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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
SCHOOL DISCIPLINE.
A system That Proved to he More Eff
fective Than Long MINDED Rules.

A system That Proved to BE More Eff
fective Than Long MINDED Rules.
The constitution of the Roll of Honor
Club contains the following:
The general principles of this club shall be
to cooperate with the faculty in securing
good order and lady-like behavior among
the boarding pupils, both in study and
recreation hours, IN inspiring high sense
Of honor, personal responsibility and self
respect, and especially cond ucting in this
spirit the attendance of the the young ladies
at the literary societies and church.
As this method developed, it was my
custom to say at the beginning of a
term: 1--WE will have no rules what
ever, just so long as every thing is
quiet, your time diligently occupied
and your punctuality without flaw.
We have no need of rules. Let us see
how long we can go without them. /
will post timetable in the hall, and
let us live by it. Regard the teachers
as you would your mother and elder sis
tiers at home. You advise with them
as to what is best for you in every way,
feel free to do the same with US; that is
what we are here for"
The girls were so delighted to have
no rules that the older ones gave little
comfort to the younger when they be-
gan misbehaving, which they did, not
from bad intention. but on account of
thoughtlessness. After awhile how
ever, we would see the necessity of
some one rule, then it would be an
nounced. Every girl in school was a
candidate for the Roll of Honor, which
distinction could only be reached
by one month of faultless deport-
ment and punctuality. So it fell out
that for the first month we had no rules
on the principle that "a new broom
sweeps clean" In the second month,
we had almost no need of rules, for
every one was on the keen stretch to
reach the Roll of Honor, and the third
month all being anxious to remain at
that high grade, there was an esprit de
corps IN the school that held the pupils
to he mark. So that the bondage of
school discipline, of which had had so
much always as teacher and member
of faculties, was reduced to a minimum,
indeed, became almost inappreciable.
This was especially true when we had
graduated from the Roll-of-Honor grade
enough of our older and more prominent
girls into the Self-governed class, so
that their noble behavior was indeed
IAN example to the flock. From Fran
ces Z. Wizards ''Glimpses of Fifty
Years
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1890-04-24
THE FAST.

THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion was
celebrated at Philadelphia on the 18th
with ex-President Rutherford Il. Hayes
presiding.
Or the 18th Jacob Estey, the famous
organ manufacturer. died suddenly at
his home in Brattleboro, VT, aged 76
years.
OVER 1.2OO coke ovens at Scottdale,
Pa. were shut down indefinitely on the
18th. and thousands of men were thrown
out of employment
IL Boston on the 18th the Methodist
annual conference, with over 200 min
listers in attendant adopted resolutions
condemning allegiance of American cit
liens to any foreign power or potentate,
political or ecclesiastical, and declaring
for woman suffrage in municipal cleo
tons.
THE death of Commodore Louis
Schwartz, who was said to have intro
duced lager beer into this country, oc-
Cured at Elizabeth, y. J., on the 10th,
aged so years
FOREST fires near Pleasantville, n.
J., had on the 10th caused loss of
$500, 600.
THE firm of Louis FRANKIE & Co, silk
merchants OF New York, failed on the
18th for 5000, 600.
THE Massachusetts, House on the nth
rejected by vote of III to 40 the bill to
give municipal suffrage to women.
On the 18th ex-President Hayes and
his daughter Fannie sailed from New
York for Bermuda.
FINES destroyed the Dutch village
three mics south of Port Republic, n.
J., on the 17th.
AT Elbridge, n. V, Charles McGowan
and wife were fatally burned on the 18th
by the dropping of = lamp, which set fire
to their clothing.
THE landing of immigrants was
stopped on the 18Th at Castle Garden,
New York Debarlxation would in the
future be made at the barge Office.
AT Providence, Il. l.. Ex-Governor w.
w Hoppin died on the 10Th, aged 50
years. He was Governor from 1854 to
1856.
NEAR Egg Harbor City, n. J., a forest
fire on the 10Th caused loss of 500. OOO
THE death of Ex-Governor James Pol
lock occurred at Lockhaven, Pa, on the
10Th. aged so years. He was member
OF the Twentieth. Twenty-ninth and
Thirtieth Congresses. and Governor of
Pennsylvania in 1854.
THE National Base Ball League and
the Players Baseball League season
opened on the 10th.
Ok the 10th the 115th anniversary of
the battle of Lexington was celebrated
at Lexington. Mass.
IL Brooklyn, n. Y, the stables OF
Contractor Clark were burned on the
goth, and nearly one hundred horses
and mules persisted.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

