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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-15
The Railway Interest.

In recent issue of the Racine
Times, President Earring of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
says: ct has not been shown, nor in
the nature of things can it be shown,
that the power to determine railway
rates, given to a commission, would
in any manner, or to any degree, miti-
gate any of the evils of the trans
portation business which have been
plant. The railways have already
joined hands with the people in cor
recting many of the evils and elm
mating many of the abuses from
which both the people and the rail
ways have suffered. The testimony
of the Interstate commerce commits
sion itself, unqualified by any limita
tions whatever, is that under the pres
ent law excessive rates have practical
ly disappeared, unjust determinations
have been substantially eliminated and
rebates have ceased to be character
istic of the business and are rapidly
being practically entirely suppressed.
"Tn every consideration of this sub
ject, either in public or in private, /
desire. to be fair. The interests of the
communities and individuals along the
lines of the railway which | represent
are of necessity entirely in common
with the interests of the company
itself. No more senseless and absurd
appeal to the prejudices of the people
was ever made than an effort by a
part of the public press to convince
people that the interests of the rail
way are adverse to the interests of
the shippers. / cannot see how the
railways could obtain traffic out of
business communities soaked and
plundered by corporate greed as some
of our newspaper friends and modern
statesmen would have us believe.
had always supposed that the more
prosperous shipper was the more
business he could do and the more
business he did the more traffic the
railway secured. For this reason it
has been, so far as I have any knowl-
edge, the policy of the railway man
ayers to develop the interests repre-
scented on their line"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-15
PASTOR AS A BLACKSMITH.
Salary Too Small to Support Eleven
Members of Family in Com
Portable Way.

Lancaster, Pa.-Finding that preach
ing does not provide a sufficient in
come for the proper support OF his fam
lily, Rev. M. E. Bachman, of Millers-
vile, United Brethren minister, has
resumed his old trade of blacksmithing,
and works at it while not engaged in
his regular ministerial duties He be-
lieves that good blacksmith has a
larger income than a great many
lief by his own experience.
Mr.. Bachman is an expert in the
dressing of edge tools, and when he
was confronted with the necessity Of
providing more means for his family
he decided to offer his services to the
contractors who are constructing the
new Pennsylvania railroad through
southern Lancaster county.
When they found that could dress
their 20-foot tools they gave me a
job at once said he, land at the
wages they offered me can easily make
$40 a week. Expert tool dressers are
hard to find; and the contractors. I am
sure, would sooner pay me four dollars
a day than let me go.
Before began to preach" said Mr..
Bachman, Il was a blacksmith. the son
of a blacksmith, and l know what a
blacksmith can earn I have IL
mouths to feed in my family, and I
was obliged to change my occupation
because can't feed IL people and send
my chiIlren to school o. preach
er's pay
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panied his every movement, travelled
always under the watchful eyes OF the
police, but the police had eyes only for
suspicious" characters.
1t was at the request of the secret
police that the grand duchess visited
young Prince Obolenski in his cell on
the day following the tragedy, their at
tempts to secure information having
failed. Her desire that all involved in
the conspiracy by which her husband
lost his life, should be apprehended,
appears to have made her most adroit
at a time when grief was uppermost,
or perhaps she was really concerned to
know what her husband could have
done to have incurred the enmity of
another member of the nobility. With
as much composure as she could sum-
mon, she asked the assassin: what
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-15

