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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
The Terrible TcherkesSes.

The TcherkeSseS term now most
used in Europe to designate the differ
ent Caucasian tribes-are a wild, bel
licose, and rapacious nation. The
Tcherkess is a warrior in his very soul,
sly, cruel, and blood-thirsty. The suf-
ferings of an enemy awaken in him
only sensual smile of enjoyment. He
fortunes his prisoner, kills him, and
mutilates him terribly. How many
loved comrades have / found with their
arms twisted out of joint and other
parts of their bodies cut off and stuck
in their mouths! The Tcherkess is not
fanatic, but be is a great fatalist; and
now he is in the Russian service he at
tacks with the same ruthless ardor and
blOod-thirstiness the Mussulman with
whom thirty years ago he used to fight
side by side against the Russians. He
always seeks to attack his enemy on
the sly, but when he does not succeed
in surprising him, he dashes upon him
and displays prodigious courage.
Tcherkess boys are trained from their
tenderest years to ride and handle
weapons. The Tcherkess horseman
will rush at full gallop into a small
courtyard, and not turn his horse I'M
til he strikes his nose against the wall.
In the same way he will gallop toward
a precipice, and turn his horse only
when his forefeet are over the abyss.
All the Tcherkess games and dances
are of warlike nature. One of the
most picturesque sights one can i'm
agine is a Tcherkess fete, when these
tall, dark-skinned men, handsome and
muscular, with their swords and pom
iards drawn, execute their favorite
dance, the ''Lesginka, around fire,
which, with its red glare, lights up
their strong features and illumines the
surrounding woods and rocks. A
favorite game is to leap on horseback
over the fire when the flame is at its
highest. All the natives of the eau
casus carry arm up to the present day.
and the Russian government finds 1t
prudent not to interfere with this
usage. Still it must appear strange to
one who travels for the first time in the
Caucasus to find himself surrounded by
people who are all armed to the teeth.
Doubtless the Caucasus is pacifed. but
travelling there is not completely safe.
The Tatares and Kurds in the southern
Caucasus, and the Jangouches in the
northern districts, often indulge in
brigandage.
In European warfare the Tcherkesses
are very useful on outpost duty and as
skirmishers. Even in open battle they
can make very successful charges. In
the last Turkish campaign it happened
once that a trench occupied by the
Turks was attacked by battalion Of
infantry, but the deadly fire prevent
ing them from r aching the intrench-
ments, order was given to the JAN
gouche militia to mount to the attack,
and they simply dashed upon the enc
my like hurricane, leaped over the
defences, and massacred the Turks in
side.-Harper's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
How He Remembered 1t.

An enthusiastic young horse owner
in Maine has several crack colts, also
a fine family of boys, of whom he
is justly proud, but like many other
fathers he is bothered to remember
their ages. The other day he sur
prised his wife by giving the exact age
of one of the babies to a day. Why
how came you to remember that?' she
asked Don't you remembers" re-
piled the fond father, che was born on
the same day as our two-year-old colt"
Lea0iSt0m Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
A Legend.

There has come to my mind legend, thing L
had half forgot,
And whether I read it or dreamedit alb WELL it
matters not.
It is said that in Heaven, at twilight, great
bell softly swings
And man may listen and hearken to the Won
derful music that rings.
If he put from his hearts inner chamber all
the passion, pain and strife,
Heartache and weary longing that throb in the
pulses of life
IF he thrust from his soul all hatred, all
thoughts of wicked things,
He can hear IN the holy twilight how the bell
of the angels rings.
And I think there lies in this legend, If we open
our eyes to see,
Somewhat of an inner meaning, my friend, to
you and tome.
Let US look in our hearts and question, can
pure thoughts enter in
To soul if it be already the dwelling OF
thoughts of sin?
So, then, let us ponder little-let US look in
our hearts and see
If the twilight bell of the angels could ring for
us-you and me.
Rose Osborne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
Corn in Egypt

When famine swept the country, and the tabled
Horn
OF Plenty was exhausted. and there wasn't any
corn,
Jacob called his sons together and told the ED
est boy
That in far-distant Egypt-not Egypt, Illinois,
But that other ancient country where the OK
Nile water drinks,
Celebrated for its mummies, its pyramids, and
sphinx
In Egypt there was plenty; they must the
journey make
To purchase the material for their daily john
ny cake.
"And without corn, said Benjamin. in a voice
as soft as silk,
"How can we our appetites indulge in mush
and milk?a
without it, too another cried. ''our dad will
miss his horn"
And Jacob beamed upon him and acknowl-
edged the corn.
-"Girls" in Texas Siftings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
Scotchmen in America.

