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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
WASHINGTON.

WAsHINGToN.-The delegates to the
International American congress and to
the international Marine congress visited
the United States naval academy at An
napolis on Saturday. Secretaries Blaine
and Tracy were of the party. The dele
gates from Europe, especially, were much
pleased with what was shown them and
they united in the expression of opinion
that the academy was superior to the naval
academies of any other nation.
WASHINGTON, D Gust forty days
after the morning Of October 3rd, when
the special train bearing the international
American excursion party pulled out at the
station in Washington, the same train,
headed by locomotive which had drawn
it nearly six thousand miles rolled triumph
antly into the capital city and drew up at
the station, having successfully
and, from a railroad standpoint,
finished the most extensive trip
ever taken by one train. How the
excursion has resulted in furthering the
objects which the American conference
was called to attain, has been eloquently
told by the delegates themselves through
the medium Of the associated press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

the spot where they were made part and
parcel of the great wall Around the en-
tire lake there is a belt of woodland half
mule n IN width composed of oak. With
TINS exception the country is a rolling
pralrle. The trees must have been plant
ed there at the time of the building of the
wall In the spring of 1856 there was
great storm, and the ice ON the lake forced
down the wall in several places, making it
necessary Tor the farmers to repair it or
suffer mundatlon. The lake occupies a
ground surface of $500 acres, depth of
water as great as thirty-fve feet. The
water Is clear and cold: soil loamy and
sandy 1t IS singular that no one has been
able to ascertain where the water comes
from or where it goes, yet it is always clear
and fresh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Mahomet and the Mountains.
Texas Siftings


It has always puzzled US to know why
Mahomet hesitated about going to the
mountain, expecting the mountain to
come to him It wouldn' have cost him a
cent to stay at the mountains as long as he
wanted to. The Mountain House would
have been glad to deadhead him, giving
him the best suit of rooms they had His
arrival would have been chronicled in the
daily papers, people would have focked to
the mountain to see him, and he would
have been a big card He is sometimes
called the false prophet, but he would
have been a real profit to the house where
he put up. We are satisfied that in re
fusing to go to the mountain Mahomet,
whose system needed bracing up adyhow,
lost one of the greatest opportunities of
his life. Come to think, though, it doesn' t
Mecca bit of difference to Mahomet now.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

The Northwestern Railroader in its
lumber just issued publishes an important
article on the railroad vote in the recent
election in Iowa. After remarking In gen
eral that the result is good thing for the
railroads. the paper continues: 1.-The re-
suit is very largely owing to the railroad
employees vote. Let there be no mistake
about this 1t is not the railroad COM
panies who have done this thing. The
corporations were not in the fight. Very
few railroad officials of lines in Iowa have,
we venture to say, had any knowledge of
what the railroad employees have of their
,wn initiative been doing in Iowa. The
Northwestern Miller has had such knowl-
edge from excellent sources, and the result
comes to US not at all surprise. Therail-
way employees of the State of Iowa would
control, if united, not less than $4,000
votes. They are not yet united. but they
are sufficiently united on certain points to
turn $4,000 or 10000 votes and to swing a
State election. The power which has been
put forth in Iowa has exerted itself so
silently with so little movement on the sur
face, that no one in the secret has known
of IFS existence. The rail
way employees have awakened to the nowl-
edge of their own strength. They have
learned that their cause is not the granger
cause, and that they have nothing to gain
and everything to lose by policy of OPP
preston of the companies from whom they
get their work, their salaries, their bread
and butter. Repubicanism and Democra-
cy in the abstract have no interest for them.
They are not swayed byparty motives and
are no more under the leadership of party
bosses than of the corporations. That
whatever the party may be. or whoever the
man may be, that strikes at their very
means of living. that party or that man
will feel the weight of their enmity at the
polls. The great counterbalance, long
needed, of the granger vote, has been
found. 1t is the vote of the organized rail-
road men.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
CHARACTERISTICS OF ORATORS

