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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-20

that lord must marry to provide for
the succession"
The Mays of Baltimore are one of
those families which are famous for
years for the manly strength of their
men and the beauty of their women. 1t
was with member of that family that
James Gordon Bennett when a young
man had the celebrated difficulty which
resulted in his being caricatured for
years with strip of plaster adorning his
nose.
The Jaffrays in New York are such
another family. All the sons are big,
strapping fellows, all the daughters
beauties of commanding presence and
of vigorous type.
What it costs America to have it's
wealthy daughters marry foreign titled
men is shown in the court records of the
Garner family, recently reviewed.
The father and mother were drowned
four years ago. Of the three daughters
one is the wife of Sir William Gordon
Cumming and the other two of Partisan
noblemen. The entire estate was di-
yided among them. Each got more than
four millions, of which part was paid
over absolutely and part was repre-
sented by several great cotton mills,
which were to be carried on as trust
and part of the profits paid to the heirs
A part of the profits were, however, to
be held for reserve fund of working
capital'-an eminently wise provision,
it would seem, but not legal one, for
breaking the will, and they are to get
the entire profits of the trust. There is
to be no working capital reserved, and
the management is to be put into the
cold, clammy and impersonal hands of
a trust company.
Factories may be run in that way,
but it isn't the way in which they are
usually built up. OWEN LANGDON.
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expansion OF the Two Million club.
which was organized about the dme OF
taking the last federal census. Mem
bers of the club, and all patriotic Chi
cagoans, have never ceased to main
tain that the figures which credit
Chicago with less than 100000 peo-
pie are untrue and unreliable.
The expansion of the club is due 70
population figures secured from sew
eral sources. The new city directory
contains $4,000 names. New York
figures her population by the multiple
of five and one-third for the names in
the directory. Granting Chicago the
same multiple and her population
would now be 3,4SS, 000 Figuring
that 10 per cent of the population Of
the city are registered voters the city
100000 people.
1t is fairly safe estimate to say
that Chicago has in the neighborhood
OF 100000 people at the present time.
and judging from the past history of
the city it will be surprising if the
census of 1910 does not show many
more than 100000 people in the city.
For the past 20 years the city has been
practically doubling its population
every ten years, and while the ratio of
increase cannot be expected to con-
tinue, yet it will undoubtedly be large
enough to give the city 100000 peo-
pie by the time the next census is
taken.
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Keene. He b S Inc 0uils Are the "orss
been the most con- ~ "'''
spicuous example of the operator" pure
and simple. Most men of his wealth be-
come identified with some special prop
erty, and at least a large majority of
them honestly strive to administer their
trusts. The day of the railroad wreck
err" is not quite past, as the experience
of Rock Island might hint, but he does
not often get hold of an important line,
and his prey is apt to be wrested from
him. as Mr.. Morgan took Louisville &
Nashville from the reckless Gates.
Men like Vanderbilt, Gould, Hartman,
Hill. Cassatt and the rest do their best
Mr.. Gould, for instance, could no more
repeat his fathers evil exploit of wreck
ing Erie than could slavery return in
the south. So there is some Impotence
felt with a man who has made his repu-
tation and two or three fortunes by bear
ing stocks, and who has never done a
stroke of work developing any prop
erty.
| heard a curious prophecy of the
koen6 CdIdStIOpuG lWO VI luIS0 WEEKS
before it happened. Up in the Adiron-
dacks Talbot j. Taylor, Keene's son-in-
law and head of the shattered stock
broking firm, had bought for 100000 a
magnificent point of mountain land jut-
ting out into Upper Saranac lake. Cost
ly furniture expressed to Mr.. Taylor was
living about the dock of the little steam
boat, but there was no sign of their
owner
"T guess know why he isn't
building that big camp he talked about
so much last year." said an Adiron-
daclz guide, pointing out the site Sc
Iected for cottage which would have
surpassed those of Levi P. Morton and
the Lewisohn brothers. Hes lost a
million or so through Keene He's
pretty near the end of his rope, /
hear"
The Adirondack guide is no fool,
and he keeps his ears open.
