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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
A TALE OF THE STORM.
A Devoted Lover Who Braved Its Terrors
Rather Than Disappoint His Fiancee.

Rather Than Disappoint His Fiancee.
Frank w. Guion, owner of the yacht
Endeavor, to New Haven, CT, has arrived
from voyage of Block Island, where he
was weather-bound during the recent great
storm. He reports thrilling scene there
Of which he was a witness. The Endeavor
had intended to remain at the island only
day, but was not able to leave until long
after the inhabitants had run out of fresh
provisions on account of the
blockade by the storm
At the height of the gale the sea which
swept the east shore of the island was ter
rife. 1t washed over the breakwater and
submerged the steamboat dock. Among
those imprisoned on the island was the
principal of a school in New York, who was
engaged to be married to young lady in
New Jersey on the day following that
which marked the crisis of the storm He
vainly entreated the island boatmen to
| take him to the mainland. None of them
would make the venture. Finally he and
| two others strangers who were anxious to
! get away, opened their pocketbooks and
persuaded the ,grizTzled skipper of a little
! schooner smack belonging to New London
70 attempt the risk for $500 The wind
was north-northeast To get out past
Clayhead from the breakwater would re-
quire at least two tacks In a sea running
mountain high. 1t would be desperate
venture, for if the vessel failed lin stays
she would be hurled on lee shore. 1t
took nearly day to warp the schooner in
to deep water to prspare her for the trip.
Finally, with storm reefed mainsail and
her trysail set as a jib, she shot away.
There was great excitement when the pass
engers boarded the craft, and. although a
gale of wind was blowing from sixty to
to seventy miles per hour, more than 1000
people gathered on the bluffs to witness
the evidence of the lovers devotion. The
schooner worked with difficulty in the seas.
Twice she nearly missed stays and tailed
close in to the breakers, which swept her
from stem to stern. In despair the skipper
was on the point of running for the break
water, but the anxious lover persuaded
him to try once more. He did so, and the
attempt was a success The schooner
bravely crawled by the head, and then the
danger was over for with a long main
sheet the little vessel was squared away
before the blast. She shot safely into
Stonington harbor one hour later, and 1T is
presumed that the wedding took place as
arranged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
PEOPLE.

Wilkie Collins left fortune of about
100000.
Mrs. Langtry has made $500, 900 during
her short career on the stage.
Amelie Rives-C hanler is going to spend
a month In Spain this winter.
King Otto of Bavaria is in very bad
way. He is alternately the victim of vio-
lent excitement and fits of Inconsistencies
lasting for hours, and sometimes he refuses
to take any FOOD
Robert Louis Stevenson few years ago
found it very difficult to get any of his
stories accepted by the magazines. Now
he cannot write them fast enough. His
health is delicate, but his imagination
vivid and romantic, and all his stories
have a weird and ghostly back ground.
A Great Mind.
''Mr. Clugston," exclaimed the foreman
coming into the sanctum hastily, I'm
sorry for the accident, but that half-column
piece of reprint about the Behring Sea
troubles was skewjawed in taking the side
stick out of the galley, and it will take
longer to straighten it up than to set the
whole article up again
Haven t you anything to take its place.
inquired the editor of the Doodleville Vel
per, passing his hand YEARLY over his pale
brow
mo sir, and I ought to have gone to
press an hour ago.
''SIide the article into the forms just as
it is, in firm tome ''Put the head Choice
Religious Miscellany over it, and nobody
will ever look at it,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
Women Tiger Hunters.

New York World.
There are two famous tiger hunters in
this country just now, both of them in
San Francisco on visit and with inten-
tions of coming east. One is Lady Marie
Edevon Ameline, who has been living for
three years in India. She is very rich and
went to India with the avowed purpose of
killing a man-eater with her own rifle
She has four superb skins, and has had the
claws of her prizes made into necklace and
set with diamonds, and wears it on all oc-
casions when she is en- grande toilet. She
is 35 years old and has wonderful jewels.
The other tiger slayer is Lady Eva Wynd-
ham Quinn, who is English by birth but
Irish by marriage. Her uncle is governor
of Nepaul, and invites her out to try her
hand on the tigers in his presidency, for
they were making great depredations
upon the natives and she was a famous
shot She killed six, and was so feted and
admired in consequence that her aunt
grew jealous of her prestige and Lady Eva
sailed for America. She has written an
article in the Nineteenth Century on tiger
hunting in Nepaul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
QUAINT SAYINGS.
1890.

