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The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-05-17

In book 2lO of mortgages will ap-
pear certain mortgages made by j. e.
Merritt for large sum on lots in
McNair Park, the amount loaned ap-
preaching between 81, 800 and $1,000
an acre, where l cannot find that
said land is worth over 1000 to 81, 200
an acre.
If all the loans made to Menage or
his friends or clerks, janitor, ETC., are
made on the same basis it will not
take an expert accountant to demon
strate that your company is bank
rupt.
1t will be an easy matter for you to
determine the value of those loans
and whether they are made by dunn
mics acting for Menage, but it will
be no easy task for you to arrive at
all the facts, and true idea of the
full situation much less to eXtricate
the company from the dilemma in
which you gentlemen by your apathy
have allowed it to be placed.
Your duty in the premises is clear:
To instantly and without notice
place a seal on the vaults and all
records of the company and take
charge of the same till a thorough
overhauling can be had.
To demand the instant resignation
of Louis F. Menage, and every one
subservient to him.
To demand of Louis f. Menage, the
Minneapolis Realty Co., and every
other company with which Menage
is connected a deed of trust to secure
the company from any possible loss.
To institute such actions as may
be necessary, of whatever nature, to
protect the cOmpany's assets.
The operations of your company are
far reaching, extending over this
country and Europe, and the reputa-
ton of the State of Minnesota de-
mandS that some steps should be
taken and that Immediately to avert
the impending disaster, hence / ap-
peal to you in no spirit of animOSity
but with feelings of friendship to do
your duty. Awaiting your action ere
steps are taken in another way to
warn the public of both continents of
their danger, hoping and believing
that the latter course will not be
found necessary, | am Yours truly,
JOHN II. BURKE,
Nov. 26th, 1890.
Later the substance of these
charges with some additions was
published in certain papers and
thousands of copies circulated in
Minneapolis and the East, besides
being filed with the state authorities
of Vermont, Rhode Island, New
York and Massachusetts, while in
January, 1892, Gov. Merriam sent for
Mr.. Burke, at which interview some
sharp shooting was INDUCED in re-
sulting in an order for an examina-
tion to be made by Public Examiner
Kenyon.
What Mr.. Kenyon reported we do
not know, but we are told Mr.. Burke
furnished him with specific and SER
iOus charges.
In a conversation with Mr.. Burke
we learn that while on trip East
about a year since his baggage was
rifled by agents of some one and his
books, papers and letters stolen. and
since his return to this city in Jan
uary last he has written some de-
cidedly pointed letters to some of the
financiers Of Minneapolis, besides
pouring his shot into many of the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13

Ready. men! We are to die here
holding the bridge"
The head of the enemy's column
iashes into view at the bend, and he
opens terrific fire from either flank TO
keep us down, but there is a shout and
a rush behind rs and we swing our hats
and cry: Thank God-hurrah for Gus
teri He has sent us one hundred dis
mounted men with their seven-shooters,
and they have scarcely opened fire be-
fore a field-piece dashes up, unlimbers,
and grape and canister are doing their
murderous work. Here comes half
regiment of infantry-three pieces of
another battery-we can hold the keyl
Fall in, Company G. Right face
march"
We fall back behind the shelter Of a
ridge to let fresh men take our places.
The line seems wonderfully short.
marvel over il and then begin to count.
We had exactly sixty men down behind
the breastworS. Here are only twenty
eight! When we come to investigate
there are no missing, no wounded.
Thirty-two ont of sixty dead-dead and
ready for the trenches. But we held
the Detroit Free Press
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
HOLDING THE BRIDGE.
The Desperate struggle of Gallant Com.
pany q.

The Desperate Struggle of Gallant Com
pany q.
A company of men detached from the
Third regiment and rushed through
the forest at double-quick without re-
gard to formation.
The battle has been raging on the
left for an hour. Twenty minutes ago
the enemy moved up against our cen
ter, to be hurled back. Here on the
right we have been waiting Company
G has been sent to the extreme right
flank
Halt! Stack arms. Now, men, for
a breastwork. Use logs, dirt, brush
anything! You must hold this bridge,
even against a diyision!'
A bridge over gully with creek
not six feet wide flowing at the bottom
such a bridge IS dozen farmers
might turn out and build in a day.
Why not destroy instead Of defending
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13
PRINTING.

