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The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09
GEN, MALONE IS DEFEATED

IN Virginia by over 5000 votes. New
York is Democratic by something like
10000. Maryland is heavily Democratic,
and Massachusetts as heavily Republic
can. Both states show
REPUBLICAN GAINS IN THE LEGISLATURE.
Sixty thousand Republican majority is
shown in Pennsylvania. New Jersey is
as usual, Democratic.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09
in retirir

cratic victory for the oveTllo.s ship by the
ELECTION OF BoIEs,
over Hutchinson, Republican. The leg
legislature is considered safely Republic
can. Both Foraker and Hutchinson ran
far behind their ticket.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09

Entered nj the pos!oficc at Dickinson. Stark
county, Dakota MS second class matter.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09
NORTH DAKOTA CALLED IN.

Following Is the Text of the Proclama-
tion Admitting North Dakota.
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09

Rice, secretary Of state, 22,057: Wem-
pie, comptroller, 1871: Tabor. attorney
general, 12,646; Danforth, treasurer, 49,
$50; O'Brien, judge of court of appeals,
The Dickinson press., 1889-11-09

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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
An Incident of the War.

The most remarkable case / ever
noted of individual friendliness between
northern and southern soldiers &C.
Cured at camp on the Rapidan, says
c. G. Wells in the st. Louis Globe
Democrat Videttes of the opposing
armies were stationed on either bank
of the narrow stream. Just after dark
one night the silence was broken by
the shout: Hello, Johnny Reb,"
from union man. He was answered
in moment by his opposite sentry
with Hello, Johnny Yank." Then
this colloquy occurred: ''Who are youp"
Taylor, of company A, First. Mass
achusetts. Who are youP" Taylor
of company E, Fifth Louisiana. -"
"What is your first name?" .'Charles
E. What's yours?' Charles E.,
too" The peculiar coincidence at
tracted the attention from all of the
two armies within hearing, and they
listened to the story yelled across the
river from one army to another on the
eve of battle. 1t DEVELOPED that they
were father and son. The former had
opposed his sons marriage to factory
girl, and the son had married Just the
same. He and his bride had taken the
money the wealthy father had allotted
him, and suddenly disappeared. Then
the father relented, and continued an
unavailing search until the war had
called him. The son had gone to New
Orleans, it TRANSFERRED, and there had
gone into business and grown wealthy.
He had been imbued with the southern
spirit by his surroundings, and had
taken up southern arms. Next day
two boats, under flags of truce. met in
the river, and two armies witnessed
the reunion. The following morning
Charles E. Taylor, Jr., was missing
from our command, and we never saw
him until after Appomattox, when he
walked into camp and told us he had
gone over, taken the oath, and gone to
the old home, where he had remained
with his wife until Lees surrender
made it safe to see his old comrades.
His desertion had been to avoid fight
ing his father.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20

cover OF the stand, according TO the
within of the chambermaid. You have
mt the slightest idea 10 the world who
used the soap last, and very few per-
sons ever give the matter thought.
1t would be an easy-going individual,
aud one singularly Indifferent to con-
siderations ST cleanliness, who would
for a moment think of using a towel
that might have been used by the
previous occupant of a room at a hotel,
but the instances are rare where the
same guest will hesitate to use the soap
he finds in the room, although it may
scarcely be dry from the ablution of
the last person who used it. The
travelling man does not stop to think
that the hotel soap is unexcelled as a
distributor of cutaneous diseases, and
frequently those that are difficult of
eradication. The man who stops
habitually at the hotels here. there and
everywhere about the country, and
does not carry and use his own soap,
deliberately courts the contracting of
what may be a most distressing and
offensive malady."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Curiosities of Punctuation.