came running without any hat, simply
a fur wrap thrown over her shoulders.
There she was kneeling in the snow be-
side the remains of her husband. She
could just be seen through the encir-
cling police. Very soon some officers
and priests arrived to transport on a
stretcher to the Monastry of Tchoudov,
near Petit Palais, the remains of the
grand duke, which were assembled with
difficulty, as the body had been fright
fully mutilated. The coachman had
head, but he was still in his seat and
holding the reins when they took him
down and removed him to the hospital.
The handle of the carriage door had
been thrown to distance of 200 feet.
The following morning his cigar case
was found in the snow"
The spread of the nihilist doctrines
among the aristocracy is an enigma,
and is not a hopeful evidence of the
greater intelligence which is to be ex-
pected at the hands Of this class in any
attempt to right the wrongs of Russia.
The provocation in this case was adj
mittedly great. Sergius was perhaps
the most universally hated official of
all Russia. No man can spend $780,
600 year in pursuit of his own Pleas
ure and deserve better than contempt,
and he invites serious fate If he Is
Russian and is governor in author
ity and is a cruel and arbitrary auto
crat The grand duke and his wife
aware of the danger which accom-
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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Blind Girl Aids Law

Observation-Disclosures of IL men to serve
as grand jurors in another fight against
the Doodle ring of Milwaukee were
drawn by Grace Schroeder. blind girl.
The lists were given to Sheriff w. j.
Cary for service. The proceedings of
the service were secret and it will not
be until summons have been returned
that the names of the men selected will
be made public. The mother of the child
who made the selection had seen state
ment in local paper to the effect that
the person choosing grand jurors must
be blindfolded. Her daughter, being
blind, she wrote asking if she would not
be eligible.
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cENTURY-oLD SCHOONER.
Atlantic Coaster Still Composed of
Same Timbers Put into
Her in 1905.

Plying between the city of Belfast,
Me-. and Boston is little coasting
schooner which is undoubtedly the old
est vessel now sailing upon the Atlantic,
for in August next she will be no less
than 100 years of age. This unique CEN
tennial will be celebrated at Amesbury,
Mass, near the spot where her keel was
laid and her stout oaken ribs set in place,
for the Polly was built in Massachusetts
and for many years claimed Boston as
her home port.
The framework of the Polly is still
composed of the same timbers which
were put in the hull in 1905, with the ex-
ception of portion of the stern, The
outside planking has been renewed two
or three times, but the only other altera-
lions, save in the rigging, consist OF a
new deck and the remodeling of the
cabin. The venerable craft is so feet in
length, 20 feet in breadth and draws
only nine feet OF water when loaded.
She is rugged like schooner, carrying
two jibs with foresail, mainsail and main
topsail
When the war of 1912 began the Polly
was not only fair-sized sloop for the
times, but was also noted for her speed.
Before being armed as a privateer she
had her first encounter with the enemy,
being captured off the Maine coast. The
prize crew, however, drank too much Of
the New England rum aboard and Capt.
Grant, her master, managed to free him
self and his crew from their irons and
put them on the British sailors. Then he
set sail for Portland and delivered his
prisoners to the American commander
there.
This exploit formed the first chapter
in the Polly's history, but another was
soon added. Capt. Jedd Upton, her own
err, fitted her out with suitable guns,
manned crew of bold spirits and start
ed out as privateer in December, 1872.
The miniature commerce destroyer cap
tured several English merchantmen OF
more than twice her size before being
captured herself by the frigate
Phoebe.
Capt Pedd and his men were taken
across the Atlantic and the captain was
kept Ill du EuSllSu pIlSOn lOI uSdllJ q
year before being released. His war
ship" however, was sent to an American
port and there was laid up for several
years. Finally she was bought by a
Maine skipper and by the addition of an
other mast changed into a schooner.
Since then she has peacefully voyaged
along the New England shores, where
she is as we'll known as is the harbor of
Boston itself.
During the "old home week. celebra-
ton last summer the Polly was the
guest of honor of her birthplace-Ames-
bury. Anchored off the town, she was
decorated with flags and bunting, sa-
luted with salvos of cannon, while her
history was given in both poetry and
prose by the orators of the occasion.
Nearly ali of the Polly's voyages of
late have been made between Belfast
and Boston, as she is now engaged in the
rather commonplace business of carry.
ing Maine hay to the Massachusetts me-
tropoiis.
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THE BOMB-THROWERS ARE NOT CON
FINED TO THE PEASANT
CLASSES ONLY.
SLAYER OF SERGIUS WAS A PRINCE
His Unguarded Statements Sent Many Others
OF the Cars Household to Prison Cells
The Terrible Punishment Pre-
scribed by Nicholas

