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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

A LARGE Roman Catholic cathedral was
publicly dedicated at Hong Kong on De
cember Z. 1t holds 1000 people and cost
$4,000. The roof is made of cast-lron
from Glasgow. The main building Is of
blue brick, relieved by flying buttresses
of red brick and cement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

THE negro race is the same the world
over. The Galveston News calls attention
to the fact that since the abolition OF
slavery in Brazil the relations between
the planters and freedom have become
very embarrassing. The negroes insist
on enjoying their new-found freedom
and refuse to work. As a consequence
crops are neglected and everything is
going to the dogs. Unfortunately, it re-
quires but little work to get the bare
necessities of life in Brazil, and the ne
groes are taking full advantage of the
situation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

Boston is said to have originated wood
saving contests 1etween pretty girls, which
nave become popular feature of church
sociables in New England. It is queer
that Boston, the stronghold of women's
rights, should be responsible for female
exhibition inevitably connected with
still tongue.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21
The Handsomest Lady In Town

Remarked to friend the other day that she
knew Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lungs
was a superior remedy, it stopped her cough
instantly when other cough remedies had no effect
whatever. So to prove this and convince you Of
its merit, any druggist will give you a Sample
Bottle free. Large size SOC and 81.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

Photographs OF the flight and explosion Of dy-
Mantle cartridges are among the achievements
OF the instantaneous method of photography
How our grandfathers would have wondered at
ouch pieturesi
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

After George Shafter, Of Natchez, had made a
legal affidavit that ON the oath of Isecember 1888
the current of the Mi sissippi river flowed up
stream for an hour, half dozen parties went at
1t and proved that ne was drunk all that day. 1t
was the current Of his whisky that flowed up
stream
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

The New York trade schools are accomplishing
a work which in a measure fulfills the need OF
some kind of an apprentice system. Since the
opening Of the schools IN the winter Of 1881 over
two thousand, from sixteen different states, have
been graduated, and most of these are now earn
ing good wages as skillet laborers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21
A Radical Cure for Epilestic Fits.

10 the EdtOr-Please inform your readers that
l have positive remedy for the above named
disease which warrant to cure the worst cases.
So strong is my faith in the virtues Of this medi-
cine that l will send free sample bottle and
valuable treatise to any sufferer who will give
me his 2. o. and Express address Ny remedy
has cured thousands of hopeless cases
II. q. ROOT ~ c. 1873 Pearl St New York
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

For Throat Diseases and Coughs use
BROWNS BRoNCHIAL TRoCHEs. Like all redLly
GOOD things, they are initiated. The genuine are
sold O1lLn IN h0rea
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

The new palace Of the Japanese emperor cost
$3,S6S231 The first calculation Of the cost was
$500 900, but it was reduced by order Of the
ar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

II afflicted with Sore Eyes use DR.. Isaac Thomp-
cons Eye Water. Druggists sell it, 25c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

IT is estimated that if there is no de
crease in Immigration the population of
the United States at the date of the next
census, July, 1890, will be 67,GO0,00O. The
present rate of increase is about $4,000 a
day, which would make the ratio about 81
per cent. The New York Tribune, NOR
alizing on these figures, says: "The new
population to be fed, clothed, housed and
transported, numbers 1,75O,O0O every year.
That means roughly 100000 bushels
more wheat, 90,O0O.OOO pounds more
sugar, over 100000 pounds more beef,
100000 pounds more wool, 1000 miles
more railroad, and so on through the
whole list of products. Unless the nation
keeps pace in each branch of production
with this remarkable growth in popula-
ton, demand will soon tread upon the
heels of supply. If the nation produces
a little too much OF anything for the pop
ulation of yesterday, it may be sure that
the population of tomorrow will want
the whole and more
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21
WISCONSIN LEGISLATURE.
TUESDAY, Feb. IL.

SENATE.-Tuesday morning, the 18th,
president pro tenn. Dyson took the chair
and called the senate to order. In ten
minutes the clerks desk was literally
swamped with lemonstrences against the
passage of senate bill No. 10, which is
Hon. Fl. A. Taylor's railroad bill.
The batch was scooped off on to the
Journal clerks desk and that official
waded through them. There were four
petitions for the passage of the bill.
Bill 145, to authorize the city of Mil
waukee to raise a special tax in the south
sewerage district of said city, was passed
under suspension of the rules. con
siderable number of bills were intro
euoed, when the senate adjourned until
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock.
AssRMBLY.-A5out thirty circumstances
were presented, coming from all portions
Of the state, against the passage of SEN
ate bill No. 10, known as the Taylor bill.
Petitions were presented asking for the
passage of bill No. 90, bill to prevent
incompetent persons from the practice
of medicine. Also petitions asking
for the passage of bill No. 1 A., to Ii
cense stationary engineers, and for the
enactment of the cO-employe bill.
long list of bills we're introduced, and
several bills chiefly of local nature were
passed, when the assembly adjourned un-
til Wednesday morning at 10 O'Clock.
WEDNESDAY, Feb. Is.
SENATE.-The way circumstances roll in
every morning against the passage Of the
Taylor railroad bill, one would naturally
be led to think that this bill is in the soup.
A number of petitions were received urg
ing the passage of the local option bill.
resolution was adopted constituting the
senator's from Milwaukee a body to be
known as the milwaukee delegation"
The folio sing senate bills were passed:
Relating TO railroads in the city of Eau
Claire, and legaljzing certain ordinances
referring thereto. Providing for new
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21

