.
The Spectator., 1915-10-19

pleading with his God for his unrepen- tant people,
 Outside single whippoorwill walled plaintively, These poor hills! These poor hills!"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
SANTA HAS THE GRIP
Will Be Given by United Brethren
SUNDAY School.

Santa Has the Grip is the title of a
Christmas entertainment to be given
Wednesday evening by the United
Brethren Sunday School, North Capitol
and r streets. The performance shows
how Uncle Sam gets ahead of other
nations and cures Santa of that ''sneeZ-
ing, freezing thing" known as the
grip and enables him to make his
usual Christmas trip
Those to take pare are: Asberry
Sampsel, Florence Girouard, Paul
Prope. Guy Numbers. Olga Melica, An
ma Patterson, Florence Dawson, Louise
Ihomas, Evelyn Ryan. Eleanor BeaIl,
olga flammer Virginia Siege. Dorothy
Paine. Catherine CiSsel, Dtho Baker
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
CROOKS ENJOY SHANGHAI JAIL.
City Refuge fer Criminals and Out
avs From All Parts of China.

g. - r,u,Icu.e Of tie Associated f-e5s.
-riNNGHhr. November china s APP
To-, 10 the foreign powers TO preserve
y 80 va portions Of the republic be-
,Oad chinese jurisdiction is aomcw hat
80 g,;icd Icy conditions in Shanghai.
7 S ct. IS 4 refuge for criminals and
.ttiaSs from various parts Of China.
spd many o. them are despera tc enough
: undertake any crimiHal commission.
re mcniciDaI Jail contained more
ti'.'. Loo conyicts late in september.
l. .=cord for this season. Chinese crooks
.oy itfe in the Shanghai jail. II al
.d. :; pleasant home in winter. and
ofe,s better food than Chinese coolies
= r. accustomed 10.
There IS cons derable agitation here
-, tlc estoration OF logging in an ef-
-of: % discourage loafers from seeking
isft acntsifces. 40 othc: part of China
Sc ls"ieut 70 criminals as Shanghai.
uIGcr chinese law they are nogged for
e. All "ffeuses aud .A-cUted Cor serious
ones Here s. Shau lsh@i. iail sentences
go" comfortable lodging make law
lrrr1 iU- very attractive. Recently
ihe nave been many cases Of Chimes
90, ~ ilt asg&GlJiHg policemen for the
cole purpose o. getting locked up du.-
,nr he winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-12-20
FISCAL REPORT BY JANUARY 10
Joint Committee Meeting Date Set
by Chairman.

The joint select committee of Con-
gress on the fiscal relations of the
United States and the District of Co
lumbia will not be called together I'M
til after Congress has reassembled,
January 4, according to Senator Chill
ton of West Virginia, chairman. today.
He said that Representative Gard of
Ohio. a member of the committee, had
gone home for the holidays.
Senator Chiffon indicated that the
report of the committee would be ready
for presentation to Congress soon after
it meets. The committee was given
until January 10 to file it's report.