He is the wisest man who does not think
himself so.-DutcL Proverb.
'Tis the second blow that makes the fray.
-Proverb of the English.
When Poverty comes in at the cottage
door true love goes at it with an axe.-Ex-
change
A mariner must have his eyes on the
rocks and sands as well as on the north
star.-Proverb of the Sea.
Nothing looks more like man of sense
than a fool who holds his tongue.-Saxon
Proverb.
1t is a great deal easier to write a vivid
love letter of sixteen pages than it is to
hear it read two years afterward in court
Exchange.
Live by the day, even though you work
by the month. There are no to-morrows
that you know of.-Texas Siftings.
The pleasantest things in the world are
pleasant thoughts, and the great art in life
is to have as many of them as possible.
Riches without charity are nothing
worth; they are blessings to him only
who makes them blessing to others
Fielding.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

M0NTO frsu the diary Of tourists,
VUIEO commercial travellers, buai-
ness men and others -
revealed:
That the Wisconsin CentryI has tho
unqualified endorsement Of all;
That the Wisconsin Central has to-day
the most popular line between Chicago
and Milwaukee, and St Paul, Minnie
apolis and the Northwest;
That the Wisconsin Central is daily
adding to its admirers as the reco9-
nized Pullman line between Chicags
and Milwaukee and Ashland, Duluth
and Lake Superior;
That the Wisconsin Central touches
the most prominent points in Wiscon-
sin, and that it his more important
business centers on it's through line
than any other railway to and from
the Northwest;
That the Wisconsin Central has made
an enylable reputation with its peer
less Dining Car Service;
That the Wisconsin Central runs faa
trains on which all classes of passen-
gers are carried with commodious and
distinct accommodation for all;
That the Wisconsin Central has repre-
sentatives distributed throughout tina
country, who will cheerfully give any
information that may be desired and
that its terminal agents are specially
instructed to look after the comfort OF
passengers who may be routed via its
line.
For detailed information apply to yous
nearest Ticket Agent; or to represents
tives of the Wisconsin Central.
VIM. 8. MELLEN, JAMES BARKER
General Manager. Gen1 PasSr. Tiki. An
LOUIS ECKSTEIN,
Asst. Genr Passr. & Tiki. Agt
MILWAUKEK. WIS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

victed of being too rich. He is powerless
for good or for a single reform so long as
the Mujtahids, the priestly order In Persia,
with their enormous influence over a super
stitious people. dread and dislike '.infdel'
and western innovations likely to weaken
their own power The great mass of the
people are as apathetic In political matters
as they are fanatical In religion. As for
their capacity to rouse themselves to the
hope or the conception of better things In
store for their unhappy country those who
indulge the dream must take them as they
are and not be led astray by analogies of
free and Christian populations that have
no bearing on the question. Superstition
and vice have debased and enfeebled the
national life of Persia to an extent that
the ordinary English mind finds it difficult
to conceive. The incredible toll and squalid
misery of the ordinary peasant life is en-
dured with one object, which is to amass
sufficient savings to enable him to 60 on a
pilgrimage to the Shah shrines once in
his life at least, which done he becomes a
beggar again. The shameless avowals of
Suf poets find their counterpart in the
daily lives of thousands and thousands of
the better classes, who give themselves
openly to the worst forms Of sensual excite
ment. Opium and arrack are the daily
stimulants to the jaded sense of thousands
of Shah Moslems. to whom they have ceased
OF be even forbidden delights. The decaying
population of the larger towns like Shiraz
and Isfahan. driven to desperation by OPP
preston or hunger, break out at intervals
into sullen and sudden revolt as on re-
cent occasion, when the courage and pres
ence of mind of the staff of English tele-
graph officials at Shiraz saved the town
from being sacked and the helpless and ter
rifed Persian officials from massacre), and
are cajoled or coerced again into dull and
hopeless submission. The miserable Jew
ish population is the sport and by-word of
a senseless Moslem intolerance, and the
Armenians, with more cunning and equal
prosper in pandering to
the vices of the dominant class of Persians
There is no exaggeration in the picture
The rose-bedecked valleys and bulbul-
haunted groves or the odes of Hafz present
just as true an idea of the wasted desolate
plains and valleys of Iran, as the great
Shah-an-Shah, bedecdek with diamonds
and sitting at sumptuous feasts, presents
to the ordinary untraveled English mind of
the wealth or social prosperity of his
much enduring subjects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
CHEESE MUFF.
Points of a Good Horse.

