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The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-25

Thus far the republican press has
only pronounced its Introduction to
Mr.. CIeveland's appointment of five
classes of political factions northern
democrats, southern democrats, in
dependents, prohihitionists and those
republicans who are charged with
having defeated Mr.. Blaine by over
zealOUsness in his cause. This makes
tbenatter pretty clear and as they
have kindly not forbidden the ap-
pointment of Butler men and repub-
licans whose record is clear with
Blaine, Dorsey, ct al no doubt Mr..
Cleveland will take care to make his
from those classes.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-25
Awards-Passen9er Agents.

Chicago, Nov. 22.-Jas. F. Tucker as
arbitrator of the Colorado and Utah $3.50
Citation, has made the following award of
percentages for the division Of freight
traffic anong the roads Ia that pool.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-25

There may be those who honestly
believe the change of political ad-
ministration will not prove advanta.
geous to the country. If so and they
be christians let them next Thursday
be thankful for past favors and pray
God in earnest faith to avert the ILL.,
they fear, christian patriotism can
demand no less, There may be those
who honestly believe the change of
political administration wilt prove
advantageous to the country if so let
them thank God, next Thursds y
things have been no worse and pray
for Improvement and w0rthiness to
deserve and enjoy lit, christian duty
can do no less.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-25
CIT Y II A L i

Brannum & Weidemeyer, ProprietoIs.
Full scenery. Seating capacity, 600.
The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-11-25
WEEKLY BAZOO.
!; ' DALIA Nc.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 1884.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
LaSker on America,

A short time before his death Herr
Lasker, the distinguished German
liberal, paid Los Angeles a visit. Dur
ing his sojourn here the great German
liberal leader gave cordial and emphat-
ic expression to his admiration of the
United States. He regarded the
premier American republic as the
greatest nation of the world. and as
invested, to remarkable degree, with
the leadership of the international pol
itics of the future.
Herr Lasker, however found two
things to deprecate in the United
States. In the first place he depreca-
ted the prodigal waste of the forests,
with which this continent is so prodi-
gally endowed. He pointed out the
fact that, while naturally we are far
superior to Germany in this regard,
the older country was far more en-
lightened in its policy as to forests.
There the people and government were
at the utmost pains to conserve and to
replace the occasionally denuded parks.
While there the grand, primeval trees
were not encountered in anything like
the prodigious stretches characteristic
of the United States, there was the
most persevering replacement of ev-
cry tree which was compulsorily sacri-
feed for fuel or other purposes. He
suggested that, while necessity would
ultimately compel us to adopt the Eu-
ropean plan in this matter, it would be
wise to anticipate the iron exigency of
the future, thus saving US much posi-
tive damage and vexation, on the prin-
ciple that an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure.
The second regard in which Herr
Lasker found the United States vastly
inferior to Europe was i'll our roads.
In the old world, however great the
sacrifice and inconvenience in despotic
forms of government, the people had
splendid highways and byways. The
initiative set by the old Roman repub-
lie and the old Roman empire of per-
feet roadways, culverts, and sidewalks
was religiously adhered to by Germany
and other nations of Europe He
thought that in this respect, as in the
others, we might well borrow a lesson
from the efete monarchies of the old
world.-LoS angeles (CaL) Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
Plans Of the Khedive IsmaiI.

As Q part of his plan, he has expend-
ed not less than $40, 900 in expIora-
tions into Central Africa, extending
them beyond the equator into the equa-
torial region and to the Juba river on
the Indian Ocean. A portion of this
large sum was expended in his Abys-
sinian campaign, that country coming
within the scope of his grand enter
prise.
The railroad it was thought, would
soon develop the country and increase
the traffic in cotton, sugar, grain, SEN
ma, gums, dates, ebony, skins, ivory.
ostrich feathers, gold, wild animals,
and birds. The traffic southwark would
be cotton goods, cutlery, tobacco, rice,
beans, and earthern ware
1t matters not that he may have
been inspired, as his enemies may have
said, by yaulting ambition. His scheme
had the merit, at least in its concep-
ton, of the greatest undertaking in
modern times for the amelioration OF
the numerous millions OF human beings
living there-a people who Baker has
written, ''are living in a condition of
such besOtted ignorance that they have
uOG Il hhONIGuSS Oi even u OOu. ana
now we are told by one of the great
Christian nations that not only is this
great nation to be abandoned and Cen
trail Africa to be turned back in the
course of civilization, but the whole
equatorial region is again, unrestrain-
ed, to become a wild pandemonium of
slaYe-hunters. The loss of life and the
labor and the millions of dollars ex-
pended are hereafter to be considered
as of questionable necessity and very
doubtful utility. England having de-
termined not to fulfill the German say
ing of carrying her own skin to
market makes the problem a tangled
web. "-Pasha Lori'1g IN The Manhattan
for March,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
Thackeray and Dickens.

