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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14

clesiastical control AS one writer has
SO well put it, at the root of all things
political in the islands has lain that most
delicate of all matters, religious ques-
ton. The feeling has grown and grown,
and to-day, whetherun justly ornot, there
is a considerable demand amongst the
natives for the expulsion OF the friars.
The constitution of the Philippine Re-
public, adopted January, 1892 confis-
Gated their lands; and the revolutionists
not only drove out many monks, but i'm
prisoned and put to death others. Some
sought safety in fight, and their numbers
decreased from the / ,124 who were in
the islands in 1896 to only the Az OF
1900. But the treaty Of Paris, which de-
fined our relations with Filipino affairs,
allowed the expelled monks to return
and provided protection for the property
of the religious orders.
Since our assumption Of authority,
petitions find their way to newly-arrived
American dignitaries, military and &C.
clesiastical, asking that the signers,
loyal Roman Catholics, no longer be re-
quired to submit to the administrations
of the distasteful friars, but that the Sc
cular clergy servein their stead. Such re-
quests, as can readily be understood,
have proved difficult matters to settle at
all satisfactorily, and the question OF
what to do with the friars has been one
of the very gravest that has confronted
us since we took to expansion. Latest
reports say, however that the friars
themselves now wish to leave the Philip
pines, would go as body iCto voluntary
exile from the land where their kind
have labored for so long.
There are many evidences that the
friars not only took but also bestowed
in their centuries of work in the Philip
pines They proved Of greatest aid in
protecting their people from invading
Moor and from Chinese pirate. All the
Filipino received in the way of education
and religious instruction was through
the friar; and however narrow that may
have been, he gave the savage whatever
of enlightenment he attained to. In
1901 the parish registers showed $685.
998 church members out Of population
estimated at from 100000 to $4,000 900.
AS missionary, teacher, confessor, physi-
clan, the friar has played a very impor-
tant part in the life Of Filipino COM
Iaunity; and if he has arrogated to him
self much power, he nas also borne the
white mans burden of the tropics.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14

up through it, and that on it's retreat
ing edges where the pressure is most
ruthless. For every day the edges grow
more thin, and every night the frost
makes a despairing effort, so that half
the days growth and all the nightly
growth of these flowers is through a
layer of something little less inhos-
pitable than ice. The crocus works his
head clear, cased in a tightly-rolled
elastic sheath. 1t is little to the tend
der petals within that the sheath may
be bruised or SCARED; they are safe at
rest, and not till the spikes head is
clear of the enemy do they swell and
burst. and discard their mother sheath.
The soldanella, for all its modest droop-
ing head, is little less careful. True, he
bursts out while his petals are still
touching the snow, but then he bursts
downwards instead of upwards like the
crocus. His head faces the snow, and
when the little glohular case, which
contains the flower, opens, and the
petals shake themselves free, their adj
venture aids rather than opposes the
flowers contamination.
The flowers crowd upon every yacan.
place. Rock or scarp. pasture or rubble.
deep soil or thin. each has its compile
ment, pressing in where others fear to
tread. The tiny white and mauye-
veined anemones cling about the fringes
of almost no soil, and wanton on the
less lean slopes. Their bigger sui
phur brethren prefer richer diet, and
cluster anywhere from the moderate to
the rich soils. But narcissihora, which
loves to wander upon the face of the
ground, casting its whorls and circlets
of little rose-hearted flowers over stone
and scrubby grass banks. chooses mar
row lodges between rocks, and the
steep face of shallow-soiled slopes, with
an unerring instinct. Its own first
cousin. in seeming, though not an ane-
none but ranunculus aconitifolia. bears
flowers that are almost as those of mar
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
ISLANDERS LONG DRIFT.
Blown to Sea and Carried 1.600
Miles from Home.

