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The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss Josie Johnson, Ada Bur
nett. Louise Gunderson, la Mel
son and Johanna Iverson returned
To Rice Lake, Wis. last week to
resume teaching.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss Bessie Lusk returned to
Shell Lake, Wis, last week to re-
sumo teaching.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss Constance Haugen IS IN
Minneapolis this week the guest
of Mrs. S. E. Olson.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Sever Saby was in town Mon
day looking over the new Normal
building.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss Clara Lien left yesterday
for Wash burn. where she will
teach.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss [nga Lien returned from
Superior last Thursday where she
has been visiting relatives.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

s. Munce Of Hudson spent
Sunday in town.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

w. F. Lusk returned to Hum
bird. Wis, last week to resume
charge of the high school. Miss
Eda Littlefeld is also engaged III
the same school.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss Nellie Koran was a guest
of Miss Constance Ilaugen cou-
pie of DAYS last week.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06
Born.

HANsEN.-Tn this city, Aug. %,
1898, to Mr.. and Mrs. Lonis
Hansen, Il 500.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss Emily Parsons returned to
BAYFIELD,, Wis, Yesterday to re-
sumo her routine as teacher.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

A special meeting will be held
as Mrs. Washburn Of La Crosse,
Grand Worthy Matron Of Eastern
Star. will be here Friday night.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

James Dunn will leave tomor-
row for North Branch, where he
will run the starch factory.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Regent Lord took the train from
Hudson Monday evening to attend
the funeral of Pres. Alice, late OF
the Oshkosh Normal.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss Lettie Hunt and Mss Ma
bel Wood resume teaching at
Chippewa Falls, Wis, this week.
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1898-09-06

Miss F orence Phernrtton who
has been working i'll New Rich
mond the past year came down
Sat urday returning yesterday.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-11-05
Advertise in the Messenger.
letter, Salt-Rheum and Eczema.

Tetter, S3It-Rheum ana Eezemai
The intense itching and smarting in
cident to these diseases. is instantly al
layed by applying Chamberlain's Eye
and Skin Ointment. Many very bad
cases have been permanently cured by
it. It ia equally efficient for itching
piles and a favorite remedy for sore nip
Piles, chapped hands. chilblains, frost
bites and chronic sore eyes. 25cts per
box. For saleby T. J. Liable.
The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1898-11-05
Primary Election Unprotected
By Law.

The Shreveport Caucasian, COM
menting on a remark of the Shre-
veport Progress upon the difficult
ty of the task for preachers to ele-
vate the moral tone of a communi-
ty, when their leading church
members practice fraud and bri-
berry in primary elections, allud-
ing to the recent primaries in the
Fourth Congressional District of
Louisiana, said:
"Of how much weight is "moral
tone" against q political jcb-an
fice-which must be secured
fairly if possible, but otherwise if
necessary? And the moral tone
is not limited to a primary elec-
ton, and may be extended to
other elections as we'll. My bro
ther, be not deluded, as there can
be no moral tone in politics. It
is said there are men (who some
day will die) who would risk hea-
ven and defy hell to secure an Of
flee, and when such good men are
playing the game of politics, why
should they care for "moral tone?"
Office! ofiice!! ofice!!! To them
life is not worth living without an
office"
However it may be as to the
utter lack of moral tone in poll.
tics, nothing is more certain than
that political primary elections,
which are not given by law same
protection and ,sanctity as are ac-
corded final elections, are direct
invitations and encouragements to
unlimited rsscality. In a acommu-
nifty or district where nomination
virtually means election, the
grand object Of a candidate is to
be nominated. !
If, to accomplish such nomina-
ion, the stufiing of boxes fraudu-
ent ballots and other means Of
,alsifying results are needed, they
ian be resorted to with complete
and with no possibility
20 the perpetrators of being held |
% any legal responsibility. III
men are to be found who will stuff |
he boxes and commit other crimes
Igainst the stringent laws inten-
led to protect the hedge about
inal elections, how many more
will cheat and steal in the prima-
y elections when to do 80 vio-
ates no law and incurs no penal
les, save who may attach to mere
moral obligation which, it is con.
'eded by the two most respectable
contemporaries quoted above, has
10 place in the fight for political
'ffice?
The new constitution Of Louisi-
ma commands the State Legisla-
ure to enact laws for the primary
lections; but the politicians will
lot have it so, and thus, in def
nee of the constitution, primary !
elections are such as to excite hor-
or and loathipg among all good
,itizens. 1t is not to he wondered |
It that the press of the State is
lenouncing and condemning such |
'utrages upon the right of the
people to choose their public re-
,resentatives and servants. s.-Pi-
,ayune.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
CURLING IN AMERICA.
rFrom the New york. Tribune.) J