Shiel would rush to the clerks desk and
pound it.
Mr.. Gladstone pounds the box as it
is called IN England
Fox used his fist. 1T is necessary to
pound it into them, he said
Burke often lost his temper: Disraei
lost his very rarely; Pitt never.
Daniel Webster's nerves were like iron.
He was cool, calm, collected under all the
circumstances of debate.
Grattan gesticulated so violently that
1T was not safe for any member to sit
within reach of his right arm. -
Cicero, according to Pliny. began to
speak with timidity, and trembled until he
struck the earnest current of thought
Chatham was noted for his distinct artic-
culatlon. His whisper penetrated every
where, and has full voice was overwhelm-
ing.
Alexander Duffy held his left coat
tail under his left arm, and sometimes bit
his finger nails in the midst of an orator
icai flight
Tierney, one of the most ready and fluent
debaters of his day said that he never rose
to speak without feeling his knees knock
together
Charlotte Cushman once said: Il don't
know what elocution is. / never studied
it. God simply gave me a mouth of pecu-
liar conformation.
Lord Clarendon S brilliancy was lost In
his sluggishness. "A little more rapidity, "
some one has said, land Lord Clarendon
might have died prime minister
Lord Derby often held a roll of paper in
his right hand, which he repeatedly raised
and brought down into the palm of his left
hand with a resonant whack.
Archbishop Whately wrote an essay ON
rhetoric, yet he was so inanimate and so
inaudibe that it was sometimes said his
grace seems to be half asleep when speak
ing"
Lord Derby said that his principal
speeches cost him two sleepless nights
one In which he was thinking what to say,
the other In which he was lamenting what
he might have said better.
Mirabeau depended very much for ora
torical success upon his excessive ugliness.
He had the forocity of a polar bear, and
yet, as Nine. de Salliant says, he was but
IAN empty bugbear.
When Disraeli rose to speak he took out
his handkerchief and shook it in a careless
way. More frequently he thrust his hands
into the pockets of his coat tails, so as to
extend them at an angle.
Wendell Phillips force was in his self
reliance. He ruled the minds of men by
his rhetoric He was a born agitator-
exclusively strong in that, and almost cor
respondingly weak in controversy.
The famous Curran had a sensitiveness
in public speaking which often hindered
his success. He was painfully affected by
any mark of inattention in his audience.
If any one slept or gazed vacantly around
the room, his eloquence began to flag, and
much of his power was lost.
Chancellor Thurlow made up in physical
earnestness for what he lacked in intel
lectual force. He rushed like Achilles
into the fields and dealt destruction
around him more by the strength of his
arm, the deep tones of his voice and the
lightning of his eye than by any popularity
of genius. H. Stauffer in The
Epoch
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
overcome.

THE notable event of this week is the
celebration at Baltimore of the centenary
of the Roman Catholic church in this coun-
try, together with the dedication at Wash
ington of the completed building of the
divinity-school which is the first depart
ment of the Roman Catholic university
The anniversary is that of the founding of
the first diocese of the church In the Unit
ed States, that of Baltimore; the exact
date was Nov 8, 1889, but the Sunday fol-
10 wing the 9th inst was preferred for the
elaborate religious ceremonies that were to
take place, and which was celebrated with
more pomp, probably, than any previous
ceremonial of the church in the republic.
Everything that is imposing in this line
belongs to the great historic church, which
has now so great a membership and in
fuence here that it has been said at Rome
that this country is the chief stronghold
of Catholicism. In order to be so without
infringing upon the rights of the people,
it must be the Americanism expressed by
such men as the primate, Cardinal Glib
bins, the rector of the new university,
Bishop Keane, Bishop Spalding, Arch
bishop Ireland and the venerated arch
bishop of Boston, that must mold its future
instead of the untramontanism of popes
and Italian cardinals.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
TRUE FOR THIRTEEN YEARS.
A German Exile Returns to His Country to
Marry His Early Love