The Rev. Malcolm MacGregor of
New York thinks there never will be
what would technically be called a
Scotch vote" in this country. He
says: ''Scotchmen have so thoroughly
identified themselves with the various
interests of this country that they have
never occasioned the slightest sectional
feeling, and have been treated so well
in this country that they have never
had ground for complaint.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
Insurance Against BurgIaries.

For two years past there has been an
insurance company against burglaries
fourishing in London. According to
the new rates you can insure the con-
tents of your residence. or the damage
to it through burglary, or any special
article you desire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20
The Lance.

The experiments which have been
made with view to the revival of the
lance in the French army are not re-
garded as satisfactory, and it has been
decided, therefore, that the project
shall be abandoned altogether.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20

Several calculating machines receiv-
ed the gold medal at the Paris EXPOSE
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20

Thirteen cords of wood were sawed
from a single tree in Colerain township,
Lancaster county, Pennsylvania.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-02-20

The natives of the Fiji Islands have
taken up the game of cricket.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
PITH AND POINT.

4 good word is an easy obligation;
but not to speak i'll, requires only our
silence, which costs US nothing.
The world is seldom so badly fooled
as when it accepts man at his own es-
innate of himself Milwaukee Jour-
nal.
An honest man who lacks Judgment,
is more dangerous than thief who has
discretion.-Opie P. Read.
Every man should have good
opinion of himself. Hemay find it hard
to persuade other people to perform
this arduous duty for him.-Somerville
Journal.
The power of the mind over the
body is immense. Let that power be
called forth, let it be trained and exer-
cised, and vigor both of mind and body
will be the result.
You never know until the big man
who licked you has turned the corner
how many men there was in the crowd
whose sympathies were with you in the
fght.-Atchison Globe.
Amidst the worlds babbling we are
often wishing for period Of silence, and
longing for the wings of dove to carry
Us to place of rest, And yet how soon
the solitude disgusts US and makes US
hurry back to the haunts of men,
United Presby terian.
If you want to look for heroes in
our day you must go down to the
kitchen, you must go to the sewing
attlcs, you must go where persons en-
dure every thing almost without MUIR
muir, where they divide their penny
with their parents, and work on through
days and months and years, and die in
wretchedness and neglect.-The Old
Homestead.
Every useful invention has been
carried out and perfected by the CO op-
GRAFTON of many minds, or by the sue
cessive applications of varied genius to
the same object, age after age The
mechanic must aid the philosopher, or
he must stand still in his demonstra-
tions; and the philosopher must aid the
mechanic, or he will work and work
without wisdom.-Once a Week.
The higher or more elevated a per-
son gets in life the more responsibility
is encountered. Hence it is doubtful if
any greater happiness is had in one con-
dltion of life than another, providing a
person has respect for himself, and will
do what he honestly feels to be right,
the only method, by the way, of deter
mining what right is. Nature will not
allow human being any rest, and just
as fast as knowledge is obtained it must
be utilized in order to maintain a uni
form degree of happiness House
hold.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
THE ANGRY WORD.

Weary and heartsick from work and pain,
Was 1t any wonder the hard word camef
With childrens clamor and heavy care,
1t seemed that mine was the 'lion's share"
And John, with look that told he heard,
Went on to his work with calm absurd.
Weary and heartsick all Of the day,
The heavy hours went slowly away,
The night came down. but no john returned,
To where the hearth-fir sulktly burned;
gave the children their supper and bed,
And crouched by the Goals with an aching head.
o was it dream-that seemed to be John
So weary and painfully hammering on,
Seemed to be laboring over my strength,
Till the long, long day was over at length,
With cruel words and haunting sheer
Flung often at him by the overseerf
was it dream that the day now DER,
They doubled his task and abused him more,
That the patient mind had but one refrain,
81 bear, for my home and the living to gains"
But the word had spoken sEld its smart,
And was like fire in the patient heart.
step on the stair! John has returned
The sulky fire now more brightly has burned,
A leap in my heart moves me on to the door,
1 sob in the arms of my darling once more;
o never again by a word or a sign
VIII I claim that his burden is lighter than
mine.
Detroit Free Press
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
WIT AND WISDOM.

