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The Russellville Democrat., 1893-06-15
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I
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Certain Chill Cure,v the pleas
ant and guaranteed cure for
Fever, Ague and Maiaria-Bef-
ter than Quinine. Price SO cts.
For sale by ali druggists
We must take great men as we find
them unless they have gone to Canada.
Be OF Good Cheer.
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/ II is very strengthening TO the Kidneys, ston-
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CHEMICAL Co., Cincinnati. .. sample box. Zoe
Coughing Leads TO Consumption.
kemp's Balsam stops the cough at once
Men always seek their level, and
some of them don't need any ladder,
either.
Lanes Medicines Move the Bow
els Each Day. In order To be
healthy this is necessary.
Plantation chill Cure /. guaranteed II it.
don't cure 70 and get your money back. Ask
yonr mercIlant ahont 4. Price 50cts. soldby
snlith Drug Co., Ruxsellville
w. A. Baird, Dover.
Drs Rye n Butts, London.
Neal Co., Dover.
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VIM Brooks, .
When you find man who can't paw
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Some men complain because ali their
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with saddles on them.
LADIES
Needing a tonic, or children that want building
mp should take
BROWN'S IRON BIrTERs.
II is pleasant 70 take cures Malaria Indiges-
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Is your life worth 80 eeptsY
i Dumb thiiii Aguc; Iongestive Chill, Death
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smith Drug Co Russcllyifle
w. A. Baird, Dover.
Drs llgc BUTTS, London
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y ". y eils, kusscllville
Wm. Brooks,
flea Il provided with genuine
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Bucklen's Arnica SaIve.
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sores Tester, Lhappud Hands thlfhia4se ,
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The Russellville Democrat., 1893-06-15

Children like to take g G. C. G..
Certain Chill Cure" the pleas
ant and guaranteed cure for
Fever, Ague and Maiaria-Bef-
ter than QGinine. Price SO cts.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
SHE CHARGED TOO MUCH.
An Authors Experience With a Church
Fair Committee.

A writer, who is known, went to pass
the summer in a town on the sea-
board, and while there was waited
upon by committee of ladies repre-
senting a church of which she not only
is not a mem Der, but with the tenets
of which she is thoroughly out of SYM
pathy, writes Arlo Bates in the Book
Buyer. These good danes asked her
to write for them play which should
be acted by local talent for the purpose
of raising money to pay the church
debt. She declined to do this, saying
that she came to the place for rest and
that she could not undertake any work
beyond that which she was compelled
to do by business reasons. The COM
mittee insisted, and at length the chief
speaker blurted out:
"Well, we have promised the society
that you would do this and | thought
you would be willing to do it to help
the church. If you amt we shall have
to pay you, for we've sent word over
to x and 4 that you would do it and
they are going to make up big parties
there to come. | suppose you would
do it if you were paid?"
The writer regarded her caller with
little surprise, but thought it best to
receive the proposition with perfect
GOODNESS.
ooh, certainly" she said. II have
about all the work | care to do this
sum mer, but l will do this to help you
out, although / do not see by what
authority you promised for me without
consulting me. / should have asked
you the same rates for work, however,
that l should get for my labor else
where"
How much would you charger" the
chairman of the committee demanded.
Il think | could undertake it for
$780," the writer answered, as coolly
as if she were mentioning sum of no
possible Importance.
three hundred dollarsn cried out
the visitor, aghast. "Why, if we get
half that sum for the whole affair we
shall be lucky"
"Then it would perhaps be better"
was the response, "that you take one of
the numerous plays which are already
written instead of trying to get one
written for you"
And they did, but they talk about
that poor author down in that town,
or rather in that society-for the rest
of the town laughed in wicked glee at
the discontinue of the committee-in
way which would lead one ignorant
of the situation to suppose that she
had broken all the commandments and
flung the fragments in the face of the
godly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
TOMMY.

