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The evening world., 1894-01-02

When Brooklyn and Long Island city
become parts OF the Greater New
York" II not before, their soft coal
smoke nuisances must CO. But they
should go before.
The evening world., 1894-01-02
Plead. Not Guilty 20 Murder.

Edward MeKenneY. a eoiored waiter. OF 70 wss,
Sixty seventh street. who stabbed and killei
Joseph Carey. also colored, Of Minetta lans. on
the night of Nov. 70 last. pleaded not guilty 10
nuFder IN the hrst degree befors Judge Fttzgsrlld
IA Part l. Of the General ssssionA this morning,
d.F VS. sst for uiAk
The evening world., 1894-01-02

Illuminated Christmas trees are pretty,
but pcrilous spectacles In fiat-houses.
That Ahibergh tragedy Is n good deal
in the nature of warning.
The evening world., 1894-01-02

The worst thing about the suggestion
of the name of Fassett for the Republi-
can Gubernatorial nomination Is the
dreadful possibility that the Republican
nominee may be elected.
The evening world., 1894-01-02

1t is doubtful II Col, Fellows expected
anybody to think we'll of the Pentecost
nomination. and 1t Is gratifying that he
has been induced to think better of It,
The evening world., 1894-01-02
lNgQA!Z NE0IltE /

and her time is passed in the COMPANY
of books and friends about which ana
to whom she writes a great many lei.
ters
The evening world., 1894-01-02

The rumor- makers have again got
hold OF Mr.. Cleveland's health. which.
however. is probably still good enough
to stand the wrench.
The evening world., 1894-01-02

Mayor Schieren made his good resolu-
tions long way ahead Of Jan. |. Now
his opportunity to keep them has come
upon him.
The evening world., 1894-01-02

Iron-gray felt, fancifully bent and
trimmed with bow in red more silk
resting on the hair, while panache of
The evening world., 1894-01-02

The police records for New Years day
show that. everybody found new
leaf
The evening world., 1894-01-02

'RIfNTsvILLEt Ala, Jan. z.--James
1xlt. axsd tweise years. WAC teasing.
The evening world., 1894-01-02

Albany has undergone it's annual pro-
motion to "A centre of lively interests.
The evening world., 1894-01-02

A red-letter occasion was the White
House reception In the blue room yester-
a
The evening world., 1894-01-02

are Of the opinion that the woniSn
held a pri4o1N 'e purposes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
HONESTY OVERCOME.
He Was In the MIX Trade, but His Scruples
Soon Wore on.

A Brooklyn man from Wiltshire,
whose ideas of milk had been perverted
and abused by contact with the cow in
its native haunts, recently engaged
himself with the proprietor of that
animal engaged in supplying milk TO
customers.
The second day the new hand re-
signed. He did not like the business
and wanted to go.
An investigation showed that after
washing the cans the day before the
water, as is usual, was left in them.
Instead of the can which he should
have taken he put the days milk into
those having the washings and started
on his rounds.
On coming back he learned his error
He resigned at once rather than face
the customers.
"Why, it was cheatin'." he said, "of
the worst kind. can go up to can
mons mouth and let 'em shoot me. but
Inever want to set foot in them houses
where | carried round that water"
His employer demonstrated. He had
no time to engage another man, and it
would greatly embarrass him to get
one in time. But the young man was
infleXible.
"No--nU; he had been brought up TO
be honest and couldn't look 'em in the
face again"
We'll, I'll tell you what I'll do, said
his employer desperately, "Tll give
you two dollars to go arounl this once,
and if you can't stand the abuse you
needn't try it again"
After much urging the young man
consented. He came back with a very
curious look on his face.
well" said his employer, you came
out alive, after all. Did you have
hard time of it?''
"No-no!' said the man; ''they did
not say a word anywhere. except an
old woman, who told me she thought
the milk was improving-it was bit
richer than yesterday. You must have
forgotten TO skim it.
His employer was sad and silent, and
that young man is still in the business.
Boston Traveller.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
THE DUCHESS Of GORDON.
How She Raised Her Regiment of High
landers.