From the New York Tribune)
The game of curling has secured firm
place among the winter sports in all parts
of the country where there is heavy ice
and where there are Scotchmen to teach
the game to their American neighbors.
There are about fifty curling clubs in the
United States, and the Grand National
Curling Club of America has a member
ship of many hundreds in AIN parts Of the
north and northwest; but still the game IS
spoken of as ''Scotland's ain game"
The game is always played on ice-coy-
cred lakes or rivers, except in England
where it is frequently played under glass
roofs by meme whose white WaistcoatS
lack of Scotch style cause the real curriers'
to regard them with scorn.
The curriers' who are members of the
New York clubs have their contests on
Van Cortiandt lake, and there is probably
no class of sportsmen who go about a
game so seriously as they.
The object of the game is to plant the
curlingstone, which has tea-kettle shape
and weighs from 81 to A pounds near the
tee" or centre of circle, at a distance
of 40 yards, and to guard it there.
Next to the stone, the broom plays the
most important part in the game of curl
ing, because, in the hands of sweeper
the circle where 1t will count, it is WELD
ed deXterously, so that every particle of
snow or ice may be removed from the
stones course The "skips or captains,
sweeping departments, and the sweepers
have the right to use their brooms after
the stone has got beyond the line which
marks the middle of the rink. The sweep
ing is always to a side or across the rink.
and not forward or backward where the
sweepings might obstruet the passage of
running stone.
Match games, called a bonspiel, are
played by opposing teams of four each,
and when it is at home curling is essen
TALLY democratic. 1t has been said that
the lord of the manor the clergyman and
the village blacksmith may be seen on the
same rink with the smith as "sldp,"
shouting to the clergyman to "Soop, soopI'
when he thinks a "soop," or sweep, in
front of the moving stone will help it
along.
The enthusiastic curler sees and hears
nothing but the speeding stones and the
applause, the shouts of ''Weel curled,
monn' and the boyish shouts which rise
on the wintry air show that youthful
spirit may live In a mature body, particu-
larly if it be that of a Scotch curler.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
BosroNs DEBT IS APPALLING.

The result of our inquiry into the mu-
nicipal service of Boston seems to be
this, says Hon. Francis G. Lowell in
the March Atlantic: We find extensive
and pretty good service rendered, for
which we pay more than we ought, but
which, though it were procured with the
best economy attained in this country,
would still be so expensive that we
should insist upon charging it's cost to
posterity. We find a debt appalling in
size, after all proper deductions have
been made, and increasing at tremen-
dous rate, its size and it's increase partly
concealed by devices of bookkeeping.
This is a condition of affairs neither
satisfactory nor hopeless. one which
calls for discriminating action rather
than for indiscriminate abuse. Our debt,
it seems, is much the greatest Of our
municipal dangers-a danger all the
greater because it has been incurred
with the approval Of practically all our
citizens, and not chiefly through the
wiles Of corrupt government.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
MISS w1LLARD's LAST DAY.
From the New York Tribune. :

