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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
Last Tribntes of Resnect.

The entire session of the Senate yesterday
was devoted to the delivery of eulogies upon
the late Representative Samuel j. Randall, of
Pennsylvania The speakers were Messl 3.
Quay, Barbour, Plumb, Daniel, Black
burn, Cullom, Morgan, Gibson, and
Hiscock. In the House, after the ap-
proVal of the journals of previous days
proceedings, public business was suspended
In order that last tributes of respect to the
memory of the late Senator James b. Beck, of
Kentucky, might be paid. Mr.. Breckenridge,
of Kentucky, eulogized the character and abiii-
ties of the dead Senator, whom he characterized
were also delivered by Messrs. Dunnell, of
Minnesota McCreary, of Kentucky Stone, of
Kentucky; Blount, of Georgia; Henderson, of
Illinois; Caruth, of Kentucky; McMillin, of
Tennessee, and Hooker Of Wisconsin, and the
House then, as a further mark of res pect to the
memory of the deceased, adjourned,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

The reckless destruction of American forests
has attracted the attention of the Germans, and
at recent meeting of the Geographical Society
at Berlin Chief Forest Master KEssLER stated
that the United States had but II per cent. of
its area wooded, while 26 per cent. of the Ger
man empire was covered with forests. This as
tonishing fact ought to have the effect of stir
ring up some statesman in search of a speciality
to come forward as the champion of laws to
prevent the disastrous destruction of timber now
going on in almost every State in the Union
There is no doubt that the deforestation of our
hills and mountains is the direct cause of disas-
trous floods in our great rivers, while remotely
1t will bring about undesirable climatic changes
and destroy the fertility of the soil. Those who
are recklessly telling our forests are robbng the
future.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
Kings Palace

VIII be closed Monday, on account of holiday
Open Tuesday
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
A Birthday Party

A pleasant birthday party was given last
evening at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Alex
andre Fortin, No. 102S Seventeenth street north
west, in honor of their daughter Rosalie, who
celebrated the sixteenth anniversary of her
birth. Many of her friends added handsome
presents to their expressions of good wishes.
Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. A G.
Jenkins, Mrs. l.. Marlier, the Misses Mamie
Kent, of Lincoln, H.; Polly and Lucy Crofts,
Addie Mercer, Maud and Clara Hensey, Alta
Jenkins, and Lucy Fehl, and Messrs. Christ
Young, Mark Howell, Charles NJ. Needing,
F. Rbnitzki, and Henry and Lee Schulz.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

The triumphant reelection of Speaker REED
by a largely increased majority is another illus
tration of the proverbial fondness of certain
class of American voters for 1.-The man who
dares." Whether he is right or wrong in his
daring, the man of courage, of audacity, who
strikes out vigorously in almost any direction
which does not Immediately hurt the pocket
OF large class of citizens, is almost sure of
winning admiration and applause. The old
Saxon love of pluck and vigor is strong in us.
1t makes us forget or ignore in the man who
possesses them faults which otherwise we would
visit with severe condemnation Audacitv,
whether directed against the Constitution, the
time-honored usages Of Congress- or the funds
OF bank, we are all inclined to admire Our
Judgment and our sense of right are swept away
by the momentum of decisive action along
almost any line. Doubtful or dangerous deeds
are applauded if they are only done with
splendid vigor and boldness 1t is proba-
BILE that to this trait in the American
character more than to anything else does
Speaker REED owe his present triumph. And
it is not reassuring thought to those who be-
heve in American institutions and desire them
perpetuated. If Mr.. REED is thus applauded
for oVerturning the time-honored usages of
the House of Representatives it will be nat
ural for him and others like him to seek
fresh applause and aggrandizement in press
ing onward in the same direction with still
more evil results. Mr.. REED and his friends
will claim that the big majority in the First
Maine District means that the voters wanted to
show their approval of the LODGE Federal Elec-
ton bill and their desire that it should pass In
all human probability it means nothing of the
kind. 1t means simply that the voters were
thoughtlessly tickled, not at what Mr. REED has
done nor what he has tried TO do, but at the
audacious, ruthless way in which he has done it,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

Take the California trip to view the finest
scenery in America.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
AN AFFRAY AT MT. PLEASANT
One Colored Man Dangerously Shot by
Another Last Night.