The order of the war department for
seven dynamite guns makes it morally
certain that the recent experiments with
the latest mode of military defense has
been considered very satisfactory by the
officials. The success of the pneumatic
dynamite gun has attracted the attention
of foreign governments, and every move
ment of our engineers is closely watched
by European experts on the ground.
Uncle Sam is a very accommodating in
dividual, and allows Germans and French
alike to take notes while dynamite shell
is projected a mile for the first time and
exploded with teri fic effect. Standing
over against this free and easy way, is
the peck of trouble the French Colonel
Senart is in for rejecting upon the Stras-
burg authorities who refased his surgeon
a pass port to visit his dying mother.
The London Times lawyers are turning
out deal of matter concerning the in
ternal workings of the various secret
Irish organizations in this country, but
nothing that duplicates Parnell and his
immediate associates. Indeed Attorney
General Webster admitted that he had
never been prepared to suggest that Mr..
Parnell or other members of parliament
were personally connected with murder
Gus outrages, but they associated with
were guilty of violent crime. The &C
acknowledgement is evidently prelude to
the admission that the Parnell letters are
not to be produced in court. The public
has long been led to believe that those
letters which formed the most sensational
part of the "ParneIlism and Crime" ar
ticles, were forged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-02-21
POLITICS AMONG THE IEDIANs.

It is a curious fact, not generally
known and of general interest just now,
that we have long used a system of vot-
ing that is similar TO the Australian sys-
tenn. Our candidates are nominated in
conventions or prim aries as IN the states;
the campaigns are carried on largely
by means of barbeques. Men, women
and children gather at some convenient
spot, often as many as five thousand
souls and there We roast oxen, sheep and
pigs. There Is feasting, dancing aud
speech making. l have seen an orchestra
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20
NEW SUFFRAGE NOTES.

REV. j. w. HAMILTON, in his address
before the Christian Endeavor Conven-
ton, held in Fitchburg, Mass, made q
strong plea for the ballot for women.
FROM reports the Kansas baby is still
thriving, and is as well cared for as the
baby of other States, Notwithstanding
that the women of that State enjoy
municipal suffrage.-Woman's Chroni-
Gle.
Miss SARA WINTHROP SMITH. who Is
now associate editor of the Woman's
Tribune with Mrs. Colby, is direct de-
scendant of Abigail Adams. She thus
comes naturally in her belief in equal
rights for women.
The Political Equality Club lately
started in Meriden, Conn.,, is doing we'll.
Some of the most prominent women in
Meriden show great deal Of interest in
the meetings, and the success of the
club seems to be assured.
A NUMBER of French women of the
upper class are following the example
of their English sisters and taking an
active interest in politics. Their Or
ganization, the ''Rose of France" bids
fair to rival the Primrose League.
WOMAN organists are almost taking
precedence in Buffalo, N. ", over the
men of the profession, and are now en-
ployed in some of the leading churches.
There are at least eight women Or
ganists holding good positions in that
city.
As WOMEN do most of the teaching,
and hence are responsible for the sue
cess or failure in their methods Of in
struction, it seems fair to allow them to
have a voice as to how the schools
ought to be conducted.
American.
A WOMAN does not give up her wife
hood or her motherhood, her graces or
her sensibilities, when she becomes a
voter. But suffrage will increase wom-
ans self-respect. When she considers
these higher questions of general in
terest, she will become a larger and
nobler person.-Rev. Samuel Il. Stew
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20
Demorali,inx discrimination.