All sizes and qualities of
Envelopes and Paper furn-
ished and printed in neat style
at reasonable prices.
Bill Heads, Statements, or
any style of Notice printed
promptly.
Wedding Invitations, Ball
Programs, Tickets, WITH or
without coupons. 1OO0
Sale Bills, Posters, in any
Color, at sizes and prices to
suit.
We can furnish anything
desired in the printing Lire at
short notice.
Give us a call,
THE HERALD,
Lancaster Wis.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13
v 4 n 7 T D
5000 Cords OF Ex-
'i ceIsioY Wood.
The undersigned will buy Ex-
celsior Wood of the fol-
-. lowing Dimensions:

1t must be cut 80 inches long in the
clear. same as sawed off. u must be
peeled. The wood must be clear or
reasonably free from knots, and good
straight wood. Must not be less than )
inches in diameter, each stick to be
split once from 6 inches mp to 10 inches
diameter, then quarter1it The above
applies to Eastwood, Poplar and Willow.
For particulars call on OF address,
LANCASTER EXCELSIOR WORKS.
AUGUST LASTZ. Manager.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13
A CAMP.FIRE YARN.
The Lanky Comrade Tells Tough one
on the ,IOhnnies.

The Lanky Comrade Tells a Tough one
on the Johnnies.
Biyouacked around a campfire one
evening were party of officers busily
engaged IN roasting COOLERS in the
ashes, ant washing them down with
the contents Of their canteens. Never
heard tell the time l got lost in
the mountains With engin', did ye?'
asked tall, iSrkv, good-humored COM
rade, who strolled up and helped him
self to handful of the COOLERS.
Every man present expressed his bit
ter regret at never having had the OPP
portunity of hearing the story
WALL" said the tall man, seating
himself on an upturned bucket, Il
mout's well tell We. longs there's time
afore taps. | wur runnin an engin
fur the guv'ment do0rin' the war down
in Ferginny. She wur an OF hook-mo-
ton Rogers, am smart enuff to elm n
tree eff she'd a got the hold onto it,
II had a niger fireman as was afraid
of his shadder, witch didn't prevent him
goin' TO sleep at any minute, day or
night, whilst he wur a standin' up look
in ahead, 'parently wide awake. But
wuz goin' to tell We about gettin lost.
Ye see, twas this way; they started US
out one dark night over a branch that
we didn't know, and we had to go it
bin. The track wur in turr BILE
shape, an 'twould hev puzzled We to
say when we wuz on the rails an when
we wuzn't. / should say we everridged
bout half and half We was plowin
long bout $3.50, when all of student
I saw by the headlight tibet we was a
goin' into a tunnil.
II Civ Zeb a kick an hollered: Zeb,
is Their a tunnil on this line?'
Can't tell for shuah, boss, said he;
mighty GURUS doin's these days.
Twasn't so 'fo de wah!
Wal, keep yer eye skinned fer
snags, / sung out, an as WIZ sort of
sleepy myself, | snoozed off an on,
mostly on, guess, fer a spell, till final
ly the old gal Civ snort an stopped
dead We both on us walked up to
wunst.
''Twas so dark l couldn't see Zeb to
kick him fer goin' to sleep, but cussed
him fer lettin' us hit snag. Cit down
Their, We coon, an see if we're on the
rails, seq /.
He took the torch an clim'ed down
an wallered roun awhile. Fust
knowed he was back ag'in, his face
whites a sheet.
well, what's the matter now?
asked him.
- 'Fo the Lo'd, boss, he SEE, ives
in de tun'l yit an dere amt a rail in
sightn
f'Jest ez ! wuz gittin down to 'vesti-
gate, long comes the conductor What
in thunder do you mean, SEE he, by
runnin' this train six miles into a
caveg 34r,l taa@t g5a e.y.a
Shore uuff, those Johnnies had
taken ND the rails an turned en- into
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13

CART $. i. BAYLEs, who died the
other day at Wilmington, Del, aged
seventy-five, had many interesting
memories Of slavery days He narrow
ly escaped imprisonment in Virginia
once when local officers, on examining
his lumber-laden vessel about to leave
port, literally found niger in the
woodpile. There was constructed in
the heart Of the deckload Of lumber a
neat little pen where an escaping slave
was found concealed. Capt Bayles
lived to carry boatload Of gunpowder
for the Burnside expedition against
Beaufort, s G., and after the close Of
the war to serve on the Wilmington
police force,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13

