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Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-06-11
Explaining the "Jaek.n

The word "Jack" as applied to the
British flag is supposed to be a cor
ruption of Jack" which was the COM
mon abbreviation of "Jacobus," the
Latin for James. The introduction on
TO the flag of the cross of st. Patrick
came later. England's Union Jack
traces its origin to those remote times
when knights rode in the lists and the
red cross of st. George on its white
field goes back to the Crusades and
the hundred years war with France
a war that calls to mind such stirring
names as Crecy, Agincourt and Poi
tiers.
The American flag carried in the bat
tie of Bunker Hill had on it the cross
of st. George and pine tree, the SYM
Dol of Massachusetts,. 1t is written by
historians Of the American flag that
when the first flag TO represent the
united colonies was devised. as many
horizontal stripes of red and whita
were introduced as there were colo
MES, and as at that date the colonies
were not independent. but merely in
revolt because of the denial by the
English government of s'their rights as
Englishmen," the ensign of England,
the superimposed crosses Of st. George,
st. Andrew and st. Patrick, was re
tanned by the Americans in the upper
staff corner of the flag
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A Spirited Meeting.

81 attended a seance last night"
"Any spirits raised?"
"Yes: a reporter present exhibited
a spirit OF investigation, and this rails
ed spirit of resentment"
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1919-06-11
There is pleasure IN silence.
cuticura Soap for the Complexion.