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congress Hdu0 dH
appropriation Of 100000 toward the
completion of the monument, the CHIEF
Of engineers examined that part OF
the shaft which had been standing Tor
half century and discovered that II
was out of plumb. But just how mucn
out of plumb nobody could say. The
shaft was 1877 feet high and looked like
a factory chimney, and it didn't stand
straight. That was sufficient to cast
doubt on the possibility OF raising 1t
over 300 feet higher in the air, but no
boy.y in the engineers department
could get at the problem
Davis happened to be stationed IN
Washington and he said he could Tx
it. He was not an engineer, but an
infantry officer, but they gave him
chance to try. The difficulty was In
causing the plumb bobs or weights at
the end Of string 1877 feet long to re-
main perfectly steady while the OBJ
servations were being made. Davis
very simply got barrel of New Or
leans molasses and poured it into
glass vessel of the same size. The con-
sistency of the mollasses kept the
weight at the end of the string from
swaying in the air; while the glass
and the fluid were transparent enough
to enable the variations to be accu-
rately observed 1t was found that the
shaft was five feet out Of plumb. Then
came the question of Strengthening it
and again the engineers were at fault.
Again the infantry officer came to the
rescue, and the president asked him
to undertake the job. He Strengthened
the shaft
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The News Condensed.

The Polk county fair society will
meet at st. Croix Falls September
s, 8, and 10.
An additional rural free delivery
service will be established at Soldiers
Grove September i, covering an area
of So square miles, with a population
of 1,200.
The Walworth County Old Soldiers
and Sailors association will hold their
fifteenLl annual reunion at Elkhorn on
Wednesday, August 20.
The common council of Ripon has
passed an ordinance prohibiting auto
mobiles exceeding a speed Of four
miles an hour at street crossings and
corners.
Mrs. Nancy French, aged "a years,
one of the two original settlers of Ke-
nosha county, died suddenly at her
home in the town OF Pleasant Prairie.
Mrs. Phoebe Moulton, mother of Capt.
I. H. Moulton, celebrated her one hum
dred and third birthday in La Crosse.
A farmer held up the driver of an
automobile with a rifle at Lakeside
and commanded him to proceed at
slower speed There is intense feeling
in the state against reckless chaufr ours.
Thomas T. Harrison, the oldest man
in the city of Oshkosh, passed away
at his home at the age of SO years.
Allen Butler, supposed to be the fifth
no epnber of the gang Of robbers who have
been footing post Offices in Fond du Lac
county, was arrested at the milwaukee,
post Office officers chased Butler all
over Wisconsin and Illinois.
The Wisconsin supreme court has adj
journed to September T.
The plant of the Wisconsin Veneer
company at RhineIander was destroyed
by fire. The loss is about $4,000.
e. o. Kimberly, the Soldier singer"
has presented his portrait to the State
Soldiers Memorial hall, In the capitol
at Madison.
L. B. March, secretary Of the La Cross
Retail Clerks union, has been elected
deputy state organizer of the Federation
of Labor, to succeed c. III. Blye.
The Plankinton bank litigation, which
has been in the corrts in Milwaukee Ia
various phases for ten years, and re-
uuired the attention of a host OF lawyers
and several judges, has been settled.
John Sorenson, aged so years, COM
mitted suicide at Menomonie by hang
ing himself as a result OF dependency
over continued illness.
r, M. Wagner, president OF the Wis
consin Sugar Beet company, has Sc
lected land in Chippewa Falls as site
for sugar beet factory. Work will
be commenced in the fall.
walter B. Kirk, baker of GAINESVILLE,
committed suicide in the Park hotel by
turning on the gas. He was financially
embarrassed.
Charles Carson, aged 81, of Escanaba,
Mich. an engineer of Northwestern
gravel train. died suddenly at Oconto.
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sagging quotations
which did not hurt them in the least SO
long as the dividends were paid. But in
the main the public, which usually gets
hold of the tarred end of the Wall street
stick, is having lovely time just now.
1t is even languidly nibbling at bargain
sales of stocks of sound worth at prices
which will hardly be equalled for gen.
Grafton to come.
