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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
FOREIGN.

THE crowning of the Gar as King of
Poland is talked of in st. Petersburg.
PARIs.-The government intends to en-
force the legal penalty against 300 priests
convicted of meddling with the elections.
BRUssELs.-The strike among the col
liers is still spreading. At Liege one
thousand two hundred miners have joined
the movement.
BERLIN.-The miners in Breslau have
struck for eight hours as a days work, an
unlimited output and higher wages. The
masters and the men are negotiating for
a settlement of the trouble.
Mr.. GLADSTONE received 200 kilograms
and 500 letters congratulating him upon
his birthday. The earliest telegram to
arrive was from the Prince and Princess
of Wales.
VIENNA Consular reports published
say that the cholera raging at Hanamidan,
Persia, is very fatal and it is feared that
it will reach Teheran in the spring.
GLAsGow.-The iron market is great
ly excited. Pig iron has advanced to
f3 Is per ton, the highest price touched
since the recent boom In that commodity
was inaugurated.
LA LIBERTAD.-The government has
gained a great victory against the forces of
Gen. Rivas and has occupied six of their
principal standpoints. Many were killed
on both sides. The revolution will prob
ably soon be quelled.
NJ. NANoUET, the Boulangist whose cleo
ton to the Paris chamber of deputies was
recently declared invalid by that cody.
has issued a manifesto in which he will
again seek election.
BRUSSELS. The coal mine owners
at Charleroi are unable to fulfill
their contract with the government to sup
ply 10000 tons for the state, and the stock
on hand for the use of railways is nearly
exhausted. Amicable overtures made to
the strikers have had no good results.
LoNDoN.-The Citizen is authority for
the statement that new evidence. which
has been collected in England and Ameri-
ca in the case of Mrs. Maybrick, is of the
most convincing character, and needs but
the scrutiny of the home secretary to con-
vince that official of the immediate neces-
sity of recommending that the queen grant
her a full and unconditional pardon.
DUBLIN.-At a league meeting held here
the speakers denounced the attack made
upon the private character of Parnell, and
said that no method was so dishonest but
it might be tried in the hope to injure the
Irish case, but that nothing could shake
the love and trust of the Irish people for
their leader. Mr.. Leamy. member of par
lament. said that they who thought they
could induce the people to forget the SER
vices already rendered by Parnell, thor
oughly failed to understand the Irish race.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

without labor would live bv their own
wits. but they break for want of stock
Franklin.
He who puts a bad construction on a
good act reveals his own w~ickedness OF
heart.-Livingstone.
Tomorrow you have no business with.
You steal if you touch tomorrow. 1t is
Gods. Every day has enough to keep
every man occupied, without concerning
himself with the things which lie beyond.
-Beecher.
The worst thing about suicide-and this
must always rank it below political assas-
sination-is that its interest is purely per-
sonal. No man ever kills himself for the
good of others.-W. D. Howells.
Jars concealed are half ~reconciled; while
It's a double task to stop the breach at
home and mems mouths abroad. To this
end a good husbandnever publicly reproves
his wife. An open reproof puts her to do
penance before all that are present, after
which MANY study revenge rather that re-
formation.-Fuller.
The wise carry their knowledge as they
do their watches, not for display but for
their own use.-Sidney Smith.
The greatest pleasure l know, is to do a
good action by stealth. and have it found
out by accident.-Lamb.
Appointments, once made, become debts.
If have made an appointment witty you,
owe you punctuality. | have nc right to
throw away your time, if | do my own
Cecil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
RUSSIAN
Abolishing the Knout, but Killing Human
Beings With the Stick.

