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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30

civilization it has not received the atten-
ton it deserves.
QThe conditions which have brought
about this state of things are obvious.
The spirit of equality, and the practices,
especially in regard to the distribution
of property, that have resulted from it;
the general change in the standards Of
living arising from the enormous deveI-
opment of the natural resources of the
country, and the consequent unexampled
diffusion of wealth and material COM
fort; the rapid settlement of DOR Immense
territory, and the astonishing growth of
our old as we'll as our new cities, have
been unfavorable to the existence of the
hereditary home.
There is scarcely town in the long
settled parts of the northern states from
which considerable portion of its reo-
pie ha. not gone out in the course of the
past fifty years to seek residence else
where. Attachment to the native soil,
affection for the home of ones youth, the
claims of kindred, the bonds of social
duty, have not proved strong enough to
resist the allurements OF hope, the fair
promise of betteriEg fortune, and the
love of adventure. The increasing eass
aud the vast extension of means of com
munication between distant parts of the
country have promoted the movement OF
the population.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Manner of Retreat of Arabs.

When an Arab tribe are pursued by an
enemy, they sleep and take their food
without hating. That they may not fall
from their camels when sleeping, they
stretch themselves out at length, placing
their feet in bag on each side of the
animals neck. Their food is prepared
by the women. Que mounted on camel
loaded with wheat, continues grinding
with hand mill, and passes the meal to
another, who is provided with leather
bottles containing water, suspended on
each side of her camel; she, having pre-
pared the paste, passes it to a third, WHO
completes the operation by baking bread
in thin slices on a chatting dish, or port
able oven which is heated with wood Or
straw. This bread, with portion of
cheese and dates, is then distributed by
her, to those whom it is her province to
feed, and the frugal meal is finished with
a draught o. camsl's milk. The canels
are also MIXED as they walk, the men
using for this purpose large wooden
bowls, which are passed from one to an
nthar
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Criminal.

DIR. CRoNIN's body has been found in a
Chicago sewer. The mystery surround
ing the cause deepens.
WM. s. DENBy, of Boston, is charged
with embezzIing $4,000 from the Mu.
tual District Messenger company of that
city.
HENRY TILLoTsoN, clerk in the Des
Moines Qowa) Post Office, has been ar
rested by Inspector Fleming while in the
act of rifing letters.
CHARLES Corey was sentenced at Des
Moines, Iowa, Wednesday to two years
in the penitentiary for passing counter
felt money, to which charge he pleaded
guilty.
CONRAD and George Schneider, of Al
toona, Wis, and Charles Wilhey, of East
Saginaw, Mich, were arrested and placed
in the Jail at Eau Claire, on charge of
forgery. They presented bogus checks
on Denver and st. Paul Banks.
New HAVEN, Conn.-John G. Bradley,
cashier of the Merchants National bank,
and Charles W. Palmer are under arrest
for embe zzlemsct. The loss to the bank
may amount to 100000.
JOSEPH MCINTYRE, the faith-cure doc
tor who has been on trial at Madison,
Wis, for assault on Miss Johanna John
son, whom he claimed to be treating for
some physical infrmity, was sentenced to
one year in the penitentiary.
NEENAH, Wis Thieves broke into a
Northwestern freight car at this place
Wednesday night and stole a lot of ladies'
shoes. Cars at this place have been
broken open before, and it is supposed
to be the work of tramps.
MERRILL, Wis.-Burlars entered F. n
Shafer Il Sons jewelry store Saturday
night and broke open sample truk be-
longing to Arnstine Bros. IL Mier, of
Cleveland, Ohio, represented by ". Fl.
Arnstine, member of the firm. They
secured about 49, 900 worth of gold chains,
rings, lookets, studs and diamond rings.
The most valuable portion of the goods,
amounting to $4,000, was overlooked in
the hi try. There is no clue to the burg
lars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Fires and Casualties.