cuticura Soap for the Complexion.
Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then as
needed TO make the complexion clear.
scalp clean and hands soft and white.
Add to this the fascinating, fragrant
Cuticura Talcum and you have the
Cuticura Toilet Trio.-Adv.
The shortest answer Is doing.
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for use at drill. When the midnight
alarm was sent out Captain Page
snatched up the old flag and carried
it to Concord, where 1T waved above
the smoke Of that battle"
Flag Still Treasured.
This flag is preserved in the public
library at Bedford, Mass. It is of ma
room or crimson damask silk and on it
IS an outstretched arm with an uplift-
ed sword in the hand. The arm, hand
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Treymes," and the Paris of Basil
Kings The Inner Shrine" and the
Revolutionary Paris about which
Weir Mitchell played whimsically in
THE Adventures of Francois; and
the Paris of Booth Tarkington's 1.-The
Guest of Quesnay," "The Beautiful
Lady" and Beauty and the Jacobin";
and the Paris of Richard Harding
Davis's 1.-The Princess Aline," in which
Mornay Carlton stayed at the Hotel
Continental and spent the evening in
front of the Cafe de la PaiX and dined
at Laurent's in the Champs Elysees;
and the Paris of owen Johnson's in
the Name of Liberty; and the Paris
which Robert w. Chambers knew so
well in the days when he was study
ing to be a painter and used as the
background of his first stories, 1.-THE
Red Republic" ashes of Empire"
The Maids of Paradise" Lorraine, +"
and the short tales of I'm the Quarter"
Harry Leon Wilson's "Ruggles of
Red Gap" begins with a hilarious Paris
outing involving Cousin Egbert, JEFF
futile and the 1mpeccable Ruggles.
OF the exact scenes in mind Mr.. Will
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does not touch Paris, but with THE
Light That FaiTed" involved eastern
France; the Conan Doyle trail, as well
as the clearly defined other day tmils
of Thackeray and Dickens. If Thack-
cray had never written anything but
THE Ballad OF the Bouillabaisse" that
poem alone would have constituted a
claim upon Paris. American visitors are
forever picking out some hostelry that
they hold to be the real "Terre's Tav-
ern." Also, Paris was for many years
associated with Thackeray's own life,
and the city is woven into the pages
of vanity Fair" THE Newcomes'
and 1.-THE Adventures of Philip;
while Dickens studied it long at first
hand before writing a line Of "A Tale
OF Two Cities" which, the author of
THE Paris OF the Novelists' informs
us, was first in Dickens's mind as "One
of These Days" then as Buried Alive"
and then as THE Doctor of Beauvais."
To turn to the Paris of the Amer
leans. Washington Irving knew his
Paris well. living there about the time
that Hugo and Balzac and the elder
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son says: THAT Paris debauch of
and notes on the habits of visiting
Americans in Paris. Particularly
Americans from west of Pittsburg I
labored like true scientist in making
those observations. The meeting of
Cousin Egbert and Jeff futile was be-
fore the Cafe de la Paix, and their
comprehending cocher took them for
luncheon to a rendezvous des cochers
fideles' near the corner of the Boule-
ward Montparnasse and the Boulevard
Raspail. They found their carrousel
by proceeding out the Boulevard Ras-
pail and past the Lion de Belfort.
myself forget just where it lay in re-
lation to that monument, but not
many blocks from it,"
The FutiIity of Fame.
Mention of Guy Wetmore Carryll.
author of "Zutt," is responsible for n.
pathetic little story illustrating the in
enectuality of fame. The concierge of
an apartment house in which Mr..
Carryll once went to live was much
interested when she learned the Amer
leans meter. "Monsieur's name is
Guy. and Monsieur Is a writer There
was another Guy who lived here many
years ago and who also was a writer.
Perhaps Monsieur has heard of him.
His name was Guy de Maupassant. I
don't know what has become of him.
Perhaps he is dead"
There was the gifted author of 1.-THE
Pit" The Octopus" and THE Wolf. -
who died so young, so rich in promise,
| and just as he was swinging
into the full stride of achievement.
At II years OF age Frank Norris, in
tending to be an artist went to Paris,
| and enrolled as a student at the Ate
iier Julien" There he remained two
years, and became absorbed, not in
art, but IN chivalry The reading OF
Froissart's Chronicles" was his daily
recreation. He became so imbued with
the spirit of medievalism that once
with much amusement he pointed out
| an error in SCOTS "Ivanhoe" in
which one of the characters is de-
| scribed as wearing a certain kind OF
armor that was not in use until a
hundred years later; a mistake that
was as obvious to him as IL some one
to-day should depict Louis XIV in
top hat and a frock coat. 1t was in
these early Paris days that Frank
Norris began to write. According tc
his brother, Charles G.. Norris, the
earliest ventures were more to pro-
vide a vehicle for his Illustrations
than for any interest he had in writ
ing itself. Thus 1t was that his first
novel, Robert d'Artois." was written
Leaving Frank in Paris to continue
his art studies alone the rest of the
Norris family returned to California
Correspondence between the brothers
took the form of novel written by
Frank in which all their favorite char.
acters appeared revolving about
Charles, who was described as &
nephew Of the Duke OF Burgundy. The
story was written in the second person
on closely ruled note paper. It cam,
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Dumas We're writing their great ro-
mances. In Paris Irving met John
Howard Payne, the author OF Home,
Sweet Home" and the two worked to-
gether, in the Rue Richelieu, adapting
French plays to English representa-
TOM Fenimore> Cooper was in Paris in
approximately the same years that IT.
wing was, and then laid the foundation
of his enduring French fame. Though
Edgar Allen Poe neversaw Paris there
Is very definite Paris in the back
ground of THE Murders of the Rue
Morgue," ''The Purloined Letter" and
THE Mystery of Marie Roget the
last named story transferring a cele-
brated New York murder of the 1S40s
to the French capital, and giving Pari-
sian names to the scenes and char
acters.
Of later men there is the PATHS of
Mark Twain's THE Innocents
Abroad" if that book can be regarded
in the light of fiction; and the Paris
of Henry James's THE American"
and THE Ambassadors" and the Paris
of Edith Wharton's Madame de
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students because they liked the idle
ness and aromatic smell of the 'Boul.
Mich at the absinthe hour, some were
hungry blackguards, dinner hunters,
willing for a consideration to render
the young and shy any kind of dubi-
Gus service. After a lapse of twenty
years l wrote The Beloved Vagabond'
n 1905061. l retained no memory of
any one individual, but I fashioned
Paraget out of my blurred impressions
of the type. So Aristotle Pujel Is
drawn from type. You can see him at
any cafe on the Cannebiere of Mar
settles or at commercial table d'hotes
at Aix-en-Provence or Tarascon. /
met his counterpart for two minutes,
In Robinson Crusoe motoring goat
skins, on an OCCASION when had lost
my way motoring. and with excited
good will he put me wise"
A novel of Paris in part Is Arnold
Benefits best book, The Old Wives
Tale" Planned as challenge to
Maupassant's "Une Vie" the writing
of 1.-THE Old Wives Tale" was begun
| in the autumn of 1907, in a village
near Fontainebleau, where Bennett
had rented half house from a retired
railway servant. The apparent length
to which the story was to run--aoout
two hundred thousand words-appalled
the author. and to reassure himself he
counted the words in several famous
Victorian novels and found that they
averaged four hundred thousand
words. The first part of THE ola
| Wives Tale" was written In. six weeks.
Then, In London hotel Bennett came
| to an impasse and put the story aside
to write Buried Alive" That done,
| he returned to Foptainebleau and I'm
ished 1.-THE Old Wives Tale" there at
the end of July. 1908. When he came
to the French portion Of the story he
saw that the siege Of Paris fitted
chronologically.
For first hand information he turned
| to his landlord: II was aware that
my railway servant and his wife had
been living in Paris at the time of the
war. I said to the old man: BY the
way, you went through the siege OF
Paris, didn't your He turned TO his
I old wife and said, uncertainty: The
siege of Paris? Yes we did, didn't
we?' The siege had been only one
|
| or course they remembered 1t well
though not wildly, and gained much
! information from them. But the most
useful thing that gained from them
was the perception, startling at first
that ordinary people went on living
very ordinary lives in Paris during the
siege, and that to the vast mass OF
the population the siege was not the
dramatic, spectacular. thrilling, eostatic
affair that is described in history"
In the early chapters of THE Ole
