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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-05

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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1899-10-05

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The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11
Paying "a Debt.

Some years ago an affray among the miners of the West resulted in murder, and Senator Thurston, believing the accused to have been innocent in inten- ton, took up his case and greatly miti- gated the lads punishment. Six months afterward a man, armed to the teeth, appeared in Thurston's office.
 Be you Squire Thurston?"
 'Yes."
 "Be you the man that defended Jack Bailey at court?'
 The Senator, thinking his last hour was come, again answered, "Yes."
 Well, I'm Jack Bailey's pardner, and I've come to pay you. I haven't got any money, but I'm a man of hon. or. Anybody in town you don't likeY'
 AS the Senator smilingly disc,aimed any thirst for booty or blood, the caller insisted incredulously, Put on your hat, squire, and just walk down the street. See anybody you don't like, throw up your thumb and I'll pop him" l"
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Some Famous Faces.

Napoleon, with a face as if it had been modelled from a Greek cameo, was never, in Talleyrand's judgment at all events, quite gentleman He gesticulated too much and was alto gether too violent for the correct taste of the great noble trained under the old regime Perfection of body is not necessary, either, for many misshaped men have been dignifled even when they were not, like the Due de Ven dome, Princes of the Lilies in days when that distinction meant so much
 Little men and wizened men have both inspired awe. for great soldiers trembled if Louis XIV drowned, and no man received without weakened knees a rebuke from William III. The protruding under lip of the Hapsburgs has never detracted from their majes- ty, and Victor Emmanuel, who. for all his good manners, always suggested to the onlooker a bull face to face with the metadore, was for all that every inch a king.-Spectator.
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DeWeV's Family

Gen. F. V. Greene tells the following story of Admiral Dewey. which we have not seen in print. When he ar. rived in Manila with re-enforcements he went on board the Olympia to pay his respects to the Admiral. After the two men had exchanged compliments Dewey said:
 Come into my cabin, General. 1 want to show you my family"
 In one corner of the cabin was a great pile of photographs, dozens upon dozens, and each was the picture of a baby boy. There were fat babies and lean babies, pretty babies and ugly babies. sad babies and smiling babies
 What in the world are these?" ask ed General Greene, somewhat bewil. dered.
 Why" said Dewey, "lt's just the family of my namesakes. They are Joneses, Smiths and Jenkinses, but every ones a George Dewey, and their parents want me to know it.''
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LOVE IS COLOR BLIND.
White Women of Social Fame with
 Husky Husbands.

White Women of Social Fame with
 Husky Husbands.
 Miss SewalPs marriage to Prince Lcbergula. son of Chief LObengula Of the Matabeles in South Africa, is only one Of mary marriages between we'll born English women and African, Jap anese and Chinese notables. Miss Sewal! was q young and pretty white woman, possessed of considerable for tune and moving in one of the best So- cial circles of London. Lobengula is a coal-black negro who has received some attention in London as the son of the African monarch. The English rec tor to whom the couple first applied declined to perform the ceremony, and they were married by registrar, who performed the civil ceremony according to law. The marriage was opposed by Miss Sewalps mother, and the couple have now left England.
 Curious as it may seem, European aristocracy has set the fashion in these ill-assortcd unions. The daughter of Lord St. Vincent, a singularly lovely girl, married an individual named Dyce Sombre, half-breed of colossal wealth, the son of the Begun or native queen of the East Indian state of Sombre Sirdhana, and of that David Dyce who was the original of George Middlemas
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THE WORD BLIZZARD.
Said to Have Been Used In South Ds-
 kOta In the Sixties.

