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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Germany and Jack Klein.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 2O.-Sec'y. Bayard,
when shown the Berlin dispatch in which
it is stated that the Cologne Gazette
says Germany will demand of
the United States government the
arrest and punishment of Klein,
the Ameaican CORES pondent, charged
with having led the attack against the
Germans in Samoa, said it was the first
he had heard of it. He added that he did
not know of Klein'5 existence until
informed of it by the Germans, and said
that he had referred all CORES pondence
received by MIN in regard TO Klein to the
committee on foreign relations.
A Railroad Company Charged With Fraud.
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 20.-In the United
States district court. yesterday, Granville
p. HAYES, of New York, in behalf of the
American Loan and Trust com pany, ap
piled TO Judge Gresham for receiver for
the st. Louis d Chicago railroad, and
the Mount Olive railway, and L. j.
Cavitt, of Litchield, Illinois, was
today appointed. Tse road runs from
Springfield, H., to Nj. Olive in this state.
The bill flied charges D. L. Wing,
formerly president OF the railway, with
& fruduIently transferring the property of
the company TO another corporation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Managing a Balky Steed.

Pulling at the head by the bit is the
worst possible way, says Joseph Titus in
Our Dumb Animals, of treating a balkl
horse. He manages in this way: When
ever d horse driven 1y myself baked I
got out OF my carriage, went to his fore
foot, lifted it from the ground, and struck
the shoe few short blows with a stone
or with wrench, which l always carry.
| never failed to start horse in that way,
and on several occasions had balky horses,
being handled by others, after other
methods had failed. I request the driver
generally TO move out of the way, that his
voice or presence may not be recognized
by the horse. [ then first inform the
animal, by patting HIM and talking to
him, that there is new man at the helm,
thereby diverting his attention. As soon
as he begins to give attention / take up
his foot and tap it S few times, aud never
failed, except in one instance, TO start
the horse, and that exception was where
the horse was overloaded and knew it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
HOW TORNADOES ARE MADE.
Lieutenant Finley's Clear and Concise Expla
nation.

HINGToN.-Lieutenan John P. Fin.
ley of the United States signal service,
who is the tornado expert of the estab-
lishment, and has published a dozen
books on the subject, gives an explana-
tion of the tornadoes which swept over
Pittsburg, Reading and Brooklyn last
week.
''They were tornadoes," he said, "and it
was a mistake TO call them cyclones. Cy-
clones are storms of a very different
kind, and belong to the West Indies. The
tornado is funnel-shaped column of dis
turbed air, generally about 40 or so yards
in diameter, which whirls round and
round upon an axis almost perpendicu
lar, and sweeps across the country. It's
destructive power is terrific. 1t forms in
the upper air, few miles overhead, and
works down to the earth. Its track is
generally not more than about 25 miles
until it disappears into the upper air
whence it came.
"The tornadoes which struck Pittsburg,
Reading and Brooklyn We're evidently
separate and distinct. These tOrnadoes
are local, and only incidents of general
storm. The general storm last Wednes-
day began in eastern New Mexico, moved
directly eastward to southern Arkansas,
thence directly northeastward to Micht
gan and northern Canada. The diameter
OF the general storm was about five hun
dred miles. The center eff the general
storm was between Chicago and Grand
Haven, Mich. Draw circle of five hun
dred miles radius from the general storm
center, and you will find that in the
southeastern quadrant of that circle tor
nadoes will form and will move towards
some point IN the northeastern quadrant.
'At O'Clock Wednesday morning there
were southeriy winds and very hign tenn
perature along the south Atlantic coast.
In Florida the temperature was over 70
deg, while III Pennsylvania it was below
80 deg. The isothermic line for that day
bulges upward at Chicago and drops VIC
lently downward through Pennsylvania
and northern Virginia. The hot air
south OF the isothermic line was strug-
Cling to get northward, and the cold air
north Of the line was struggling to get
south. It was this struggle that caused
the tornado. The cold air ultimately pre-
vailed. That is to say, on the ground
| level the cold air crushed the warm air
out. The warm all was simply driven
from the earth to an upper stratum.
NORMALLY the Gif is much warmer on
the earth's surface than it is skyward, but
on the day of the tornado if you had got
| into 2 balloon at Pittsburg and assembled
a mile or two you would have struck
warmer air as you went no. The line
where the warm and cold air came into
closest contact was the line where the
| tornado formed"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
The Black Walnut.