GEY GRANT vas the president from
the date Of its organization until his
death Of the 10 Daviess county soldiers
monument association, and wrote his
name as such on a large number Of
beautifully engraved certificates Of
membership in that organization Al
most the last work he did with his pen,
aside from writing on his Memoirs"
was to affix his signature to several hun
dred Of these certificates the bulk Of
which are still in the possession Of the
association.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13

it? Because we may need to pass
brigade over it TO strike the euemy's
left flank and double it back ON his
center. A gully with banks not fifteen
feet high--a small creek across which
men can jump-a rude bridge from
bank to bank scarcely wider than a
wagon, and yet this may be the key of
the right flank.
In thirty minutes we are sheltered by
a breastworlx at our end of the bridge,
and every man is down behind it and
waiting. Poor old Company G! Disease,
death and burroughs had reduced its
strength to sixty men. We should have
had thousand muskets there, backed
by battery, but they could not be de-
tached from the right wing. We have
no reserves to-day. Such of the wound
ed as can hobble or crawl must go to
the rear unaided. Men who cannot
help themselves mnstlie as they fall and
weep and groan and call in vain. Be
yond US, on the meadows Clusters cav
airy is drawn up and in waiting. They
will have their hands full without
minding US. 7sIs.z saBrzafs s. a-9di
Hold the bridget Hold 1t against a
company, regiment, a brigade, u divi-
sion-hold it until the Last man of you
is wiped OUT r.
Sixty men what? The for
est on the far side is dark and heavy.
We peer into. it over the ,breastworll,
but nothing can be seen. Listen to the
tide of battle. The enemy attacked on
our left flank, to be repulsed. He at
tackled on our left center with the same
result He massed two divisions as a
wedge to pierce our center but shot
and shell and bullet left a thousand
dead and wounded in the forest. He is
hustling for a weak spot ON our right
flank. The wave is slowly rolling down
towards US.
Ready, men-fire at willl'
A mob of men suddenly appear in
view, bursting Out Of the TdepSe UNDER
growth into the Srarrow highway as If
in fight 1t is a company which has
been rushed through the woods as we
were IusAed and with the same object
in1xfeI l6pt 1t has arrived too late. The
mob has disappeared as the smoke lifts
and for the next ten minutes only the
dead and wounded are in sight.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13

that cave, an that OF hoox-notion kept
on agoin' with us till we struck the end
of it. | member thinkin' she was ridin'
pretty hard, but l s'posed She he'd got
off the ties onto the roadbed which
wasn't graded very well. "-Kate Fields
Washington
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1893-07-13
{qsfig fuEhhgHswh uP4 custer II
tie MiclH gan brigade dos ngt hold its
9Fh p-dRg, g9od-bNto 4 pr rsght flank.
sYeIalf slistsniagItY Pr syells and

column OF infantry suddenly appears at
the far end of the bridge. There are
no slxirmishers. They are coming in a
solid column to crush us by sheer
weight.
Steady, men-we can hold them
shoot to kill!' 5@T
We heap-the sod with their dead and
Wounded Above the noises of the fight
we can hear the shouts Of the men and
officers. Two-three = foilr times a
score-of men leap forward and dash at
the bridge, but as the bullets strike
them they throw up their arms and
sink down on the rough planks or stag
ger about and plunge into the creek be
low The road is too narrow for the
enemy to form in, and the dead and
wounded are in his way. He deploys
right and left tito the woods He can
concentrate the fire of thousand mus
kets On our poor little bfeastworlz. but
he cannot enfilade us. We hold our
fire and keep sheltered. For ten min
utes there is a blaze of musketry and a
hailstorm Of bullets which seem to
sweep away the forest behind us. and
then comes a sudden lull For thirty
seconds we listen to the rattle of Gus
ter's carbines. and the defiant shouts of
has men, and then we turn to the
bridge The enemy is determined To
possess it. Possession is worth the
lives of five hundred men to him A
regiment has massed in the highway
beyond the turn. They raise a shout as
they lower their heads and come with a
rush. Our fire does not seem TO me to
be as heavy as before. but It checks
them. a single manrreaches our end Of
the bridge, but only to fall dead with a
cheer on his lips.
They will come again. That wave 81
living men IS strong enough to roll the
dead before it for a moving breast
work. Car musket-barrels burn our
hands IS we reload To the right and
left Of me, behind our shelter. there are
dead men IN plenty. There IS a lull
again Six thousand h0rsemen are
charging and counter-charging on the
broad meadow We can even hear the
horses cry out when wour ded
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-27