Another Last Night.
HELPS Court is a section of Mt. Pleasant that
contains large population of colored people,
and their orgies at times make the neighbor-
hood unbearable Saturday night is generally
the one night of the week that the gang meets
to spend their money in cheap whisky and gin,
sembled as usual. During the evening several
fights took place, the worst one happening about
9o'clock. The two contestants were Peter Jones
and John Brown and, as usual, the pistol played
an important part in the proceeding. Jones was
thrashing Brown, when the latter drew a pistol
and shot at him three times One of the balls
struck him in the left hip, just below the abdo-
men. The firing attracted the attention of
officers of the Eighth Precinct and they placed
Brown under arrest and then had Jones carried
to the Freedman's Hospital. His wounds are
very serious.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

not the whims of Department and bureau chiefs
and the needs of politicians, is to be regarded,
the present system, perfected and extended, is
the true one and must be adhered to.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
BouteIIe's Plurality over 5000.

Congressman Boutelle is on his way to Wash
ington. Chairman Manley, of the Maine Re-
publican State Committee telegraphs that the
official returns will probably give Boutelle over
5000 plurality in the Fourth District.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

Every one will fervently hope that the fends
who have been attempting to wreck trains on
the New York Central Railroad may be cap
tured and speedily punished to the extreme
limit of the law. No fate is too bad for the
man who deliberately exposes travellers to the
indescribable horrors of railroad wreck.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14


precisely what means Census Superintendent
PORTER would ascertain the fitness of the su-
perior clerks he believes he could secure if re-
lieyed of the restraints and regulations of the
Civil Service law. There are only three meth
DDS, apparently, by whichit it could be done. He
would either have to know intimately the bus-
ness qualifications of the men and women whom
he proposed to appoint, or he would have to
take the word of some public man or politician
for them. If the prospective appointees were
ntimates of Mr.. PORTER that gentleman
would naturally be favorably disposed toward
them, and the discipline of the Office might
suffer, while prejudice would inevitably arise
when it was seen that Mr.. PORTER was placing
in Office only his own personal friends If Mr..
PORTER accepted his clerks on trust from public
men and politicians he would be certain to have
many incompetents and unworthieg foisted off
on him, and fully as likely to find among those
thus selected many with whom he could have
no personal sympathy as is alleged to be the
case under the operations of the Civil Service
law. \ second apparent method by which the
selections could be made would be by examina-
tions under his own direction But this method
would smack so strongly Of the "Chnese sys-
tenn" that no doubt 1t would be highly offensive
And then, if examinations are to be held at ALL
people who take business view of Government
would soon begin to ask why these examina-
tioDs could not be more effectively held by men
specially charged with them than by a
Department or bureau chief who is paid
to do something else. A third possible method
would be by mind-reading. Whether Mr.. PoR-
TER claims to add this unique power to his other
accomplishments we do not know, but no doubt
he does But even in this method there would
be sort OF examination for each candidate un-
less the bureau mind-reader possessed powers of
hitherto unheard-of order, by which he could
read minds i'll bulk, so to speak, and without
coming into immediate contact with the sub
jects. OF course Mr.. PORTER will admit that
some means must be taken, if the Government
is to be run nationally, TO ascertain the compe-
tency OF those whom it proposes to employ
And If the present system is TO be set aside it is
not easy to see how we are to manage it unless
one of the three methods above indicated is sub.
stituted, and each of them is open to grave OBJ
jections. Seriously, When Department officials
make statements such as Mr.. PORTER made be-
fore the House committee the other day they
become ridiculous, If not contemplate If Mr..
PORTER believes in the old disgraceful spoils
system he should have the courage TO say SO.
II the Government Departments are TO be run
on business principles; if the public good, and
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14
En11EatIu1r&l.

