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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
THRIVING ON PERSECUTION.
The Gypsies Of Hungary Still Main
tain Their Ancient Customs.


In Hungary there are, according 10
a rough estimate, about 10000 gyp-
sizes, yagabonds who wander about the
country With their carts and horses
accompanied by their women and chill
dren; and though at one time perSt
cuteG as unbelieverS, and hunted Il
death as sorcereIs and prisoners, tn
cruel edicts which enjOined such treat
ment were never sympathiZed in by
the Hungarian people. The result is,
as we learn from The People Of The
World, that the gypsies have in
creased, and, in their own thriftless,
squalld fashion, proSpered. despite the
hard usage they have received at the
hands of their rulers. Indeed. the Hun
sarian kings have more than once
protected them as poor wandering
people without country, and whom
all the world rejected" and granted
them safe conducts to go wherever
seemed good to them, with their
troops of donkeyS and horses. Joseph
IL. of Austria tried to settle them as
agriculturiStS, and had hutS built for
hem. But instead of occupying the
comfortable dwellings themselves, they
stabbed their cattle in them and pitch
ed their tents outside. Then, to pre-
vent their corn from Sproutiug. they
boiled it before sowing; and though
their children were taken from them
end trained up into habits of work
under Magyar and German peasants,
these WildlingS soon escaped and
joined their parents, without having
learned anything from their forcible
apprenticeship TO civilization. 1t is al
tlrmed that a gypsy, who had actually
risen to the rank of an officer in the
Austrian army, disappeared one day,
and was found six months afterWard
with a band of Zingari encamped on
the heath. A young Slovack peasant
fell in love with and married a gypSy
girl, but i'll his absence she escaped to
the woods, and when discovered was
sleeping under the skies, and feeding
on hedgehOgS, after the fashion of the
race from whom she had been taken.
The Able List, charmed with the
talent for music displayed by a gypsy
boy. took him to Paris and tried to
train the little lad. But all in vain
The moment he saw his own people
in Vienna his delight was indescrib-
able; there was no longer any hope of
keeping him under the reStrair.' Of
polite life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
BOT WEATHER PHILOSOPHY.

Don't fret about the mercury,
Or watch it all the time.
The old thermometer won't burst,
However it may climb.
Il doesn't do you any good
To count up the degrees,
And all you talk about the heat
Won't start a bit Of breeze
Dent fan yourself too much. 1t makss
You hotter when you stop.
Don't tell the suffering neighbors thai
You feel as if you'd drop.
Don't drink too much cold lemonade;
glass or two will do.
And don't ask everybody
rs it hot enough for your
Just 90 about your daily tasks
AS calmly as you can
Don't hurry; take things easy, and
You'll be much happier than
The chap who groans, and frets. and
StewS,
And fuses all the time.
Just follow this advice and you'll
Be glad you read this rhyme.
-SOmerville Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
NOTHING Is SETTLED.

Speaking Of the Mckinley law being
dead, and suggesting that the gun
which killed it will do more harm at
the breech than at the muzZle, the
New York Tribune says the effort to
overturn the act of 1890 has already
broken and defeated the democratic
party and covered it with itfamy
The assault against it was led by
President Cleveland, and has made
him an object of contempt to his own
party; by Chairman Wilson, and has
exposed his pitiable incapacity; by the
three confederates, Jones. Vest and
Mills, who are branded by the head
of their party with perfidy and dis
honor. No repeal of the act of 1890
was found possible, except by buying
votes from the sugar and whisky
trusts and other monopolies. and so a
wild revel and witches dance of cor
ruption has brought disgrace upon the
party in power, and in place Of equal
and fair protection for all has sub
stituted the communism of pelf'' in
Mr. Cleveland'S phrase. and, in the
language of the New York Times.
''bill packed with duties that are prac-
tically inquitous fayors sold to various
monopolies in return for the votes of
senators controlled by those monopo-
lies"
Meanwhile the Mckinley tariff
stands in history as the act which
raised the demand for the wages of
labor to the highest point ever reached
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
THE DEVILS DAGGER"
A Young Herdsman Meets His Death
by Falling on a Cactus Plant