Mr.. James w. Davidson, our consul
journey made by Is natives of the Pc
lew islands. who were picked up near
ly dead on the island of Formosa, /, 500
miles from their homes, reports the
New York World of recent date.
Some Formosans saw the poor
wretches one morning on beach of
their northeast coast, also three ca
noes the like of whieh they had never
seen before. The canoes were fitted
with outriggers which helped to steady
the little vessels among the waves. In
other respects, also, they differed from
canoes common in that part of the
Malay archipelago.
The men were scattered along the
beach in very weak and famished con-
dition. Only two or three of them
could speak, but no one understood their
language. They were taken to the Gus
tomhouse, where they were well cared
for and slowly increased in strength.
Only one of them died. and he sue
cumbed from sheer exhaustion about a
week after his arrival.
Everyone was greatly surprised when
it was possible at last to learn the story
of their adventures. The men had been
fishing few miles from one of the
PeleW Islands, where they lived. A
heavy gale came up and carried them
away from their fishing grounds. They
had in their canoes a considerable
quantity of fish, and during their long
journey they lived on fish, though, when
their original supply was exhausted,
they were unable to catch sufficient
numbel to meet their needs.
They drifted for 60 days and had not
the slightest idea where they were when
they finally came within sight of the
mountains of Formosa. The IeXt day
they were cast up on the beach; and
it speaks we'll for the strength Of their
craft as we'll as their own powers Of
endurance that they should have held
out so long.
When they had recovered sufficient
strength to undertake the journey home
they were sent to Hong-Kong, whence
they obtained passage to the Caroline
islands, and soon after were taken home
by vessel plying in the island trade.
This is one Of the involuntary voy-
ages of which so many records have
now been collected that anthropolo-
gists believe they adequately explain the
means by which the widely severed bits
of land in the wastes of the Pacific re-
ceived heir inhabitants. In some way
or another the persons found on these
bits of land must have been brought
there; but the problem how they were
transported could not be satisfactorily
explained as the result Of the expertness
of oceanic peoples in navigation.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14

agreeable, they were usually retired
sooner or later.
In the meantime the friars Gccumu-
lated great wealth. The Spanish govern
ment had bestowed large tracts OF
sparsely settled land upon the church
with the idea that the lands would be
cultivated and the country improved.
And that the friars, or their parish
toner's. improved these lands, is undenia-
BILE; the revenues therefrom have
climbed to high figures; the friars have
been able to build great cathedrals, con-
struct monasteries and converts almost
palatial.
BY various other means much other
real estate than that granted by the gov
eminent was added to their possessions,
and sometimes half of a province would
become church property. At the close of
our war with Spain, in the immediate
vicinity of Manila the Dominicans held
100000 acres. Within the walled city
in Cavite and in Pace, the Dominicans,
Augustinians Francis6ans, Recoletanos,
Sisters of ST Vincent de Paul and Jesuits,
all had large churches, converts, schools
and other property; the finest buildings
in the islands were the church buildings.
In 1902 the valuation of the real estate
of the friars in Manila alone was $780,
97S Mexican dollars. In addition to their
parish" roperty-convent, rectory,
cemetery, glebe and farm lands the or
ders have owned sugar estates, blocks
of real estate, shares in business COM
panies, and have themselves entered into
business enterprises. For awhile they
had the monopoly OF the important lice
trade.
At various periods the people rebelled
against their power. In 1922 the island
of Bohol made insurrection, and again
in 1744; in 1872, in Cavite, there was an
uprising; and in 1896 the Tagalog prov
inces evinced their dissatisfaction with
the priestly power. The object was the
expulsion of the friars and the confisca-
ton of their property. From time to
time secret societies were formed and
much agitation was kept up against &C.
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sionary, and the Spanish conquest Of the
Philippines was due to the religious or
ders; to the missionary rather than to
Spanish arms. In the beginning, the
labor was altogether in the line OF mis-
sionary endeavor, but gradually the
friar began to have put on his back civil
burdens, and gradually he took unto
himself such burdens. The indolent
Spanish officials found it easier to rule
through these men that spoke the dia-
lect of the native, knew him and his
mode of life so much better than did they
themselves. In the course Of time, espe-
cially in the provinces, the friars came
into absolute control. Finally their
power reached such height that if de-
crees were made in Spain not agreeable
to them they would either have the de-
crees repealed or else ignore them; if
officials were sent out that proved dis
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14

