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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
DEFECTIVE BABY
ALLOWED TO DIE
Chicago Doctor Refused to Save
ChildS' Life.
PARENTS GAVE CONSENT
Medico-Iegai Society Of New York
PARENTS GAVE CONSENT
Medieo-legal Society Of New York
Backs Physicians Act-Offi-
Gals May Take Up
Case.

Chicago, Nov. 19.-Baby Bollinger is
dead. Deformed, partly paralyzed
and subnormal of brain, the human
mite, whose life was held in the hand
of DR.. H. J. Haiselden, was allowed to
slip back peacefully into the shadowy
mystery whence he came.
Five days was the span of lis life
He came as do all humans, breathed
the breath Of life, partook of food,
then slept the unending sleep at the
German-American hospital.
Yet he left behind him a nation agi-
tated by his existence to degree few
full lives bring to pass.
His going crowded before the eyes
Of every living parent the burning
question:
Has a physician the right to judge
whether life appearing on earth has,
by reason of deformities and physical
handicaps, right or no right to be
saved?
Doctor Haiselden says he could have
saved the baby by an operation to
complete its digestive system. But
the partial paralysis, the current NAL
formations, he declared, were so great
bar to happiness or attainment that
he did not feel justified in saving the
baby from the death which nature or
dained. The baby's own parents con-
scented to its death.
In New York the Medico-Legal So
ciety Of America adopted resolutions
indorsing the action of DR.. H. ]. Hal
selden of Chicago, who refused to per-
form an operation to prolong the life
of a defective child. The resolution
commended the Chicago physician for
his humane action In refusing to per-
form an operation to prolong the life
of an imbecile child.
The society based it's action on the
ground that the physician was not
taking human life, but that his action
was merely the result of his decision
to withhold professional action in
case where he believed he was aiding
society by Withholding it. The secre-
tary said there was nothing new in
the problem: that in his SO years OF
practicing law he had known of many
cases where physicians exercised
their own discretion to the extent OF
taking life that did not have
promising beginning.
President T. D. Crothers said it was
an anwritten law that a physician
had right to exercise his discretion
in many cases of birth, and that Doc
tor Haiselden was tt be commended.
There was less unanimity of opinion
In Chicago as to the moral and legal
ethics of the case and there may be Of
fetal action to settle the point.
This may be brought about through
the instrumentality of the coroners
office, the state board of health. the
states attorneys office and the Chi
cago department of health.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
MAY PERFORM MARRIAGES
Question as to Legality Arises From
Recent Ceremony at
Green Bay.

Madison.-Attorney General Owen
advised District Attorney Fred Morrill,
Of Green Bay, that Congregational
minister, though he has not had
charge of parish for seven years, but
aas continued his communion with
his religious organization, may lawful
ly perform marriages in Wisconsin.
Some question as to the validity of a
marriage performed by Congrega-
tional minister at Green Bay arose
from the fact that he was not in active
charge of a parish, The fact, the at
torney general said, did not deprive
minister of authority to perform
marriages, provided he complied with
requirements of the statutes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
EX-SENATOR BURROWS DIES.
Succumbs at His Home in Michigan
After Notable Record.

Succumbs at His Home IN Michigan
After Notable Record.
Kalamazoo. Mich, Nov. 18-Former
United States Senator julius Caesar
Burrows died at his home on Tuesday.
Ex-senator Burrows was born in
northern Erie county, Pennsylvania,
in 1887, but spent most of his life in
Kalamazoo. Mich.
With the exception of two short
periods he was in the national house
of representatives until 1895, when he
was appointed to fill out the unexpired
term of United States Senator Stock
bridge, deceased. In 1899 he was elect,
ed to the regular term and served in
the senate until 1911. He was tenn
pararv chairman of the Republican
national convention of 1908. When he
retired from the senate he was ap-
nointed to the national monetary COM
mission.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Nov. 25. 1914.

French bombarded Arnaville.
East Indian troops retook lost
trenches in Flanders.
Germans made gains at Arras.
German army in Poland in re-
treat.
Russians again invaded Hungary
and cornered Austrians In the Car
pathians.
Serbians routed Austrians who
had crossed the Kolubara.
English coast towns prepared to
resist invasion.
Russia began modifying first re-
serves.
American Christmas ship Jason
with cargo of presents for Euro
pean children reached Plymouth.
American relief clearing house
organized.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Veteran Dies at wausau.

