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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

FAIRY TALE n
zEgu CHILD.
6y hary Graham Bonner

'AThe zebu child" said Daddy, was
a great joy to his mother. She was
very proud of him, and no matter if
he was not always a perfect and we'll
behaved child she thought he was
lovely.
.It is a way that mothers have, you
know"
Nick and Nancy laughed for Daddy
gave a knowing wink.
ST can't always understand it my
SELF he said.
But both the children knew that he
could, for they knew, deep down, that
he edored them and thought they were
perfect, and besides he was never,
never, never too tired to tell them a
goodnight story.
eThe zebu child and her mother
lived in the zoo and there e a
number of other zebus there, too.
SIN fact there many other ami
mails all around. Some times on a
rainy day I've seen the zebus in the
zoo with their heads out of their lit
tie houses and their bodies inside as
though they were saying.
"sWell, we'il shampoo heads to-
day, or at least we will give them a
rain washing. But our bodies had bet
ter be inside. It's just as good as be-
ing able to check our bodies in our
houses, like folks check their umbrel-
las and suitcases at the railway sta
ton to be called for when they want
them.
eve can't go off and leave our
bodies behind but we do keep our
bodies directly behind US so they don't
get wet
'"They looked quite funny with their
heads all out of doors, their great
cow-like eyes gazing up at the rain as
though to say,
"sWhat a silly thing rain is, and
yet it has its purposes. It is useful,
but 1t is silly
"For they look as if they thought
everything in the world was rather
silly, just as creatures will look who
aren't thinking much themselves.
sWell, I heard the keeper talking to
a zebu child, this special zebu child.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

I want to tell you about and this was
what the keeper said:
(" you're six months old today" he
told the zebu child, s'and now you
must be taken from your mother and
made to look after yourself a little
more
"sYou've had your mother all to
yourself for quite a long time, you
must now learn how not to be a baby
and how to be a grown-up zebu.,
"sAh, I'm six months old today the
zebu child said proudly. Think.
mother. Tn six months old
eyes, my child is a grown-up son
now she said, he is a rea. zebu!'
''The zebus, you know, are the sa-
cred cattle of India. They look like
great gray cows, only they have
humps. Their faces are like cows and
they belong to that family.
There is no reason for their
humps, and no special reason why
they should be made the sacred cat
tie of India. But still they have
humps, and they have always been
considered the sacred cattle of India
just the same.
"Both the Mr.. Zebus and the Mrs
Zebus have horns and they're all
pretty nice for the most part.
"'Good-by to your b%abyhood,' said
Mother Zebu sadly, for though she
was proud that her child vas really a
child now and not a baby, still she
couldn't bear to think that his baby
days were over.
.The zebu baby, or zebu child was
delighted that he was considered
really quite grown up and that he vas
actually six months old.
"'Don't feel badly, mother he said,
for now I can look after you. I will
care for you when you get old for /
am young and strong
"And the mother zebu looked at
him out of her great big wet eyes and
said,
..Ah, what a child he still is
sBut the zebu child didn't think so
at all, and only thought that that was
his mothers way of making him be-
lieve that he was still young.
"Tm six months DID, he kept re-
peating proudly to himself. Six
months old, a great and terrific age it
is! he added"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
A FLOWER FOR ALL.

It's a tiny little house near Bedford. 1t needs
naint and the one front window is cracked, yet
the people who pass it always look toward that
window and then pass on with a smile. For in
that window during all seasons is a pot contain
ing a blooming plant.
II began to put it there for the miners who
went past the owner said. 81 thought of how
they were going down into the earth with
darkness and danger all around them. Flowers
hrino hone. so / thought if they would see my
lower every morning they could go down feeling
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

