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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

week brought to light, and justice melted
out 10 one of the audiciOus rings hire
lings.
ington onOct. Ii, by Acting COMMISSIONS
Anderson of the general land Office, it is
earned that Charles E. Beech was con
victed Of subornation of perjury IN con-
nection with the entry of large tract of
redwood timber land in California The
land so entered amounts to about 81 900
acres, the timber on which was estimated
by one of the interested Earties to be
worth $11 100000. syndicate compos-
ed principally of foreign capitalists vas
organized, it is alleged, for the purpose
Of securing title to this valuable tract
from the government. and an attem pt
was made to do so by means of fraudu-
lent entries,
Some 800 such entries were made, en-
bracing about $50 acres each, in which If
is claimed perjury and subornation of
perjury was recklessly committed. Of
cancellation, and steps are being taken
TO secure forfeiture to the government in
the other cases.
We trust the exposure Of this bare
faced attempt at public robbery will act
as d warning to foreign carpet baggers
to keep their hands off Uncle Sans
property. Trusts, syndicates and all
other forms of monopoly, however harm
less .heir intentions, are among the
greatest curses Of our modern civiliza
ton. They are un-American and must
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

| Turning to Gaul, now France, it ap-
| pears that the stalwart, auouan haired
Aryans of Cassr's time have largely
given away before the darker types, and
| the Frenchman of today is short in sta
ture, of dark complexion, dark hair and
eyes. Among the Germans there is q
great mixture of dark skin and the des.
cription of the Germans given by Tacitus
would not apply to the German speaking
masses of today. The dark color of the
south is slo sly prevailing over the blonde
type. Scandiravians have largely es-
capped mixture with the southern types
and reddish or yellow hair still pre-
walls.
The Celts of Ireland are southern races
and the dark complexion probably pre-
walls. In England the Saxens and the
Normans have kept the blonde type to
great extent, while the ScotchInan is still
known as SANDY" In nearly all Europe
the tendency appears to be toward the
predominence of the dark race type over
the yellow haired type, which is supposed
to be that of the Aryans.
IN the United States there is q mixt7re
of all races, and the dark type predomi-
mates. Will it be darker still? Will the
negro be the source of darker coloring?
Time alone will tell. The blonde type
may be as much of curiosity 500 years
from now as the Albino is today. Will
the yellow haired man disappear from
the earthf
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
The InGia Rubber Plant.

As & rnle this plant, says an exchange,
is d general favorite with most amatuers,
inasmuch as it is very ornamental, and
having hardy constitution, it is especial
ly adapted fer that class of cultivators.
When Well grown, few plants have more
majestic appearance, either when group
ed with other foliaged and Towering
plants in che green house. in the window
garden, or indeed in the flower garden
during the summer months, for suck in
some parts of the country they are used
extensively, although not SO much as they
deserve. Again, for embellishing bal
comics, rooms, strircases, etc., or in fact
any part of the dwelling house, few
plants are better adapted. Indeed, if que
attention is given to watering, it will
thrive under the most adverse conditions,
and in the dry atmosphere of any room.
1t thrives best in a compost Of loan and
sand, which should be somewhat rough,
especially if it is good sized plant. The
potting, if it requires any should be done
in spring, as this will give the plant am
pie time for making wood during the
summer. At this period of the year it
requires abundance of water, which, how.
ever, must be given more sparingly dur
ing winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
SCIENTIFIC GLEANINGS.