OS the 18th the Prussian Diet was
opened by Chancellor Won Caprivi, the
successor of bismarck. who in lengthy
speech expressed confidence in the flu
ture peace of the Empire.
THE roof of a weaving-mill at Ber-
gamo, Italy, in which 800 girls were at
of them were killed.
THE Canadian fisheries department
annual report on the 10th showed that
the product of last year was S17,655, 266,
a gain of S356.745 over the previous
twelve months.
FRANCES public debt was on the 10th
estimated at So, 200, 900, 600, making it
the heaviest of any country in Europe.
In Valparaiso over 90, 600 cases of la
grippe were reported on the 18th.
CHAScELLOR GosCHEN said in tne
House of Commons on the 18th the
revenue from alcoholic beverages the
past year was over $50, 600. 600, and the
figures showed universal rush to the
beer barrel, the spirit bottle and the
wine decanter.
THE house of woman named Skohis-
XII was destroyed by fire on the 18th at
VarsOvia, Costa Rica. and in the ruins
the police discovered more than sixty
corpses, forty of infants and the others
of young girls from ~ to Is years of
age.
AT Oramenhaum, near st. Petersburg,
the Imperial palace was burned on the
18th. and seven servants lost their lives
in the flames.
The bodies of the widow of an army
officer and her five daughters were found
in their house at Moscow on the 18th.
They had committed suicide rather than
endure their poverty.
IN Austria an incendiary fire on the
18th destroyed 100 houses at Neu-
IaDdec.
On the 18th the schooner Annie May
was lost at COdroy, Can, and the cap
tain and three men were drowned.
JAPAN advices of the 10Th say that
flames had destroyed 800 houses as
Aomari, 500 at Noshiro and 800 at MINI
uro.
On the 10Th a coal vessel bound from
Shields for London foundered at sea and
eleven of the crew were drowned.
DISPATCHES of the 10Th say thai 500
houses at Taungdwingye, Burmah, had
been burned.
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FROM WASHINGTON.

COLoRED citizens of Washington on
the 10th celebrated the twenty-eighth
anniversary of the emancipation of the
slaves in the District of Columbia.
THE delegates to the Pan-Americau
conference gave a dinner on the 10Th
in honor of the President of the United
States.
Oh the 18th the funeral ceremonies
over the remains of the late Representa-
tive Randall took place from the Metro
politan Presbyterian Church, and on
the conclusion of the services the re-
mains were taken to Philadelphia fol
interment
In the United States there were 2li
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 2O9 the
previous seven days. The total of fail
ures in the United States January l e
date is :. S3l. against 4. O64 in 1889.
AT noon on the 10Th the Pan-American
conference came to an end. Before the
final adjournment Secretary Blaine, who
had presided over its deliberations, adj
dressed the delegates, congratulating
them upon the work accomplished by
the conference.
AT the leading clearinghouse in the
United States the exchanges during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
l,141. I4O. 900, against 81, O69, ST., $50 the
previous week. As compared with the
corresponding week of 1889 the increase
amounted to 12.s
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BosToN.s oRAvE-YARDs.
A study of Them Is Recommended to III
Esthetically Inclined.


Esthetically Inclined.
There is one advantage of having our
ancient burying grounds here in Boston
open TO the people-which is especially
worth considering-now that the desira-
bility of improving the character of the
monuments in our public places is Sc
generally admitted. This is the artistic
taste shown in many of the sculptured
slabs in the old-time grave yards, which
i once heard an eminent sculptor say
were much superior in design to the
work seen in our modern cemeteries.
The blue and gray stones harmonic
much better with the grass and trees
about them than would glaring white
marble, and their delicate scroll work
sets off the simplicity of the less elabo-
rate monuments, while the coats-of-arms
and other devices on the statelier me-
MORALS are carved with admirable skill.
AS the years roll on some of these inonu-
ments must be more or less defaced by
the ''eorroding tooth of time" and it
would be pleasant TO have some Old
Mortality, with reyerent and slxillful
hand, deepen the impress of the letter
ing that only family tells of the bygone
worthy whom the stone commentaries.
Care, however, should be used to pre-
vent such a result as is recorded in
Dealings With the Dead" as having
taken place in monument to the build
er of Faneuil Hall in the old Granary
buryingground. According TO the au-
thor of this work, that devoted anti
quarry, the late Lucius Manlius Sar-
gent, the words Up. Funnel" on the
tomb of Peter Faneuil were placed
there by some well-meaning restorer
who was misled by the popular pronun-
citation of the name in his day. / recall
the fact that Wendell Phillips always
pronounced Faneuil as If it were spelled
Funnel, and perhaps he also may have
followed the usage which was prevalent
among the worthless of former gener-
alton. ! always regretted that the
great anti-slavery orator was not per-
manently buried in the old Granary
burying-ground instead of being re-
moved to Milton and placed by the side
of his widow in the rural cemetery
there. for his proper place was near the
side of his father, the first mayor of
Boston, in the city which was the scene
of his highest flights of oratory, and of
his noblest philanthropic efforts. Such
an association of the worthless of earlier
and later times would have a striking
impressiVeness as well as felicity
Taverner. in Boston Post.
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MADE a DISCOVERY.
How n Night Prowler Found Out That
He Was Only Poor Buffer.

