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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
General OF the Russian

Sencfsi CO sac Russian AAi.sGs
Olga dc Novigof, in London Times.
Gen. Gourko, it is true, is not Skob.
eleff. Skobelefs are born sometimes
but once in a century. 1t is not given
to the rigid disciplinarian, modest,
retiring, reserved, who now gov
ems Russian Poland, to excite the in
tense enthusiasm, the half idolatrous
worship, with which Skobelef was some.
times regarded. But, as a soldier, his
record is not less brilliant than that of
the dead hero Of the Russian army, and
at the close Of the great campaign in
the Balkans a great English statesman
expressed the opinion that the laurels of
the war rested with Gen. Gourko. He
was then compared to Gen. Sheridan in
she American civil war, but in manner
ne Is more like the taciturn Grant, ST.
lent, reserved and modest, Gen. Gourko
never made friends like Skobeleff, who
conquered hearts like fortresses, by
storm. During the triumphant advance
across the Balkan up to the walls of
Constantinople-as in fact, throughout
The whole of the War-Gen. Gourko
Fought ever In the van, nor is his name
associated with q single defeat. After
the war he disappeared from the public
gaze. When the crimes OF the nihilists
led the late Emperor TO place st. Peters
burg under the iron grasp Of military
commander, he turned to Gen. Gourko,
whose %unfiinching will, ~in1exible sever
ity and brilliant achievements in COM
batting o foreign foe marked him out for
the post.
A Russian and Greek orthodox, though
his parents had Polish and Roman CON
nectiens, he has since had to maintain
the western bulwark of the empire
against all corners. The very wisdom of
our neighbors, their readiness for
all sorts of unforeseen and improbable
emergencies, compel him to be as wise,
as prudent, as ready they are. Every
poweris capable of assuminga threaten
ing character under certain circumstan-
ces. La Rochefoucauld's maXim to treat
your best friend asyour future enemy"
is horrible in private life, but is usefulin
politics and Gen. Gourko is always ready
TO observe it.
AS governor general Of the capital
General Gourko has been %intlexibly se-
we're both to himself and to others, but
kindness itself when he believed the
innocent were suffering injustice. The
trouble which he undertook In order to
secure the release ola young conservatory
ium student, who was arrested by mis-
take as a nlhilist, was in striking con
trast to the ruthless severity with which
he punished the guilty. In private life
no one can be kinder and more in
dulgent. j should not be surprised ii
| learned that he adores and tears his
wife axactlv as IL he were an English
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
Did not Know what TO dO With
Her Hands.

The numerous cases Of the donning OF
masculine attire by members of the fair
sex which have appeared in print re-
Gently tempt ne to relate something i
once knew TO happen here. A young
widow, well connected, comfortably en-
dowei, living IN one OF the most sacred
streets which climb Bacon Hill, found
herself without near relatives, without
occupation, and with a restless, Bohe-
milan disposition which craved excite
ment and found ordinary social pleas
ures lonesome, She had in her time
played a very pretty part in private
"theatricals, and not So many winters
have passed since her rendering of a
lover in a French vaudeville, given by
and for ladies at the house of o Common
wealth avenue millionaire, created a
genuine Juror questionable circles. All
the steps between that performance and
her donning masculine garb In
which to see Boston gaSlight
am not able to give, but
TO the latter e~scapaque she came. Ac-
companied by her physician, a gentle
man a few years her senior, she visited
unsupported a good many places which
il is safe to say no member OF her set of
lady friends even saw before her. SO
far as / know she was never detected
but once. One night she and her friend
visited a factory, and were requested to
throw away their cigarette tor fear OF
fire. Mrs. X. had forgotten her cane
that night. and deprived other cigarette,
did not know what to do with her
hands. In her nervousness she com
mitted the folly Of setting Them akimbo
upon her hips, and the foreman of the
room, who was talking with her escort,
at once suspected her sex. No harm
came Of this, however, as he had no
clew to neT identity, and willing as |
should be 20 draw a moral for the warm
ing of those tempted to such ill-judged
proceedings, truth forces me to own
hat | know of no evil results IN the
case of which / speak.-Boston Corse-
-Dondent Chicago Tribune.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
west Point Discipline.

