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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Deep Flowing.

There is a prevailing belief that deep
blowing is right, yet few persons take the
pains to plow deep. There is doubtless a
reason for this failure to do that which is
believed to be the best. No doubt the
prevailing practice of attempting the cul-
tlvation of too large an area, too many
acres, is the chief cause of shallow plow-
ing. But why is deep blowing the best
We must have reason and good reason
for what we do. First, deep blowing pre-
vents drying out of the surface soil during
the season of crop growth and supplies
the conditions favorable for the attraction
of plant food and moisture from great
depths in the earth and from the sur
rounding atmosphere, thus promoting
crop growth to the greatest possible ex-
tent. Second. deep blowing enables an
escaping moisture to pass away from the
roots of plants so that no it, ury to grow
ing crops may take place during wet
weather. Third, deep blowing enables
the soil to withstand excessive drouths by
supplying moisture to the crop during dry
weather. Fourth, deep blowing prevents
the washing away of the soil on rolling
or hilly lands by absorbing an extra
amount of moisture Fifth. deep plow-
ing deepens the soil by bringing to the
surface for fertilization soil that has not
been acted directly upon by the sun and
air, so making deeper, richer soil. Add
to deep blowing suhsoil blowing once in
every four or five years. and we have the
projections of the conditions referred tc
in deep blowing.
Deep blowing each season and subsoi
blowing occasionally to the depth of e
inches or two feet to break up and loosen
the subsoil will supply the necessary con
ditions for the attraction of plant food and
moisture from the great reservoir of fer
tility. the air and from deep down in the
earth below the surface soil. Reason, OBJ
servation and experience all combine in
teaching the necessity of cultivating the
soil deeply and thoroughly. But wha
may be said of shallow blowing? 1t is {
wonderful and impressive coincidenc,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
THE KISS IN SCHOOL.

district school not far away
Mid Berkshire hills, one winters day
Was humming with its wonted noise
OF three score mingled girls ana boys.
Some few upon their task intent,
But more on furtive MISCHIEF pent;
The while the master downward LOOK
Was fastened on copy 0ook
When suddenly, behind his back
Rose sharp and clear a rousIng smack;
As 'twere a battery of bliss
Let off in one tren. endous kiss.
ssWbat's that?'' the startled master cries;
ssThat. thir,'' little imp replies, saws
s'Wath William Width, if you pleathe!
Ithaw him kith Thuthanna Peathe."
With frown to make a statue thrill,
The master Numbered, "Hither WILT
Like wretch o'ertaken in his track
With stolen chattles on his back,
Will hung his head in fear and shame,
And to the awful presence came
A great, green, bashful simpleton,
The butt of all good-natured fun
With smile suppressed and birch appraised
The teacher faltered, SIN amazed
That you, my biggest pupil, should
Be guilty of an act so rude
Before the whole set school, to boot
What evil genius put you tot?
9. Twas she. herself, sir sobbed the lad,
81 didn t mean to be so bad;
Bnt when Susannah shook her curls,
And whispered | was afraid of girls,
And dursn't kiss babys doll,
| couldn't stand it, sir, at all,
But up and kissed her on the spot;
/ know-boo hoo-I ought to not;
But somehow, from her loOks-boo hoo
| thought she kind o. wished me to-"
William Pitt Palmer,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
MONUMENTS TO THE DEAD.
BY KATE THORN.
New York Weekly.

It has been wisely remarked that ICON
sistency is jewel" out the author of the
remark strangely enough neglected to add
that it was rarer than the diamond.
All through their lifetime we rail at
and find fault with public men. Nothing
they eve1 do quite meets our appreciation.
We feel that we could have done so much
better if we had been in their places. We
wound our friends with cool looks and
cross words. We reprove our children
with harshness. We speak unkindly to
poor old father, or mother, who tries our
patience with seemingly needless Ques-
tons We pick our ministers best ser
mons all to pieces, and say that he had
better Quit the pulpit and go to saving
wood. We are not satisfied with the faml-
" physician and we take patent medicines
till we do not care whether we live or die,
and then say we were not treated proper
ly in the first place.
We are a race of fault-fnders.
The husband will feel himself a martyr
of the first water if he finds hole in the
toe of his stacking; he will be sulky for
half day if his dinner if fifteen minutes
late and he will snap at his wife about 1t,
and set her off into the lachrymose state;
and she will wish she had remained an
old maid; and he will think how much
happier Brown is, and Brown has never
married.: but when that wife dies, he1
husband forgets her shortcomings, and
forthwith! proceeds to remember her In
marble, and make a sort Of saint OF
her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
SHOT AT MIDNIGHT.
An Enraged Husband Sends Bullet
Through His Wife's Neck.