At the SEASIDE too, the plump TUets
rounded figure is most admired.
the well rounded form which is usually
accompanied by the bloom of health and
attractiveness.
That millions Of people are conscious
of this handicap is evident from the con-
ttnued appearance in newspapers and
magazines of many suggestions proposing
various remedies in food or medicine or
exercises, either Of which might or might
not be appropriate for a given case.
Authorities, however, agree that healthy
nerve tissue Is absolutely essential to q
strong, robust body and mind, Weak
nerves, while indicated by a multitude of
different symptoms, more Immediately and
generally result in lack Of energy, sleep
which conditions gradually. consum the
healthy flesh, leaving ugly holleWs, a fiat
chest, bony neck and scrawny arms and
legs.
Our bodies need more phosphate than
most of them are able to extract from
the foods we eat nowadays, and many
opinions affirm that there is nothing
which may be aiken into the human
deficiency as the pure organic phosphate
known as bitro-phosphate and sold by
good druggists everywhere.
The essential p~hosphoric food elements
In b~itro-phosphate assimilated by the
nerve cells should soon produce a pleas
ing change in nerve energy and hence
Increased vitality and strength. With the
burdens of nervousness, sleeplessness,
lack of energy, etc, lifted, normal weight
with its attractive fullness and ruddy
glow of health replaces the former picture
of skin and bones.
CAUTION: - Although Bitro-Phosphate
Is unexcelled for the relief of nervousness
and attendant disorders, owing to its ten
dency to increase weight, one should
watch the scales while taking it unless
1t is the desire to put on flesh.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
WI5a0 WZ<lNAN0NyAfOzHNR (oNLETD

Newcastles was ever made. Frankel was prosper
GUS while he had the stone and Habib's misfor-
tunes came after he sold the stone. Sir Francis
Hope never had the stone and May Yohe never
saw it. All of which states 7. Edgar Wilson, as
aforesaid.
Nevertheless and Notwithstanding, the reputa-
ton of the Hope diamond is probably blasted for
all time. If it hasn't the "evil eye" there are
millions of superstitious people who believe 1T has
and will give credence to everything evil they may
read about it.
They may, in the course Of time, even attribute
to its malign influence the automobile accident
which made vinson Mclean at his birth the sole
heir to the great Walsh fortune. In 1903, when
automobiles were rare, Vinson Walsh, brother of
Mrs. Mclean, was killed in a smashup at Newport.
Mrs. Mclean, who was then Miss Evelyn Walsh,
was also in the car and received injuries which
made her, an invalid for a year.
Two other children have been born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Mclean, both boys, one of whom is four and
the other a year old.
At the time of the probating Of his GRANDPA
Their Walsh's will it was found that there was
only $6,210,0O0 to be dividedtbetween the two heirs
of the Mclean union, Vinson and John r., Jr.
Young Mclean was a democratic youth. For
several years his boon companion was a small
negro boy. His tutors said he was an exception
ally bright student, and he was popular with his
mates.
He was fOnQ OIL animals. BlllE-SlA 0HIOpSulI0
sheep were sent all the way from Colorado to Bar
Harbor by express for him. They came from the
big Walsh ranch, Wolhurst, near Denver. He
himself directed the purchase of a great flock of
white Brahma chickens, ducks and turkeys, a Rus
sian wolf hound. six blooded terriers, two Great
Danes and a half score Of other dogs and a great
number of ponies.
Are the McLeans SuperstitiOus about the beau
tiful gem? Nobody seems to know definitely. But
one of the stories about the stone since 1t has been
in their possession seems to indicate that its evil
reputation had it's effect upon them.
ANYWAY. as the story goes, there was some hitch
about the payment Of the purchase price of the
stone. 1t evidently was not because OF lack of
money. There was a law suit. In the course OF
the. controversy stories were printed to show that
Mr. Mclean harbored a feeling of timidity be-
cause of the evil history attributed to the stone,
and that he stipulated that the jewel should be
taken back by the Cartier firm in the event that
anv tragedy occurred in the Mclean family within
six months. Whether that story IS true IS not
clear but eventually formal announcement was
made nv attorneys connected with the suit over
tho purchase price that a compromise had been
effected.
The superstitious who believe in the evil eye
which is worldwide belief that neither Christian
;tv nor civilization has been able to kill, will
min their faith on the evil spell OF the Hope dia-
mond to this fact:
Vinson Mclean was probably the most carefully
guarded child in the world, yet a casual
came along and killed him.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

