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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-03
CURRENT COMMENTS.

tEThe great need of the democratic
par. at present is somebody to tell it
how it can indorse Cleveland without
dcnouncing itself-St Louis Globe
Democrat.
sEA wise forethought will lead a
great many democratic statesmen now
filling engagements in Washington to
learn some useful trade before next
fall Chicago Tribune.
sEThe democrats cut appropriations
ut one session of congress and pass de-
ficiency bills at the next session. This
is ecUromy as practiced by the party
of free trade and refOrm.-Cleveland
Leader.
tEThe reductions" in living ex-
penses which the democrats say they
will bring by their tariff bill viii be
illusory. but the increase in expenses
which that bills duty on sugar will
bring TO every family will be a very
disagreeable reality.-St Louis Globe
Democrat
gF-rhe Lest friends of the demo-
cratic party cannot fail 20 see that it
has done absolutely nothing to relieve
the situation. Never was there so com
plete and SYNONYMOUS failure and so
universal disappointment on the part
of the people who were seeking relief.
N. O. Picayune tDem.).
sE-Genuine democracy throws men
out of work and euts down wages lie
who. calling himself a democrat, tries
20 get men work at good wages is de-
nounccd at once as traitor and a
.'protectionist in disguise The Amer
Jean people have had enough of genu-
inc democracy. They have suffered
under L now for about a year and they
are not going TO vote for genuine de-
rnncracy again or for democratic pro
tectionists in disguise" They will vote
for undisguised protection republicans
aud rccommit TO their charge the desti-
mics of the country.-Chicago Tribune.
sFRhodc Island and every northern
commonwealth which has voted upon
the question have expressed unquali-
fed condemnation of Grover Cleveland
and the Wilson bill. The people have
repudiated Clevelandism and tariff re-
form" wherever they could get TO the
polls. They have demonstrated beyond
all Goubt that they are overwhelmingly
opposed to the doctrines of free trade.
They have proved that they regard as
an enemy and a despoiler every man
who seeks to destroy protection. They
have shown that they will punish by
crushing defeat every politician who
insults their intelligence and assails
their welfare By advocating the confed-
crate measure.-N. Y. Press.
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HIeH.PRICEp BOOKS.

BoUcHER's Figures de Moliere"
brought SIS, 400 at the Pichon sale.
"BoccAccIo," first edition of 1871,
brought sl1,SO0 at the Roxburghe sale.
THE Caxton "Boccaceio." printed in
1876, brought $4,000 az the Techener
sale in 1886.
TIE works of Radicals, printed by
Dolet, brought $500 at the Techener
sale in 1887.
THE Valdarfer "Boccaecio," printed
at Venice in 1471, brought at the Blan-
ford sale $40, 400.
"ENTREE de Henri II. Paris ct de
Charles IX' brought 81, 900 at the Des-
tailleur sale in 1891.
MONUMENT du Costume, by Freude-
berg and MORGAN, brought s4,5Ol al the
Behague sale n 1850.
"L'OFFICE de la Toussaint" brought
IS, 600 at the la Carelle sale. Earou
Pichon paid 50 for it in 1s47.
owns ''Metamorphoses." illustrated
by Moreau, Boucher and Eisen. brought
s., 600 at the Marquis sale in Is 90.
THE works of Origene, bound with
the arms of Henry II. and Diane de
Poitiers, brought $4,000 at he Muller
sale in 1892.
"L'AMoUBEux TRANs1, by Jean
Bouchet, printed on vellrm. Quaritch
paid $500 tor it at tie Sunderland
sale in 1852.
The Psalter of Meutz of 1457. Louis
XVIII. paid $4,000 for copy of it,
which he presented to the national
library at Paris. Quaritch's price foI
the second edition of 1859 is $4,000.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-03
SHILOH.
Historical Facts About the BattIe--what
the Leaders Say.