cissiflora in size, arrangement, and
kind, but knows that the rich silt by
the streams edges is the place appoint
ed for its delight. There you may find
it, oyershadowed by rue and giant but
tercups, long male and sweet-scented
orchids, huge ox-eye daisies, and other
greater blooms, but content, for that is
it's proper home.
This is the order OF the flower world
keep your place and Nature shall
keep you. In the valley woods, where
waterfalls spray all the summer round.
and the air is steamy you may find the
lily of the valley, but the ST. Bruno.
with its five or six hanging and sweet
scented bells, grows on the barren
slopes, or under the shadow of wood,
at high attitudes. Between the two,
almost as if knowing that their color
must make them prey to every passer,
and that it is therefore well to live in
places hard of access, other great or
ange lilies, like the Martagon and
Turk's-head. cling among the tall
pines and on the edges of the cliff.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
The News Condensed.

John Taylor, who has been employed
as a motorman by the Madison Trac-
ton company, has received an ap-
pOintment as member OF the police
force at Washington, d. c.
Mrs. Ida Meches' harness shop, M. A.
Vroman's stock of goods, G. M. Pierce
stock and two buildings owned by j.
NJ. Smart were destroyed Dy fire at
Plainfield The loss is $4,000.
The new free public library at Wauke-
sha, the money for the erection of which
was given by Andrew Carnegie, has been
opened 1t cost $4,000.
The large general store of James A.
Couse, ten miles southwest of Plainfield,
was destroyed by fire, entailing loss OF
$4,000. The insurance is $4,000.
The first National bank of Wantoma
has been organized with a capital stock
of $4,000. Most of the stock has been
taken by Wautoma business men and
farmers.
Norton J. Field, of Milwaukee, who
since 1897 has been an inspector OF the
dairy and food department of Wisconsin,
has retired from Office.
The stock and interior of the building
of the Krieger Saddlery company at
Green Bay was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire.
At a special meeting of the Waukesha
county board committee reported that
it would require at least $40, 900 to put
the new insane asylum building in con-
dition to be accepted by the state board
Of control.
When Mrs. Carbola was shown re-
volver by a neighbor woman in Stoddard
the weapon exploded, the bullet lodging
in Mrs. Carbola's stomach, causing a
fatal wound.
The large hennery of A. Ostrander at
Pine Grove, near Plainfeld, was burned
,ogether with 81 hens and many farm
tools.
Within a few weeks the $50 900 sub
scription list for the erection of uni
versity Y NJ. C. A. building in Madison
will have been completed.
Frederick S. Jewell, M. A., Phi. D.,
S. T. D., aged 80, professor of history
and philosophy in Grafton hall, died
at Fond du Lac.
Joseph Beier, aged So, of the town
of Lisbon, was kicked by calf, receiv-
ing a bad wound, and blood poison set
in causing his death.
Fire at Marinette destroyed the saw
mill of the N. Ludington company, and
the flames, spreading to the lumber
yards, destroyed a large amount of lum-
Der also. The loss is estimated at $75,-
900.
Gov. La Toilette has appointed Luz
Glen S. Hanks, president of the state
bank of Madison, a member of the
state board of university regents to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of
Rreese j. Stevens.
Cattle in Charles Woodwaf1s herd
near Beloit died from Paris green roi-
Eoning, he powder having been rubbed
Or salt placed in the pasture.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
UNCLE JOE'S WAGES

If Uncle Sam was a private employ
er, and could hear what his men in
the house of representatives are say
Ing about their inadequate compensa-
ton, he would expect to see them out
on a strike before long The trouble
here is that neither union" wants
to take the responsibility of ordering
one.
81 should like to congratulate the
member of congress quoted in your
columns recently as having hotel
bill less than his salary" remarked a
New York representative to a Boston
Transcript correspondent. II pay at
the hotel for my family" continued
the New Yorker, 5000 month under
contract. I draw from the government
SALT. You see where the profit comes
in. Nobody wants to make election
to congress financial prize, but many
Of rs do think the salary should be
sufficient to support man in Wash
ington according to his station. No
senator or representative should be
xpectes TO so to an alley boarding
house."
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14