The papers have been printing esti-
mates that the fortune of John d. Rookie
Teller has shrunk by $100,000,OO during
the slump. There has, of course, been
a great decrease of his wealth On paper,
but even if the figures were as big as
this it would not prove that Mr.. Rookie
Teller has really lost cent. Whatever
his investments, if they were made with
his usual judgment, they are as sound as
they ever were.
There are, of course, rich men VINO
have lost more severely than by the
shrinkage of paper profits. You can
pick them out on the fast steamers that
run every afternoon to the Atlantic
Highlands, where the "Wall street
crowd" takes the train for Long Branch.
The white, haggard faces, the mutter-
ing lips, the shaking, palsied movements,
the hastily penciled memoranda those
little sums that never will and never
can 'tcome right''-it is little enough
like a pleasure cruise on the "boat of
the brokers" every day.
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But Miller was fortunate enough-or
unfortunate enough-as others may pre-
fer to regard ito have incurred the
enmity of the Bookbinder's union, OF
which he was member, and to have mao
it entered on the records that his dis
mfssal from the government printing
office was due to his expulsion from the
union Then he became national fg-
ure. President Roosevelt, to whose at
tention the matter was called, looked
into the case and came to the conclusion
that no organization had right to die
tate to the United States government
what sort of men should be employed,
and that the only expression on that
subject must come through duly en-
acted law of congress.
The law as it stands now expressly
prohibits any such discrimination as
that which worked to Millers detriment,
and the president ordered that Miller
should be reinstated. Whether he will
remain in the government service re-
mains to be seen. 1t depends altogether
on his record and his conduct in office;
and that must be determined quite apart
from any QUESTION VI uio IeldIlOuo " IhO
Bookbinder's union.
The government printing office here
after is to be an open shop, with all
that the term implies. 1t will not help
the members of the union to strike, be-
cause if they do they cannot get back
under the law, without the special per-
mission of the civil service commission,
which they in striking would defy. More
over, if they were TO strike, the govern
ment would undoubtedly meet them by
introducing machines in the printing Of
flee, which labor influence has hitherto
succeeded in keeping congress from per-
uniting.
But, aside from that question OF
worldly interest, there seems to be lit
tie disposition on the part of the union
workers to quit work, much as they
dislike the idea Of working by the side
of man who has made himself obnox-
ious to their organization.
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ofvisitors to Wash Hundreds of Cracks and
ington the finest
Doric architecture in this country.
There are 80 of them, each of them
about 40 feet high, and taken together
they create an imposing facade, which
has won the admiration of architects
the world over.
But, imposing as they are In appear
ance, there is note of insincerity about
them. They are built in pieces, each
pillar containing seven separate sections,
and they are built of sandstone. The
columns on the north front of the treas
ury, on the contrary, are solid mono
liths of Quincy granite, and while they
are not so many in number, they are
more impressive for that very reason.
Last summer Secretary Shaw be-
thought himself to clean the sandstop e
pillars on the east front, and he put
to work on them sand blast machine
that in a few weeks he'd peeled from the
surface the accumulated dust and CRIME
of 80 years. The cleansing process has
had two results. 1t has revealed to the
most needless eye the lines of division
between the sections of the columns, and
1t has disclosed hundreds of cracks and
assures which hitherto had not been
suspected. Some Of the columns are
cracked in scores of places like sun
baked mud, waiting only for water to
settle and freeze there in order to wreck
the entire column. In other places frag-
ments of stone can be pulled out which
crumble between the fingers like dry
bread. 1t is proposed now to coat the
columns with nicolite, a preparation
which it is said will seal UP the pores in
the stone, rendering it impervioHs to
water and acids. 1t is reckoned that
this process may preserve the columns
for so or 40 years longer; but sooner
or later they will all have to be replaced
by granite.
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weeping Animals.

1t is true that some animals really
shed tears. Ruminants, in particular,
are noted for crying very easily. All
hunters know that the deer can weep
But also of the bear it is claimed that
he sheds tears when he feels that his
last hour has come. The dog weeps
easily, and so does the ape. 1t is well
known that the elephant weeps when
wounded or unable to escape the hunt
er. Some marine mammals are also
said to weep. Thus the dolphin is said
to shed abundant tears in his hour of
death. But we must not imagine that
these tears are due to emotion or fear
of death. They are merely a connec-
ton between the wounded part of the
body and the lachrymal glands, which
are strongly developed in many ami
mals-N. Y. Tribune.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1903-08-20
INGENIOUS BEGGARS.