KANSAS CRY, Mo. - A romance in
real life, and one of unusual interest, de-
veloped here today, when Maurice Scholl
announced his intention Of returning to
Germany to marry Fraulein Marguerite
Miller, daughter of the burgomaster Of a
town near Stuttein. It was thirteen years
ago the couple were betrothed. One
evening when they were returning from
an opera, Edmund Won Wandel, an army
officer, insulted the prospective bride.
Schon challenged him to a duel The COM
bat occurred the next morning, pistols be-
ing used and Won Wandel was shot
through the heart and instantly killed.
Scholl was badly wounded but managed to
escape. Since that time he has been in
exile from his native land. He made a
fortune in Kansas City and now when the
statute limitation prevents his being prose
cuted for his crime, he has arranged to
return to his home and complete the ro-
nance by marriage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

THE most important conversion to Irish
home rule thus far reported is that of Lord
Dufferin, now an ambassador at Rome.
He is upon the whole the most capable
man in the British diplomatic service. 1t
will be remembered that when he returned
from India there were rumors that he was
upon the point of announcing his unlonist
sentiment Foundation for these reports
was his well known opinion that Ireland
would not be reduced to condition of
peaceabe contentment by coercion alone.
Harold Frederic is authority for the state
ment that Dufferin has been on protracted
visit to Lord Rosebery, and that before he
left he proclaimed himself a home-ruleT.
The meeting of the British last week is I'M
derstood to have been the result of a loud
call from tories for some definite Irish
program The great question is whether
the ministry is ready for land-purchase
bill such as the London Standard insists IS
under consideration. The Roman Catholic
university endowment scheme seems to
have fallen dead, and at any rate has been
shelved for the present, and the tories
are under the necessity of supplying sub
stitute by way of remedial legislation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
FEARFUL DEEDS OF A MINISTER.
Pastor Ross Stays His Wife and Young Son
and Then Ends His Own Existence.

STOCKTON, Cal.-The Rev. c. A. Ross,
a minister living near Lockeford, early
Tuesday morning shot and killed his wife,
his 8-year-old son, and himself. He was a
Methodist preacher for several years, but
lately had been an itinerant Congregation
alist, engaged in selling books. He had
not lived happily with his wife, and they
separated some time ago. She supported
herself and the boy by teaching school near
Lockeford, and made her home at the resi-
dence of Frank Foster. For some time
Ross had been driving to the school-house
and taking his wife home at the close of
school hours. He did this Monday, and
remained with her all night. He arose at
5 o'clock Tuesday morning and shot her
through the temple with pistol killing
her instantly. The report awakened the
little boy, who slept in an adjoining room,
He rushed into his parents room and his
father shot him twice, in the cheek and
temple, causing instant death. Before
Fosters family could reach the room Ross
shot himself in the head and soon died.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
WRITE SLOWLY.
Leisure1y Composition Makes 1t Possible
to do Perfect Literary Work.

to do Perfect Literary Work.
The one absorbing object of this breath
less age seems to be rapidity. In pu ting
down ideas on paper, no other quality
seems to be In taken to account. The type
writing machine that can be made to point
IA words in minute crows over the
machine that can compass on
a minute.
There are indeed some kin
concede, in which utmost rapidity is the
paramount requisite, such work as copying
taking notes. reporting, belong to this
class And plead a native bias toward
rapid work IN penmanship as strong as
anybody's; in fact, if my own experience
had not demonstrated thoroughly that in
some kinds of work, and especially in origi-
nal composition the more haste the less
speed | should be driving my pen as fast
as it could possibly go, for that is indeed
my impulse. As a matter Of fact, however,
purposely put on the brakes; am writing
this with an old-fashiond quill pen,
perhaps, because | have come to like the
squeak of it, and find it the easiest to the
finger of any pen In the world, but prin-
cipally because it cOmpels somewhat
slower and more deliberate work
Why. then, seek for slowness? Because
there is an interval between the first incep-
ton of the sentence in the mind and its
final form on paper, which, to him who has
learned to utilize it, is the most valuable
moment of composition. would not take
great deal for that interval; the time
that | lose therein is time gained For in
that brief time all the mechanical and
grammatical questions are debated and set
tied. In every sentence | have here made,
such as it is, while my quill has been
squeaking through one word after another,
my thoughts have been continually run
ming ahead, and taking care of the verbs
and the pronouns, and the commas, and
the semicolons; so that when the old pen
caught up its exact work was ready for it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
MIR. AND MRS. BOW SER.
BY MRS. BowsER.

