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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23

made the saddle of his horse was the real
cause of his death, as being Of poor
material, it broke when he attempted to
mount, and think there is as much sense
in that view of the case as to blame any
one of Us, with the exception of Lieut.
Cary perhaps. After old Cetewayo had
been captured and the war brought
to a close plain marble monument was
sent out from England TO be erected
on the spot where the prince fell. My
chum and I were of the party, as we were
also when the Empress Eugene came
out shortly after to see the place where
her son had met an untimely death. Col.
Stewart had command of the escort and
[ was given charge of the mule train that
took her and attendants from Fort Dur
ban. Learning that 1 was the last white
man who saw the prince alive, she piled
me with questions about the affair, and
never, so far as I knew, did she express
any censure. She never wearied in list
ening to the accounts given Of her sons
sayings and doings while with Us. 1t
took Us about week to 60 from the port
to thu place where the monument had
been erected, and we stopped the first
night at the very spot of
STEWARDS OLD ENCAMPMENT.
"The next morning we went on foot TO
the monument. When We got into its
vincjnity, and before We came in sight of
it, having been selected as guide, stop
ped to indicate to the commander that
we were near to it around the hill, and
that perhaps had better stay there while
the party went on. He motioned me.
however to proceed. A few more step
brought the party in sight of the stone,
and the empress ran forward and, clasp
ing the monument with her hands, burst
into tears and exclaimed in French:
"'Why did they do it? On, why did
they do it,"
eve all stood with uncovered heads,
and the most of the party were in tears.
The grief of the empress was so intense
chat in a short time it became necessary
to remove her from the spot, and the
surgeon and chaplain assisted her back
to camp. Every day for nearly week
that we staid there this scere was re-
enacted, until at last it was advisable on
account of the effect it was having on the
health of the empress to go back, and
against her will she was reluctantly COM
PEELED to come away.
81 have a medal given me by the en-
press as a memento, which is priced very
highly, you may be sure. / may here say
that Cary tried to make it out that the
party at the time of the prince imperial's
death was fred into by mUsketry, but
there is not one word of truth in that
story
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
What 1t Is to Be Forty.

To discover Il sprinkle of craNin your beard.
And thinnesS of crop where the upland is
cleared:
To note how you take to your slippers and
And 6ug to the fire when you get home from
town;
All, that's what it is TO be forty.
: sleigh ride, party. dance or dine;
Why, of course you'll be present, you never
decline:
But, alas! there's no invite, you're notyoung
folks. you see;
You're no longer a peach, but a crab apple
tree;
All, that's what it is to be forty
a daughter that grows like a lily, queen.
And that blooms Ike g rose IN Il garden OF
green.
A dapper young clerk in an ice cream saloon.
B tn dude and Ounce is to carry off soon:
And boy that Is ten, and the pride of your
eye.
Is caught smoking vile cigarettes on the sly
All, that's what it is to be forty.
At twenty a man dreams of power and fame;
A thirty his fire has a sOberer fame;
: forty his dreams and visions are DER.
And he knows that he feels as ne'er did be-
fore
That a man is fool till he's forty.
Boston Daily Advertiser.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
OYERWORKED.
BY ELLA WHEELER.

