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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-12
Music.

To thee, sweet sharer of my joy and grief,
Sweet comforter and sOlace of my woe,
To thee come. If happiness though brief
Il er come TO me, to thee l fly, and low,
Mysterious sounds float on the air; they rise
And fall in measure slow, then wild and
clear
Burst on my brain song of joy; my eyes
Grow DIM with tears; my heart beats fast;
/ hear
In that swift rushing melody the sound
OF wind among the pines-of beating rain
OF roaring waters-thunder crashing sound;
And then, by magic touch, the sweet refrain
OF singing birds, the lowing kline; the air
is flfd with fragrance and the sun shines
fair.
Thou speakest unto me of Life and Death
OF love and her whom more than life / love-
or things unseen, unheard-the perfumd
breath
From angel wings, and spirit forms above
My wilder'd head, Thou speakest unto me
or all my charish'd dreams, the sad sweet
dreams
That may never know-the face see
Still mlrror'd in my soul-the eyes whose
beams
Are not for me-the form shall not clasp
The memries of the past the future dim
OF that which in my life cannot grasp;
Or misspent years; of blasted hopes, the
grim
And CHASTITY skeleton OF wasted life
The long, deep sleep which ends all toll and
strife.
Eugene Field, in Washington Star
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-12
A Connecticut Gypsy King.

One of the most singular men in the
State of Connecticut, writes a New
Haven correspondent Of the New York
Herald, is Prince Williams, the eele-
brated gypsy king, who is now taking
to the road again, after spending the
winter at his residence on Whalley
avenue in this city. He is q veritable
prince among the gipsies, and he is said
to be immensely wealthy. His usual
headquarters are in Boston, but last
winter he passed here, where he has a
large barn, with about twenty horses,
more or less valuable. He is about 80
years of age, and is tall, strong,
swarthy man. with an eye like lighted
cigar. He has beautifully ornamented
wagon, in which he lives on the road.
1t cost nearly $1,000, and is marvel of
gilt and mirrors. He Is worth from
100000 to $3.50, 900, and when on his
trips takes with him his entire family.
consisting of seventeen children and
twenty-six grandchildren. He owns
large and well cultivated farms in East
Hartford, and also in Glastonbury, and
has one of over four hundred acres
about ten miles out of Boston, Mass. 1t
is said that he is absolutely invincible
in horse trade, and that no native
born Yankee has ever brought him into
camp in the sale or exchange OF horses,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-12

A bill was introduced in the Senate
last Friday, authorizing the Secretary
of War to have published additional
volumes of The War of the Rebellion
sufficient to supply all Grand Army
Posts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-12
OsTRANDER.

Last Thursday j. HI. Brayton, princi-
pal of Webster school, was accepted as
the eighth juror in the Anarchists trial
in Chicago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-12

About 500 women do editorial work
on the newspapers of this country.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

no othe; MA oucht 20 DO g. Think Of
woman living day after day with vet skirts
clinging round her ankles. Health and clean
illness ore both outraged. Yet if She were to
put on clothing that would enable her to
scrub under fewer embarrassment, no end Of
a hubbub would be raised, and she might even
be arrested and called to account for outrag-
ing the proprieties. Sometimes | think this
world is very far astray, and in nothing is it
farther from the right road than in the mat
ter of woman's attire.
| notice, too, that most women who do very
hard mental work wear the most inappro-
pirate garb. Instead of having a gown Of
decent, serviceable material, made simply
and of a cut to give the wearer freedom Of
movement, the scrub woman goes about in
dress originally made for some richer
woman. 1t is dabbed over with trimming,
which is falling to pieces here and there, and
gets fringed and draggled and unsightly and
contributes largely to the forlornness of her
appearance.
She goes home in the evening laden with
packages bought here and there at cheap
groceries These are eatables for the family
for whom she tolls. including the husband
who fishes But then, in her station of life 1t
is highly respectable to have a husband, no
matter of what brand. Her neighbors can't
accuse her of being wholly destitute of at
fractions. She has captured a man; that set
ties it. No, they can't throw that insinuation
! in her face. ELLIS CLARNEL
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

