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rebellion, but in these the peasantry
fought bravely. and Wexford. Oulart,
Vinegar hill, New Ross, and Ennis
corthy remain in Irish song and story
to attest what a change might have
been wrought in Ireland lad the
united Irishmen, north and south,
istood together in 1898. The. rebellion
was timed to take place in March.
1898, Ulster agreeing to furnish no.
900, Munster 10O,643, and Leinster
55,612 men.
The government, however. having
captured the leaders stunned the
chief end of the revolt so effectually
that the great body of the people did
not rise at all; and hence it was in
counties where no preparations were
made and no promises given that was
seen tie most gallant struggle for
Ireland's liberty. The people who
did rise were armed with pixies for
the most part, a primitive sickle
shaped weapon with a long handle
and which was utterly inadequate to
contend with the sabres of the yeo-
many. Others had old fint-locks,
but by far the larger proportion were
armed only with Ditchforks, scythes,
or any available weapons found
around a farmyard. That the peas
antrv could make any defence what
even against British power under
these circumstances is marvellous,
particularly as the insurgents were
not always able bodied men, but were
recruited from boys, old men and
sometimes even women. Yet at Vine
gar hill and .Oulart the kings troops
Jared as badly as at Concord or at
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chateau asked Frances, convinced
that talking was q relief
NO, We were at Paris. papa and
Gaspard, and Javotte and I; we were
so happy, madomoiselle, so very
happy. But then came the war and
then the dreadful siege, and from
then till now things have grown
worse and worse
Poor child said Frances. gently.
Her words caused another rush of
tears, however, for What memories
did they not recall to Esperance;
and how long it was since she had
heard such term Of endearment.
Frances could only hold her close. and
Esperance, as she grew little more
calm, looked up gratefully. for no
thing could have sooIhed her so
well as the gentle, caressing sym
pathy which Frances knew so
well how to bestow.
Conscious that the time left them
was short, neither attempted to enter
any more into detail, but Frances.
anxious to show that this was to be
the beginning Of a closer intimacy,
began to speak Of the future
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

AT noon on QUARTS moss-clad
heights
Loud rang the musketry.
And Wexford flung upon the foe
Her peasant chlvalry.
Short shrift the ruffian spoiler found
When cleaned the dreaded pike;
For vengeance neryed the patriots
arm
And pointed where to strike
Such was the spirit in which an old
ballad records the Irish irsurrection
of 1898 which some have described as
freedom against English class oppres-
sion.
It is we'll to make the charge of
oppression against the governing
classes" rather than against England
as q nation. because it is only very
lately that the people of England OBJ
tanned the right to rule their own
country, and it is but simple justice
to say that ever since the masses of
Englishmen wrested their freedom
from a ruling ring of mobiles, they
have been nobly undoing the past and
making the relations of England and
Ireland more sweet and kindly. 1t is
not, therefore, in any spirit of hostil-
ity to England, or TO the English
people that the Irish patriots will
this summer hold appropriate cere-
monies to celebrate the gallant
stand Of the peasantry a century
ago, against the laws which crushed
the Irish people and who, strange to
relate, numbered about AGO. 900
then as now. The Irish have not nu-
merically increased in Ireland during
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

