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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-10-30

parent in the present friendly guise
as in any other.
Nor is all this to be regarded as
much ado about nothing. Russia has
always endeavored to administer Tur-
llish affairs, and the fact that the Ber-
lin treaty is CALLING to her is not in
frequently evidenced by little Incl
dents like the present one. The re-
leeming feature of Russia's policy of
iggrandizementi in the Black sea region
Is that, while she has all along pursued
aer selfish interests, she has usually
Dased her arguments for interference
n Turkish affairs on the atrocious out
ages committed upon the Christians.
and she has thus been the means of
nstituting many righteous reforms.
was for this reason that Gladstone,
when, as chief spokesman for the Brit
sh liberals, declared in favor of the
overthrow of Turkish authority, was
.ccused of having a secret understands
ng with the Russian court. Suisse
luent events went to prove, however,
hat Gladstone was always and for
yer in favor of justice to the down
rodden martyrs and that he stood
With Russia only as long as Russia
TODD with him.
1t is possible of course, that Russia
1as been greatly maligned and that
Ter intentions, in desiring the deca-
renee of the Ottoman empire, have
)een undertaken, as each move in that
direction on the face of it would seem
TO indicate, wholly for the cause of hui
nanity and are based upon principles
which Gladstone espoused; yet this
GEMS hardly probable when one re-
,iews the whole outlay of historical
happenings in which Russia has had
a hand. Selfishness and then human
ty, has seemed to be the order of
precedence with her. The fact that
from the standpoint of humanity no.
yody would care very much if the rule
If the Ottoman empire were over
brown, lends more of federation than
legality to Russia's position.
When Napoleon was stalking abroad
n Europe with his armies seeking
whom he might overcome and it came
nto his daring brain that he ought
20 conquer Russia, he manufactured a
very crafty document which he de-
clared to be the ''Will of Peter the
Great" This he made public, offering
Il as an excuse for his conquest. One
ection of the document that purport-
ed to be Peter the Greats advice to the
succeeding rulers of Russia, read:
approach as near as possible to Con-
stantinople and towards the Indies. He
who reigns at Constantinople will be
the real ruler of the world, and, with
that object in view, provoke contin-
ual wars with Turkey and Persia; es-
tablish docl1yards in the Black sea;
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HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE

Cryolite is a mineral found in
Greenland.
Egypt was the first country to have
a military organization.
Skating was sport of the North
men in prehistoric times.
Umbrellas were in use in America
before they were in England.
Some people, when they work, don't
do neutrality-suspicious. Globe.
Love looks through window; envy
through keyhole.-Chicago Daily
News.
There is New York in Scotland.
It is situated on the west shore of
Loeb Awe, and is therefore not far
from Glasgow.
Great Britain receives 81 per cent.
of her total imports from her col
onies, Holland one per cent, France
ten per cent, Germany one-tenth OF
one per cent.
An Omar Khayyam" restaurant
has been opened at New York nearly
opposite the Waldorf-Astoria- The
cooking consists of all sorts of dishes
that may be concocted with hot,
spicy sauces and ingredients of rice
and curry.
Under decision of the appellate di-
vision, just published, the law stands
now in New York state that CO.
respondent who puts in defense in
a suit for divorce is liable for all the
noSfs of the case If he does not sue.
coed in his defense.
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The News Condensed.