Mrs. Logan, who has been visiting her
son, who lisa fourth-class man at West
Point, was telling her Of the discipline
at that institution. Considering that
there are 5 Ice rules, any one of which,
if broken gives a boy a demerit, it
seems almost marvellous that they are
not all expelled. Young Logan received
q demerit for coming out Of his room
buttoning the upper button of his coat.
His roommate received a demerit for
leaving his room with chair by the
window instead of by the table, with the
legs of the chair at an exact distance
from the legs of the table. Smoking is
| positively prohibited. One of the In
struc.ors, Lieut.. Gale, a very small man,
was going the rounds Of inspection one
night and found one of the young mems
rooms full OF smoke. The young
cadet stood attention" when
he came in, the cigar having been
pitched out of sight, Lieut.. Gale said
nothing to the young fellow, and he was
greatly delighted, thinkinghew would not
Be punished. He ran offto a friends
room and told him of the circumstance
exclaiming about Gales kindness in not
Furnishing him. That night at drill the
young cadets name was called and an
order read to him that as a punishment
for smoking he should make q .tonr''
for three successive Saturdays. a tour
consists in walking In certain limits for
an hour. One young cadet the officers
have despaired of ever makinga soldier.
He appeared the other day at q guard
mount in slippers. "How can YOU ever
make d soldier of man. exclaimed one
Of the officers, who would ride q horse
with his feet in slippers?'. They are as
severe Ia lessons as in discipline; four
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
Visiting a Sad scene.

On n evening of every week a near
" dressed woman visits the stage en-
trance Of Haverly's Theatre, in Brook
lyn, N. II. The main entrance ofthe
Brooklyn Theatre, destroyed by FIRE on
lie night g. Dec. 5. 1875. with nearls
three hundred lives, occupied this par-
sie,lar site. The woman looks about hnr
for a few minutes and then runs down
Myrtle avenue to her home. One Of the
policemen attached to the station next
door says that in the early evening of
that terrible night seven years and more
ago the husband of this woman asked
her to accompany him to the play. She
had been hard at work during the day
and preferred to remain at nome, but
wished that he should visit the theatre.
He didaso and his body was among the
un~recognized dead the following day.
The wife fell and fora time it was feared
she would lose her reason. Once aweek
at night, from the date Of her recovery
to the present, this poor woman has yisi-
ted the spot.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
Words of Wisdom.

Use the temporal: desire the eternal.
Thomas Kempis.
Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be
y~irtuous and. lol virtue ID at hand.
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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
Mary,s Bad Little Lamb.

Mary Cogan has a little lamb; it lives
N Lawrence street. in the city of New
York, where beer imbibers meet. A
s1n renorter went one day to interview
THIS lamb and see its queer performances
that were warranted no sham. 1t went
behind the bar one day, which was
against the rule, and drank the beer
from out y jug that there was standing
I'LL. 1t now drinks beer and whisky.
aoo, rum, brandy, gin, and punch, and
W1en It tires Of those it takes tobacco Tor
= lunch. What makes the lamb love
5'quor sol" the loafers all do cry. "Oh,
mary taught the lamb you know" tho
slugger did reply. And thus you see,
ny children, the New York man is no
cam for many of them are innocent as
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
The Man With a Patent Car
Counler.