Un with the birds in the early morning
The dewdrops glow like precious gem;
Beautiful rnts in the skies are dawning.
But she's never moment TO look AT them.
The men are wanting their breakfast early;
She must not finger. she must not wait:
For words that are sharp and looks that are
Are what the men give when the meals are late.
Oh, glorious colors the clouds are turing,
If She would but look over hills and trees:
But here are the dishes, and here is the churn-
Those things always must yield to these
TIE world is filed With the wine OF beauty
If she could but pause and drink it in;
But pleesuere, she says, must wait for duty
Negected work is committed sin.
The day grows hot, and her lands grow weary;
Oh. for an hour to cool her head,
Out with the birds and winds so CHEEKY!
But she must get dinner and make her bread.
The busy men in the hay field working,
If they saw her sitting with idle hand,
Woald think her lazy, and call it shirking,
And she never could make them understand.
They do not know that her heart within her
Hungers for beauty and thing sublime.
They only know that they want their dinner,
Plenty Of 1t, and just ION time"
And after the sweeping and churning and bak-
ing,
And dinner dishes are all put by,
She sits and sews, though her head is acking,
Till the time for supper and chores draws
nigh.
Her boys at school must look like others,
She says, as she patches their frocks ana hose
For the world is quick to cenSure mothers
For the least neglect of their childrens clothes.
Her husband comes from the field of labor.
He gives no praise to his weary wife:
She's done no more than has her neighbour;
IT'S the lot of all in country life.
But after the strife and weary tussle
With life is done, and she lies at rest
The nations brain and heart and muscle
Her sons and daughters-shall call her blest
And Think the sweetest joy of h ayen,
The rare:t bliss of eternal life,
And the fairest crown of all, will be given
Unto the wayworn farmers wife,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
A Firm Believer in His State.

Congressman Dougherty of Florida
is firm believer in the superior at
fractions of his State, as the following
true story will testify: On one occa.
sion a Massachusetts man was his
guest, and the Congressman took hin
around, showing him the charms ma
ture had so lavishly bestowed upon
the favored section.
''See," said Col. Dougherty, rap
turously, ''the beautiful flowers, the
luscious fruits, the soft blue sky, the
birds of brilliant plumage, the gentle
fluctuations of the land"
80, yes, l see" replied the practical
Yankee, slapping his face and hands;
Il see, but these Internal mosquitoes
ruin the prospect.
"Why, my dear sir" expostulate&
Dougherty, "there are no mosquitoes
here. You are totally mistaken. You
only think So"
The visitor wouldn't be persuaded,
however, and after an argument, en-
phasized by slaps, he accepted a bet
of $50 from his host that he (the host}
would take off all his clothes and lie
on his face in the sand for ten minutes
duu HOI NC ulSJuEDeu DN the MOSQUI-
toes, nor show the slightest sign of dis
comfort.
The Congressman peeled down to
the skin, Frustrated himself, and the
visitor stood over him holding a watch
with one hand and fighting the pests
with the other.
For five, six, seven minutes Dough-
erty lay there. covered with mosqui-
toes, but betraying not the slightest
emotion. The visitor by this time
thought he was going to lose his fifty,
and, with great sagacity, took a sun
glass from his pocket and focused the
rays on the Congressman's back For
a quarter of minute DoughertY never
fiinched, then he began to squir@n.
The Yankee kept perfectly still. Ia
three-quarters of minnie DoughertF
was comforting like man in agony.
and stretching back one hand appeal
ingly to the visitor he called out:
Say, Boston, if you'll let me kill
that id yellow-jacket I'll go you $50
more on the mosquitoes. = flashing
ton Critic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23

rivers and canals supplying the latter.
Beef is almost unknown, except in TIE
foreign settlements, and berries are rare;
mutton is plentiful; pork, poultry and
eggs are abundant. Dome este animals,
except dogs, are not common. Horses
are scarce, mules are numerous, cattle in
small numbers, but focks and herds are
unknown. The rational habit is opposed
to change, and SO the nation of 500, 00O,-
600 souls goes on III 'the good old way"
The United States broke the spell of
centuries IN japan. L may yet do the
same for China. We go for trade and
progress, other nations for trade and
conquest and colonies, and the Chinese
leaders are beginning to understand
this.
A modernized agriculture, and the gem
ecal introduction of railroad and wagon
service, would reiuvenate the decaying
'sFIowery land" which is q bald misnomer
for land destitute of flowers aud shrubs,
treeless, and with a dull heroage that CON
trasts so strongly with the culture that
has made the American continent to
blossom like the rose" and to be rich in
various products that it's enterprise bears
20 all parts of the civilized world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Chinese Farmers and China's Progress
American Agriculturist.