(From the New York Tribune.)
Thursday morning, the morning be-
fore Miss Willard died. she stretched out
her arms to Miss Gordon, who stood by
her bed. and said:
Man, dear, lift me up" DIR. Alfred
*. Hills, who was standing by, assisted
and together they raised the frail form
Miss Willard smiled and said:
There, that will do" Then she took
the doctors hand and began to speak
in the most eloquent terms of his skill
and kindness. Doctor" she said, in
closing, 'I shall remember your great
kindness through all eternity, and say
God bless your
After the doctor left, she said to Miss
Gordon:
Come, DEAR sing me my favorite
hymn" Miss Gordon sang Gently
Lord, o gently lead u.s. but when she
came to the pronoun "I'' Miss Willard
interrupted her.
mo, Annie, dear" she said, mot T.
say we Christianity is not +; it is
'We,' and it is our Father
A little later Mrs. Clara C. Hoffman
came in. Miss Willard exclaimed
"Why, there's Clara" Then she ad.
dressed her as dear Clara" and as il
imparting some cherished bit of news
said:
st have crept in with mother" Their
she smiled and seemed supremely hap
py.
The last thing she took much notice
of was Hoffmans Christ" a picture
which had been given to her by Lady
Henry Somerset, and hung on the wal
near the foot of the bed. She called Miss
Gordon and said:
81 want you to take this picture to
Lady Henry, but have engraved on the
top of it, Only the Golden rule of Christ
can bring the golden age of man. Be
low engrave, Neither do I condemn
thee. Go and sin no more and don't
forget to put somewhere that this great
work was painted by Hoffman. Ev-
eryone ought to know that it was Hoff-
man who painted this beautiful head"
At 1 o'clock Friday afternoon Miss
Willard waved her hand slightly, looked
up smilingly to those around her and
said:
How beautiful to be with God
These were her last words. After them
she sank into gentle sleep and at one
minute after 12 o'clock she breathed her
last. 1t was a beautiful death, say those
who saw it. She simply slept away.
At the death-bed were Dr. Hills, Mrs.
w. w. Baldwin, Miss Willard's niece,
Miss Gordon, her. secretary, and Miss
Mary Powderly; her stenographer. Mrs.
L. NJ. N. Stevens, vice president at large
of the National Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, and now the new presi-
dent, Mrs. Francis J. Barnes, Nine e.
L. Demorest, Mrs. Alice Gordon Gulicl1
and Mrs. Emile D. Martin
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
A Serious Charge Brought Against Well
Known Local Character.

Isaac f. Haire, well known character,
was arrested by officer Kennedy on Chand-
Ter street about o'clock Sunday after
noon, and taken to Station l. where he was
locked up for cruelty to animals.
The officer said that his attention had
been called to Haire, who had been driving
g pair of horses about town for the past
FEW days that looked as though II would
be an act of mercy for some one to put
them out of their misery. Both OF the
animals were so reduced in flesh as to be
little more than skin and bones. The
nigh horse was in particularly bad shape.
There was a runping sore as large as a
saucer on the animals flank, evidently
caused by kick which must have been
The horses were hitched to a dump cart
that had seen better days, In which was
loaded wood sled, a gripsack and other
paraphernalia, the whole being covered
with coating OF snow and ice that gave
evidence that the team had been exposed
TO the elements for some time. The outfit
was one that could not help attracting
the rig on the street as late as Ii sc
O'Clock, and Driver Kennedy of the police
patrol said he saw the team on South
bridge street late Saturday night.
Haire told Deputy Chief Atkinson and
Sergt. Hill that he started from Jeffer-
sonvile last Friday afternoon with his
team for South Sudbury, where he ex-
pected TO procure work logging, He came
through Worcester, and went to his
fathers place in Paxton, where he stayed
TWO hours, and then came back to Wor-
cester, where he was seen about the
streets till late at night Haire says that
ne put up his team at the Allen court sta
BILE Friday night, but was on the street
during the day Saturday. He admits that
IL was late, probably IL o'clock, Saturday
night, when he put his team up at Hill
dreth's stable on Mechanic street. In
curry at the stable proved that this was
He had startoa he o1ai,,, g., 1o..
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
SAVED BY euNNER's MATE
Wreck of Another Batteship Narrowly
AVerted in the Forward Turret.