Wausau.-Levi Fleming, aged "a,
veteran of the civil war and the oldest
resident of Marathon county, died
here suddenly He carried mail afoot
in the early fifties from here to points
many miles north. At one time he
was owner of a sawmill in Wausau
and RATED logs down river to St
Louis.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
MINE SINKS HOSPITAL SHIP.
sishty-FiVe Wounded British Soldiers
Drowned-Rescue Shin Also Lost.

Drowned-Rescue Ship Also Lost.
London, Nov. 19-The British hos
pital ship Anglia struck a mine in the
English channel and sank with loss
OF So wounded soldiers.
There were 1856 wounded soldiers
on board the hospital ship, but the
admiralty announced that 800 were
saved
A vessel that was proceeding to
tne rescue of those in the Anglia
struck mine while en- route and also
sank.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Citrus CROP Worth $4,000. 600.

Los Angeles, CAL, Nov. 1916. Har-
Old Powell, manager of the California
fruit Growers exchange, has COM
pleIed the compilation of figures show
.ns the approximate citrus production
ssliS year in California. He estimated
tne crop at $4,000 carloads. 1t is val
aed at $50, 1000, 900.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Victory for Santa Fe.

Washington, Nov. 1.-THE Atchi-
son. Topeka and Santa Fe and other
large railroads entering Chicago won
their fight to increase the demurrage
rates on grain, the interstate COM
merce commission dismissing the Chi
cage board of trades complaint
against such increases.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Trout Foo Supply Short.

Sturgeon Bay.-At the end of the
permit season for trout the Sturgeon
Bay state fish hatchery is lacking one
quarter its capacity of trout eggs, the
result of the heavy seas on Lake Mich
gan the week previous to the expira-
lion of the permits. Twenty million
trout spawn will be shipped here from
southern lake ports.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
sunset Gun.

Paragraph 21O Of the Regulations OF
the United States army reads: AT
posts supplied with ordnance and with
ammunition for the purpose a morn.
ing and evening gun will be fired
daily at reveille and retreat" AS the
neg Is run up at sunrise and down at
sunset simultaneously with the firing
of the gun, it is probable that salute
to the flag is intended. -
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
OPERATE ON MAYOR Mitchell.
New York Executive Stricken win
Appendicitis.

New York, Nov. 17.-John Purroy
Mitchell. mayor of Greater New York,
was taken from his home TO foose-
eyelt hospital late on Monday and OPP
Grated on for appendicitis.
Mayor Mitchell has been ailing LOT
some time. but it has only been within
the last few days that his condition
incapacitated him so that ne could not
attend to his official duties. Mon
dow h;s condition was such that bis
musician decided that an immediate
operation was necessary.
Mr.. Mitchell is still young an'
being in his thirty-seventh year
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
WILSON REINsTATEs BuRKITT.

Assistant Postmaster at WInnetka
(IH.) Gets Job Back.
Washington, Nov. 17.-President
Wilson on Monday ordered Postmaster
General Burleson to reinstate in office
without further parleying" George
Burkitt. assistant postmaster at Win
netka. Ill. Burkitt was summarily dis
missed bv Postmaster A. M. Kloepfer
of that place because he was alleged
to have said that the president should
have waited longer, following the
death of Mrs. Wilson, before announc-
ing his engagement to Mrs. Norman
Gait.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Nov. 81, 1914.

Germans attacked allies from
Ypres to La Bassee.
Ten-day battle in Poland ended
in Russian victory.
Russians defeated the Turks in
Armenia.
British ships attacked German
naval base at Zeebruege.
Chile charged German Warships
had violated her neutrality.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Nov. 2s, 1914.

Allies armored train wrecked
bridge across the User.
Germans reported victories be-
tween Lodz and Lowicz.
Turkish advance checked in Ar
menia.
British battIeship 5uIwark blown
up In the Thames.
Turkish mine layer sunk In the
Bosporus.
British aviator wrecked German
military train.
Germany made public alleged
proof of Anglo-5elgian military
agreement.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Nov. %, 1914.