There are reasons TO believe that the
trade of this country with China will soon
grow to majestic Dimensions. Of the
S7,5O0,000 of exports to China in the last
fiscal year, nearly S5,oO0,00O worth was of
distinctiyely agricultural products, and of
their manufacture. OF the remainder,
the largest share was mineral oil. The
Chinese Commission in the United States,
this year is charged especially with the
promotion of banks, telegraph and tele-
phone lines. behind which looms up the
extension Of canals, the introduction of
railroads, of agricultural machinery, and
of such of our products as China needs,
and she has need of many. Her home
garden products, aside from tea, are
wheat. millet, garden vegetables, grapes,
etc. The food of China is mostly vege-
tables and fsh-the extensive sea coast,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
Parsnip FrittefS.

A very nice way to cook parsnips is as
fritters. Take three large parsnips boiled
till soft, scrape and mash fine, picking
out all Servings and Jumps; add two beaten
eggs, two tablespoonful of new milk
and two of sifted -four, an even teaspoon
full of salt and quarter of a teaspoonful
of pepper; mix thoroughly; make INTO
small cakes, -four them and fry brown
in butter or oil; eat with butter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
IN THE GOOD YEAR 1888.
A Glance at Some of the Changes in the Course
of Century.

A Glance at Some of the Changes III the Course
of a Century.
Within the past hundred years the
changes that have taken place in the
social and political state of Europe are
most astounding. A hundred years ago
the unfortunate Louis XVI. WIS still &C.
cupying the throne of his ancestors. The
first French revolution, the precursor CT
so many successors, had yet begun. The
great Napoleon was an unknown officer
of artillery. Germany, now the most
powerful Continental nation, was a con-
geries OF petty States. Austria ruled the
Italian States with rod of iron. Greece
was the slave of Turkey, and Algiers a
nest of pirates. We speak of the good
old times, and some, with Leigh Hunt,
say:
All times when cid are good.
but, despite the pressure of over popula-
ton, there is no doubt that the condition
of the great bulk of the people is much
more satisfactory than one hundred
years ago.
A journal of q century ago describes a
prize fight on the stage Of the Haymarket
Theater between a German swordsman,
brought over specially by the Duke of
Cumberland and an Irishman, who, his
wounds having been sewn up, succeeded
in killing his antagonists in the presence
OF the young nobility.
Then as to the full dress OF a gentle
man III 17GO. On the Queens birthday
George III. appeared in cinnamon
colored coat, embroidered with gold,
silver and diamonds, and the Prince of
Wales in most magnificent suit of pop
Ply colored satin covered with silver
colored epangies and paste beads. The
mobiles present initiated the tawnry inery
Of the court. There was, however, one
redeeming character-Mr. Pitt, the Prime
Minister, appeared in meat dress of
black"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
An Unfortunate Man.

where are you going, Quimby?"
I'm going for a carpenter to fix the
roof of my house. There's hole in il
as big as tub.
why, you are hiring carpenters
every day or two.
II know 1t. | have horrible luck
just had the house shingled a month
ago and now half the roof is gone"
How did it happen?'
MY wife lit the fire with kerosene and
was blown through it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23

George" she said, and her man
ner betrayed anxiety, ''what has come
over papa of late? He treats you
coldly ard evidently tries to avoid
YOU" He borrowed SO CT me q
couple of weeks ago." explained
George.-NeW York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
"Weu, women are stranger

They are debating at the club
whether life is worth the living. Old
soak-I have enjoyed all the pleasures
of life. Young bloke-Have you ever
been sober.-IOlglr Topics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
SURPRISED BY THE zULUs.

We found the dead horse of the prince,
full of assegais, but he was nowhere to be
seen. 1t was supposed even that he had
been taken prisoner, and We returned to
camp and reported. In about an hour a
Zulu bearing white flag on ramrod
came into camp and informed the com
mander that the prince had been killed,
shey not knowing who he was, and that
mis- body, if wanted, would be delivered
at the place where he was slain. de-
tachment of six men was sent ont and the
body was found where the Zulus had
placed it. Everything had been taken
from IT. There were several wounds upon
it and an eye had been gouged out. Maj.
Stewart was told by the ZulH who bore
tho flag of truce shat if the body was sent
to the coast under an escort it would not
be molested. It was accordingly taken
TO England. There was q court-martial
TO determine who was to blaim, if any
oody. Lieut.. Cary, who was the first one
TO ice VII the Zulus came out of tbs
WOODS upon Us, got off on technical
GROUNDS. have no doubt those high In
authority would have been glad had we
all persisted. SO that there could have been
no chance to blame any of the English
soldiers. 1t has been said the man who
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-02-23
A Good Thing for Boys.
American MAGAZINE


