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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1890-12-10

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Mako A GENERAL.
How German Army Officers are Ira ined
Instructed and Promoted.
Chatter

A Prussian officer serves five years to be-
gin with as a lieutenant with his regiment.
This gives him working knowledge of
the elementary duties of his profession.
Then comes a three years training at the
war academy, the high school for officers
founded in 1910, and finally placed in 1872
under superintendent of the chief of
the general staff.
After studying tactics, military history,
fortlhcation and other military subjects.
as well as geography, mathematics and
one Or two modern languages. the young
officer is eligible for service On the great
generals staff, and for commands VARYING
In responsibility from that of a company
to the command of an army corps. For
officers of recognized capacity, regimental
ser~ice alternates with employment on the
general staff.
A captain on the staff after four years
work is transferred to regiment, and a
year or two later may be again selected for
the staff as major. After a further term
of staff service he will get command of a
battalion; then, perhaps return to work on
the staff and afterward be promoted to the
command of a regiment.
From this post he may once more be
selected for the staff. to become eventually
major-general in command of brigade.
This is how generals are made in Ger
many.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Mrs. Humphry Wards Charity.

Mrs. Humphry Wards new establish
ment, Tonybee hall, is certainly very re-
markable outcome of womans influence
in practical eligion. To quote from a
preliminary sketch of the scheme, the hall
sis to be the center for school Of thought
rather than of any given religious point
and enlarged means of common religious
action for all those to whom Christianity
whether by inheritance or process of
thought, has become system of practical
conduct based on faith in God" The aim
set before those who become members OF
the society is ''to live their lives in the
faith and fear of God and in the memory
of His noblest servants upon earth
Among the ladies CO. operative with Mrs.
Ward are the Countess Russell and Miss
Frances Power Cobbe The headquarters
of the undertaking will he University
hall, Gordon square, London, there will be
room there for about fifteen residents, who
will devote themselves to social, education
al, and kindred labors among the poor
The objection has been raised that the
center is somewhat far from the most dense
ly populated quarters, but it's certainly
within easy reach both of ClerkenweIl on
the east and of the very squalid streets
that lie off Tottenham court road and Eus-
ton road on the west and north. There is
already valuable precedent in the labors
both of Tonybee hall and of the Women S
university settlement in south London to
guide the committee, but one may expect
to see original and striking developments
as the new venture proceeds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
A Woman Monk,

There is no dearth of monasteries in
Russia for men and for women-indeed,
the country seems rather to suffer from a
plethora of these cebonitic institutions.
Female ascetlcs do not, however, invariab-
ly prefer to renounce the world and its
pomps and embrace the rigors Of monastic
life IN the company of their own sex. The
wisest and most famous recluses known to
history were of the male sex. and this con-
slderatlon may have weighed with an In
teresting young girl of Omega, who felt
called by heaven to abandon the world and
such of its vanities as were likely to fall to
her lot some six or seven months ago. In
stead of applying to the superioress of
female monastery, this candidate for asce-
tic honors struck out the female terminal
ton "a from her name-AleXandra-
written in her passport, and, having doned
becoming suit of male attire, presented
herself to the igoomen, or abbot, of the
monastery of Kosheozerek, over the thresh-
hold of which female footsteps had never
passed. The holy monks spoke to the pos
tulant, whose looks they liked, and whom
they made no difficulty about admitting.
As novice the young woman discharged
the manifold duties of her station with ex-
emplar industry and scrupulousness. The
community as a whole was satisfied, while
some individual members of it were I'M
speakably edited and delighted with their
new inmate. Unfortunately a few days
ago, just as the time fixed for taking the
VOWS was drawing near, one of those unto
ward accidents that are so liable to occur
under such abnormal conditions revealed
the sex of the demure novice and obliged
the monks to eject her from the clustered
precincts. Neither the authorities nor the
monks intend to prosecute the would-be
hermit, the police contenting themselves
by compelling her to sign declaration to
the effect that, having lamentably failed
in her attempt to initiate Mary, she viii in
future be satisfied with the lot of Martha.
st. Petersburg Correspondence London
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Moltke on the Coming War.

