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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-05-17
Tile Bow on the Chain-Gang.

They were working right IN front Oh
the hotel little hamlet in Alabama
the chain-gang There were nine vii
demonstrating men. each wearing
shackles and having no shame as they
looked into the faces Of the strangers on
the veranda. A chain-gang is an every
day sight in the South, and few people
waste sympathy upoa the justly punish
ed wretches, but all of q sudden some
thing happened in this gang never to be
forgotten. boy not yet II Years old
came up with pailiof water, and we saw
that he belonged 10 tile chain-gang.
Larceny had sent him to associate with
those villains for three long years. He
looked pale and broken down, and his
shame compelled him 10 avert his face
as he came up. 1t was d sad sight to see
a tot Of boy like him brought out and
degraded and disgraced, and he felt tile
situation so keeilly that at the first Kind
word from the platform tile tears Weiied
up and blinded his yes.
There was woman there from In
diana who walked straight down to the
boy and put her hand on his head and
shed tears with him. There must have
been something in his look to remind
her of some one perhaps a son at home
or one under the sod. Her heart was
full of sorrow and sympathy and her
words broke the lad down. This lasted
four or five minutes, to the great aston
ishment and annoyance of the armed
guard i'm charge The lightning express
coming down the road had just whistled
and the iron rails we're quivering under
the approaching thunder, when the
guard called out:
Come. you young thief, get back af-
ter more waterl
The woman started back at the words,
dragging the child with her, but in an
instant he broke away, wheeled and
clasped her hand and kissed it, and
then what? Not a hand could have
been lifted to prevent. The express was
laundering up at forty miles an hour,
not intending to make stop here, and
the lad turned from the woman whose
kind words had opened the well spring !
Of his heart, ami al the same time horritiea
him at his situation, and with one spring
he alighted in front of the locomotive.
Next instant his crushed and mangled
body was flung into the roadside ditch,
and he had served his sentence. We
picked him up tenderly, ard the women
wept over him as they washed the pale
face and folded the boy-hands over the
crushed and broken breast, but the lad
was beyond the need of earthly friends
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THE FLAMES OF ETNA.
Phenomena Attending the Eruptio

pnenomena Attending the Eruption
OF the Sicilian Volcano.
A correspondent of the London Times
writing from Naples, gives some inter
esting details of the eruption Of Mount
Etna:-"At Reggie and Messina showers
of sand and lapiIli fell. But so dense
was the smoke and fine ashes in which
the mountain was enveloped that even
ut the foot of Etna, only occasionally,
when there was an opening in the cloud,
vast column of fire could be seen as
cending from the principal crater. The
obscurity, however, III which every
thing was involved, served TO render
the scene more alarming. The erup-
ton commenced on the night of the 10Th
of March, and from O'Clock in the
morning till six o'clock on the follow
ing morning, 81 undulating shocks of
earthquake were felt. They continued
after that time. though with less
violence, till, on the night
of the 22d, two terrible shocks were f1lt
at Nicolosi, and another on the .ight Of
the sd. 1t would appear thu. this great
connection was the i;reI,gde 10 q vet
greater eruption, and, indeed, eleven
new mouths were opeEed above Nlc0-
losi, which yomited firth sand. scorin,
lapllli and a dense moke with fearful
roarings. The activity Of these mouths
is not very great, hieh is regarded as
an indication of yet greater disasters.
Many families hive abandoned the
points most threat sned, as Nicolosi and
Belpasso, but thos who remain sleepin
the open air and the troops who have
been sent are engaged in erecting tents
or breaking down walls and houses that
are in danger of falling, Great exertions
are made 10 keep the people from the
churches, which ON the occasion of such
awful events &se always SIRE 10 becrowd
ed. A sense of security ~ felt within
these sacred buildings, though trere are
no places where there is
greater insecurity Happily no
kTimaff Victims are reported up
to the 23d, and this may be explained
by the fact that the Shocks afearthQuake
occurred principally by day, when people
were on the alert. But much damage
has been done TO property. In some OF
The small villages on the middle of the
mountain houses have been thrown
down, and little chapel at Macchia has
fallen. At Xatfarana six houses were
ruined. AMI the facade of the church
while the barracks of the carbineers
were assured. Other Churches and
houses are reported to have been dam
aged. but it would be an endless task to
note all. Wherever bindings are in a
dangerous state orders are given to de-
molish them directly. Further intelli-
genee is anxiously expected; fer though
there was short cessation of the shocks,
and people in some places wre resum-
ing their usual occupations, the noun
tain was discharging its contents album
dainty. and no one could say that the
danger was entirely removed.
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Burning of Vast Amonnt OF Oil al
dorsey CITY