1t is well known that one of the
greatest annoyances to which writer's
of repute-novelists more especially
are subjected is the continual applica-
ton made to them by would be authors
for their criticism and advice. The
more eminent the writer, the more nu-
merous, as a rule, the applicants. 1t
is pleasant, if somewhat surprising, to
find that busy men. like Charles Dick
ems and Thackeray, overwhelmed with
work of their own, would never turn
deaf ear to appeals of correspondents.
The following letters, which are now
published for the first time, are typical
of their writer's. The first that of Dick
ems, is a kindly and diffident expression
OF adverse opinion, characterized by
great consideration for the feelings OF
the inquirer:
TUESDAY, 10th August, 1859.-SIR:
l have read your poems, and | regret
to assure you that [ cannot by any
means suggest any way of rendering
them remunerative to you. | am truly
sensible of the confidence you repose in
me, and l must not be unworthy of it.
They are, do not doubt, exceedingly
meritorious, with a private and per-
sonal reference to yourself and to the
circumstances under which they were
produced, but with such reference the
public has nothing TO do; and am
bound to tell you that / think they do
not address the public from any van
tage ground of their own which has
power in it to separate them from mill
ions of verses ( n ot are inO9tipDt of oh
security. If / give you pain, you will, l
hope, at least believe that it would be
far easier and more responsible task
to me to gloss it over with some eva
sion; but [ respond to your trustfulness
by giving you my sincere opinion. l
do not in the least suppose it to be in
fallible. Faithfully yours,
CHARLES DICKENS. "
The next letter is to the point. Like
most good advice, no doubt it was neg
lected, and the wind was. ground as
strenuously as ever:
''KENsINGTON, w, June 9, 1860
DEAR SIR: | scarcely know what to say
to you; save what l have already told
you, | am at Il loss. However, [ can
only entreat you to abandon your liter
airy aspirations. You would never
write your way, at present at any rate.
Besides, your grammar is detective;
your style is bad; your composition is
very bad. And my profession, in truth,
is not fitted for man possessed of bad
health. Pray seek some light employ
ment. Do not grind the wind.
Truly yours, w. M. THACKERAY.
Pail Mall Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
CARROTS Devotion to His Wife.

DR.. NOrVin Green, president of the
Western Union telegraph company, in a
recent interview said: "JOhn W. Gar
rett, the father, is an obstinate man,
with whom it is impossible to get along
pleasantly unless you fatter him. II
you don't he thinks you are an enemy,
and capable of doing anything mean.
He had one beautiful trait of character
his devotion to his wife. He did three
fOurths of all his business in his library
at home with his wife at his table be-
side him. Surrounded with telegraph
operators- there were always three on
duty, and he insisted that every dis
patch on the business of his railroads
sent over the wires should be sent to
him-his wife was always at his side
giving the Office a homelike appear
ance. Visitors always saw Mrs. Gar
rett first and she dispatched business
with many of them without referring to
her husband at all. When the bust
ness was important enough to refer to
Mr.. Garrett, she sat down and was q
listener and often a partici pant in the
conversation. She died three or four
months ago, since which time Mr.. Gar
rett has practically done no business.
Nothing except mostimportant matters
are now referred to him. His habits
are radically changed. He does not
even read the newspapers as formerly,
and the click of telegraph instruments
in their library is hushed or UNDECIDED.
But with anybody else than his wife he
was irritable and obstinate and hard to
get along with"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
NATURAL Ice Reservoir.