With that horrible instrument, the
knout, an experienced executioner
could insure the death of the victim in a
very few strokes, says the Edinburgh Re-
view, and when a sentence was passed or
dering the inf1iction of a large number it
was so perfectly understood what was in
tended that in such cases the executioner
was frequently bribed by the culprit or his
friends to exert his whole art so as the
the more quickly to release him from the
torture. So again, when the Emperor
Nicholas, anxious to clear lis country from
the reproach of being the ''land of the
knout to western eyes, pompOusly pro-
claimed its abolition, he was careful to
retain the power of inficting corporal pun
ishment in a manne compared with which
the knout itself was mercfful. The knout
could compass the death of its victim with
some half-dozen strokes, but before the
same end could be attained by its substi-
tute, the stick, it was impossible to say
It's many blows might not be required. An
eye witness of one of these executions has
described it as being more hideous than
anything that could be conceived. The
criminal having been convicted of the
deliberate murder of one of the emperor's
ministers, he well deserved to die, and it
was that die he should; but
capital punishment and the knout had
both been abolished, so, IN order to attain
the end In view, the wrecked man was
sentenced to8, 1000 blows of the stick, which
no human being could receive and live.
The execution took place in the public hay
market. and when, after bearing 1,400 or
l 800 blows the victim fell, an unconsci-
Gus mass of bleeding flesh, he was bundled
into an ordinary peasants hay-rack and,
with pieces of hay sticking into his gaping
wounds, covered over with some rough
sacks, he was jolted off to the hospital and
never heard of again. The surgeons were
not likely to be anxious to cure a man
whose death they knew to be intended,
and even a feeling of humanity may have
prevented them from wishing to recall a
poor wretch to life only to enable him to
undergo further torture till he should be
released by death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
LOW MORTALITY.
Very Few Deaths Directly Traceab1e to
Influenza.

very t" DcdthS DlICttAs " bhC
Influenza.
New YoRK.-Dr. George E.
Shrady, editor of the Medical Record, in
an article upon epidemic influenza says:
There is now no doubt influenza or what
is popularity known as La Grippe has be-
come epidemic in this city and is scat
tered broadcast over the country. 1t is
also quite evident that its general charac-
t~eristies correspond with those noted in
connection with the prevailing type of the
malady in Russia, Germany and France.
Fortunately it is of such a type
that, save for its invasion of
large districts and for a large
number of persons attacked, it
would scarcely be noticed in the category
of ailments connected with the usual ones
which occur during the winter months,
associated with the rapid and varied
temperature and humidity. The report
of the fatality of the disease, as might have
been expected, has been very much exag-
gerated. Particularly does this remark
apply to the alarming death rate in Paris.
In point of fact, there is no disease with
such widespread prevalence which has
such comparatively low mortality. In this
country at least, there Is yet
to be reported the first case of death which
can be laid to a pure and simple attack of
the disease. Even the serious complica-
tions are so few as scarcely to merit
recognition along side of those which are
constantly occurring with the usual dis
ease of the season. The after effects of
the epidemic will doubtless be marked by
a feeling of prostration more or less con-
tinued and lowering of health tone. Pre-
~viously robust will quickly rally, while
the feeble will require stimulants and
TONES for variable periods.
UnseIfshness.
1t is said by an enemy of Napoleon III.
that he had mo sentiment of good or evil,
only the sentiment of self" The habit of
continual self-consciousness and self-atten-
ton is as fatal to ones happiness as it is
to ones usefulness and good manners; but
the ONLY way to cure it is to cultivate
thoughtfulness of others and kindness
toward them. The Rev. Edward Everett
Hale says:
| remember. having to advise a man who
had fallen into a sad, because morose. life,
and had put himself under my counsel, andl
said. Suppose you begin by passing the
butter at the table" He needed to be on
the outlook constantly for little occasions
to serve those around him. Take care In
the least exercises that you care for
others
4 do not like that man." said a very
sound observer to me. L saw him let
his wife pick up her own handkerchief
This critic was right IN that quick judg-
ment.
4 Judge him by the way he treats his
dog" That is a wise criticism. And if
it IS a wise criticism, it is wise in life.
Train yourself to unselfshness In what the
world pleases to call little things.
The report that Charlotte Fiske Bats,
the authoress, died at Bellevue hospital,
New York, was. incorrect. She Is still
alive but In u critical condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

THE IURY SYSTEM.