Nov. %, 1914.
Enver Bey started for Egypt.
Germans accused French of US
ing dum-dum bullets.
American hospital opened at Pc
trograd.
New British army landed in
France.
Germans massed near Arras.
Retreatine Germans in Poland
fought stubborniy.
Russians gained near Cracow
and Strykow and occupied czerno-
WITT.
Fierce fighting In the Caucasus.
Riots at Erzerum, ArmenIans
slain.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
BOMBS KILL % AT VERONA.
Austrian Flyers Also Hurt Twenty-One
Property Loss Was Slight.

Properly Loss was 0IIvHt'
Rome, Nov 16-Three Austrian
aeroplanes on Sunday dropped 10
bombs on Verona, the city whose name
Shakespeare made household word
by laying the scenes of Romeo and
Juliet" there. According to the OFF,
cial statement of the war office. 70
persons were killed and 81 were Sc
riously wounded. The property loss
was slight.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Nov. 27, 1914.

Reims again bombarded.
French made gains in Alsace.
German army in Poland re-en-
forced.
Montenegrins defeated Austrlans
near Vishegrad.
Col. Maritz, South Africa rebel,
defeated.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
Nov. %, 1914.

NOV. EoS 1917
Fierce fighting in the Argonne.
Ypres again bombarded.
German advance on Warsaw
checked.
Many Germans captured near Lo-
Wicz.
Austrians captured 2,4oo Rus
SLAMS near Pilica.
British defeated. in attack on
German railway terminus In East
Africa.
British defeated Turks near Per-
sian gulf.
British warship Patrol rammed
German submarine U-1s and took
crew.
Serious riots In ConstantinopIe,
British embassy looted.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1915-11-24
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
New. %, 1914.

Nov e, 1914.
Ypres bombarded.
Germans trappci by floods at
Dlxmude.
Germans fortified Belgian coast.
German army advanced to forty
miles from Warsaw.
Russians took Gumbinnen.
Austrians evacuated Neu Sandec.
Austrians crossed the kolubara
and took many Serbians.
Turks won fight near Port Said
and reached the Suez canal.
Turkish warships sheIIed Taupse
but were repulsed by shore bat
teries.
Mayor of Ypres shot by allies as
spy.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
A Diplomatic Official.

During the reign of Emperor Napo.
leon Ill. he and the empress visited
Normandy and had arranged to spend
couple of days ut Evreux. NJ. Jan.
vier de Ia Monte. who was the project,
learned that the revolutionaries intend
ed to hiss the sovereigns as they pass
ed, and SO he summoned the leaders of
the movement and told them that he
knew of their plot. IF you carry out
your plan." said he to them, you will
get six months in prison. If you do
not your friends will accuse you of
cowardice and treason. As way out
Of the difficulty l propose to lock YOU
up at once until the emperor has
gone" The conspirators accepted the
terms offered them. and so the emper-
or was greeted only by cheers, as the
revolutionaries. frightened at the ar.
rest Of their chiefs. had not dared to
utter sound.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
PENS OF THE PAST.
The Old Time Quill and the Art Of
Putting q Point on Il.

The Old Time Quill and the Art Of
Putting q Point on II.
Quill pens are no longer used except
in rare old fashioned instances, but
people still use ''penknives'-you can
see the name any day in the cutlery
store windows-but they do not use
them to make or mend pens. In fact,
where is there man or woman who
knows how to put point on quill?
1t was once an art which every man
had to master. though women were
generally bad at it. as they are now at
sharpening pencils.
In the old days the first question
asked of schoolmaster was the one
whether he was skillful in pointing
quilts, for he had to sharpen the pens
Of his whole school and incidentally in.
struct his pupils in the art. Alas!
There is no modern pen of steel or gold
that is so smooth, so swift. so alluring
as good quill pen. The writer is very
sure of that. for his father used to tell
him so.
The art of handwriting has certainly
declined since the quill pen went out Of
use. The old fellows could really write.
We still pay them an unconscious trib.
ute by calling a writer a quill
driver" and picturing the pen. when
ever we have to make an abstract rep
resentation of it. as a guill.-New
York Mail.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
FINANClA ECON0M
One Mans Scheme Mhsn He Found His
Capital Was ehrlnlsins. v3sss