found that he suffered financial reverses and other
personal misfortunes.
Hope is credited with having given the diamond
to his daughter at the time she married the sixth
duke of Newcastle in 1861. But apparently it was
the fiction mongers and not she who bequeathed
the gem to her son, Lord Francis Hope, that it
might get sensationally into the life of May Yohe,
the American actress.
This part of the story is mere fiction. 1t is true
that May Yohe married Lord Francis Hope. It
is true that she eloped with Capt. Putnam Brad
lee Strong, son of a former mayor of New York.
Lord Francis obtained a divorce, and the wife
married Captain Strong, only to be divorced Il
second time.
But May Yohe, although she has been quoted as
saying that she wore the Hope diamond only
twice and that her troubles were due to it's malign
influence, probably never even saw the stone. Ger
tainly Lord Francis never had possession Of it.
So, when the story goes on to say that he sold
it for $168,OOO to Joseph Frankel, a New York
jeweler, the statement is untrue.
1t is true that Frankel had the gem in New
York. Where and from whom Frankel acquired
the stone never has been made clear, but the
stone went back to Paris and into the possession
Of Jacques Colet, who bought it from Frankel.
Colet has been reported as having killed himself
after losing his mind.
Before that tragedy, however, the diamond is
reputed to have passed into the ownership Of
Prince Ivan Kanitowski, and the legend promptly
disposes of the prince at the hands of a mob Of
Russian revolutionists. Thence the story skips to
the murder of Mile. Ladue, to whom the Russian
prince had loaned the diamond. A jealous adj.
mirer is charged with this murder.
Next in the legend of the jewel is listed Simon
Moncharides, Of whose identity there appears to
be uncertainty. But the legend sends him riding
close enough to a precipice to be thrown over and
killed. Just before his death Moncharides is cred
tied with having sold the diamond to Selim Habib.
a Persian, who acted as agent for the Sultan
Abdul Hamid.
One version of the next chapter is that Habib
was drowned in a wreck and the diamond lost.
The publication Of this was later explained as a
ruse to throw thieves off the trail. This version
takes the stone to ConStantinople, where it cuts q
wide swath in violence, misfortune and death and
finally brings about the endfof Abdul Hamid.
Be all that as it may, it appears that instead Of
having drowned with the gem in the shipwreck.
Habib got back to Paris with it. 1t was sold at
The gem then passed into possession of p. G.
Cartier, and the Cartier firm brought it to this
country. In January, 1911, announcement was
made that the stone had been sold to the Mclean
family and that the purchase price was S18O.OOO.
Mrs. Mclean wore the stone at least once in pub
lie. according to the newspapers.
An authoritative article by L. Edgar Wilson in
the jewelers. Circular Weekly about the time of
the Mclean purchase states that the "evil eve"
reputation of the Hope diamond dates from the
publication of a sensational article in 1901, when
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
Just in Time!

81 thought" said the m in the
scarlet jumper, 'that Grace had got
married."
"She was to have BEEN" answered
her friend in the emerald georgette
blouse, "but it didn't come off. Didn't
you hear about it,"
mo. Tell me what happened"
"Case of waiting at the church.
He left her at the very altar"
Heaven! Did the mans courage
desert him?"
mo; it returned !"-London An
swerS.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
Getting Excited.

There is more than one way of get
ting excited. With some girls excite
ment means scatter-brained action, and
energy dissipated, while with others
excitement is the spur that keeps them
doing their best. If you are going to
get excited, be sure 1t is the sort Of
excitement that helps, not that which
hinders.-Girl's Companion.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
MiI+on,s Great Misfortune.

Teacner-Try to remember this:
Milton, the poet, was blind. Do you
think you can remember 1t?
"Yes, ma'am."
"Now, what was Millions great mis-
fortuneY"
"He was a poet"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
INCREASE WEIGHT
and VITALITY
WITH PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain Ritro-Phosphate TO
Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and
to Increase Strength, Vigor
and Nerve Force.

The average person Is beginning to real
lie more and more that the lack of phys
tcal strength and nerve exhaustion Gre
Quently evidenced by excessive thinness)
are the direct cause not only of the fall
ure to succeed in life's struggle for the
necessities of. existence, but also for the
handicap in ones social aspirations. Com
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
ALL U BANIsHEp.

Dear Clara" wrote the young man, pardon
me, but I'm getting so forgetful! l proposed to
you last night. but really forget whether you said
Yes or No"
"Dear WILL" she replied by note, $50 glad to
hear from you'll I knew that had said No to
someone last night, but l had forgotten who it
was.'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
DEER JUMPS INTO ENGINE.