BROOKS d WILLS, shoe manufacturers OF
Boston, failed with $4,000 liabilities.
PEARLINGToN, Miss.-The mill of the
Port Evans il Favre Lumber Company
burned Monday. Loss, $175,000.
Dies MoINEs.-The Lutheran Norweg-
ian college at DEBORAH, burned Sunday
night. The grounds and building cost
100000.
The plant of the Port Evant and Favre
Lumber Company at Pennington, Miss,
was destroyed by fire on Monday. Loss
$50, 1000; insured for $4,000.
A LARGE boot and shoe factory, and
a creamery burned at Cedar Rapids, Ia,
at loss of $4,000.
THE 10000 bushel elevator of the North
ern Pacific Railroad at Davenport, D. T.,
was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning
The loss is unknown.
A BARN under which William Kempker
and Frank Kintze were working, at Elgln,
ILL.,, fell, crushing them and killing them
instantly.
CUT-woRMs are doing great damage in
the corn-ields around Wabash, Ind. In
some cases whole fields of corn have been
destroyed.
MEMPH1s.-A skiff containing three
men and two ladies, was caught in
a wind and rain storm, this afternoon,
while crossing the river, just south of
this city, and capsized. All occupants
were drowned.
The passenger steamer JOHNS Hopk ms
of the Merchants and Miners Transpor-
tation Company, valued at $250,0O0 was
totally destroyed by fire at Baltimore,
Md. A loss of about 5000 was sustain
ed on the cargo.
NINE colored men were drowned Satur-
day night by the capsizing of boat in
which they were crossing the Mississippi
at West Pass, near Vicksburg, Miss. One
man and little girl were all that were
saved.
JOLIET, Ill.-Word was received here
from Braidwood that the miners at that
place are psrading the streets in a
threatening manner, vowing vengeance
upon any man who may go to work In
place OF the strikers, and som 3 are threat
ening to burn the mine works. The
sheriff, with a posse, has gone to Braid
wood from this city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
RUSSIA.
Is This the Cars Last Year?


NEW YoRK.--A St. Petersburg cable.
gram says:
"The recent discovery of q conspiracy
TO assassinate the Gear has struck with
terror the Imperial household. The great
CONSERVATION is not caused SO much by
the contem plated attack on the Gear as
by the fact that a strange prophecy
made many years ago is now recalled
Some twenty years ago the present Gear,
1T that time heir apparent to the Russian
throne, had his fortune told by gypsy
woman, whom he met by accident while
out shooting. The gypsy totally unaware
of her casual clients exalted rank, ex
amiped the palm of his hand, amongst
others and propesied that be should
not outlive hisforty -slxth birth
day. 1t is stated that all .her other
forecasts have been realized
one after another, greatly to the dispute
tude of Alexander Ale xandrovich, who is
VIGOROUSLY supe1stitious. The Gear en-
tered his forty fifth year on the 10th of
last March, and has appeared to suffer
from more than usual severe depression
OF spirits since his birthday anniversary.
His consort, whose health has been deli
cate for some time past, is said to be
deeply distressed by the gloomy state of
the Emperor's mind, brought about by
brooding over the gypsy's dismal pro-
phecy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Cable Flashes.

