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The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24
wreck on the G. r.. 81. at Pierson.

The most disastrous railroad wreck
which ever occurred in this part of the
state was caused on the morning of
the 18th, when two passenger trains
on the Grand Rapids &c Indiana rail-
road crashed into each other at full
speed at Piesson, 20 miles north of
Grand Rapids. Seven dead bodies were
traken from the wreck, nine persons
are in serious condition, and scores
of others less seriously injured. 1t was
all caused by sleepy telegraph oper-
ator at the Mill Creek station.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24

The escape of DeWet after the elab-
crate dispositions made to surround
him is humiliating TO the English
generals and has done some damage to
another great reputation, that of Lord
Kitchener. Lord Roberts sent Kitch-
ener to take complete control of the
operations which were TO end in corn
ering DeWet. Generals Methuen, Ian
Hamilton and Smith Dorrien were CO.
operating with him, as well as Broad
woods cavalry brigade, so that there
must have been some 30, 900 troops en-.
deavoring TO intercept the 7,OOC
mounted men who form DeWet's fol.
lowing. After being bouyed up for
weeks with the hopes that this SUI
perbly led flying column would be en-.
vironed, the British public are not at
all pleased to hear that DeWet has
got clear away again and has out
marched both Methuen and Kitchener
and is heading north to join Command
ant Delarey, who has taken possession
of Hustenberg and seems to be practi-
cally master of the country almost up
to Mafeking. AS To the future, it
seems that the operations may now be
chiefly confined to two distinct quart
ers. DeWet and Delarey have wide
spaces of western Transvaal and the
Bechuanaland frontier to roam over,
and the British hold on these districts,
which were supposed to be subjugated,
is extremely prec lrious, as the Beers
are probably gaining recruits as they
go along.
Lord Roberts's proclamation, after
reciting the fact that many have
broken the oath to maintain neutral
ity, and that the leniency extended to
the burghers is not appreciated, warns
all who break their oaths in the future
that they will be punished by death,
Imprisonment or fine. He declares
that all burghers in districts occupied
by the British, except those who take
the oath, will be regarded as prisoners
of war and transported, and that
buildings on farms where the enemy
or his scouts are harborcd will be liable
to be RACED.
Gen. Dcwet has managed to elude
Gen. Kitchener, in spite of the fact
that all the British wagons had double
teams of picked animals. The Beers
evaded the British by marching at
! night over grounds known to them.
while their pursucrs were obliged to
march in the daytime
1t is reported that former President
Steyn, of the Transvaal, is dead. He
was suffering severe wound and was
endeavoring to reach President Kru-
ger when he died.
A special cable dispatch from Della
goa bay says that according to Boer
! reports there, Gen. DeWet has turned
on the British, defeated them and cap
tured 1000 men.
1t is reported upon British authority
that President Kruger wants peace,
but that his fighting commandments in
sist upon continuing the war.
Lord Roberts is to be given the
position of general-in-c to replace
Gen. Lord Wolseley, who retires in
October.
According to the 1900 census New
York has a population of 2,O5O,GOO, Il
| gain of 535, POO in 10 years.
Lord Kitchener, after forced march,
! has relieved Col. IIoare and the British
garrison at Glands river
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24
by an explosion of Gas at the Atlanta

by an explosion of gas at the Atlanta
Refining Co. IS works, at Philadelphia,
on the 10th, one man was killed and
five seriously injured, two of whom it
is thought will die.
A. q. Bingamon killed his wife
and his son-in-law, James Bradley, and
then committed suicide at jamestown,
o., on the l4th. The tragedy was the
result of family troubles.
A deliberate attempt was. made at
midnight on the 10th to burn and pill
lage the village of Smithfeld, Ill. Only
the combined efforts of the ! 500 inhab-
itapts saved the place from destruction
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24
Somewhere between Chicago an,

Somewhere between Chicago and
Burlington, Ia, an express package,
supposed TO contain S25, 900, is alleged
to have gone astray.
Vast swarms of the 17-year locusts
have appeared near Charleston, Ill,
and the farmers fear that all vegeta-
ton will be destroyed.
The largest AK factory in the world,
which is owned by the Kelly AK Man
ufacturing Co., at Alexandria, Ind,
was destroyed by fire on the night of
the 10th. The factory, which was
running at full force, employed 1000
men. Loss, 100000.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24

The tax comm ssion is after many
citizens of st. Clair
One case of smallpox is reported at
Lake Linden.
Hudson business men have organ
lied a company for the purpose of pros
pecting for oil in the vicinity of that
city.
The pickle FACTORY at Plainwell paid
the farmers 1920 on the 14th, and
they are much pleased with their sue
cess
IL is estimated that about $4,000
peach trees in Michigan have been
damaged 10y what is known as "ittlc
peach"
One of the mills at Munising has
been G-osed owing to the fact that men
cannot be secured TO do the work even
al g. day.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24
cassopolIs in Prosperous Condition.