THE verdict in the Cronin case has di-
rected attention anew to the peculiar un-
certainty and inconsistency of our boasted
jury system. 1t is notorious that jury
yerdicts in general afford no guarantee of
Justice, but are as apt to defeat as to en-
force the legitimate demands of the law.
We are told that the rule which required
a unanim Gus conclusion ON the part of
twelve jury men is the best possible assur-
ance of correct and satisfactory action;
but every intelligent citizen knows that
experience is constantly r~efuting the
theory. The unanimous verdicts are
brought about for the most part by means
and under conditions which mock the idea
of proper deliberation and honest iudg-
ment. At best, they are only compromises
and compromises OF justice
are at once both illogical and
indefinite. Very often, the apparent
agreement of the twelve does not represent
the sincere and exact opinion of a single
one of the number, in order to reach a
basis of unanimity, they severally surren-
der their right of individual Judgment,
and consent to something which really
violates their conscientious views of the
case. In other instanees-and this
Cronin trial is an example-the verdict is
practically rendered by n man, whose
obstinacy forces the eleven to accept his
opinion.
1t is only in the two great English
speaking countries that a unanimous vote
is required of %iuries. In all the rest of the
civilized world, a majority vote is con-
elusive; and there is nothing to show that
Justice suffers thereby. The laws are as
well enforced in such countries as they are
in the United States. There is no COM
plant that the innocent lack protection or
that the guilty get undue favor. We still
cling to the doctrine which makes every
criminal trial a ega ltravesty, more of less,
when reason is plainly on the side of a diff
ferent method of weighing evidence and
imposing penalties. We are not even
consistent in the matter, for we apply the
other rule to courts composed of several
judges. 1t is not necessary for all the
justices of such tribunals to agree before a
decision can be rendered. Thus the alb
surdity is presented of a verdict found by
the unanimous vote of twelve jurymen
which may be reversed by the majority
vote of the judges who consider it ON APP
peal. Why should these two practises ex-
list in the process of determining a given
case? 1t hardly ever happens that the de-
cision of a reviewing court is unanimous
in a case of Importance; but the opinion
Of the majority isreadily accepted. Other
wise, said courts would find it practically
impossible to dispose of their business.
Why should not juries have a like privi-
lege of passing upon the merits of the
case in a rational and substantial way?
This is a question which is being constant
" asked by the people. 1t cannot be an
swered by citing traditions and precedents.
The fact that the present method Dies not
yield sound and proper results is well
understood: and the demand for a change
will have to be acceded to sooner or later.
ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

Officers of the Wisconsin Central to be
Moved to Chicago.

liCC VI III COhSh SOhoAoi W NC
Moved to Chicago.
CHICAGO, Illinois.-The board of mama
gers of the interstate commerce railway
association have settled the Kansas and
Nebraska rate question. The new tariffs
have been adopted to take effect Jan. 10,
making a slight advance in Nebraska
rates and a reduction in Kansas rates
in order to place them on a uniform
basis of the through rates to be adjusted
next week. A large proportion of the
grain from Nebraska to the Atlantic sea-
board has recently been going around by
way of st. Paul instead of via Chicago, on
account of railroads west of the Mis-
souri, river fixing the rate from Omaha
to St. Paul ON the same basis that
applies to Mississippi river points. The
Chicago lines have protested against this
and have appealed the matter to the exec
utive board for arbitration. 1t is stated
that the offices of the Wisconsin Central
road will be removed from Milwaukee to
Chicago in spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
r AND

Hon. ALvA STEWART, for many years
Judge OF the Ninth Judicial Circuit of
Wisconsin, died at the city of Portage on
Monday.
Four boys between the e of 6 and s
years were buried by a falling sand bank
at Jackson. Tenn. All four were dead
when taken out.
BELLEFoNTE. Pa.-The iron firm
of Curtin & Co., of Roland, this
county. assigned. The liabilities are
about 500, 900. The works were estab-
lished about 1910.
PADUcAH, Ky.-Four loggers were burn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
A Noted Tiger.