the Leaders Say.
The official records show that there
was engaged in this battle on both
sides 246 different organizations. There
were under Gen. u. s. Grant on Sun
day, in the first days battle, go regi-
ments of infantry and 50 pieces of
artillery; under Gems. Albert Sidney
Johnston and G. T. Beauregard, 81
regiments of infantry and 90 batteries
of artillery. If they were full gun bat
teries there would be 100 pieces of ar
tillery. Gen. Lew Wallace arrived with
1864 men and ~ pieces of artillery,
making in the army of Gen. Grant
total of 73 regiments of infantry and
62 pieces of artillery. Gen. ID. c. Buell.
arrived with the army of the Ohio, con-
sisting of "a regiments of infantry and
three batteries of artillery, that took
part in the battle. In all Gen. Buell.
had AZ organizations, making 246 or
CARNATIONS. Including the cavalry, ar
tillerv and infantry, or ll4,33s men
who took part in this first great open
field battle of the west, with fearful
loss on both sides.
Gen. U. S. Grant says of Shiloh: "No
such contest ever took place on this
continent; in Importance of results,
but few have taken place in the history
of the world" Again, in his Memoirs,
he saws: "Shiloh was the most severe
battle fought in the west during the
war, and but few in the east have
eaualed it for hard. determined fight
ing"
Gallant old Gen. George II. Thomas
said to Col. A. w. Willis: "Shiloh was
the most decisive battle of the war.
Gen. ID. C. Buell., commander of
the Ohio at Shiloh, says: The
battle of Shiloh was the most famous
and to both sides the most interesting
battle of the war, and ! recognize no
battlefield of the war, all things con-
sidered. the lessons which it teaches
and its Importance in the contest, as
being more worthy to be preferred as
a memorial park than Shiloh Zen.
John A. McClernand, who commanded
the first division under Gen. Grant at
Shiloh. says: "Shiloh shielded the
northwest from invasion and turned
back the tide of war upon the Atlantic
coast That field deserves to be dedi-
Gated to the gallant men who fought
and fell there. and your efforts TO pre-
serve this battlefield as great nation
al park meets my hearty approval. "
Thousands of Others, both north and
south. have written letters urging that
this forever-historic battlefield be pre-
served as a great memorial park.-E.
T. Lee, in National Tribune.
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hand upon him, shook and whispered
him TO go back into the trench. but there
was no movement Again / tried to
rouse the watcher, but to no purpose.
placed his hands in mine; they were
cold. The soldier guarding before Port
Hudson was dead.
The corporal had followed me, and
with his aid | rolled the dead soldier
from his place behind his little bundle
of twigs that to him had proved so
faithless. The corporal grasped my
hand, and ] was then alone.
Beside me was the dead man. He
and the stars were now my company.
To the impress he had made in the soft
earth crawled. Slowly the hours
hung upon the night. The occasional
blaze of a cannon, its boom and Shrek
ing shell above my head were answered
by our own returning fire. The dis
tant guns of Farragut, too, gave their
voices. Home and its thousand remem-
brances thronged upon me.
But the stern reality the ping of a
rifie-ball close to my head or its lodg-
ment in my barricade, made awful the
night. ! could hear t6o voices in the
fort. 1t seemed near eternity to hear
the words of those who would send me
there.
AS the night wore on, a deeper dark
ness sank upon all, and soon a drilling
rain. followed by a severe tempest,
broke furiously upon the scene, My
spot of oozy earth was now filed with
water, hut ! could not turn. In an
hour the stars were again out, and
once mere the firing began. How
longed for the gray of the morning.
for that was to be the time for my re-
lief.
At last the stars began to pale.
heard a whispered voice below. 1t
was the corporal who had placed me.
He crawled up beside me and whis-
PeSed:
Are you alive?'
extended my hand; that was all.
We then both tumbled into the
trench When we did so he laid his
head upon my shoulder and sobbed.
my lad, never thought to see you
again alive. did not want to put you
there last night, but you know could
not help it."-C. j. Hermann, in Ma
tioual Tribune.
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DEMOCRATIC MULE-HAwHEHAw
Chicago Tribune

