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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
The Systematic HousekeeDerr

No more work is undertaken than can
be easily done in one day, thereby giving
a few leisure moments for reading or for
one hour with sick friend, or short
time in the flower garden. But the
mother of large family often finds her
small stock of strength failing from day
to day. How necessary for her to hus-
band the small amount remaining that
she may do the greatest possible good to
her loved ones. Teach the little ones to
share your work 10y putting their small
belonging in their right places, by clean
ing the mud off from their shoes. etc..
thereby training them to orderly habits.
Teach the little gi1ls how to sew; give
them a small easy task at first, and
aside from dressing dolly they may soon
be able to help with the mendlng and
the making of simple articles and the like
By each one taking her share of the
work, the family may be lightened, and
not all of it fall on mothers shoulders
as is too frequently, the case in fact, gen.
orally.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
DID NOT RACE TO-DAY.
Rain Enterferes with the VheeImen,s
Contest at Ha.erstown. Md.

HAGERsToWN, Md, July 2.-The rain
interfered with the opening contests of
the wheelmen set down for to-day, and
the races will begin tomorrow if the
weather permits. Several thousand
cyclists are in attendance, and the local
hotels are crowded to their utmost ca
Dacity
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

THE Hay tian government is decidedly
national in the matter of negotiations with
the United States. II refuses to treat with
Fred Douglas, the duly accredited minis
ter of the United States to that republic,
in relation to the matter of coaling sta
tior for our feet, insisting that d white
man shall be sent to do the business. A
man of their own race and color is not
good enough to conduct diplomatic bust
ness with those inland negroes. They are
bound to demonstrate their equality with
the whites
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

MILE L. GAUTIER, young French girl
who was born deaf and dumb, has lltely
passed the examination a. L'Ecole des
Beaux Arts, in Paris, with high honors,
and received not only her diploma out ali
appointment as teacher. She has been
taught to real the lips and to speak BY
the Grosselin system.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09
CHANGED ITS FLAG.

South American Steamship Company
Adopts the English Ensign.
SAN Francisco, July 3.-The steamer
City of New York arrived today from
Panama bIin ging advices that the South
American Steamship company after the
Itata episode resolved to change its flag,
and adopted the English ensign instead of
the Chilean STANDARD which was used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

Worlmen at Carnegie's Bessemer steel
mills at Duqesne, Ohio, struck to the
number of $50 for the recognition of the
Amalganated association.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

IT is reported that A. E. AppIeyard of
Boston, has invented safe device Tor
electric tram cars. 1t consists of a kind
of basket, covering the whole of the track
in front of the car, to receive the body of
an individual or animal that may be
caught on the track Of the car.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

ENGLAND's future king shouldn't be
blamed too much for playing baccarat
Possibly he only staked crown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

Gordon Cumming will neither show his
hand nor his teeth. The expected bacca-
rat exposure has been suppressed. The
reasons are supposed to be kept secret, but
this will not be reliably known till Lady
Brooke is heard from.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

THE king of Belgium will soon visit
England, and before he leaves for home
Stanley will probably have told him detin-
itely whether he will go back to Africa as
governor of the Congo Free State.
Whether he accepts the kings offer or
not, the explorer and his wife will visit
King Leopold, it is said, at Brussels with
in the year
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

The record of thieving in places OF trust
for the year to date is given as embracing
the names of 100 men and the sum of 81
O,U0O. The past month has been par
ticularly bad furnishing no less than
S2,370,00O, or more than one-halt of the
total stealings of the five months. But
the statisticians would doubtless babe US
find comfort in the fact that there is more
money to steal and more to steal 1t now
than ever before.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-09

james Campbell, of Philadelphia. who
was member of President Pierces off
cial family, is the oldest living cabinet
official in the country Although close to
the more than patriarchal age of four
score years, he may be seen on the streets
almost daily exhibiting the elastic step
that BELTS a semi centanarian. His IN
terest in public affairs is undated.
The morning call., 1891-03-29
GETTING READY.