Santa Fee y. NJ, Sept, "a singu-
lar death is reported to have recently
occurred at Glorietta. A young herds
man on the ranch of st. James left his
home a few days since to track a band
of mountain wolves which had been
committing depredations on the herds
under his care, but expected to return
by night A day or two, however,
passed without bringing news Of him.
His wife becoming uneasy, a party of
his fellow-ranchmen started out to
look for him.
This search was for some time IN
successful until a large flock of buZ-
yards were seen lowering above some
object in the little valley of a small
local arroyo. Riding to this it was dis
covered to be the body of the unfort-
innate DelgadO. The remains were
badly decomposed. but the manner of
his death was evident.
He had obviously been thrown from
his horse upon cactus plant with
such violence as to drive the long keen
thorn of one branch into his heart.
Another also penetrated his stomach
and would, in itself. have proven fatal
had not the other given him more
sudden death-blow. These thorns
Justify the name bestowed upon them
by the natives of the devils dagger"
measuring often seven and eight
inches and as sharp as a needles
point and toughened almost to steel
by age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
HER LAST TEST.
Sacred Letters Written Half d Cen
fury Before.

Let the young have their little love
affairs. We smile at them. There l.
SAP in young heart, but there is fire
in an old one.
! This story is about man and .
woman who loved each other. What
else is worth writing about? They
! were no longer young. For a Ions
time it seemed like friendship i
was platOnic love. You don't believe
in that: l do. 1t is not common, but
! it is possible when the woman is al
artist and the man a philosopher. That
| is what these lovers were, Mary Clark
and Julius Mohl There was a traCi,
ton that Mary used to spend whole
days copying in the Louvre. She
! wore scant black silk dress cut
square in the neck, and her friZzled
! hair fell in tangle over her face.
She covered her dress with a long
black apron, which had two big peck
cts. One pocket contained her lunch,
the other held wreath of flowers.
She ate the lunch during the day,
and in the evening she rolled up her
apron, and put her wreath atop her
head and went to brllliAlt recep-
ton, such receptions as were possible
in Paris sixty years ago. She was
the gayest, the happiest, the most
popular OF women, and had the tru-
est lover in the world.
VI. 3Iohl was Of a noble family,
which somewhere held ain estate, but
for years these facts gave NO sub
Stanual income to the young SCION,
who chose the scholarly but unremun-
erative work of transIatiug the lite
nature Of India. He had a, few thou
sand francs, which he put lin bank,
where they drew no interest. His
own necessities and those OF his
friends-for he was charitable 10 ex-
cess-soon reduced THIS sum.
Fortunately he was awarded a gov
ernmt,It pension, which in American
was lis relief OF mind, and as fort
unes as we'll as misfortunes seldom
come Singly a short time after he
was appointed to professorshtp at
q salary of $1,000. What did he do?
He took back his penSon papers, say
ing: L have plenty now. L do not
need the pension. Give it to someone
else who is as poor as l was"
Nothing Of This S0rt had eyer ~.
Cured before. The government otti-
Gals could not credit their senses.
A man was found who had enough!
Mirabile d;ctu! NJ. Mohl was truly a
great man.
1t is such man who can love pa
tiently. 1t was ten years-it was twice
that long-that he loved Mary Clark.
There was the excuse if neither being
rich, besides they saw one another
daily. They were happy, though it is
true he thought marriage would make |
them happier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
CLEVER WITH BOTTLES.
What to Do in the Lack Of a Cork
screw.

