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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
NOT THE SANE.
Clergyman and "A Noted Sport WHO Ara
Frequently COMPOUNDED.

His face was clean-shaven and his
attires though ministerial in its tend
ency, was not marked enough to stamp
him as a divine, says the y. 7. COM
mcrctul.
He boarded a broadway car at 23d
street, and as he dropped into a corner
seat man with painfully glossy high
hat, yellow gloves and pearl-buttoned
yellow box-coat, who sat on the oppo-
site side of the aisle, gave him grin
Of recognition
Well" queried he of the coat, bend
ing forward. chow are they comin'?"
He was assured that they were ar
irving with satisfactory rapidity.
Il see Jim Corbett and Charlie
Mitchell's got a scrap an my stuff
says Jim'l do him. Which d'you
fancy?"
Neither" answered the other.
Amt hery of fake, are YEP"
mo"
That's the way I size it up; knock
out or nuthin'. Say, was you over t.
the mill in Hackensack t. other night?
| thought see you in Mullen's corner"
what night was that?" asked the
clean-shayen man with twinkle in his
eye.
Thursday. What's gettin' into youP
Losin' your mem'ry?"
my FRIEND" said the other, slowly,
con Thursday evening I led a prayer
meeting and to the best of my recol-
lection did not figure in Mr.. Mullen's
corner at Hackensack."
The eyes of the bOx-cOated man
gradually grew to the circumference of
small butter plates.
IT think of it," he gasped. Howard
Hackett a-joinin' the church."
My name is not Howard Hackett
! am the Rev. Henry Martin Sanders"
Well, I'm" but through respect
for the cloth Mr.. Hackett'5 friend did
not finish the sentence. DR.. Sanders
retired into a newspaper and the con-
versation ended, Howard Hackett is
a bosom friend of John L. Sullivan and
one of the best-knOwn sporting writer's
in town. DR.. Sanders is brainy and
popular clergyman. The resemblance
between them is marvellous in the
@Nactness and the mistake of the vel
I"w-gloved gentleman was perfectly
rNcuSable, Up to date the sporting
writer has been mistaken for the divine
about two dozen times and the occa-
sions on which the latter has been
hailed as Hacllett are not recorded
The picture of DR.. Saunders pub
lisIrod some time ago in the association
HfiUld, paper published in the in
terest of the Madison Avenue Baptist
church. was such a fine portrait of
Howard Hackett that couple of his
friends sent a number of HeraldS to
the western papers with the story that
Ha@ketI had joined the ministery under
an assumed name.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Preparing for the journey,

Come. Michael. come, Michael. come quick.
For the suns in the heavens great golden
cup.
Come, rinse off the reindeer and polish the
sled.
And must be doing and up and away
To I'LL all the stockings from Quogue to Cat
hay.
And brush up the greatest of al my great
Then couple Of bricks through and through
quickly heat
To be placed in the sled as stool for my
And then did he shout to the girls and his
boys.
Come, bring out those bundles of candies and
And don't mix the skates and the toy railroad
tracks
With the sawdust-StrIffed dolls with heads
made of wax.
Then the reindeer, led round by the smiling
hired man,
In new, set OF harness, looked quite spick
And he quietly stood, while old Santa Claus
smiled
To see his rare gifts on the sled packed and
Till the sled was all full save very small bit
vi place for the jolly old driver to sit,
He looked at the load with the eye of fox.
But he missed no stuffed parrot or jack-in-the-
He saw that the cards were tied snugly around
Ihe porcelain rooster, the red candy hound,
The little tin soldiers, the pink Noah's arks
And, happily made no unpleasant remarks
He babe all his children a hurried good-by
And jumped in his seat to make ready to fly
He placed both his feet on the bricks more
than warm,
While he smiled like a child at the thought of
a storm.
Yet, even when he was about to depart
his wife, with a petulant sort of start
Ran out on the StOop, and among the snow
birds
Most hastily uttered these terrible words:
Remember one errand on which you're dis
patched
Don't forget to have that piece of mummy
cloth matched"'
And when he was out of her vision almost
Don't forget those two letters ] gave YOU to
post!
R K Munkittrick in Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
He Talked With LOngfeIiow.

