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Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-15

be- T tor Dav.d Brewer what l thought O your writing thet essay on bugs in pertickler-an' tol' i'm what people were sayin' O your work ill school"
 What d. he say:" I asked. Said Hope had top him all about it. that she was as proud O you as she was nv her curls, an I believe it. We'll says I, y oughter sen that boy t col lege.' Coin to- says he. He'll go t the 'cademy this fall if he wants to. Then he can go t college soon's he's ready Threw up my hat an shouted, l was that glad.''
 As he spoke the old mans face kin dled with enthusiasm. In me he had one who understood him. who saw truth in his thought, music in his verse, noble simplicity in his soul. I took his hand in mine and thanked him heartily. Then we rose and came away together.
 Remember" he said as we parted at the corner. there's way laid out fer you. In Gods time it will lead to every good thing you desire. Don't jump over the fence. Don't try t pass any milestun fore ye've come to it. Don't nope. Keep yer head cool with philosophy, yer feet warm with travel an don't worry bout yer heart. It won't turn t stun if ye do keep 1t awhile. Allwus hey enough of it about ye t do business with. Goodbyv'
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-15
By IRVING BACHELLER
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ped "hoSses and got The worst Of IL. Then he would show me again. with n little impatience in his manner. how to hold the handle and straddie the TOW. He would watch me for moment. turn to Uncle Eb. laugh hopelessly and say
 'Thet boy'll hey to be minister. He can't work
 But for Elizabeth Brewer it migh; have gone hard with me those days. My mind was always on my books or my last talk with Jed Feary. and she shared my confidence. and fed my hopes md shielded me as much as possible from the heavy work. Hope had q better head for mathematics than I and had always helped me with my sums. but I had better memory and an aptitude in other things that kept me st the head of most of my classes.
 Rest of all at school | enioyed the Compositions" I had many thoughts such as they were and some facility of expression. I doubt not. for a child. Many chronicles of the ,olIntrysiis came off my pen. sketches of o,Id events and characters there in Faraway. These were read to tho assembled household Elizabeth Brewer would sit looking gravely down at me as l stood by her knees reading in those days of my early Iroyhossi Tncle Eb listened with his head turned curiousIy. as if his ear were ,Ocked for coOns Sometimes he and David Brower would slap their knees and laugh heartily. whereat my foster mother would give them quick glance and shake her bead. for siis was always fearful of the day when she should sec in her children the birth of vanity and sought to put it oT as far as might bc Sometimes she would cover her TloEth io hide smile and when had finished look warnin~Iy at the rest and say it was css~f for a lit tie hoy- Her praise never went fur theT. and indeed. all those people hated fatteTy as they did the devil and frovnef upon sOureit She said that when She love of fsttery eot hold ci one he vcuId Iie to gain Tt-
 lean sec this slender. i.iEze cred ve man as I write Sfe Is waking u; and doEH beside hr- spinning vbeeL lear bear the drezry h1zz z-z of tfse spir-is
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-15
CHAPTER \.

|" HE love of labor was counted q
 great virtue there in Far
 3ES| away As for myself. could t never put my heart in hoe handle or in any like tool of toll. They made q blister upon my spirit as well as upon my hands. l tried to find in the sweat of my brow that exalted pleasure of which Mir. Greeley had vii siOns in his comfortable retreat on Printing House square. But fortunate ly l had not his point of view. Hanging in my library. where I may see it as I write. is the old sickle of \ Uncle Eb. The hard hickory of it's handle is worn thin by the grip of his
 nd. It becomes q melancholy sym bosNvhen l remember how also the hickofy had worn him thin and bent him low and how infinitely better than all the harvesting of the sickle was the strength of that man. diminishing as it wore the wool. cannot help smiling when I look at the sickle and think of the soft hands and tender amplitude Of Mir. Greeley.
 The great editor had been q playmate of David Brower when they were boys. and his paper was read with much rev -rence in our home.
 How quick ye can blow a ten acre lot with a pen" Uncle Eb used to say when we had gone up 10 bed after father had been reading aloud from his Tribune.
 Such was the power of the press in that country one had but tO say of Any doubtful thing. seen it in print" tO stop all argument If there were ant further doubt he had only to say that he had rpad it either in the Tribune o- the Bible and cOuIdn-t remember which. Then il was a mere question of veracity in the speaker. Books and other reading were carefully pat away for an improbable time of leisure
 Il might break my leg some time said Dsvid BTOwer= then they'll come handy Buf the Tribune was read carefully every week
 I have seen David BrOver step and ! lcpk ss me vhiie I have teeB digging Ipofsfop< Eitk 2 sober grin STzch as enne fo him always after he had swap
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-15