A CADENIY OF THE HOLY CROSS, 1912 Mass.
"a avenue, affords every facility for acquiring
are spared to advance the pupils in music and
art; The musical department comprises theory
and technlc and embraces piano. harp, violin,
and drawing. and fancy work free. au24-lyO
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-09-14

The Woman's Gymnasium, GA Twelfth street
and Mrs. Hartwig Nissen instructors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19
PLUCkY MRS. CRAWFORD.
One of the Most Gifted Newspaper Women
in the World.

One of the most interesting personali-
ties in the field of European journalism
is Mrs. Crawford. who is a brilliant ex-
ample of her favorite theory that there
is nothing that a man can do that a
woman can not do, and there are some
things that would be more difficult for
a man to do than 1t would be for a
woman. While still in her teens some
private letters of hers fell into the
hands of London editor. who was so
struck with their lvacity of style and
originality of sentiment that he engaged
her as a contributor to his paper.
Promptly she set herself to work to
master the science OF politics, which
topic is usually avoided by journalistic
women as both complicated and uncon-
genial A single instance of her power
of endurance, memory and determine
ton indicates the manner of woman she
is and the spirit with which she faces
her duty. On the occasion of the his
toric debate of May %, at Versailles,
she sat in her place in the loge grille,
which NJ. Theirs friendship had
procured for her, from early morning
until midnight without taking a single
note, and carried away all the impor-
tant points OF that extraordinary sit
ting. Then she returned to Paris and
sat up until eight o'clock the next morn
ing to complete her description of the
scene and abstract of the speeches. On
the 23d of March, 1871, she made her
way alone into the barricaded city of
Paris and interviewed the Communist
laa1arc nc hnx H. n,,nefl IN har
or insult was offered TO the plucky little
woman whose ready wit, natural intrep-
idity and sympathy with the people
were her only weapons. She has walked
the wards of the cholera hospitals amid
tho dead and dying, and, prompted by
the same journalistic instinct, has
rushed at midnight through a thunder
storm in satin slippers and ball dress
to the nearest telegraph station to send
a description of the dresses
To write every thing from her own
personal impressions seems to have
been her constant aim, and the most
remarkable thing about her is that hav-
ing once filled her mind with every
thing relating to the subject in hand,
and ''done her level best" in abstract
ing the essential from the accidental
circumstances, and arranging them
most advantageously for her readers,
she dismisses from her brain all fidget-
iveness and worry COZ orning results.
Her social life is not less brilliant than
her professional career She was the
intimate friend of Gambetta, the com
panion of Theirs and Louis Blanc, the
friend of Barthelemy de St. Hilaire, and
besides all the rest she has been hap
py wife and brought up four children,
whose promise of success is most APP
parent And she was only womnn,
weaker vessel, a descendant of Eve
Chicago Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19
SPIDER AND FISH STORY.

A Queer Incident Reported In the Pro-
ceedings Of a Scientific Society.
The physical powers of the LycOsid9,
the popular running, ground or wolf
spiders, are well illustrated by an in
stance recorded in the proceedings of
the Academy of Natural Sciences of
Philadelphia. The result, as reported,
was achieved by pure strength and ac-
tivity, without any of the mechanical
advantages of snare. Mr.. Spring,
while walking with a friend in a
swampy wood, which was pierced by a
dixie three feet wide, was attracted by
the extraordinary movements of a large
black spider in the middle of a ditch
Closer examination showed that the
creature had caught fish!
She had fastened upon it
with a deadly grip on the forward side
of the dorsal fin, and the poor fish was
swimming round and round slowly, or
twisting its body as if in pain. The
head of its black enemy was sometimes
almost pulled under water, but the
strength of the fish would not permit
an entire submersion. IL moved its
fins as If exhausted, and often rested.
Finally it swan under a floating leaf
near the shore and made a vain effort to
dislodge the spider by scraping against
the underside of the leaf.
The two had now closely approached
the bank. Suddenly the long black
legs of the spider emerged from the
water, and the hinder ones reached out
and fastened upon the Irregularities of
the sides of the ditch. The spider com
menced Juggling at his prize in order to
land it. The observer ran TO the nearest
house for wide-mouthed bottle, leav-
ing his friend to watch the struggle.
During an interval of six or eight min
utes' absence the spider had drawn tho
fish entirely out of the water; thea
both creatures had fallen in again, the
bank being nearly perpendicular. There
followed great struggle, and on Mr..
Springs return the fish was already
hoisted head first more than half its
length out upon the land. II was very
much exhausted, hardly making any
movement and was being slowly and
steadily drawn up by the spider, who
had evidently gained the victory
popular Science Monthly.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19