In many countries ice is obtained
from natural ice houses, wherein, while
the ordinary temperature outside is 80
degrees, ice is still forming. Such q
ravine or cavern has been found in
New Jersey, and near Lincoln, VT,
there is glen in which snow and ice
lie all the year round. One of the
most remarkable of these ice caverns is
that of Dobschan, in Hungary. 1t is
quite near the town, and is approached
through narrow winding limestone
valley called ''Stracenaer Thai" 1t is
in the interior of mountain, having q
general direction east and west. The
entrance is near the top, and extreme
ly narrow, and was only discovered by
accident. Once inside, remarkable
scene is bGheId, the ice, which seems
formed in many layers, having assum-
ed all the peculiar shapes that charac-
terize the limestone caves of our own
country. The total rock and ice sur
face in the cave alone occupy about
$1,000 square feet.
The cave is divided into two parts,
upper and lower. In the upper part
the roof is of limestone and the floor of
solid ice, and it is divided into two
great halls of wondrous beauty. The
roof of the largest hall is supported by
three enormous pillars of clear ice, one
of which is hollow, and through which
flows a stream from above, producing
strange echoes and reVerberations.
All about are fantastic forms of ice re-
sembling human beings, pulpits, mon
uments, and so on, giving to the cave a
most grotesque appearance. In one
end the ice forms an exact representa-
ton of large cascade, as if a rushing
stream with its spray had suddenly
been frozen solid. Descending to the
lower room, the passage is 600 feet in
length, and by following down through
the ice YOU come to the natural outlet
Of the water.
'In all countries such caves have
been found. So extensive is the ice
cavern on the Peak of Teneriffe that it
affords q permanent source of supply,
and even vessels are loaded with it's
ice. This ice is columnar in shape,
and does not melt easily, and so can be
transported without great loss. Near
the village Of Stelitze, in the Carpa-
THAN Mountains, there is one of the
largest ice caverns in the world, and,
curiously enough, it freezes in the sum-
mer and melts in the winter. For in
stance, in midsummer the roof is en-
tirely covered with icicles, but in win
ter they disappear, and by Christmas
time the cavern is dry and warm COM
pared to the outside world. Ice begins
to form as soon as the spring opens.
In some deep mines ice forms at GER
tain periods. This is the case in some
of the salt mines in the Ural Mountains
Great cavities are formed in the gyp-
sum, and in the winter they are filled
with clear water, but in the summer
they are frozen solid.
1--WE have similar cases nearer home.
In this State there are several ice
wells, and an ice cave has been found
at DEBORAH, Iowa. "-Ipter Ocean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
The Origin of Famous Songs.

A celebrated composer once lost his
way in dense forest, when he found
himself in q path leading to what APP
peared to be large edifice in the dis
lance. Meeting q person on his path
he inquired the way, but the person
made no response. Meeting another,
the same proceeding took place, and
also with six others that he met. He
was at loss to account for this until
he came to the building and read the
sign asylum for Deaf Mutes. E" This
explained it all, and he sat down and
wrote 1--WE never speak as we pass
by"
Beethoven was once met during q
heavy shower by q friend who was I'M
protected from the elements. Lend me
your umbrella" sighed the latter. The
great master at once composed the
song, ''Wait till the clouds roll by"
A composer of eminence being told
that his music was somewhat trashy,
and that he had ''better turn over q
new leaf" at once wrote "When the
leaves begin to turn"
Franz Abt once travelled. upon a
Western railroad where he was allowed
'fiVe minutes for refreshments in
which to eat $3.50 dinner. Observ-
ing the furious gulps made by his fell
low travellers to get their moneys
worth in the limited time, he spontane-
ously composed when the swallows
homeward fly"
Guglielmo once called upon a be-
trothed couple, and was invited to dine
with them. The young man, while
carving the turkey, was SO abstractedly
gazing at his sweetheart that he sent
the gobbler three times into the lap of
the composer, and caused seven
streams Of gravy to run over his face.
GugIielmo left without eating anything
and went home and composed 1.-The
lover and the bird. "
Claribel wrote take back thy heart"
to partner at whist who revoked when
diamonds were led.
Sullivan, after looking all over the
house for apiece of Irvine to tie bundle
with, sat down in furious passion and
evolved The lost cord. - = albany
Journal.
A Kentucky jury gave damages of
81, 900 against young white man for
calling an old negro a thief.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
A Memory of Clay.