There are several little things l wanted
done about the house this fall, and so the
other week engageda colored man to come
and work for couple of days. 1t so hap
pened that he came one morning before
Mr. Bowser had left the house.
well, what's up now?''
lie dun bin hired to work, sab.
"Who hired you?'
DE lady, sab.
What to do?"
''Jobbin, sab. =
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

THE French illustrated journals give
lengthy accounts and interesting illustra-
tions of the projected great bridge across
the channel between England and France,
and which France is especially DESTROYS of
building. In England there is still cur
rent of sentiment against it on the plea
that English influence will be reduced if
the "silver streak is bridged. But it is
thought that the great work will be com
pleted before the close of the century. The
French estimates allow $4,000, 900 francs,
or $40, 600, 900, for the pillars in masonry
and their shelters against the wind, and
$50 .OO0, 900 francs, or 1876, 100000 for the
metallic superstructure. There will be no
difficulty in raising the money if all the
other obstacles to the enterprise can be
overcome
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
The wonderful Walled Lake.

The greatest wonder In the state Of Iowa
and perhaps In any other state, is what is
called the Walled Lake in Wright coun-
ty. twelve miles north of the Dubuque &
Pacific railroad. and $50 miles west of Du-
budue CITY. The lake is from two to four
feet higher than the surrounding country.
In some places the wall is ten feet high,
fifteen feet wide at the bottom, and FIVE at
the top. Another fact is the size of the
stones used in construction, all of them
varying in weight fI from three tons down to to
stone in Wright county, but surrounding
the lake to the extent of about ten miles
there Is none No one can form an idea as
to the means employed to bring them to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

PRINCES and potentates have some little
social privileges which are denied to the
unanointed. For example, the Sultan of
Turkey has presented the Empress of Ger
many with ieweled collar worth 1926, 900
If simple American citizen, having but
one wife of his own, were to give another
mans wife a jeweled collar worth 1926, 900,
there would be row on both sides. Yet
here is this old Turk, with harem full of
wives, who gives away collars without fear
and does not make the slightest effort to
keep the fact out of the papers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Card of Thanks.

If the proprietor of Kemp's Balsam should
publish card of thanks, containing ex-
pressions of gratitude which come to him
daily from those who have been cured of
severe throat and lung troubles by the use
of Kemp's Balsam, it would fill fair-sized
book. How much better to invite all to call
on any druggist and get free sample bottle
that you may test for yourself its power.
Large bottles SOC. and S1.00.
The tallest chimney in the world is now
building near Freiberg in Saxony. 1t VIII be
400 feet high, with an inside diameter Of %
fest at the bottom, and Is feet inches at
the top. 1t will take million and half Of
brick, and the cost is $50, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Anguish UnspeakabIe

IL endured by the victims Of infammatory rheu-
matism, and any form of the disease may reach
that agonizing phase or attack the heart and
cause death. Unhappily they who feel lis rfelim-
mary twinges seldom realize this. Like other
possibly dangerous maladies, rheumatism is often
disregarded at the outset Well will it be for him
il this brief notice shall serve as a warning of
future peril or pain TO reader troubled with in
cipient rheumatism. The proper sequel will be
an instantaneous resort to the great preventative
depurent, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, whose
brevet of professional commentator popular ex-
perience has confirmed. There is no finer or more
genial antidote to the virus of rheumatism in the
system. Botanic in it's origin, it is free from the
objections attaching to depurent poisons liable to
be taken in more than the infnitesiInal dose. The
Bitters conquers malaria, Indigestion, liver and
kidney troubles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

FORD SALISBURY, in speech, declared
it was the widest legend that the Govern
ment had the faintest intention to alter its
Irish policy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Things in Australia.