The South has always been noted
for its hospitality, and nowhere has
this quality been more religiously
maintained than in Virginia. Unfor-
tunately the war made sad havoc with
Virgjnia's resources, but its old-time
open -heartedness has never altered.
Some years ago friend of mine
travelling in the lower portion of that
State stopped a few, hours with old
acquaintance, and remained for tea.
An occasion of this kind in Virginia
calls invariably for the favored dish of
the South-fried chicken.
Alas! there was but one chicken on
the place, and that one pet. 1t had
been left an orphan by its mother at
very early age, and like Pip in
Charles Dickens's Great Expectations
had been brought up by hand. The
children called it Tommy, and were
very fond of it. while Tommy, in turn,
was attached to the children.
The matter was a very serious one,
and family consultation was held.
Virginia hospitality could not be lightly
disregarded, and it was decided that
poor Tommy must become the sacri-
flee.
Ny friend, of course, knew nothing
of the tragedy that was being enacted
for his comfort, and when tea was
served, regarded the plate of nicely
Drowned chicken with contemplative
joy.
Soon, however, he became aware
that something was amiss. An air of
silent sorrow pervaded the little fam
lily group, usually so gay, and the
children took nothing on their plates.
The chicken was passed, but with the
exception of my friend, no one partook
Selecting a juicy-looking drumstick,
he fixed it with his fork, and cutting
off choice bit, conveyed it to his
mouth.
At this there was a sudden and
Misunderstanding howl from one of the
little boys, ooh, mamma, mamma,
he's eating up our Tommyw
Whereupon the other children min
gled their voices in a wild wailing, and
the older members burst into uncon-
trollable laughter, in which, as the
truth dawned upon him, my friend
joined.
Then there came explanations, more
laughter and tears, and adjustments
all around.
Poor Tommy could not be restored
to life, but was buried under big
applet tree with appropriate ceremo-
nies.-HdrpeT'S Young People.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
Queer Characteristics of John Chr
naman.

As an inventor John has achieved
some distinction, and has won for him.
self the name of the Yankee of the
East" Besides the mariners compass,
tyne. printing, paper, porcelain, silk,
gunpowder ami clocks are some of his
alleged discoveries He has kent the
knowledge of these things to himself
as much as possible. scorning to give
10 those so much inferior to him as he
sunposes other nations to be, the
knoWiedge WHICH he has made his own.
John himself and his countrvmen are
~ceiestlals." his Emperor is the "Son of
Heavens; why should he stoop to BEN
eilt people so much beneath him as
the inhabitants of England or the
United States. Johns school-books
give amusing testimony to the abund-
ance of this national pride and self
satisfaction. His geography allots
| nine-tenthS of the globe to China.
about a square inch to England, and
no space at all to our own country!
This same self-cOnceit helps to account
for the lack of progress noticeable in
john and his countrymen. For CEN
turtles they held themselves quite apart
from other nations.
Al the same time, Johns nation, is.
in its way, an educated nation. All
public Offices are open to the gradu-
ates of their colleges, without any dis
tinction of class or creed. Brains and
skill, rather than money. are the high
ways to honor and office.
Johns language is said to be the
hardest of ali to learn. His alphabet
has two hundred and fourteen letters,
snd such complications of tones and
infections that one word spoken in ten
different ways means ten different
things.
As business man John is not re-
| marhabIe for honesty, to say the least.
| One traveller asserts that the first Chi
naman by Won he was swindled was
the first one with whom he had any
! business transaCtions-and that the
! last one who swindled him was the
last native with whom he had any
| dealings when he left the country a
year later.
| John, as a soldier, is so brave that
/ he goes to a night attack with his
| lighted lantern. 1t may expose his
whereabouts to the enemy, to be sure,
| but II hostile soldiers are 30 be dreaded,
much more the dark-in Johns opin-
ion.
Johns religion? He has plenty
such as it is, Every trade has its
patron divinity. The joss-houses have
their idols by the dozen, and John
smokes and chats as he prays. As he has
only a single tongue, however, he must
use some device D do either the chat
ting or the praying. So he prays by
means of two sticks, half round, de-
termining by the way they fall whether
or not his prayer is granted. Or he
prints his prayer on strip of red
paper and pins it on the wall near the
door At the proper time the priest
sends it, with other accumulated
prayers, up into the air on wings of
re.-St. Nicholas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
Winter Quarters at the Zoo.