] said to the business manager: why don't
you get scrub men instead of womeni 1t is
painful to me to see women do such work. 1t
isn't in the proper order of things that they
should scrub offices for men,"
"Talk about getting scrub mani said he.
There is no such thing in New York. l sup
pose there are hundreds of men in this city
who would die of hunger before they would
come in and scrub these floors at 80 a day,
or any other price"
as that what you pay the womenf'
Eyes and they are prompt collectors, tell
you. Every evening they come to the desk
for their money"
81 suppose they support famiies-a lot of
children, and husbands, doubtless, who
wouldn't demand themselves by doing such
work, or any other in all probability
"Heaven knowsl They must have some
tremendous pressure on them to keep them
licking into it as they do said the manager.
passed the "boss" scrubber a few minutes
later and stopped and spoke with her.
"You must get very tiredf l said.
dyes" she replied, in a tinid voice.
do you do this kind of work every dayp
Eyes, every day when l can get it to do"
"You have family, SUPPOSE
Eyes, have four Children She was an
American, not lrlsh and had compromised
between "childer" and children" and said
"childernr
"a husbandr7 I asked this question with a
blush of shame for my impudence, but did
want to know if she was scrubbing offices tc
support one of the superior creatures who
refuse to "demane' themselves by work.
"No-o-o," she answered, in an uncertain
tone, bending closer and scrubbing more Wig
orously than ever, while her assistant turned
her head away altogether. l made up my
mind that she had husband, but he wasnt
worth counting. He spends his summers
fishing, perhaps, like many of the laundresses
| husbands
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27


discussed by newspaper men, and which can
only be answered by practical demonstration
Certain it is that Col. Cockerill is one of the
ablest and one of the hardest working news
paper men in New York city.
Col Cockerill was born in Dayton, O., in
1S45 He first identified himself with daily
journalism as an editor of The Dayton Ledger
in 1868. Two years later he went on he staff
of The Cincinnati Enquirer, of which paper
he was made managing editor in 1872. On
account of his excellent work he was sent as
war correspondent to the Russo-Turkish war,
and furnished that paper with their brilliant
specials on war topics. In 1878 he became
connected with The Baltimore Gazette, and
in 1879 he went to st. Louis as managing ed
itor Of The ost-Dispatch. When Mr.. Pulit-
ger purchased The World in 1883 he selected
Col Cockerill as the best man in his judg-
ment TO take editorial management.
Col Cockerill is one of those newspaper
men who live at their desks He is down
every morning before II o'clock, and he
never leaves until he sees the paper ON the
press. He is always at work, reading copy,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27
THE POTENCY OF MUST"
Our Professor of Metaphysics Reads q
Chapter.
Especial correspondencc.1

Especial Correspondence
BOsTON, Aug. 1.-THE word must" says
our professor Of practical metaphysics, has,
if frequently thought of and spoken in con-
nection with your business plans, a magical
power for making these plans succeed be-
cause this word is the symbol of the thought
of power, of force, of demand of importu-
nifty. When you say, This thing MUST he
donem you create for yourself a mood of
mind which is ever attracting more power to
push your plan forward. The MUST mood Of
mind will inevitably attract to you others
who have must" in them. You will win
their confidence as they find MUST in you.
Confidence between man and man in trade
means both cash and credit.
The mood for bringing success most quickly
is not the mood of beseeching, or supplicating,
or wishing, or begging 1t is the legal mood
of MUST Don't say, II wish / had better
house. better fare, better surroundings than
those l now have Say On mind, Il MUST
have better, keep your eye on the best Look
critically on the finest things of this world,
so you can Judge well of their quality, know
ing that the MUST mood will bring them to
you. When it does, you will then know how
to make the best selection.
The thought of MUST will ever push you on
toward the thing you say you MUST have,
1t will keep bringing TO you new plans,
schemes and devices to get that thing. Such
plans need not be those of thickness or de-
ceit The power generated i'll you through
an mpeIious aspiration is a power coming of
the elements. II robs no man. 1t makes you
richer and all others richer. If you say: IL
MUST have this or that thing through deceit
full methods you employ an inferior power
of must If you say: Il must have 10
through dependence on the bounty Of
others or their endurance of me a
beggar," you employ also the inferior
power Of must. You then get the thing
you desire, but it comes with a shackle; the
shackle of the lie you told in some way to get
it or the shackle of living on another's
bounty. Mind, through the imperious and
imperial mood of MUST, can draw to itself
every really good thing. When you fling
yourself back on your own power your own
MUST, the thing desired comes to stay. If
you depend on any one else, or, in other
words, on the inferior power of must the
thing will come, but not to stay
The more you think MUST land mean it)
the more will power come to you. The
thought of must will ever push your body on
to new exertion 1t is not the body that wins
this fight it is the silent thought kept in the
mind. You will gro at last to a complete
faith in the power coming Of this thought
| You will then know how faith can really "re-
move mountains" 1t is the silent power of
must that cuts through the hills, digs canals
and builds railroads 1t is MUST that is to do
more wonderful things than these Keep the
thought of must ever in mind and you are
sending from you a real force which is Al
work for you when you sleep, when you eat,
when you play. So says our professor
| PRENTICE MULFORD
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