To know how to be silent is more
difficult and more profitable than to
know how to speak.
The trouble with cheerful people is
that their cheerfulness is so hard to
snub.-Atchison Globe.
There was never crank born that
a shrewd worker didn't turn 'it'' to his
own uses.-Ashland Press.
-SuspiciouspeOple torture themselves
while those they are afraid of are calmly
Observation-Disclosures journal.
"A man is known by the company he
does not keep, in a measure, as we'll as
by the company he does keep.-N. o.
Picayune.
The human heart is like feather
bed. 1t must be roughly handled, we'll
shaken and exposed to variety of
turns, to prevent 1t becoming hard.
-Timidity creates towards and never
wins success. 1t is aFtrong and abiding
faith in ones own ability to perform
which overcomes difficulties that others
think can not be surmounted.
The truest successes in life are not
those into which people fall by accident,
or those which they win by single bold
stroke, but those into which they grow
by a slow and sure unfolding of capac-
ity and power.
In all our active service we do best
when working in company with our
friends. Retirement is necessary, but
coming out from it to be workers to-
gether," is the rule of our efficiency
United Presbyterian.
The hours we pass with happy pros
poets in view, are more pleasing than
those crowned with fruition. In the
first case, we cook the dish to our own
appetite; in the latter, nature cooks it
for us.-The Household.
1t is the perversity of human nature
that makes the things Immortality dear
er to us in proportion as they fade from
our hopes, like birds, whose hues are
only unfOlded when they take wing and
vanish amid the skies.-Owen Meredith
The stranger who insists on giving
you his confidence, either takes you for
fool and is trying to play on your Gre
0ulity, or else he wants to warm him
self at fire kindled by his own vanity,
and for which you furnish the fuel
Opie P. Reid.
"A rich man is he who lives upon
what he has, owes nothing and is con-
tented, for there is no determinate sum
OF money, no quantity of estate thatc
make man rich, since no man is truly
rich that has not so much as perfectly
satiates his desire of having more; for
the desire of more is want, and want is
poYertY.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Rights of a citizen in His Rome.

The citizen may, in his own home,
wear what clothes he likes, use what
language he likes, and, generally
speaking, may do in his own home
what he pleases to do; save only the
things which conflict with what some
other householder happens to please at
the same time, or the things of which
the consequences would be injurious to
the whole body of citizens. In Boston,
for instance, he may, in his own house,
swear freely, which he can not do out
side withou committing misdemeanor;
in Washing on he may take thename
Of the Trinity in vain, while if he does
it in the streets, he renders himself
liable to be ned two hogsheads of tobac-
co; and in Maine and Kansas, if he can get
wine and beer into his house he NAV
drink it without let or hindrance, and
without a physicians certificate
Scribner's Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30

rose Tom said, gravely: Gentlemen,
will you kindly step into the parlor for
moment?"
Dick gave him a quick look, but the
grimly set face afforded him no COM
fort. When all were seated Tom rose,
advanced to the center of the room and
announced: Gentlemen, we have a
traitor in our midst-or at least one who
stands in danger of becoming traitor.
Gentlemen, to-day l saw pointing at
Dick whose face had grown CHASTITY
white-''to-day saw"
You saw something very interesting,
no doubt" interrupted musical voice,
and 10! in the doorway was strange APP
partition. 1t was the red-haired girl in
the very sweetest of complicated sum-
mer costumes, and as she moved for
ward there appeared in the rear three
| other girls, the statuesque beauty from
Vassar, the black-eyed Maud, and Title,
dIminutive blonde, with dimple in
either cheek.
My Paw" went on the red-haired
girl, without deigning to notice the
dazed establishment of the devoted four,
| wants to buy this house, and he sent me
over to find out who the owner is? ooh
Tot, may Heaven forgive your gasped
the Vassar girl didn't quite like to
come alone so brought some of my friends
for company. What? Are you acquaint-
ed? Why, how funny! l do declare,
there's my old friend Dick! Its too nice
for any thing Say, who does own the
house?'
In about five minutes some one had pro-
posed dance, but the red-haired girl OBJ
lected because there was no chaperon.
An appealing glance from the Vassar girl
sent Tom hurrying into the kitchen
whence he presently returned with the
Anticipated colored lady who, ne said,
would take great pleasure in chaperon-
ing the party.
So, while one couple supplied the
music the other three danced, and the
Anticipated colored lady sat in a big
armchair grinning like a Cheshire cat
and beating time on the carpet with her
big old feet.
When four people enter into COM
pact and all get sick of it at once there
is no special sin in smashing it.
The lesses of South Side residence
will soon be trying to sublet it.-Harold
K. Vynne, in Chicago Journal
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
JOHN ADAMS PUPILS.
Lively Description of His school and
Certain Thoughts ThereupOn.