l dream dream. close my eyes and ses
it all. We are there. This Is heaven Not
the outside but the inside of heaven.
With what warmth OF welcome our long
ago departed loved ones have kissed us. My
How they have clangel in looks! They
were so sick when they went away, and now
they are so we'll L)okl Honder is the
place Of our Lori the King. Not kept a
moment outside we are ushere into the
throneroom. Stretching out MS scarrel
hand He says, 81 have loved thee Win an
everlasting love" and we respond, Whom
have in heaven but Fhees'
But, look Yonder is the playground OF
the children. Children do yon want throne.
A throne would not lit child. There they
are on the Fairgrounds Of heaven-the Gnu
dren. Out OF the sick cradle OF earIh tney
came into this romping mirth OF the eternal
Fairgrounds. 1 clap my hands 70 chesg
them in the glee. Yonder are the palaces OF
the martyrs and before their doorway the
flowers. crimson as tine bloody martyriomi
through which they waded up into glory.
Wonder is Apostolic row, and the highest
turrets is over the home Of Paul. Here IS
Evangelist place. Yonder are the concert
halls in which the musicians Of eartn am
heaven are taking part-Handel with organ,
ami David with harp, and Gabriel with
trumpet, and four and twenty elders VIII
voices.
ana an angel of God says: Where shall
[ take you? On what street OK heaven
would YOU like to live; What celestial
babitatioa would you ike 10 occupy?' And
answer: "Now that have got inside the
wall made up Of all manner OF precious
stones do not care where you put me. just
show me where my departed loved ones are.
[ have seen the Lord, AMI next want %
see them. r,.i:
But here are those with whom tohed IA
the kingdom of Col on earth. Iney arc
from nv old parishes at Bellsvilie aud syria
cuse and Philadelphia and Brooklyn an
IRON many places on both sides tue sea
where have been permitted to work win
them and Tor them. Give them the best
nj ,ces YOU can fnt ] will help steady
them as they mount the thrones. wlli heiP
Won FURNISH their cOrOuet:
Take these, my old friends to as gooI
rooms as YOU can get for them IN the mouse
of many mansions and with windows look-
ing out upon the palace OF the great hlnE;
AS for myself, anywhere in heaven Is gooa
enough for me. halleluiah to the Lamp
that was slain" But awake. In the ecstasy
of the momont my foot slipped IRON the
LAYER of amethyst. that 50 callel producer
OF dreams, ana in the effort to eaten myself
the vision vanished. And, ID, II was but
dream
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-27
A aeYlous Case,


Old Widow Barbara Sellers has
the finest flock of geese within a ra-
aius Of five miles Of Willamsbridge
She supports herself and educates
two grandchildren on the products
of the birds, all but one Of which
contributed, either with eggs, feath-
crs or flesh, 10 her income says the
Toledo Blade. The exception was a
goose, known to be twenty years old,
and with possible claim TO much
greater age, for nobody could say
when 1t was Matched. II long ago
ceased to lay, and its age protected it
from slaughter. After it was last
Dlucked, five years ago, its, feathers
did not grow again, and every win
ter it suffered severely from the cold.
Its companions insulted it with deri-
siye cackllng, stole its share OF the
food and occasionally assaulted it
with their broad beaks Life was a
burden to it, and the other morning,
before Williamsbridge awoke to the
fact that it was freezing hard, the
old goose died
Mrs Sellers is in doubt whether it
committed suicide or was murdered.
Long before daylight she was
awakened by the cackling Of her
geese, and, though it was too dark to
see them by looking out OF her bed
room window she knew by the dTec-
ton Of the sound that they were in
and around the duck pond, a sheet
OF water about three 1eet deep at
the rear OF the house. At intervals,
she says, she could hear the Queru-
lous complainings Of the old goose
but Its voice, after being several
times cut of, at last ceases alto
gether
At dawn Mrs. Sellers saw that the
pond was frozen over, and in the cen
ter was an old goose with its head I'M
der the ice The other birds were
around it on the slippery surface
They were watching it closely, and
had it moved they would, no doubt,
have forced it back. 1t vas quite
dead. however, and Mrs Sellers
thinks the younger geese beat its
mead below the water and made it
stay in that position until the ice
formed aroundit She admits how.
ever, that it may have grown weary
Of its life and bent its neck while the
water frOze it in.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-27
Tho Colnoldent Curse of Gold.

