Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-03-20

be attributed to circumstances furnishing
a reasonable excuse, and yet no one was
arrested.
LATEST direct advices from Brazil show
the folly of the talk about possible restor-
alton of the Empire that has been current
at some European centers. The new Gov
eminent has undoubtedly great difficulties
to overcome; but the experimentation and
moderation of institutions is progressing
steadily, and if the present administration
be overthrown, it will give way to another
set of republican officials, not to an en-
peror or dictator.
THE death of young Abraham Lincoln,
only son of the only surviving son of the
President whose name is enshrined in i'm
mortality, will be profoundly lamented in
every section of the Republic. His death
indicates that the name of Lincoln borne
by the immediate descendants of the Presi-
dent will be effaced from our history with
the death of the present Minister to Eng
land who is now bowed in grief over the
lifeess form of his son. Young Abraham
Lincoln gave unusual promise of siren gthen
ing the popular affection for the revered
name he inherited by shedding fresh lustre
upon it, He was of heroic character, al
though not yet passed beyond the trying
line that divides childhood from MANHOOD,
and he was expected by those who knew
him best to develop in larger degree than
his father, the distinctive individuality of
his grandfather whose name he bore; but
he is cut off in the bright freshness of
youth, and the name of Abraham Lincoln is
no longer perpetuated in the blood of him
who commanded the sincerest homage
of liberty-loving people of the world
oNDoN dispatches say that corps of
Russian imperialistic missionaries has been
dispatched to this country with a view to
counteracting the strong and indignant
public sentiment aroused by George Ken
nan s revelations of Siberian cruelities
These missionaries are according to the
story, of various grades of life, and are to
operate in many ways; through social
circles, industrial organizations and the
press, but principally from the lecture
platform 1t is always well to hear both
sides of case, but it is not in the least like
ly that this force of argumentative secret
enyoys will revolntionize American opinion
based on state of facts beyond dispute,
with which the American mind has be-
come familiarized not merely through Mr..
Remnants writings, but through many
other striking descriptions, SUCH for in
stance, as that in Sardou's play, The
Exiles' if the Russian government Is
DESTROYS to tell its side of the story to the
people of the United States, it can easily
find a channel much less expensive and
much more effective than the employment
of body of secret-service agents.
THE REFORMED CRIMINAT''
HUMBUG.
Speaking of the sympathy so generally
extended to the criminal class, the Detroit
Free Press says: Two recent cases illus
trate the humbug of so much that passes
mder the name of reform in the cases of
criminals One of them is the case of a
young man recently discharged from the
House of Correction in this city. AS his
term drew to close he expressed the
most earnest determination to lead better
life and begged the superintendent to Sc
cure employment for him. This the latter
promised, and it was arranged that as
soon as the young mans term expired he
should 60 to the Industrial Home for dis
charged convicts until work could be found
for him. But when the time came for his
discharge the young mans desire to re-
form oozed out. He still professed a will
ingness to go to the home, but desired
first to spend few days with the boys at
noted thieves resort, where he now is If
he was not gathered in at the late raid.
In the other case the superintendent of the
prison at Concord, Mass, wrote to an Of
fetal here saying that an inmate of that
prison had shown such an earnest desire
to reform that he had decided to release
him ON parole, as provided for in the
Massachusetts system. He had, the war
den wrote, wife in Detroit, and he would
confer favor if the official would look
into the matter and extend little help
to this earnest seeker after better way.
The official unfortunately, was i'll when
the letter was received but as soon as he
was able to attend to the matter he sent to
the place named as the residence of the
reformed man S wife to inquire about her.
The detective who made the inquiry found
that the alleged wife was not reputed in
the neighborhood to be anybody's wife,
while the reformed man was well-known
thief He also learned that the kind
hearted warden of the Concord prison
without waiting for advices from Detroit
had acted upon his human impulses and
released his man, who was then in Wind
sor, owing to doubts on his part as to the
attitude toward him of the Detroit police
If the Identification system had been il
vogue in the Concord prison. the tender
Instincts of the warden would not have
run away with him."