Daniel B. Emerson, of Beloit, Wisoon-
walnut culture. He prefers shallow
planting, seven feet apart each way, if
planted in field, or sixteen feet apart
if planted around fences, as wire fences
can bR attached to the trunks without in
jury. Under favorable circumstances,
the trees begin to bear in about seven
years. One bushel contains from 400 to
600 nuts, or Is pounds Of kernels, which
will yield seven and one-half pounds of
oil. He has trees fifteen years old which
are thirty feet high and foot through at
the base. They yield ten bushels of nuts
each annually, worth 81. The leaves and
the husks, when boiled, furnish a liquid
which will kill worms and insects on
lawrs, without iniuring the grass.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Newspaper Responsibility.

This country could not hold together
at all without newspapers. The news paper
with the telegraph in its service, makes
the people of California and the people
of New York neighbours, and enables
them to understand each other. When
the states OF Mexico get more newspapers
and telegrapns they will have fawer
revolutions.
This is only one of the many great ser
vices the American press renders the
American people, and there is no reason
to believe that all of these services are
not fully appreciated. The press is the
power IN front of the people and behind
the peoples government. 1t resolves its
impulse from those it leads, and trans
mits it to those over whom it is the PEG
ple's right and interest to exercise con
trolling influence.
The people want q responsible press
nd they want to keep it res poDsible. Tie
whence of this is seen in the libel Ia VS.
of the different states which some of our
coutem porsries are now attacking as
tending to restrict the freedom of the
press guaranteed by the constitution"
Undoubtedly libel laws can be SO framed
as TO practically nulIify that clause of the
constitution and in some cases something
very like that has been done. Such laws
generally originate with lawyers, who are
always sus pected of being interested par
ties in anything that promotes litigation,
but they are generally repealed before
their bad effects become serious. The
popular idea that a newspaper should be
fully responsible, is right and just and it
is right that it should be expressed in
just law.
All that any newspaper has right to
ask for itself whel called TO answer by
law, is the right 70 prove truth in justjf
cation. Or If it has made an honest mis-
take, not TO be called 10 account for il as
if it were malicious. Every newspaper
that tries to tell the truth at the right
time, expects to have libel suits, and to
fight them. That is a part of the respon-
sibiIity OF a responsible newspaper.
People approve it and that they expect it
the verdiots of the juries nearly always
show.
People who have good regulations and
deserve them are not afraid of the press,
but they have very sensible ideas about it.
They know the value of private 1eputa-
ton and they want the newspaper to be
very careful in dealing with it. If it does
that it can rely on public support and
public spmpathy. If 1t does not, juries
of the people can make very little law
go long way against 1t.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
The Purpose of All Our Industry.

It is curious I'll ought that all the huge
value of traffic, production, distribution,
nd conversion, has for its end and OBJ
ective point the supply of each inhablt-
nt with few feet of boards over his
head, Sustained by bricks or timber; about
ten pounds of wool, sixteen pounds of
cotton converted into clothing, a barrel
of -four, and two or three hundred pounds
of meat each year; and a little sugar, a
glass of beer, about five pounds of solid
of liquid food per day; these constituting
the necessaIieS of life. Some one has
said that life would not be worth living
except for it's Injuries, and that time
would not be worth having except for the
hours that could be saved for leisure.
How mpch of luxury and how much of
leisure can the average man get out of
what fifty to ffty-fve cents a day will
buy for his shelter, food and clothing ?
Edward Atkinson IL the January
Forum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Sales at the Worlds Auction Mart in Paris