The Electrical Review happens to
print a letter from an American naval
officer relating a recent experience of
his, which becomes very timely in view
of the loss of the Maine and the mys-
terry attending her send-off. The ships
crew were at target practice at sea:
AS you probably know, the heavy guns
in the turrets are fired by electricity,
the gun being discharged simply by
pressing a button. The officer in com
mand of the forward turret on our ship
during the rapid-flring practice, was
just about to press the button to fire one
of our big guns, when a gunner's S
mate was seen to grab at something on
the wall of the turret, and then fall in a
heap on the floor.
The officer pressed the button, but the
gun was not discharged. When the
mate came to he was asked what had
happened, and he informed the officer
that the breach of the gun had not been
locked and that what he grabbed at on
the wall was the wires forming the
electric firing circuit. When he saw
that the officer was prepared to fire the
gun and at the same time observed
that the breach of the gun was not
locked, the only thing that occurred to
MN u prevent IllS Su4l OClAlS Alo
charged was to destroy the circuit,
which he did promptly and effectively.
When all this occurred there was a
charge of 250 pounds Of powder in the
gun, another charge Of the same size
in the turret ready to be served. and
the passageway leading to the powder
magazine was wide open.
But for the quickness Of the gunner S
mate the gun would have been dis
charged, the breech block would have
blown out inside the turrat, the gases
from the burning powder would proba-
bly, have ignited the charge lying in the
turret, this explosion would have ignit-
ed the powder in the magazine, and the
chances are that the whole ship, crew
and all, would have gone UP in the air.
A thought that has occurred to me is
this: Suppose the accident mad occurred,
what do you imagine the verdict of a
board of inquiry as to the cause Of the
loss of the ship would have been? Since
this experience the department has
adopted electrical means to prevent the
discharge of any of the large guns until
the breech is locked.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
RocHEFoRT IN PRISON.
A Great Crowd Escorted Him to the
Gates.

Paris, Feb, 2O.-Two thousand per-
sons assembled this afternoon in front
Of the Saint Pelagie prison. we'll known
as prison for offending journalists, to
greet NJ. Henri Rochefort. editor of the
Intransigeant, on entering to serve a
sentence of five days Imprisonment for
libelling NJ. Joseph Reinach, conserva-
tive deputy for the district of Digne,
and editor of the Republique Franchise,
by charging him with intending to prove
the innocence of Alfred Dreyfus by the
use OF forged documents.
As the crowd increased a company of
republican guards. headed by buglers
and drummers, a detachment of police
and two squadrons of curassiers, were
drawn up on each side of the square in
front of the prison. The troops were
received with cries of Long live the
army"
1t was four o'clock before NJ. Roch-
fort arrived. The crowd fioeked around
his carriage shouting. NJ Rochefort
alighted waving his handkerchief, and,
escorted by the people, walked to the
prison gates.
The crowd meanwhile dispersed sing
ing the Carmajole and shouting 'Long
live Rochefort" Suddenly new
gathering of 5000 persons, headed by M.
Millervoye, Thiebaud and Regis, march
ed toward the Pantheon, yelling down
with Zola," and death to the Jews. "
The police formed across the road and
stopped the progress of the demonstra-
tors.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
A SLOPPY, sLUsHY SUNDAY.
The Weather Yesterday Was About as
Disagreeabe as it Well Could Be.

0isagreeab,e as it Well Could Be.
What sloppy day this isr'
If this remark was made once, it was
thousand times Sunday.
Whenever two or three persons got
together upon a corner or in a door
way, waiting for an electric car. the
weather furnished a most fruitful tonic
for conversation.
And his royal highness Old Probability
must have felt his ears burn from some
of the remarks that were made about
the sort of weather he was sending
down upon a long-suffering humanity
this winter
1t wa a day of all sorts and condi-
tions of weather Sunday. Early in the
day, when the milkman and newspaper
men alone were astir, for the policemen
were under cover, it rained and rained
hard Later in the morning, when the
church bells were ringing, the weather
became a trif1e colder and the rain clung
to the trees for dear life and soon had
the limbs coated with a cruSting Of
ice.
At noon there was another change in
the program. The weather had mod
Grated again and the sleet of an hour be-
fore had changed to good, old-fashioned
rain. In the afternoon the rain shifted
into snow and hail, covering the side
walks with about two inches of snow,
slush, ice and everything else that is
conducive to disagreeable walking.
The different variations of wretched
weather combined to annoy a great
many people. The pastors knew the
weather was unusually erratic as soon
as they looked at their congregations.
The newsboys knew 1t as they sold their
Sunday papers. The street railway en-
ployees were more than confident that
something unusual was going on among
the elements, as they tried in vain to
keep their cars on time while the wheels
spluttered and sizzled over the icy
tracks.
To sum it all up, Sunday was one of
the meanest days of the year in point
Of weather. 1t was mean overhead and
mean underfoot, and the man who went
out into the weather and did not feel
mean himself was the exception, rather
than the rule.
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
SUCCESSFUL BENEFIT.
Performers and Musicians Who Lost BY
Biou Fire, Divide S375.