These were the words of old Moltke
when he spoke recently upon the German
army bill: Gentlemen, if the war which
has hung over our heads. like the sword of
Damocles, for mora than ten years past
ever breaks out, It's duration and end can
not be foreseen. The greatest powers of
Europe, armed as they never have been
before, will then stand face to face. No
one of them can be shattered in one or two
campaigns so completely as to confess H.
self beaten and conclude peace on hard
terms, or as not to recover, after year Or
so, perhaps, to renew the conflict. Gentle
men, it may be seven years war, it may
be thirty years war-woe to him who
sets fire to Europe and is the first to apply
the torch to the magazine! When such
mighty issues are at stake-all that we
have won with heavy sacrifices, the exist
ence of the empire, perhaps the continu-
ance of social order and civilization, at
any rate, hundreds of thousands of thou
sands of human lives-the money question
becomes a secondary consideration and
every pecuniary sacrifice seems justified at
the outset.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
The Number Seven in the Bible.
American Notes and Queries.

American Notes and Queries.
On the seventh day God ended his
work.
On the seventh month Noah's ark
touched the ground.
In seven DAYS dove was sent.
Abraham pleaded seven times for Sodom.
Jacob mourned seven days for Joseph.
Jacob served seven years for Rachel.
And vet another seven years more.
Jacob pursued seven days journey by
Laban.
A plenty of seven years and famine of
seven years were foretold in Pharaoh s
dream by seven fat and seven lean beasts,
and seven years of full and seven ears of
blasted corn.
On the seventh day of the seventh
month the children of Israel tasted seven
days and remained seven ydays in their
tent.
For seven days the land rested.
Every seventh day the law was read to
the people.
In the destruction of Jericho seven per-
sons bore seven trumpets seven days. On
the seventh day they surrounded the wall
seven times, and at the end of the seventh
round, the walls fell
Solomon was seven years building the
temple, and tasted seven days at its dedi-
cation.
In the tabernacle were seven lamps.
The golden candlestick had seven
branches.
Naaman washed seven times in the
River Jordon.
Jobs friends sat with him seven days
and seven nights, and offered bullocks and
seven rams for an atonement.
Our Savior spoke seven times from the
cross, on which he hung for seven hours,
and after his resurrection appeared seven
times
In the Apocalypse we read of seven
churches, seven candlesticks, seven stars,
seven trumpets, seven plaques, seven thun-
ders, seven Virgins, seven angels and a
seven-headed monster.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

Make it a rule to do whatever you can
yourself
Don't call ON your mother, or your sis
ter, or the servant. for service which can
just as well be performed by yourself.
without calling on anybody. If you have
lost your slippers, find them. The world
is wide, and # they are to be found in it.
why cannot you find them as we'll as any
body else.
We are continually hearing the cry
among young people, when any of their
belongings are lost, 'Oh. can't find it.
Ask mamma, or call Kitty"
What Is the reason you can't find it?
Have you lost your eyesight that you can
not see, or have you lost your reason that
you do not know when you have found
what is lost?
We know of young girls who can 90 to
balls, and dance till daybreak, who are al
ways too tired to darn their stockings; and
expect ma" to mend them. Ma does so
love mending!" They will stay out on a
damp piazza, staring at the moon with Mr..
Fitz Doodle, or young Mr. DeSmith. till
midnight, and never dream of taking cold;
but if they have ruffied apron to iron ma
must do it. They are so afraid of getting
into perspiratlon, and then take cold
Young people nowadays are a bel pless
generation We look at them. and wonder
what the next generation will be? We see
young mothers who cannot hold and tend
their children. because they have no
strength; but the same young mothers are
able to take care for two or three lap-dogs,
and paint straddle-bug Chinese patterns
on every available square inch of crockery
in the house
We know young men who cannot get
UP to breakfast, and who find it an effort
to brush their own clothes. and who would
shudder at the thought of making a fire,
or shoveling coal, or pumping water, who
yet have the strength and the courage to
contemplate mdtrimony with creatures as
hel pless as themselves, on an income of
fifteen dollars a week.
Oh, we do like to see a young person
who is equal to waiting upon himself
We like to see him take pride in it. We
like to see him hold up his head while he
brushes his own coat. and find his things
in his bureau drawer, and bring up his
own shaving water, and lets Bridget alone
with her dish washing, and pot scrubbing
1t does not hurt anybody to wait on
himself. 1t teaches self-reliance. 1t
teaches a young man the useful lesson
that he was put into the world for some
other purpose than to make slave Of his
mother, or to order around servant girls,
and men-servants.
1t gives him a confidence in himself,
and in his power to be and to do; and
gives him the comforting assurance that
if all the servants in the world should van
ish into space in the twinkling of an eye,
he could still manage to brush his coat
collar, and get his beard off without her
helm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
About the EARRING.