With the first cool nights of autumn,
preparations are begun for making the
tropical animals and birds comfortable
during our hard winter.
A curious cage on wheels is brought
out, and into this the animal is coaxed
by the kindly persuasion of a carrot
or other favorlte article of food, and
then drawn comfortably to its winter
quarters. This is always an exciting
time for the children: they run along
by the side of the cage and watch with
the greatest eagerness the process of
placing the box in position; and when
the final opening of the door liberates
the frightened beast, the yells and
shrieks which greet its entrance to its
winter lodging are enough to give it
nervous tidgets. The gnu, although
it has passed many winters and sum-
mers in the garden, grows very much
excited at such times; and if it could
get out | think it would make great
havoc among it's small tormentors.
[ do not think that the lions. and
tigers notice much difference between
summer and winter. OF course they
do not have the summer cages with
their rocks and trees to range in; but
their house is warm, and plants and
running fountain do their best to hide
the dismal fact that it is winter. Some
times tiger will sit motionless for
long time gazing intently through the
windows at the snowy landscape. Do
you think he ever wonders what can
change the color of the outer world so
com pletely?- Nicholas.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05

SAN. FRANCISCO. Cal, Jan. 2-The
cd year was closed by unique an
terrible tragedy by which Sydney Nc
Coy, lawyer, aged 33, lost his lif,.
party of about fifty friends assem-
bled at McCoy's house to watch tn,
old year out and the new year in. TIE
feature of the evenings entertainment
was the production of short pla
written by Mccoy and performed by
amateures. The plot of the play was
the betrayal of a band of Russian
Nihilists by one of their numbe The
Nihilists discover their traitor and con
denim her to death. They decide by
lot who shall perform the execution,
and the number falls to the character
portrayed by Mccoy.
Miss Grace King, aged 10, played
the part of the traitor. She is given
the choice of being killed or stabbing
herself, and chooses the latter alter
native. Mccoy handed her a stout
dagger, which had been in his family
for many years. In the play the girl
instead of killing herself was to stab
her executioner, and as Miss King re-
ceived the knife she reached forward
to touch Mccoy on the breast with the
knife. At the same instant Mccoy
started toward the girl, when she
staggered forward, with the dagger
in her hand, drove it through McCoy's
heart.
Mccoy showed wonderful vitality
and presence of mind. He walked into
the next room and asked for doctor,
and then fell dead. The girl knew
there had been an accident of some
kind, but did not know Mccoy was
killed. She was taken home and after
wards Oh the advice of friends gave
herself up to the police. She was
taken to the city prison at o'clock in
the morning and when she entered the
prison fainte and has since remained
unconscious.
McCoy's two brothers secured her
release by giving bonds for $40, 600 for
her appearance. The girl was then
taken home and is in critical condi-
ton. The accident is explained by
the fact that recently Miss King suf-
fered from a sprained ankle, and she
had beeu using crutches to walk with,
but had laid them aside to practice
her part in the play. AS she made the
motion to stab Mccoy she rested her
weight on her weak foot. 1t gave way
and she fell forward
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
AS A WOMAN SEES 1T.
Odd Definitions Given for the Men She
Meets.