for the cloth, the shoes, the iron and
the other things that could be produced
by American labor, but which cannot
be so produced under our present
revenue system.
IF we could stop the import of the
foreign articles the gold would cease
to flow out to pay for them, and money
would then again become more abund-
ant; labor would then again be in de-
mand; shoes, clothing and other COM
modities would then again be in de-
mand, and Imen would then cease to
starvc in the streets of our towns and
cities, everywhere crying: Give me
work. Only give me work! Make your
own terms-my wife and children have
nothing to eat"
From which graphic account of life
IN New York under the low tariff of
1siG it appears that Walkers bill
worked just like Wilson's.-N. Y. Re-
Cnrder
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ALsssoN FROM HE PAsI.
Misery and Want Resulting from the Low
Tariff PoiIex-

There has been much disputation as
90 whether the low tariff of 1916, upon
which Wilson's bill is avowedly mod
eled, brought good or bad times to this
country. The following is descr y
ton of how New York city throve
under the 1916 tariff, taken from Horace
Greeley's great Tribune of 1854:
who is hungry? Go and see. You
that are full fed and know not what it
is to he hungry-perhaps never saw a
hungry mango and see. Go and see
thousands, men and women, boys and
girls, old and young, black and white,
of all nations, crowding and jostling
each other. almost fighting for first
chance, acting more like hungry
wolves than human beings in land of
plenty.
1T is only by the continuous efforts
of two policemen that the crowd can
be kept in order or made to wait till
the food is ready for distribution. Such
a scene may be seen every day between
eleven and two o'clock around the cor
ner of Grange and Chatham streets.
where chfrity gives a dinner to the
poor. and soup and bread to Others to
carry TO their miserable families.
ION Saturday we spent an hour there
ut the hour of high tide. We have new
or seen anything like it before Up.
ward of 1000 people were fed with
plate of soup, a piece of bread and a
piece of meat on the premises, and in
all more than 1000. On the same day
!. 1sO portions of soup were dealt out
from Stewards soup kitchen, in the
rear of the great store, corner of Reade
street and Broadway.
AT the rooms On Duane street. for
the relief of the poor, on the same day
they gave food to 2,256. In the Sixth
ward alone over 5000 persons were fed
by charity on Saturday, January 10.
And this is only one day in one ward.
Meanwhile scenes of like nature are
being enacted all over the city.
"A procession of several thousand
persons kept marching about the streets
yesterday. with flags and banners
which bore such inscriptions as Hunger
is Sharp Thorn The Last Recourse,
Live and Let Live we Want Work,
etc.
Such are the scenes that are being
c~"cted daily before our eyes. while
cry of hard times reaches us from
very part of the country. The maxi
ing of roads is stopped, factories are
closed and houses and ships are no
longer being built Factory hands,
road makers, carpenters, bricklayers
and laborers are idle; paralysis is
rapidly embracing every pursuit in the
country.
THE cause of all this stoppage of
circulation is to be found in the steady
outflow of gold TO pay foreign laborers
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-03

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FRUSTRATING HAREs.
The Unbelieving German Lost His H.
With the Spaniard.