At certain time of year, the colleges
graduate many young women, who re.
ceive diplomas comforting upon them
such honor as they have earned. These
testimonials of scholarship and stand
ing are, says Woman's Journal, in a
good degree, proof that the bearer is a
valuable member of society, who will be
all the more useful on account of her
college training.
The prisons graduate their convicts at
all times of the year. The fact that
they have served sentences in prison is,
in good degree, proof that each man
who leaves the prison will not be val
liable member of society. The State
deals with both these classes. 1t well
comes the convict to the body polite.
with the right and the power to help
shape the government, to make the
laws, and to impress his personality up
on them. He may vote and be voted
for. AS far as his power goes, he can
help to secure laws that will be lenient
to criminals and to crime. The State
gives him the full rights Of citizenship.
The State excludes from the body pol
itic the woman who Is a college gradu-
ate. 1t denies her right to help shape
the government or to help make the
laws, or to bring her fine education and
good moral qualities to make the State
better. 1t denies to her the highest
right of citizenship-the right to vote.
Politically, she is held as a perpetual
minor. The male convict Is her politi-
cal superior.
Some day the State will find out what
it loses by making sex the basis Of po-
litical rights, thus depriving itself Of
the full aid Of its good women, who, if
their votes could be added to the votes
of the best men, would make a major
ity every time, and so secure the best
results.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20
CIVILIZED WOMEN.
How Some of Their Practices are Re
garded by Oriental Ladies.

How Some of Their Practices are Re-
garded by Oriental Ladies.
was showing some photographs Of
friends of mine to Moorish lady. She
did not try to conceal her establishment
at the fact that well behaved women
as l had repeatedly to assure her they
were, could be SO bold as so have their
picture taken in this way to be exhibit
ed to every chance acquaintance. But
when we reached one taken in full even
ing dress she seemed simply stupefied.
"Wallah," she exclaimed, '.you are
laughing at me. This is impossible!
No modest woman could allow any
strangers to see even picture of her.
self with her bosom thus exposed. This
must be some work of Imagination, not
the portrait of real living woman"
But assured her that she was mistaken.
l explained to her the mysteries of a
ballroom. ''Then, "she exclaimed in high
excitement, MAY Allah curse her, and
her house, and her offspring to all eter-
nifty! Shame on her! Now this lady
was no old and bag gard maiden, such as
even among ourselves is sometimes found
to frOwn upon the gayly-dressed damsels
around her and to reprove in the bitter
ness of her envy and loneliness their
mad and merry frolics. She was a
young woman of eighteen years of age,
herself perfect type of the far-famed
Moorish beauty, wife for the last five
years, and a mother Of three children.
The tone of her voice left no doubt on
my mind Is to the honesty and genuine
character of her disapprobation. In
other words, she regarded her western
sisters, who never cease plying her
position and are always busy forming
themselves into societies for the relief
of herself and her prisoners and
slaves, with just the same amount of
contempt and aversion as they them
selves are accustomed to regard the
brazen fgurante, who nightly displays
the charms of her limbs and person for
the delectation of miscellaneous audi
ences reeking with the fumes of tobac-
co and whiskyl-Eortnightly Review.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20

ture and to Aristotle. The cardinal Is
not without intellectual descendants to-
day; but the determination to disregard
facts does not alter facts. It Is too late
to say that women can not learn Greek,
or mathematics, or science, or any
thing else that men learn, and he
who undertakes the defense of the
Anticipated theories relating to the STE
male mind has . prodigious difficulty
on hand. As for the girls of Georgia, l
am 10th to believe that they are any less
able or ambitious than their sisters in
other States; and as one interested in
the great State of Georgia, l can not but
regre: that she should retard
her own progress by refusing to
deal as justly by her daughters as
by her sons-for this, as it seems to me,
must be the result of the rejection Of
the bill to admit women to the State
University. The accommodating testi-
mony of history and science compels us
to believe that country can reach the
highest and truest prosperity only as it
makes the most out of all of its citizens,
the women as well as the men.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20
MONTANA'S LEGISLATURE.
Vile Democratic Frauds and Crimes o
the Ballot BOX.

Vile Democratic Frauds and Crimes ON
the Ballot BOX.
The control of the Montana Legisla-
ture hung upon the counting or the re-
lection Of one precinct in Silver Bow
County. The board of canvassers of that
county threw out the vote Of the pre-
cinct on what they believed to be good
evidence Of fraud, and so elected enough
Republicans to give that party ma
jority on joint ballot. The court, pre-
sided over by Democratic Judge, whose
own election was at issue, ordered the
board to count the votes, and the DEM
ocratic county clerk then issued certif-
Gates to Democrats, giving the control
of the Legislature to that party. But
the State Board Of Canvassers, after
vainly trying to get the Silver Bow
County returns from the Democratic
clerk, acted on the information before it
and gave certificates to the Republican
members. So there are now two sets of
certificates, one issued by the State
Board and the other by the county clerk,
and on the decision which is the legal
set depends the control Of the Legisla-
ture and the election of two United
States Senators. The grounds on which
the vote of the notorious Tunnel pre-
cinct in Silver Bow County was
thrown out have been frequently
stated. The election was irregular,
the vote was vitiated by fraud, and the
law was wholly disregarded in making
out the return. The vote as returned
was III Democratic and Republican,
although ten Republicans have made
affidavit that they voted their party
ticket. There were only three judges
at the election instead of five, as the
law required, and the ballots were can
vassed in secret, the clerks, sheriffs and
watchers being excluded and paper
pasted over the windows. The returns
were also all made out by one of the
judges instead Of by the clerks, as the
law demands, and were held back until
it was known whether they would aid
the Democrats in getting control of the
Legislature. After carefully watching
the matter from the beginning to the
present time we have not been able to
find any denial Of these charges by the
Democrats. They seem to have rested
their case wholly on an attempt to bluff
and bully the Republicans Of Montana.
After waiting patiently for statement
of the Democratic case and a refutation
of the Republican accusations, and none
being made, it is only fair to conclude
that none can be made and that the Re-
publican position is the right one. I'M
fortunately for the Democratic party,
its whole record is against it in this
matter of fraud on the bailot-box. Its
history is smeared and blistered with
fraud. Passing by the South for mo-
ment, the Democratic record is black
ened with election outrages in Maine,
New York, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
1t is not strange that party so saturated
with fraud and forgery should attempt
to import the tactics of the burglar into
a new State.-Philadelphia Press.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20