There will never cones time when
the head Quarter office of q railroad line
will not receive at least one visit per
week from the man with a patent car
coupler. During the last fifteen years
ne has called about four times a week.
aud that average is being maintained in
a way to wear out all carpets as fast as
manufacturers can desire. The car
couplers are not all alike, but the inven-
tory are. The programme is as regular
as if it had been adopted by a large
majority. The inventor asks for the
president ofthe road and is shown To
the office:
Good morning. Is the president in2o
ssNo, sir. he won't be IN until after
dinner. Anything specf l2'
well, rather snecial. [ have invented
.sAh.A patent car-couplerl You must
90 to the general. snperintenC ent."
Its the biggest thing of the kind
ever heard OF"
eyes. / kro~, but you'll find him four
doors down the hail.
The inventor opens the fourth door
aud q clerk inquiries:
"What is your business
well I had q lame foot last summer
and couldn't do much work, and 80
set about it and"
Invented q ~car-coupler, OF counsel
The general superintendent Is not In,
The third floor to the left for the assist
anti
The third door opens to reveal an at
tendant ready to inquireIwhat is wanted;
"Weil being | had got TO come down
10 town to buy myself some hickory
shifting, / thought | might as we'll bring
aloSigv
"Your patent car-coupler, We were
expecting you. Go down to the yard
master"
~Everybody in our town says this is
the biggest thing yer Invented, and !
reckon
Right this way to 90 down to the
yard-master's Office
The yard-master isn't IN. The train
dispatcher won't listen. The gate-keep'
| er has no time. The depot policeman
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18
Republican Tendencies Abroad

Should Oscar IL, king of Sweden and
Norway, continue obstinate, the Nor
wegians are likely to relieve themselves
OF the cost of the maintenance Of a mon
archy. By the Constitution the king
has a suspensive veto, which can be
overruled if a bill be passed by three
successive parliaments. The royal veto
on thesDills passed in regard to minister
nal responsibility has thus been over
ruled, but the king declines to yield.
The Norwegians are sturdy, welteduca-
ted, and intelligent men, and under
stand, Of course, tie requirements Of
their country far better than the great
grandson o. a Heorew lawyer IN the
south of France, whose son was made
King OF Norway in 1914, when Norway
was violently separated from Denmark.
They are quite able to manage their
own affairs, and their best plan would
6e civilly TO disestablish and disendow
Oscar, who would still remain king Of
Sweden. This fate he will have brought
upon himself.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18

The Cologne journals tell a curious
story of canine sagacity. Two dogs OF
the neighborhood, a cross between a st,
bernard and a large woody cody, feared
by all other dogs; the second was a
stranger, q small terrier, just slender
enough to get through the hole into the
rabbit house. The big dog, who on
other occasions never noticed his small
Ter comrades. had evidently come to an
understanding with his little friend
about the. nocturnal rendezvous. The
big dog scratched away all the grass and
the stones, dragged up thu board coy
ering the entrance to the rabbit house
and let the terrier jump through the
hole. The latter returned in a few min-
ufes with d rabbit in his mouth, which
he presented to his great friend. and
both proceeded to devour their supper
u~ndisturbed.
Admiral Porter, who q been sert
ously Ill for the past week, il now thought
to BE on the rapid road to recovery.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18

may look at the invention some other
day. When he entered the depot with
that patent coupler under bis arm, his
mind was made up to let the Michigan
Central car 3 Shore rGS - Oh tifvir
cars for $4,000 cash down. Two hours
have done the business for him, and as
he starts up town the coupler il reck-
lessly thrown under a seat in the wait
ing-room, and the inventor hopes from
the tops OF his boots that somebody will
steal it before he gets back Detroit
Free Press.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18

samson was a strong man. So Is Samp-
son FOX, the engineer who put the boil
ers into the Servia the City Of Rome,
the Arizona and the Oregon. He has
acres Of works In Leeds. and in Essen,
~ Germany. He recently visited
America, and proposes to nu up works
an Philadelphia hat will employ from
the start 1000 hands, all OF which will be
imported free Of duty from England and
Germany. Mr.. Fox is now al work ON
= boiler that will enable the steamer to
BOAT the Oregon. which will make the
ocean trip In less than six dsys. Mr..
sox peiseves that ocean steamersHiii
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18