the past one hundred years, but they
have improved in wealth and in edu-
cation, and they are now in the en-
joyment of more political rights than
were their fathers in 1898. A hun
dred years ago the condition of Ire
land was utterly wretched. The peo-
pie had no property, no political
rights, no schools, no manufactures;
they were mere renters at the mercy
of a body of taskmasters planted
among them and y>~ose lands they
cultivated for the bare necessities of
existence.
Their natural leaders had been
driven out of the country after the
Hanoverian wars, and thus is fur
nished the solution of the puzzle to
Americans, that the names of an
O'Donnen as duke of Tetuan, or a
Senior Moret d'Prendergrast now oc-
cur respectively as ministers of for
eign affairs or of the colonies, in the
dispatches we read from Spain.
These are the descendants of Irish
gentlemen whose estates were con-
fscated in the numerous wars for the
conquest and subjugation Of Ireland,
and of which train of events the re-
bellion Of 1898 was the sequel and
the natural consequence.
The rebellion of 1898 was, however,
the revolt Of a freedom-loving
Protestant democracy touched into
explosion at sight of the horrid
wrongs of a loyal, brave, and OPP
pressed Catholic peasantry. 1t was
also as much a consequence of the &C
ton in 1776 Of Jefferson, and Wash
ington, and Adams, as was the
French revolution of 1893. Though
it fzzled out during the summer,
when the year 1898 opened there
were nearly 100000 of the 100000
of males then IN the country enrolled
in a secret non-sectarian organiza-
ton, and pledged to die for their ma
tive land. But the government found
means to disarrange this formidable
organization. They succeeded IN
sowing distrust between the leaders
and their followers. When the peas
antry were drawn away by the gov
eminent promising concessions-that
substituted Maynooth college for the
old House of College Green-these
| Ottoman lords turned upon their
brave and faithful leaders who were
hung, imprisoned, or exiled. Only
! three out Of the thirty-two counties
J therefore came to the front in the
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Sung at the armOry meeting June 81
Of this hour the Heavens are telling,
All grateful hymn of praise,
AS the singing hosts are swelling,
With the lands exultant lays
God hath spoken: Man obeyed Him,
Caught the meaning Of His word,
And people marches forward
At the bidding of their Lord.
Forward, forward, forward,
At the bidding of their Lord
Mighty forces onward moving,
Bring to light a grander day,
God-like men its message proving,
Find in Freedom nobler sway.
God approves it: Man still hears Him,
Guards the knowledge of His word,
While a nation marches forward,
At the bidding of the Lord.
Forward, forward, forward,
At the bidding Of the Lord.
Hallelujah! Hail the morning,
Witness of a peoples birth,
In the strength of Gods adjoining,
Be the sun crowned day of earth.
He hath spoken: Thou hast heard
Him,
Shown the splendor of His word,
Live it! While the world moves for
ward,
At the bidding of the Lord.
Forward, forward, forward,
At the bidding of the Lord.
Mary M. Adams.
March, 1898.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16
ANTIQUITY OF GOLD MINING.
Methods Employed by the Ancients to
Extract the Precious Metal.

Gold was probably the first metal
observed and collected, because Of the
instructive understanding Of it's intrin-
sic value. About it superstitions grew.
religious and tremendous rites. and
strange crimes were committed for it's
possession in the days when it was
believed that it was of such stuff as
the sun itself was made, and the halls
Of Valhalla paved. Rock paintings and
carvings in Egyptian tombs earlier
than the days OF Joseph indicate the
operation of washing auriferous sand,
and subsequent melting in furnaces by
the aid Of blow pipes. Less than
twenty years ago the old mines of
Nubia, so graphically described by
Diodorus, were rediscovered on the
shores Of the Red sea, together with
q line Of ancient wells across the des-
ert, the underground workings where
ore veins had been followed with the
pick, the rude cupelling furnaces for
assaying, picks, oil lamps, stone mills,
mOrtars and pestles, inclined washing
tables of stone, crucibles, and retort-
ing furnaces of burnt tile, by which the
entire process could be traced. Here
slaves and hapIess prisoners of war
exchanged their blood for glittering
dust to fill the treasures of their cap
tors. In India and Asia Minor the
powdered ore was washed down over
smooth, sloping rocks and gold caught
in the feeces OF sheepskins sunk in
the stream It was literally a golden
fleece that Jason brought back from
the Caucasus. Further north, and fol-
lowing the eastern foothills Of Mount
Ararat 10 the southern slopes of the
Ural mountains in Russian Siberia,
where last year millions were taken
out Of the old mines, the ancient
Scythians broke up rock and gravel
with copper implements, scraped out
the glittering dust and nuggets with
the fangs Of wild boars, and carried
their gain away n bags Of leather. All
through this region miners of to-day
know that one OF the chief dangers to
be avoided are the Scythian pits, sixty
feet deep in the gravel, and shaped like
a well. The remains OF thousands OF
small furnaces OF burnt clay testify to
the long period over which the work
ings of the mines extended.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