By means of recent Improvements
made in the manufacture of rifles. as
many as 12e barrels can now be rolled in
an hour by one machine. They are
Strengthened cold and bored with CORE
spending speed, and even the rifing is
done automatically, SO that one man
tending six machines can turn out 60 or
20 barrels per day. With tie old riiing
machine 20 barrels were about the limit
of q days work.
construction detail that is gaining
much popularity in some western cities
is the brickihg in of frame houses. The
building is sided up with matched stuff
as if complete, then a brick face wall
four inches thick, is laid in contact with
the exterior, tied on by spikes about
every sixth course. A boy distributes
them all -aroun6 on top Of the wall
They are laid in the morther bed ready
and driven through into the siding til
the heads are flush with the face of ths
wall, when the next courses are laid, anc
sc on. The walls present the appear
ance of solid masonry, are durable, and
as they add to the warmth of the build
| ings, seem to present substantial recon-
mendations, especially in sewers climates
| A California company is about to be
| gin the manufacture of soap from ella.
containing soap properties, presumabl.
similar in character to the natural soar
| we'll which has been discovered near Buff
falo Gap in Dakota. The soap is skimme,
from boiling spring and hardens by e1
posure TO the air. 1t is like soft clay an,
can be gathered with a shovel. It is sup
posed to be mixture of borax, alkali an
lubrioating oil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
ANIMALS AND OPIUM.
Startling Stories of Cats, Dogs and Monkeys
That Had Acquired the Habit

That Had Acquired the Habit.
''Yee, haveshad numerous patients with
the opium habit" said we'll known ply
stefan, adding frankly, "and 1 never
cured one of them. had one" he con-
.inued, smiling, shat 1 never tried to
cure.''
GLOW was that?" said the reporter
feeling sure story was to be had for the
asking.
cit was cat" said the physician. "He
belonged to a patient who had him for a
pet long time, and the cat used to lie
on the bed with his master while the lat
ter smoked. He would breathe the smoke
of eight or ten pipes that his master
would smoke before he would show the
effects, and then he would sink INTO a
stnpor for some twenty minutes, and
afterwards awake with every sign of ex-
citement and frisk about like kitten,
though he was ordinarily as sedate as old
cats usually are. 1 begged him from my
patient, and kept him locked up till he
died after showing nearly all the symp-
toms Of suffering which opium fends un-
dergo. It wasn't particularly remark
able case, though it was interesting. for
there are many such cases On record.
They are not rare, it is said, In countries
where opium is used. I have read of two
monkeys in Camoodia being kept as pets
by an opium smoker. They seemed to
enjoy the smoke greatly, and became
such confirmed fends fhst if they were
not allowed to enjoy the SMOKE regularly,
they would scream loudly and try deeper
ately to break their chains. One of
them would chew the burned opium when
the pipes we're cleaned, and the other
seemed to prefer tho smoke. Whenever
his master would lay his pipe aside thi. one
would seize it and try to suck out ali the
smoke that was left. If their master
would leave them a few days without
smoke they would both become melant
choly and grow exceedingly thin, reject
ing all food until they were again in
dulged.
"Dogs and animals have also been
known to acquire this habit, and it is said
that savage animals, such "a tigers and
panthers, have been trained by teaching
them to enjoy opium. Of this last state
ment, however. know nothing definite"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