Even the Child Mendicants of Italy
Are Up to All Sorts Of Sly
Schemes.

1t is hard to beat the beggar game
In Italy. A fleet-footed urchin grabbed
girl, and bounded like chamois
over an intervening short cut, heading
us off at the next turn. He and his
maiden fell into fox-trot by the side
of the carriage, relates writer in the
Argonaut.
Look, noble gentleman" he began,
look, beautiful lady! See the little
ragazza-the poor girl-haye pity on
herl See, noble signor-you cannot
refuse to give her something-your
heart is too good, you are too gener-
Gus. too noble, top handsome, to re-
fuse. Have pity On her dreadful state,
for lcok--she has one gray eye and
one blas2 ane.'
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Senator Ben Wade Was idency had the
Aggressive single vote been
forthcoming that was needed for John
sons impeachment.
Wade has been regarded as one of
the most fortunate officers in the army
His promotion for many years was ex-
ceedingly rapid and there was more
or less jealousy among other officers
for that reason, as it was inevitable
there should be. But about the time
of the war with Spain Wade's luck
seemed to go back on him. He re-
manned brigadier general while oth-
ers were promoted above him, until ii
really began to be talked of in the
army that Wade was being STABILITY
treated.
He has the reputation of being a
good, thorough officer, and he had a
fine record in Cuba, but he is quite the
antithesis of his distinguished father.
Ben Wade was stalwart, aggressive
fellow who always seemed to be eager
to get into fight. The son is a quiet
and modest gentleman, a good soldier,
but not a born scrapper.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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Pullman beautiful because
one master man designed all its build
ings, laid out its parks and driveways
and streets, but It was not popular
idea with the employees who were to
live there. The company owned every
building in the town, including the
schools, the churches, the hotel, the
theater, the stores, etc. The resi-
dences varied from very pretentious
homes to rows of well kept tenements,
each of which looked and was exactly
alike.
All of these buildings were rented
by the company to its employees, the
rent being deducted from their earn
ings in the factory. During 1894,
when wages were at their lowest in
the factory, many of the employees
made but little more than enough to
pay the rent, and the company was
inexorable in its collections. The
strike was the result of these condi-
tons, and the suit questioning the
right of the company, under it's char
ter, to hold real estate as landlord,
was a result of the strike. The SUI
premc court of the state handed down
the final decision in the case five years
ago. 1t was against the company, and
ordered sale of the land not needed
for manufacturing purposes. Before
the last of October the company must
have disposed of all of this surplus
land. That which is unoccupied is
being sold in large tracts to other
manufacturing concerns. Portions OF
the town may be RACED to make room
for new factories.
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One h q + ia Home Woman.
worthy, though it is seldom heard of
in the city, is the Shelter Home in
Chicago. 1t is the only institution OF
the kind in the country, though Bos-
ton has charity organized along
somewhat similar lines.
At the unpretentious building on
Fifty-first street boulevard and Vim
cennes avenue any woman, no matter
who she is, may find shelter from the
world for time, and no questions
asked, and to it come all sorts and
conditions of women. They are as
sured of place to sleep and some
thing to eat for time, at least, while
they may make an effort to pick up
the lost threads that have made them
an object of charity.
More than all else, it is haven for
old women They go there seeking
an opportunity to do something that
will pay for the care they receive, and,
if possible, find home with some
family that is willing to keep them
for what little assistance they can
render. 1t is surprising, too, how
many of these old women find en-
ployment of this kind through the
Shelter Home, and how much of the
assistance is rendered by people of the
poorer classes. 1t is to this class, more
than TO the wealthy, that Mrs. Mar
guerite Price, the matron, looks for
assistance for her charges.
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We stopped the carriage. 1t was
true. The maiden had indeed parti-
colored eyes, in addition to which she
rejoiced in most appalling squint.
gave her one copper.