The following specimens of curious
punctuation were given by the Prifs-
terS' Register: A man who was sud-
denly taken sick ''hastened home
while every means for his recovery
were resorted to. In spite of all his
efforts, he died in the triumphs of the
Christian religion" "a man was
killed by a railroad car running into
Boston, supposed to be DEAF A man
writes: 1--WE have decided to erect a
school-house large enough to accom-
modate 500 scholars five stories high. !"
On certain railway the following lu-
minous direction was printed: 'Here-
after, when trains in an opposite di-
rection are approaching each other
on separate lines, conductors and en-
gineers will be requested to bring their
trains to dead halt before the point
of meeting, and be careful not to
proceed till each train has passed the
other" A steamboat captain, adver-
Using an excursion. says, Tickets,
25c; children half-price to be had at the
office" An Iowa editor SAYS: eve
have received basket of fine grapes
! from our friend W., for which he will
please accept our compliments, some
of which are nearly two inches in di-
ameter."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20

"Be off at once!' shouted the colonel,
81 must return, and you must not lose
moment
The frightened woman sped away
through the forest.
The commander of the post quietly
followed her trail for an hour or two.
When he was satisfied that she had
reached place of safety he retraced
his steps. He was almost in sight of
Cotton boro when he drew pistol and
placed It against his head.
The discovery of Col. Melton's dead
body excited the garrison of Cotton
boro to high pitch of wrath, but there
was nothing to be done.
THAT id spyr' said one of the
officers. He got loose in some way
and murdered the best soldier in
Florida"
This was the general verdict. 1t
was thought that the spy had taken
advantage of the colonel, and had
assassinated him. Nor did the spy
ever find out the true explanation. She
knew the magnanimity of her hus-
band, but she never knew the secret of
his death. Perhaps the commander of
the post did not care to live in the
same world with his wife. Perhaps
he preferred death rather than to re-
turn to Cottonboro without his prisoner.
No one ever knew. But gray-haired
woman in one of the northwestern
states spends hours at a time in her
little cottage with folded arms think
ing over mysterious chapter of the
past.
eff only knewr' she whispers every
day to herself. "If l only knewm
But she never will know, and the
world will never know.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Some Curious Comments.

Here is batch of comments made
by the Albany, Ca, negroes on the
new electric lights, as reported by the
Macon Telegraph. Use sorry de
white folks put desc 1ectric lights
'roun' town. said one little darky to
his companion, "'cause l can't hook
any more apples in front oh de stores
after dark" and the mournful tone of
his remark indicated the sincerity of
his feelings. But another little coon
took brighter view of the situation.
Said he: ''Pm gwine to shine shoes al
night now. I know the white folks
amt gwine to walk around under desc
lights, shinin' bright as day, wild de
dus all over dey shoes. Golly! Amt
glad dey put 'em up" An old black
nanny or grandmammy, as the case
may be, whose ideal of life is the old
time slavery habits, said: ''Lor', chile,
| don't know nothin' bout dem things.
De white folks always doin' sunni we
niggers don't understan'. l never did
think dey was gwine ter make light
out of a wire, but dey always dom
sunni strange. Candles is good nut
for me, honey-good nuf fur me-" and
she ambled aimlessly down the street.
One darky who wished to conceal his
ignorance made greater display of ii
in his explanation to his companion.
He was asked: ''How does dis thing
work?" To which he replied: .'Don't
you know? You amt got a bit O.
sense, niger, you can't see. II used
to help 'em light up in AtlantaP" How
do dey light emp" ''Why, dey sticks
de fire in de furnace, and de wires all
run in dere and de lectricity bein' all
over de wire, takes de fire in de fur.
mace and carries it all 'roun town. Dat
is sho' a great thing. But it's no use
fur me to try and tell you niggers
bout it, you don't know nothin'," and
they didn't when he had concluded his
explanation. II amt gwine ter fool
wild dem lectrus lights" said a darky
who is porter in one of our leading
stores the other night. 81 tell yer
Electricity is a dangerous thing" ''Oh,
no, boss. I amt gwine to ketch hold O
dat string" said a darby when told to
catch the string that held the lamp.
'I'se Altered it'll bust, "was his plausible
excuse. Another darby was told to
hold up the wire as it lay stretched
across the street. 81 can't do dat,
boss" was his reply. Zone niger
cotch hold O. one dem wires in Mum.
gumery and his whole family died"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20