How Night ProwIer Found Out That
He Was Only Poor Buffer.
An officer patroling through East
Grand Circus Park at midnight the
other night found man sitting under a
tree, and he promptly inquired:
"What are you doing here"
"Taking a rest" was the answer.
"Well, you move on or I'll take you
in"
"You can't do it,"
whats that?"
"You can't do It'll Lay hand on me
and I'll paralyze youl'
The officer grabbed him, stood him
up, cracked bis heels in the air,
slammed him down and stood him up
again and said:
"Now will you come along?"
''Oh, certainly" was the mild reply.
81 thought you were going to par
alyze me-"
80 did |. l felt as brave as lion
until you took hold of me, and my cour-
age then went like flash. Say, l must
be what they call bluffer?"
"You are"
Eight best with my mouth|
Exactly"
"Well, it's curious. I've often hank
cred to fight, and I've scared big men
out of their boots, and all the time
was only duffer of buffer, ready to
give in if any body had gone for me.
Well, we'll, but what curious animal
man isl Ring for the wagon and lock
me up."--Detroit Free Press
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LATER.
Appealed to the Government.

NEW ORLEANS, April 22.-At 3 p. M,
Gov. Nichols received from Bayou Sara
an appeal for boat TO save the people.
The dispatch said that unless help ar
rived there might be great loss of life.
A steamer and barges were at once sent
from Baton Rouge, and other boats will
leave here tonight. The wind and
rainstorns proved too much for the
Bayou Sara levees. There are numer-
GUS crevasses and the upper (old)
Morgansea levee is broken. Gov. Mich
OILS has photographed Senator Gibson that
the breaking of the Morgansea levee is
so great disaster that he feels justified
in appealing for prompt national aid.
A Bayou Sara special says the suffering
in Pointee Coupee is terrible. 1t is re-
ported that people are running to trees
for safety. Skiff loads of people are
passing through the streets seeking
safety in the hills. They make a
gloomy procession-men, women and
babies. The situation here is frightful.
Not house in town is above the flood
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THE PLASTER STUCK.
And in Order to Get Rid of IL Min
Had to Break His Neck.

And in Order to Get Rid of II Miner
Had to Break His Neck.
A miner named Tobias, in our camp
on Chickasaw Shelf, had been suffering
with wandering rheumatic pains for sew
erai weeks, and the most of them finally
got together between his shoulders and
hung there. He tried one thing and an
other until our brief list of remedies
was exhausted, and then brilliant idea
struck him. He gathered some pitch off
an old stub, added some tar scraped from
the wheels of passing cart, and melted
it up for a plaster. He took a piece of
stout canvas foot square, covered 1T
over with the mixture, and then had one
of the boys clap it on his back. The re-
suits were all he could have hoped for.
In four or five days the pains left him,
but day or two later the plaster began
itching so vigorously that he had to stop
and rub his back on a stone every ten or
fifteen minutes.
The boys were finally appealed to to
rid Tobias of his tormentor, but we in
vestigated to discover that the only way
to get it off was to skin him. 1t seemed
to have grown into his flesh, and the
SiiRnbtNb pun db ~ MN ltAA WIN
the hurt We tried soaking and greas-
ing and reheatin, but ii was no go. And
the more we fooled with il the more it
itched. We had heap of fun at the
poor mans expense, for by and by he
had to get up nights to go and rub on
his favorite bowlder BY and by he de-
clared that it must come off, happen
what would. He wouldn't let one of US
touch it, but planned a way of his own.
He had one Of the boys cut hole in the
margin of the cloth at the top and run
small rope through it. The other end
was made fast to stone weighing about
a hundred pounds. When all was ready
Tobias took his stand on the brink of
gulch thirty feet deep, shut his eyes
and teeth. grabbed a stake with both
hands. and gave the word to push the
stone over. When the rope straight
ened Tobias uttered a yell which was
heard mile, and five seconds later let
90 of the stake and went head over
heels down into the gulch. We climbed
down as soon as possible, but it was no
use. The fall had broken his neck.
When we turned him over to see about
the plaster it was there in the same old
spot The weight of that stone hadn't
even started it loose at the top N. Y.
Sun
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PrTti AND POINT.