The sensational case at Chippewa
Falls of Carrie Egger VS.. John }. Mich
olson came to a close when a jury gave
a verdict of $500 against the defend
ant. 1t was a breach Of promise dam
age case.
Bv the resignation of Bishop Halver'
sen, of Westby, Rev A. X. Sagen, of La
Crosse, becomes bishop of the Luther
an synod of the northwest.
Almeron Eager, one of the wealthiest
men in Evansville, died at his home
after an illness of but few weeks.
Thomas O'Brien, convicted at Black
River Falls of DEMONSTRATING, has been
sentenced to ten years at Waupun.
The public schools at Grantsburg
have been closed on account of a num-
her of cases of scarlet fever in the city.
VIII. Bradley, aged SIS, dropped dead
in the Hotel Ritzinger, at Eau Claire.
Elwyn f. Larson, president of the
defunct Universal Casualty company,
has been sentenced to seven years in
prison by the court at Durand.
Hans Olson was fatally injured while
working in a sawmill at Chippewa
Falls. He was struck by rotary car
riage and mangled.
Winnie Breese, aged 20 years, of Be
lott, was arrested yesterday in Racine
charged with forgery. Breese said he
forged checks in order to get enough
money to marry.
Arthur Fluno, of Appleton, and
Charles o. Melby, of Whitehall, sopho-
mores, were expelled from Lawrence
university for painting the face and
body of j. G.. Rathbone, of Mcmillan
Junction, with tincture of iodine.
The gristmill of Parge 81 Guenther,
at Hayton, Wis, was burned, entailing
a loss of $1,000; insured to a slight eX-
tent.
Fire at Glenfora destroyed restau-
rant and general store, and damaged
a saloon and hotel. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $1,000.
Capt. William Nequette, aged so
years, in charge of the life-saving sta
ton at Sheboygan for IA years, died
from paralysis.
S. w. Reese, aged 70, a banker, of
DOdgeVllIe, was Iouhu uCdu III oSo' -
had been suffocated by gas in his room
at the Avenue hotel in Madison.
Thomas Carmichael died in Eau
Claire at the age of 72. Years ago he
was a democratic leader and served as
assemblyman in several sessions of the
legislature. He was veteran of the
civil war.
Tt has been announced that the Wis
consin Knitting company, with head
quarters in Racine and branch offices
at Milwaukee, Oshkosh and other cities,
will go out of business.
The Upham Lumber company at
Grand Rapids has decided to put on a
force of $50 men. Fully 20,O00,000 feet |
will be cut-an increase of over $780, |
600 feetover any previous year.
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has certainly exercised very remark,
able self-restraint in prosecuting her
purpose. When she made the peace
of Adrianople in 1929, there was moth
ing to hinder her from occupying Con,
stantinople. When she made the ar
mistice of San Stefano, in 1878, she
was in a similar position; and yet she
was content to stop in her victories
with making provision for the free
dom and safety of the Greek and Ar
menian Christians in Turkey" This
writer further asserts there is no "pos-
tive betterment in the condition of
Christian subjects of the Sublime
Porte that is not due directly or indi-
rectly to Russia"
This hardly agrees with the English
view. There is nothing which is so
arouses the Englishman as the proba-
bility of Russian predominance in Tur-
key. Your English historian points to
the fact that in the war between Russia
and Turkey, Russia was prevented
from marching upon Constantinople
only by the presence of British war
ships which had been Immediately hur-
rled to the scene of action in protest;
and that Russia bowed to the inevi-
table with no very good grace and ac-
cepted the invitation of the Berlin con-
ference of the powers-a conference
wherein every relation of Turkey with
her nelghbors was reviewed and pro-
vided for-only because she must. Yet
even at the conference, the boundaries
of the various Turkish states that were
given a measure of freedom, were ar
ranged, 1T is asserted, more in accord
ance with Russia's policy of weaken
ing Turkey and Strengthening herself
than of paving the way for a united
Turkey under Christian rule.
However all this may have been. Rus
sia's chief inroads upon Turkey since
the war has been ostensibly of friend
ly nature. When the Germans pro-
posed, two CT three years ago. to build
railroad in a portion of Asia Minor
fronting on the Black sea, Russia VIC.
orOusly protested and secured an irada
from Turkey giving to Russia the sole
power to build railroads in that terri
tory. Russia's recent advances, THOUGH
chiefly commercial, will prove none
the less effective. AS concerning duties
and revenues and every matter of com
merce fixed by the Berlin treaty and
in all internal affairs in which she
has the slightest claim, the strong
hand of Russia is always felt, and her
voice of counsel and command is an
ever present reality. Russian diplo-
macy predominates in Turkey. The
incident of her ironclad now on the
Bosporus may be regarded as mere
straw, which nevertheless tells which
way the blind blows.
MILTON MARKS.
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W/bat is RuSS1a'S Policy in
Turkey and ASia?
INCIDENTS WHICH SHOW WHICH WAY THE WINDS
BLOW IN THE EASTERN SITUATION