the train taken on at Wakefield he
stood on the platform as the cars
passed by at moderate rate of speed
and read the numbers, all of which
were in the ten thousands. Without
writing them down he went to the con-
ductor and reported the numbers. II
was afterwards ascertainsd that all
were correct.
With all their affection and frank
ness, the Maori children seem to have
no idea of obedience. The babies are
carried slung OF the backs of the moth
ers in shawls, like the papooses of our
Indians. The women have their ears
pierced for wearing ornaments, of
which the sharks tooth is a fayorite:
but some, with an inventiveness not
found among their civilized sisters.
have been known to utilize the hole in
the ear by sticking into it a tobacco
pipe, so as to have it ready for use.
The writer of new novel saws:
The success of books, plays, of any
artistic enterprise, is almost wholly
dependent on chance. The majority
of people have an instructive antago-
nism against accepting any sort of
unrecognized merit. They hope the
new thing will blow over that they
will not have to read it. look at it, or
hear it. Now, if l were a clever man
or woman in position to lead society
| would make it point each season to
set some actor, author, painter or
musician on his legs; that is, to give
him reputation.
Among peculiar wills made recent
ly is one which gives the son and heir
an annuity, but he is not to receive the
first installment of the principal $780,
900, until ten years will have passed,
and then on the condition only that
he has not been drunk during that
time. Ten years later he will be en-
titled to $250,000 more on the same
condition. But what is peculiar, the
son is temperate and with no tenden-
cies. so far as known, to form drink
ing habits. The latter is not inclined,
however, to submit gracefully to the
prohibition, and is trying to come into
the full Inheritance at once
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Protect the Blue Jay.

The blue jay is pre-eminently New
England bird, and it is always with US,
always happy, and in his tropical
plumage is thing of beauty to the
landscape, the lawn and thicket. Dur
ing the breeding season it becomes
very tame when protected, and will
build its nest within few feet of your
door; and in the middle of Winter,
when the snow is deep, and the fakes
in myriads are falling, he alights on
the sapling near your door-yard, and
in his trumpet notes plainly tells you
he don't care for your New England
weather. During the entire twelve
months in the year he is with US and
near us continually; and those who
have trees upon their grounds, and
have no blue jays, can attract them by
fastening raw bones with some meat
on them up into the branches of the
trees. This will not only attract the
blue Jays, but the chickadees, nut
matches, squirrels, and even in very
severe winters the crow will venture
down for lunch if he is given but a
fair chance. The blue jay can protect
himself, his nest, or his young, against
anv of the animal creation except man.
He that is made after Gods own image
arms himself with various weapons.
and sneaks in a cowardly manner,
even when his victim is half starved.
He gains position which suits him,
the trigger is pulled, and the mangled
body Of the bird falls to the ground.
This specimen of Gods creation spends
some thirty minutes SHINING his vic
tim, when he has something with a
commercial value of % cents; for this
he robs the landscape of its brightest
gems. Every boy can be taught to be
humane. and can be taught to protect
our birds, instead of barbarously de-
stroying them for pittance. We ap-
peal to everyone with lawn large
enough to not only protect the blue
iav, but to attract him and feed him in
the manner above described. If your
boys are taught to be humane from
childhood up, they will be better citi-
zens, better husbands and fathers, and
the world will be better for their COM
ing into it.-Joseph N. Wade, IN Dumb
Animals
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Renoyatfng Old Orchards.