"When I came to this country" said
q merchant recently to Boston Hernia
reporter, Il was a lad fresh from old
Ireland. My first home was with
friends in Cam bridge. In one of my
walks, before | had been here week,
| came across a queer, old fashioned
house that interested me immensely.
I described it to my friends, and
learned that it was the home OF the
poet Longfellow. That increased my
interest.
The next day I went again to the
queer house and stood gawkily looking
at it and at an old gentleman sitting
in the yard. | stared so long that the
old gentleman noticed it, and, coming
up to the fence, asked me what | was
looking at. | told him that / wanted
to see the man who lived there because
I had read his works in the schools OF
Ireland.
The old gentleman asked me what
[ knew about Longfellow's writing and
told him that [ knew enough about
one poem to repeat every word of it.
when he heard that he asked me to
come into the house and recite the
poem to him. | went in and repeated
The Village Blacksmith without max
ing mistake. That pleased my listen
er, and, putting on his hat, he asked
me to walk with him. He said that !
should have something that many peo-
pie had asked for and tried in vain to
get.
He stopped under a big tree and
Said This is the tree under which
that poem you repeated was written.
The village smithy was under this tree.
Then the aged poet marched up
and with his own hand broke off a
branch Of that famous tree and gave it
TO me-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
He Was Premature.

An old farmer from one of the back
counties was the defendant in a suit
for piece of land, and he had been
making a strong fight for it. When
the attorney for the other side began
his speech he said:
May it please the court, [ take the
ground"
The old farmer jumped up and sang
out:
whats that? What's that?"
The Judge called him down.
May it please the court" began the
attorney again, not noticing the in.
terruption, Il take the ground"
mo, I'll be id if you do, either,
shouted the old farmer; anyhow not
until the court decides the case"
The fine for contempt was RENTED
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Why He Did 1t.

A short time ago, as l was crossing
Market street, near 'Twenty-second
street, boy not over ten years old,
who had been walking just before me,
ran into the street and picked up a
broken glass pitcher supposed he in
tended the pieces as missiles, since the
desire to throw something seems in
stinct in every boy. Consequently I
was much surprised when he tossed
the pieces into a vacant lot at the cor
ner and walked quietly on. As he
passed me. whistling, said:
why did you pick up that pitcher"
4 was afraid it might cut some
horses foot" he replied.
Ny next question was natural one:
Are you a Band of Mercy boy?"
He smiled as he said: |Oh, yes;
that's why | did it."
The bands of mercy were drawn very
closely around the dear little fellows
heart, am sure School and Home.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
History Repeats Itself.

Aim" muttered the tramp, as he
surveyed his one remaining cent in a
loving way, 4 reckon me an ole man
Gladstone has one thing in common
anyway"
"And what's that?" asked Willy Walt.
ave both grow shorter as we grow
older. st. JoseDh Daily Neacs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
Injured His Cause.

The story is told of a certain temper
auce lecturer who threw upon his
screen the micro-organisms in drop
Of water. Then on the slide he placed
a minute portion of whisky. Instantly
it put a Quietus on all that swarming
life. About to make his point voice
from the rear shouted: Ill never
take another drink of water without a
drop of whisky in it."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

Il don't care if he did SAID the
feminine half of the young couple, with
a tilt of her head; we're married"
And the old man stepped from the
train, wondering whether that whole
carfull of people were laughing at the
conductor, the girl or himself Leland
Rankin IN the Times Democrat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17
TOMMY 8YRNE AND THE INDIANS.
How a War Was Averted by Good Heart
and a Persuasive Brogue.