A New York woman says: There is a
certain pleasure in watching the decline
and fall of the earring. If had written
Looking Backward" I should have in
serted somewhere reminitcense of the
last woman who bored holes in her flesh to
permit the fastening of an ornament. The
attempt to revive the Creole, or hanging
earring, has utterly failed. The faintest
suggestion of weight attached to the ear
now displeases most well-bred women
Occasionally you see face of such shape
that hanging ear drops are temptingly be-
coming. Nettie Hooper, the pretty
daughter of Lucy Hooper, the Paris cor
respondent. wore large Creole earrings
set with small pearls at recent reception,
and they accented her piquancy. but the
hanging earring, as rule, is an abnomin-
alton. Even the stud earring is less worm
Fine jewels are less often set in earrings.
and many which have thus been used are
going back to jewellers to be reset as pend
ants or in brooches. 1t is not usual thing
now to see debutante whose ears have
been pierced, and matrons often use vari-
Gus little articles to conceal the traces of
the needle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
ADVICE TO COLORED MINISTERS.
Bishop Jones Tells Them Not to Act Like
Monkeys in the Pulpit.

BALTIMORE, Md.-Bishop Jones of the
African Methodist Episcopal church in an
address to the new deacons and elders in
the Baltimore and Philadelphia conference
gave them some wholesome advice in his
old-fashioned way of talking. He told
them not to spend too much time before the
glass trying to make themselves look pref
ty. 1t was not at all likely that they
would be successful, but it was a shame
even to try to turn an example of Gods
noble work into dude, and very likely a
poor dude at that when you are a
preachin' - he said, ''don't start out in a
sleepy sort of a way and droan away until
you are half through the sermon, and then
start in to make a;'home run Preach
right out from the beginning, and when
you are through stop right there. Don't
jump around in your pulpit, and stamp,
and snort, and bang your bible. and pull
your hair to get up power That won't
do it, brethren. You may get your con-
gregation to shouting and stir the women
up, but it will all be false excitement. If
the good Lord wants to make himself felt
he II do it without your making lot of
monkeys of yourselves. You just preach
the word and he'll send the power with
out your assistance
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
FIENDISH WORK.
The Famous French Monastery at Grenoble
Blown up by Dynamite.

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PARIS, June 5.-The famous monastery,
La Grand Chartreuse, fourteen miles dis
tant from Grenoble, in the department of
Isere, has been partially wrecked by being
blown up with dynamite The outrage is
believed to be the work of persons living
in the vicinity of the monastery, who were
incensed by their failure to extort money
from the Chartreuse monks by blackmail.
This monastery is situated in a pictur-
esque but desolate region on mountain
1000 feet above sea level. St. Bruno
founded it in the eleventh century and
since then it has become the foun-
tain head of all the monasteries of
the Carthusian order. st. Bruno's cell is
now used as chapel in which service is
performed day and night. The buildings
have been several timed destroyed by fire,
and those which were demolished by to-
days explosion were erected in 1878. The
monastery was stripped of its possessions
during the French revolution, but in 1916
they were restored. There are 100 inmates
who depend for their support chiefly on
the manufacture of the famous liqueur
which bears the name of the monastery and
is distilled from aromatic herbs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR.
CALEB DUNN IN NEW YORK GRAPHIC.