10 II they were equal b ne "eDerge3
Cyl" many were removed and u nent
kind substituted It was thought necessary -
purge the list both OF the living and the oea6
Fully thirty thousand (3000O) leg'l voters loss
their votes by these registrars dropping shSif
names from the rolls q few days prior to the cleo
tion-too late to be remedfed. This was especial
~ true in the cities Eight hundred (Sp) IegA
voters names in one ward OF Richmond were
erased from the poll books-although they hao
been voting in the ward for years Five nun
dred 900 In the outlying districts or Henrfco
were dropped In the same way In fact, this
trick was faithfully carried out al through the
Eastern part OF virginia; and then foaioweo
the final work on election day. In every part OF
Virginia where the Republican vote was heavy
and the voters were colored great frauds eno
intimidation OF voters prevailed. m Norfoix'
Richmond ana other large places NOT more than
one colored voter out OF SIX was allowed 70
vote. The remainder stood In line part OF the
day and waited until they became discouraged,
ana then left, while others stood In nne nom
the rising OF the sun until long AFTER dark ano
were not permitted 70 vote. Democratic ponce
men ana young lawyers were presens N ioree 70
ntlniuate cos3reu Votera
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-12-20
IN WOMAN'S BEHALF.
A POWERFUL ADVOCATE.

Efficacy Of the General Newspaper In DIT.
fusinE Suffrage Sentiment.
The Importance of press work In ad-
vancing the cause of suffrage is not yet
fully realized. Nor can the difficulties
in the way of the work be thoroughly
appreciated, except by those engaged in
1t.
The results from all suffrage writing,
says Mary E. Cardwell, probably always
seem inadequate, not only to the writer's,
but to others. 1t may or may not re-
ceive passing notice, or careful atten-
ton, or it may lead to an attack upon
the cause-an attack usually SO worth
less as to give no room for intelligent
controversy-and an impression is apt
to be left that nothing written can be
made convincing enough to break down
the walls of Indifference and wilful con-
seryatism. But it is truth, which it
should not be necessary to repeat to suf-
fragists, that to-day suffrage sentiment
is being created largely by the press.
Conventions are held once year. Local
societies do good work by keeping alive
and strengthening, chiefly, the suffrage
sentiment of their members. The press
is not only at work the year around,
but it reaches millions, who appear only
to be waiting TO have their minds awak-
ened upon all manner of subjects, and
their honest opinions furnished them
by the papers they read.
If suffragists better understood the
power of a continuous published advo-
cacy of the cause, the suffrage papers in
the country would be in most flourish
ing condition: their number would in
crease, their distribution among nom
suffragists would be great. and many
converts would be made.
But it is in the nature of things that
no suffrage paper should have as wide
an influence as the local press of any
State or district. A general newspaper
is read by hundreds which the organ of
any movement could not possibly reach.
And where movement is represented
in the columns of any newspaper, it will
almost inevitably at some time be
brought before the eyes of every reader
of the paper. To insert suffrage news,
notes, comments and arguments in the
columns of local newspapers, is, in the
truest sense of the phrase, sowing seed
broadcast.
In regard to the work in Indiana, Mrs.
NJ. s. Brooks, one of the most efficient
of the local superintendent, says: ''Of
one thing 1 am convinced; this local
press work, judiciously executed, will
prove to be the lever that shall make
the vote in this State unanimous for
woman suffrage, whenever it shall be
brought before the people,"
1t is not too much to say that IL every
paper in the State published suffrage
matter regularly, or even occasionally,
it would not be long before the question
would be brought before the people.
Perhaps the same result would almost
as rapidly accrue If one paper in every
county published suffrage matter regu-
larly-a condition of things which might
probably exist now, If the suffragists Of
the State could comprehend its impOr-