The story IS told of Mr.. Cannon's
purpose to go to better hotel on
his election to the speakership than
he has formerly lived in. He accord
ingly was conducted by the clerk of
one of the more fashionable establish
ments to such q small suite of rooms as
his actual needs required. How muchis
it?" asked the speaker.
I'VE would let you have it for $500
a month"
. AS the speaker hesitated. lingering
his cigar in a nervous way, the So
licitous clerk inquired: THAT is not
too much, is it, Mr.. Speaker"
"Oh, no; not at ALL" responded Mr..
Cannon, graveiy. Il was merely puz-
cling my brain to think what could
do with my other $17"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14

Philippines for almost four centuries;
the Augustinians came to the archipela-
go in 1889; the Franciscans in 1877; the
Dominicans in 1887, and the Recollets in
1906 When the various orders took up
the Catholic work in the islands, the
work that has grown to such great d.
mansions, the country was portioned out
to them individually and each followed
the task assigned. The friars did not
settle in communities of their own, but
were scattered widely, the priest, or
dained to live apart from his fellows,
cheerfully accepting hardship and isola-
ton with the native.
From the first the native of the Philip
pines took kindly to the Catholic mis-
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
The state Treaxury.

At the close Of last years business
the general fund of the state treasury
contained a balance Of 1851, 033.S5; the
common school fund, s765.65; the state
university fund, S1,079; the agricultur-
al college fund, $1,744.11, and the state
normal school fund s3,628S2. The bal
ance in the general fund is unusually
large because of the sum of $45S,O0O
received from the federal government
last spring, in part payment OF the
state war claim, and because of in
creased revenues from the railroads,
insurance companies and other sources
during the year.
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divorced at Age of. sixty.

In the circuit court in Racine John
Martin Krouse was divorced from An
ME Cecilia Krouse on grounds of de-
sertion. The case is of more than US
ual interest, as the parties to the suit
are about so years of age. Many years
ago the couple were married in Ger
many. They emigrated to this country
and settled in Chicago. There the hus-
became a brewer and accumulated
wealth. He was elected president of
the Chicago Brewing company and held
the place until few years ago.
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PHILIPPINE FRIARS
Some Inside Facts Regarding a Most
Perplexing Problem.
Why THE NATIVES HATE THEM
Purchase OF Lands Held by Roman
Catholic Orders and Departure
of Friars from island Will
Prove beneficial.

60 FIE report that Plus X. has
- decided the property of
the friars in the Philip
NWwIK pines belongs neither to the
- vatican nor to the church at
large, but to the Philippine
church alone, has caused excitement far
and wide.
The idea, it seems, is that whatever
money the United States shall pay in the
purchase of the property of the friars
shall remain as permanent fund for the
support of the Catholic church in the
islands; for the maintenance of its
churches, schools and charitable works.
AS the sum is estimated at from SS,000,-
900 to $40 100000, it is no wonder the
subject is matter of wide interest.
AS class the Philippine friars are
men that have been trained from boy
hood up in the seclusion of the church
seminary; not men that have sought
monastic life in mature years, after an
experience of the outside world, as is the
case with many members of the Jesuit
order. The Philippine islands have held
a unique position in that the administra-
ton of the church has been wholly in
the hands of monastic orders, and that
what is called the secular priesthood
has had only small, subordinate posi-
tons.
The friars have been at work in the
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heart is the bronze mat comes only of
much warmth within ana without.
Such and of such are the flowers which
dwell in soil; but there are Others,
and they are neither fewer nor less talr,
which cling and creep ana sprout in
places where the eye can scarce see
place to dwell in. Here among the
parched grass and loose stones nestles
Globularia nudicaulis. little balls of pale
blue, or yonder, where the ground is
still rougher, Polygala chamoebuxus,
impudentlv putting up his yellow and
orange heads among the lichens and
saxifrage and a thousand creeping
forms whose heads scarce rise two
inches above the bed whereon they
dwell. They toll not. neither do they
spin, yet the gardens of Fings have no
such flowers as these-the Fleurs DIES
Alpes.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
Floor Gave way.