Attempting to jump across a cut IN advance OF
a train. a young buck jumped partly through the
window of a cab on the Philadelphia and Read
ing railroad near Carlisle, Pa. The engineer and
fireman had narrow escapes from injury. The
deer was dragged and killed.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

who have any trouble of this kind what
lydia e, Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound has done for me ."-NELLIE B.
B~R1TTntGHAM, 6O9 Calverton Rd., Balti-
more, Md.
It is only natural for any woman to
dread the thought of an operation. So
many women have been restored to
health by this famous remedy, Lydia r.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, after
an operation has been advised that it
will pay any woman who suffers from
such ailments to consider trying it be-
fore submitting to such a trying ordeal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
MILLIONS
Suffer from


Millions of people suffer year after year
from ailments affecting practically every
part Of the body, never dreaming that their
i'll health can be traced directly to acid
stomach. Here is the reason: poor III estion
means poor no punishment of the different
organs and tissues of the body. The blood is
observation-disclosures weak, thin, sluggish.
Ailments of many kinds spring from such
conditions. Biliousness, rheumatism, lum-
bago, ~scfatica, general weakness, loss of
power and energy, headache. insomnia.
nervousness, mental depression-even more
serious ailments such as catarrh and cancer
of the stomach, intestinal ulcers. cirrhosis
of the liver. heart trouble-all of these can
often be traced directly to acid-stomach.
Keep a sharp lookout for the first symp-
burn. belching, food repeating. that awful
stomach. EATONIC, the wonderful modern
remedy for acid-stomach, is guaranteed to
bring quick relief from these stomach mis-
cries. Thousands say they never dreamed
that anything could bring such speedy relief
and make them feel so much better in
every way. Try EATONIC and you. too.
will be just as enthusiastic in its praise.
Make your life worth living-no aches or
pains-no blues or melancholy-no more OF
that tired, l~istless feeling. BE well and
strong. Get back your physical and mental
punch; your vim, vigor and vitality. You
will always be weak and ailing as long as
you have acid-stomach. So get rid of it now.
Take TabletsLthey taste good
you eat them like a BIT of candy. Your
druggist has EATONIC-50 cents for a big
box. Get a box from him today and II you
are not satisfied he will refund your money.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

Teacher-William, can you tell me
what an unknown quantity is?
William (son of a coal dealer)-Yes,
ma'am; it's what you get when you
buy a ton of coal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
ANNUAL IMPRESSION.

$50 you think things nre &c pc less expensiveY p
Eyes. But I a:~ays feel that way on compar-
ing tbs price tags with those before Christmas"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

VOUSt1SSS 6IIQ uOaOS
aches and every
month would have to
stay in bed most Of
the time. Treat
rnents would relieve
for a time but
my doctor was al.
ways urging me to
an operation.
My sister asked me
to try Lydia E. Pink
b q ms Vegetable
Compound before
consenting to an
/ took
five bottles of it land
it has completely
cured me and my
~ -
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

a little more cheerful. And after the mine over
there closed down / just still kept putting one
here."-Indianapolis News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18


Frankel brought the stone to
New York. Wilson says the
authentic story of the stone
begins with 1880, when Ella
son sold it to Hope. He
traces it through the Hope
heirs to its sale at auction to
Frankel in London in 1901.
Habib bought it in Paris and
ii was sold at auction in
Paris when the Habib col
lection was disposed of in
1909. 1t is believed. though
it has never been proved, that
the present stone was cut
from the 67h-karat blue dia-
mond that formed a part of
the stolen French regalia.
No mention of i'll luck having
hofalInn EliaSon- Hone or the
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

Economy is the road to wealth, but
stinginess is the pathway to unpcpu-
larity.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

If there is anything a spinster really
hates it is a woman who has had three
husbands.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
DOCTOR URGED
AN OPERATION
Instead | took Lydia E. Pink.
hams Vegetable Compound
and Was Cured.

Baltimore, Md.-"NearIy four years
I suffered from organic troubles, ner-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

Good manners and good morals are
companions.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18
FARMERS ARE WORKING HARDER

And using their feet more than ever before.
For all these workers the frequent use of
Aliens Foot=Ease, the antiseptic, healing
powder to be shaken into the shoes and
sprinkled in the foot-bath, increases their
efficiency and insures needed physical com
fort. It takes the Friction from the Shoe,
freshens the feet, and prevents tired, ach-
ing and blistered feet. Women everywhere
are constant users of Aliens Foot-Ease.
Don't get foot sore, get Aliens Foot=Ease.
Sid BY dealers everywhere.-Adv.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-18

Many a mans financial goose has
been cooked in a jack pot.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
BOwery Also Reflects
Better Conditions