Considering the ugly sleet storm and
the short time which was given to ar
range the affair, the benefit for the per-
! formers and musicians who lost their
wardrobes and instruments in the Bijou
Theatre fire last Friday morning, at
the Worcester Theatre Sunday evening,
was a big success, the receipts being
$3S0.50.
The success of the benefit was due in
no small degree to the efforts of Frank
G. Stanley the leader of the Bijou or
chestra, who secured most of the talent
and looked after the details. The thea
tire was kindly given the beneficiaries
by Manager James F. Rock, the printing
was furnished by c. r. Stobbs, the bill
posting was done by Fiske Brothers, the
newspapers did the advertising for
nothing, and the artists who appeared
volunteered their services, so that the
expenses were practically nothing, and
at the close of the entertainment, each
one of the sixteen beneficiaries had
$23.37 as his share of the receipts.
The program was thoroughly enjoyed
by the big audience which filled the
theatre, the opening selection being an
overture by the combined orchestras of
the Worcester Theatre, the Bijou Thea
tre and Lothrops Opera House, j. N.
Truda asting as leader Frank Cook the
manager of little Gertie Cochran, acted
as master of ceremonies during the
evening and announced the several
numbers on the program, there being no
printed programs. The different contri-
| buttons were all well received, and
those who appeared were given cordial
welcome and heartily applauded for
their efforts. The local volunteers to the
benefit were Miss Minnie Rice, con-
tralto; Harry Foley, impersonator in
some Of his funny stories; Delore J.
Harper, baritone; the Orpheus Banjo,
Mandolin and Guitar Club; and Mrs. H.
w Johnson, soprano, who was assisted
by ]. N. Truda, violinist
In addition to the local volunteers,
there was a fine tenor solo by Edward
M. Sullivan of Boston College, who sang
"The Holy City"
The professionals who appeared were
Frank J. Shea, the banjoist; little Ger
tie Cochran, In wonderful exhibition OF
her power of memory; Kilroy and Brit
ton, who sang a couple Of duets and
made little fun; Emmonds, Emerson
and Emmonds, who performed a part
of their regular sketch; Sadie Leonard
who sang.a couple of coon songs; and
Fred and Rosalie Lucier, who gave
duets on the mandolin, violin and from
bone and cornet.
At the close of the performance, Mr.
Cook heartily thanked all who had con-
tributed in any way to the success OF
the affair and the consolidated orches-
ira wound up the program
Worcester morning daily spy., 1898-02-21
SITUATION GRAVE.
Relations Between France and
England More Strained.
Royal Niger Company Instructed to Use
Force, if Necessary, in Driving French
From British Africa.

Akassa, Niger Coast Protectorate,
West Africa, Feb. O-Intelllgence has
arrived here that two French eXpedi-
tons are advancing toward sokot, capi-
tai of the sultanate of Sokoto on the
Sokoto river, in the extreme north of
the Houssa states and that six French
officers with a force of 200 men, have
arrived at Argungu and Tagga. The
former town is an important place on
the Sokoto river, about half way be-
tween the sultans capital and the river
Niger, and is within the British sphere.
The sultan of Sokoto has commanded
the French force to halt about 40 miles
from the capital. The Royal Niger
Company's representative deputy agent,
General William Wallau is holding the
company's forces with ammunition and
stores in readiness, and is awaiting in
structions to assist the sultan of Sokoto,
and to secure French evacuation of
British territory.
NEWS CONFIRMED.
London, Feb. 21.--It is asserted on good
authority that that the Poyal Niger
Company has been instructed, after try
ing all peaceable means, to compel the
retirement of the French from British
territory by force.
The sultanate of Sokoto, feudatory
of the company. was recently placed
under British protection The situation
is regarded as extremely grave.
Great Britain's forces In the protec-
torate district number between 5000 and
5000 men, under British officers.
The Daily Mail says it has received
confirmation of the news from Sokoto.