ooics DIT tue NOrlus AuclloH mdrG III ParlS
What one sees at the hotel Drouot can
be seen nowhere else in the world, and
this Is the reason men come there to see
from London and New York, from Vienna
and from Amsterdam, st. Petersburg and
from Toxic. At the hotel Drouout are
sold such splendors of the Summe
Palace as escaped the flames, the library
OF the emperor of China, his rare mantles
OF blue fox skin, his sceptre of jade and
his ceremonial robes embroidered with
writing dragons. In these rooms that
open right and left on the broad lobby
you may see any day during the season,
and you may study, handle. smell, feel
and otherwise examine, better than Won
can II any N dseum or in the gallery of
the most ahaole amateur, etchings, litho-
graphs, line engravings, Japanese albums
manuscripts and drawings by all masters
and of all schools, arms of all nations
and epochs, ana all that the masters of
Italy or of Flanders, of France or of
Spain have painted during centuries for
princes and for converts. The hotel
Drouout Is museum and library whose
cases and shelves are being continually
flle1 and emptied; repository of erudi-
ton and of curiosity, where she thirsty
student is never tantalized by the sight
of sealed fountains of knowledge, and
where hundred lessons are to be learned
daily, without fee, Without constraint and
without text books or professor.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
SOMEHOW OR OTHER.

Life has burden for every ones shoulder.
None may escape from its trouble and care;
Miss it in'youth and twill come when we'er Older,
And fit us as close as the garments we wear.
Sorrow comes into our homes unlimited,
Robbing our hearts of its treasures of song;
Lovers grow cold and our friendships are
sighted,
Yet somehow or other we worry along.
Midst the sweet blossoms that smile in our faces
Grow the rank weeds that would poison blight;
And e'er in the midst of earth's beautiful palaces
There always is something that isn't quite
right.
Yet oft from rock we may pluck a gay flower 3
And drink from spring in a desolate waste;
They come to the heart like a heavenly power,
And naught is so sweet to the eye or the taste
Everyday toll is everyday blessing.
Though poverty's cottage and crust we may
share;
Weak is the back on which burden are pressing,
But stout is the heart that is strengthened by
PRAYER.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Fattening too Much.

The brilliant essayist, Macauley, long
wrote that prize sheep and cattle were fit
only for candles, and prize essays were
usually only fit TO light them. With only
the first part of this antithesis we nave
now TO do. MecauIey lived before the
era Of electric lights and kerosene, when
candies were the common means of illu-
mination. Tho fat OF the beef or snee o
was quite generally worth more per pound
than any other sort of the animal. Its
use for candle making gave it value
which reacted IN o5her directions. The
sturdy, hard working mer and women of
forty or fifty years ago, ate, relished and
digested much fstter meats Of all kinds
than do most people now. Fat is not
easily digested. To dyspeptic who
takes little exercise this is q serious oh
lection. To the healthy worker slowness
of digestion may be possible advantage.
The food Stands by" longer.
The objection to too much fat is strong
er in this country than in Europe. 4
larger proportion of our people live in
cities and are employed in sedentary oc
cupations than il most European coun-
tries. Besides, our fattened meats are
mainly corn fed, and the fat made from
corn is more than usually fat and indi-
gestible. Corn-fed pork is harder to di-
gest than either beef or mutton and is
therefore the favorite standby of men
working in the woods in cold weather.
Lumbermen, if offered beef or mutton
com plain of these excellent foods as too
light and unsubstantial, as did the Israel
tes of the Mama in their journey
through the wilderness.
The evils of excessive fairness are in
essed by the policy formerly prevalent
of keeping animals IN a eonditi Il Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
SENATOR EyARTS' LOG CABIN.
Peanut Roast, with Coon and Other Fix
ms. for the President