Near the close of the last century
rumors of a French invasion alarmed
the country AID reused military ardor
to such an e.. ! ut as to lead to fresh
regiments being raised. In one of a
series of very interesting sketches by
Hon. Mrs. Armytage of British Man
sions and Their Mistresses Past and
Presen.," recently published in Tins
ley's Magazine, the raising by the ia
nous duchess of the battalion of Cor
don Highlanders, which has since held
such distinguished place in our mill
tary annals, is thus described: The
duchess of Gordon is said to have had
a wager with the prince regent Is to
which of them would first raise a bat
TALON, and that the fair lady reserved
to herself the power of offering a re-
ward even more attractive than the
kings shilling.
'At all events, the duchess and Lord
Huntly started off on their errand, and
between then soon raised the required
number of men. The mother and son
frequented every fair in the country
side, begging the fine young High
landers to come forward in support of
king and country and to enlist in her
regiment, and, when all other argu-
ments had failed, rumor stated that a
kiss from the beautiful duchess won
the doubtful recruit.
"She soon announced at headquar-
tiers the formation of a regiment, and
entered into all the negotiations with
the military authorities in a most bust
nesslil1e manner, reporting that the
whole regiment were Highlanders save
thirty-fve. Lord Huntly was given
the first command of this corps, then
and ever since known as the Nine
ty-second, or Gordon Highlanders, and
wearing the tartan of the clam
Alexander Macpherson.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18

1t can be properly said that there are
two north poles. The geographical
north pole (the place where all degrees
of longitude intersect and where there
is no latitude) and the north magnetic
pole. the latter being the needles at
traction. The first mentioned or geo.
graphical pole is fixed and constant,
but the magnetic is constantly chang
ing position. and at the rate it is now
travelling win m AXE a complete circuit
of the geographical pole about once in
every six hundre-. and forty years.
Observations from this point were first
made from the Greenwich observatory
in 1858. at which date the magnetic
pole was on that meridian. During
the last two hundred and thirty fve
years it has crossed the Atlantic ocean
and is now well on its journey across
the northern part of the American
continent At the present time it is
on or near the southwestern shore of
Boothia peninsula, at about seventy
six degrees north latitude. Chicago
Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
NERVOUSNESS IN COMMAND.


Capt Bird, of Roanoke, made brave
effort to maintain public order in a
Virginia town which was under the
control of an cXasperated mob. There
was negro criminal in Jail who was
exposed to the horrors of lynch law.
Mayor Trout had called out the Light
infantry. The mob battered at the Jail
doors. and fired upon the mayor and
Capt. Birds men. The militia returned
the fire with destructive effect, and the
mob fell back, carrying off those who
were killed and wounded.
Capt Bird and his militia company
had acted with high courage, and were
masters of the situation. They had
only to hold their ground and to tele-
graph to the governor of Virginia for
reinforcements in order to inspire re-
spect for law.
Instead, however, of persevering in
the defense of the Jail, they were over
come with nervousness and horror.
The militia was disbanded and the
town left at the mercy of an Infatuated
mob, which wreaked its vengeance
upon the negro, and would have muir
dered the mayor, Capt Bird and his
officers if they had not taken refuge in
flight
Nervousness and the irresolution that
spring from it are almost always fatal
in sudden emergencies, when public
officers are called upon to act with
GOODNESS, resolution and intelligence in
suppressing mob violence. It is a
quality which a commander must con-
troll in himself, or else he will impart
il To his men.
Gen. Gordon, in his amazing cam
paign against the Chinese Tai-pings.
was constantly confronted with mutiny
in his own army. His officers and men
were enraged by his memorable disci-
pline, and his stern refusal TO allow
them to plumber and loot captured
towns; but they were invariably mas
tered by his GOODNESS and infiexible
will
One day regiment, which had been
ordered to embark in barges from
Quinsan, mutinied, and refused to
leave the battle-ground. Gen. Cor
don, apparently unarmed, and exceed
ingly quiet and self-possessed took
his stand in front of the rebellious sol
dieIs
In quiet voice he ordered every
man who was unwilling to embark to
step to the front. One man advanced
with a defiant air, while the regiment
looked on.
Gen. Gordon drew a revolver, pre-
scented it at the mutineer's head, and
ordered him to march to the boats. 1t
was one man against a regiment of
angry and insubordinate soldiers, but
he was absolutely fearless If he had
shown a trace of nervous hesitation,
the soldiers would have revolted, shot
him and their officers and committed
the widest excuses. As it was, the
mutineer obeyed the order, the regi-
ment fell into line, and embarked in
the boats
The militia is a body which can be
massed against forces of disorder in
emergencies, but if it be employed in
an irresolute way it will do more harm
than good. The officers must know
how to fight a mob, and to make reso-
lutte use of a victory when one has been
won. Nervousness and vacillation are
as fatal in dealing with American mobs
as the same qualities would have been
in disciplining Gen. Gordon's Chinese
mutineers. Youths Companion.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
About sun Spots.