! During this season of out-of- door en-
! jOyments and open air lunches one OF
| the things that will often bother &
| party will arise from the neglect tC
provide the lunch outfit with a cork
screw. Of course, if the drinkables
happen to be in patent stoppered bot
ties, like those that lager beer usually
comes in, a corkscrew will not be
! necessary, but suppose the beer is in
corekd bottles or that it is ale, how
shall it be opened?
There is a trick of taking off the
heads Of bottles that is worth know
ing, says the New York Sun. You are
pretty sure to have at hand d able
knife or good sized pocket knife.
The caseknife is to be preferred.
Grasp the beer bottle in the left
hand and the knife in the right hand.
Lay the bottle on your knee and draw
the knife vigorously across the neck
Of the bottle, just back Of the rim
that encloses the cork, just as ii you
were going to saw the head off the
bottle. You will not, of course, be
able to cut the head off the bottle,
but If you bear on pretty hard and
turn the bottle around gradually until
every part of the neck has been under
the knlfe'S edge you will scratch the
enamel OF the glass all around. This
Is the purpose Of the saving. When
5nls IS accomplished lay the knife
blade flaIwise on the bottle and with
the back of the blade strike the bottle
rim two or three sharp blows length
wise of the bottle as if you would
knock the head off. Presently you
will hear it break under the blows,
and it will break just in the line OF
the scratches au the enamel.
The cork in an ale bottle eXterds
below the break and holds the head on.
Put a napkin over the head and draw
the cork Head and all will come off
as clean as a whistle. You need fear
no chips of broken glass If the saving
has been we'll done. The old-bottle
man will not thank you for the trick,
but you will not need to worry about
a corkscrew when you have acquired
it.
Another little piece Of manipulation
is good to know about. COrks IN all
bottles are often bad, and in drawing
them all will crumble. If the ale is |
poured directly under these circum- /!
stances. bits of cork will appear in |
some Of the glasses. These bits of |
cork are easily got rid of. Hold the |
bottle upright and tap its side sharply. (
All the bits of cork will rise into the !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

neck OF the bottle, and presently the
ale will begin to send out bead Of
foam. On top of this the cork crumbs
VIII rise. Blow off the head OF the
foam, and all the bits of cork will be
gone. Then you can decant the ale
and have it clear and ready to drink.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
PARTY'S EXPERIENCE

A Milwaukee man who made
speeches in Milwaukee last spring
was delighted upon seeing in the Sen
tinel an editorial that exalted ex-
President Harrison for declaring, in a
speech made day or two before
that the principles Of the republican
party, foremost among which stands
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

British and German gunboats de-
stroyed the stronghold of the Samoan
rebels at Latuanuu and drove them
cut.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

The cholera is spreading rapidly in
Austrian Silesia-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13
REPUBLICAN, RALLY.
WH0OP.
ENORMOUS MAJORITY PILED UP
BY THEM.

Experiences Of a Year Which Have
Done Some Eloquent Talking-Seri-
Gus and Vital Matters at Issue-Wis-
consin People Must Not Be Diverted
Fiscal misrepresentation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-09-13

The Chinese forces in Corea are sald
to have defeated the Japanese in sew
eral engagements recently.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-04
WITH THE TRAVELLERS.

Hon. S. ]. Abbott, of Faribault coun-
ty, was at the Merchants yesterday, and
explained his presence in the city as
being connected with the sale of some
iron lands near Duluth with which he
had been connected for SONIC years. He
could not be induced to talk politics or
admit that he was candidate for the
legislative nomination this fall.
xr
Hon. W. E. Lee, or Long Prairie, was
in the city yesterday. Asked as to his
boom for state auditor, lie said that his
business had called him to st. Paul
quite frequently of late and it only took
three successive visits to the capital, if
reasonably close together, to cause one
to be slated as statesman, but he had
rather be left for the present among
those not struggling for nomination
for any position. He thought it too
early to estimate the chances of any Que
who had been named Tor the position.
Early booms were not necessarially un.
healthy ones, but their seasons of trial
encountered greater adversitIes and met
with severer strains. He did not wish
to hear his name floating around now on
the troubled sea of politics.
Hon. w. G. Leistekow, Democratic
national committeeman. North Dakota.
and Hon. g. q. Beardsley, the Sage of
GRAND Forks, were at the Merchants
last evening. Beardsley is waiting for
Hon. Nj. l.. Mccormack, together with
party which he is organizing at st.
Paul and Minneapolis, and is going with
them to Mexico to spend the winter.
They both agreed that Hon. w. II.
Roach, the North Dakota Democratic
senator, passed through the ordeal of
smut-pelting without stain, and that
he possesses the confidence Of both the
administration and the people. Leiste-
kow's persuasive powers induced Jud
Lamoure and eight other RepU bIicans to
vote for Roach, making success posi-
BILE; and, while Beardsley is uncompro-
misingly Republican, he. too, has only
words of kindness for Roach. Leiste-
kow is engaged in milling at Grafton,
and reports that wheat is shipped out
ef(the country closer than he has ever
known it before, ard he feels confident
the millers at Minneapolis will find
themselves short of graiu before the
next harvest. His own elevators are
full. but some of the milIers have
shipped too closely. He is confident
prices must rule higher.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-04
THE WIND II Is TO BLOW.