4 Peanut Roast, with Coon and Other FIX
ms" for the President
Washington Letter in the Albany Jour
nal: The administration OF the grandson
of ''old T1ppecanne" is 10 have a pleas
ant surprise. It is the inaug uration of a
dog cabin and hard cider" social cam
paigp by Senator Evarts. In the summer
of 1887, the senior senator from New
York purchased beautiful tract of lard
on the MAJ yland side OF the Potomac,
lust north of the old bastion and case
mated granite Fort Washington, almost
opposite Mount Vernon and eleven miles
from the Capital. Immediately after the
nomination of Gen. Harrison, Senator
Evarts made up his mind to build on this
estate on q commanding swell on the
eastern littoraI of the lake-like stream an
old-fashioned Harrison campaign log
cabin. He supplemented this patriotic
purpose with further determination that
if Gon. harrison were elected he would
reverse the popular campaign axiom OF
half century ago From the log cabnf
to the ''White House," to social axiom
of the new administration, From the
White House TO the log cabin,' but if he
were not elected he would make the
cabin the funeral pyre of his hopes and
expectations by applying to it the con-
Stunning torch. The grandson OF the
sire of 1910 was elected. The log cabin
on the curved skyline of the picturesque
peninsula or Swans Neck, the rude archi
tectural elevation of which attracted the
wondering attention of thousands OF pill
grims on the passing steamer TO the
tomb OF Washing ton during the Harrison
cam paign of 1888, Is now nearing the
com plation of its interior finish. By the
time Benjamin Harrison is fairly estab-
.ished at the helm of state the log cabin
of swans Neck will be opened to the hos
FATALITIES of its distinguish ed Senatorial
proprietor. The cabin is go feet long, 20
feet wide, and II feet between the joists.
It is fashioned after the Tirpecanoe cam
paign order of architecture of forty odd
wears ago. 1t is built of logs heHn in the
forests of the State ald raised and chink-
ed in the olden style. 1t has the charac-
teristic chimney and fireplace, 4x7 feet,
capable OF receiving hickory logs cut on
the estate to that traditional and historic
length. The interior arrangement 1s
suggestive of the hospitality AID good
cheer, the dining room, which Is 30x25
feet being the salient feature of the plan.
A sitting room and library ard sleeping
rooms occupy the rest of the space. The
commod1ous kitchen, with great fireplace
and cranes and spits and servants
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
James Payne's Advise to Young Writers.


The placing the scene of story In
foreign land is always disadvantageous.
1t may be mere ignorance which causes
untraveled readers to prefer stories of
their own land, but such is the fact.
They feel the same want of reality in
stories of foreign counties as in fairy
tale. All editors know this, aud look
askeDce at such productions. This is still
more true of the historical story. Mr..
Blackmore, 1t Is true, has delighted US all
with his Lorna DoOne," and Mr.. Besant
with his chaplain of the Fleet" but the
gentleman whose desire is to appear in
print is not likely to be either a Black
more or Besant at starting. At ons
time thanks TO Walter Scott, there was a
rage for stories of the middle ages, but
that has utterly died out. Even genius
such as dwelt in George Eliot was unable
to contend against the two drawbacks of
distant scene and a distant age, as in
"Romola," which, notwithstanding its
| great merits, never obtained the popular
| ity of her home novels.
Unless he has really nothing else to
write about, let the man who has a pas
sion to appear in print avoid "recollec-
tions of travel" All the world travels
nowadays, and writer of exceptional
talent is required to invest the subject
with interest. To describe in detail what
Asia Minor, or how you had 10 wait for
dinner among the Grim Tartars, is very
little more interesting than the same in
cident in New York or London. II the
writer has had an exceptional experience,
was driven, for example to eat Grim
Tartar, this observation of course does
not apply; but your ordinary traveller,
though he often bOres you to death, is
| rarely a cannibal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Disadvantages of Union with Canada.