and cigar held carelessly between his
fingers while he coolly blows curls of
smoke up to the ceiling. A diamond
sparkles on his shirt front and cham
payne sparkles in the glass on the table.
"The Lobbyist" he calls it. 1t suits the
popular idea, but suspect the subject of
the artists sketch was an M. c. from the
Pacific slope.
The lobbyist of to-day DOESN'T wear
diamonds. He doesn't swagger and puff
smoke in members faces. If he drinks
champagne II is on the quiet. It is a
mistake to think that his pockets are
bursting with money, which he spends
with lavish hand. Gracious! this is no
more like the lobbyist of to-day than
the stage detective is like the genuine
article.
The typical lobbyist see every day at
the capitol is a plain man. He is unas-
sCming, poorly dressed, and, withal,
meek and lowly. He does not
and ask them to drink. He does
not treat them to champagne sup
pers or champagne lunches. He
makes no display of wealth. He does
n ot come upon the floor of the house 10
talk with members much, nor does he
walk through the corridors of the capitol
with an air of ownership. He is a gran
ger conference.-the fellow. His trousers
are baggad at the knees and wrinkled at
the bottom, from having been worn in
the tops OF his cowhide boots. If he
wears 'biled Shirt" it ia soiled, and his
face is not shaved often enough to
greatly affect his appearance. His
IrcI x-tfh loka -
the public domain. He is interested
in some way in the territories of No
Mans Lsnd and Oklahoma. For diplo-
matte reasons he is got up to represent
an "actual settler" with an honest desire
to get possession OF the legal 100 acres
and to dig a livelihood for a growing
family out of the soil. He manages to
stay in Washington at considerable ex-
Der until the adjournment of. congress
without serioRs inconvenience to himself.
He is anti monopolist and an
"actual settler" His pockets are
not full of money; they are
bullying with petitions signed by other
"actual settlers" It is to tire committee
that he directs his attentions, and it is a
matter of precaution not to make his face
too familiar with members on the floor.
He is generally quite clever at figures,
for frontiersman, and he furnishes
members of the committee in which he is
interested facts and statistics they might
not otherwise obtain. He does not look
especially bright; that is not his business.
He is sim pie. plain. honest settler.
He i7ides mis- time between the COM
mittee on territories, over which the YER
satiIe Mr.. Springer presides, aud the
public lands committee wherein Mr.. Hol-
man sits sin retreat" for his objections
in times past. Both these gentlemen
have tender spots in their hearts for the
simple citizens of the west who conquer
nature on the plains.
The lobbyist that popular impression
depicts could never overcome the predju-
dice of these men. The "actual settler"
disguise is the most successful of the day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
A Little Barren Kingdom,
New York Post.

The little kingdom of Greece embraces
territory of about $4,000 square miles,
and has population of little more than
100000 Greek and AlbeniaEs. Scotland
has about the same territory and almost
twice as many people. Switzerland has a
third less territory and third mors peo-
PIE. Belgium snd Holland taken togeth-
er have about the same territory as
Greece and five times az many people. AS
for wealth, Greece is proverbially the
poorest country in Europe. Her rugged
mountains and barren shores are hardly
f5 in many places for the seamless. vege-
tation; she has no rivers with fertile
banks; her commerce is still undevelop ped,
and she is cut off from Europe by the
treacherous Adriatic and by the inhos pit
able strip of Turkish territory that prom
ises to keep her for an indefinite future
from opening her railway connection with
the north.
In Greece to-day it is the universal
custom to speak of 'going to Europe"
just Am orleans do with the stormy Allan
tic between New York and Liverpool.
Add to all this the fact that this little
barren king dom of 100000 &c uls has a
public debt of $8O,0OO,0OO, and supports
an army as large as that of the United
States. The taxes are SO high that the
lslaDd of Crete, now under Turkish rule,
would nearly double it's ratio of taxation
should it enter the kingdom of Greece
But in spite of all this encouragement
Athens to-day is busy hive of educa
tional institutions, and in all the country
villages there are thrifty schools com
pulsory law being carried out with more
vigor year after year. Ten years age
the statistics for illiteracy in Greece were
ahead of those of Italy to-day, and these
ten years have revolutionizsd educational
affairs to Greece.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15

And large sbumbls" with sting as
pitiless as the finger of scorn just then
| climbed up the inside of Mr.. Middlerib's
night shirt, until it got squarely between
his shoulders, aud then it felt for his
marrow, and said calmly:
"Here is one of them"
And Mrs. Middlerib felt ashamed OF
her feeble scream when Mr.. Middlerib
threw up both arms, and with howl that
made the windows rattle, roared:
"Take him off Oh. land of Scott, some
body take him off!
And when little honey bee began tick.
| ling Mrs. M1ddIeriD's foot, she Shrek
ed that the house was bewitched, and i'm
mediately went into spasms.
The household was aroused by this
time. Miss MiddIerib and Master Mid
dlerib and the servants were pouring in
to the room, added to the general con
! fusion by bowling at random and asking
irreve,ent questions, while they gazed at
the figure of a man, little on in years,
arrayed in long night dress, paving
fercely at the unattainab.e spot III the
middle CT mis- back, while he danced a
unnatural, weird, wicked looking Jig by
the dim religious light of the night lamp.
And while he howled and danced, and
while they gazed and shouted, navy
blue wasp, that Master Middle-ib mad
put in the bottle fol-. good measure and
variety and to keep the menagarie stirred
up, had dried his wings and feet with a
corner of the sheet, and after circle or
two around the bed to get up his motion,
and settle down to a working gait fired
himself across the room and to his dying
day, Middlerib will always believe that
one of the servants mistook him for a
burglar and shot him.
No one, not even Mr.. Middlerib him
self could doubt that he was at least for a
time, most thoroughly cured of rheu-
matism. His own boy could not have
carried himself more lightly or with
greater agility. But the cure was not
permanent and Mr.. Middlerib does not
like to talk Gbout it.-Burdette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
The Directive Faculty in Brutes.