The weight of people attending an
entertainment given in the opera house
at the village of Hokah caused the
flooring to give away, and nearly half
the number were thrown to the ground
in heap. Panic reigned among the
women and children for a short time,
but no one was fatally injured. Sew
eral received cuts and bruises. The &C
cident was caused by the breaking of
rotten rafters under the building.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
SWISS BLOSSOMS
Little Mountain Country Bedecked
in May and June by Nature.
PROFUSE AND DAINTY BLOOMS
Impression which One Receives on
BehOIdIng Acres of Flowers Ii
More Lasting Than Other
Scenes.

60 o see Switzerland In her
:: :: :; !: |:
- flower months is to lay up
EEN a store of vivid memories.
AUMlW In May, June, or even July,
AAMea the loneliness of the flowers
- leaves an impression even
more lasting than the peaks and valleys.
Anyone who had not been in the
land of Switzerland in the early
summer might think the acres of white
st. Bruno lilies or glowing alpenrose to
be the outcome of strong magma
ton. But it is not so. There is val
ley properly called the Blumenthal-
the vale of fiowers-in the Berner OBJ
erland, where every Sunday while the
lilies last, men come from the Inter
Iaken hotels with huge baskets to gath
er them as, earlier still, they gathered
yellow and white anemones. They come
up the slopes and fling themselves down
by their baskets, and so close are the
flowers that / remember seeing one
filled within half an hour, though the
gatherer did but shift his position
twice, and then only by a couple Of
yards at time.
The flowers do not all grow in great
patches or beds, but are scattered over
the beautiful Alpine pastures. Up to
the very edges of the snow the soldan-
ella shows it's little purple bell side by
side with the orange and white GRO
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Killed Hin, self

st. Louis, Jan. 11.-One of the Oldest
steamboat men in the west, Capt Rich
ard S. Fairchild, committed suicide at
the home of his son Sunday. He took
his life with butcher knife. Capt.
Fairchild was born at Lawrenceburg,
Ind, in 1913, and during the civil war
he was in the federal service as engineer
on different transports. Several years
ago he retired from the river on account
of poor health. He was well known on
both the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
Places FiIIed.

A special meeting of the directors of
the Chicago-Kenosha Hosiery company
was held in Kenosha to elect successors
to the late Willis w. and Charles F.
Cooper, managers of the plant, who were
killed in the Chicago theater fire. Frank
Slossom was elected general manager,
to succeed Willis Cooper, George H. Cur
lis and Henry Cooper were elected to fill
the vacancies on the Eeard of directors.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14
Death of a Journalist.

Otis Henry Brand, for q years city
editor of the GAINESVILLE Daily Recorder,
md one of the best known newspaper
men of southern Wisconsin, died at his
home in that city from cerebral hem
orrhage, aged 48 years. Mr.. Brand had
been in failing health for nearly three
years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs
Louise Fenton Brand, who is we'll known
as a newspaper woman of ability.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-01-14

There are % men who began their
service in the house of representatives
in the Fifty-third congress who have
served continuously since and who have
now entered upon their sixth terms.
Rev. John Cotton Brooks, brother of
the late Bishop Phillips Brooks, has
just celebrated his twenfv-sfth ami
versary as rector of Christ Episcopal
church at Springfield, Mass.
The man who is blind to his own
interests usually has four eyes for his
neighbours affairs Chicago Daily
News.
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Bank to Pay.

Creditors of the defunct Farmers and
Merchants bank of Bangor, which sus-
pended on August / and had been be-
lieved to be practically without con-
vertible assets, were greatly surprised
by the announcement of Receiver E.
Kohler of dividend of 35 cents on the
dollar. A further dividend Of 80 per
cent. will be paid later.
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Shot Through the Heart.

Gordon H. Campbell, aged 30, was shot
and killed in Superior three bullets hay
ing entered his heart. Charles Crump,
:olored, is under arrest. Ccump's white
wife is the mother, by former mar
riage, of Campbell's white wife, and the
women are being held as witnesses.