In an article upon this subject, the Lon
don Agricultural Gazette says: The first
consideration is posture. A horse standing
should come well on his legs that is, his
fore legs should be placed well in front;
his hind legs under the incident of weight
or the point of the quarter. Horses Ofvalue
cover their ground long, low, naturally and
wide. The happy hit of strength and re-
fnement Marketable anywhere and any
day. The limbs should be placed we'll out
side the the body-that is, long and promi-
nent elbows. bold. well placed stiles on a
line with the elbows. Feet should not
turn in or out, but point forward Odd
feet are the sign of disease past or present,
in chronic form. Harmony of proportion
is sine qua non here. Length under a
horse must be gained by deep reclining
shoulder His height should be measured
through the floor Of his chest up to his
withers, and not by his legs. Width at the
shoulder-points. and with deep. wide and
capacious middle, width at his hips. The
position of the fore feet is regulated by the
shoulders; in the hind legs, by the width Of
the pelvis or hips.
A horse may be taught to stand. but the
Judge demands natural rather than an
artificial or educated pose. Legs should be
short, stout, with muscle, and clean along
the tendons. Knees well to the ground
that is, short cannons. likewise the hooks
we'll down. In examining horse don ap
proach too closely at first; let him form the
base and you the apex of a triangle you
then catch his ends. 1t is early enough tc
go up to him when you desire to manipu-
late him for splints, spavins, etc. So much
for the profile. A horse is said to have &
riding angle, the acme perfection for al
work, where line let fall from his pole
just grazes his nose. Manners maketh botl
man and horse, and without this angle We
| can have no true manners in either harnes:
or under the pigskin Along rein or upper
line to the neck, and clean articulation o.
junction at the head or throat are essential
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
EMERSON'S GRAVE DESIGNATED.
Ghouls Fail in an Attempt to Steal the Con-
III. -. ID

GhoulS taII In an Attempt to steal the Con-
cord Philosophers Remains.
CONCORD, Mass-The startling discov-
cry has been made that the grave of Ralph
Waldo Emerson had been opened by
ghouls during Saturday night. The cas-
ket was exposed and it was at first report
ed that the miscreants accomplished their
object and had secured the skull, which
was probably what they wanted. The
authorities Immediately placed a guard at
the grave and sent telegram to DIR. Ed
ward w. Emerson, the philosopher son
summoning him to return home at once.
He returned, and appears satisfied with
the examination by Selectman Reyes,
Undertaken Farrar, and Chief of Police
Sanford, ON Sunday, who declare that no
part of the remains have been taken. It is
supposed that the miscreants were fright
ened away before they had accomplished
their purpose. The Emerson family de-
sires no further investigation. A watch
will be continued at the grave for the
present or until solid vault of masonry
with stone covering can be constructed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore Western
Railway has b0en well named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres of
but partially explore woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never been fshed by
white men, all we'll stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted. The woods ABOUND with game;
deer, bear, wolf, mink, beaver, pheasant
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LINE
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan that
reaches ALL of the developed Mining
towns; GOGEBIC, WAKEFIELD, BES~
SEMER, IRONWOOD AND HURLEY.
Direct line to ASHLAND aud DULUTH
Sleeping cars between L4HLAND and
CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other descripsrv>
matter, containing full information, maps
and engravings of the country traversed
by the line, will be sent to any address on
application to the General Passenger
Agent.
ChAs. l. RYDER Gen'l Agt ia Clark St.,
e vLIET. CITY P & T. Agt CHICAGO.
Milwaukee Office. IS Wisconsi,a st.
II. wHITCOMB. GEO. s. MARSH,
GEM Manager. Gen1 Pass. & TkL Agt-
MILWAUKEE,. WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