William A. White & Sons have sold
for the Moss estate the property at
2lS Bowery, between Prince and Spring
streets. The new owner will improve
the site by the erection of two story
and basement building for his own oc-
cupancy. This will be the first improve
ment of it's kind in many years in
this section Of the Bowery, and should
act as an incentive for further devel-
opment
Second Avenue Church Buyer
st. Marks Protestant Episcopal
Church, at Second Avenue and Tenth
Street which owns a number of prop
critics in the vicinity of its edifce,
has acquired the four story house at
228 East Eleventh Street, separated
by one house from the rectory of the
church. The parcel measures 1SSx
89.7, and was purchased from John
l.. Scofield and others, the stated con-
sideration being $14499. During the
last five years the church has altered
a number Of adjacent properties in
keeping with the plan of the Gramercy
Nejghborhood Association for the bet
terment of the section. They included
1877. 128 and 129 East Tenth Street
and the Stuyvesant Apartments, at the
northeast corner of Second Avenue and
Tenth Street.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
Brokers in Racquet Club Deal

Manning & Trunk negotiated the
sale of the Racquet Club property at
19 to 81 West Forty third Street,
through 90 26 and % West Forty
fourth Street. end the loan amounting
to $2350 900. The loan is for ten
years. and was made by S. w. Straus
4 Co. 1t will be amortized en- a 5
per cent basis and bears interest at G
per cent. James 7. Lee is the new
owner, and has commiss oned Starrett
& Van Vleck, architects. to prepare
plans for an eighteen story ohic
building, with an arcade. and set
backs above the height allowed by the
zoning resolution. The property is as
sessed at $1,915,000. 1t contains 49,
200 square feet. The deal was an
nounced III Sundays Tribune.
May Build Thirty-third st. Lofts
The Charles F. Noyes Company
states that Daniel P. Morse will prob
ably improve the site 133-135 West
Thirty-third Street, with modern
store and loft building. from plans of
Frederick Putnam Plat.
Bank Is Beekman Leasehold Buyer
Camille Wiedenfeld, banker, is the
purchaser of 120 East Sixtyfourth
Street, Beekman estate leasehold, sold
recently through Pease G. Gilman.
Ollie Scheuer is the buyer Of the five
story apartment at 73 and rs Sherman
Avenue, sold recently through. Butler
& Baldwin.
New-York tribune., 1919-02-05
Real Estate Market News and Comment
Demand for Space
Points to Conditions
Commercial, Mercantile and
Manufacturing Firms Call
ing for Premises

NJ. & L. Hess have leased the tenth
floor at 1876 Fifth Avenue to II. ]. Men
detz e. Co., the fifth floor at IS West
Fifteenth Street to John H. Maloy and
the sixth floor to L. ChernofT.
The Cross & Brown Company has
leased to Harris Ulanof floor at 423
Fourth Avenue; to Carlo Ortiano. a
loft at 109-11 Wooster Street; to Mo-
zar d Co.. loft at 337 Broadway,
and to A. c. Schwartz a store at 1898
Broadway.
Pease & Gilman have leased office
space to P. Van Mathis at 1O9 Broad
Street; Hofmann, Childs & Mora, at 40
Wall Street; Gerald Tikany, at 35 Mas
sau Street; Paul A. Talbot, at No.
Sc broadway; Safe Audit Company, at
No. 1921 Park Row. and Harry D.
Brandyce. at No. 63 Wall Street.
Ames & Co. have leased for Giovanni
Maresl to Hermes Furnishing Shop the
store and basement ut 693 Sixth Ave
nue.
Samuel ]. Tankoos has leased to P.
Captosto large part of the second
floor on the Fulton Street side of the
building at 206 Broadway, corner Full
ton Street
Pease e. Gilman have leased for
Mrs. Anita H. H. Morrell to the Albert
Fixture Company the five-story dwell
ing at 779 Third Avenue, between For
ty-eighth and Forty-ninth streets.
j. Arthur Fischer has leased the
store and basement at 632 Eighth
Avenue to Kurkjian & Co.; to Maurice
Cohen the first loft at 642 Sixth Ave-
nue., and the first loft at 342 Seventh
Avenue to A. Srlemes, furrer.
Louis Schrag has leased for f. NJ.
Clarke the store and basement at 2O2
Ninth Avenue to Nysted & Wester-
beck and the store and basement at
1884 West Twenty-ffth Street to Ma
RHO Mastillona.