OitF.
The %ofks of the standard Oil company
the most extensive in this country, were
nearly destroyed by fire last Thursday
morning. One of the large tanks was struck
and exploded by lightning. The burning
oil poured out like an angry river, and
flowed down tine avenues between the rows
of enormous tanks towards the river. In a
short time the flames communicated with
three huge tanks, and they ali exploded
simultaneously with terrific. force. fras-
ments of iron were htrled distance of hall
mile. The Burning oil was scattered in all
directions. centre fire department were
summoned, but their services were almost
useless, as burning streams of oil poured
through the yard, firing tank otter tank on
the cast eide, and licking up the buildings
in its way. The storehouse, solid struc-
ture where barreled oil was kept, was at
tackled by the flames and burned. The en-
CINE house went next and oil and water
pump houses, the sunken tank and ma
chine shop quickly followed, and tho wiiols
easterly side Of The wpfRs became a seeth-
| ing mass of flames. Despite the tremend-
Gus heat and binding smoke, the
| firemen worked valiantly in the
hopes of checking the progress ofthe flames,
but it appeared at one time that the east
| works would be destroyed, and it was feared
the flames would reach out and consume
other property in the neighborhood. Peo-
pie deserted their homes and moved out
their effects. IL is estimated there were
500, 600 gallons of oil IN the tanks, and the
loss OF property will reach over 81, 500, coo.
The following members OF the FIRE depart
ment are missing, supposed to BE lost In the
flames; John Herbert, shper intendenti
Joseph jenkins, foreman; George Davis en-.
gineer$ Henry Kegler, labOrer, Dick Corklin;
laborer; William Curry, boiler maker.
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The Poor Apple-WOman Rein
stated.

From the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette,
Elk Mayor Green's kindness TO the
poor is almost proverbial His latest set
of bene vuienee Is CHARACTERISTIC. pool
old apple woman formerly had stand
In front of the United States Court
house, at the corner of Temple place and
Tremont-street. Some time ago she
was ordered away, and neither her GUS
toners nor her profits followe ] her.
The ex- Mayor learned Of her misfor-
tune, and addressed 4 personal letter to
the secretary Of The treasury III Wash
ihgtoti telling that officer IF thb Apple
Wornans itiisFortsinb, adding that She
was Tho mothef Of IA rosy-iaced child.
reii; and that she was. soon TO present
her husband with the fifteenth. The ex-
Mayor forwarded the Endorsement OF
Assistant United States Treasurer Ken
nard, District Attorney Sanger, and
United States Marshal Banks, request
ing that the apple woman be allowed to
resume her old stand. A prompt re-
Spouse was received, and directions
were sent to the proper official here TO
allow the apple-woman to occupy her
old place,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-05-17