the gentle unobtrusive burro reminded each
member Of our party that the old ever
laps over onto the new. AS mode
of travel the modern railway coach
is of course enjoyed and admired by
all. The stage-coaeh has played its part,
and that a most romantic one, in the devel-
opment OF the Pacific Slope, as we'll as in
the worlds fiction, and is known of all men;
but tho burro, remnant of barbarsm, is not
so well known to-day as he deserves to be.
The portiere which cOncealS from the pres
ent the dreamy slumbering past, when drawn
aside discloses to the gaze study in nature
that is full Of interest. In the center of the
scene that was presented to our view, when
natures lambrequin was torn down, stood
the burro, the sloweSt of Gods creatures
which man has pressed into service; al ami
mai VIII ich, except in the mountain regions,
SO far as the man OF the world Is concerned,
has been, long since, dead and buried. de
is the fringe that decoratrS the mountains OF
the wild and wOolly weSt''-a cross between
fond hope and abject despair; buoyant eX-
pectancy and overwhelming disappolnt-
ment; leaf TO entreaty and unreSponsive to
blows, as confding, as guileleSs, he stands
to-day complete in every appointment con-
ducive to evaporation and imprOmptu pro-
family. This is a faint and imperfect de-
scription OF the Sierra Madre Mountain
OuITO. IOWeNeI. lleIe IL SUuletHlHs dOuuG
him that makes the burro feature IN the
trip and tie steam-cars that will soon be
winding their way up to the summit, over
their electric appliances, will bring to the
promoters of that laudable enterprise a
problem difficult of solution, and it will be |
''how to fill the weird and primitive niche |
now occupied by the Mount Wilson 5urro."
The mountain trail upon which we ride |
is broad not at all difficult to climb, and |
the sweeping landscapes that greet the eye
are grand and inspiring, in the midst OF all !
of which delight a self-consciousness of
mans littleness creeps unlimited over one.
Giant granite columns, rough and angular,
bid defiance to time. and many Of them
have nesting at their base the most dell
cate of ferns, reversing, it would seem. the
conventional architectural design by plac-
ing the capital of leaves at the base of the
column. Many of these immense rocks are /
supporting enormous loads of earth |
and larger rocks; the rains, which !
sometimes come in torrents, tear
OF wear away the foundation OF |
these piles of granite, and they go
rolling down with the foaming mountain ]
The morning call., 1891-03-29

ments by her reading of her paper on the
possibilities of an American Salon." to
distinguished company at DR.. Hammoud'S
mouse. Mrs. Sherwood is interesting on
every subject she considers and she is a
speaker and reader of fire presence and
great charm. New York having always
accepted her as the fashion and deferred to
her as an arbiter. Washington gladly fol-
lows. Mrs. Wanamaker gives an afternoon
at nome Tomorrow, when Miss Chem,
gifted a5 young woman of Philadelphia, will
READ aud recite. The courses of lectures
anu morning concerts, the reading and sew
ing clubs are coming to Gloss with this
week, and next week will be given up wholly
TO chureh-going, the mlliner and the dress
maker, and then comes Easter Society will
Di0om again with the bonnets, and quite
list OF gay things are on for that first week,
aud the gay world will hold together
Tor month or six weeks vet.
Ihere is no place to 90 to in April
ana Washington offers more of climate aud
interest than any..other city, and its suburbs
are most delightful. There is real estate
boom and visible growth in every quarter
The Catholic University is now a finished
thlng and suburb of pretty houses has
grown up around it, and the sod has been
turned for Methodist University. A large
Chautauqua establishment has been laid out
to northwestward, half way to the Great
Fails OF the Potomac, aud worknlen are bur
rying the structures forward for this sum-
mer season. With Mrs. Thurber's National
Conservatory of Music, now chartered by
Congress, and its opening assured in the
autumn, and Senator Edmuhds still intent
upon having Congress endow a national
university, the capital of the country bids
fair to become an educational center and
worthy of itself in that regard. With the
tax on art reduced to - per cent Miss
Kate Field has dreams even of Govern
mrnt school of fine arts in the next century,
and Of Senators even knowing something
about the subject when they take up the
peoples expensive time in discussing it in
open session. RUHAMAH.
The morning call., 1891-03-29
Joachim Murat.