sians retreared ID the nun rlvUr, sOutn of Mukden, keeping in contact with and energetically resisting the advance of the pursuing Japaness. If Oyama's object was the destruction of the Rus sian army he utterly failed; if their dislodgment from good base was his object he succeeded.
 I.iaoyang battle, however, was not . decisive one. The Russian army re- tained its morale, as was shown when less than a month later it took the of. fensive and with all its might attack ed the Japanese lines in most deter- mined manner. The Japanese proved. however, too strong to be driven back and in turn assumed the offensive, driv- ing the Russian army back across the Sha river, but they were unable to gain further ground. Oyama deter mined to intrench, establish his win ter quarters, ~re-enforce his army and provision it for an early spring cam paign.
 Mukden is about the latitude of Chi cago. a little more elevated, hence a trife colder and having probably lit- tie less snow, so that by the middle of March the ice begins to disappear from the rivers. The Hun river is not forda- ble in the vicinity of Mukden, and at the present time the ground is still sol idly frozen, making transportation fa- cilities good.
 These considerations doubtless influ- enced the Japanese commander to take the offensive when the cold was still severe, when his movements were still unlocked for by the enemy, and when a defeat would he all the more de structive to his antagonist.
 Combined strategical and tactical considerations determined. the time for the! attack. 0vama's belief in his sN- periority' in numbers and efficiency justified him in making his great and hazardous turning movements in the hope of shattering the legions of his foe and reducing the morale of the Russian army tc such an extent that its resisting pt/er might not be equal to the future attacks of the Japanese forces available for offensive opera tions n7
 The methodical and at times brilliant work of the armies commanded by Marquis Oyama, together with the work he previously accomplished in the Chinese-Japanese war and as chief of the Japanese general staff, places him well up among the great com manders of modern times. AS strat- egist he has shown probably greater aptitude than any other Japanese com mander. AS a tactician he has done excellent work and is still improving He has the great accomplishment of having perfected the plans of this war in time of peace, and if his future ca reer keeps pace with his past he is properly entitled to place alongside that great and loyal commander whose modest but forceful character and whose great military genius will ever form a profitable subject for study by the military student. l refer to Vcn Moltke, the genius of the German srmy.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-15
fro BE coNTIyuD,1
0YAMA'S ACHIEVEMENTS
An Experts Outline of Japanese
 Commanders Campaign.
WHAT HE DID IN EIGHT MONTHS.

American Officer Tells How Oyams Was Quick To Learn the Lesson oi
 Liaoyang Battle-Compares Him to von Moltke, the Great strategist oi the German Army.
 Marquis Oyama's previous record in the service of his native country and his emperor is matter of record in modern history, and his brief but eventful career connected with the present history making epoch in the far east alone is here outlined by Cap tain William G. Haan of the general staff, United States army, having charge of the mapping of the Manchu- rion campaign at the war college in Washington, says the New York Times:
 Oyama, the commander in chief of the Japanese armies in the field, start ed from Tokyo for his new and i'm portant field on July 6, 1904, and in the eight months following that date, half of which had to be passed in dreadful winter quarters, he has ap- parently achieved supremacy over 8 magnificent army approximately equal In numbers to his own and command ed by a man whose genius even in con tinuous reverses has compelled the ad- miration of the whole world.
 When Oyama. with Chief of Staff Kodama, arrived in Manchuria he found that the Russian Port Arthur force had been cut off and by the Fourth Japanese army. under Nogi, was | being forced into the great I fortress of which the brave Russian commander declared: My life is giv- en to Russia. Whatever happens do not surrender. Port Arthur shall be my tomb" He was besieged by an army of as brave, patriotic and deter mined soldiers as ever fought for any cause. Their chief. Marquis Oyama, a hundred miles away, called upon them gently, but firmly, that the fall of the fortress was necessary for the success of the righteous cause of their emper- or. and, like the turning of mighty ma chinery by the pressure of an electric button, the coils were drawn closer and tighter.
 Thousands of lives had to be sacri- feed, but to the indomitable will of the great directing center in this re- markable campaign 1t formed but a link in the chain being forged by the other three armies simultaneously and harmoniously, seeking ways and means eventually to complete a magic circle within whose circumference should be inclosed and neutralized the Russian power that has been threatening the very independence of the empire of the Rising Sun.
 Having satisfactorily accounted for the Russian forces in Port Arthur by the assignment of the Fourth army to that task, Oyama undertook to arrange his remaining available forces in the best possible positions for striking a decisive blow at the enemy on his northern front. The First army. under Kuroki. the victor of the first battle. was on the right, based on Fengwang- cheng. The Fourth. under Nodzu. was in the center. based on Siuyen. and the Second. under Oku. the victor of Nan shan and Vafar"ow. was moving north
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-15