Manual training is one of the few good
things that are good for everybody. 1t is
good for the rich boys, to teach him re-
spect for the dignity of beautiful work.
1t is good for the poor boy to increase
his facility for handling tools, if tools
prove TO be the thing he must handle for
living afterwards. It is good for the
bookish boy TO draw him away from his
books. But, most of all it is good for
the non-bookish boy, IN showing him
that there is something he can do we'll.
The boy utterly unable even if he were
studious to keep PIP in book knowledge
and percentage with the brighter boys,
becomes discouraged, dull and moody.
Let him go to the workroom for an hour
and find that he can make a box or
plane rough piece OF board as well as
the brighter scholar, nay, very likely
better than his brighter nejghbor, and
you have given him an impulse of self
respect that is of untold benefit to him
when he goes back to his studies. He
will be q brighter and better boy for
finding ont something that he can do
well. Mind you, it is not planning the
board that does him good; it is planning
the board in the presence of the other
boys who can no longer look down upon
him when they see how well he can plane.
lie might go home after school and plane
board in the bosom of his family, or 90
to an evening school to learn to plane,
without quarter part, nay, without any
Of the invaluable effects upon his man
hood that it will have to let him plane
side by side with those who in mental
attainmeuts may be his superiors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-12
ANOTHER KICK.
The Preachers Protest a Recent
Order of the President.

Special to the Globe.
CLEVELAND, O., May 11.-At the state
meeting of the Congregational associa-
tion, of Ohio. held at 'Tallamadge, Sum-
NIT county, the action of the president
in forbidding the use of the native Ian
guage in Indian mission schools was de-
nounced and resolutions were adopted
as follows: eve do hereby respect
fully but earnestly protest against what
seems to US the unwarranted and
despotic usurpation of power on the part
OF the national government in forbid
ding the use of the Indian vernacular in
those independent mission schools with
which the government has no connec-
ton, and for which it has no response
bility; that we cannot wonder that our
devoted teachers and missionaries in
such schools should feel justified in
going on as usual with their good work
in utter disregard of this impracticable
and unTAmerican order, which smacks
of the spirit of the Turkish and Russian
governments, rather than that of the
constitution of the United States. And
we further suggest that it might be wise
for the American Missionary associa-
ton, in case the Indian commissioner
should attempt to enforce the order, to
try the eXpedient of having served upon
him an injunction to the end that the
validity of the order might be tested in
the supreme court"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-12

moved to Ohio, and while there was
nearly burned to death, from which she
did not recover for over a year. Several
years later they removed still farther
West, enduring all the hardships of
frontier life, and again settled on
claim in McHenry county, ILL.,, where
they. accumulated considerable money
for those days. In 1856 they again took
the Western fever, and came to Mime
sofa, taking up claim on the prairie, one
mile from the beautiful Lake Elysian,
IN LIE Sueur county, making that their
final home, taking in many a WORKOUT
traveller seeking a home in the Far
West. She always had great sympathy
for any one in need, and has helped
many neighbor with her hand and
purse, not forgetting the poor, hungry
Indian as he passed by. Her home was
always open for preaching services, and
was quite a hotel for ministers for
number of years. Since the death of
her husband, six years ago, she has
lived with her eldest daughter, Mrs. A.
n. Roberts, at Waterville. She has five
children living, all in Minnesota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-12
STATE OF TRADE.
A Combination Of Events Causes
Prospects Less Favorable.