get possession of the shores of that sec
as well as those of the Baltic, these
two things being necessary to the vi
innate success of the project; hasteI
the decadence of Persia, penetrate az
fas as the Persian gulf, reestablish the
former trade of the Levant by appro
priating Syria, and, if possible, exteno
the power of Russia to the Indies
which are the emporium of the world
In this remarkable document Napoleon
formulated a dream as nearly perfec1
from a Russian standpoint as the
brain of the most visionary Russian
imperialist could have conceived. Some
historians are of the opinion that Rus
STA, though quick to deny the gen
uineness Of the document, neverthe
less learned some valuable lessons
from it and that some of the poss1b1ll
ties suggested have since framed them
selves into definite policy.
One or two strong writer's freely up
hold the Russian advance in that quar-
ter of the globe. After pointing to the
fact that the Russia of to-day is by nc
means the oppressive and unprogres'
sive Russia of few years ago, DAME.
Seelye Gregory, d. D., LID, asserts:
''By the plainest principles OF in
ternational law, Russia rather thar
Great Britain has a right to the Blacl
sea and to friendly power-a Chris
tian Turkey or Greece-if not a CAPT,
tai on the Bosporus. She will undoubt
eddy assert that right in time, and there
can be no settlement of the eastern
question by any scheme that either ig
nores or denies her just claims in this
regard. And Russia's ambition for
great outlet for commerce and cen
ter of power on the distant Pacific
coast is just as certainly to be realized,
for this too is necessity to the life
and progress of what is in many re
spects the greatest nation on the
globe. Il And If Russia has all
along had designs on Constantinople.
coveting it as her future capital, she
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EDEN WAS IN AUSTRALIA.
So ID Declares German GeoIogist Who
Says That Country Alone Full
fills Necessary Conditions.

The cradle of humanity has been To-
Gated more than once. More than one
anthropologist has staked out a little
section of the globe and has said:
This was Eden" But now another
scientist has used certain premises as
compass and certain theories as a
chain, and has surveyed a new portion
of the world and has located a new
nursery, states the Chicago Tribune.
Australia is the new Eden and Prof.
Schoetsensack, of Heidelberg, is its
discoverer. His conclusions were pre-
sented to the Berlin Anthropologica
society at recent meeting. The
methods by which they were reached
are as interesting as the conclusions
themselves.
With this assumption fixed Prof.
Schoetensack, with his knowledge of
the various forms of life which existed
at various times on the globe, began
to count out the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
have been impossible for man to have
been nourished.
America, Europe, Asia and Africa
were quickly put out of consideration
as there existed on these continents
animals which would have destroyed
every trace of human life in extremely
short order.
Life could not have been sustained
at the northern and southern eXtrem-
tiles of the globe because of the cold.
The brain of man at this time was not
sufficiently developed to enable him to
discover fire, and he could not have
warmed himself. The only place men
could have existed where ferocious
beasts lived would have been in the
trees, and if they had led such life
the result would be four-handed in
stead of two-handed race.
Everyone of the scientific premises
forces the conclusion that men were
developed in some cline where the
temperature was moderate, where
food was easily obtained, and where
life was not continual struggle
against animals superior physically.
Such being the case, the anthropol-
ogist finds but one place answering
that description. That is Australia.
At one time this may have had con-
nection with southern Asia. Here
man may have been nourished and de-
veloped, he reasons. 1t is safe from
carnivorous beasts which could threat
en- the existence of men.
Such carnivorous animals as existed
on the island or continent were too
small to be danger. The dingo, or
wild dog, now known 60 have existed
there with prehistoric man, was not
dangerous foe. One of the MARSH
pals was carnivorous, but it was
neither large enough nor strong
enough to have been danger at any
time.
There was an abundance of food
easily procured, and the climate was
tempered to weak race. There more
easily than anywhere else the art of
making fire might have been ddscov-
cred.
Australia also lacks the dense for
ests which might have produced an ar
boreal race, but it is pointed out that
the tall Australian trees would be cal
culated to produce just such hands and
feet as the human race actually has.
All these theories have led Prof.
Schoetensack to pronounce with posi-
tiveness that Australia was the cradle
of the race and that it was the garden
of Eden.
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WON BY THE COMPOSITOR.
A Printers Strike That Was Term In
ated by the Loss of the Most
Important Letter.