The paternity OF Joachim Murat is in
volyed in obscurity. One account says that
he was a younger son of an iDn-keeper at
Bastide FOrtuniere, in the Department Of
Lot, France, and was born in 1868. Ac-
cording to his own account his father was
well-to-do farmer in that village, and the
date of his birth was March %, 1771. This
latter is regarded as correct. He was edu-
Gated at a seminary at Cahors, after
which he entered the University of
Toulouse and studied canon law. He was
intended for the priesthood, but his reckless
life precluded that possibility. In 1889 he
attained the rank of 'Marechal des logiS,"
but his influence was so prejudicial to au-
thority that he received unlimited leave of
absence in 1890. In November, 1891, he was
elected by the Department of Lot men,
Der of the garde constitutionelle of the
King. In MAY, 1872, the garde was
disbanded and lie was appointed Lieu
tenant in the chasSeuIS-a-cheval, and on
the outbreak of war aid-de-camp t1 General
Hue. Rapid promotion followed. and he
was made Captain and then Major of the
Twenty first Hussars. Suspected of repub-
lcaDism, he was recalled from the front
In 1875 lie was in Paris, and when Bona
parte undertook the defense of the conven-
ton he sent Murat to Sevres to bring up the
artillery. For his services upon this occasion
lie was made Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Twenty first Chausseurs, and followed Bona
parte into Italy as his aid-de-camp. After the
campaign of 1886 he was chosen to carry
the flags taken from the enemy to Paris.
Promoted TO be General Of brigade, lie re-
joined Bonaparte in Italy, and was wounded
at Fort st. Georges. He was then sent on a
diplomatic mission to Genoa, returning in
time to be present at Ryoll. In 1897 he
commanded the vanguard in the Tyr0l. In
179S nc was for time cOmmandant at Rome.
Thence to Egypt; he led the famous cavalry
charge at the battle of the Pyramids. He
was then made General of division. Re-
turning to France with BGnaparte, he led
into the orangery OF st. Cloud the sixty
grenadierS who broke up the Council of
Five Hundred. January, 1900, he was made
eommandant Of the Consular Guard, and at
the same time married Napole0n's Youngest
sister, Marie Anonciade Caroline Bona
parte. He commanded the French cavalry
at the battle of Marengo, and was made
Governor in the Cisalpine Republic. He
was made Marshal of France
in 1904; titular Governor of Paris,
invested with the grand eagle of
the Legion of Honor, and appointed Grand
Admiral Of France with the title of
Prince in 1909. and during tue same year
cOmmahl5d lhe cavalry or the Grand Army
in tie German campaign, and for his con-
The morning call., 1891-03-29

duct at Austerlitz was created Grand Duke
of Berg and Gloves. He commanded the
cavalry at Jena. Eylau and Frledland, ana
in 1903 was made General-ln-Chie1 OF tle
rid March 25;h, ana was there during the
massacre Of May %, when 1853 Spanlards
and 800 Frenchmen were killed. lie wanted
the throne of Spain, but it was given 10
Joseph Bonaoarte and Murat received tue
kingdom of Naples.
Entered Naples in September, 1903. under
the name and title of King Joachim Napo-
leon, took Capri from the English ana OF
and $1,000 cavalry. In the campaign OF 1oi2
he became offended at Napoleon and threW
up his command. He began an intrigue win
Austria, and in March, 1918, offered 10 sur l5
rem der his claims to Sicily if Austria wouia
he seized the prncipality of Benevento, ior
which Austria promised him AncGna
and a force of $1,000 men. Distrustng
The morning call., 1891-03-29