teen and fifteen pages of algebra for ii
lesson is just an ordinary lesson. With
snchsseVere strains, physically and men
tally, it is a wonder that the health of
more young men IS not permanently in
J.sS - = SSS correspondence
st. Louis POST Dispatch.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-18

hereafter be DuIIt Tor passengers only
and he thinks that he soon will be able
to furnish boilers that will shorten trims
to four days. The price &C eassare will
be higher, but a large amount Will be
gained In provisions aad haeiAas tha
steamers will have to remain a much
shorter time al tho docks.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05
Raising the Dead.
medical Reco

Sir John Pryse, Of Montgomeryshire, married
three wives, and kept the embalmed bodies Of
his bed. Finally his third wife died, I748 and
he applied to Bridget Bastock, of Cheshire, who
healed all diseases by prayer, faith and an
embrocation Of fasting spittle, 50 that her sail
vary glands were always kept in full employ, to
restore his last wife to life. He writes
Madam, having heard by repeated advices
that you have performed many wonderful cures
even whore the best physicians have failed; that
you restore sight to the blind, hearing to the
deaf and strength to the lame, write to know
whether you can restore the dead to life. Hav-
ing lately lost wife, whom tenderly loved, /
entreat you to exert yourself in my behalf, that
the deceased may be restored 70 nae, and that
the late Dame Eleanor Pryse may be raised
from the dead. II your personal attendance is
necessary will send my coach and six, with
proper servants, to wait on you. Any recon
pense that you require win be made with the ut
most gratitude, and hope the bare mention of
it will not be offensive to you
Yours, obediently, JOHN PRYsE.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05

oscura for heightening effect The great fault
of Rossetti was the false shadows he put in--
willfully, and for the sake Of obtaining express
ion. Work IN a broad, full light Guard
against caricature and satire as FIRE that
can burn You up, body and soul It
is useful to be able to see the bleInishes in a
face, but try rather without funkery to dwell on
the nobler and more beautiful qualities. Choose
the most beautiful faces to paint, and do not
paint any that have not something pleasant in
them. People talk of Hobbemas moles and
wrinkles, but if he had worked Far enough off
from his models he ought not to have seen them.
Galhsbofough worked eight feet away from his
sister. This painful minuteness that sees and
depicts wrinkles and nloles partakes of half
truth, and half truth is born of the devil. You
are all SO fond Of Faust in these days that
neednotapologizef for mentioning Mephistopheles.
who never told direct lie He only left out the
good side of nature, and insisted on the bad
Satan said to Eve You shall not surely die
She did not die, but she did worse. Artists
sometimes paint these half truths, and people
exclaim: How truep This is diabolical work,
and is like the devil, who seems to speak the
truth, though he is still, ever, the father of
lies.'n
A student asked the Professor if he would say
something about decorative art.
Yes, he reDled-and venture to put his
words in the first person singular, though can
really only give the direct purport Of what he
said, and not a verbatim report of tive En-
glish have not the Unborn power of design that
ORC ltal nations have: but by following nature
faithfully and not working in mere conventional
patterns, we may excel in decorative art in
different way. The Indian woman, when she
has swept her doorstep, takes some colored sand
and sprinkles 1t in pattern on the ground. She
forms the pattern easily and gracefully and
more beautifully than anything you could learn
to do after years of study in the school Of design
at South Kensington But by patient study of
nature you can do work that may have excelen-
cies of another kind. Those of you who find
you cannot reach to the higher branches of art
may take up decorative work: but don't do so
until you have tried the other
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05
Brutality in Russia.