Capt. Thomas Byrne, or ~Old Tom
my" as he was affectionately called by
his associates, had at one time charge
OF the Hualpais, a tribe of Indians set
tied in northwestern Arizona. Old
Tommy, perhaps from his "deludherin'
tongue" had an almost miraculous as
cendancy over the chiefs and head men
of this tribe, and, though his native
eloquence was seconded only by the
scantiest allowances of rations from the
subsistence stores of the camp, he was
loved and trusted by these childlike
allies. To hear him coaxing back a
sulky warrior to good humor was
something to be long remembered.
Come, now" he has been heard to
say, ~shuye, phat is de matther wild
ye? Hal yes iver axed me for any
thin tina vi didn't promise it to yez?"
Yet L ny's promises were always
kept.
Sudden. one day the Hualpais, like
flash of ;htning out of clear sky.
went on / warpath and fired on the
agency bkldings before leaving for
their stroI hold in the Canon Of the
Colorado. tNo one knew the cause of
their sudden treachery, and Tommy
Byrne was one of those who realized
how much it would cost Uncle Sam in
blood and treasure if the outbreak were
not stopped at once.
Without waiting for his spirited lit
tie horse to be saddled he threw him.
self across its back and swept out into
the hills after the fugitiyes. When
the Hualpais saw the cloud of dust
coming they blazed into it, but Tom
my was untouched, and dashed gal
lantly up, his horse white with foam,
to the knot of chiefs who stood await
ing him.
At first the Indians were sullen, but
they soon melted enough to tell the
story of their grievances. The new
agent had been robbing them in the
most barefaced manner. and in their
ignorance they imagined it to be Capt
Byrne's duty to regulate all the affairs
in his camp. They did not want to
hurt him and would let him 20 safely
back, but for them there was nothing
but the warpath.
Come back with me-" said Tommy,
gently. Il will see that you are
righted."
Back they went, following that one
unarmed man. Straight to the beef
scales proceeded the officer, and in a
few minutes he had detected the man
ner in which false weight had been Sc
cured by tampering with the poise. A
Texas steer, which would not weigh
more than 800 pounds stood at 100,
and of course other articles followed in
the same ratio.
Tommy seized upon the agency and
took charge; the Hualpais were per-
fectly satisfied, and the agent left that
night for California. Thus was a bit
ter war averted by the prompt action
OF plain, unlettered man, who bad
no ideas about managing savages be-
yond that OF treating them with kind
ness and justice.-C Chicago I5'ibUne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-03-17

The Detroit board of public WORKS
mas sued a contractor for stealing and
cartlng Oft two avenues.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-07

Pacific or Southern Pacific systems.
Agreed to, yeas, 1917; nays, %.
"A further conference was ordered
and Messrs. Cultivate, Mitchell and
Belknap were appointed conferees. Mr..
ence report on the Indian appropriation
bill The bill as agreed upon appropriat-
ed 81. 925, 900, being S2S1.6 SOB less than it ap-
peared when it passed the Senate and
$3.50, 56S more than when 1t originally
passed the House. MI. Rockwell made a
detailed statement as to the effect CT tn
various amendments and the bill was
again sent INTO conference.
WASHINGTON, June 30.-ConfeTence re-
ports on the naval, the district and the
agricultural appropriation bills We're
agreed to. the last being the only one OF
Che three, however, IN which all the points
III dispute were arranged. In view OF
the fact, Which IS without precedent,
that not single general appropria-
ton bill has yet been sent to the
President, although the fiscal year
expires today. 5olnt eo res ,}o
penses of the government for fifteen days
of the new fiscal year was passed by both
houses and sent to the Pre- sident. After
this joint resolution had passed the House,
the Republicans proceeded to tilibuster
against the tin plate bill, and their efforts
We're successful IN preventing Its
no conclusion could be reached
to-day the friends of the measure
yielded to Mr.. Dockery (Mo.) to call up
the conference report on the District OF
Columbia appropriation bill, fight en-
sued on the proposition making an appro-
priation for the entertainment of the G. A.
f. encampment. The report was sent
back to conference. Mr.. Hatch Mo- sub
mitted the conference report OF the agrl-
cultural appropriation bill. Pending &C
ton the House adjourned.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-The House took
its first step toward final adjournment TO-
day in adopting the report OF the confer
ence committee on the agricultural appro-
priati0n bill. Then the day was devoted
to labor propositions. A bill granting an
annual leave of absence to the employees OF
the Bureau Of Engraving and Printing was
passed. The bill to enforce the provisions
of the eight-hour law gave rise to consider
able debate. 1t was finally passed. The
announcement that the Senate had passed
the free silver bill was received with ap
pleuse. The House took a recess, the
evening session to be for the consideration
of private pension bills.
WASHINGTON, July 2.-The journal
having been read IN the House this morn
ing, message from the Senate announc-
ing the passage OF the free silver Dill was
received. A diSaGreeing conference report
on the District of Columbia appropriation
bill was presented A further conference
was ordered, and the conferees were i'll
structed to urge an amendment providing
$4,000 out of district revenues for eX-
penses attending the Grand Army encamp.
ment at Washington. MI. blanchard, OF
Louisiana, submitted the conference report
question on the adoption of the report was
ordered. Yeas, 1852; nays, "a. After eu-
logies on the late Senator Wilson, OF Mary
land, the House adjourned until Tuesday.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-07