number of meduse in this extent if we
calculate the length of time that would be
requisite for a certain number of persons to
count this number Allowing that one
person could count l, ZOO, 900 in seven DAYS.
which is barely possible, even at this rapid
rate it would have been necessary for 80
600 persons to have commenced counting at
the time of Adam in order to complete the
enumeration in time for the census for
1900
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
PERSIA AND THE PERSIANS.
Superstition, Vice and Misery the Princi
pal characteristics of the Situation.

The shah himself is not Persian, but a
Turk, the hereditary chief of Turcoman
tribe; the language of his private and do
nestle life is not Persian, but Turkish, says
the London Spectator. With the instru-
ments of oppression ready in his hand he
is all-powerful for evil, provided he is
content with the lions share of a plumber
ed province or the wealth of subject con-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
FARM, HOME And GARDEN.
BURNS.
FRITZ-GREENE HALLECK.

There have been loftier themes than his,
And longer scrolls, and louder Tyres,
And lays lit up with Poesys
Purer and holier fires.
Yet read the names that know not death,
New nobler ones than Burns are there;
And few have won a greener wreath
Than that which binds his hair.
His is that language Of the heart,
In which the answering heart would speak,
Thought. word, that bids the warm tear start,
Or the smile light the cheek;
And his that music, to whose tone
The common pulse OF man keeps tmeI
In cot or castle mirth or moan;
In cold or summer cline.
And Burns-though brief the race he ran,
Though rough and dark the path he trod,
LiYed-died-in form and soul Man,
The image of his God.
Through care, and pain, and want, and woe
With wounds that only death could heal,
Tortures-the poor alone can know,
The proud alone can feel;
He kept his honesty and truth,
His independent tongue and pen,
And moved in manhood as in youth,
Pride of his fellowmen.
Strong sense, deep feeling, passions strong,
A hate of tyrant and of knave,
A love of right, a scorn ofwrong,
OF coward and of slave;
A kind true heart, spirit high,
That could not fear and would not bow,
Were written in his manly eye
And on his manly brow.
Praise to the bard his words are driven
Like fiower-seeds by the far winds sown,
Wherever, beneath the sky of heaven,
The birds of fame have flown.
Such graves as his are pilgrim shrines,
Shrines to no code or creed confined
The Delphian wales, the Palestines,
The Meccas of the mind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

THE American Miller says the price of
silver, caused by the demonstration of
that metal in 1873 by the United States,
England and Germany, is responsible
for the cheapness of wheat in this country.
India and Russia are our great competitors
In the production of wheat. The money
of India is silver-that of Russia is badly
deprecated; and the exchange value OF the
Russian currency has fallen so much as to
be even more favorable to the expectation
of wheat. The Indian rupee is worth In
India, where silver stands at its former
monetary val e, which is forty-eight
and two-third cents; but In London
the rupee is worth but thirty-two and two
fifths cents. At present prices the Indian
exporter receives for his wheat Sill; that
is, the pay in rupees goes for that much in
his own country, but in the money of
England, Germany, or the United States,
he is paid but seventy-four cents. Such Is
the difference between the commercial and
the monetary value of silver. This differ
ence helps to account for the fact that
India, during the crop year of 1888, ex-
ported $4,000, 900 bushels of wheat
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
COLOR OF THE OCEAN.
Its Greenness Caused by Countless Myriads
of Minute Animal Forms


The green color Of ocean water depends
upon the number of medusa and other
minute animal forms which inhabit it. The
deep-green northern seas literally swarm
with these miniature creatures, in some
places as many as 128 of them have been
found in single cubic inch of water. In
this proportion cubic foot of water would
contain 221 ,104, cubic fathom A., us, IA,
and cubic mile Al, 776, 900, OOO, 900. From
soundings made in the vicinity of where
these creatures are found in such immense
numbers it is probable that the water will
average a mile in depth; whether these
forms occupy the whole depth is uncertain.
Provided, however, that the depth to which
they extend is but $50 fathoms, the above
immense number of one species may occur
within space of one mile square. 1t may
be better conception of the immense
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