Lord Salisbury has recently expressed
his Indebtedness to the work OF the cleo
trio telegraph in governing England. IL
is in the fact that all the G.. aaceleries in
Europe are now practically conducted
by the service of the electric telegraph
that its greatest service to the world is
expressed. 1t is one thing to carry news
by telegraph, and it is a much higher
thing for the Premier of England TO sit
in his Office and by the touch of his hand
be put in immediate communication
with the leaders who are controlling
each separate section OF the civilized
world. Nothing so much expresses the
accelerated movement of things TO-DAY
as the fact that the Prime Minister OF
a GENTRY can transact in one hour the
business which was formerly stretched
out over days, or even months, of time
before it could be completed. Boston
Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19
J. c. X.
THE FATHER OF 81 CHILDREN.


'He knew more about the wood bust
ness than he did about printing and was
afraid that thirtyfour children were
too many to get on such a small card.
lie would have the card made larger,
but he wanted it to hang across his
breast when he had his picture taken.
He was getting tolerably we'll along in
years, and some of his neighbors
thought it would be a good thing if he
would have his picture taken with this
card on his breast, to leave as a proud
legacy TO his children and his children's
children.
Il saw there was at least a good item
for me in this incident" continued
Grandfather, land / encouraged the old
man TO talk. ! asked him If he was the
original j. C. X He said he had that
honor. His name was j. C. KirkwOod,
and he was, in fact, as he wished print
ed on the card, the father of thirty-four
children. / asked him if he had thought
the matter over carefully, and if he was
ready to go on record to that effect. He
said he had given the matter thought
and was ready TO be placed on record.
I'VE agreed on the price, after some
dickering, and Mr.. Kirkwood went out
to sell his wood while the card was be-
ing printed. He came back at the APP
pointed time, got his card, paid for it,
and proceeded to the photograph gal
lery. In half an hour he came with
tintype in his hand, and the maddest
man, / think, in the county. The let
tiers on the card were reversed in the
picture, and the inscription read back
ward.
"Mr. Kirkwood had got tintype in
stead of photograph, for economical rea-
sons, and tIntype being a negative pic
ture the letters were, of course, reversed,
and the effect was not what the old man
had expected. He accused me of having
palmed off a lot OF left-handed type on
him, and declared if we did not print
him a card in right-haDded type lie
would clean out our bunko print-shOp in
what he designated as holy second.
II explained the situation to him as
best / could" concluded grandfather,
"and after much difficulty convinced
him that the fault was in the picture
and not in the printing. But rather
than spend money on another picture
he concluded TO keep the tintype; and
that is why the Kirkwood family living
near East Brady has an interesting fam
lily record which reads backward"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19
Improyed Passenger service.

Under the new time schedule Of "The
North Western Line G., st r., M. a. o.
Ry., all passenger trains of this line make
the trip between St Paul and Chicago in
less than IA hours.
The Pullman and Wagner Vestibuled
Limited, leaving St Paul at 7:30 D. IN.
makes the trip TO Chicago in 1879 hours and
from Chicago to st. Paul in ID hours and
% minutes
The Daylight Express leaving st. Paul at
z As "A. m. makes the trip to Chicago in l3
hours and 80 minutes aud from Chicago 70
St Paul in IL hours and As minutes.
This is the only line running all its trains
in less than "a hours between st Paul and
Chicago, and while this time is quick, trains
do not have to run at as high rate Of speed
to make their time as on other lines be
cause this line Is shorter than any other line.
In addition to these facts, this is the only
line by which connections are assured in
Chicago with all fast line trains from Chi
cago to the East and South in the morning
and at night.
NoTE.-Feres by this line are always as
low as by any other.
For Map Folder of the line address, 7. W.
TEAsDALE, General Passenger Agent, st.
Paul Mimi.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19
USING NATURES HELP.
How Boats are Propelled Across River
by the Force of the Current.