charter from the supreme council OF
the Royal Arcanum. Daniel Webster
Council has 10 members.
THE Barclay mill dam atStevenstown.
La Crosse County, was washed away by
the recent heavy rains.
THE contract of paving Ninth Avenue
at Ashland was awarded to A. J. Grant,
of that city, for 50, $50.
FORTY THOUSAND whiteish we're re-
eehtly planted in Mirror Lake. Sank
County, and 10000 rainbow trout in
Hubert Greek.
DURING the past two months the state
fish hatchery at Madison has distribut-
ed 100000 trout fry IN the different
counties through the state. In addition
TO these 5000, 600 bass and Il, 900 00O,pike
fry were sent out to be planted in the
lnl.lnd waters Oh the state.
IHE new state academy to be located
at Ashland will have almost as fine sur
roundlngs as any institution of Its kind
III the country. Tie sight comprises
eight square blocks and is situated on
the edge of deep ravlne, near q lake,
and will afford excellent opportunities
tor the students to indulge in boating
during the summer season and skating
in the winter. A large force of men
have commenced work on the build
ings, and it is expected the academy
will be in operation by September 20
the main college building $4,000.
SINCE the discovery of the deialcation
in the Office Of the secretary of the Mil
waukee School Board, an expert figure
chaser has been IL the employ OF the
city most of the time. The latest i'm
portant work has been the tracing up
of the regulations of the public libra
rian. Lindertelt, which have been
swelled to something over $4,000. Now
il is announced that the books of the
treasurer and comptroller fail to cor
respond by good many thousand dol
lars. No charges of misrepresentation
are made, but the condition of the ward
funds especially. as shown by the two
departments, fail to balance by five fig
ures In some cases.
The Ricketson Mineral Paint Works,
Milwaukee, suffered loss of 5000 by
fire on the 2Sth.
THE Milwaukee newspapers are quar-
reling over the correctness of q pub
lished report that the city gas plant has
been purchased by an Eastern syndi-
cate for a round $3,OOO.OOO.
A 6-YEAI-oLD boy named Arthur
Nicholson was drowned at La Crosse
while playing on some logs on the
river.
IT is thought that Matthew Hosley, of
La Crosse. who was found dead in bed
at a hotel in Chicago, committed sui
eide. When found the windows were
tightly closed and all the gas turned on.
THE shipments of lumber from the
port Of Marinette for the season to date
has been about so, 100000, feet for which
credit has been given upon the custom
house books.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-07
States by the national Prohibition con-

States by the national Prohibition con-
vention.
The platform was completed at 2
o'clock. The finance plank ID as fol-
lows:
The money of the country should be is
sued by the general government only and
in sufficient quantities to meet the de-
mandS. of the business and give full oppor-
tunity for the employment of labor. 10
this end an increase in the volume of money
is demanded, and no individual or corpo-
ration should be allowel to make any
profit through its issue. 1t should be made
a legal tender for the payment of all debts.
public and private. Its volume should be
fixed at the definite sum per capita and
population. We favor the free and un-
limited coinage of silver and gold.
The tariff plank is as follows:
Tariff should be levied only as defense
against foreign governments which levy
tariff upon or bar out our products from
their markets, revenue being incidental.
The residue of means necessary to an eco
nomlcal administrator OF the government
should be raised by levylng burden on
what the people possess instead upon
what we consume
The platform opposes speculation in
margins rs follows:
SpeculationS in margins. the cornering
of grain, money and products, and the
formation of pools, trusts and combina-
tons for the arbitrary advancement of
prices should be suppressed
The other plankS in the platform to be
submitted to the convention urge laws
for the suppression of the liquor
traffic; demand woman suffrage and
equal pay, regardless OF Sex; 0e-
mand government control of rail-
roads, telegraphs and other public cor
porations; demands the further reSJric-
uon Of emigration ana the extension of
the naturalization period, opposes
acquisition OF lands by aliens
and favors forfeiture of uncarned
land grants; denounces the reign
of mob law and demands trial by
jury for all citizens; demands one
days rest in seven for all persons;
favorS arbitration and pensions; I'M
equivocally stands by the American
public school system and teaching in En-
gllsh and opposes grants of money to
sectarian schools and denounces both
parties for trucking to the money interests
and to the saloons.
The reading of the report of the plat
form committee was the first thing in
order at the afternoon session, and the
convention promptly decided to limit
speeches upon it to five minutes each.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-07
The Secret of the Haunted Glen Is Re.
vealed.