From st. Petersburg Dispatch.
A sensational trial was concluded at Moscow
a few days ago, resulting in a sentence of de-
portation to Siberia against woman named
Bulakh for keeping rich orphan girl, of whom
she had charge as governess, in state of
wretched confinement and semi-Staryation for
nearly thirty years, in order to obtain possession
of her fortune of ESQ, 000 Bulakh was COVER
ness to Mazurin, the girl, in the house of the
latter's grandmother in Moscow. Under fear of
being forced into an unhappy union, and through
various other pretexts invented by Bulakh, the
girl was induced to run away with her schem-
ing governess to the town of Reief where, by
dint of religious terrorism and exnortations to.
take the veil, the weak-minded though accom-
plished pupil was gradually reduced to state.
of helpless imbecility The girl. now a woman
ate pieces of the iirsMood brought into her
room.
Having reduced her tca state Of drivelling.
idiocy and got holdof her money, Bulakh then.
did all she could to persuade her victim TO com
nit suicide AZ to Bulakh herself, she lived
well, built almshouses and helped her two sons
to become rich. The strangest part OF the story
is that the Governor and society Of Rejef, to
whom the truth of the case had been more or
less evident for several years, should so long
have regarded the crime of BuIalxh with indiffer-
ence The poor victim Mazurin was not in q
condition to be brought into court Bulakhs
only defense seems to have been that the accusa-
ton was conspiracy against her and that
Mazurin had always been insane. She has given
notice of an appeal and has been set at liberty
on bail for 100000 roubles.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05

New York Herald.
a few days ago the Rev Henry Ward Beecher
delivered an address at the annual commence
ment Of the Storrs Agricultural school in Mans
field, Conn. Mr.. Beecher was candid in conced-
ing his entire inadequacy in an agricultural sense
Like the young man who, on being asked if he
spoke French, replied that he did not, but that
he had cousin who played the German flute,
Mr.. Beecher observed that while he was mex
perienced in farming he had wide range
Of personal knowledge Of those who were
better informed. From this topic he diverged
lightly to blacksmlths, and related the following
anecdote Of his early Western life
Ny horse lost shoe. found an unoccupied
blacksmith shop started up the fire with the
below heated the iron, forged it out on the
anvil shaped IT. and putt on; and then drove
off and didn't leave a cent behind But
stopped at the next blacksmith shop to have it
fixed just right and the blacksmith, after look
ing at the job, said: Mister, you may as well
60 on; couldn't do that work better myself Y
You see, Eve remembered that; | felt proud Of
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-07-05
long BRANcH COTTAGES.
Tho Elegant Appointments and Furnishing
of Them.

inc Elegant Appointments and Furnishing
of Them.
Watering Place Correspo ndence
have never seen such cottages in the world
Several cost $50, 900 apiece; Mr. Hoey himself
designed them, assisted only by German car
penfer, who has been with him sixteen years
They are rather in the Queen Ann style. but are
painted in an extraordinary way, the prevailing
colors being yellow, green and dark red mixed,
as you have seen them on old-fashioned oil
cloths. Each Of these houses has its own gas
with white ash, all polished as carefully as fur
niture and one that saw to-day had kind of
rotunda extending to stained glass dome, and
on every floor are beautiful galleries Of carved
ash looking down. In none Of these
houses are the servants allowed to have bed
rooms above the kitchen floor. They are pro-
vided with excellent ped -roomS, well lighted and
on the same floor where they live, and launder
and cook Thus the entire upper portion of the
house is private to the family. The smallest Of
these homes have about seventeen bedrooms
each They are all furnished by the proprietor,
who rents them by the year Mr.. George Loril-
lard's cottage he pays So 900 year for The din
ing-roomsand buffers pantries are delicious to
the ornaments on the cabinets, whatnots, ETC.
are Of the finest style in art. The largest Of
these houses goes by the name of the Presidents
house. and it has been supposed that some day
it might become the summer residence of the
President of the United States. 1t is more than
one hundred feet long. Nearly all these houses
have six servants bedrooms. They are all pro
Yided with openair fire-places on every floor and
in nearly every room. and are designed to be-
come winter as well as summer houses, and per
haps to have large hotel accessory to Them