st. Petersburg.-"I was the best of
times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
the age of foolishness, it was the
epoch Of belief, it was the epoch of in
credulity, it was the season of~light, it
was the season of darkness, it was the
spring of hope, it was the winter OF
despair, we had everything before us,
we had nothing before US, we were all
going direct to Heaven, we were all go
ing direct the other way-in short the
period was so far like the present peri
cd, that some of the noisest authorities
insisted upon it's being received, for
good or for evil, in the superlative de-
gree of comparison only. There was
a king with large jaw and a queen
with plain face on the throne of Eng
land; there was king with large
jaw and a queen with a fair face on
the throne of France. In both coun-
tries it was clearer than crystal to the
lords of the state preserves of loves
and fashions that things in general
were settled forever" 1t was with this
introduction that Charles Dickens pro-
ceeded to reveal, in the "Tale of Two
Cities" the vital details of the awful
drama of the French revolution, pic
turing that character whom none can
put out of memory who has once read
the story-Madame Defarge, the female
creature who sat knitting, always AID
persistently knitting, knitting into
fendish record, descriptions of those
selected to die on the guillotine when
once the wheel of fortune should bring
the revolutionists in power.
There is knitting of this kind in Rus
STA to-day. Nor is it the coarse and
bungling work of the peasantry. If
Count Tolstoi has not been knitting,
certainly his finger of warning has
pointed in many directions. Ominous
records have been woven in the most
unsupported quarters. Because the con-
demned are not marched in physical
line to the guillotine, shall it be said
their fate is the less methodically
planned. There are those who are
content to protest, and Tolstoi is one
of these. But also there are those who
count. and those who kill. The reign
of terror is not less at hand because
the Russian bomb displaces the French
guillotine. The insecurity is not less
general than in those tranquil days
which ushered in the French revolution.
London Punch" with keen irony,
published a cartoon entitled France is
Tranquil" and the same peace now
reigns in Russia. Evil plots are
Matched within exclusive clubs and
muffled behind rich draperies, but they
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-15