Speaking of printers" said an old
typo, reminds me of a printers
strike which was inaugurated in u
small town out west a number of
years ago when that section of the
world was much wilder than it is
now. Cruder methods were then used
in the printing business, and yet
some of us older fellows look back
upon those days as the roster part of
our careers. OF course, we struck
hard lines, just as we strike them
now. But somehow there was some
thing about the grouping which
made the printers misfortunes easier
to bear than they are now" says the
New Orleans Times-Democrat. Sect
ting back to the strike, the printers
had asked for small increase, and
had insisted on it with the usual per-
sistence and vigor. The owner of the
paper said his income would not
Justify him in granting the increase
asked. Besides, he said, he did not
intend a gang of printers to run his
business. That was firebrand.
There was nothing to do but walk
out. He said he could get along all
right, and really we were inclined to
think that he could. But there was
one mischievous fellow in the crowd
who said he would fix the thing so
the man could not get out his pa
per. The town was small, and was
many miles from a place where type
or assistance of any kind could be
had. The first intimation we had
that anything was wrong was when
the paper missed an issue. We did
not understand why it was. But the
aforesaid mischievous man did. Sure
enough, he had fixed the thing. He
had slipped around in the shop be-
fore we all left, but without our
knowledge, and had stolen all the
lower case e's. Tt is impossible to
get out a newspaper without e's.
The e is used more frequently than
any other letter in the alphabet. The
proprietor could not turn a wheel
He finally threw up his hands in de-
spair. and said if the men would
come back and bring the missing e's
he would grant their demand. IT was
some time before we located the
guilty man. He finally came to the
front. and said if we would all go
back he would furnish the necessary
number of lower case e's to get the
paper out. We went back after be-
ing out just day and half, and the
printer kept his promise
by Juggling peck of e's back into
the shop. That was the last trouble
with the proprietor of the paper, and
after it was all over he looked upon
the larceny of his supply Of e's as
good Joke"
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Elect Officers.

At the forty-fifth annual session of
the Wisconsin grand encampment, l, O..
o. F., held in Baraboo, officers were
elected as follows: Grand patriarch,
b. ii. kohorn, Milwaukee,; grand high
priest, D. w. John, Marinette: senior
warden, Z. HI. Zimmerman, Wausau;
scribe, L. o. Holmes, Baraboo; treas
urer, j. A. Fathers, GAINESVILLE; repre-
sentatives, j. L. Fulton and j. f. Hutch
inson; Junior warden, Alexander John
son. Chippewa Falls. The patriarch
militant elected as president H. j. SUIT
tie, of Viroqua.
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Note of Warming

Fred Holman, Jr., son of Postmaster
F. A. Holman, committed suicide in
Green Bay by shooting himself in the
head. Holman was 26 years old and
was employed by his father. The young
man left the following note in theroom
where the deed was committed: "Here
is the end of a worthless life. | advise
all men and boys to be right and up
right, not to think a sport is the only
life, because they are all wrong"
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Rridge Gave. WAY