Henry Clay's last visit to the house
of representatives over which he had
presided so long and so well, was at
the funeral of Mr.. Kaufman, of Texas.
in February, 1851. He did not come
in with the senators, but he entered the
house alone and took his seat imme-
diately in front of the speaker. He did
not remove his blue cloth cloak, but
remained well wrapped up and unvary-
ing in his position. had never before
seen him look so much like an old,
old man. The damp and gloomy day,
perhaps, conspired with the passing
scene to depress him; or it may be that
he was not in health. [ do not know,
but sure l am that from his appear
ance no one would believe his voice
could be even audible in the senate,
much less that, by the power of his
eloquence, he could control or infiu-
ence its deliberations. His face shrunk-
en- and shriYeled, his eyes Iusterless
and heavy, his mouth in repose only
when open and expressionless, he
seemed to have so long since passed
into the ''lean and slippered panta-
loon" as to be no longer suited to the
ardent encounters of the senate. And
yet, with few rays of sunshine upor
his brow and upon his heart, how he
could be himself again, old only in
years!-Be11. PerJey P0Ore.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
A Cold Day Fish Story.

$50 you never heard of keeping a
fish alive for month out of water?
Well, its a fact all the same because
have done it myself" Frank, well
known fisherman who drags his living
out OF the Mississippi not many miles
above St. Louis, was talking to q re-
porter about his experiences on the riv-
er. They were both in resort much
frequented by men of his craft, and
Frank was contentedly sucking his pipe
and toasting his shins before a red-hot
stove. when old Peter told me that
such thing could be done | laughed
at him, and was about to call him q
liar, but he looked dangerous like, and
did not do it. We were taking lunch
and | offered to bet him two cans of
oysters to one that he couldn't keep a
fish alive out of water for q day. 1t
was very cold and he took me up. The
next morning he caught a good sized
buffalo, and almost before he had him
well out Of water there was o skin of
ice over him, and in little while he
was frozen as hard as q rock. was
having lots of fun laughing at him, but
the next morning he slapped him into
the water. 1t took the fish little while
to thaw, but just as soon as he began
to warm up he began to move, and in
an hour was as lively as any of them.
I've kept q fish frozen for eight days
this winter and then brought him to
life again in water. I've done it many
a time, but it has to be cold enough TO
freeze him quick, and you must not let
him freeze himself y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
street Filtration.

Brazen as the male street firt ap-
pears, he will not often speak to q
woman who offers him no encourage
ment. 1t would be poor sort of fun for
him to invite attention all day long if
his invitation met with no response. 1t
is manifest that the girls are to blame
for his presence upon the streets. Let
them lay aside their dashing boldness
of manner, which they often foolishly
imagine denotes independence, but
which is as dangerous as it is unseem-
~. Such q demeanor provokes re-
marks from men and women which
would make the ears of the average
maiden Jingle with Indignation could
she but hear them. There is no doubt
that many girls are lacking in that
modesty which would entitle them to
consideration. With these the street
filtration, frequently resulting in ac-
qualntance, is great frolic; but these
very girls would soon assume u man.
ner not in accord with their character
could they see themselves as others see
them. Very few girls wish to be con-
sidered fast, yet they can by certain
recklessness of conduct while in public
places easily earn the appellation.
They may not be guilty of any crime,
but they will as certainly lose the res
pect of every one whose respect is
worth having as though they were.
This particularly applies to women who
have reached or passed beyond the age
of 20. What may be readily overlook
ed in the school girl of Is viii not be
forgiVen'in her sister of maturer years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
a Suicide Writes His Epitaph.