Manners says Lord Chesterfield;
"shonld aGorn knowledge and smooth
Its way through the world" Young
men ambitious to become leaders, will
find il helpful to heed this maxim of the
worldly wise nobleman. Not only
knowledge hut eloauence, statesman
shin. executive ability and, in fact every
Gift that fits a man for public life is en-
HANGED when adorned with manners.
Not q few public men whose talents
are far from being first.class have at
tanned unto prominence by the exercise
lof the manners which are rs attractive
in men as beauty in women.
Henry Clay was a greater statesman.
For third of a century he was the
political idol of thousands of his coun-
trymen To day there are scores OF
old men whose eyes will glow with
pleasure rs they speak the name OF the
man whose leadership once swayed their
! political action.
Great as we're Mr. Gays eloQuence
and craftsmanship, they viii not ac-
count wholly for such devotion. Much
Of ii must be credited to the fascination
Of address whicii charmed al who ap-
preached within its circle.
4 scene witnessed in the Supreme
Court of the United States illustrates the
power Of his wonderful address. While
MIR. Clay was speaker of the House OF
Representatives, he argueda case before
the court in which Kentucky and Nir-
GINA were antagonists.
While the court WAS listening to the ar
gument, Judge Washington, a man of
aristocratic bearing, who was noted for
never holding q conversation upon the
bench. took ont bis snutf-box that he
might tltlliate himself with q pinch OF
snuff.
On Observing the box, Mr.. Clay stop
ped speaking, and advancing gracefully
10 the bench and with Il courteous bow,
held out his hand. The box was hand
ed hina, aud as he took pinch he re-
marked, - see that your honor sticks
to the Scotch, and then resumiDg his
stand he proceeded with his argument,
without the least embarrassment.
~ do not believe, said an eyewitness,
aware Of the barrier which then separ-
ated the court and the bar, that there
is man in the United States who could
have done that but Henry Clay"
II was the charm of tlse mans manner
that made the action seem q graceful
episnde
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Personal MENTION.

George b. Remsen III New York becam,
deranged by business troubles in 1877, anC
drawing 81, 500 from his bankers disap
psared. He was arrested rs insane in Sc
dsn, Ohio, recently, He had made Sc. 600
although he was crazy.
In the district court at Virginia, New,
Saturday, the wife Of United States Senator
Fair WAS granted decree OF divorce. She
gets 81, $50, 600. the family residence in San
Francisco, and the custody OF her three
minor children.
Chepets, widow OF the Chief Oufay, has
married lie namel Toomuchgelt, who is
a friend of the whites. She has cast off the
silk dress she wore at Washington, and re-
turned to bucks in leggins and a United
States blanket.
Mr.. Thomas NJ. Pugh, late receiver of the
Fargo land Office, will soon depaft from
Mankato for Glendale, Oak, where he Viii
engage in banking and real estate business.
Mrs. Albert Maddox, who has made her
appearance at the Gaiety theateF, Iordon
is said to be the living image OF the late
Adelaide Nelson.
Mr.. Stephen Knight, secretary and treas
urer of the Argyle mining Company, Man
itobs, dropped dead in Fort Rough.
George William Curtis has been reelected
president of the New York Civil Service Re-
form associat on.
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The Funny Men.

"What bore jenkins isp' exclaimed
Connery; "just met him and he talked
about that COMPOUNDED horse of his for
half an hour, and l couldn't get a word
in edgeways about my new dog.
Unfortunate little Levi: "Why 80
gloomy this morning, jacob" "Ah, my
poor leetle Peni min Levine is teadP'
dead? You surprise me. How dld u
happen?" well, you see, my leetle
Peniamin he vas at der synagogue to say
his prayers, and poy put in his het at
der toor and CRIES: Job LOTT and leetle
benjamin he vas gilt In der crush. -
Life.
A practical suggestion: Said d self
satisfied young man: "Really, ] don't
know what | shall do, with all the girls
after me so. A fellow can't be absolute
" rude to them, you know, even IL they
do follow him up and constantly force
opportunities to propose, you know.
really can't marry them all, you know,
and what can | do, old boy?" Easy
enough; skip out to Utah and telegraph
for the whole gang" answered his prac-
teal friend.
Disconsolate: "You must cheer up.
Remember that everything is for the
best. You must not grieve. just re-
member that your wife is in heaven.
where there is everlasting peace" sad
Reverend MiggIes to Colonel SnoWler,
who had recently lost his vile: Inc
colonel shook his head and replied, sad
": II wish could think so, but can't.
There may have been peace IN heaven
before she got there. You don't know
what sort Of woman she was. AS soon
as she gets to a place all peace stops
then and there" Texas Siltings
Ina New York boudoif--"Of course,
Won was at the Vanderbilt baliY' On,
YES. of course were" Weren't them
neople horrid?" Gust too horrid for
ANYTHING. never did see no such go
mos on in our set afore, and | were or
fully ashamed, wasn't your 1ou bet !,
was Int we must be charitable. All
folks amt had no such edieatorloi aa,
yantages like we had, you know"
"That's 50. Ia, ta.'
Why he made the mistake; lie came
home late the other night, and his "iie
woke up and found him with 9
burning match trying TO light the coid
water tap over. the marble basin ID ms
d1assIng. flames" she said, 'thal
Is not the gas burner know 1t now,
nv love" he replied, unsteadlly; faet
ii I've been oyerworked, and THAT'S the
reason made the mistake es, you
look as If you had been lifting q good
deal ? she answered quietly as she re-
turned to her pillow.
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Too Much Beer.