ut Is hard for you to be away from your
children all the time" l said
Mother lives with me and takes care of
them while I'm at work." she answered ~
don't see much of them. I'm gone when they
get up in the morning, and in the winter
they're all in bed but the oldest one when
l get home"
l turned away musing on this woman's
humble life. She was passably good looking,
but had no self-assertion and lacked intelli-
gence. Some would say that she is in that
mental position because she is fit for no
other; that she is to blame for it herself
Perhaps so. The subject is too vast for me.
l only know that those who accept mental
work must do it. Those who insist on having
something better usually get something bet
ter The theory of evolution is exemplified in
the scrub woman. She is in embryo intellect
ually She doesn't know that there are any
possibilities in her other than scrubbing and
securing ones. She spends her life on her
knees, in old, stringy clothes, wet and sandy
around the ankles. Her feet are water
soaked, her hands are wrinkled like parch
ment by constant contact with hot sudS
There are men who dislike to hear any
thing in favor of women voting, because
they would then lose their softness.n Women
are TOO llile lpI IulilB 81 coarse us pOl-
tics" they say; but it never offends them to
see women down ON their hands and knees
scrubbing out mems dirty offices They are
not too fine for that. If the pool of politics"
be any dirtier than their floors, for one am
not aware of IT, Whenever l see the scrub
women toiling away think Of these thought
full souls who want to protect women from
everything save work too mental for men to
perform,
The system of scrubbing practiced here is
an old country one. No modern Yankee in
vention has lessened the New York scrub
womans work, The split broom and the mop
are not for her. She refuses to he enlight-
ened. The old way is the only way she cares
TO know. In fact, she resents any sugges-
tons toward simplifying her toll She is in
the state of mental development which would
not permit her to respect herself if she did not
do everything the hardest way wear herself
TO the bone and draggle her clothing TO the
knees.
Women's clothing is sadly against them in
performing such work. For that reason, il
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27
THE MIND CURE
Some of the Principles Upon Which 10
IL Based.
Especial Correspondence.I


Boston, Aug. l7-Nothing Just now at
tracts so much attention as the mind cure,
and nothing could possibly be more difficult
of explanation. 1t seems to be one of thoss
things that must be absorbed rather than
learned it can be better understood than ex-
planned by its advocates. Even the teachers
of it can talk hours without uttering anything
an anxious listener can take hold of and make
practical DR.. W. F. Evans, the great head
light of mental therapeutics, in his latest
work. "ESoteric Christianity says:
LAS sickness and health are opposite and
contradictory states and cannot both he pre-
dicted OF IA man at the same time, if we can
cause him to perceive and feel that he
is not sick, he must feel that be is well, for
one must be true We have all read many
times the story Of certain medical students
making a man i'll health sick by causing him
to think and believe that he is sick. In the
phrenophatic method Of cure we simply re-
verse this process, and make the man well by
inducing him to think himself well not that
we would deny the fact of the disease a
state of his consciousness, but simply that the
immortal ego the spiritual entity and real
man. is neither diseased nor unhappy The
disease is in region OF our existence that is
below, or what means the same, is external TO
the mdn-the essentially human nature and
principle. How we may best effect this radi-
cal change in an invalids way of thinking of
himself is question of supreme mo
ment, and one which we are called
upon to answer 1t is Ia be done
by the simple power of thought, uttered in
appropriate words OF symbolic signs or unex-
pressed. There is living force and saving
energy in thought. 1t is thought which shapes
and governs the worlds, and it is our thoughts
which mold our fate for thought and exist
ence are one.
an treating patient by the mental meth
cd, with kindly positive and affirmative at
titude of mind, we are steadfastly 10 think
the truth in regard TO his inner self, and
maintain in our minds the correct idea of
ourselves and of him; and the silent sphere Of
our minds, according to the law of thought
transference, will influence him in degree
proportional to his susceptibility"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

right at first and looked like an office seeker.
But he fell into conversation with the door
keeper and had not uttered ten words before
he said that he had a new Bible to give to the
American people and he wanted the presi-
dent to introduce it
Whenever cranks become noisy or danger
GUS at the White House they are sent il pos
sible to the police station under some pre-
text And if they ask to see President Cleve-
land for some crazy purpose they are directed
to a certain street and a certain number
where they are told that it is possible the
president will be by and by. a note is some
times given them to the pretended owner Of
the house. They go. present the note, and
when they attempt to leave the room in which
they are waiting for the president they find
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

writing editorials and sketching out plans
for the advancement of the paper. Mr.
Pulitzer pays him $4,000 a year, and he is
worth it. Personally the colonel is a hand
some man, with a pale, intellectual face,
clearly cut features eyes that fairly shoot
sparks when he is in earnest-and he gen
orally is He is courteous in manner, with
the cultured politeness of the southern gentle
man, and is very popular with the men under
him. Col. Cockerill stands out in New
York journalism more prominently, perhaps,
than any other man as an exponent Of the
present rush, hurry and enterprise Of daily
newspaper work. ALLAN FoRMAN
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

or a miracle. 1t is
a series OF surprises,
and those on the in
side know tn a t
these surprises ema-
nate largely from
the ever active
brain of Col. John
a. Cockerill, the
managing editor.
hat would he
come of The World
if Cockeriu should
for any reason leave
il is a question often
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27
vengeance