are not the less deadly. The bomb
that killed Grand Duke SergiuS was
thrown by an Obolenski-a name
which denotes one of the most distin-
guished families of the Russian aris-
tocraey. This fact is no longer secret
the sort which the Russian police
like to embalm within their own in
acrutable comprehension. From every
indication there is more nihilism in
vited officially to the palace of the car
than you would meet with in visit
to the Russian underworld. 1t may be
depended upon that there are many
persons of title who know more of the
real spirit of the Russian terrorists
than they would care to discuss in a
tete-a-tete in the cars reception
rooms.
There can be no doubt that many
who are privileged to enjoy the melan-
choly warmth of the cars hospitality
and that of the grand dukes, harbor at
the same time murderous thoughts.
their normal impulses cankered by the
invidius teachings of nihilism. The
death of Sergius and the revelations
which have followed that tragedy give
evidence of this. The grand dukes
Slayerwas known both to the murdered
man and to his widow, the Grand
Duchess Elizabeth. He belonged to
their stratum of society. He had no
personal grievance. He expressed great
regret to the grand duchess when she
visited him in his cell after the assas-
sinaiion. that he had caused her so
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great grief. He fell back before her
reproaches upon an imprisoned ex-
PLANTATION of the doctrines of the ter
rorists, as if there were to be found
in them some adequate excuse for his
crime. If the grand duchess found in
these teachings no consolation she at
any rate elected the information that
many revolutioniSts are members OF
the Russian nobility. Russian arts
tocracy, he told her, is honeycombed
with revolutionary adherents. At least
one was a palace official in the cars
own household.
Such, it subsequently appeared, was
the undercurrent of revenge in the
hearts of Russians on the afternoon of
February IL, when a sledge in which
two men were seated shot out ahead
of the grand dukes carriage as it was
passing through Senate square, Mos
COW, on the way from the palace to the
Kremlin. The sledge then slowed up,
allowing the carriage to pass, while
one of the men, dressed as a workman,
peered earnestly into the dukes car
riage, into eyes that he knew. He was
a prince and in his hand was a bomb.
What occurred is best described by an
eyewitness;
The Senate square was deserted and
presented a melancholy appearance at
the moment when | entered it at a lit
tie before three o'clock. The snow was
deep and the weather lowering; some
men were engaged in clearing the side
walks of the thick ice and snow which
covered them. | had remarked moth
ing unusual and had not even noticed
the grand dukes carriage, which must
nevertheless have passed very close to
me.
Call at once, as | was approaching
the entrance, I was Mortified and al
most stunned by the most terrific ex-
plosion. The shock. which nearly threw
me off my feet, lasted but the fraction
of a second AS soon as / had recov-
cred my presence of mind, saw a yell
lowish column of smoke rising from
the ground, while there reached my
ears a great crash of broken glass in
the direction of the arsenal. At the
same moment several people ran out
on to the square. | saw them look and
then run toward something IN the
snow. l FASTENED my stepg and per-
ceived carriage drawn by a dying
horse. The impression was like a
frightful nightmare.
"The police had formed a circle
around the debris of the carriage and
kept away the public, after making a
passage for the grand duchess, who
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the disclosures as to the spread of Mill
lism among the upper classes could
hardly be moro clearly shown than in
his punishment of the official in his
own household whom Prince Obolenski'
indicated as being implicated in ter
rorist plots. After the arrest of this
man the car personally examined the
evidence against him and ordered him
brought to his library. What took
place at this interview has not, of
course. been told, but it is known that
the emperor personally named the pun
ishment. Seeking to find something
measurably worse than death, the en-
peror directed an immovable iron mask
to be riveted over his face. Chained
to little window in the prison tower
overlooking the palace he was kept in
solitary confinement until he died, an
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his partners We're given the move, and
they elected to play a queens pawn at
tack. A favorite variation of Phillips
was brought about, but DR.. Lasker skill
fully stopped it, and obtained a strong
counter attack by the unexpected sac
rifice of pawn. Later he regained the
pawAs exchanged rocks and won by ex-
ceedingly clever king play after So
moves. Laskers end-game play, with
king and pawns, has been the marvel
of chess players ever since he won the
championship and was nsver shown to
better advantage than IN this exhibit
ton. He made no attempt whatever to
win piece, but Unanswered steadily
to get his king into winning position
The allied players defended stubbornly,
but were bound hand and foot after the
twentieth move, as far as offense was
concerned, and Lasker merely maneu-
vered to hold them so until he could
bring his king from kings knight
square to queens rock four, where he
had announced to the spectators that
it would win. Then he exchanged eve
erything and won by his king play in
few moves. 1t was typical Lasker
game, showing all the delicate touches
and the absolute precision that has al.
ways married his play. DR.. Emanuel
Lasker was born in Berlin in 1863.
Early in life he showed himself preco-
cious in mathematics and when IL
years old first took an interest in
chess. He received his education in
the gymnasium at Landsberg and later
studied higher mathematics at Berlin
and Heidelberg. Lasker's brother was
an expert chess player. In 1889 Eman-
uel entered the Haupt TURNER at Bres-
lau and surprised his friends and COM
petitors by carrying off all the honors.
Since that time he has been the adj
mitted master of the science and his
career has been a series of triumphs.
In 1895 and 1896 he won from Steinitz,
Pillsbury and Tschigorin at ST. Peters,
burg. He has been challenged only
once. Marshall, the American expert.
tried to arrange series of games, but
the match fell through.
Marshall, the American chess cham
pion, has decided to accept the chal-
lenge issued by d. Janowski, OF Paris,
in which the latter comedies him the
odds of four games. The two experts
will play this match as soon as rinaI
arrangements can be made.
Garland Stahl better known to base
hall fans as UTalnO CtobI ,,,onooor 20
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Why Touch-Me-Not.