It does not by any means follow that
because a man is never intoxicated that
lie may not be drinking too much. Men
employed in the great breweries in Ison-
don, especially the draymen, consume
an enormous quantity of beer The dali
~ allowance which their employers give
them is very large one, but they rarely
confine themselves to that and the dray-
men, in addition, get much gratuitously
from the customers to whom they are al
ways delivering the casks, SO that 10 or
IA quarts is no exceptional consumption
for one man; yet they are not drunkards,
in the ordinary sense of tile term. The
very nature of their work necessitates
the employment of none but study men,
strength being also sine qua non. But
if one Of these men should break limp
or get confined to bed fromany other ae-
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The three Greatest Americans.

Gath: The great intellectual trio of
our history are not Clay, Calhoun and
Webster, popular though they were but
Hamilton, Marshall and Webster. These
are three immortals, intellectually
greatest, and, judged by that standard,
no other American statesman is worthy
to be placed in the same rank. Hamil-
ton. as the writer of the military cores
pondence of Washington, of the FEEDER
alist, of the great report an finance, oil
many of Wasliington's state papers, in
Guiding the farewell address, proved
himself TO be statesman, constitutional
LAWYER, and financier Of consummate
powers and extraordinary genius. John
Marshall, as Tie founder of American
JURISPRUDENCE, earned the title Of the
greet chief Justice, and asa jurist proved
himself so peer at least of Eldon, Mans
ield, and Holt. Web Ter, who sat at the
feet Of Hamilton and Marshall as reyer-
ent worshipper, while lacking the learn
ing and versatility of the former and the
legal lore and marvellous intellectual
acuteness of the latter, in a certain
mountain-like massiyeness Of intellect
surpassed perhaps all modern men. 1t
is safe to predict that the future student
of American history will honor still
more his eountry's greatest statesman,
greatest iurist and grandest orator.
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Miscellany


A very gdod story is told Of Lord
Role. tie Commanded troop Of yoe-
man cavalry, and when they were Up
for trianing twas reported to him that
some Of the men had been fighting. He
called the Cylinders before him, and
sternly told them that he didn't want any
fighting menin his regiment.
The widow If Hon. Zachariah Chandler
Of Detroit. haAgiven $1,000 to found a
scholarship in the Woman's Medical
College, Chicago, for the education OF
medical missionaries.
"Some yearsago.n says the Atlanta
Constitution. william Black wrote a
book called the. Adventures of Phaa-
ION, which wal the diary of ride
through England and Scotland by him
self and wife, and was full of the most
charming Suggestions. Andrew Cafre-
ge; the wealthy Pittsbufg iron manufac-
turer; ascertainad from the novelist tile
exact route of the phaeton, town by
town, and organizing party of congen-
al friends, took them as his guests on q
duplicate trip. President Garfield had
agreed to be one of this party, but bis
unexpected nomination at Cincinnati
prevented bis leaving the United States"
A Californian was told by lawyer
that, in consequence of an inaccurate
statement iE newspaper article
about him, he could get heavy damages,
and so he consented to the bringing of a
suit On the frial his character was
shown to the Jury in SO unpleasant a
light that they decided it to have been
AL ~
of one dollar. His expenses were $500,
and he now sues his counsel for that
sum, ON the ground that his advice was
bad.
Nothing seems foo costly for a rail
road president. The estimated cost of
Mr.. Sidney Dillen's new car is said to be
over SIS, 600 It's TO be 60 feet long and
10 feet high, and of course replete with
every luxury. Railroad chairman and
directors, in England have to be content
with ordinary, or little more than ordi-
nary cars There would be howls at
the next meeting of shareholdt rs were
Cd 900 to appsar rs an item for the
ehairman's carriage
Rev. George F. Moore Of Putnam,
Ohio, swllo has been chosen to fill the
cIidlT Oh iIEbfeW3 AIdDlc anu tOgHatc
languages at Andover Theological Semi
nary, is remarkable linguist, and so al
SO is his wife, who is one Of two or three
ladies' in the United States who can
speak Arabic. She passed many years
in Syria and other countries, acquiring
a praciicll knowledge ofyaIious tongues.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Moore write and
speak French, German, italian and Ar
able, while the formers studies have ex-
tended to Coptie, Ethiopian. and many
other Oriental languages.
Russell Sage the famous dealer in
''pnts and calls' on the New York Stock
Exchange, is regarded as the most phe-
nomenal leader the street has ever had:
natural, almost womanly, with mind
averse to violence or sinister things; and
feeling also prevails that he has clas-
steal education. which he does not claim
for himself He was in Congress thirty
years ago. was the treasurer of Troy
dily and county many years. and pos
sessed popularity then as now. In Con-
gress he wanted the government to buy
Mount Vernon.
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Mak,ng the songs OF a Natlon.