Hereupon her escort set UP howl
at being ignored.
"But why should you have any,
thing?" / asked.
"You ought to give me two coppers, ("
he replied, with a twinkle, for / have
two black eyes. and she has only one. /"
I was vanquished. gave him his
two coppers. / don't believe in beg
CARS, but I think he earned them
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Adrian ~. was the only Englishman
ever elected pope. He had most
singular name-Nicholas Shakespeare.
He is said 20 have left England as a
beggar, and to have become a servant
or lay brother in monastery near
Avignon, in France, where he studied
with such diligence that in 1877, at the
age of 81. he was elected abbot. Pope
Eugenius III, that brilliant ascetic,
soon discovered MS merits and made
him cardinal bishop. In 1854 he was
elected pope against his own inclina-
ton, and received the formal con-
gratulations of Henry IL 1t was
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Died Of PARALYSIS.

w. G. jerks, who for 80 years has
been prominent in the lumber business
of the northwest, died in La Crosse of
a stroke of paralysis, aged Sc years.
He was a descendant of Peter JenAs,
who make the first iron furnace in
America and who also made the dies
for the first American coins.
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Gottlieb Schultz. a farmer, shot and
killed his daughter and wounded his
son-in-law, Patrick Leyden, near Neills-
vile. He later died in the county jail
as a result of wounds made by Leyden
with a club, in protecting himself.
Three weeks ago Schultz is alleged TO
have made an attempt 70 murder his
wife as the result of domestic quarrels.
He was arrested and admitted to bail,
which he furnished himself. 1@ss
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group makes specialty. AS It de-

group makes a speciality. AS 1t de-
clines he must 60 to the wall or threw
overheard other gilt-edged securities
10 placate his pursuers. So Stow,
though personally popular on the
street, was bounded by the bears on
Mexican Central So Keene was bonn
barded until his bank loans contract
ed beyond power to save the situa-
ton.
But the big men do not cut off their
noses to spite their own faces. Rookie
Teller never brought on slump that
cut the price of his Amalgamated
Copper down from 1872 to SO. Morgan
never countenanced a drive which has
swept away half his fortune and
brought North American down from
1872 to II. Whitney never played bear
in the street in campaign which in
cidentally sold down Metropolitan
Street Railway from 269 to 113. Gould
never favored movement that cost
Southern Pacific half its market price.
1t was the great wave of needless
over-capitalizaion two years ago that
caused the trouble. 1t will take time
to get over it. And the promoters
who caused the difficulty will not soon
be forgiven.
The ssContract Labor" Clergyman.
The death of Rev DR.. E. Walpole
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Ing DOCKS u lIo
day. He was English born and was
already man of 48 when, in 1887, he
was called to the rectorship OF the
Holy Trinity church.
Mr.. J. Kennedy Tod is very rich
and quite eccentric banker, also OF
British birth. The contract labor law
was then newly passed by congress,
and Mr.. Tod bitterly resented what
he conceived to be an injustice to
thrifty men from the old world who
secured employment before venturing
to the new. The bright idea occurred
to him that he could make the law
ridiculous by opposing the importa-
ton of DR.. Warren as contract
preacher"
Tod's motive was friendly, though
hardly appreciated by its object. He
had no objection to DR.. Warren's COM
ing, but thought the preacher should
be willing to have the law beaten over
his shoulders.
However, the courts know no jokes.
The case against the preacher and the
church was gravely taken up and con-
sidered. Two decisions in the lower
courts were given against Dr. War
rem, but the United States supreme
court finally decided that congrega-
ton in New York could legally "call'
a London clergyman. And the con-
stitutionality of the law as to the Ia
borers stood just where it was before,
so that Mr.. Tod had his labor for his
pains, and Dr. Warren his vexation of
spirit for nothing.
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Fatal Runaway.

AS the result OF runaway at Rich
wood Louis Welkert of that place was
seriously injured, his wife was killed
instantly and their two children fatal
ly injured They were an a visit to
friends and the horse ran away on "a
hill, dashing into tree and wire fence,
throwing them out.