The columbine, geranium and lark
spur we think of together because they
are all named after birds-the dove,
the crane and the lark. The meaning
of geranium is cranes BILL" and if
you notice the seed pods of geranium
you will see that they do look like
the long bill of crane. The touch
me-not gets it name from 2 peculiar
ity of the seed pod, too, but not pc
culiarity of appearance. 1t is the pod
you must not touch, for if you do it
will burst and out will fly the seeds
St Nicholas
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Four Bows Drowned.

Chippewa Falls.-Cla1 ence Cleaves
was drowned here while breaking log
jam at the falls. Several others were
thrown under the log jam but escaped.
Paul Labountey, aged II, a high school
boy, was drowned in the river, and two
boys in Bloomer were drowned when a
small bridge went out. The water was
high in the city streets, and barns in
the lower part of the city were flooded
Little Falls dam was not trusted to
hold ten feet of water expected from
Little Falls. The high water has
caused the G. L. & B. company's boom
to break, losing 3O,0O0.OO0 feet of logs.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1905-06-15
wireless Weather Reports.

Arrangements are being completed
by the navy department to the end that
all merchant ships fitted with wireless
telegraphy apparatus shall make daily
weather reports when they are in
touch with the government stations
now established and being erected on
the Atlantic coast from Portland to
Galveston. All such reports will be
forwarded to the weather bureau in
Washington and in return the naval
wireless stations will furnish the ships
with the forecasts that come from the
bureau.
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now hailed as a penant possibility.
When Stahl was placed at the head or
the Senators by President Johnson, at
the beginning of the season, the wise"
ones uttered soft chuckle, for 1t was
thought that this youth, hardly out of
college, could never bring out win
ming team, but he has fooled the most
pessimistic. Following is story of
how he came within an ace of buying
the clup last winter and it was only
through failure toget into communica-
ton with President Johnson, who was
in the east at the time, spoiled one OF
the greatest opportunities for the
young player to break into the role of
magnate known in the history Of the
game. Since the opening of the sea-
son the Senators have played to over
$4,000 on their home grounds in ten
games and to over $4,000 in IL games
on foreign fields, grand total of 1885,
900 admissions in % games. He and
Robert B. McRoy, private secretary to
President Johnson talked the matter
over ole day while President Johnson
was in the east trying to interest cap
italists in investing their money in the
club. 1t was a hard proposition, but
finally some one took an option on the
stock held by the league. Stahl and
Mercy determined not to say anything
until this option expired. Instead of
permitting it to go the parties took ii
up and bought the stock That appar.
emily ended the proposition of this pair
to break in as magnates, even though
each had secured sufficient backing to
have gone into the game right Re-
Gently, in talking to President Johnson
relative to he success of Stahl as man
ager of the Senators, McRoy said: I'VE
came pretty near putting one over on
you down there that you never heard
Of" "What was that?"" queried the
interested president. "Stahl and got
the funds and thought of buying the
stock held by the league Il tina. option
had expired" "Well, we'll" said John.
son, 81 never thought Of that combina-
ton, but If you had spoken of 1t to me
could have put you in right, even
after that option was taken up. Sever
al of the minority stockholders wanted
to sell out, too, and you could have
bought their shares for about two doll
lars apiece. Now the team is going so
good you couldn't get them for 500"
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Noted Scion Dead.

KNAPP. -Ex-Assemblyma A. r. Hall.
who was one of the best known men
in the state, having served as member
of the assembly, for several terms, and
mentioned prominently for the COVER
norship, died here. Mr.. Hall suffered a
stroke of paralysis and remained in a
stupor for two days. Later he rallied,
but it was only temporarily, and for a
long time it was known that his death
was but question of hours.