A tigress in the Nagpur district has q
fondness for the emplo es of the Bengal
Nagpur railway, frequents a tract Of
country only about nine square miles in
area, and is possessed of extraordinary
cunning and sagacity. This year, up tc
June, she has killed seven people, besides
w~ounding others. She lives In a rocky
and p~recipitous spur, in which there is a
heavy bamboo and other jungle. Several
springs of water rise at the foot of the
scarps, and there is d cave which shows
many signs of being used by her and her
family. A big stone just outside of the
entrance is scored deep and long with
many scratches of their claws. In Feb
ruary last in broad daylight she carried
off one of a gang of permanent-way men
from under the eyes of his companions.
She has been shot at many times and her
cubs killed but she has got off scratches.
Sometimes the man-eater traverseS very
long distances.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
JOSH BILLINGS PHILOSOPHY.
NEW YORK WEEKLY.

All happiness IL like gold quartz-thare
II four quartz ov stone to one ounce oy
gold.
Hope and Debt are partners in trade
Hope hunts up the customers. and Debt
skins them.
Hunger IL a sleuth-hound on a fresh
track.
Toll SWEETS at the brow, but Idleness SWEETS
all over.
Dispair IL the ashes ov hope, which the
wind oy t%ribulashun skaters.
A man haz got about done going down
hill when he gifts whar he brags on hiz
~lazyness. Such a kritter IL ov no more use
tew himself nor others than a ~frozen-tew-
death rooster in a barn-yard.
He who spends all his substance in charity
will undoubtedly git his reward here and
hereafter; but hiz reward here will be the
poor-house.
Give a smart child a pack ov kards and
a spellin book, and he will learn tew play
a good game ov Hi Lo Jak long before he
kan spell a word ov two ~sillables.
A lie IL good for a short race, but it
takes truth tew run the heats-''blood will
tell"
There IL a huge number ov souls per-
ambulating around the world who hav bin
straining for years after a camel, and
finally had to swallow arFnat.
We should awl aim at p~erfeckshun, but
no n but a phOol will expect tew reach
it.
Pride lives on itself. 1t IL like a raccon
in winter keeps fat bi sucking its claws.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
GIRLS AS
They Are and Over-Daring in
Their Enthusiasm,

They Are Reckless and Over-Daring in
Their Enthusiasm.
'Glrls should never be allowed in a
gymnasium unless they are in charge of a
thorough master of calisthenics and gym
n~astics, said a professor to a reporter for
the Mail and Express. 1T may seem
strange to.say, but the girls are more dar-
ing and much more reckless than boys
when they get the athletic fever. 1t
seems to be very catching nowadays.
'Only a short time ago a young lady
came into this gymnasium. She had new
er been In a gymnasium before. As soon
as she got her suit on she was trying to
pull herself up a horizontal bar and before
| could stop her she had strained the ten
dons in both arms and couldn't come
back to exercise again for nearly three
months.
Girls have to take a much more sys-
tematic training than boys. They are not
so strong and have to be treated more
tenderly. There are hundreds Of ways in
which a girl can hurt herself in a gym
nasium unless she is very careful. She
can strain her arms and hands by too
much exercise at anything. She can
sprain her back by jumping too far on a
spring board.
Il have known girls to sprain their toes
in the running high jump even when
the bar was only a foot from the ground.
High-heeled shoes press the toes forward
and girls who wear them always land on
their toes when they jump instead of on
the ball of the foot"
What exercise should a girl practice at
home?" asked the reporter.
Gymnastics to be healthful, should
only take a portion of the strength of one s
muscle, and the constant exercise of these
muscles is what develops them. | have
seen some delicate girls exercising with
fve-pound dumb bells, when some of
the strongest athletes of the country only
use ~two-pounders. A girl who wishes to
expand her chest can do so if, each morn
ing after her bath, she will stand erect,
feet together, shoulders back, arms straight
down, and take twenty-five full, deep
breaths. Better begin fifteen times the
first week and then gradually increase it.
Keep up the increase until it reaches the
number of fifty. By that time her lungs
will be much stronger and the chest will
begin to expand. A round-shouldered girl
can become straight by moving the arms
backward In regular motions until the ell
bows are only a few inches apart, Let the
first exercise be twenty times and increase
it until 125 times can be done without
fatigue. The throat can be made round
and firm by judicious exercise of the head.
l make my throat pupils throw the head
far back and then forward slowly, and
them from side to side In the same way.
There is no reason why any girl Or
woman not deformed, and about % or 80
years of age, should not have a graceful
and well developed figure, and gymnastics
will give it to her, but not unless she is
taught them properly. New York Mail
and Express.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