Cassopolis, with an assessed valua-
ton of about 5000, 900, and tax rate
never exceeding seven and half per
cent. owns an excellent water plant, a
village hall worth 50, 900 and a fine
cemetery. She has well-equipped fire
department, good roads and good side
walks, and the streets are lighted by
electricity. Her Indebtedness is Sc. 900,
which is being paid 81 900 annually.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24

The buildings, printing presses and
all other apparatus, together with the
rights to publish the Harper periodi-
Gals, formerly conducted by Harper
Bros, at New York, were sold on the
9th for Sl,100, 600.
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24
GRAIN. ETC.

SDetrolt-Hay No. Timothy, Sls % per ton.
Potatoes, 4Oc per bu. Live Poultry, spring
chickens, SIc per Id; fowls. &c. turkeys. lOs;
ducks 9fc Eggs strictly fresh. l3c per do.sa
Butter. best dairy, lSc per 10; creamery 2ic
The Yale expositor., 1900-08-24
BASE BALL.

Below we submit the oiclal standing OF the
clubsof the Nation VI ani American lea CUES up
70 and including Monday, August 2Oth
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-09-20
THE FULL DINNER PAIL.
Enough to Eat Is Not All That the
Laborer Gets Under the Repub-
lican Administration.

The republican battle cry of "a full
dinner pail tells in few words the
effect winch republican policies have
had in making prosperous the great
industries of the country, and, conse-
quently, in improving the condition of
workingmen from material stand
point. No workingman needs TO be
reminded that his dinner pail was not
full from 1892 to 1896, while demo-
cratic administration was in power.
Every nottingham knows that now,
after nearly four years of republican
administration, there is plenty of work
at good wages for every man who
wants work. The republican slogan
is therefore simply a statement OF
fact.
Democratic speakers and organs re-
ply that the American workingman
wants more than a full dinner pail.
He wants his full and honest share of
the proceeds of his labor; he wants
chance to educate his children well;
he wants to enjoy the luxuries as well
as the necessaries of life; he objects to
being classed as an animal to whom
plenty of food is the highest ideal.
This is a fair statement of the am
bition of every American workingman
who is worthy to bear the name. 1t
is Endorsed by the republican, party
the more sincerely because it has
made it possible for him to realize
them. Before any man can hope to
enjoy the luxuries of life he must
first secure the necessaries; before
he can give his children the benefit
of education he must first be able to
feed them; the first ambition of every
man is TO support mis- family in COM
fort; then he may begin to provide
for them the advantages which arc
possible to the industrious and ener-
getic man who has settled the ques
ton of food, lodging and clothing.
Take away the full dinne- pail and
the workingman finds himself fully
employed in securing for his family
the bare necessaries of life.
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RHINOCEROS IN CAMP.
Encounter with the Animal While
AreckinG i'm Africn-Red Blanket
Caused His Death.

While trekking in South Africa, Par
ker Gilmore often outspanned on the
open veldt. 1t was life of discomfort
and adventure, which he wildly de-
scribes in his book, The Great Thirst
Land" Contrary TO what would be
commonly believed. wild beasts not in
frequently came about the camp, and
even into the heart of the campfire.
One night we had outspanned rather
late. and the boys" had built an enor-
nous fire close by the wagon, and be-
tween eating s1d shouting kept me
awake. Toward daylight this was still
going on. when | heard several excla-
nations of terror. | looked out of the
front of the wagon. The boys were fly
ing heher-skelter everywhere, and a
rhinoceros was trotting backward and
forward across the fire. tossing car
cases. skins. cooking utensils and
blankets about as if each of them con
tanned somebody.
A red blanket seemed particularly
to take the fancy of the irate beast.
At it he went, and got his horn wei
into IT, But there it seemed to stick
The more he shook his head, the more
tightly the blanket wrapped itself
about it, entirely hiding the eyes.
He shook his head, paved >sith his
forefeet. lay down his clumsy length
and rolled from side to side, strug-
Cling in vain to get free of the envel-
oping blanket. l laughed aloud at
/ his grotesque antics.
! Suddenly he gave snort, a bound
and kick. and started for the somber
4 shadows of the forest; but he carried
! a two-ounce bullet behind his shout
! der. How he escaped knocking that
/ ornamental headpiece of his against
( a tree was a wonder. In the morning
he was found dead. The bullet had
( done its work.
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IT GOT HIM A LICKING.
An ohioan's Hard Lnck when START
ing Out as Newspaper
Reporter