he was declared First Consul and the Sem
atus-Consulte, which made him Emperor,
a change made by the constituent power OF
the Senate, is dated May. 1904. Republican
ism was abolished and a direct line of sue
cession was established. HencefOrth the
policy of Napoleon might be called insane.
He wanted war, even though it should
be with the whole world. His first
serious defeat was by the Prusslans
under Bulow and his subsequent
/ and 2, 1918, undoing the work of eight
years. April Q, 1914, he was formally de-
posed by the Senate. April Goth he babe
farewell to his soldiers and May 4th was
landed at Elba, his wife, Marie Louise. set
ting out to join him April 23d. He had di-
vorced Josephine for reasons of state and
she died at MalmaisOn about this time. He
was recalled to France to save it from the
humiliation of a Government imposed by
foreigners" aud on March DIST entered the
Tuileries in triumph.
he entered upon the last of his adventures
February 20, 1915, when he set sail from
Port Ferraio. Fate was hedging him in and
the Hundred Days" commenced which
were to close the drama, NJ adness seized
him, and Napoleon LIber ator' became
poetical idea The Illusion vas at an end
The attempt to realize it came to an end in
a hundred daYs-March 18th to June ODD.
The great powers issued a proclamation or
declaration putting him outside of ali civil
and social relations, and consiguiug him TO
public vengeance as ian enemy and dis
turher of the peace of the world"
In June the allies had more than
700,G00 men in the field. Napoleon
had but little over 100000. The then great
est commanders Of the age were to meet in
final arbitrament Napoleon, Wellington,
Butcher. Wellington and Butcher with
Gneisenau, were superior to Coli and Beau
lieu. The action was commenced on the
18th nv NaDOlpOn thru N inc himself with
10, 40l betH cen Butcher with 1867 and
Wellington with 1O5.9jO. by which he was
enabled to occupy Charleroi His secret
and rapid movements dazzled the enemy.
The morning call., 1891-03-29
The Conductors Turn Came at Last.

He was the chronic car joker on that line
of road, and seldom boarded the train with
out guying the conductor, or left it without
trainmen's expense. Yesterday, however,
time to swing on without ticket. He had
Just caught his breath, after seating himself
with the usual daily crowd of fellow-travel-
ers, when the conductor appeared.
Haven't got any ticket" began the Joker,
in his usual vein, and the crowd awaited lis
daily guy.
''All right; give me so cents" responded
the official.
Never carry anything so small" and the
traveller picked out a $40 bill, but did not
pass it up.
make out your receipt first" he con-
tinued: Pm all business to-day" Then
as the receipt was duly punched out, he took
it and began a long and labored inspection
of it, still holding on to his $50 bill, at the
same time aggravating the busy conductor
with superfluous questions: Engine all
right? Air-brakes or hand-brakes? News
boy chained? Any rebate on this ticket :?
Punched it all you want to? Any stop
over allowedp" etc. As the conductor be-
gan TO tire of the business, the funny man
handed over his $40 bill and suddenly
drew it back, adding, zone question more:
Is this through tramp" Bet your life"
replied the conductor, taking the bill; land
what is more,'' he added, Decketing the bill
and deliberately moving away, Its through
without CHANGE" ana the entire car
smiled at the funny man and his disappear
ing $40 bill.-Buffalo Commercial.
The morning call., 1891-03-29
ECCENTRIC BEECHER.

He Wore SILK Hat Only Once, While
Romping With the Children.
All who ever saw Henry Ward Beecher
and knew his figure can appreciate his
reason for always wearing a soft hat-a
reason which makes the following anecdOte
the more comical, says the Yankee Blade.
]. b. Pond, Mr.. Beecher's travelling COM
panion and lecture agent, was asked if the
great preacher did ever really wear silk
hat. He smiled, and then quickly ex-
claimed:
"Only once. 1 must tell you about that
l was at Mr. Beecher's house one afternoon
and we were to leave the house at o'clock
10 catch a train. Mr.. Beecher. according to
his custom of an afternoon, had lain down
for a nap l was in the library, when, as
the hour approached, Mrs Beecher called
ms attention to the fact and asked where
Mr. Beecher was. | went up to call him,
but he was not in his room. went down.
stairs and thought | would get my hat,
which was silk one. l could not find 1t
where | had left it in the hallway. just
then Mrs. Beecher called my attention to
the front of the house.
Z" Mr. Beecher had cardigan jacket which
he used to wear around the house at times,
and you can imagine that it was not particu-
Iarly becoming to his form. l went to where
The morning call., 1891-03-29