Wives Tale" there is a journey tC
AuXerre to witness an execution
Never having been present at an exc
cution Mr., Bennett based his descrip.
ton upon series of articles he haG
read in a French newspaper. Frank
Harris, discussing THE Old Wives
Tale" in London Vanity Fair, said tha'
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1t was clear that the author had not
seen an execution, and proceeded to
describe one himself. TT was said
Mr.. Bennett, "a brief but terribly con-
vincing bit of writing, quite charac-
teristic and quite worthy of the author
of 'Mentes the Matador' and of a man
who had been almost everywhere and
seen almost everything IL compre-
hended how far short had fallen of
the truth. I wrote to Frank Harris,
regretting that his description had not
been printed before / wrote mine, as l
should assuredly have utilized 1t, and
of course l admitted that I had never
witnessed an execution. He simply
replied: Neither have T."
The Trail of De Maurier.
Easy to find in the Paris of to-day
is the trail of George du Maurier's
"Trilby," and the trails of the earlier
Peter Ibbetson," and the later THE
Marian" OF the many gateways to
the famous Latin Quarter of Paris,
the obvious one is the Place st, Michel.
Just beyond the Place st. Michel there
is a little open space. 1t was there,
as told in "Trilby," the "Taffy," the
Laird" and Little Billee" had their
studio, to which Trilby went with her
cry of milk below" and Svengali
made beautiful music and played his
weird, hypnotic tricks. For the Place
st. Anatoie des Arts was in reality the
Place St. Andre des Arts. No Ameri-
can in Paris, who recalls the charm of
du Mauriers tale, which, twenty five
years ago. thrilled in a manner as
perhaps no other novel has ever
thrilled, can afford not to make the
pilgrimage that Is a matter of so few
steps, and is so rich in awakened men,
cries. For, in addition to the story
itself. what better guides to the history
| and the romance of the quarter could
! one ask than the ghosts of the Three
| Musketeers of the Brush? The Place
! st. Andre des Arts has changed since
the Second Empire days; the old
| houses. and the cracked. dingy, discol-
ored walls, with mysterious windows
and rusty iron ratings of great an
| tiquity that set Little Billee" dream=
ing dreams of medieval French love
and wickedness, have long since van
ished. But still, one hundred yards or
so away. is the arm of the river, and
yonder. as OF old. are the towers OF
Notre Dame and behind the ominous
Morgue. Peter Ibbetsen. too. used to
visit that old Morgue. and spoke of II
as that gruesome building which the
great etcher Meryen has managed to
invest with some weird fascination
akin to that 1t had for me in those
days-and has now, as see it with the
charmed eyes Of Memory"
Then of other Englishmen there
is the Stevenson trail. which winds
through the Latin Quarter with 1.-The
Wrecker," up to the summit OF Mont.
martre with "The New Arabian
Nights" and beyond the city gates
out to the forest OF Fontainebleau, the
scene of the Scotsman's own curious
courtship; the Kipling trail. which
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eggs. 1t does not require at this rate
a great number of female Holsters to
yield several million eggs a year.
The female attaches these eggs to
her until they have Matched out, and
she is known in local parlance as
"berried hen" lobster. 1t was not
many years ago that these female
Holsters were caught and sold as much
for their eggs as for their meat. The
eggs were considered as great Injuries
as the roe of a shad is to-day. This
greatly helped to decrease the supply.
AS sauces for salads the eggs of the
Holsters were of great value, and eX-
pert cooks eagerly sought them. The
passage Of laws both in the New Eng
land States and Canada making it
punishable to capture or sell egg deco
rated Holsters has made 10 impossible
to obtain these delicacies in this coun-
try.
In the lobster hatcheries the eggs
are put in Matching Jars, where they
are kept in water heated to the proper
temperature until they hatch out. The
young creatures when first Matched
are only from third of an inch to an
incH loHS, anu lor Tune tHey SWIM
about as ordinary fish. They are turned
loose when an inch or two in length
and then they begin their perilous
career In the waters of the coast.
where innumerable dangers beset them.
A large percentage OF them never pass
beyond the stages of infancy, and the
few which survive this period are then
compelled to face the new dangers in
cident to the shedding process. Every
now and then the crustacean finds that
II is outgrowing its she'll. and 1t pro-
ceeds to shed 1t, as crab, and take
on another one. rhA process is long
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and dangerous one, and for a con-
siderable period the creature is weak
and helpless. Every part of the armor
must be removed. and in the process
the creature becomes thin and
emaciated, and fishermen do not con-
slider them tit to eat. Before the old
shell has been discarded new thin
one has been provided, but 1t requires
time to make ii of much protective use.
when Grown the Lobster Fights.
But if the young Holsters are de-
stroyed by enemies in the water dur
ing the helpless periods of their lives
they return the compliment with full
interest when they reach maturity.
There are very few things In the water
that can overcome a full hedged lob
ster, and he knows it, apparently, for
he does not hesitate to attack any OF
his old time enemies, which he
squeezes and cracks with malicious
pleasure. He will hunt for FISH and
clans all day long, digging up the
latter from the mud and cracking the
shells. When clans are scarce the
Holsters will lie in walt for fish.
Founders are particularly welcome
and they will fish for them at every
opportunity. They are so expert in
fishing that young minnows are cap
tured in great numbers. Thus left 10
themselves, the Holsters are fully as
able as anv fish to take care of them
selves, but 1t is the Intervention of
man that has destroyed the balance
of nature. By killing off all the big
Holsters the enemies OF these crus-
taceans have been given an advantage
In the struggle for existence for which
quarter OF a century OF artificial prop
agation will not entirely compensate
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to America in chapters, rolled up in
side French newspapers to save post
age. Every instalment was profusely
illustrated with pencil sketches most
ly of Charles as an esquire. man-at-
arms. an equerry, and finally as
knight. Plots and episodes from the
works of Scott, Francis Bacon, Frank
Stockton and others were lifted
bodily; sometimes the actual wording
was borrowed There was one SEN
tence: THE night closed down as dark
as a VOLTS mouth that, years later,
Charles found again i'll the opening OF
a chapter of Quentin Durward." The
story was never concluded, but those
Paris days We're reflected in the dedI-
cation of 1.-THE Pit" an memory OF
certain lamentable tales of the round
dining room table heroes, OF the
epic of the pewter platoons, and the
romance cycle of Castor le Fox
which we invented, maintained and
found marvellous when we both were
boys"
o. Henry's Paris story.
In the pages of O. Henry may he
found a Paris trail. Even he, for
moment, saw it to forsake the purlieuS
of his Little Old Bagdad-On-t Sub
way, the lotos eating atmosphere OF
Caribbean washed shores, mountain
paths in the Cumberland, and waving
| Western prairies to allow his fancy
to play about valleys of the Eurc-et-
Loir, and winding streets and gaoIed
houses Of old Paris. There was, once
upon a time, in the red heeled days
of se!gneurial France" poet, DaVia
Mignot by name, who left his rather
fiock to follow the Roads of Destiny
OF the three forks of the way that ne
encountered at the Beginning of his
journey, all of which led 10 the same
grim end by the pistol Of Monsel-
gneur, the Marquis of BeaupcrtuyS
only one, the right branch, wound
on to the city by the Seine. There
David crossed a great bridge ana
found shelter high up among the caves
| of an old house in the Rue Conu'
! That street and the Rue Esplanaa''
where the plotters planned to hrnE
about the Kings death, and the l'"e
Christopher where the premature all
tack reached the heart Of the poor poet
dressed in the kings clothes, have none
the less the flavor of old Paris LOT
being frankly streets of illusion.
| In Roads of Destiny" a new -
Henry stood forth, an o. Henry shol N
for once of riotous malarropisms ana
the eXtravagant argot of his native
land. Describe her" commands the
King, and David tells Of the woman
of the Rue Cont. whose beauty ana
guile have sent him unlnowingly 10
his doom. "She iS made of sunshine
and deep shade. She is slender, Ike
the alders, and moves with their grace
Her eyes change. while you gaze ie
them; now round. and then half smut
as the sun peeps between two clouds
| When she comes, heaven is all about
her; when she leaves, there is chaos
and a scent of hawthorne blossoms"
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HOLSTERS Rapidly Disappearing