Lexington. At the latter place the
royalist troops attempted to dislodge
the insurgents who skillfulIy man
oevured to draw the fire of the SOL
diery. For this purpose the insurg
ents withdrew behind an embank-
ment and raising their hats upon the
handles of their pitchforks a little
over the level of the embankment,
the soldiers, mistaking the hats for
heads, fired over the fence or into
the field beyond. AS soon as the SOL
diers drew near the embankment
fancying the Irishmen were all killed,
the latter sprang up and simultan-
eously discharged a few weapons
they had into the faces of the red
coats with tremendous effect. Then
with a wild cheer the main body
scaled the embankment and welding
pike and scythe, blade and pitchfork
they soon discarded the attacking
regiment and secured from the SOL
diers more formidable weapons.
No less dexterous and brave was
the conflict at Vinegar hill, where
enveloped in smoke and flame both
sides fought valiantly, disputing
every inch of ground, the same po
sition being captured and lost by
each party in succession. An English
observer of this battle says: "A
small number of them (the Irish
only had firearms, but the pike-men,
wonderfully tall, stout, strapping,
able fellows, fought with their pixies
in the most furious and desperate
manner, thrusting at the soldiers
who had much ado to parry with
their bayonets after having fired and
before they could reload"
Better arrangements could have
have shown no drawer spirit. For
three weeks the rebels held posses
| sion of Vinegar hill, making it the
base of their operations, and from
! which strategic position they com
manded the town of Enniscorthy.
Field glasses were not in vogue in
! '9S and in all encounters between the
patriots and the forces of the crown,
/ the hills were strong objective points.
| In Antrim too there were some stiff
! brushes between the Presbyterians
of the north and George Ills mill
| tia. and in one of which engage
ments grand uncle of President Nc
Kinley's fell nobly fighting, the sept
of the McKinleys of Dervock being
among the staunchest patriots of the
period. It is one of the sublime
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romances OF history that in the 14rst
cent nnial year after the passionate
resistance by Antrim Presbyterians,
of the cruelties perpetfated by the
last marquis of CORVALLIS in Ireland,
the grand nephew of the patriot, Nc
Kinley, is president of the greatest
nation of the world; and the same
power that ruthlessly executed the
ancestor, is now a suppliant for IA
vors from the descendant! Such are
the chances and changes of realms;
such the fortunes of retributive time.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16
GEN. ROBINsON'S STORY.

General Robinson tells story of the
late General Benjamin F. Butler which
is new to me, and as the old hero him
self told it to General Robinson it
may be new to you as well. It hap
pened one time when General Butler
was in Portland. A great reception
had been arranged in his honor, and
the largest hall in town was engaged
to hold it in The place was 1avishly
decorated, and one white muslin ban
ner especially attracted the generals
attention. On it was painted in large
black letters:
General Benjamin F. Butler, the
hero Of Five forks"
And beneath the big letters some
| body had written:
and goodness only knows how
many spoons. Washington Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16
HER BIRTHDAY.
1898.
1S4S.
March, 1898.

Cor meeting of Federated Womens Clubs.)
Here reverently we pause, as those
who pray
Partaking sacred wine at altar rail,
Facing the shrine where burning
lamps grow pale,
So bend we now, o God, this holy day
Conscious of all that's mightiest in her
sway,
If unto us the Present doth not fail,
Her Faith secured it. Time must
not assail
Gifts her children to her wisdom pay.
The white robed hosts who rom her
loins have sprung,
In speaking silence stand with us
this hour,
For when all praise hath found melo-
dious tongue,
'Tis we who keep the secret of its
power,
AS when upon herself in love we call,
We breathe the name of Mother, =
this means all.
Wisconsin. Mary M. Adams.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16
NEGRO AND FLYING MACHINE.