THE Montana muddle is not ended yet,
and there is no telling when it will be.
Politicians will probably bankrupt the new
state, but it is all for party you know.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

Mr.. GLADSTONE has passed the four
score line, and bids fair to add ten years
more to his public record.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

THE sudden death of the ex-empress of
Brazil will probably hasten the death of
Dom Pedro, who has been stricken down
with grief.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

SEVEN cities, it is said. claimed HON.
er's ashes; and now just seven states ask
for the tomb of Davis. But here the COM
parison ends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09
Poor

The common lot is one of sorrow say-at least
the pessimists. they who look at the worst side.
Certainly what would otherwise be a bright exist
ence, is often Swallowed by some ailment that
overhangs it like a pail, obseuring perpetually the
radiance that else would light the path Such an
dilment, and a very common ore, Is nervousness,
1r i'll other words, weakness OF the nervous sys-
lem, a condition only irremediable where ineffci-
EFT or improper means are taken 70 relieve it.
The concurrent experience of nervous people who
have persistently used Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers Is, that it conQuers entirely representative
ness of the nerves, as well as diseases-so called
which are invited and sustained By their chronic
weakness. As the nerves gain stamina from the
great tonic the trouble disappears. Use the Bit
tiers for malaria, rheumatism, biliousness and kid
psy troubles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

RUMoR has it that somebody connected
with the Cronin jury will be Investigated
by the grand jury. The general public
would like a little more light thrown on a
case in which one man thought or acted so
differently from the other eleven men.
THE DEATH OF JUDGE STEWART.
After a somewhat prolonged sickness,
and just as his friends began to hope that
he would recover, this venerable jurist has
at last yielded to that fell disease, which
brings down so many of the strongest and
most vigorous. His strong constitution
for many days resisted the deadly attack;
but Death is not easily baffied, when he
claims his own, and the good, sturdy,
brave and honest judge, whose form has
become so familiar in his circuit, will sit
no more to adjust the scales of Justice
among men.
In many, in most respects, Judge Stew
art was an admirable judge. He was
learned in the elementary principles of the
law. His reason and common sense had
blended with the doctrines of the law.
He was imbued with a love of justice, and
with simple-heartedness he aimed to adj
minister it. Absolutely impartial. fear
less, clear-headed, strong in convictions,
clear in perceptions, he held the confidence
and respect of the bar and the people dur
ing his long career of Judicial serv-
ice, and the ermine that he lays off
is without stain. None, in the disap-
pointment of defeat, ever thought to ques-
ton his honesty or that he had not con-
scientiously tried to decide justly, accord
ing to the very right Of the cause.
Among the circuit judges of the state,
he stood in the foremost rank. Among
the %jurists of the state he stood eminent
for legal wisdom and for all the high quail
ties that make men repose confidence in the
judiciary. In the honored roll of Wiscon-
sin ~jurists his name shines with the luster
brightest of earthly fame-of long, able,
absolutely pure and upright judicial
service.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-09

DR.. WAYLAND scored a very cleveran-
tithesis at the New England dinner in New
York the other evening. "a saint, said
he, SIS a man with convictions who has
been dead 100 years, canonized now, cam
qonaded then"
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APHORISMS.

Troubles spring from idleness, and
g%rievous tolls from needless ease. Many
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parisOn ends.
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with grief.