A we'll known book of reference states that the Chicago Advance was the originator of the word ''blizZard7 on the Sth of January, 1880. Old tim CTS in South Dakota take exception 10 the statement. A story is told : the editor of the Hutchinson County Her aid, who commenced his newspaper work on the Dakota Republican, at Vermillion, in August, 1S6I-
 The Peake family, Swiss bell ringers. arrived in VermilliOn by stage, and William Peake, manager of the bell ringers, said to a party of friends, Il would like to see one of your bliZZardS have heard so much about" MT. True answered: "All right. We will order one for your special benefit and have it here when you come back through here from YanktOn."
 After showing three nights in Yank- ton the troupe started hOmeward 10 Sioux City, MT. Peake being on the outside of the stage with the driver The morning was warm and balmy. MT. Peake was astoniShed at the ae- tions of the driver, who suddenly whip ped up, and asked what the matter was. T. c. Williams, who was driv- ing, answered that he was afraid Mr. True's order was going to be a little ahead of time. Look to the north west" said he There was the blizzard approaching in all it's fury. In almost minute the blinding snow was being whirled through the air, and NIT. Peake withdrew to the inner part of the stage It was one of the most ter rife storms known to the territory, which is saying considerable. The Peake troupe was compelled to wait several days at Vermillion until MT. True's blizzard had blown itself out Sioux Falls Argus.
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 in Scotts novel, "The Surgeons Daugh ter" This marriage of Lord St. Yin cents daughter, like so many others ot the sort, turned out unhappily and cul- minated in a separation. His wife, who, after his death, married the third Lord Forester, died about three years ago.
 Lady Hester Stanhope, grandaunt of Lord Rosebery and a niece of William Pitt, died as the wife of an Arab sheik at Damascus. Among titled women who have followed her example and who have been followed to Oriental graves by Arab husbands have been the celebrated countess of Ellenbor- ough and the French Princesse de Ia Tour dAuvergne. The present Lord Gardiner is the son of HindoO mother, and is married to a woman of the same dusky race, while the only son of the fifth Earl of MilltOwn is welded to an Indian woman at Bombay, who is des- tined to become Countess of. Milltown, ViscountesS RusSborough, etc.
 1t is to the frequency of such unions among old world aristocracy that so many cases are found of people with Asiatic or negro b,ood in their veins bearing full -fedged European titles.
 Thus, the Dowager Countess of Stam- ford, peeress of the British realm, and entitled to be kissed by the sovereign on the cheek when she attends court at Buckingham palace, is coal black HOttentot. Had 1t not been for a little mistake in the arrival in this world of her grandson, very dark -colOred mu- latto would be at present peer of the realm, as Earl of Stamford and Lord Grey of Groby, the titles of the late Earl, a parsOn who had abandoned his calling and had taken to squatting in the wilds of South Africa, descending to his nephew, who was then earning a livelihood as usher in a school in Trin- idad.
 An English woman of excellent birth married the late Shereef of Wazan. hereditary ecclesiastical chief of the Mohammedan church in Morocco, and her son by the late Sheereef now wlelds sway over the MooriSh church in his fathers stead. His mother was by no means the only wife of her dusky hus- band, but she was the principal one. and enjoyed power over all the others. It was only in May last that a pretty and well-born Scotch girl. possessed of a fortune of her own, first cousin of the Duke of Athol, married a full blooded Chinaman. an attache of the Chinese embassy in London, bearing the name of Tseng-Chao Kwung. And among the most conspicuous figures at court entertainments in Europe are the Indian Prince Dhuleep Singh and his Full-blooded white wife. Lady Ann Gov entry, daughter of the Earl of Coyen- try, and Sister-in-law of that Viscount- asS Deerhurst who is a daughter of Mir Bonynge, of New York and San Fran cisco. In Germany, Austria. France and Italy several white women of titled families have become the wives of Jap. anese diplomats.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11