ENORMOUS deposits of copper have been
found in the State of Ohiapa, near the
City of Mexico.
LoNDoN.-Ger. Boulanger's folio wers
decided at meeting held here to contest
all elections in France.
IT is reported that the Gear will dismiss
General Gourko from the governorship
of Warsaw, owing to his unpopular sys-
tenn of administration.
THEY kill 10000 horses annually for
food in Paris. 1t is likely that our min
lister will prefer Chicago dressed beef and
leave horses to Boulanger.
Mr.. SEAToN, the proprietor of the Field
Club, the London gambling house which
was raided by the police last week, was
fined $500, and the public prosecutor an
nounced that all the gambling clubs in
the city would be suppressed.
RoME.-The women employed in the
rise fields at Medicina, are on a strike.
Today they pillaged number of baker
shops. Troops have been ordered out.
BERLIN-Six thousand masons in Ber-
lin, who resumed work under the belief
thatsthe employers would grant ther de-
mRnds, will strike again on Monday.
Nineteen thousand men employed in
building trades are now out here.
THE Empress Eugene, it is said, still
retains much of her old beauty. She has
been visiting friends in England lately,
and nothing pleases her more than the
respectful sympathy shown to her by al!
whom she happened to meet.
HALIFx -Advioes from st. Pierre,
Miquelon, state tn at two fishing vessels,
~. oh 1oft
France some time ago for the New Found
land fisheries with IT'S men on board have
been lost, and all hands have doubtless
been drowned.
BERLIN.-A train conveying the en-
press of Austria from Wesbaden to
Vienna, met with an accident. While
the train was being sidetracked at Frank
fort the last car left the rails and three
of them were upset. The empress and
suite were shaken, but nobody was in ur-
ed but the footman.
LoNDoN.-The influence of the German
strikers is felt in all the neighborning
counties. Labor trouble in Lombard
continue, and the eastetn section of the
province is practically under martial law
Every outbreak Is sternly suppressed by
the military. The Belgian works, always
ready to rise, are kindled by the situation
in Germany. The miners in Liege and
in the neighboring districts are leaving
their work and demanding more wages
and less time.
DENMARK has a new and unique society.
It is called the "Celibacy Assurance So
ciety," its object being to provide for
women who can't or won't marry. Prem
iums begin at the age of thirteen and end
at forty. At the latter age an unmarried
woman receives an annuity for life. If
she marries at any time after taking out
policy she forfeits all claims on the
society. The profits of the society are
expected to be enough to provide we'll for
members who never marry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Clear the Way

Without loss of time when the intestinal canal is
blocked up by reason of constipation, chronic or
temporary. 1t should be borne in mind that
this ailment is prone to become lasting and obsti
nate, and breed other and worse complaints.
Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is the precise rem
edy to remove the obstruction effectually, but
without drenching or weakening the blockaded
bowels, consequence always to be apprehended
from the use of violent laxativeS, which are
among the most pernicious of the cheap nos
trims swallowed by the credulous and nisin-
formed. The fiat OF experience, and Of the med
ical fraternity sanction the claims of this stand
ard aperient. Not only as source of relief and
permanent regularity to the bowels. liver and
stomach. but as means of remedying and pre-
venting kidney and bladder troubles, and fever
and ague, it is without a peer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
The National Capitol.

"IT is regarded here" says Washing
ton correspondent, ''as very creditable to
Mrs. Harrison's good feeling that she has
on the mantel of her boadoir a photo
graph OF the amiable mother and daugh-
ter who preceded herself and daughter
as the ladies of the white house. It is a
picture taken by Prince several years
ago only for private circulation and nov-
er allowed by Mrs. Cleveland to be Sold"
WAsH1NGToN.-The United States steam
ship Bost.n, now at New York,
will be ordered to Hayti, in a day
or two. Secretary Tracy says the order
is in pursuance TO his policy of relieving
frequently vessels on the West India
station, when they are exposed to the
yellow fever. He added, "if anyone con-
nected with the state department was 60
ing on the the Boston he cid not know
it." The Officials at the state department
were equally ignorant of the intention
to send representative to Hayti.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Truth in Death.
New York Sun.

We have man named Burrows in our
mining camp, and he was without doubt
the most notorious liar Nevada will ever
shelter. His fame as liar spread for
hundred miles around, and men who used
to stop at our camp to get look at him.
He wasn't a wicked man and he had no
malice about him, but he was a natural
born liar. He lied about his father, his
mother, his wife, brother, sister, and
everybody else, one for every hour in the
day he had lew falseh0od. He had
claim of his own and was fairly industri-
Gus, and SO we had no excuse to drive him
out although his lies were continually
Kicking up i'll feeling among the men.
One day lot of earth and rocks caved in
on him and inflicted fatal injuries, and
a number of knocked of work to be with
him in his last moments. You would have
though the shadows of death would have
brought change of sentiment, but it did
not. Lying there with only one hour of
life to him, he told US that he had been
a pirate on the Pacific and where he had
buried largo amount of plumber. We
all knew he was from Ohio and had never
seen any ocean, but he stuck to it. One
of the men finally felt it his duty to
say:
Burrows, you have but a short time
to live. You had better spend that in
preparing for eternity"
"Tve allus been good" he quickly re-
piled.
"Yey, but you are an awful liar, you
know"
eyes, suppose so. I've told mil
lion of them, haven't II"
mo doubt of it,"
"And every one has been laid up agip
met"
every likely"
"And my chance is rather slimS"
"Rather."
"Well, boys, it's nay way, and I can't
change at this late day. Just as that
cavern came l struck a nugget as big as
my head. 1t would value up clean $751;
900. If you will pull it out and sell it and
send the cash to my wife I'll die feeling
better"
He went off soon after that, and we
said to each other that he had given US
the greatest yarn of all. No one took
his claim, which was accounted q poor
one, and it lay for three months before
one of the boys dug into it one day for
the pickax buried and forgotten. He
hadn't got the pick when he came across
a lump of gold which balanced $13,280 IN
coin, and every shilling of the money
was sent to the widow, as directed. 1t
got there to find there was no widow,
but six months later went TO sister. In
his dying hours Burrows told the truth
about his find, but, alas he repented of
it and lied about having wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30