While the consensus of wisdom which
gathered at the Windsor Tuesday was
finally in favor of holding wind con-
ventlon, there was an outcropping of a
good deal of opposition to McKinleyism.
Before the motion to hold the wind
convention could be adopted, it was
found necessary to eliminate McKin-
ley'S name as one of the to-be-invited
speakers and allow the committee to
select the orator.
Senator Frank A. Day, of the Fair
mont Sentinel, was one of those who
were emphatic in opposition to having
McKinleyism thrust down their Threats.
With Washburn voting for free lumber,
Gov. Nelson when member of congress
voting for the Mills bill. Merriam max
ing free trade speech to Donnelly's
farmers, the Minneapolis Tribune ad-
vocating free lumber and free iron ore,
and the Pioneer Press sleeping part
ner" with Mckinley at all times except a
few days before election, Mr.. Day had
pretty good ground to claim that they
should not be inflicted with a dose of
Mckinley in midwinter.
But all this was a by-play as COM
pared with the desire for 'slate." 1t
was men, not principles, that crowd
were after. PIllsbury and Washburn
say we must have "our kind of people"
in the offices TO protect our political and
business Interests. and that will be the
kind of people present at the wind con-
vention in February.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-04
TAKE EVERYTHING IN SIGHT

Gov. Nelson has displayed his par
tisanship in his judicial appointments
at Minneapolis and given the Democrats
an excellent object lesson.
1t was, withal. very neatly done. By
promoting one man already holding a
minor judgeShlp. he was enabled to have
two appointments instead of one-aS he
made it necessary to fill second va
cancy created by the promotion.
The governor has evidently heard that
he who makes two blades of grass grow
where one grew before is public bene-
factor, and probably assumes that if
both blades are Republican he is bene-
factor of his party as well.
For many years the Democrats of
Minnesota have been captured by the
balderdash of non-partisan judiciary.
They have fallen into the trap so neatly
that they have perpetuated Republican
pc yer TO their own detriment.
EX-Gov. Merriam never failed to make
a partisan judicial appointment. and
Gov. Nelson is following in his foot
steps. While the Minneapolis Demo-
Gratis were expecting the governor
give them judge to succeed Demo-
cratic judge promoted to the state bench,
he never for moment intended to select
any one but Republican. That inten-
ton was so deftly executed that he
emphasized his partisanShip by appoint
ing two Republicans.
This lesson should he sufficient to
hn - NJ;
from ever asking, expecting or accept
ing any favOrS from their political
opponents. Politics should hereafter
permeate the Judiciary through and
through, and every opportunity the
Democrats have to secure a judicial
office. from the Chief Justice down to
Justice of the Peace, should be EN-
braced.
The glam0r of a non-partisan judiciary
has bambooZled the Democracy long
enough. Hereafter let the judiciary be
partisan, and bitterly so. Let the judges
take the stump and work for party sue
cess, the same as other OfficehOlders or
aSpirants.
There should be no quarter asked or
Siahteu' 1HiS Juuicidl courtesy HAS
weakened the Democracy and strength
ened the Republicans. hereafter bitter,
unrelenting, unceasing war should be
made upon every Republican judge in
the state. Cast them out. root and
branch, and fill every place possible
with sound Democrat.
After such presidents by Republican
governors, the political war waged upon
Republican judges should be more mer-
CHESS than that accorded any other can
didates before the people.
Wrapping the ermine of the bench
around candidate, in kind OF holier
than thou style, has played out.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-04
ers that would render the policy less