Col. n. S. Jones, who presides over The
matrimonial bureau OF the probate coprt
had his newspaper aspirations chilled - Z
moment when he was starting ont in life IA
was living in the little town of Genoa n 11'
and the proprietor of the country wesl,I,,,
asked him if he would not write a ssso1b}
occasionally, says the Toledo Bee. The
colonel promised, as he saw an onening IN
the newspaper field, and had long yeaTne u
for chance TO secure place in the profes.
sion which seemed to him to offer many in.
ducements. Consequently be wrote IN sew.
sral items. Hard luck came at the stsrt
Among the first of his items was the follow.
ing:
"Our esteemed friend and fellow towns
man, Seth Bennett, is the greatest man in
the world. He licked his wife the Other
night and came out without a scratch ;.
Hardly had the paper appeared on the
street before Seth was on The lookout for
the colonel, and found him. Now iii that
the colonel remembers Of the frav was HAT
he gave Seth a harder fight than Seth's wife
had done. But he severed his Connection
with the paper immediately. He carried
scars for weeks to remind him Of his first ana
only experience as molder of the pnbIic
mind.
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OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

DMr. Bryan spoke as a partisan;
Mr.. Roosevelt as a philosopher
Philadelphia Record.
yMr Bryan, who discusses politi.
cal questions at his own time and in
his own way, is not above discussing
them at the wrong time.-Chicago
Tribune.
DDullness in speculation is due to
the menace of Bryan's possible cleo
ton, says the Financial Chronicle
Briskness in Chairman Jones specula-
ton is due to the same. - Chicago
Journal.
Congressman Littlefeld's descrip-
ton of the Kansas City platform as
combination of devil-knows-whatis
doesn't leave much to the imagina-
tion.-Boston Herald
OIt is safe to advertise Mr.. Bryan
anywhere, because when he does not
come the committee is only obliged to
get photograph and throw few
rolls into it and turn on the steam
Chicago Record Und).
yBryan has several more presiden-
tialnominations to accept, but they are
immaterial He has already accept
ed enough to bury him So deeply he
will never again be heard of by the
American people.-St. Louis Star.
DA great deal is said about Mr..
Bryan's endurance this year, but it
seems to us that the greatest strain
upon his faculties now is to avoid the
conclusions which he drew in 1896.
The rest is easy because it is chiefly
reiteration.-Mi Minneapolis Tribune.
EyThere is nothing surprising in
the report which comes from the
west to the effect that in the event
of Bryan's election Altgeld will be
appointed TO the first vacancy that
occurs on the bench of the United
States supreme court. Altgeld is a
man after Bryap's own heart How
else could Bryan express his contempt
for the supreme court so emphatical-
~ as by appointing Altgeld to be
one of its members ?-N. Y. Mail and
Express.
EMr. Bryan, apparently with
studied disregard of the conditions
imposed upon him. went out of his
way to introduce his paramount" is
sue imperialism Philadelphia
Ledger.
DMr. Bryan's language was that
of the social and political agitator
who would personally profit from
lissensions fostered by him among
his fellow-citizens.- Rochester Demo-
crat and Chronicle.
Kiln quoting from Mr. Bryan's
speeches Of acceptance the greatest
care should Be exercised in sesignat.
ing Washington Post.
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LIGHT INFANTRY IN ARMS.