People hear and read a great deal
about the sun spots nowadays. As
tronomers say that the diameter of the
sun is about eight hundred and eighty
thousand miles, and in comparison to
the earth is as a large carriage wheel
to marble. If, therefore, the spots
observed appear to be about one
twentieth the diameter of the disk
they occupy space about forty-four
thousand miles in diameter. To view
the sun take a hay morning or even
ing, when the intervening mist gives
it the appearance of dull red ball; or
get couple of pieces of glass large
enough to cover the eye pieces of the
opera glass, and smoke one of them
until you can look at the sun through
1t easily. Put two strips of card be-
tween the ends with the smoked sur
face inside, and attach it to the instru-
ment with a small rubber band. 1t
will be best to get your opera glass ac-
curately focused on some distant object
before adjusting the darkened glasses
to it.-Chicago Herald.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
ROMAN CHARITIES.
Aims giving as Practiced Toward the Lat.
ter End of the Empire.

1t would be great mistake TO sup
pose that pagan Rome did not know or
did not practice almsgiving. Under
the republic large sums were often dis
bursed to secure popularity and infiu-
ence; but toward its close philosophy
promoted a truly philanthropic,i instead
of an ostentatious and selfish, expen-
diture-to succor widows and orphans,
to redeem captives, and to bury the
dead. From the beginning of the sec
ond century, state aid was bestowed
monthly on ehe children of the poor
families.
When Antoninus lost his beloved
but not very meritorious wife, Faus-
tina. he founded in her honor a char
liable institution for poor girls. who
were termed pueliae Faustinae. The
example thus given was followed by
private individuals. and Pliny made
many a noble gift during his life.
known to us through his not possess
ing the specially Christian virtue of
concealing his own good deeds.
A lady of Tarracina gave eight thou
sand pounds to found an institution
for poor children. and charitable
legacies were not uncommon and
epitaphs were sometimes written
which represented a dead man con-
graduating himself on having been
merciful and friend to the poor. A
society largely animated by so benevo-
lent a spirit was one prepared to APP
preciate Christian charity. = Nine
teenth Century.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
AFTER THE SNOW.
Ties and roses. as fair as may be.