A woman who prides herself on he.
insight into the characters of men she
meets remarked the other day that a
man always judges other men by him
self as a standard. This is the way
she finds one man judges another
man:
A crank-One who has theories
about men and things different from
his own.
A dude-One who dresses better
than he.
A miser-One who saves more mo-
ney than he.
a spendthrift- who spends more
money than he.
A snob-One whose social position
is better than his own.
An upstart One whose social posi-
ton is worse than his own.
A rascal-One who owes him money.
Ditto-One to whom he owes money.
A smart man-One who thinks as he
does.
A fool-One who doesn't.
The woman went on in the same
strain and gave her own ideas of men.
Who agrees with her? These are some
of them:
A apitalist-One who takes 81, OOO,-
900.
A thief-One who takes 81.
A statesman-One who talks with
out making money.
a politician-One who makes money
without talking.
A laborer-One who gets to work at
o'clock.
A business man-One who gets to
work at 10 o'clock.
A hypocrite-One who says what he
does not think and is found out.
A great man-One who never opens
his mouth.
A soldier-One who makes killing a
business.
A murderer-One who makes killing
q pleasure.
A lawyer-One who makes his liv-
ing out of the quarrels of his fellow
men.
A physician-One who makes his
living out of the bodily sufferings Of
his fellow-men.
A merchant-One who makes his
living by buying what he does not
want, to sell at profit wrung from
his felIow-men.-N Y WorLd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The United States steamship New
ark has sailed from Smyrna direct foI
Cadiz.
The government of Italy has ap-
pointed commission headed by Sena.
tor Finale to inspect Italian issue
banks.
Emperor William has conferred with
Chancellor Won Caprivi, the Minister OF
War, and the Chief of the Military
Cabinet in reference to possible con
cessions on the military bill
Pending the result of the CONNER,
cial negotiations between Germany
and Russia it has been agreed between
the two powers to maintain the sta tus
quo until the first of May next.
Hovey and McCracken, Muskegon,
Mich. lumbermen, have purchased and
will operate freight car plant, the
defunct Muskegon Car Company. 1t
will have capacity of ten cars day
William Simmons of Hillsboro, Ill. =,
has well-developed case of the gland.
ers. 1t is thought the disease was con-
tracted by Simmons in drinking from
a pail out of which a glandered horse
had drunk
An expedition has gone to seek
treasure supposed to be hidden some
where in the Manganate Mountains,
Panama, in the time of the Incas
They believe that they have recovered
lost traces of Valverdes' route.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
CATCHING THE CAR THIEVES
Two Baseball Players Implicated il
Robberies at Erie.

ERIE, Pa, Dec. 81 The operations
of the local police, working with the
Chicago & Lake Shore agencies, hav,
the crooks in this city in state o.
terror. Informations have been issue,
against over one hundred persons an
the officers are asking arrests ever,
hour. By the close of the afternoor
twenty alleged car robbers had beer
arrested and many who were wante,
have fed from the city. These arrest.
are following the discovery of a gi ali
tic scheme of railroad robbery. The
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Com
pany has not been the only sufferer
The Nickel Plate and the Philadelphia
& Lake Erie companies have beer
robbed to an extent that is only jus
beginning to be known.
Systematic and persistent robbery
has been going on for weeks. Befor,
the search has fully begun the officer,
have found s., 900 worth of stoleI
goods. Dell Darling, the famous base
ball player, who was much such :;
record as a catcher, and Charles Bier
bauer, an equally well-known bal
player, are charged with completely II
tbs robberies. All outgoing trains are
being closely watched to prevent fur
Their escapes of guilty persons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
ALL ABOUT The FUTURE.
Remarkable Predictions Made by an Old
Bayarian Hermit.