We often meet with an orchard of
apparently healthy trees which is
practically fruitless. The owner may
tell us that it formerly bore abundant
crops, but of late years the trees have
'.run out" Why have they run outP"
They formerly gave good crops of APP
Piles. All the other land on the farm
was expected to give but one good
crop, but this of the orchard was made
to give crop of grain, or crop of
grass or clover to be taken off as hay.
The soil soon became tired of doing
this double duty. The trees "gaVe
out" because they were robbed of food;
the first thing they need is feeding.
Of course, if the soil needs draining,
lay the needed tiles at once, or as soon
as the soil will allow. Such orchards
are usually in grass; draw on heavy
dressing of manure and spread it, and
as soon as the soil is in proper condi-
ton, turn over the sod and manure
with the pillow; with the hot weather
the sod will decay rapidly. When this
is found to be well rotted give another
blowing, and deep one. If ashes can
be had, spread a heavy coating and
harrow; in the absence of ashes har-
row in a good dressing of lime. If the
trunk and larger branches are covered
with loose scales of old bark upon
which lichens and MOSES have a foot
hold, scrape off the loose bark, using
blunt, short-handled hoe as scrap
err. Then, in damp time or thaw,
wash the trees with soft soap, made
thin enough to apply with brush.
Use homemade soft soap, made with
I've or potash. That sold at the stores
is usually merely hard soap mixed
with water. and very deficient IN
strength and quite inferior to the
homemade. Mix the soap with enough
water to work readily, 60 over the
scraped portions with it, and leave tho
spring rain to finish the work. In due
time the bark will be found beautifully
smooth and deprived of all foreign
growth. The soap that has been wash
ed into the soil will act as useful fer
tilizer. Long neglected trees usually
require pruning, and this must depend
upon the condition of the tree. Never
cut out branch without good reason
for it. If the crop has become crowd
ed, cut out enough branches to let
light and air into the center; if grown
one side, remove the branches needed
to restore the balance. If large wounds
are made, smooth the surface and paint
them over with some dark-colored
naint A7TeYieH1z A1ric1LltzLriSt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Science in Agriculture.

A recent prize offered by an Eastern
horticultural society for the largest
money product from a given area of
small fruits was awarded to a straw
berry grower whose sales from two
acres amounted to more than seven
teen hundred dollars; and Mr.. E. P.
Roe, in Play and Profit IN my Garden,
has told us how he secured a gross re-
turn of slightly more than two thous-
and dollars from the same amount of
land. In the report of the last annual
meeting of the New Jersey Horticul-
tural Society the following are given as
some of the yields obtained by its
members, although the season had
been uniformly bad" Early cabbage
produced $435 per acre; early toma-
toes, 1855 per acre; asparagus, four
acres returned 5000; seven acres, $1,000;
four acres, 5000 per acre; and some in
stances as high as $500 per acre.
Mr.. Peter Henderson tells of an as
paragus grower near Atlanta whose
crop gave for three successive years a
net profit of 81, 800 per acre; and as in
stancing departures from old methods,
cites the case of a farmer residing near
Rochester, "who half dozen years
ago timidly made the attempt of grow
ing half-acre of his fifty-acre farm in
vegetables for village market. His
venture was so satisfactory that he
gradually increased his area, so that
he now uses thirty of his fifty acres
mostly in growing cabbages for the
Rochester market. He further in
formed me that the net profit from the
cabbage garden last year was six
thousand tive hundred dollars, or a
little over two hundred dollars per
acre, and that it was not very good
year for cabbages at that" And for
the encouragement of those not ''to
the manor born" the same authority
gives the following case as being with
in his personal observation: "a col
lege-bred man of twenty-eight, failin G
and some most enticing trout streams,
the general farming community have
found themselves compelled to live
"rather close to the bone" A rise or
fall of half-cent per quart in the
wholesale milk market of New York
City may be sufficient to turn the bal
ance from one side to the other of their
profit and loss account. Yet among
their number is Princeton alumnus,
the record of whose work [ have re-
Gently seen, who by the application of
|, agricultural science to the growing of
crops. the manufacture of ensilage,
and the feeding of stock is enabled to
pursue the ''even tenor of his way
which is to harvest an annual profit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
A Social Reform From the Kitchen:

1t is well-ascertained fact that, with
respect to about 80 per cent of the
community, the price paid for food
comes to one-half the income or more.
After this food is bought how much of
it is wasted in consequence of bad cook
ing? How much human force is wasted
in consequence of bad cookingp How
much does dyspepsia or indigestion,
caused by bad cooking, impair the
working capacity of the people of the
United States and diminish their pro-
duct? Can cents worth per day be
saved? Is not that very insufficient
measure of the difference between a
poor, wasteful cook and good, econo-
mical one? If 5 cents day can be
saved on food and fuel, while at the
same time that which is bought and
cooked may be converted into more
nutritious and appetizing food, the
difference in each community of 5000
people would be S109.500 year, or
about per cent of the total product
of the typical community, which we
have assumed to be $4,000 year
in gross.-Eda0ard atkinson in the
Forum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Justice Harlan Argues a Case.