union with Canada must first be asked
for on the part of the dominion or it will
not be worth the having. 1t cannot be
FASTENED by any effort of ours, but ell
such efforts will retard IL. Canada was
originally a colony of France, and there
are now over a million of French Cana
diens, described by Goodwin Smith, the
eloquent propagandist of commercial
union, as an ''unprogressiVt, religious,
submissive, courteous, and, though poor,
not unhappy people" He adds, that
while "they have a very Indifferent repu-
tatiOn as farmers" they are governed by
the priest with the occasional assistance
of the notary" This certainly is not
high commendation. Retaining in poor
way their French language, they have not
been assimiIated or angllcized, perhaps
cannot be Americanzed, and we have yet
to learn that the Latin race have any
where appeared to accept of republican
form of government with any staying
enthusiasm.
The public debt of the Canadian do
mipion, however formidable, would have
to be paid or assumed by the United
States in case of political union. It's
present amount in proportion to pOpula-
tion is more than three times as much as
that of the United States; and the latter
is being rapidly reduced, while that of
the dominion for the last twenty years
has steadily increased in every year ex-
cept two.
We do not need the Canadian dominion
as place of refuge for redundant popu-
lation. We do not need it for the purpose
of enrolling their young men in our
army. We do not need it for the purpose
of increasing our revenue, and, if We did,
the balance would be found on the other
side of the account Senator Morrill, IN
che January Forum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
0hin Mems Rannnet.

NEW YoKH, Feb. 19.-Covers were laid
for 250 guests at the fourth annual ban
quet of the Ohio society at Delmonico's
tonight. The dinner was delayed some
time in anticipation of the arrival of
Sen. Sherman and Congressman Mckinney
out their failure to put in an appearance
was the occasion of general regret.
Major Swayne presided. Letters of re-
greet were received from Joseph Taylor,
W. S. Rosecrans, Robert G. Schenck, r.
B. Hayes, and Sunset Cox.
Addresses were made by A. Minor
Griswold, Gen. Charles H. GresVernOr,
Cornelius N. Bliss and Gen. Roger A.
Pryor. The later spoke in the absence
of President Calhoun, of the southern
society, and paid a glowing tribute
to the south.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Farm and Home.
A LABOR SONG.
MRS. II. L. RAYNE.

''I'm going home, :" the refrain came,
In joyful accents ringing.
paused beside a window pane
Where sat a woman singing.
She, bending DER her hum bic work,
New courage seemed to borrow;
Her voice ran through the twilight mirk,
I'm going home tomorrow"
Then all about that dingy room,
Through all its grimy wilderness,
There shone a light that made the gloom
Glow with celestial brightness.
And from the singers care worn face
Passed every line of sorrow.
AS sung she in that gloomy place,
I'm going home tomorrow"
Oh, chorister of faith and hope.
In labor's by-paths lowly,
Why should / weary, doubling, grOpe?
Your psalm of life is holy.
Why then, need l, from day to day,
Much useless trouble borrow?
Why not sing your gladstone lay?
I'm going home tomorrow"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Ihe Notorious Klein,

WASHINGTON Feb. 18.-KIeiu, the news
paper man whose adventures in Samoa
have been the subject of much interna-
tional comment, will not appear before
the senate con- mittee on foreign rela-
lions, at least for the present. He mas
teIegraphed Secretary Bayard that
he was summoned TO testify concerning
matters in Samoa, but the secretary was
advised that the committee did not deem
it policy or polite to take any further
steps in the Samoa matter, pending the
result of the conference 80 be held nj
Berlin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
Looking for Crookedness.

Ashland, Wis, special says: Special
Agent Clark, of the treasury department.,
arrived from Washington today, and in
company with Special Agent Roberts, To-
cpted as A HAND, NJ will make thor
ough Investigate ur the timber cut
ting ON the IDdian reservation attached
to the La Pointe agency"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
A Horrible Case.

ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 19.-Brookiyn, ILL.,, is
all wrought up with two cases of hydro
phobia. James Moran, boy of Is years,
was bitten By rabid dog Thursday.
He was IN convul6ions, and while his
mother was attending to him he suddenly
turned and bit her. Today both mother
and son are suffering with the rabies, and
it is thought that neither can recover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-28
An Uniust Steward.

New YORK, Feb. 20.-John Williams,
linen steward on the steamship SerVla,
was arrested today, charged with
attempting to smuggle several thou
sand dollars worth of silks.
He says he was hired to smuggle goods
by leading silk merchant OF this city,
a warrant for whose arrest has also beeL
issued.