ed on the farm of j. b. Be-ch, near
PIattsburg, Mo. The mine will be devel
oped and the graphite used for lead pen
ellis, stove polish, and lubricating pow
ders.
RALPH W. Urine, of Knox College, at
Galesburg, ILL.,, won the 800 prize offered
by the American Humane Society for the
best essay on the effects of Education
in SURPRISING Crime"
In many parts of China the Bibles
given to the natives by missionaries are
used in the manufacture of cheap boot
solss. In the opinion of a missionary
the preparations of the Bible, scattered
broadcast, is attended with the least mea-
sure of lasting success.
THE Philadelphia Times has made a
canvas of Pennsylvania regarding the
constitutional amendment, which will be
submitted to vote June Is, and reaches
the conclusion that the amendment will
be defeated by majority ranging from
$4,000 to 100000.
CHroAGo.-The trial of the Garter case
began April Is, and this week was the
fifth. The ease cost the county several
thousand dollars, and the cost to Leslie
CdIbOE 10 W US uOb iSsd
$4,000. Mrs. Carter, as soon as she gets
well enough will go to her mothers home
at Dayton, Ohio. She is very much de-
pressed at the result of the trial.
NORFOLK, Va.-The residence of Rev. F.
G. Clarke, near Virginia Beach, in Princess
Anne county, was burned about midnight
Wednesday night, and Mr.. Clarke, his two
daughters and one son, and niece visit
ing them, were cremated. Mrs. Clarke,
the governess and tive young children
escaped. The origin of the fire is not
known, but it is thought to have been in
cendiary.
A QUEER old man recently died in Stew
art county, Georgia. For thirty years he
has done all his blowing with one mule,
raising crops large enough ts support a
large family. Every year during that
time he mortgaged the animal to buy sup
plies. Belonging to the family of which
he was the head, are three old maid
daughters, who have not been seen by
masculine eyes for years. Men have tried
repeatedly to catch glimpse of them,
but the women always manage mysteri-
ously to disappear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30

clear over the heads OF the painting yell
ing, scufing crowd, after all, be is the fell
low to whom our turn anxiously and hope.
fully when the crisis is reached. Be pa
tient; the fretful, hurrying, eager, rest
less world needs patient people. in it. To
the patient man and woman who find
strength in "quietness and confidence"
who can be patient with our faults, our
foiiles and our fancies; who can be quiet
when even the softest answer would stir
up bitterness; who can wait for storm to
blow ever and for wrongs to right them
selves; who can endure slight and injury
until the wounded heart has forgotten the
hurt that made the scar. Be patient, my
boy; be patient. Nobody else has time
enough for it; all the rest of Us are in
such hurry we can't stop and have no
time to wait. Do you be patient for the
whole crowd. And you'll wear all the rest
of us out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
News in Brief.