n combination OF Events causes
Prospects Less Favorable.
NEW YORK, May 11.-R. g. Dun &
Co., in their weekly review. say: Gold
exports, the advance in Bank of England
rates, and bad crop reports have made
the business prospect less favorable.
The advance by the bank to per cent
instead of 215, which was expected, dis
closed, a strong desire to arrest move
ments of capital in this direc-
hardly justified as yet by ex-
change rates, showed the belief of
bankers that check in foreign pur-
chases would presently make consider
able specie exports necessary. The
high price and deficient yield of wheat
strengthened the impression that mer-
chandise exports would not increase
sufficiently to prevent the outgo of gold.
At the same time the failure of
the treasury for several days to
obtain bonds at the price it is willing to
pay, revived the fear of withdrawal of
money. Thus far, at all events, the
treasury has succeeded in paying out
more than it has taken in; $3,400,000
more during the past week. But the
excess of revenue will soon be felt, I'M
less the secretary sees fit to advance
prices paid for bonds. AT present,
money markets in all directions are
fairly OF fully supplied. Crop and in
dustrial reports are not entirely en-
encouraging. The condition of wheat
May l, officially estimated at 70, indi-
Gates loss of about 100000 bushels
winter wheat, and with significant an
ticipation of the news. the market
rose 3 cents in a day to 81
on Wednesday, with great excite
ment. When the report came on
Thursday, also realizing of profits broke
down the price cent, but the struggle
between Chicago bulls and New York
bears is likely to make the market act
i've for some time. There was an adj
vance of ~ cents for the week. The
natural increase in spring wheat has
yet to be estimated, and it may be ell
larged by the reports of shortage in win
ter wheat, so that the entire yield and
the surplus remaining from this year
may yet prove sufficient for all require
ments. Corn and oats rose but slightly,
and pork products show no important
change. Cotton manufacture is more
hopeful: the price of print cloths rises
to 3.69, and the demand for staple goods
is strong. The business failures during
the last seven days, number. for the
United States, 1872; Canada, II; total,
209; compared with 234 last week, and
167 for the corresponding week of last
wear.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-12
A Slight Correction.

To the Editor of the Globe.
l have been very much annoyed, and
my law business seriously affected, by
announcements in newspapers that
have removed from st. Paul to st. Peter
to run for congress in the Second dis
trict. Win you permit me the use of
your columns so far as to say this is all
right, except in one or two particulars.
First, my residence for thirty-two years
past, and still is, st. Peter. Second, my
law office is, and expect for some time
will be, 1913 Wabasha street, st. Paul.
Third, | am nOta candidate for congress
under any circumstances. but hope nv
old friend, Hon. Nj. S. Wilkinson. NAV
lend honor to the position. 1t needs it.
l have the honor to be, very respectfully
your obedient servant.
f. ST. JULIEN Cox.
st. Paul, Mimi, May IL.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-12
CARLETON COLLEGE.
Hints Regarding the Work of a
Successful Institution.

successful institution.
The annual catalogue of Carleton col
lege appears, as usual, few weeks be-
fore the close of the college year, CIV
ing, in condensed form, such informa-
ton as it's patrons and the public gen
orally may wish to receive. Twenty
two prominent business and profess
siOnai men form its board of trustees.
Nineteen professors and teachers COM
pose its faculty. 1t is Christian, but not
sectarian. Its collegiate department is
modelled upon the plan of the best col
legeS in the country, and strictly main
tains their standard of scholarship; but,
in accordance with the latest ideas in
education, it offers, besides the regula-
ton classical course, a literary and sci
entific course, in which other studies are
substituted, in part or In whole,
for the classics. All courses
are open to ladies ON the same
terms as to gentlemen. A prepare
tory department fits students for the
collegiate course. An English academy
department provides an excellent four
years academic course, and the musical
department is admirably furnished and
conducted. The institution has cam
pus of over thirty acres, a good set of
buildings, considerable productive
endowment, and an equipment excel
lent in all departments and exception
ally complete in some. A new obsery-
atory, said to be the most complete one
in the Northwest, has been finished dur
ing the last year. The director, Prof.
Payne. has long been at the head OF the
government weather and signal service
for the state, and of the railway time
service of the Northwest. A substan-
tial indication of the confidence inspired
by the college is its roll of 314 students
for the current year.