THE CRANK WHO OWNED THE WHITE HOUSE.
1t is Sergt. Dinsmore who has charge of
all such men at the White House, and it
would be q crazy man indeed who would
assault Dinsmore. He is over six feet in
height, and is almost perfectly proportional,
with strong, well developed muscles and a
blue eye which shows that he will not hest
tate to use them. Still Dinsmore never uses
force when diplomacy will do just as well,
and it is often curious bow he gets rid of
dangerous characters. Not long ago man
came here who really thought he owned the
White House. He had walked from his
home somewhere in Pennsylvania, and he
came on the great portico of the presidents
mansion with his boots covered with dust
It was seen at first glance that he was q
crank and Sergt. Dinsmore told him that IL
would be inconvenient for the president TO
move just now, and he would oblge them
greatly il he would go off and call again.
Several months after this the man came
back and said he was sorry to disturb the
president, but that be could wait no longer
He was out of money and he must have his
property Upon being told that it was inn
possible to oblige him he went off threatening
70 bring the law TO bear against the presi-
dent, and started toward the attorney
generals Office.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27


WASHINGTON, Aug Washington is
the mecca of the cranls of the United States
They come from all quarters of the Union
and day rarely passes that one or more of
them are not under arrest The police de
partment of the capital has sanitary officer
who does little else than attend to this class,
and it is a light day indeed when two or
three semi-crazy men are not brought before
him. President Cleveland's marriage brought
a number of cranks to Washington, and
every new event seems TO turn out a new
class. When Garfield died the cranks were
more numerous here than they have been at
any time since then, and they seem to in
crease or diminish in proportion to the noto-
riety which any of their number attain.
The White House cranks are more numer-
Gus than those about congress or the Capitol
They come here on foot and on the cars, and
come Of them look as gentlemanly and talk as
plausibly as many of our congressman. One
class is represented by the man who is carry
ing the Union flag from one end of tho
country to the other. He generally comes
here dusty, ragged and foot-sore, and the
chances are that he does not get to see the
president at all. Last fall man called at
| the White House to see Cleveland He was a
short, dark complexioned fellow, with rusty
clothes. light blue brocaded silk scarf, and
a general air of dinginess about him. He
demanded to see the president and said that
he wanted the command of the navy Of the
| United States. Cleveland had been nomi-
mated through his aid, and it was through the
mathematical combination of his brain that
he had been elected. He was very indignant
when he was sent away and went off vowing
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27
WOMEN WHO SCRUB OFFICE FLOORS.
How They are Paid-How They Dress
and Live,

New YORK, Aug. 17-In one of the large
publishing houses of this city two women are
constantly busy scrubbing the floors. You
pass them on the stairs, mere bundles of be-
draggled clothing and weary flesh, crouching
close to the wall to keep from being stepped
upon. They are to be seen again and again
crawling over the big floors on their knees,
brush in hand, securing every inch, and then
wiping up the suds with a cloth. The only
variation they have is carrying the hot water
up two, and sometimes three, long flights of
stairs.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

When Hayes was president crank came
TO the White House who had gone crazy on
religion. He called himself the Red Man Of
the Revelations and told the doorkeeper that
his business was making presidents, and that
he would unmake President Hayes as be had
made him In Arthur's term German came
to the White House, and asked TO see the
president and Gen. Logan. He said he was
the original Jonah who had been swallowed
by the whale, and had bill which he wanted
congress TO pass for his benefit He was
handed over to the police, but the doctors
found him harmless, and he was sent homo
with the flea that his bill would I've passed.
Some years ago a crank came TO the eXecu-
tive mansion with a great bundle of man =
script urder lis lln. He appeared to lie a.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27
JOHN A. COCkERlLL.

A Western Journalist and His Work in
New York.
Especial Correspondence
New YORK, Aug lin many respects
The New York World Is a mystery to the
average newspaper man. The quidnuncs are
at a loss whether to regard it as IA mushroom
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27

Writing from the mountains a correspond
ent says: There is something in the hearing
OF lover of nature that is unmistakable, 1t
is like the distinction between a gentle. an
and an ordinary person. The step, thu -.
the atmosphere is different
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1886-08-27
WASHINGTON CRANKS.
THE CURIOUS CHARACTERS WHO
SWARM ABOUT THE CAPITAL.

white House Cranks-The Crank Book
Buyer-rhe Knight of Airy Castle-The
Man Who Pads-How Cranks Are Dis
posed of. Etc.