In August, 1857. the Bavarian -4Uge-
meme Zeitung printed a remarkable
prophecy which had been made by an
old hermit many years before. In it
the rise of Napoleon III. was clearly
outlined, as were also the Austro-
Prussian and the Franco-Prussian
wars, and the commune of Paris. He
told how the death of Pope Plus would
occur in 1876 or 1877. and how it
would be followed by a Turko-Russian
war, both predictions being but slight
ly wrong. He said that Germany
would have three emperors one year.
before the end of the present century,
which we know was verified to the let
ter in 1888. He missed it one in the
number of United States presidents
that were to die by assassination, which
was remarkably close guessing, to say
the least.
Now for the future: The opening of
the twentieth century is to see Man
haitian island and the whole of New
York city submerged in the waters of
the Hudson. East river and the bay.
Cuoa is to break in two. and part of it,
including portion of the city of Ha-
vana. to sink beneath the waves.
Florida and lower California are to
break loose from the mainland and
carry their loads of human freight to
the bottom of the sea.
The twentv-lifth is to be the last of
the United States presidents, and Ire
land is to be a kingdom and England
Il republic by the end of the next cent
urT.
If this seer of seers is to be relied
upon, the United States will soon he
divided, and San Francisco, Salt Lake
City (Which is referred to rs the par
adise in the American deSert"), New
Orleans, St. Louis. Washington and
Boston are to be made capitals of the
six republics that are to be reared on
the ruins of the present United States
To return to Europe: The end of
the twentieth century will not find
either Italy or France upon the maps,
and Berlin will have been totally de-
stroyed 10y an earthquake.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
BRIDEGROOM Did Not Come

OTTUMwA, Iowa, Jan. 2.-Mount Zion
social circles are stirred up over the
disappearance of Arthur Coleman. He
had successfully pressed his suit with
Miss Myrtle Ager, daughter of Mount
lions postmaster and pretty and
charming school-teacher The wed
ding had been arranged for Saturday
evening. The bride and guests were
ready and bounteous supper was
awaiting them, but the groom did not
show up. Nor did the midnight train
bring him and no word has been re-
ceived since. Miss Ager is Frustrated
with grief and her father proposes to
teach Coleman lesson he will remem-
Der if he can be found
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
Battle ON MEXICAN SOIL.

Revolutionists kepulsed by Government
Troops--Many Killed and Wounded.
NUEvo LAREDO, Mexico, Jan. .
Col. Ceron, commander of the Mexican
military garrison here, received d dis
patch yesterday morning from Guer-
zero, Mexico, giving an account Of an
other bloody engagement which took
place on the Mexican side of the Ii,
Grande, just north of that place, Fri
day evening, between $50 revolution
lists and eighty Mexican troops belong
ing to the Sixth Cavalry. The revolu-
tionists were commanded by Prudencio
Gonzales. They are the same detach-
ment who made the successful attack
on Mexican troops opposite San Ig 1acio
few weeks ago. They have been
pursued for several days by Lieutenant
West of the Third United States Cav
airy and his troops. The United States
soldiers pushed the revolutionists 50
closely that the latter determined to
cross the river into Mexico and make
another bold strike for the cause
They had hardly crossed to the other
side when they struck the camp of the
Mexican troops who were engaged in
p ltrolling that section of the border.
The attack was made by the revolu-
tionists, but the troops made deter
mined fight and despite the fact that
they were outnumbered two to one
succeeded after a hard-fought battle
in repulsing the revolutionists, who
retreated down the river.
1t cannot be learned from an official
source how many were killed, but it is
rumOred that ten of the revolutionists
were left dead upon the field and that
twelve others were wounded, including
Prudenico Gonzales, who escaped on
his horse. The loss to the Mexican
troops is said to have been seven killed
and twenty wounded. A large force of
Mexican troops is in pursuit of the
revolutioniSts, who are thought to be
making their way to a rendezvous near
San Miguel, where they will be lein-
forced by 300 more revolutionists who
are reported to have crossed over into
Mexico Thursday night.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-01-05
Hospital at the Worlds fair.

NEW YORK, Jan. 2.-The board of
lady managers of the Worlds Fair, find
ing that there would be but a slight
opportunity in the Liberal Arts De
partment for showing the remarka BILE
work of the organizations of women in
the hospital and trained nurse service,
has planned an elaborate system of
service, both for the convenience and
comfort of the public and to aid the
directors during the time of the Expo
sition. The plans for medical service
promulgated by the medical directors
contemplate the maintenance of a hos
pital, in which the most advanced
modern theories will be demonstrated.
One of the features will be effective
ambulance service, in which each am
bulance is to be accompanied by a
trained nurse, when called for the re-
moval of patients to the hospital.