How Boats are Propelled Across River .
by the Force of the Current.
An interesting illustration of the in
genuity with which the forces of nature
can be turned to a mans account, is Il
be found in the peculiar construction o.
some Ohio river ferries, between Pitts
burgh and Wheeling. 1t is a familiar
law of physical science that the result
ant of two forces, exerted in different
lines, is motion in a direction differen
from either.
In order to utilize this principle,
strong steel cable is thrown across the
river, suspended from high towers. On
this cable trolley is fitted, from which
a strong guy rope extends down the
stream about hundred feet to the
boat 1t is attached to the boat much
in the same way the string is fastened
to a boys kite-by loop extending
from one end of the boat TO the other,
to the middle of which the guy rope is
tied.
The loop on the outside of the boat
is really, however, the half of circle,
the other half of which is made to run
over l2rge grooved wheel inside,
something like the helmsman's wheel
on ship. BY revolving the wheel by
means of handles projecting from its
rim, the emo of the guy rope is made 70
move ahead or astern at pleasure. The
effect of moving it toward the bow is TO
throw the bow of the BOAT up the stream,
causing the current to strike the boat
at an oblique angle.
There are then two kinds of motion
communicated to the boat the upward
pull of the guy rope and the obliquely
downward motion of the current The
resultant of this compound motion is
motion in a new direction-directly
across the stream; and away goes the
boat, loaded down with teams and peo-
pie, like a ship lacking before the
wind, propelled across the river by the
force of the current. The trolley, of
course, moves along the cable at a line
parallel with the boat thus keeping
the angles at which the two motions
are communicated to the boat always
the same.
1T is much cheaper way OF ferrying
than by steam, and much easier than
rowing; and, by simply taking adyan-
tage of Natures laws. the river is made
70 ferry itsslt-Youth's C0mpanioas
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-06-19
ChiLOREN'S MILLINERY.
The styles Are Nearly the Same as Thos
In Vogue Last Year.


In Vogue Last Year.
There is no very marked change in
the shapes of childrens hats this sea-
son; the same picturesque broad brims,
shading golden curls or dark waving
locks, bend as if burdened under their
weight of wreathed flowers or clustered
feathers and loops of ribbon, and the
same sailor hats are worn by boys.
Fine straws in dark and artistic colors,
such as green. brown, heliotrope, old
rose, lichen-green, gray and pale cream,
are selected for girls of all ages, in low
crowned shapes with extremely broad.
tapping brims, and the garnitures are
usually full wreaths of spring flowers,
such as lilies of the valley, buttercups,
dandelions, daisies in all colors, apple
blossoms, cherry-blossoms, or mixed
summer flowers such as scarlet poppies,
daisies butter1ups and field grasses.
Wreaths of ostrich-feathers, in match
ing, contrasting or mixed colors, are
used instead of flowers on many hats
worn by youngest girls, as from three to
five; girls of from five to eleven wear
fiower-wreaths; and for older girls,
punches of ribbon loops, fastened on
with long, fancy-headed hat-pins, are
often the preferred garnitures.
Various fanciful shapes in rough
straws and lace braids are selected for
occasional hats for girls of twelve and
upward, and the little, narrow-brimmed
black straw sailor with tarpaulin crown
has obtained firm hold upon the affec-
tions of young misses of the schoolgirl
age.
Boot-shaped, wide-brimmed sailors in
white, colored and fancy mixed straws,
trimmed simply with ribbons, are worn
by either boys or girls as play hats, and
Tam OShanters in blue and black tar
paulin are worn by boys for travelling,
boating, etc, as they are not likely to
be injured in their occasional lapses
overheard"
Charming garden hats for little girls
are of pink, blue, heliotrope or white
lawn, shirred on reeds in a round
crowned, fiat-brimmed shape, and
trimmed with lace-edged ruchings and
rosettes of the same.-Demorest's
MONTHLY MaraZine.