STEVE BRoDIE jumped off ths bridge
over the Pssssio Falls, New York, and
came IF unframed.
TWENTY officers and $50 sailors from
the wrecked war vessels Vandalis and
Trenton reached San Francisco from
Apia, Samoa.
IT is estimated that 100000 Americans
will visit Europe this summer, spending
even up by sending over 100000 immi-
grants with about ten cents each.
THE 800 prize offered by the Ameri-
can Humane Society for an essay on the
Effects of Education in SURPRISING
Crime" open to all American colleges,
was won by Ralph W. Trine, of Knox COL
leee, at Galesburg, Ill.
IT is estimated that Sc per cent. of the
anthracite coal is wasted before it gets to
market. Fifty-fve per cent. has to b.
left in the mines for pillars, and IL per
cent. is lost after it gets above ground.
2LAURA BRIDGMAN, deaf, dumb and
blind from two years of age, who was
made widely famous by Charles Dickens
in his American Notes." also by many
public references to her wonderful intel
ligence, died on Friday at the South
Boston asylum, where she has long dwelt,
aged so.
The Supreme Court has decided in
favor of The defendants in the case of the
State of Ohio against Henry S. ives and
George a. Staynor, charged with swind-
ling the stockholders of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton Railroad.
TIE Bourne mills corporation at Fall
River, Mass, will, after July L, begin
profit sharing. Six per cent. of the profits
of the mills will be distributed among the
employees.
A VEIN of graphite four and half feet
| wide and 800 feet long has been discover
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Old Homes Are Best.
OAu I1OuIeS are Dteb'
By Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, in the May Scri

By Prof. Charles Eliot Norton, in the May Serb
ner'S.
If one runs over the list of persons
known to him he finds very few of more
than forty years old living in the houses
in which they were born. Of the twenty
houses built more than fifty years ago
near my own, only one is lived in by the
family by which it was originally oc-
cupied, while most of the others have had
numerous successive owners or tenants
Of my own friends near my own age
there are but two or three anywhere who
i've in the houses which their fathers oc-
cupied before them. This lack of hered-
itary homes = homes of one family for
more than one generation-is novel
and significant feature of American soci-
ETY.. In its effect on the disposition of
the people and on the quality of our
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Women and Their WAYS.

The consideration shown by both Mrs.
Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom to servants is
very constant subject of grateful re-
mark among them. Neither lady gives
an order. She asks to have her commits
sion done. Nothing servant ever does
escapes the reward of smile and thank
you. At the hotel where Mrs. Cleveland
lives the servants are put TO much work
carrying cards and packages to her rooms,
but never make complaint. 1t is related
that, rather than summon the colored
uoorman to her when she wishes some
extra commission executed, she some
times saves him extra steps by going
part way down the stairs to speak to him.
On one occasion the doorman was almost
doing in his chair when draught of air
aroused him. He started up to find Mrs.
Cleveland pushing the heavy door open
softly.
"Oh," she said, smiling to his apologies,
81 am sorry you walked. I saw you were
asleep, and didn't want to spoil your nap
just to let me in"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
Went TO the Bottom.

LONDON, During the fog Tuesday
morning the English steamer Beresford
collided with the German steamer German
Emperor off the Goodwin sands. The
shock of the collision was tremendous,
and the German Emperor sank almost
instantly, earring down with her twenty
persons.
The Beresford managed to keep ahoat,
though somewhat damaged, and succeeded
in reaching Gravesend. She brought
twelve of the German Empero-'s crew.
Both steamers we're bound out, the Beres-
ford from Hartlepool and the German
Emperor from London.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-05-30
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.
Be Patient aid Let Some Less Sensible Fellow
Have ALI the Worry.
Rrooklyn Faole


Oh, my son! be patient; be patient; be
patient. We car get along without brill
liant women and great men. They are
not easy to live with; they don't mix wish
the brood very much; they have to have
single perches for themselves away up
out of the reach of the rest of Us, 30 that
we don't see much of them, and they don't
do the world very much good, after all.
It's just as well that they do keep away
from us, 1 suppose. When they come
down and mix up with us We are apt to
find them out. Then, goodby greatness.
We don't need rushing people, so very
much. Here and there one or two of
them are very good things; We can't get
along without rush line, of course; but,
after all, full back whose eyes are on
all parts Of the field at once without max
ing any fuss abort it, and who at every
point in the game is always just exactly
where be is wanted at exactly the right
time, and is never anywhere else, no mat
ter how much yelling and "rastlipg" and
whooping and scrimmaging is going on
in OR about the front, the nervy fellow
who is never ratified, and has all his noise
and breath and vim ands.strength saved
up for the one important moment when
it shall be necessary to send the ball away