Many things are reversed IN Australia.
It is summer there while it is winter in
America. Trees shed their bark instead
of their leaves; fruit has no stone or kerr
mel outside; swans ere black; there is
species of fly that kills and eats the spider,
and fish called the climbing perch walks
deliberately out of the water. and. with
the aid of its fins, climbs the adjacent
trees after the insects that infest them
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

Coal dust is no longer regarded as waste;
Tt Is manufactured into blocks for fuel and
found to burn readily, giving an intense
heat with entire absence Of clinkers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21
Wonderful Flesh Producer.

This is the title given to SCOTS Emulsion Of
Cod Liner oil by many thousands who have
taken it. 1t not only gives flesh and strength
by virtue of its own nutritious properties,
but creates an appetite for food Use H. alDa
try your freight. SCOTS Emulsion Is per-
fectly palatable. Sold by all Druggists.
Old Parrott Ito his son)-My boy, do you
know you are spending twice as much mon
ey On yourself as / dog Young Parrott-
Well, you know, father, L haven't family
to support as you have.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-11-21

bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses
Of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-19
Electricity and Plant-Life.

From time to time, of late years, says
the Scientific american, experiments have
been made Of the effect of the electrical
light on flowers and plants, with results
seemingly the same, to-wit: feeble efforts
of some plants to prolong their periods of
bloom into the night and then premature
decay. One has only to study their ac-
lions, as observed, TO conclude that even
plants need rest, or, to be more precise,
they seem to thrive best under the condi-
tions which nature has imposed-the pc
riod of darkness and the period of the
light which is heat as well, or else that
the family of plants, as they now are,
sprung from these exact conditions, and
will not thrive without them. 1t is the
nature of some flowers, as every one knows,
to open at one period of light and close at
another; of others to open only at night
and close before or at the moment when
the orb Of day tops the horizon. So
strictly do some of these follow their I'M
written laws that floral clocks have been
constructed, so that one may step out into
his garden, of bright day and night, and
learn the time by the condition of bloom
on the floral dial.
Professor Wollney, of Munich, satisfied
by experiment that electrical light will
not advance or improve plant growth, re-
Gently tried the effect upon them Of the
current itself. We quote the following,
being the means employed and its result ]:
He took patches of ground II feet
square, separated by boards penetrating
the earth to the depth of foot. In one
! case he applied two earth plates and inter-
posed FIVE earth cells in another he in
serted an induction apparatus; and in a
third, plate of copper at one side and a
plate of zinc at the other side, to form a
natural battery. Peas, potatoes, carrots,
etc, were planted on these and other
patches, but the electricity, whether of
high or low potential, seemed to have
either no influence or bad one upon their
| growth"
Plants being full of sap, and sap a fairly
good conductor, every fiber must have been
reached, and, so far as the Professor was
enabled to perceive, the only effect of the
current was to provoke perturbation on
| the protoplasm.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-01-19
Po,n, for Orohardists

The New York Tribune suggests, that
when making personal examination Of
your fruit trees and orchards, the ends OF
the shoots over the top of the tree should
be carefully inspected, for the purpose Of
ascertaining its condition. If you find a
seasons new growth is less than six inches
on bearing tree, or less than twelve
inches on young tree not in bearing, you
may at once arrive at the conclusion that
the tree or trees need more and better cul-
tivation. If tall grass or rank plants or
weeds have been allowed to grow within
the sweep of its branches, or even two or
three feet beyond, the entire suppression
of these will in most cases prove sufficient.
If no such growth interferes, your soil