What are here for: Justices Wen shall we re
ceive the boon!
When shall the rule of equal rights prevail with
all its power:
When shall the men of capital fraternally com
With men of toll, and faste the dawn OF mil
lennial hour:
What are we hear for: Treachery? To dissem-
bic, cheat and lie?
To make false promises? To say one thing
and mean another?
To lay traps for the thoughtless and the unwary
passing by,
And lead to ruin and dispair some unsuspecting
brother:
What are we here for: Perjury: To greet truth
with hiss:
To disregard fidelity and scott 1t honor's fit
To press our lips to Holy Writ and, with Judas
kiss,
Betray sacred trust and 'gainst our neighbor
bear false witness?
What are we here for? Hopelessness: To wear
its icy chain?
To wear it with no promise that its links we e'er
will sever?
To work and think, to think and work, and seek
our rights in vain?
To toll without fair recompense forever and for
ever!
What are we here for? Misery? To feel old age
muscle that is stronger?
To wear the pauper's garments when the power of
health Is gone?
And helpless to the poorhouse 90 when we can
toll no longer?
What are we hear for? Statesmanships That con-
crosses may pass
Laws that shall richer make the rich and make
the poor man poorer?
That wrong may forge anew the bonds that hold
the toiling mass.
And brazen-faced monopoly be held in strength
securer?
What we here for? Bribery? To take solemn
oath
Ito serve the sovereign peoples will in halls of
legislation,
Then sell the peoples rights for gold, party
power, or both,
And curse with scandal and disgrace the city,
state and nation?
What are we here for? We are here to guard the
ballot box,
To meet in solid, fearless ranks round Free
doms sacred altar,
To stand firm and immovable as the eternal
rocks,
And strike for justice with will that ne'er
shall sleep nor falter.
What are we here for? We are here for man
hoods work and WORTH
To profit by the wisdom learned from history s
truthful pages,
Till all injustice, wrong and spite are banished
from:the earth,
And Justice makes golden rule to govern all
the ages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12

About the middle of April there was
held in Bombay monster meeting of
Hindoo BARRIERS. to consider the impro-
priety of shaving the heads of Hindoo
widows, and thus disfguring them for life.
About 400 BARRIERS were present. It's said
that curse seemed to rest on their heads,
which could only be accounted for by the
fact that they were committing a great
sin in shaving the heads of the poor, in
nocent widows, thus depriving them of
their best ornament. 1t was against the
Hindoo scriptures to deprive a widow of
her hair, and doubtless it was the curse
of the widows that had lowered their call
ing. The meeting thereupon unanimously
resolved that no barber should shave a
widows head, and that if he did he
should be accommodated. This Incl
dent is interesting as an abolition of the
last surviving trace of the abominable
suffice Even among the Orientals Of
India there is progress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
IMMORTALITY.

Will death end all? Will they who toll and
spin,
Who sow, but may not reap Lies golden
grain,
Who strive for right unheeding loss or pain,
In whose pure minds ne'er dwell the faint OF
Will they at Deaths grim call but pass away
And ending thus in gloom this feetlng span,
With all that's most debase and vile In man
Become again mass of senseless CLAY?
1t cannot be. This hope inspires our hearts
For loftier aims IT'S not from earth evolved
But springs from germs implanted in the
mind
BY natures God, and courage high imparts.
Let noble men on nobler flights resolved
How great their gain in life supernal find.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
FIRST KISSES.

Soft as the silence and long as the light,
And moist with the madness of loves ling ring
dew,
Were the kisses, oh, Love! that you laid on my
lips
The day that love made me a part, dear of
you.
Red as the rose is, and balm its breath,
And faint with the fragrance OF passion s sweet
soul,
Were the kisses, oh, Love! that were prisoned
with yours
That day that love made las twain, dear, a
whole.
In pleading, serf-a king to control
Thy kisses have robbed me the heart in my
breast,
Thy kisses, so tender, so true and so blest,
Have rendered me, dear, all of riches and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
VICTIMS OF THE TORNADO.
Six Lives Lost In the Wind Storm at Brad>
shaw, Neb.