Light infantry, light infantry, behold us UP
in arms,
with rattles for our battles to invoke wars
wild alarms.
our voices pitched to fighting key exultant
ringing high,
And chubby fists to do or dare in glory's by
and by;
Famed p2oas for our horses true in many a
midnight march.
1'rovisioned for campaign or siege from
canned juice to starch.
Prepared to make the grown-Ups beat re-
treat when we appear.
And take their places with our conquercd
prisoners in the rear.
Light infantry, light infantry, the Baby
land Cadets,
To arms. to arms. a bowling host. the poo
pies pudgy pets;
Abstemious. for we carry naught but strict
ly temperance drinks,
Our bottles filled with cows pale ale IN
mixed with woes or winks:
OF course we've melon-cOHc days because
our people don't
Mix sense with commiss3ry goods, or, may
be, cause they wont.
Make way make way, for we at least are
quite ten million strong.
a cackling, capering, Growing crowd with
merry laugh and song,
Sometimes with war whoops shrill and
high, sometimes with furious cries.
Sometimes with questions in our eyes con-
founding the most wise;
We're agile and athletic, too can wriggle,
creep and crawl,
And make the mightiest conqueror obedient
to our call.
Then forward, forward; little braves,
against the long and large;
The giants will retreat pell nell before cur
gallant charge;
They must obey our beck and nod. be most
unquestioned slaves,
And bow tall heads before the rush OF
valiant baby braves
40 quarter will we ask or give. no priv
ilegos bestow
They must be vassaIs true or of this world
most swiftly go.
Light infantry. light infantry before ouI
leveled spears
The big folks have to race and run or melt
beneath our tears;
Our cause and cackle rule and roost our
wills must be obeyed.
Nor . you put on airs and then pretend
Y IRE not afraid
Make way. make way, ours is the day, the
fiEht already won,
We take the cake. the pretty cook. the
bakery and bun.
EDGAR JONES.
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Keep your eve on 1.-The Best Country on
Earth" in Northwestern North Dakota.
The richest grain producing, black loan
soil in the world. Good water in abund-
snce, market facilities the best. We have
few farms at present to offer at Big Bar
gains
No. 101. 600-acre farm, 5miles from good
market, miles from county seat; $50 acres
under highest cultivation, balance can all
be broke, so acres of fenced pasture House
l6x24, addition l2x24, two stories, stone
foundation. Barn 46x56, addition 16x56,
ls'' posts, stone basement. Blacksmith
shop, granaries and other outhouses,
good wells of water. One mile from school
house in thickly settled neighborhood.
No. 102.-200-acre farm, 80 rods from
county seat and market. Population of
county seat 200. lis acres under cultiva-
tion, 30 acres good meadow, balance can
all be cultivated Good black loan and
clay subsoil. Good well of water
No. 103.-160-acre farm, all wild joins
the city limits, county seat. All good
tillable land, blnck loan and clay subsoil,
a first-class quarter section.
Tombstone cash down, balance time
to suit.
Take advantage of this opportunity be-
fore it slips away. Address,
NORTH DAKOTA LAND q LOAN Co,
Rugby, Pierce County, N. d.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-09-20

Briefly the situation is this: The
republican party four years ago prom
Used to put into force sucn policies as
would revive the stagnant industries
of the country and give the working
man fair chance to better himself in
the world. Bryan, advocating only the
free coinage of silver. declared that
republican success would enslave the
workingman and make national pros
perity impossible. The republican
party was successful and it has kept
its promises. Bryan has been proved
false prophet of evil.
Bryan stands to-day in the attitude
of man who has repudiated his own
most solemn pledges. In the speech
which nominated him for the presi-
dency in 1896 he declared in discussing
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
yer that when that reform had been
accomplished 'all other reforms will
be possible, and until that is done
there is no reform that can be accom-
plished." To-day he is advocating 9TH
er isms and ologies. Either he is in
sincere and a mere demagogue or else
he must resurrect the bones of his
buried hobby and in so aoing strike a
blow to the industries of the country
which will make the workingman
whose dinner pail is half full an object
of envy among his fellows.
The full dinner pail is the real issue
in spite of demagogic attempts to OBJ
scure it. If the republicans are sue
f,,l .e n, hall
that the dinner pail will be full and
everything else desirable will at least
be possible. If Bryan should win, the
dinner pail will be empty, or else all
history and recent personal experience
will be given the lie. Let the work
ingman choose between his dinner pail
empty or full. He will know under
which condition it will be possible to
realize greater ambitions. - Chicago
Trih
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DooR CLOSED AND oPEN.

door that rises and falls in groove is
constantly sticking, but one made like
that shown in the two cuts. Figs. 1-2,
given here, will never fail to shut when
the cord is Stacked away If it
is desired to lock each door, bolt like
that shown will slip down into place
when the door goes to, and the cord
is loosened. Then to open the door, the
cord first pulls the bolt out and then
raises the door. The cuts are taken
from the inside of the Orange
Judd Farmer
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A Peculiar Case.