TN the early days of the lobster
industry only the large ones were
= caught. These were so abundant
that the young ones were ignored. A
single lobster would often fill two or
three cans. To-day it takes several
of the average size to fill can.
Even in the British provinces, where
the canning industry thrives the best,
most of the large Holsters have been
killed. One rarely sees or hears of a
big lobster now, and fifteen FOUNDER
would be a curiosity. There is a
lobster preserved in the collection Of
crustacea at the Smithsonian Institu-
ton which weighed eighteen pounds
at the time OF its capture. Reliable
records show that specimens weighing
from thirty to thirty-five pounds have
been captured. Such a monster would
measure nearly five feet in length, in
GLIDING the claws. and prove a pretty
formidable ANTAGONIST for one In the
water.
Matching the BABY Lobster.
The work OF Matching the young at
the different stations is now in full
progress. The female breeds only once
in two years, but she makes up for
this seeming loss of time by producing
a great number of eggs 1t is esti-
mated by the fish experts at the
hatcheries that a ten inch lobster will
produce in one season about 10000
eggs and nineteen inch nearly $4,000
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Paris And Its ROmanceS

Where and How Modern Novelists, Especially English
and American, Found their Characters and Settings
for Plots Trails Familiar to Every Reader Marked
The daily times., 1919-12-17
PARIS VOTERS CAST BALLOT
FOR ALLEGED BLACK BEARD