| Certain Thoughts Thereupon.
After taking the degree of Bachelor
of Arts at Harvard, John Adams taught
school at Worcester, Mass. In the fol-
lowing letter, written March Is, 1855,
he gives a lively description of his
school and certain thoughts thereupon.
The letter is to Judge Richard Cranch,
of Boston:
81 sometimes in my sprightly mo-
ments consider myself in my great
chair at school as some dictator at the
head of Commonwealth. In this little
State | can discover all the great gem
fuses, all the surprising actions and rev.
Olutions of the great world in minia-
ture.
! Il have several renowned Generals
but three feet high, and several deep
projecting politicians in petticoats. I
have others catching and dissecting
flies, accommodating remarkable pebbles,
cooked shells, ETC., with as ardent Curl
Osity as any virtuoso in the Royal So
ciety.
Some rattle and thunder out A, B,
c, etc, with as much fire and impetuos-
ity as Alexander fought, and very often
sit down and cry as heartily upon being
0utspelt as Caesar did when at Alexan-
ders sepulcher he recollected that the
Macedonian hero conquered the world
before his age.
''At one table sits Mr.. Insipid, fop-
ping and futtering, spinning his whir-
ligig or playing with his fingers, as gaily
and wittily as any Frenchified coxcomb
brandishes his cane or rattles his snuff
box. At another sits the polemical d.
vine, plodding and wrangling in his
mind about Adams fall in which we
sinned all as his primer has it.
in short, rny little school, like the
great world, is made up of kings, poll
ticians, divines, LII. DIS, tops, buffoons,
hddlers, sycOphants, fools, coxcombs
chimney -sweepers and every other char
AFTER drawn in history or seen in the
world. Is it not then the highest pleas
ure to preside in this little world, to be-
stow the proper applause upon virtuous
and generous actions, to blame and pun
18Th every vicious and contracted trick, to
tear out of the tender mind every thing
that is mean and little, and fire the
newborn soul with a noble ardOr and
emulation? The world affords no greater
pleasure. youths Companion.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
BANKRUPT PRINCES.
German Magnates VINO Have Recently
Been Declared Insolvent.