A bird that builds it's nest in a shelter
ed place exercises control over nature, IN
its degree, quite analogous 80 the work
of human architect. 'The foxes have
holes, and the birds of the air have
nests" How does the fox get its hole,
or the bird its nests They make them for
their purposes, and this is certainly con-
troll over nature to that extent. How
does the fox support his family if he has
no control over nature? Do hens and
chickens run into his hole and ask to be
eatenf DR.. Hopkins does not seem ever
TO have heard of the way in which tribe
of monkeys prep pare to rob cornfield.
Let US describe it. When they get ready
to start on their expedition, az ola mon
key, the leader of the tribe, with staff
in his hand, SO as to stand upright more
easily, marching ahead on two legs, thus
being more elevated than the others, so
as to see signs of danger more readily.
The rest follow him on aN-fSurs. The
leader advances slowly and cautiously,
carefully accommodating in all directions,
till the party arrives at the corn field. He
then assigns the sentinels to their respect
i've posts. All being now in readiness, the
rest of the tribe ravage and eat to their
hearts content. When they retire, each
one carries two or three ears of corn
along, and from this provision the SEN
tipels are RECALLED on arrival at their lair
Here we see ability to rule and 8
willingness 10 submit to rule; g
thoughtful preparation of means to
the end in view, and a recognition
of the rights of the sent1nels to
be suitably rewarded at the close of the
expedition. Wherein does all this differ
from a similar foray of a tribe OF savage
men? The only difference is in degree
otherwise it is much the ssme.-Fron
"Man in Relation to the Lower Animals,
by Prof. Edwin Erickson, in the Popular
Science Monthly for October.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
southern Timber.

The timbers OF the Southern States are
becoming scarcer every YEAR. There, as
in the North, the early settlers regarded
the forests as obstacles to be got rid of,
by cutting and burning, to make way for
the pillow. La this respect they far sur
passed the North in the destruction of
the timber, burning, drawing away-any-
thing to get rid OF the wood and clear a
place for cultivating the soil. As a con-
sequence, aided by the more recent saw
mills, many species have become scarce:
there are still, hoRever, large forests to
be found. The species most numerous
now are the elm, pine, white oak, poplar,
red cedar, maple, ash, cherry, cypress,
cottonwood, and of lesssim portance in the
commercial value the oak, walnut and
hickory. The willow is used quite eX-
tensively for the manufacture of baskets
it grows quite rapidly, and in many
places will ow farms started are returning
handsome income.
Some of the more highly priced woods
are becoming quite valuable on account
of their scarcity; among them we find
the poplar, walnut, oak and hickory. The
softer woods are more abundant, and also
grow to q mush larger size than the same
species farther north; the cottonwood for
instance, often reaches fifty feet to the
first branch; the grain is not SC close but
almost all make beautiful finish. The
red OR sweet gum is now more extensively
used than formerly; it is somewhat dis
posed to warp in drying, but its beautiful
color and the fine finish of which it ad
mits are rapidly bringing 1t into high
or estimate as a commercial wood. From
the present outlook the red gum, cotton
wood, sycamore and overcup oak vii
soon play the principel part in the lum
Der business of the South.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
How to..Eat.