"Where do Won get your ideas when
Won want to write new songs' asked
the reporter.
'gVhat's simple enough" returned the
poet, taking what he called a "swig at
the ale" ''There are enough ideas in
the songs already written to make it un-
Necessary to think about new ones.
Every song is patchwork ofother songs.
Now take tEat well-known song, THE
Danube River Here is the first verse.
| think Eve got il right:
apo YOU recall tina. night in June upon the
Danube River,
We listened to q Lander tune and watched
the moon beams culver?
I oft since then have watched the moon,
but never, love, oh, never,
Can forget that night in June upon the
Danube River.
aWell.v the man Of verses continued
~ read that through very carefully,
NV first thought is to localize it. Then
I nut in the name of fair one. Next,
/ have it-set 10 slightly different music
and in few weeks Thomas Lenten's
latest sentimental success il going over
the land. It becomesa periectrage and
every one sings:
"My sweetest Jane, | think of you when on
The SenuyIkIll river;
idly float and steerlmy boat and watch the
Inoon-beams culver.
We once were there, you, Jane and j, upon
that boat together,
So when alone | dream of you upon the
SchuylSill river.
Philadelphia Times
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or Order IL paid

In order to guard against fraud or err
ror. banks enforce the rule which for
bids the payment Of a check,
drawn to order. unless the par
ty presenting it is known to the cashier
or teller. A few weeks ago the rule was
the occasion of an amusing scene in
Providence bank.
An uncompromising-looking man
walked into the bank and presented a
check 1T the cashiers counter. The
cashier, said to him, as politely as posi-
biz
Il don't know you. sir. You must gel
identified"
THAT'S my name thar" replied the
stranger. CURLY. Jonathan Window.
Eyes. but don't know you,
aNo | didn't suppose you did, young
man; | never was introduced 70 you
Bnt il ] have come from the country.
hsint- coin TO be sassed by any suen M
tie feller as your
The cashier, restraining a smile, sac
pravelv. stYou must prove yonr idenllty
sir. before can cash this cheek.
But" uhis in tone Of triumph
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lists of Bishops.

The semi-annual conference of bishops
the Methodist Episcopal church, in session
at Pittsburg, have prepared the following
plan of Episoopalian visitation for the fall
conference OF 1883. The plan gives the
name of the conference, the plate and date
OF meeting and TIRE bishops who win pre-
side.
Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wis, Oct. 8,
Hurst
Northwest Iowa Iowa, Sept. 2e,
Sippscn.
Northwest Norwegian Racine, Wis,
Sept II. Andrews.
Northwest Swedish-Minneapolis Mimi,
September Foss.
Dakota Mission-H Huron, Oak, Oct, Ii,
Simpson.
Des Moines--Clarlnda, Iowa, Sept. II,
Simpson,
Montana Mission Butte Mont,
August Is, Wiley.
Iowa Burlington, Iowa, Sept 5, simp-
san.
Japan Mission-T Toxic, Japan, July |,
Merrill.
North ohio--oleveland, Ohio, Sept. 20,
Foster.
Northwest German st. Paul. Sept II,
Fosss