ancestor appears to have passed out beyond
the knowledge Of the historian. The
Maria Bonaparte, or, as he spelled the name,
Buonaparte, who was born at AjacciO, the
capital of Corsica, in 1746 He was a lawyer
by profession, and took vigorous part in
PaolPs insurrection. In 1871, he was one
of the members OF the Council Of Corsicau
Nobility. and also held the post of Assessor
OF AjacciO. In 1855 he died of cancer in the
stomach, at Montpelier whittier he had re-
moved for his health. His wife, LetiZia
Ramolln0. born in 1850, was celebrated for
her majestic beauty and iesolute courage.
She accompanied her husband through tie
campaigns with Paol, aud in 1913 emf
grated with her family to Marseilles, where
for a time she lived IL great perjury. Alter
her sou was made First Consul she removed
to Paris; and on the establishment Of the
empire received the title Of Nine. Mere. She
cared little for display, and her frugal style
of living frequently disp eRsed Napoleon.
Alter the ba-le Of Waterloo she took up
her aIO in Rome where She continued to
reside until 1896. She had family Of thir-
The morning call., 1891-03-29
H00D00ED BY A TRAMP.
The Conductor of the DEVILS Own" &C
the Death Mark.

The Conductor of the Devils Own" Got
the Death Mark.
See that MANI" asked a Broadway car
conductor to a New York Sun reporter, as
he jerked his thumb toward passenger who
alighted at Union Square.
Yes; what Of it?"
"In the last stages of consumption, and
he'll never see the leaves again on these
elms."
"Well?"
"Well, it isn't two years since he was a
freight conductor on a road running West.
and I was his head brakeman. Jim and
were in tie same crew for more than three
years"
And he got hurt. SUPPOSED"
mo, he got hooded by tramp. You
may smile, but you can't alter my belief,
and he knows it as well as the rest of US.
That man used to be terror to tramps. In
deed we all did. Our train finally got such
a reputation among the fraternity that they
called it The Devils Own aud it wasn't
once week that any of them would try to
beat us. I've seen Jim tackle six of them
at once, and, Lord o masSy, how he used to
knock them aboutT'
" But about the hoodoo%
e "Well, one night at a water tank Jim
pulled tramp off the buffers. He was a
chap who wasn't posted, or he wouldn't
have been there. He was sick and weak,
and perhaps he was an honest fellow, who
was playing in hard luck. However, Jim
pulled him down and used him rough, and
while they were struggling the train backed
up and cut the strangers legs off. Lands!
but what sight it was, and he lived for q
quarter of all hour and cursed jim with his
very last breath. He called out that the
Lord would surely punish him and he
prayed that i'll luck might follow him, and
lie cast a hoodoo over him as sure as we
stand here"
"Well?"
There is no .welp about it. On the next
trip Jim had collision, on the very next
he had hand smashed, and in six months
he lost his place. Then his wife died, a
sharper beat him out of $500 he had saved
up, and Jim tried to suicide from a ferry
boat. They saved him, but he's peDniless,
walking in the shadow of death, and I'll bet
you there isn't an hour in the day he doesn't
recall the words of that dying man. I've
slipped him many a quarter IN the past year,
but he wont want many more. He's got
the death-mark and he's going to CO. It's
case of hoodoo,. sir, and every man on his
old train kn0wS il Is !"
The morning call., 1891-03-29
SWORDS SMILED AND SMILED.
And All Because He Had His Own Ideas
of Joke.

And All Because He Had His Own Ideas
of Joke.
At Norwalk, Conn.,, d. r. Swords runs
meat market 1t is charged that he is male
gossip. Recently there appeared in the
local papers an article severely bearing
upon Miss KIttie Moore, and everybody
agreed that it must have been written by
Swords. kttie Moore fell in with the idea,
and Thursday evening, accompanied by her
beau, A. W. Smith. she called at the meat
market. Swords was there, relates the De-
troit Journal, and without any fOrnalities
the young lady-every female who engages
in this sort of business is a lady, under
stand-this young lady proceeded to cow
hide her traducer. He laughed for time,
but the blows grew more and more enthu-
siastc until the victim WINGED under the
pain. He stood 1t heroically, however, until
Kttie Moore got tired. Then he broke into
a loud laugh aud explained that the joke
was on her, as he hadn't written the often
siye article. Great jokel