Paris, Dec. 17.-Nearly 5000 vot-
ers in and near Paris cast their bal
lots in the recent election for Henri
Landru, for member of the chamber
of deputies. Landru has long been
held by the police and accused of be-
ing responsible for the disappear
ance of 13 women to whom he is
alleged to have promised marriage.
His witticisms have made him
very popular with the Partisan pub
that 5000 persons erased che names
of candidates registered at the min
istry of the interior and wrote Ian
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dru's name on the ballot.

Landru was called before Judge
BONN on elecu1on day for examina-
tion as to the where abouts of the
widow Collomb, who was registered
Landru paid little attention to the
judges questions, glancing pensively
out of the window at the heavy fall
of snow. When the judge remons-
trated with him, he said:
ST am greatly concerned about the
outcome of the elections These pro-
ceedings here do not interest me but
fear for the future of my country.
What a calamity should Bolshevism
rule in this land!"
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FOR SALE

My farm known as "Ecclesford'
located on railroad three miles from
Fayetteville, and containing one
hundred and sixty-nine acres. One
good six room house, three tobacco
barns and out house. Land is splen-
didly adapted to tobacco or cotton.
For information apply to e. H.
Williamson, Fayetteville, N. c.
d II Std
The daily times., 1919-12-17

Notice! Sale of Personal Property.
On Thursday, January 8, at II
o'clock, we will offer for sale at the
residence of the late w. T. Walston
in Saratoga township, the following
personal property: One horse, one
mule, on double and one single wag-
on, and other miscellaneous farming
implements. Terms of sale, cash.
Branch Banking & Trust Co.,
Executors of w. T. Walston.
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NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

Having qualified as administra-
trix of the estate Of H. R. Hinnant,
late of Wilson County, North Caro-
lima, this is to notify all persons
having claims against the said es-
tate to present same to the under
signed or her attorney, on or before
December 18th, 1920, or this notice
will be plead in bar of recovery. All
persons indebted to the said estate
will please make immediate settle
ment.
This the 18th day of December,
Mrs. Penny A. Hinnant,
Administrative.
Ken1y, N. c., r. r. D.
w. A. Lucas Attorney, Wilson, N. c.
d 16 1tw for wks iNa
The daily times., 1919-12-17

New January records now on sale:
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Barbara Muriel; Freckles, Nora
Bayes; Weeping Willow Blues, Co
lumbia Saxaphone Sextette; I Amt
Gonna Give Nobody None o. This
Jelly Roll, Sweatman's Original Jazz
Band. Special Christmas boxes for
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