with the spaniard.
Hare is dish never seen on Span
sh table, because in Spain there is a
superstition that hares, in the night,
20 into churchyards and dig up the
graves and eat the dead bodies. A
writer in the Munchener Zeitung, who
recently spent some time shooting in
Castillo, where game is very plentiful,
relates now he was convinced of the
fact that hares do cat flesh. He had
been told SO by the country people, but
had treated their assertion as a ridicu-
lous fiction. The next time he found
himself in a party of sportsmen he re-
peated what he had heard as a joke:
but, to his surprise, every one listened
quite gravely, and assured him that it
was perfectly true; they themselves
had frequently seen hares eating flesh.
As he still expressed doubts on the sub
ject, however, one of the company Of
fered to bet him fifty litres of wine
that he 1.-THE German) should see hare
eating meat The bet was accepted.
The next morning very early. the
Spaniard, the German and two gray
hounds went out to great heath to
look for fiesh-eating hares. AS they
were sitting waiting for the hares to
appear, the Spaniard. to the Germans
amazeme Mt, took a little live crab out
of his pocket What do you want
that for?" said the German ITO
catch the hare with" replied the
Spaniard. u struck the German that
perhaps the Spaniard had brought him
out merely to make a fool of him But
then he reflected that that was not the
Spanish way with strangers; so he
held his tongue and went on wait
ing. BY and by : fine hare APP
peared. In moment the two dogs
were after him they were well muz-
zled, so that they could not do him any
harm), and, in a few moments more the
hare had disappeared again in his hole,
and the dogs were barking at its mouth.
The men got up and hurried after them.
''Now," id the Spaniard, this is
where my crab comes IN" He pulled
out the crab and put it down at the
mouth of the hole, and it, glad to hide
IN the dark shade, crept in with all the
expedition il could manage. The
Spaniard instantly spread a large
coarse sack over the entrance, and in
few moments out rushed the hare, ter
rified by its unexpected visitor, right
into the sack. Home they went with
their prisoner, which they placed in a
cage. When the hare had recovered
from his fright, he ate, before'the Ger
mans astoaished eyes, several pieces
of mutton which were thrown in. Lon
/ don NayvS
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PIOWEp UNDER.

Il saw a field OF rich. green clover grow
It's blossoms honey-ladeu for the bee:
AMI turning - the owner who stood By,
Iasked what time the harvesting would be.
twill not be gathered in How then:r 1
cried
" Have you no recompeEse for all your tolls
The farmer smf- ID; he was more wise than 1;
. plow il unaeT TO enrich the soil"
And all at once I seemed 20 see mlre clear
some things that had tried 70 comprehend:
Has Rot the heart like that broad field, its
frowths
That never seem TO reach their destined ends
It's early dreams that perish unfuifueds
It's youthful hopes that vanish ere heir
prime
Its fond affections and its tender love.
Borne down before their perfect blossom
times
mussd on these, and as ! turned my feet
Back 20 the city with its swift turmoil
J smiled and said in Tranquil. sweet content:
- God piows them under 20 enrich the SOIL
Kate T. GOode, IN y l. Observer
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THE REPUBLICAN, TIDAL WAVE.
Popular Wrath RecoiIing Upon the Rlun-
dering Democracy.


The significance of the republican
victories in the municipal elections in
Ohio and Illinois lies in the fact that
they are in TIE same line as the results
in the other elections, municipal and
state, which have taken place in the
past few months In almost all of
them the republicans made immense
and unexpected gains They did this
in New York. Massachusetts, Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio, Iowa and the other states
which voted for state officers last No
vember. In the special elections for
members OF congress in New York and
Pennsylvania the same thing was seen,
and the canvasses for city and county
officers in New York and other states a
few weeks ago told the same story.
cpublican localities have rolled up
largely increased maiorities, and many
old democratic strongholds which the
republicans did not imagine they could
carry have been captured.
1t will be noticed that the change in
political sentiment which the results of
these elections indicate is general and
lasting. In the east, the central tier of
states and in the west it is seen. 1t is
found under all sorts of industrial and
social conditions, and in agricultural
as well as manufacturing and mining
localities. The evidence that the
change is not due to a sudden and
transient impulse is proved by the fact
that II was more marked in the recent
elections THANH it was in those which took
place last November. The republican
wave is growing higher instead OF
lower. The victory in one district in
New York city and the reduction of
the democratic majority in the other
district in the special election for con.
gressmen two months ago showed a
more radical transformation than was
revealed in the election for state officers
three months before, while Crows ma
jority in Pennsylvania for congress a
few weeks ago was far larger than the
almost unexampled lead gained for
state officers in the same state last No.
vember.
at is revolt" said Louis XVI. to
the messenger who had brought him
the news of the fall of the Bastile
No, sire, said the messenger, lit is a
revolution" Here, too, is revolution.
Americas bourbon bastile fell when the
democratic plurality of $1,000 in 1891
and of As, 600 in 1892 in New York was
transformed into a republican plurality
of "a, 0e0 for some state officers and of
10l, 600 for court of appeals Judge in
1898. What 1889 was to the dynasty
established by Henry ~. 1s93-94 is to
the party of Grover Cleveland, and the
1892 which deposed the unfortunate
Louis and established the republic will
have its counterpart in this country in
1896 when the democratic regime will
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-05-03
Habits OF a Horse.