A Georgia man who had made fly
ing machine offered negro $40 to
make a trial trip in it.
The negro agreed, got in position,
and he and the machine were hoisted
by block and tackle about thirty feet
from terra frma.
When the rope was loosened the ma
chine took a sudden and slanting
course toward earth and plunged into
an adjacent mill pond.
1t disappeared with the negro be-
meath the water, while the terrified in
ventor stood shrieking for assistance.
Presently the negro's head bobbed
up serenely, and he struck out for dry
land. On arriving his first words were:
"Marse John, why didn't you tell
dat fool thing whar ter light?"
men-of-war rs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

Secured Currency.-"My husband"
she exclaimed, with glistening eyes,
sis national bank"
The currency of a national bank,
it may be remarked en- PEASANT, is Sc
cured.
The fact that she had to get up in
the middle of the night and go
through a vest as well as pair Of
trousers in order to secure her hus-
bands currency didn't seem to cut
any ice with her.-Detroit Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

Hudson Maxim, the inventor of ex-
plosives, who has offered to the United
States government his free services
and all his inventions free of royalty
for the building Of torpedo cruiser
to cost 100000 says the boat he has
in mind could destroy every Spanish
warship which it might encounter. He
is willing to come to America to super
intend its building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16
HYMN.
1898.
1S48.

For the birthday of the state of Wisconsin,
A radiance falls on US today,
The splendor of a Living Past,
We own it's strong, benignant sway,
We feel the JOY around us cast;
Glory to Thee, o God, and praise,
This hour is Thine, it came from
Thee,
ExaIts to our uplifted gaze,
All Thou hast done to make men
free.
Without Thee nations do not live,
And with Thee nations cannot de,
All that is great is Thine to give,
Is also Thine to sanctify;
Our fathers saw an ampler dawn,
That gave to man a larger light,
Forbid one ray should be Withdrawn,
Give us this witness Of Thy might.
1t was for them to frame the plan,
To mould and build our noble state,
She shows herself the friend of man,
She guards his rights, and Knows
them great;
Protect her, Lord! Remove all wrong
Keep faith in Thee forever sure,
That all she does may make men
strong,
And, making strong, may make
them pure.
Mary NJ Adams
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

Ber1in's servant girls are losing
the steady habits of the German
'Dienstmadchen;" their average time
of service in one place is only nine
months and a half.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

Ethel: docs God tell you what to
write in your sermons" Papa: Eyes,
my dear" Ethel: "Then why do
you scratch out so much?" Papa
(after a pause): ITO please your
mother.''-Truth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16

The Chinese cultivate an onion that
possesses no odor whatever.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-06-16
IrS. Adams and
The Semi-Centenn'al.

8. MOTTO FORWARD" 1898.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-08-28
Rehabilitation in China.

According to the consular report from
Foochow, the cultivation of tea in that
district has ceased to be remunerative,
and the export is now but one-third of
what it was twenty years ago. No rea-
son is given for this decline in the in
dustry, and we are left to assume that
it is caused partly by the competition
of India and Ceylon, and possibly in
part by the discovery of certain tricks
of trade at which the heather Chinese
is an adept. But whatever the reasons
may be, much land formerly devoted to
tea is now going out Of cultivation, and
the curing houses are being offered for
sale to the missionaries. The report in
question tells us that the export trade
is Of great Importance to China, for
the internal demand for tea is not great.
The majority are content with a brew
from tea dust; and when tea is not
readily available, other leaves take
its place. Here in Britain the consump-
ton of tea is about six pounds per head
Of the population, but in China it is only
half that, even among the small frac-
ton Of the people who are tea-drinkers.
Chambers Journal
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-08-28
Judgment ON Siberian Prisons.

The Rev. DR.. Lansdell publicly stated,
after a thorough visit to Siberia, that
should he ever have to change from
clerical to convict life, he would choose
Siberia, and not Millbank or any other
English prison, as the scene Of labor.
1 have no hesitancy to say that per-
sonally I prefer prison life in Siberia
to Sing Sing; and to set the stamp of
my approval upon the prison, follow
ing the kindly invitations of the Chief
of Police, I was about to transfer my
baggage from the hotel Of the rich
Chinaman to the jail. However.
though the prison tempted me by its
superior comfort, better food and bath
tubs, had to give up the project. In
teresting things were to be seen in the
town and upon the great river every
minute of the day. so 1 remained with
Tai Phoon-Tai, only visiting the prison
for my tub every day. AS upon my
first visit, was always allowed to walk
about the place and visit all the pris-
oners, and 1 saw nothing to change my
opinion of the cleanliness and the HUI
name condition under which they lived.
Stephen Bonsal, in Harper's Maya
zine
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-08-28
EIGHTH REGIMENT.
Creates a Most Favorable Impress
sion Among Sam Franciscans.