anything in this world if ye take the right road Ye've grown [ be great big strapping fellow. but you're only siXteenE-
 That's all I said mournfuIiy.
 We're as big a fool to go falling in love as I'd be- Ye-re too young an I'm to'o osd say to you wait Ye-re got to gs [ college
 Tolbge- I exclaimed incrr,iuIousIy- -Yes. an ti.et-s another seret.- sat.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-15

Ii" HE love of labor was counted a great virtue there in Far. p3EESl away. As for myself, l could (eS never put my heart in hoe
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23

had attempted to hold up the organiZa~
ton; that they even wanted a per diem
for remaining out on strike; that they
bied the national treasury under every
pretext, and that instead of starving
they received more money than the
anthracite strikers got figured on the
per capita basis-and that there was
demand for enough for the strikers to
live On turkey. 1t was also stared
the miners even had refused to put up
tents sent to them, unless they re
ceived pay from the national organiza-
ton for putting them up.
The attack of Mr.. Randall was attrib-
uted by the friends of President Mitch
ell to the socialists who had just prev
iously met with their annual defeat in
trying to have the miners organiza-
ton declare itself for socialism. The
feeling among the delegates was prac.
tlcally unanimous in favor of President
Mitchell and it was generally felt that
he did not need vindication. Mr. Ran.
dali said he would have something TO
say later and President Mitchell saIu
he would reply to Mr.. RandalFs state
ment when it was made.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
MINERS PRESIDENT ACCUSED
OF TREACHERY.
BACK WITH HOT ANSWER
National Labor Leader Charges Colo
RADIO Striking Miners With Looting
Strike Fund, Taking More Than
Anthracite Miners Got and Asking
Enough to Live on Turkey.

Indianapolis, Jan. 20.-In the nation
ers of America yesterday, John Mitch
ell, the president, was accused by Dele
gate Randall of Wyoming of having
sold out the Colorado miners to the
operators, of having been a traitor to
the miners organization and of having
entered into a conspiracy with the
mine owners and Governor Peabody's
peace organization to ruin the Colo
RADIO miners and lose them the recent
strike.
President Mitchell replying gave
some of the reasons why the national
miners organization had withdrawn
its support from the Colorado strikers,
Mr.. Randall had said that President
Howell Of the district asked for $780,
900 for the strike, offering to win or
lose it on that amount. Mr.. Mitchell
referring to this said:
LET me be plain on this. Mr. How
ell did not ask for the money If he
hao lie would not have got 1t; would
not trust him with it." He charged
Howell and eX-National Board Mem.
Der Gear with croOkedness and Gear
with collision with stock brokers.
He told how he forced Gear to resign
his Office because of it. Gear. he said,
admitted that he was to get 81 900 fol
advance information concerning the
close Of the strike
He also told Of Howell leaving Gear
in charge of the strike for a time last
year and said that in two weeks Gear
drew $4,000 of the organizations
money for the strike.
Howell" declared Mitchell, "is not
a safe witness against anybody"
Bad Situation.
He told hoW-the first and last money
sent to the strikers was appropriated
by officers to pay back salaries. Pres.
1dent Mitchells statement showed
generally bad situation. He said thar
after 100000 had been poured into
Colorado, the spirit shown by the min
ers of that state wos such that he had
recommended settlement and that ma
tlonal aid be withdrawn and he would
do so again under the circumstances.
He said he was ready to get out if it
was thought best and referred to the
fact that for six years he had not
asked for reelection.
Officers Tried HoTd-up.
There were speeches by others, who
charged that in Colorado the officers
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
TRIPLE TRAGEDY
IN OLD VIRGINIA