James Latlord. IS years old. q vet
eran OF the late war and an Irishman
by birth, of PasSaic, y. j.. by frugal
industry saved enough money to buy q
little home. He had, moreover about
$1,000 in bank. some of it pension
money. His wife becoming Frustrated
with consumption some time ago. he
got her to execute 4 deed conveying
the real estate, which was in her name,
to third party, who IN turn conYevtl
it to him. On the night before ne.
death her siSter-in-law cot her TO exc
cute will leaving all her property to
her niece. This was about week ago.
Her relatives told Lafford tat as his
deed was witnessed by two, the latter
was the better instrument. and the
property would be taken away from
him. He had brought home his ape,
mother 10 live with him after his wife's
death, and the prospect of seeing hel.
and himself turned out of the house
he had earned affected him greatly.
he could not be cOmforted. although
assured that his deed was perfectly
valid. On Wednesday night, before
he retired, he discharged an old gun
out of the window. Then he reloaded
it and went to his room, bidding his
mother goodnight as usual. Soon al
ter she heard another report, and. go
ing upstairs, found him lying on the
bed partly undressed, with CHASTITY
wound in his breast He had evident
ly sat up in bed, braced the gun against
the foot-board, placed the muzzle
against his breast, and pulled the trig-
ger with the toe of his bare foot. He
left note explaining the reason for
his suicide, and one to his sister, Mag
gle Harte, Benicia, Cal. He also left
the following epitaph to be placed on
his tombstone: James Latford, late
a private of Company H, Fifth United
States Infantry. He loved and honored
the land OF his birth and faithfully
served with the land of his adoption. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
Phillips Brooks on Drummers.

The Rev. Phillips Brooks. IN the
course of his remarks at the recent
New England commercial travellers
dinner in Boston said that commercial
travellers should be proud OF their mis-
sion in this most exciting and interest
ing nineteenth century. This IS GER
tainly the greatest commercial century
that the world has ever seen. One
cannot 90 anywhere to-day but he
meets the commercial travellers. The
speaker had seen caravan coming in
to the gates of Damascus, and those in
that caravan, he said, were essentially
commercial travellers, though perhaps
somewhat different in aspect from the
gentlemen about the table before him.
Every age has had its characteristic
men, and they were generally travelling
men. One age had its medieval
knights, another its roaming Grecian
scholars, another its German mechan-
les, who went about from point to point
IN Europe. In our age the commercial
traveller is distinctive. He sets clearly
the standard of the time. But he can
not accept the privileges without also
taking upon himself the responsible
ties Of his calling. Upon him depends
the standards of peace and morals of
our time. The world is going TO in
crease or decrease in integrity, charity
and IN the spirit of freedom and peace,
according to the spirit of our CONNER
cial men. In Venice there was once q
law that no ship should 90 10 the east
without bringing back to Venice some
portion of the magnificent ruins there to
put into the structure of st. Marks.
There is a certain poetical value in this
law, he aVerred, even for our own time;
no man and no ship in these modern
times has right to go out without
bringing back something to enrich the
humanities Of the age. Great men of
old despised commerce. Virgil foretold
that, with the golden age, would come
cessation of trade. The best and keen
est spirits of the modern age look to
commerce as the most potent factor in
the humanizing of the world. Tenny-
son, in his noble verse, discards the
conception Of Virgil, and sings his ode to
the glories of commerce. The speaker
believed that the best interests of the
race were safe in the hands of COM
merce and commercial men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-04-10
n Market for Cats.

Shortly after the discovery of the
Comstock mine an old gentleman was
unable to meet q mortgage of 81, 800
on his place on Mormon Island. A
stranger, stopping at his door saw sew
eral pretty kittens playing in the yard.
He said: CHOSE cats, if you had them
on the Comstock, would bring you $50
a piece" The old man saddled his
horse, and for the next fortnight rode
from house to house, farm to farm, and
village to village, begging and buying
cats. He got 800, and sold them on
the Comstock mine, and after he had
paid off his mortgage, and put in bank
$500 clear, he told his neighbors why
he had wanted cats. They no longer
deemed him crazy on cats.