A girl in a New England factory wrote her name several months ago on bolt of cotton. Recently she received letter from a woman in Arizona say ng that the cloth had been bought by he Government, and was being cut up or garments in an Apache Indian chool. It is but few years ago that ae Apaches thought more of taking calps than of schools in which shirt laking is done. While the mill girls ct elicited this striking comparison, it as an act to be unhesltatingly con- amned. A girls name so represents arself that to have it lightly bandied bout in writing, or in public convey lces, or in the mouths of strangers, fleets meretric.ously upon her char ter. Had the bolt of cotton fallen to unscruplous hands, the letter sent om Arizona might have been any ing but pleasing to the thoughtless
 cipient.
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Woman Is steadily making her way in business and professional world, d has become so large a factor that my sociologists are alarmed at the uation. The young woman is crowd out the young man in many ave es of activity. The Government ser e Is no exception. The bureau of nology at Washington has two wom- ethnologists. The lobster and crab pert of the Smithsonian Institution
 woman; the most respected author on mammals in the National Muse is a woman; so is the most skilled omologist, and the chief librarian public documents. The Bureau of erican Republics, not long since, lted translators and instituted ex- nations in order to get the best. slips of girls won the prize and are
 getting $2,400 a year. Besides e, many clerical positions are filled women to the satisfaction of the fs of their departments. Get a
 e on you, young man, or your sister
 distance you in the race of life.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11
Successful, but Not Easy.

The believer in luck or inspiration in place of hard work should read Rud- yard Kipling's description of the writ ing of his poem, the famous "Reces- Sional"
 That pOem," he says, gave me more trouble than anything I ever wrote. 1 had promised the Times a poem on the jubilee, and when it be- came due 1 had written nothing that had satisfied me. The Times began to want that poem badly, and sent letter after letter, asking for it. made many attempts, but no further progress.
 Finally the Times began sending telegrams. So I shut myself in my room with a determination to stay there until l had written jubilee poem. Sitting down with all my pre- vious attempts before me, I searched through these dozens of sketches till at last found just the one I liked. That was, Lest we forget Round these words the 'RecessionaI was written. .'
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11
A RurRlary Story.

They were telling burglary stories" on the veranda in front of the grocery store in a down east town.
 "The mans hand was thrust through the hole he had cut in the door" said the star talker. "when the woman seiZ- ed the wrist and held on in spite of the struggles of the man outside. In the morning the burglar was found dead, having cut his own throat when he found escape impossible; but the brave woman had not known he was dead. and so had not released her grasp OD his wrist all night long"
 "Huhw growled the skeptic In the corner. "Why didn't she feel of his pulse Y'-Buffalo Commercial.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11
SAUCY, B IT SELF RELIANT.
Such Is the typical East Side Girl Q!
 New York City.

Such Is the Typical East Side Girl q!
 New York City.
 ''The typical east side girl of New York;" writes Charles T. Brodhead in The Ladies' Home Journal, ''is simply a product of her environments. She is surrounded by the good, bad and indif- ferent. She is in an atmosphere in which 10 girl should be reared. Her eyes and ears are closed to many dis agreeable things around her. And she shuts them simply because she does not care to see and hear. Yet the east side girl is no saint. Far from it. The typical girl of that section is self re- liant, saucy, impertinent, slangy, quick tempered, ready to fight with the tongue, and even with fists if neces- sary. She will dance all night and work all day, repeat it three or four tired and look bright and fresh all the while. She will upbraid her mother, whom she calls me ole wOman;' and abuse her father, referred to by her as me ole man. cuff the ears of her younger brothers; have hair pulling match with a sister; yet if any one should dare utter a word derogatory to the members of her family, Miss East Side would go at them like a wildcat. She f1irts outrageously with motOrmen, conductors and the like and will laugh derisively at or slap the face of the we'll dressed man who presumes to become acquainted with her on the street; remain night after night at the bedside of a girl friend who is ill and follow a begging cripple half a block to give her last cent for charity"
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11
Women GoIdsmiths.