We often hear it said that an animal
is almost human. and now and then
one does give evidence of feelings thai
seem to transcend brute nature. Not
long ago a horse, called Poindexter,
was taken iii in Boston. The animals
nerves were keyed up 10 a high pitch
of excitement. and he could not be in.
duced to lie down and go to sleep,
The veterinarians were in despair.
when Poir GeNter's devoted groom
went into the stall and lay down. The
horse seemed soothCd by his presence.
BA degrees he grew calmer. and finally
lying down laid IS head on the mans
shoulder and went to steep. For three
u gh;S tde horse slept quietly by his
friend. and ihus passed through the
critical stages of the disease Detroit
Free Press
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-09-20
culti,atlng sweet scents.

A New York woman has made
financial success of violet farming,
and her success is calculated to in
spire others to engage in this indus
try. Violets are not counted among
the necessities of life, but their senti-
mental significance so endears them
to the hearts of all flower lovers that
they have come to be looked upon as
a necessary luxury. The man who is
not moved by a violet is not as bad
off as the individual who is not
touched by sweet sounds, and J just
as fit for stratagem and spoils. To
be able to administer to this senti-
ment and at the same time to be fill
ing ones own Golfers is 10 combine
pleasure and pront in a wholly graf
flying manner.-Chicago Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-09-20
WANTED TO TELL HER.
His Circuit Was Disconnected, But
Loves Current Was Soon
Flowing Smoothly.
nMnlieln

"Millie!s
The young lineman twirled his hat in his
hands in an agitated manner and spoke in a
voice that seemed to have tendency to get
away from him, says the Philadelphia In
quirer.
Mile, the fact is, I--I-there's some.
thing I've been wanting to tell you for a long
tune, but | can't seem to fetch it. When
you look at me like that, you know, it breaks
me all up I've been coming here 50 long
that / oughtn't to be afraid, reckon but
you know how it is-or maybe YOU don't,
either. l thought you're a little the Invest
WIRE / everI didn't think it would be SO
hard when r."
Here he came to dead stop
Millie.' he exclaimed, in desperation,
I'm short eircuitedi I've burned out a
fuse"
Jerry, are you trying to ask me to marry
your"
"Y-esl''
why, of course 1 win, you foolish boy!"
And loves current flowed unobstructedly
again, lighting up with its pure raditnce the
rose-embowered pathway that, etc, etc.
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pITH AND POINT.

An envious person is apt to dispar-
age everything, be it good or bad.-Chi-
elgo Daily News.
The frankness of some people is as
lad as the foolishness of some other
people.-Atchison Globe.
\ Happy Outcome GilroyIe-" Kill
cuffs elopement wasn't successful. was
it?" Poindexter-"0h, / don't know.
The old man caught them before they
cached the minister's. Smart Set.
Good gracious, child, you're drip
Ding Wet" Eyes. mother; | fell into
the pond with your new clothes on,
loo." I'm sorry, mum. but | didn't
lave time to take them off. STRAY
Stories
This talk about the father who pun
ishes his hayward boy with trunk
strap is all nonsense. Every body who
ever started to go away on a vacation
knows that the trunk strap is always
Somerville Journal
Not Strictly Vegetable He's very
strict vegetarian, isn't he?" Il don't
know about that "He says he never
eats anything with any meat in it."
well, | saw him eating a wormy apple
Yesterday, and he didn't appear to mind
At. "-Philadelphia Press.
Little Johnny-"Mrs. Talkendown
paid a big compliment to-day" Mother
Did she, really? Well, there's no
denying that woman has sense. What
did she say - Little Johnny-"She
said she didn't see how you came to
have such nice little boy as l was
Brooklyn Eagle.
A Somerville young man is getting
to be very popular with the ladies.
When he meets one he says at the first
opportunity: "Oh, by the way. I've got
pretty picture Il re that / want to
show you" Then he takes little round
mirror out of his pocket and holds + M
for her to look in it.-Someryille Jour
n.a