M. E1FFEL offers to build tower twice
as high as that constructed by HIM IN Paris,
ON American soil for the Worlds EXPOSE
ton of 1892. He says it is no longer
question of engineering but one of cash.
Plain people who are not engineers often
frd that to raise the cash itself requires
dnrnhln engineering
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

visible intelligence, many of them wearing
conspicuous insignia of high rank. and as
he extended in benediction his trembling
hands. as transparency slender and fragile
as an infant s, the crowd sank In silent
homage as field of grain is bowed by a
summer breeze
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

as contributions to perfection A full throat
is an index of full wind The head should
be bloodlike, and convex for courage at the
base of the ears and across the eyes. The
head should be full. yet neat; no coarseness
at the race just above the nostrils. A
moderately long neck for comfort. This,
with a moderately fine whittier, gives you a
light forehead-''a horse before you. y
Necks should always be muscular, of mod
crate length The breadth of chest depends
on the breed and trade
We will now only deal generally in points
and make, but for galloping deep thorax
rather than around one admits of greater
expansion under efforts of endurance and
extreme exertion Stand well in front of a
horse to see this. Then pass to his rear,
and Judge the quality and muscularity of
his hind quarters. Stand well back here,
and stepping two PAGES to the side gives you
from glance, or the concert of points
from his head to his middle and quarter
You must go around horse on a system to
save time and gain an accurate judgment.
The quarter should be wide, launches well
let down, and always neatly closed in horses
worth the name. Light ends in the fore
head, volume and area specifically In the
middle, massive hindquarters, and four
good feet well placed, legs like bars of
steel.-Parire Farmer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

THE new ballot law of Tennessee, based
upon the Australian system, has been de-
clared unconstitutional by one of the local
courts, because it establishes an educational
test for voters, which is expressly forbidden
in that State 1t is believed that the Su-
preme Court will sustain this decision. A
proceeding has also been instituted in the
Federal Court to determine the question
whether the new law is contrary to the
fourteenth amendment of the United
States Constitution
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24

Fast Mail Line with vestibuled Trains -.
tween Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Paul ana
Minneapolis.
Trans-ContinentaI Route between Chicago,
Council Bluffs, Omaha and the Pacific Coast
Great National Route between Chicago. Kan
sas City and ST. Joseph, Mo.
800 Miles of Road reaching all principal
points II inois Wisconsin, Minnesota, lows.
Missouri and Dakota
For maps, time tables, rates Of passage and
freight. etc. apply t. the nearest station agent OF
the CHICAGO. MuwAUKEE & ST. PAUL RAILWAY,
or to any Railroad Agent anywhere In the "o =
ROSWELL MILLER, A.V Fl. CARPENTEk,
General Manager. Gen'l Pass. and Tkt. Agt.
6S- For information in reference 20 LANDS ana
Io~ns owned by the CHICAGO, MnwAUkEE q oT'
PAUL RAILWAY CoNpASY write to a. g. HAUaAF.
Land Commissioner. Milwaukee WiscoKin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
THE HOUSEHOLD.
LIGHT CAKE.

Half cup of butter, half cup of sugar,
three eggs beaten separately, one cup of
sweet milk, three cups of -four, three tea
spoonfuls of baking powder sifted through
the -four.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-10-24
CoupIing-Pins,

The loss of coupling-pins, says the Al
bany Journal, is mystery to railroad men.
Where they all go no one appears to be
able to conjecture. Even In yards where
the same cars that come in 90 out again
additional coupling-pins are called for con-
stantly: At the West Albany railroad
yard the Central-Hudson railroad uses a
carload of new coupling-pins month. 1t
Is safe to say that 1000, 900 pins are sup
piled in the West Albany yard in year.
Ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cornell is in
poor health, and his friends are seriously
oncerned