One Mans Scheme Nhsn He Found His
Capital Was ehelnlsins. v3stse
What one man did when fie discover
ca his capital was shrinking y told n;
the American Magazine:. . s7 n
"a friend let me into a secret Of his
financial economy which strikes me as
valuable. He Is Of middle age. with q
small family. and has an income Of
$500 q year. He has put by few
thousand dollars. His investments are
in gilt edged securities.
e cat the end of every six months he
figures out exactly the value Of his
property. Each share of stock. each
bond is reckoned at its present market
price. and the sale value Of his house
is placed at the lowest figure. To the
current value Of his estate he adds his
life insurance. The result is the capt.
tai which would be available for the
support of his wife and children should
he suddenly die. % ,'s' sd
"At the last three reckonings my
friend found that his capital was
shrinking. There had been declines In
certain stocks and bonds and a falling
of in the value Of his real estate.
What did he do? Commiserate him.
self? Not at all. He went to q life in.
surance company and took out policy
large enough more than to cover the
shrinkage in his capital. Comparative
" speaking. it cost him very little. but
It added a neat sum to the value of
his estate and guaranteed an unim.
paired income to his wife"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
THE CURIOUS BANANA TREE.
A Plant That Will Practically Grow
While You Wait,

If a good sized, healthy banana tree
is cut off a few feet above the ground
during the wet season the tree will not
die. but nine times out Of ten will send
up new shoot from the center of the
trunk and will grow fast enough to
make up for lost time. for within forty
eight hours it will rear waving green
leaves triumphantly above the severed
trunk.
The secret lies in the fact that the
trunk Of the banana tree is not hard
and woody like other trees. but is real
~ composed of undeveloped leaves
wrapped tightly together in a spiral
form. When the tree grows these
rolled up leaves push upward and
merely unroll. Thus no time is lost in
forming buds and growing leaves as do
ordinary trees. When the trunk is cut
off 1t doesn't interfere with the growth
Of the leaves, because they are always
pushing up from the center Of the
stalk. If you will roll sheet of paper
tightly and push against one end you
will see exactly how the leaves are
pushed up from the trunk of the ba-
mana tree. and If you cut the roll in
two you will find that it doesn't pre-
vent you from pushing out the center
Of the roll as before.
Although the banana tree repairs an
injury so rapidly and well, the shoot
formed from the cut stalk seldom bears
fruit or flowers. AS these shoots are
taller and stronger than the original
trees, however. they are much better
adapted to Withstand wind and storms,
and the natives frequently cut the ba-
mana trees in order to force them to
produce the strong. fruitless growth
and to serve as windbreaLs for other
crops.-A. Hyatt Verrill in st. Nicholas.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
INDIAN SUMMER.
The Term May Have Had Its Origin In
the Far East.

The Term May Have Had It's Origin In
the Far East.
The origin Of the term Indian sum-
mer," like that Of the word blizzard"
has been the subject of much research.
1t has been traced back only as far as
the latter part of the eighteenth CEN
tury, and it did not become common
until after the first decade of the nine
tenth.
Many explanations Of the name have
been offered, all Of which assume that
the term Indian" used in this connec-
ton refers to the American Indians.
A recent note in the Monthly Wealth
er Review calls attention to a totally
different use Of this term, in which the
reference Is not to the American In
dams, but to East India.
Under the British board of trade reg
ulations one Of the load lines marked
on ships bears the initials Il. S." this
being the maximum depth to which
vessels can be loaded for voyages dur
ing the "1ndian SUMNER. e., the fine
season in the Indian seas.
How long has the term "Indian sum-
mer" been used in this sense? 1t il
not recorded in any dictionary nor ap-
parently in any work on meteorology.
Is it possible that our autumnal In
dian summer was so named by sailors
or travellers who saw in it a resem-
blance to the fine weather attending
the northeast monsoon in India?
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
When to Stop Advertising.