The goldseekers of both America
and Australia have singular but we'll
grounded superstition that the dis
c0yerers Of hidden treasures are sure
10 meet with violent deaths The
original proprietors Of between thirty
liyc and forty Of the most prosperous
gold and silver mines i'm this country
are known to have come TO just such
ends Out OF the forty or less twelve
were shot or stabbed to death in
saloon and other broils; five com
United suicide; three were engufed
by landslides; five turned murderer,
or robbers AID were caught and exc
cutcd in various ways: one fell intO a
UJiiing spring and had the flesh liter
ally stewed from his bones, while tbs
others have disappeared and no one
knows what ever became Of them
george II. Fryer once the millionaire
proprietor Of the "Fryer Hill Mine.
committed suicide in Denver after
spending the last nickel between him
elf and starvation The dlscoveret
u the great Standard Mine California;
was caught and swallowed up in an
avalanche; COL Story was killed De-
indians; William Fairweather OF the
'lmous calder Gulch Nine died
with the "frenzied horrors after aeon
.inuous two years debauch Par.
'cll of Meadow Lake" died with a
'erriblc disease in Il San Francisco
hospital The owner Of that great
nine. the "IIamestake," became
lIShwayman and was shot while rob
ing a stage coach John Homer
rled the same route that Fryer went
'Doughnut Bill, 90 "Mlnemie Clarke
Old Eureka. aud many others were
Iiled in saloons. Plummer, known
"Montaua the discOverer Of the
icheSt mine in the world. aud at one
ime sheriff OF the largest county In
hc United States, was finally hanged
ID his own Sc9fTOld.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-27
Devoted TO a Cripple.

at is commonly believed that real,
bonafde romantic devotion is a thing OF
the past, said a woman who has charge
of a tea room in one Of the big down
town shops, "One OF my girls" she
continued, Supports not only herself,
bnt her husband, WHO'S utterly unable to
do anything for his own support, and
she married him knowing that she would
be obliged to do this. This is how it
came about.
"5he was engaged to a young man
when he fell Ill aud was paraiyzei. lie
had but little means and this WAS soon
exhausted, and it resolved itself into this
she must marry him and care for him
or abandon him to d padpers fate. She
married him, took the burden Of their
two lives on her shoulders, aud, so far
as I know, has never uttered one single
word OF complaint. l never knew a
more patient, faithful, and, 10 her line,
capable girl in my Ike. II extra work
is required Of her she never, By word Or
LOOK, resents it.
"a great many ladies' come here for
Urls 60 aisis. az small entertainments,
aud she is always anxious to take these
engagements to add to her income. OF
course they can only go in the evening,
when their duties here are over, and it
does not make any difference how late
she is ont she is here just as promptly
tine next morning and performs her
duties with just as much zeal a3if she
had not worked half the night. One
dag | said to her, low could you marry
a man who, as you knew, never could
support your Why, she replied, what
could dol could not forsake him.
Sucl a thing as being disloyal seems
never TO have entered her mind.
II doubt very much if among the
lauguishing maids aud the passionate
swans Of that long ago time when
romance was fashionable there could
have been found one wac would have
translated her love into deels Of such
untiring self-sacriice. am inclined to
believe that there are as many martyrs
and as much true devotion in these latter
days as ever, although it is heralded
neither in song nor story. Chicago
Post.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1893-01-27

Tn the Caucasus Mountains there
are many wild, unciyilized tribes OF
people whose terribly rough ways
would make the heart OF a civilized
mother stand still with fear il her
child were to be treated as the people
OF the Caucasus treat their children
every day The first thing that a
Caucasus baby is given for plaything
is dagger. This is presented to him
as soon as he can walk For an hour
or two each day his mother spends
her time teaching him how to use the
weapon. so that he will some day be-
come an expert lie IS taught to
stab water so that it makes no splash
and is made TO hurl his dagger at
mark again and again, until he can,
not miss his aim. And all this is
done during the time that other boys
are spinning tops and studying a
spelling book. When the Caucasian
boy grows up he knows just one
thing-hOw to Use a dagger-while
civilized boys knows-well, some OF
them know a great deal.-Danyille
fDfn7ae