The Chief Justice and Justice Har-
land usually ride in the street cars
from the Capitol to their houses. As
they are both smokers they usually
choose the rear platform in preference
to seat inside. Now that the winter
Is breaking and the car door can be
left open, the conductor objects, as the
wind carries the smoke into the car.
For some time the two leading jurists
of the country let the street-car con-
ductor lay down the law for them and
meekly passed through the car to the
front platform. One day last week
they made it up between them to argue
the case with the conductor, and prove
that the wind would carry the smoke
in an opposite direction from the in
ter of the car.
The conductor began the war.
mo smoking here. You'll have to
pass to the front platform"
''But. my good man." expostulated
tho big Justice, interposing his body
between the conductor and his com.
panion, "the wind carries the smoke
to the south and we are travelling
north"
Cant help that, sir, them's my
ORDERS" said the other, Dramatically.
The little Chief Justice, in the mean
time. had stepped down on the lower
step, lighted his cigar, and was puff
ing uncOncernedly. screened by the
vast bulk of Justice Harlan.
"There are exceptional cases, other
things being equal, where law coer-
Give at one time may at another time
be void. Let me cite you to case, 81
127, of our Common Law Statute book
1--WE gets our orders from the boss"
said the conductor firmly measuring
his man. The 800 pounds of justice
were convincing, and he added willing
to compromise. 1--WE fellows is expected
to obey orders"
As Justice Harlan began his reply,
the car turned from the avenue up
Fifteenth street, the little Chief Justice
carefully lighted his second cigar, his
face wearing it's poetic rather than its
| judicial expression. He was taking no
part in the case before the court, he
! really did not seem to hear the ploa of
his distinguished friend.
.'Let me call your attention to the
fact" pursued the Justice, courteously,
''that you are not following the line OF
argument. The wind is north wind.
By a paradox peculiarly scientific
wind is named from the direction to
which it goes. Consequently north
wind goes south, we are travelling
! north A wind blowing in a southerly
direction can not carry smoke north"
As he saw that his man was weaken
ing. rather from his size than from
the weight of the argument, Justice
Harlan continued the case. As they
reached the boundary, Chief Justice
Fuller stepped down lightly and offered
the stump of his third cigar to Justice
Harlan for lighter. He did not smile or
refer in any way to the case that had
been tried before him, and Justice Har-
Ian had another proof of what court
eous gentleman the Chief Justice OF
the United States is.
The conductor remarked to the
driver as he watched the pair toiling
up the hill, Justice Harlan trying to
puff out one cigar before he reached
home, "What big man that is. He
grew bigger all the time he was talkin'
to me. Think he weighs $40 instead OF
800. Chicago Inter- ocean.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Garry Your Own Soap.

among travelling men," said ply
stefan, sat least one in fifty has skin
disease of more or less serious ma
ture, and its cause may almost in
yariably be traced to hotel soap. Every
person who has had occasion to be
a hotel guest, no matter where, is
familiar with the much worn cake
of soap that lies in wait for him on the
washstand, sometimes in not over
clean dish, and frequently glued to the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Increase of Poverty.

Mistress-That young man who
called to see you last night, Jane, staid
very late.
Jane-It was me brother mum.
.sBut, Jane, / have noticed thirty
seven different men in your company
during the last two years and each
one, you said, was your brother.
Yes mum. Poor folks alters have
large families, Mum. "-NeO YORK.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Cause for Gratitude.

THANK hebben, said an old colored
woman, ..dar my chillun am all brack
an not WALLER like what some cullud
folks is"
"Why, auntyn
"kase dey don't show dirt. Epoch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-06-20
Not Much of a Success;

A Toledo man bought shotgun, 80
cents worth of poison, half a bushel of
corn, and spent three days time irving
to rid his place of English sparrows.
He killed two, and twenty others came
to take their place.