YORK, Neb., June 5.-Five people are
dead as result of the tornado disaster at
Bradshaw, A sixth, an unknown immi-
grant, who was passing through with his
family, will die. Between twenty and
thirty persons were injured but the full
list of names and the extent of their in
juries have not yet been obtained.
The storm struck the place about 8
o'clock, and when it had passed there was
not a complete building standing in the
place. In every house in town was some
body either killed, wounded, or crying
from pain and fright The place was en-
veloped in darkness, and rain and hail
were coming down in torrents. The dead
and wounded were removed to an impro-
vised hospital, where they are now being
cared for. A company of troops sent by
Gov. Theyer is rendering all possible as
siStance.
The killed are: Mrs. Penner. three chill
dren of John Shaw, and a little son of J. A.
Brumsey. Mr.. Brumsey had his arm
broken, and his wife and two daughters
were also injured. Mr.. Shaw, father of,
John Shaw, is missing.
YORK, Neb., June 5.-The fatalitits at
Bradshaw now reach Is. The wounded
have been removed to other towns or into
the country. The estimated loss will reach
$4,000 Of 800 stricken households it is
estimated thatnot 10 per cent will be able
to erect the roofs over their heads.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
The popular name of ''swifts" is likely

The popular name of ''swifts" is likely
to be more than ever appropriate if the
following announcement is verified: THE
training of swallows for military purposes
is being proceeded with activity at Rou-
baix, under the observation of Capt. De-
gouy, who has been detached for this duty
by the minister of war. The birds will be
swifter than the carrier-pigeon, at the
same time it will be more difficult for the
enemies bullet to hit them. All the swal-
lows which are at present training are
young and so far they have given fair
proofs of their eapability for carrier SER
vice. One, after having been taken to
Paris, was set at liberty, and reached its
nest at Boubaix in an hour and thirty min.
utes, the distance being $50 kilometers, Of
155 miles
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
Minister Hicks Will Visit Oshkosh

OSHKOSH, June 5.-Minister Hicks and
family, of Sima, Peru, are expected here
on visit during July. The leave of alb
scence will be taken to avoid the severe
climate of that country during July and
August, which seriously affected Mr..
Hicks last year. The rumor that he IN
tends to resign is unfounded. Mr.. Hicks
is at present engaged in writing book.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
DESERVING THEIR HOMES.
Portions of Council Bluffs and Other Place.
Sui,


DEs MONIES, Ia, June 6.-Report from
Council Bluffs say that all the southwest
ern part of the city was flooded by We'd
nesday night storm, and 800 residents
were compelled to desert their homes.
Many will lose their entire household
effects. The village of Manawa, south of
that city ON Lake Manawa, is under feet
of water and entire deserted. The terri
tory in the south part of Council Bluffs,
for distance of three miles to the south
east, is under four feet of water. Ali the
farms in the Pigeon valley, which in
cludes Boomer, Hazeldell and Crescent
townships, are flooded under three feet of
water. In Cass county the Botna river is
out of its banks and overlooking the bot
tom. Cornfelds on lowlands are sub
merged and the crops are ruined. Near
Angus schoolhouse was destroyed and
twenty-five children injured. At Perry
schoolhouse was destroyed and between
thirty and forty pupils hurt, some serious
lv.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-12
First Meeting of the Worlds Fair Com
mittee.

WASHINGTON, June Secretary Blaine
has notified the worlds fair commissioners
that the first meeting will be held at the
Grand Pacific hotel. Chicago, June 26th,
for the purpose of organizing, etc. Chief
Clerk Brown, of the state department, has
been appointed a representative of the
state department N the selection, prepara-
ton and safe keeping of the government
exhibit at tha exnOsitiOn