ers that would render the policy less
harmful.
The Constitution deDounces the Sec
retary's proposition as being ''contrac-
ton with vengeance" and regards the
proposition. looming from Democratic
secretary" as plainly heretical. 1t
might bother the Constitution TO find
anywhere in the history of the Demo
cratic party authority for committing
the government TO the banking bust
ness, while it would be able very easily
to find proof that such policy was op-
posed, not only to the Democratic theory
OF government, but by the attitude of
the party whenever the question was
presented.
The nearest approach to it was the
quashi-partnership between the gov
ernment and the Bank of the United
States, viii CHI was finally dissolved by
the heroic, If drastic, measures of Presi-
dent Jackson. 1t was the REPUBLICAN
party-firSt as war measure, but next
as an outgrowth OF It's parental idea
or government-that first committed
the government to the issue of its
notes, which policy was afterwards
affirmed as constitutional exercise Of
power by the Republican supreme court
IN decision which has invited the
ridicula OF every intelligent person who
has perused it. The historian Bancroft
left but little of the decision in the
brochure which he published, and what
was left David A. Wells very neatly
and effectively disposes of in his article
In the current Forum.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-01-04
INDURATED LIARS.

Some time since our news columns
contained one of those heartrending
stories of factory closing down because
the rate fixed by the Wilson bill on I'M
ports of the wares it made was so low
that it could not meet the prices the
foreigner could, and hence the works
were closed, and the poor workingmen
employed in them were sent adrift to
make shift as best they might for food
for themselves and their little dependent
ones. A hundred or more men were
deprived of their employment AMI their
wages i'll this one instance of Demo
cratic stupidity and heartlessness. So
the story ran, with all the little frills
and embellishments that the sympa-
thetic gatherer Of news for the readers
OF the daily press in the hamlet where
tne works were situated could weave
out of his imagination.
The story came, if we recall it accu-
rately, from North Gorham in the state
of New York, and the industry that was
thus sequelched by the Wilson bill was
the North Gorham Indurated Fiber
company, engaged in making pals, tubs
anu OLilCL HOdSOhO1Nl WolO VI NOOO pulp
under process held in close monopoly
by patents. There was something sus-
ricious in this story of concern amply
protected by patents and engaged in
making product so bulky that freight
rates are in themselves ample protec-
ton, so we set on foot an investigation
which has resulted i'll getting the facts
of the North Gorham suspension and
simultaneously exposing another of the
fake methods by which paternalists are
just now trying to work up public feel
ing against the policy of tax reduction
initiated by the Democratic party.
The North Gorham concern consoll-
dated some time since with the Lock.
port Indurated Fiber company, another
of those philanthropic trade movements
made solely in the interests Of the pub
lie, to preserve the latter from being
supplied with goods which are cheap,and
therefore, per Sc, nasty, according to
the Harrison-McKinley theory. The
North Gorham factory was ramshackle
affair. four miles from railway. which
would have to be rebuilt shortly any
way; and so when the Lockport factory
burned down, last June, it was decided,
as Lockport was better point for man
ufacturing and distributing, to rebuild
the Lockport shops with a capacity in
creased sufficiently to embrace the
North Gorham plant and discontinue the
latter. The excellence of this movement
from business point is readily COM
pretended, and furnishes sufficient
explanation of the closing of the North
Gorham works without any need of lug
ging Ill the tariff, which. as matter of
fact, was not at all considered. But it
gave the shriekers one more chance for
a howl, and they set it up with their
usual righteousness and disregard of
fact. They have acquired an indurated
habit of lying. and this is another proof
of their capacity.