An English journal requested num-
Der Of the largest advertisers to give
their opinions concerning the best time
to stop advertising. and the following
replies We're received:
When the population ceases to null
tiply and the generation that crowded
on after you and never heard OF you
stops coming on.
When you have convinced everybody
whose life will touch yours that you
have better goods and lower prices
than he can get anywhere else
When you stop making fortunes sole
ly'thrOugh the direct use of this mighty
agent.
When younger and fresher houses in
your line cease starting up.
When you would rather have your
own way and fail than take advice
and win.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
ORIENTAL LACQUER.
Japan Got the Art From China, Then
Surpassed Her Tutor.

japan Got the Art From China, Then
Surpassed Her Tutor. 3ss
Lacquer has furnished q most varied
material for one of the earliest indus
trial arts Of China. and. though there
are no authentic records of It's origin
nor Of the steps Of Its early develop
ment, the process is already called an
ancient one in q work published In
1887. in the first year of the Ming pc
viod, which proves that the art was
known in as remote an epoch as the
Sung dynasty. The eliminating years
Of its development were reached In the
reign Of the Emperor Chen Lung t17S6-
95), who greatly encouraged It's manu-.
facture and had large quantities Of
lacquered objects made with which to
furnish and decorate his palace. After
his death the art seems to have de-
clined in merit, and since that time lit
tie or nothing Of any high artistic value
In Chinese lacquer has been accom-
plished.
The Japanese first learned the proc
ess from China, but have since brought
it to point Of perfection which sur
passes the finest productions Of the
Chinese. In Japan. however, lacquer is
applied solely to objects Of compare
lively small size. while in the Chinese
empire it served to decorate screens
and panels of tremendous dimensions.
Lacquer is divided into two classes
painted and carved lacquer. Both kinds
are sometimes inlaid with mother-of.
pearl. ivory, jade and various semi.
precious stones.
1t was in the early seventeenth cen
fury, when Holland and Portugal be.
gan their trade with the remote east,
and particularly with China, that mar
velous empire teeming with so many
extraordinary artistic manifestations.
that Europe first began to realize the
new and vast field of decorative ele.
ments which were contained in and re.
vealed to her artists by oriental art
Henry Coleman May in Scribner's.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
The Tail of a Fish.

A fish's tail is its wings. Owing to
the machinery of muscle set along it's
spine and to its cleaving form a trout
Or salmon can dart through the water
at tremendous pace. though its rap.
Id fights. unlike the birds, are not
long ones. 1t is soon tired. The water
Is not so friendly to fight as the air.
The stroke of the fish's tail is one of
great power. and by means of it and
The writing. snakelike fexion of the
hody high speed is reached. The
'f'ngth behind this speed is shown in
H' way fish or sea mammal out of
i" water will raise its tail and strike
ne ground on boat.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
THE SECRETARY BIRD.
Il Kicks Like a Mule and Can Swallow
Snake Whole.

Il Kicks Like a Mule and Can Swallow
Snake Whole.
The rarest and most valuable birds in
the New York geological garden are
the strange pair Of secretary birds quar-
tered in the ostrich house. Secretary
birds" they are called because of the
crest of long dark plumes that rises
from the back of their heads. giving
them the appearance of a clerk with a
bunch of quill feathers behind his ear.
It's an aristocratic name, but the thing
that makes the secretary bird valuable
is not his looks. The natives Of South
Africa love him because he can kick
like mule.
Toss into his cage snake, no matter
how vicious, and the fight begins i'm
mediately. The bird cautiously ap-
proaches the snake with wings wide
spread to escape the sudden lunges by
flight if necessary. Once, twice. three
times perhaps the snake lunges. The
bird darts back, waiting his chance
At last it comes. and one of those long,
hard legs shoots out like the hoof Of a
mule. landing squarely on the snakes
head. 1t reels and falls back stunned
to be Knocked out completely by sec.
ond blow. And then its victor pro:
ceeds to swallow it whole.
In South Africa the birds are regard
ed as great protection. They are af-
fectionate mates and always travel to-
gether. When pursued they spread
their wings and make off over the
ground with the speed Of a running
horse.-Every Week.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1915-12-16
A Creature From tho Fire.

Aristotle believed that some crea-
lures were capable Of supporting life
even though confined to the devouring
element. He says: I'm Cyprus. when
the manufacturers Of chalcitis Qime)
burn it many days in the fire. winged
creature something larger than great
fly is seen emerging from the stone
and leaping and walking about in the
fire. These creatures perish immedi-
ately upon being removed from the
furnace"