German Magnates VINO Have Recently
Been Declared Insolvent.
Bankruptcy appears to be becoming
fashionable among the great Princes of
Germany. Within the last two months
Prince Albert, of the sovereign house of
Waldeck; Prince Charles, of the reign
ing family of Liechtenstein, and Prince
Trautmannsdorff, have all three been
declared insolvent debtors and placed
"unter curatelIe," and now Prince
Frederick ". of Salmiyrburg has been
subjected to similar ignominy.
Forty-four years of age and the pos
SCISSOR of numerous titles, including
that of Rhinegrave and of a similar
Spanish Grandee of the first class, his
debts at present amount to about So
900, 900. During the course of the legal
proceedings it was shown that until his
fathers death he had been forced to
content himself with a paltry allowance
of $1,000 per annum, which, although
possibly sufficient for the wants of an
ordinary mortal, was far from adequate
for high and mighty Prince, who re-
fuses to smoke any thing but Havana
stances, it is not surprising that it
should have been tobacco merchant
who first instituted the steps that
finally landed His Highness in
the Bankruptcy Court, and re-
suited in his being placed ''un-
ter curatelle." This 'unter curatelle"
condition is one that is exceedingly I'M
pleasant. 1t is equivalent to declara-
ton of perpetual minority, and the per-
son on whom it is imposed is not only
declared incapable of managing his own
affairs, but is practically outlawed and
deprived of the electoral franchise, and
almost every other right of citizenship.
No civil contract entered into by him is
valid. His signature is of no account
in point of law, and from the legal
point of view he is nobody-as unsub-
stantial as the family ghost and as ire
sponsible as a babe unborn. Prince
Trautmannsdorff was the president of
the Austrian Jockey Club, where he lost
in a single night $780, 900 at cards
With view of retrieving his fortunes
he straightway purchased for a rise
large number of options on wheat
and other cereals, which, however,
greatly to his dismay, took downward
instead of an upward course, rendering
him thereby liable for differences to the
tune of IS, OOO O00
Another well-known parsonage who
is at present ''unter curatelle," and
whose name is well known in the
United States, is Baron Victor Erlanpes
once a magnate of European finance
but now an exile residing on the shores
Of the lake of Geneva, in Switzerland
Only last week suit was BROUGHT
against the trustees of his bankruptcy.
in the course of which the whole cir
eunstancs of his ruin were again made
pus1c.-Vienna Cor. N. Y. Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
How He Retrenehed.

Mr.. Billus docking over his expense
account)-"Maria, we spent exactly $50
more than our income last year. We've
got to retrench." Mrs. Billus-"It
wasn't my fault, John. didn't lose SIS
on the election, nor pay out $40 in club
dues, nor spend sos for cigars, nor run
through with S120 in three days at the
races, nor indorse note for 5000 for a
mere acquaintance and lose it, nor"
Mr.. Billus still looking through the ex-
pense account)-'None of these things
account for that $50. Oh! Here it is
Subscription for pastors salary, $5OP
Maria, we can't stand thatl The preach
or will have to get along without any
thing from me this year. Trib-
Una.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Her Delightful War-

$50 De Smith married that rich Bos-
ton girl, after all"
YES. You see, while she wasn't pref
ty, she was highly cultured and had q
very purse-uasive way about her,
Washington Critic
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30

Portions OF the BlDle are to-u'J
translated into twenty-five times a.
many tongues as were heard on the 70!
of Pentecost. During the present ceh'u
ry alone it has been put into 2oO IsH.
guages-fve times as many as durins
the preceding eighteen. More oop-To
were sent into circulation last year 'na-
existed in the whole world at the OesiA
ming Of the century. 81
--Atarecent meeting of Congrega'iOn,r,
ministers in Chicago, it was unanlmouSSiis
voted that Drs Williams and NoD-o
should prepare an appeal to America,
churches for an annual subscrlPti0H
$4,000 for aggressive work IN ri' ~.
This work is to be done under the "
troll of the Frence Evangelical oocie'. .hs
of which Prof. L. ]. Bertrand IS No"
representative in this country. ~
Less than one hundreds years ss0
was organized the first Protestant ~
eign Missionary Society. Now LIE LIZ
are more than 200 snch societies IN
have force of more than 1000 mlS'. M
aries and assistant missionaries Of -
more than $4,000 native helpers
whom 5000 are ordained. Thirty Won
ago there was not a Womans fOt Tou
Missionary Society in America 1"o .nxil.
there are thirty-nine, with 2o'VVO tands
iaries, more than 5000 children , 81 than
and an aggregate income OF niOl'
81, 73O, 000.-AdVance.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
Why He REFUSED To ray.

Collector (hotly)-YOu admit the debt,
but refuse to pay the bill! What is your
reason, sir, for this?
Boston Man (coldly)-It is not prop
erly made out. You have used the word
"balance" in the sense of remainder"
Ticklowell, show this man out.-Chi.
cago Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
The Xagaries of For tune.

eff you please, madam" said tat
tered tramp, Il would like some cold
victual3."
II suppose you are food sufferer
replied the housewife, sarcastically.
"Worse than that, madam. One year
ago l was rolling in wealth. To-day I
am worse than penniless."
Indeed! What is your misfortune?"
81 am a stakeholder in baseball
club. THE Jury.