when ! was down in Nicaragua"
said the man with the bronzed face and
glasses, Il had n horse which proved
To he a most intelligent animal ] was
accustomed to riding him out of trey
town and on the road somewhere stop
ping for drink of whisky or some
thing, and the latter was always
brought out 10 me by the proprietor or
his man. sold the horse to a gentle
man who wanted it for his daughter 20
ride. One day, long afterward. met
the gentleman in New York and incl
dentally inquired about the horse
That horse? said he, looking at me
quizzically. that horse is all right, bu,
it was a long time before we could
break him g stopping before every
gin-mill and waiting for my daughter
TO get drink. Pittsburgh Dispatch
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-----------------7--7--
PURSUED BY AN EAGLE.
A Hunters Experience With Two Birds in
the Island of Yezo.

the Island of Yezo.
While travelling alone on horseback
through the island of Yezo, the home
of the Ainu, Mr.. Savage Lander saw
two large eagles about two hundred
yards ahead. He dismounted, revolver
in hand, and crept stealthily from rock
TO rock till he came close to the pin
nacle rock on which they stood. Even
then they were some fifty yards away,
and it was idle for him to fire. lie
peeped over the rock. the birds saw
him, and one of them flew away. The
other stood still, with its piercing eyes
fixed upon him, till he got within four
yards. lie fred two shots. Both of
them went through the eagles breast,
and the big bird came down heavily on
its back. Mr.. Lander says:
SIN its last convulsions it made des-
perate efforts 10 clutch me with its
long, sharp claws; but two more shots
finished it.
''Then the male bird, which mean
while had been describing circles in the
sky over my head, plunged down on
me with incredible velocity. l emptied
the last chamber of my revolver into
MIN, 1uSL rs lIlt W IiiNl VI EG
made my eyes twinkle; and to avoid
the grip of his outstretched claws had
TO cover my face with my left arm.
1.-The report stunned him, and flop
ping his wings, he rose again to resume
his circling over my head, leaving few
of his feathers floating in the air.
81 reloaded quickly, and every time
he attacked me lie was received with a
volley. Another bullet went through
his wing, and his flight became un-
steady. He flew to distant cliff, and
] seized the opportunity TO pick up the
dead bird and lash it 20 the saddle.
Then mounted my pony and away
rode with my Prey. he male bird
followed me for miles and miles, and
now and then had to fire to keep him
at respectable distance
cat last he gave up the pursuit, and
my delight was immense when, instead
of seeing him over my head, ready 10
pounce on me at any moment, l saw
him disappear behind the cliff, flying
rapidly but unsteadily back TO his
eyrie youths Companion.
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A eATTLeFlELO MYSTERY.
The Unaccountab!e Conduct of a Sup
passed Corpse. =.

The Unaccountab!e Conduct of Sup
passed Corpse. =
The night of December 81, 1868, wa9
exceedingly cold in the vicinity OF
Murfreesboro, Tenn. The first dayl
battle at Stone river had been fought,
resulting in disaster to the federal
army, which had been driven from its
original ground at every point except
its extreme left The weary troops az
that point lay behind railway en-
banlxment, which had served them DUR
ing the last hours of the fight as a
breastworlx to repel repeated charges
of the enemy. Behind the line Of
ground was open and rocky. Great
powders lay about everywhere, and
among them lay many of the federal
dead. where they had been carried out
of the way Before the embankment
the dead of both armies lay greatly
thicker, but they were not molested.
1t was not dark night. being clear.
Among the dead in the powders lay
one whom nobody knew-a federal SER
geant, shot directly in the center of
the forehead. One of our surgeons,
from idle curiosity, or possibly with a
view to the amusement of a group of
officers during lull in the engagement
1--WE needed something to divert our
minds) had dropped his probe clean