An interesting commission has been given by the French government to a lady art worker in gold for a necklace designed as a gift to the Empress of Russia. It consists of twelve medal lions in gold, each bearing the portrait of a French woman celebrated in po- litical, literary or social history The series begins with the first Christian Queen of France and ends prior to the great revolution. The art work of the goldsmith was declared at the recent woman's congress in London to be pc culiarly suitable for women.
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If the unemployed rich and the un employed poor would only unite ard form a trust, what wonderful results for good would follow. Mir. Gladstone is quoted as saying: ''The labOrer has his legitimate, his necessary, his hon. orable and honored place in Gods ere ation; but in all Gods creation there is no place appointed for the idle wealthy man." Of all nationalities it is hardest for the American to be de. His active brain and his native energy force him to activity, and while the wealthy class of Europeans have learned how to en- joy life of pleasure without ennui, the American has not yet acquired this art From sheer mental restlessness, he goes on heaping up riches, never asking who shall gather them. To be sure, there are scores of exceptions to this rule, as the most costly and complete universi- ties, schools, colleges, hospitals, libra ries and art museums of this country amply bear witness; yet in many cases even these generous donors still have a surplus greater than they or their heirs can ever use. What is wealth? A few hundreds of thousands can supply every human desire for comfort and luxury. Then why devote life, heart and soul to the accumulation of for tunes which will never be put to prac- tical use? Is such a coorse in any way different from that pursued by the  miser whose chief occupation and dear est pleasure lies in counting his hoard : Frederic Harrison, few years ago. called attention to the public services of the rich men of Athens in its golden days, by providing games and feasts, rearing temples, baths and aqueducts and furnishing to its people, social, lit erary and esthetic enjoyment, thus crowning their city with the light of an undying glory. It is said that munich palities seldom succeed in a movement for public adOrnment To be effectual the work must be undertaken and car ried on by private individuals. Let the unemployed rich, who have clear heads to plan, unite with the unemployed poor, who have willing hands to exc cute, and what perfect combination we shall have for rearing enduring works of beneficence.
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but science evidently thinks 1t has mission in saving them from the rav. ages of the osculatory microbe.

The people have small sympathy with rogues; hence the comparative in
 difference with which they have seer the practice grow up among policemen of freely using their revolvers wher seeking to bring to- an escaping sus- pect. But a great many innocent peo- pie, when threatened with arrest, es- pecially when found in what they know to be compromising, though per haps easily eXplainab,e, situations lose their self-possession and run. To send a bullet in pursuit may sometimes cost the life of a valuable citizen. Even if none but rogues run away, however, it is not for the policeman to put life in peril by the use of his revolver. The only circumstances where its use is justified are those where the police mans own life or that of another Is in immediate peril from a ruffian whose arrest is sought. The peril must not be merely fancied or constructive, but actual and deadly. Otherwise the off cer is amenable as much as a private citizen for any loss of life which may follow the use of his weapon. The sooner these facts shall be brought home to the understanding of police
 men everywhere the better it will be.
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11

Probably the most colossal mistake in recent criminal annals was made by a New York burglar the other day. He went into a dressmaking establish ment in broad daylight, where twenty women were working and tried to plunder the premises. As a simple matter of course and a natural conse- quence the women fell upon him with hat pins, jabbed him till he closely resembled porous plaster and handed him over to a policeman. The records in even a city like Chicago teem with captures of foolish burglars by women single handed. What fate could be ex- ,.ztAd for the man who deliberately invaded a house filled with twenty women, every one of the twenty hay lng her hat pin handy?
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11
. Ioke Cost Them a Rida.

A freight train pulled into a station on the Boston and Maine recently and a ventriloquiSt on the platform thought he would have some sport, so he threw his voice under the car, saying: Let me out; let me out!' The station agent was called and lie hastened to unfasten the door of a car. After working for a time he got the door open and out walked four tramps, all of whom dis claimed having asked to be let ont. The ventrilOquist had builded better than he knew and had stepped upon the ride of the four hobos who were left behind.
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fence seems determined to abolish time-honored sign of an entente iale between lovers. At the pres ate the kiss will soon survive only oyels. Marion Crawford's latest l tells how the hero kissed the ne on her mouth, eyes and hair, science distinctly diSapproves of individual kiss. Having forbid the ordinary form of osculatory 1t now raises the danger signal
 kissing on the eyes. A young led woman of Breslau who went hospital for treatment of inflam- n of the eyes has been informed her sight has been permanently
 red by bacteria from the lips of
 usband, who was unconsciously
 ring in his system the microbes
 ,ause inflammation of the lungs.
 is affection robbed of one more
 of attack. Pretty young women
 ppear to be willing martyrs, in-
 g the danger without a murmur,
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Inst Hapnened So.