TOMBSTONE, Ariz., July IA reason
able solution has at last been given to
the many mysterious happenings that
have for long time been reported
from what is known as the Haunted
Glen,' near this city. This glen IS
about seven miles north of here, and
has long been looked upon as one Of the
greatest natural curiosities of the
continent. One of the most remark
able things is that when a person lies
down in the glen he hears whispering
of voices apparently close to his ear:
Sometimes he can hear words and at
times get entire sentences. An lnvestl-
CATION by scientists has shown that the
apparently mysterious happenings in
the glen are due purely to natural
causes. The peculiar construction of
the glen brings the sounds from certain
ranch near by into the place in the
shape of whispers, as was proved by sta
tioning person at the point indicated
and recording what was said. The cool
ness is caused by the fact that the sun
has never shone in the glen, and the
movement of light articles are caused
bv the constant rushing of cold air
toward the exterior.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-07
LINER AGROUND,
The City of Chicago on the Rocks on TIT
british Coast.

The City of Chicago on the Rocks on the
British Coast.
LONDON, july 2.-The Inman Line
steamer City of Chicago, Capt. Redford,
which left New York June % for Liver
pool, is ashore on the Irish coast. The
steamer went ashore in dense fog
about half mile inside the west head
of Kinsale. The steamer ran her stem
into the cliff within half an hour of high
water. The sea was smooth and
the wind was moderate from
the southwest and light. The
west head of KinsaIe is about
twenty miles west of Queenstown. 1t
is supposed she is grounded at point
known as Darrell Rocks. She is in bad
position, and from all that can be
learned at present, it is believed that it
will be difficult task to get her atloat.
The passengers and mails from the
stranded steamer were landed by means
of the life boats. The fore compart-
ment of the steamer is full of water,
evidently the result of her bottom COM
ing in contact with the jagged rocks.
The weather is so thick that the tugs
have not yet succeeded in clearing the
harbor and will experience considera-
BILE difficulty in reaching the disabled
liner. The City of Chicago is an iron
steamship OF 1888 tons. She was built
in Glasgow in 1883.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1892-07-07


WASHINGTON, June 2S.-The rules COM
znlttee to-day bestowed all Of the time re-
manning this week among committees.
The House sanctioned the arrangement,
and immediately embarked upon the first
of special orders. which was the consldera.
ton of pension business. Several general
pension bills were passed, and after back
ing up the confereeS on the army appro-
priation nill in the refusal to yield TO the
Senate a point at issue relative to the
Union Pacific Railroad Companys trans
portation, the House adjourned. The gem
eral opinion among members of the House
Is that business can be closed up and Con-
gress adjourn by July Is or 20. Repre-
sentative Pierce, of Tennessee. to-day IN
troduced in the House bill to provide for
the free coinage of silver bullion into
standard silver dollars. 1t IS Identical
with the silver coinage bill pending in the
Senate as modified by Senator Stewards
amendment.
WAsHINGToN. ID. c., June 29.-Mr.
Hatch, OF Missouri. chairman of the COM
mirtee on agriculture. reported back to the
House to-day the agricultural appropri-
alton bill, with Senate amendments there
to, and asged that the Senate amend
ments (increasingl be non-c0ncurred
and conference ordered. Agreed
to. and MessrS. Hatch, Camin-
ETH and Funston were appointed con-
ferecs. Mr.. Cultivate. OF OHIO, then
called the Tonference report on the army
approsGs1, bill and moved that the
uouss on its disagreement to the
Senate ktudlnents striking out the
nroy.sI i - biting the use OF any cnon ne
2ppr I'm 10. las pay uieul VI ene
tran! peNs of troops and army sup
cogtr~ use o,ssa,ed y tic Union
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