I.Ties and roses as fair as may be,
VIII blossom next summer for some one and
me
What a very long time till then il will be,
Waiting for roses 20 blossom for me
Robins viii come again, singing so free.
Building new nests in the old apple tree
Blossoms were fragrant, as fragrant could be.
When a secret last summer was told there 10
me.
There IS a cottage that stands near the tree,
To shelter next summer some one and ne.
On. happy. how happy. next summer viii be.
When robins come back TO the old apple tree
The winter Is long. the ocean Is wide
Coming next summer, my Joy and my pride),
sit down and think o. love that Is mine.
And long for the days Of sweet summer time
You say that my lover may prove false 10 me
And ind sweeter roses far over the sea;
WhsI stars CEASE 20 shine. ami rivers 70 flow
When rains erase 10 fall. ana winds cease 70
How;
when the sun fades away. and the salt leaves
the sea
VIII think that my lover may be false unto
ne:
wait for the summer when birds sing in tune,
After the snow come the roses OF June.
W ". Bennett in Inter Ocean
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
TRUE HERO STUFF.
The Spifst of Reconstruction in the South
After the War.

The Sptfst of Reconstruction in the South
After the War.
Ing from the wear and tear OF war, the
spirit rebounded. After the fatigue of
war oven the meanest home was COM
fort, and the life was almost gay, even
amid the ruins They had been over
whelmed, not whipped, and the IN
domitable spirit survived. So the young
soldiers patched up the broken farm
implements. hitcheS up their thin army
horses and worked at their crops.
They worked like laborers, but they
were not laborers. They kept ever in
view the fact that they were more than
plowmen. Classical schools sprang up
again almost as soon as the war closed.
and colleges opened with fees fixed at
the lowest possible sum, and board
provided at the lowest possible figure.
Young men poured in when they were
too poor TO pay even that, and had to
mess as they had done in the army.
They went to town and took positions
as watchmen, brakemen. street-car
drivers, foreren in factories, anything
that would enable them TO support
themselves and those dependent on
them, and would aid them in educat-
ing themselves. There was no feeling
of indignity, no repining. A man who
had hitched the horses TO gun under
fire and brought it off under a storm of
shot and shell could drive a street car
without chagrin. lie had expected to
be a brigadier-general then; now he
expected to be some day president of
the line.
1t was a strange spectacle, the peo-
pie commonly supposed to be the proud
est in the land engaging in the work of
laborers and losing no caste by it
When night came they dressed up in
their best, whatever that was and went
to see the girls, or, with their eyes fixed
on some profession, they DEVOTED them
selves to study, and in the evenings
one might find visiting in the parlors,
with that old-time courtesy of manner
which had made notable the Virginia
gentleman, the same men to be seen in
the day at the pillow or on their engines.
The girls were not less brave than
the men. They accepted and married
them without dollar, and, with a sub
lime faith in their lovers which was a
happy augury of the future, went with
them to live in the old broken farm
houses, or in the upper stories in town,
planted flowers, hung baskets in their
windows. and made their homes fra
grant with sweetness and content
Thomas Nelson Page, in Harper's Mag
azine.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
One Touch of Nature.

AT Easton. as related by the Phila-
delphia Record. "a road runs alongside
the Lehigh tracks and slightly higher
ON this road strikers and their friends
have been in the habit of gathering to
boot at and deride the men who stuck
by the company. As an engineer was
passing in his cab the other morning
he was greeted with the usual cry of
'scab.' Kisses. boots and otner little
evidences of the feelings of the crowd.
Slowing down his engine. he said
quietly TO the men and women who
were so close that he could almost
touch them with his hand: That's all
right: say whatever you please.
buried my wife two weeks a 70. and
have two little children at home.
am going to work for those little ones
That man has passed up and down there
frequently since then. but nobody has
made any further efforts t annoy
him" IL the children were oftener
taken into account when strikes were
under consideration there would be
fewer strikes
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
JERRY SIMPSON AND THE EEL
A Game Catch That Whipped a Dog and
Got Back Into the Water --