And now," said the man. as he fold ed up his paper and turned to the pas senger on his left, ''if you've got through with my watch I'll take 1t back"
 "Certainly-of course," replied the other as he extended 1t. And my card case, cigar case and handkerchief-?
 Here they are. Sorry to have trou- bled you, but
 'No excuse; I understand. It simply happened so."
 Simply happened so. GoOd-day."
The St. Johns herald., 1899-11-11

The eucalyptus tree, which grows ten feet in a year, makes valuable wood,
 gives the bees honey that has import ant medicinal properties and prevents malaria, should be planted in many other places than Cuba If it is all that it is said to be. We may expect to hear of the eucalyptus trust sooner or later.
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A Ready Answer.

"I am. so ambitious" said the egotisti- cal man, that some day you may see me bring the earth home"
 'If you bring 1t on your feet" eau toned the meek wife, don't forget the door mat stands in the vestibule, and that the last time these halls were scrubbed I did 1t myself"
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A clergyman has been trying an ex- pertinent similar to that tried by Wal ter Wyckoff, author of ''The Work ers." The clergyman's idea was to find out why the laboring man does not go to church as a rule. He says he found out on the first prayer meeting night after he began to work in a factory, for he tumbled into bed and to sleep and forgot what day it was.
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Got Even With Randolph.

One night when travelling through Virginia John Randolph stopped at an inn near the forks of two roads. The innkeeper was a fine old gentleman, and, knowing who his distinguished guest was, he endeavored during the evening to draw him into a conversa- tion, but failed. But in the morning, when Mr. Randolph was ready to start, he called for his bill and paid it. The landlord, still anxious to have some conversation, tackled him again:
 (Which way are you travelling, MT. RandOlphf'
 ''Sirr' said Mr. Randolph, with look of displeasure.
 ''I asked" said the landlord, which way you are traveling?"
 Have paid you my bill?'
 "Yes."
 "Do owe you anything more?"
 "No."
 "Well, am going just where I please. Do you understandY
 "Yes."
 The landlord by this time got some what excited, and MT. Randolph drove off. But to the landlords surprise in few minutes he sent one of the serv- ants to inquire which of the forks of the road to take. Mir. Randolph, still being within hearing distance, the landlord yelled at the top of his voice:
 'Mr. Randolph, you don't owe me one cent; take whichever road you pleasew
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Explained satisfactorily.

Little man-I understand, sir, that you have called me an unmitigated liar?
 Big man-No, l didn't use the word "unmitigated."
 Little man-Then l accept your apol- ogy.-Tit-Bits. "A
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Plenty to Do.

"So you are the only one of the fam. fly now at home"
 "Oh, I'm not lonesome. My wife left the house plants in my care" ."-Cleve- land Plain Dealer.
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A Chance to Refuse.

"Won't 1t be terrible when women propose to men?"
 'I don't know; I think we will be safer then than now, when they lure us on to say the word."-DetrOit Free Press.
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The first five minutes after an acci- dent, a man is grateful that he es. capped with his life; after that, he be- gins to complain because his pants were torn.
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He Knew Him.

"Boresome spoke for nearly an hour at the meeting last night"
 ''Yes. I left when I heard him say that there was really nothing new to be said upon the subject. l knew that meant that he would go on indefinite ly."-Boston Transcript.
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If the golf shoulder and the silk skirt waist and the bicycle knee, back and face should ever hold an awful ren- dezvous in one human frame, what a carnival they could have.
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\ Fairy Tale.

Once upon a time a woman trimmed her own bonnets, and in consequence of this her husband became enormous ly wealthy.
 ''I owe all have to you," said the man to his wife one day. q will ac- cordingly pay you per cent interest on my entire fortune."
 But the woman wouldn't take a pen ny. If anything further be needed to make q fairy story of this let it be said that they lived happily eyer after.