AS thrasher and engine with eight
men were crossing the Wisconsin river
over the iron bridge at Sank City, a
span 10 feet long gave way and the en-
tire outfit, including the men, went out
of sight in 20 feet of water, falling 40
feet. How any of them escaped alive
is wonder. Editor c. T. Ninnian, of
Sank City Press, and Henry Meyer,
president of the village, We're following
the thrasher in buggy and they, too,
went into the water with the wreck.
They were the only ones injured. Mr..
Ninnian sustained broken shoulder
and Mr.. Meyer fracture of the arm.
All the horses were drowned.
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A@Y EWS that Russian ironclad
XVI has entered the Bosporus
Ike despite the agreement of
%S1cSfN 1871 (Which was reaffirmed
@9W at the Berlin treaty of the
NGI powers in 1879, to the eff
feet that the straits shall
remain closed to foreign warships, oc-
casiOns more Of speculation than sur
prise. The fact that the present mis-
sion of the vessel is cOincident with
the peaceful and diplomatic call OF
Grand Duke Nicholas upon the sui
tan does not lessen the apprehension
of the Mussulman population nor blind
the eyes of other European nations.
We read it was at the "insistence of
Russia that the vessel was allowed
to pass the forts. If the provisions
of the Berlin treaty may be so easily
set aside for a visit of Ostensible
friendliness, who shall fix the exact
boundary lines where the provisions
of the treaty actually become oper-
ative?
The understanding as it has long
existed provides that no foreign war
ship may enter the Bosporus without
the consent of the sultan. The fact
that the sultan in the present instance
is treating Grand Duke Nicholas with
all the honor due a sovereign operates
perhaps as a tacit permission on his
part to the presence of the Russian
war vessel. But how could he do 9TH
erwise and remain the gracious host?
His officials objected as strongly as
they dared, and Russia pressed the |
point. The action of the Turkish cen
sor in suppressing the word Iron
clad" from all dispatches indicates
that the authorities intend to over
look the presence of the warship by |
giving it another name, and to regard |
the seeming breech of agreement as |
something which has not occurred.
The rose by another name would smell |
as sweet; and the fact that Russia
has done as she pleases will be as APP
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Under Arrest.

Frank Williamson, of Marshfield,
was arrested in Wausau and taken
to his home to stand trial. 1t is
charged that for two years he has
been leading a dual life, having q
wife ana three children living in JEFF
ferson and, it is said. living with a
woman named Mrs. Cora Evans, of
Wausau, who he introduced as his
wife. The charge was brought
against him by his brotherin-law, j.
j. Hays, of Jefferson.
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Women May Vote,

Attorney General f. r. Hicks has rem
dered an opinion to the effect that
women are eligible to vote on the con-
stitutional amendment relating to the
extension of the term of the state SUI
perintendent of schools. 1t is pro-
posed to make the term of the state
superintendent four years instead Of
two, and to raise his salary, also to
hold the election in the spring at the
time of the judicial election instead of
in the fall
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Robbed the Mails.

By the means of decoy letters Post
Office Inspector Bird discovered that
David E. Walt, night clerk in the Osh-
kosh post office, had been robbing the
mails. When arrested money taken
from letters was found on him and he
confessed the theft. He was held in
81, 900 bail and committed to the county
Jail here. He is % years old, has a wife
and two children and has worked in
the Oshkosh office for nine years.
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The Prescription Free.

Tramp jus dropped in, mum, to
offer my new cure for indigestion, dys-
pepsia and kindred ailments, mum. 1t
may prove a great blessing to your
family, mum, and 1 charge you moth
ing for the prescription.
Housekeeper-Well, must say
that's reasonable enough. What is the
cure?
Tramp-Liye on plain food, and give
your rich and indigestible dishes to the
poor. I'm the poor. mum.-N. Y.
Weekly.
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Handicanped.

The Lawyer-When 1 was an office
boy / had to wash the windows and
sweep the floor.
The Office Boy-Well. dat just shows
yer dat de kids nowadays amt got
de advantages dey had in your time.
The Lawyer (astounded)-How's
that?
The Office Boy-Why, if did any
cleanin' around dis joint, de Amalga-
mated Winder- Cleaners an de Jani-
tors union would put yer business on
de bum,-Puck.
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Found by an Indian.

John G. Fau1dos, foreman of the
Journal office at Grantsburg, who
went to the woods some time ago
and wandered off while delirious, was
found dead near the mouth of Clam
river by an Indian. Fauldos had
been man of considerable political
prominence in Wisconsin, having been
at one time clerk of the assembly.
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Annther Polar MNstery,

Peary says he could discover the
north pole if he had 100000. But, asks
the Chicago Record-Herald, if he had
S20o, 900 why should he ever want to do
anything as disagreeable as discover
ing the pole?