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. H.-Peace
hath its victories as we'll as war; and
one of these bloodless victories was won
by the Eighth California Regiment to-
day. 1t conquered the admiration of
thousands who saw its quickstep march
up Market street from the ferry early
in the afternoon, and it captured more
applause later at Recreation Park,
Where its drill for the financial benefit
of the Army and Navy Christian Com
mission took place.
They were a splendid body of men,
and their unison of movement and
promptness in executing evolutions
showed the large crowd of spectators
that the soldiers had not wasted time
at Camp Barrett across the bay. Many
of them before joining the Eighth. not
many weeks ago, We're wholly devoid
or military knowledge, but to-day every
man seemed to have been thoroughly
scnooled, and the regiment moved like
perfect machine. High commenda-
ton of its physical qualities and man.
ner Of carrying out orders was besfow-
ed by the officers, who were on the
grounds as lockers on, among whom
were Brigadier General NJ. P Muller
and his staff. Adjutant General Bar
Fett, with Governor Budd's staff. many
OF the officers of the Seventh California
FIRST California Artillery and Twenty
1hlrd United States Infantry.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-08-28
An Ice-Breaking Vessel.

There was lately launched from the
shipyard Of Sir w. G. Armstrong,
Whitworth & Co. a vessel which. al
though only a couple of hundred feet
long, is of more than ordinary interest.
1t is an ice-breaker, and it's particular
mission is to keep open the port of
Hango for the Russian Government at
that time of the year when h is gener-
ally ice-bound. Former ice-breakers
have been built with long. cut-away
bow, so that partly by speed and part
ly by forcing the weight of the vessel
above the ice, the obstruction has given
way under repeated attacks. The new
boat is designed to work upon totally
different principle. It has two propel-
lers, one in the ordinary position, and
the other forward, the object of the
latter being to give the water under the
ice a high sternward velocity, so that
the ice is left without support. Then
comes the bow of the vessel with its
heavy, crushing action, and breaks
through with comparative ease. The
vessel is being fitted with two sets of
triple expansion engines, which are Of
special design so as to fit them for the
heavy work which they have to accom-
plish.-Chambers' Journal.
The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-08-28
At The Mouth Of the KuskuWim River, In
Alaska.
Fourteen Persons Believed to Have
Lost Their Lives in the Dis
aster-A Letter Confirming the
Report Received From Rev. j.
H.. Romig, Dated at Bethel,
Alaska.

SEATTLE CWash.), Aug. 27.-Further
details confirmatory of the report OF
the Nyeck of the steamer Jessie and
the barge Minerva, with the possible
drowning of fourteen men, at the mouth
of the Kuskowim River, Alaska, was
received here to-day in a letter from
Rev. ]. II. Romig, dated Bethel, Alaska,
July 18th.
Rev. Romig, who is a friend Of Rev.
Weber, who was to conduct the party
up the Kuskowim River, writes:
IA native, who has just arrived
here, reports that just after the storm
on the other side of the bay a scow
drifted ashore with both sides stove
in. She was half full of water and had
no mast. To the tow post was the short
end of the towing rope, which had been
cut with a sharp knife. Various boxes
had been chopped open with an ak. The
cargo consisted of axes, canned meats,
Shirts trousers, lumber, one very large
steel trap and some boxes that had not
been opened when the native left.
1.-The natives, after their custom, d.
vided the wreckage among themselves.
Our informant had a shirt from the
cargo. 1t was No. Is, and labeled Sun
set
Nothing had been heard Of the river
steamer for seventeen days, and we fear
all the miners were lost If they still
live they have weathered two very Sc
we're storms. They were in very dan
gerous waters, Astounding in sunken
reefs and rocks"