Roanoke, Va, Jan. 20.-Meager de
tails of triple tragedy in Franklin
county, 20 miles south of Roanoke,
Wednesday, reached here yesterday.
Jams Abshire anu his son fought re.
volver and shotgun duel with L. A..
Pradd and man named Holley, as the
result of which the three first named
are dead and Holley, who escaped in
jury, is said to be in Jail. 1t is said
that one of the four men is alleged to
have. insulted the wife of one of the
other three. After the first round II
is said that the two Abshires and
Prada were on the ground wounded.
One of the Abshires is said to have re-
loaded his shotgun and deliberately
blew Praid's head off.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
Boy Battles With Wolf.

Marinette, Wis, Jan. 20.-Walter
Brandt, the 13-year-old son of A. w.
Brandt of Faithorn Junction, had a
battle with a large wolf near his home.
The animal had been killing chickens
and the boy undertook to trap him.
Tuesday morning the trap was gone
but the tracks of the wolf were visible
in the snow. The boy followed them
and came upon the wolf crouched in
hollow, and without warning it sprang
upon the boy,who fought the animal or
with the butt of his gun and finally
shot it.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
HOUSE READY TO VOTE ON THE ARMY
APPROPRIATION B|LL--NEWS OF CONGRESS

Washington, Jan. 20-The house
yesterday completed consideration of
the army appropriation bill and will
vote on the measure today. During
the debate the resident commissioner,
Degetau of Porto Rico, made his first
speech in the house. He praised the
United States for it's attitude toward
his island home. He said he saw no
need for the maintenance of the pro-
yisional regiment of troops in the
island
vigorous attack was made, but to
no avail, on the army transport SER
vice by Mr.. Humphrey of Washington.
In the Senate.
Consideration of the statehood bill
was continued in the senate and Sen
ator Stone spoke for two hours in op-
position to it.
The bill for the remuneration of
American fur sealers who suffered
losses because of their suppression,
was debated at some length but no
action was taken on it.
Women Praise Smoot.
Two prominent gentle women of
Utah, one a member of the legislature
that elected Senator Smoot, were
witnesses in the Smoot inquiry. Both
women gave Smoot an excellent repu-
tation and testified that they would
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23

not vote for a polygamist. Counsel
for Senator Smoot exhausted their list
of witnesses here, but expect that sew
eral witnesses will arrive in time for
the hearing today.
BristoW Retires.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gener-
al Br1stow retired from that Office
yesterday. He received the subordi-
nate officials and employees of his bu-
reau during the afternoon and babe
them good bye. He conferred with
Secretary Taft regarding his new du-
ties as special commissioner to inves-
tigate rate conditions in connection
with the Panama railroad company
and received some of his instructions
for the performance of that work. He
will have other conferences with the
war department officials and an Office
was set aside for him at the war de-
partment building. Mr.. Bristow said
he was not yet ready to announce his
plans. Chief Clerk Connard, who has
been associated with Mr.. Bristow for
some years in the administration of
his bureau, will be acting fourth as
sistant postmaster general until the
appointment of permanent success
sor, which probably will be delayed
until after Mr. Cortelyou becomes
postmaster general.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
VOTED UNDER DOGS NAME.
Frauds Being Unearthed in Colorado
Election Contest.

Denver, Jan. 20.-The examination
OF witnesses in the Pea5ody-Adams
contest continued yesterday afternoon.
Two witnesses swore that they voted
many times under different names.
One of them made the statement that
the repeaters were instructed by Chief
of Police Delaney to vote as often as
they could. w. S. Raymond, a SUI
preme court watcher, cited case in
which a man who gave the name of a
dog was permitted to vote.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
STRIKE PAINS EMPEROR.
German Ruler Trying to Adjust Labor
Troubles.