"A grain OF common sense may be Of
more value than a scruple of con
science.
Many man says he would die for
woman just because he thinks he
knows size wouldn't want him to.-Som-
erville Journal.
"A man is like chicken: he will
leave plate of meat to run after an
other chicken with bone in its mouth.
Popularity is like the brightness of
a fallen star, the fleeting splendor of a
rainbow, the bubble that is sure to
burst by its very nfiation.-Chatfield.
II am a man of peace; God knows
how | love peace; but hope / shall
never be such a coward as to mistake
oppression for peace.-Kossuth.
He who complains that the world is
hollow and heartless. unconsciOusly con-
fesses his own lack of sympathy. while
he who believes that people as whole
are kindly and human is certain to have
the milk of human kindness in his own
nature.-N. Y. Ledger.
The fruits are often gathered long
time after the sowing and planting; the
man who looks for them too soon is un-
reasonable, and makes himself uncom-
Portable. If we only know they are
sure and will come in their proper sea-
son, we should be satisfied. United
Presbyterian.
compliments, which we think are
deserved, we accept only as debts, with
Indifference; but those which conscience
informs us we do not merit, we receive
with the same gratitude that we do
favors given away.-Goldsmith.
Before an affection is digested, con-
ISOLATION ever comes too soon; and after
it is digested it comes too late; there is
but one mark between these, as fine al
most as hair. for a comforter to take
aim at.-Sterne.
When Alexander was asked how he
had conquered the world, he replied:
by no. delaying" A good suggestion
for any practical worker in the world.
1t is from the habit of putting of, that
so many good things that are thought
of, are left undone.
Our after-life is largely nodded by
our bringing up. But our training is
not to be offered as an excuse for our
conscious wrongdOing. Il know it
isn't right, but that's the way | was
brought up saws one. But ''let me not
quarrel with my up-bringing, says
Carlyle. Let US not seek refuge from
blame in the defective work of our
parents What we are, we are. Good
or evil, what we do, let us dos. 5.
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The News Condensed.

John Morgan, a lumberman, WA
found dead in the road near Merrill the
other day. 1t was supposed that he
was murdered.
Governor Hoard has appointed ii. p.
Proctor, of Viroqua, district attorney OF
Vernon County, and George ii. Noyes,
of Milwaukee, university regent.
Sheriff Wickstrom has returned tc
Superior from La Prairie, Mimi, with
John Nelson in custody. Nelson is
wanted for the murder of Nels Carlson
in November last.
William Graham, of Superior, ha:
been appointed lumber inspector. by
Governor Hoard
Log-driving has started on the Vel
low and Eau PLANE rivers.
l.. A. Winchester, pillow manufact
urer of Whitehall, died recently.
Andrew Bachstrom, IS years old, wa:
mortally wounded by the premature dis
charge of gun at Ellsworth a few day:
ago.
At Madison the other day James Stin
son, of Chicago, filed his answer in thu
suit of the United States against hin
to set aside the patents of land at Su
perior worth upward OF s1,000,000. Mr.
Stinson denied any fraud.
William ii. Hughes, chief of the Mad
ison fire department, was suspended re
Gently pending an investigation of BIZ
conduct in taking money from a whole
sale hose company, as alleged, for get
ting the city to give ii valuable con
tract.
Carl III. Lee, a Evansville lad, com
mitted various forgeries and was re.
Gently sent to the reform school.
Burglars got $500 in jewelry at Banker
+. w. Woodward's home in Eau Clair,
few nights ago.
Henry Couch, the 1O-year-old son o
Reuben Couch, of Spring Lake, wa
thrown from wagon recently anC
killed.
James White and Antony Charet
were arrested at Ashland the other nigh
by United States marshal for selling
whisky on the Bad River reservation
and taken to Madison. Charett is an oil
offender
Thu thirteen saloons at Black Rive
Falls were recently closed, the owner
manifesting disposition to submit t.
the voice of the majority.
Colonel Leonard Martin, aged s.
years, son of the late Judge Morgan L
Martin, of Green Bay. died the othe
day in the insane asylum, where he haC
been confined over two years.
Rev. A. Ronneberg, pastor of the Nor
wegian church at Black River Falls
died recently from the effects Of an op
Grafton to relieve structure of thu
small intestines which had been causet
by lemon seeds. He was go years o
age.
Anna Fix, years of age, was killed
by a freight train near Madison recent
ly. her parents reside in one of tn
DakotaS.
Michael Murray. aged 46 years, wa
found dead in his bed at his home il
Milwaukee the other morning. An ex
amiation of the body resulted in cor
oner's certificate of heart disease as thu
cause.
Z. Moind, of Clayton. arrested som'
four weeks ago charged with setting "a,
fire that burned 500. 900 worth of lumhe
for the Humbird Lumber Company a
Clayton. was found guilty at Osceoli
Mills few days since and sentenced t.
waupun for three years
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WEST AND SOUTH.