do any of you gentlemen like to
fish," asked Jerry Simpson from be.
hind his gold bowed glasses. II am
passionately fond of angling as pas
time. ] can't say | fish as Amos Cum
mings and some of the other Izaak
Waltons of the house. ! heard Cum
mings talking the other day to a fish
ing friend, and they mentioned as
among part of their tackle such things
as black bass neclties and weak-fish
pants and tarpon suits. When people
go in that far they get beyond my
depth.
Still, i'm a lowly, common way,
like to fish. The last time essayed
this gentle sport was ont on the Wal
nut river, in Kansas A colored per-
son showed me the place 1t
was sublime place. | cut
pole right there among the
plum bushes. 1t was SPLEEN
did pole, big as my arm at the
butt, and strong enough so you could
have landed COW with it if one had
bit. l baited, under the guidance of
the colored person, with a piece of
liver. The line was accoutred with a
red bob, or float The mission of this
float, as l will explain to mex
perienced people, is to apprise one
when there is bite. That is it's mis-
sion. 1t lies in the water and you
watch it. When it moves about un-
easily that isn't bite. That's nib
BILE. You don't do anything when you
have nibble. When the bob goes
Al hot hsta
you sock it to him.
''Some people like to fool with fish
and let him tow around on their lines
and run and filibuster and make no
quorum points and think he's getting
away. | don't do that way. I'm
plain man. | am perfectly frank with
a fish and don't believe in raising falss
hopes, even in the bosom of bass SO
| simply yanlx 'em forth unhesitating-
ly and give 'em the worst at once.
After awhile, this time on the Wal
nut, | had a bite. The float disap-
peared like the surplus during the
Harrison administration. | let him
have it. 1t was an eel. ! fetched him
through the atmosphere looking like
letter 5, and slammed him against the
great state of Kansas. IL was jolt
which ought to have loosened every
tooth in his head.
Il want to pause right here to say
that, talking about game fish, an eel is
the gamest fish that ever lived. Talk
about black bass? DO you know what
a bass would have done if I'd smashed
him against my district that way?.
Well he wouldn't have done any
thing. He'd just sprawl there.
Maybe he'd curl his tail a trife.
but that's the limit. But this
eel of mine. lie surely was the
galaest eel ever met. He sprang up
the moment he hit the grass and made
for the water on the run-pole, line
and all. And game! When | headed
him off that eel stood right up on his
tail and fought me. The colored per-
son had a dog named Body-Guard.
Dog had a record, too. He got on the
warpath once and closed every store in
town.
eve siclSed Body-Guard on the eel
My eel whipped him in two and half
minutes. He was the gamiest eel ever
known. No, didn't get him, either.
lie went back in the Walnut where he
lived You might as well have tried to
stop the senate. kansas City Times
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18
The Time to Give.

Have you never noticed at what a
queer time people send their flowers
and delieacies and make their most
frequent visits to the sick? Is it not
when the rumor goes abroad that the
days of your friend or acquaintance are
numbered that your heart and purse
strings are both opened to do some
thing for him before he goes beyond
the need of your service? But how
quickly you grow callous when you
hear that he will get we'll Then is the
graceful as we'll as proper time to send
In the cheerful short story, the jelly
and the roses. Though even then it is
wisest to know through doctor or nurse
what dainty yo'. may safely send. To
eyes that are weary with weeks, per-
haps. of looking at an unattraetive wall
space. what could be more interesting
than the loan of picture?-N. Y. Post.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1894-01-18

An old French shoemaker who boast
ed that nothing could brighten him
was put to the test by two young men.
One of them pretended TO be dead, and
the other. going to the shoemaker, in
duced him to sit up with the suppoS I'd
corpse. The shoemaker was il hurry
with some work he had promised to
have completed next morning, so he
took his tools and leather and began
working beside the corpse. About
twelve o'clock at night a cup of black
coffee was brought him to keep him
awake. lie drank IT and resumed his
work About one o'clock, the coffee
having exhilarated him, and forgetting
that he was in the presence of death.
he corr nenced singing a lively tune,
keeping time with his hammer. Sud-
denly the corpse arose and said in a
hollow voice: when a man is in the
presence of death he should not sing"
The shoemaker started, then suddenly
dealt the corpse a blow on the head
with his hammer, saying: when a
mans a corpse he should never speak. :"
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