Berlin, Jan. 20.-Emperor William S
active interest in the coal strike and
his personal exertions to settle it
have produced a good effect on the
hoerse. Yesterday the emperor re
ceived a member of the firm of Haniel,
one of the powerful coal owning famil-
les of the lower Rhine, and sent for
Privy Councillor Lueg of Oberhausen
Lueg is both coal mine owner and
steel manufacturer of large wealth
and great influence among Industrial
leaders. The attitude of the mine
owners annoys the government as
much as the hasty action of the strik
ers in quitting work without giving
the legal fortnight's notice Among
the petty requirements of some of the
mines is a rule that the miners mus
click their heels together and stand at
attention when oversvers appear.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
Quarrel Leads to LITIGATION.

Neenah, Wis, Jan. 20.-The saloon
row between Reinold Siegert ana
William Longhurst, in which the lat
ter was so badly beaten he is now
confined to his bed, lowering between
life and death, promises an expensive
quarrel. Siegert has been arrested
and now is in the county jail. Bail
was fixed at $1,000. A personal dam
age suit for $4,000 has been commenc-
ed by Longhurst's attorney.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23

New York, Jan. 20-Gessler Ros-
seau charged with sending an infer
nal machine to the Cunard dock a year
ago last May, was indicted yesterday
by a grand jury under the section Of
the penal code which makes it felony
to send dynamite or other explosives
to steamship or railroad without a
label or other sign denoting it's char
acter. 1t is expected that Rousseau
will be extradited from Philadelphia
at once and brought to this city for
trial.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23

belonging to the st. Petersburg force
ton at hand at present no other &C
cident occurred. An inquiry contin-
ues."
Loaded Shell Left in Gun.
ST. Petersburg, Jan. 20.-It is now
stated in official circles that the grape
was fired from one of the guns of the
18th battery first horse artillery OF
the guard, the most aristocratic corps
in the Russian army. 1t seems that
at gun practice Tuesday loaded
shell was inadvertently left in the gun.
SaIutes Soldiers as "My Children"
st. Petersburg, Jan. 20.-Perform-
ing the annually recurring blessing of
the waters of the Neva with all ac-
customed brilliant ceremonial, Emper-
or Nicholas yesterday wore the uni
form of the famous Preobrajosky reg
!ments. He greeted each regiment
with the salutation ''good morning my
children" to which the soldiers and
sailors replied in stentorian tones:
Good health to your majesty" whilst
the band played national anthem. In
the state procession to the imperial
chapel. an imposing train of court Of
ficials, the emperor escorted the dOwa-
ger empress and Grand Duke Alexis
escorted the empress, other members
of the imperial family following in the
order of rank, the ladies of honor
wearing picturesque national cos
tunes. At 1 o'clock the divine SER
vice being concluded the procession
reformed and returned to the winter
palace. The ladies took places at the
windows while the emperor, grand
dukes and gorgeously robed clergy de-
scended for the open air ceremonial.
The entire length of the palace was
guarded by soldiers. Beyond these
populace were massed in enormous
numbers on the ice and at every point
affording a view on quays, bridges,
monuments, etc.
4 ~ imposing Seene.
In few minutes the picture was
filled in as an imposing procession OF
priests, choristers, standard bearers,
the members of the imperial family
and generals slowly took their places
on the pavilion and platform and all,
from the emperor downward, were
bareheaded.
Blessed from Sanctified Waters.
At the conclusion of the solemn GER
emory the metropolitan having dipped
the cross in the water, the st. Peter
and st. Paul fortress doomed salute.
Then came the crash of bullets through
the windows but no panic occurred,
and the metropolitan quickly proceed
ed to bless the emperor and his en-
rourage and consecrate the standards
anew from the sanctified waters of
Neva.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1905-01-23
WILL ASK FOR JURY
IN WADLEIGH APPEAL

Oshkosh, Wis, Jan. 20.-Next Mon
day the attorneys in the appeal OF
Mary A. Wadleigh from the decision
of the county court adjudging the late
Col. Gabriel Bouck an unmarried man,
will go to Milwaukee and argue before
Judge w. D. Tarrant the question of
whether jury trial will be granted.
The plaintiff will claim the right to a
jury trial. Judge Tarrant will sit in
the case here about February II.