It is reported that Mr.. Gladstone as
cribes his splendid health and longevity,
says the Sanitary Fra, to having early
learned one simple physiological lesson,
namely, 10 make twenty five bites at
every bit OF meat. Although the twenty
five bites might not make any i'm preston
on the meat in some cases, the 1aterest.
ing process of counting in every mouth
fu. must be species of rumination very
diverting TO the mind, and copgenial to
the statistical bent of the great treasury
minister. For the purpose of mastica-
ton, however, shaving the ment off thin
across the fiber with sharp knife would
be more effective, and more favorable to
sooiability at meals. Most people eat it in
chunks, and SO swallow it, after treat
ment that is merely lubricative, like that
of serpens.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
A Detectives Opinion ns Crime,

eyes, suppose men are growing bet
ter" said a prominent detective, thought
fully, slowly putting at a cigar as if he
drew trial balances of good aud evil with
the smoke; shat is to say there is less
violent crime. But do you know what
kind of crime gains relatively-yes. and I
think absolutely too?" 1 deferred to his
superior knowledge. aft is what might
be called selfish crime-crime of calcula-
ton as distinguished from crime of pas-
sion and violence. A few days ago The
New York Herald published a list of great
embellishments in this country in the past
ten years-or to be exact ten and a half
years. 1t shows total of $50,75O, 472, A
The six month of 1888 show total of ST.
240,000,063. That's well up 10 the average
and the biggest of them is within month
passed-Ju ne 81, when teller Pitcher OF
the Union bank, Providence, disappeared
with 1913, ga. This is the growing crime
or one of them.
''The other is the abuse and abandon
ment of wives. You think detectives are
hardhearted. Well they have to be in
a way or they would melt at the sight OF
sorrow we meet day after day. Poor
hard working women washing and scrub
bling to support Iouts of men, who drink
up all they earn, Tender women with
little babes at their breasts deserted anC
struggling from sunrise till late at nigh
to support their little ones and scarcely
seeing their children that are big enough
TO be out OF their arms from one day tt
another. That is the kind of exp erienci
that makes man case harden himself II
very self defence, and il is growing. A.
we become more English IL other things
we become like them ia our crimes. We
become wife heaters and wife deserter:
like them. tell you. ii the women woul6
promise 10 establish the whipping pos
for wife beafers and chain gang for wife
deserters, | would be- suffragist IL nt
time,' and be talked SD earnestly that hi!
cigar went cut. and he dung it from hIn
with an angry vim that showed one thIe
catcher hadn't been hardened farther thai
the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-15
Summers Unhappy Wife.
Washington Post

Said an old resident of Washington in
the lobby of the Eobitt lsst night
"Charles Sumner was great man in some
respects, but he ought never to have
married the woman he did. | doubt if he
ought to have married any woman at all.
Mrs Sumner was good Christian. She
was a widow whsn he married her, and
owing 30 the terms of will she surren-
dered her fortude. Sumner had nc re-
ligious faith, and he insisted on having
diplomatic receptions at his house
on Sunday night. You know he
was chairman of the committee
on Foreign Affairs. This was terribly
painful to Mrs. Sumner, and a consider
ate husband would have respected her
feelings. Then, again, Sumner cared
nothing for going out, and Mrs. Sumner
did. One of her acquaiptances was
gentleman of one of the foreign diplo-
matic corps, and he called three or four
times to escort her to places, as Is the
custom in all European countries. By
and by Sumner grew intensely jealous,
and went to the man and asked him what
his intentions were. He went further,
and through his influence had the man
recalled. This produced an explosion.
Ii was too much for Mrs. Sumner. and she
went to Paris to join her brother. By
the purest accident she INST the gentle
man in Paris about whom Sumner had
grown SO violent in Washington. The
situation was an awkward one, and she
returned at once to her friends in Boston.
She had given up her fortune to marry
Sumner, and was without penny, but
some one called about that time and left
her a comfortable income. She was a
uoble, Christian woman, of perfect blame
less life, and t.e greatest mistake she
ever made was in marrying Charles Sum
ner."