IL indianapolis Ind, all the union
carpenters went on strike on the 18th
for a working day of eight hours with
pay az thirty-five cents per hour.
The twenty-ffth anniversary of the
death of Abraham Lincoln was apprOpri-
ately observed in Springfield, ILL.,. on the
18th, and the exercises at the tomb were
impressive.
FORTY-TwO out of sixty-seven towns
voted against license at the municipal
elections in Illinois on the 18th.
Is Logan County, w. Va, many food
sufferers were on the 18th said to be in
a starving condition.
THE failure of the Detroit Mich. }
Steel & Spring Company. the largest
concern OF the kind in the United
States. occurred on the 18th with liabil-
titles of $500. 600 and assets the same.
NEGROES on the 10th lynched Samuel
Woody (colored), who killed his father
at Auburn. Ky
FARNISG lands were under water on
the 10th from Arkansas City, Ark, "a
Helena. a distance of $50 miles. and the
restitution and suffering among the
people was great
The Oregon presbytery decided on
the 10th that all candidates for license
must Quit the use of tobacco.
In the vicinity of Chippewa Falls and
at other points IN Wisconsin prairie tires
were raging on the 10th.
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How Novelist TroIlope Wrote Some of II
Best Productions.

bow Novelist TroIIope Wrote Some of His
Best Productions.
James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd,
stripped himself of his coat and vest
when he began to open a song, yet his
wrist took eramp, so that he could rare
ly make above four or six lines at sit
ting. Writers crampl Where is there
a popular author who has not suffered
at one tine or another from this dis
tressing malady? Happily for them
selves, they now call in the services of
the stenographer, or use that useful
modern invention, the typewriter.
Without the aid of the shorthand
writer, many famous boOk-makers would
certainly have to limit the num-
Der OF their productions. Their
hand is seen in every magazine;
and in almost every newspaper some
of them running three or four novels
at the same time. One writer, who re-
Gently broke down, is said to have kept
two stenogPaphers constantly at work,
so,great was the demand made upon him
for contributions. Some authors are
unable to dictate their thoughts TO
others. The hand in their case must
touch the PAPER in order 20 set the brain
at work. Trollope is an instance in
point. This fertile novelist wrote the
greater part of ''Dr. ThOrne" during a
rough passage in steamboat between
Marseilles and Alexandria; Manchester
Towers" and many other novels from
his facile r.en were written in railway
trains. MY time" he says, in his
autobiography, was greatly occupied
in travelling, and the nature of my
travelling was now changed. l could
not any longer do it by horseback.
Railroads afforded me my means of
| con1 eyance, and l found that | passed
in railway carriage very many hours of
my existence. If | intended to make a
| profitable business of writing, and, at
| the same time. to do my best for the
post-office, | must turn these hours to
more account than | could do even by
reading. ! made for myself, therefore,
little tablet, and | found after few
days exercise that | could write as
quickly in a railway carriage as l could
at my desk. ! worked with a pencil
and what ] wrote my wife copied after
wards. The only objection to the prac-
tice came from the appearance of liter
airy ostentation, to which | felt myself
to be subject when going to work before
four or five fellow-passengers. But |
got used to it. ''-Christian at Work.