New YORK, May 22-At l clock this
morning David Ramsey, accompanied bv
two other men. visited the boarding
house at lis West Forty-ffth street
where Ransey's wife, who had separated
from him, was living. One of the men
knocked on the door, and when the
landlady inquired what was wanted at
that unseemly hour, called out in a
loud voice: The water pipes have
burst, and | want to tell you about it. -
The boarders were aroused and rushed in
to the hallway. Upon the lendlady open
ing the door three men pushed their way
in, and one of them said: Il am Ramsey
and | want to see my wife" Mrs. RAN
sey, who stood in the hallway upon hear
ing her husbands voice, fed to the rear
parlor Ramsey and his companions fol-
| lowed, and the former being unable
to get into the room, smashed
panel of the door with the butt end of
his revolver and fired through at his wife,
who was crouching in corner. The ball
penetrated the woman's neck, and during
the panic that ensued the three men
escaped. The Ranseys formerly lived in
Brooklyn, and were well connected The
couple did not live happily together, and
| the wife came to this city and resided at
the boarding house where the shooting
took place.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
"NOT STRANGERS THERE

To whom would heavens doors so freely open
As to little child,
Who stands with timid feet upon its threshold,
Lovely and undefled?
And such an one, of late, loy lying,
With fast receding breath:
Over her face the first, last shadow falling
She afraid of death.
Her loved ones said, sob, do not fear to enter
The land so wide and fair
To all their words of cheer she could but answer.
II do not know them there!'
But, even as she, spoke, her hands were lifted
In sudden, sweet surprise:
And the reflection of some dawning splendor
Ilumed her wondering eyes.
No longer clinging to her tender watchers,
And darkened by their woe,
She looked as if she some loved one beckon.
And was in haste to go.
What she beheld we saw not, and her rapture
Our hearts not yet light share
But with her last bright smile she whispered
gladly,
''They are not strangers there!'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
A Chauncey Depew Among Women.

Women have been noted from time i'm
memorial for their lack of exactness and
Judgment in business matters, particularly
noticeable in their dealings with news
papers, but there's one woman in the city,
and she is young woman, too, who has
an artistic method of procedure which
men might do we'll to study. She is the
president of great lot of woman clubs,
and when any event of importance is pend
ing she engages, as she calls it, the par
tlcular reporter to be present in whom she
has most confidence, and such long notice
Is given that arrangements can usually be
made according y. Before the meeting
too, an appointment is made with each re-
porter to consult with her ON the import
ant points to be brought out and the line
of work to be followed. Thus fortified
with an understanding of what Is to take
place an intelligent idea of the proceedings
is usually conveyed. Of course every
newspaper reporter ought to be competent
to understand the workings of a girl S
club, political rally Or slugging match
with no explanation, but unfortunately
they sometimes fail to grasp the idea In
It's entirety or handle it without absurd
and sometimes offending anarchronisms.
At the meeting there is always program
on each reporter table, digest or out
line of the papers to be read, and frequent
ly typewriter copy of the principle adj
dresses, from which it is a delightfully."-
easy task to make correct andIinteresting
abstract. When it is all over she never
fails to send pleasant note of thanks for
what she is gracious enough to call your
kindness" and | have never yet heard her
say, after the manner Of women, that 1T
is no use to tell a reporter anything, for
they won't get it right anyway" She is a
Chauncey Depew among women, and her
name is Grace NJ. Dodge.-New York
Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Divorces INCREASING

ST. LOUIS, May 24-In the southern
methodist conference to-day, commune
cation was read from the national reform
association asking some such question of
divorce as would aid in the
elevation of public opinion on the
subject. The committee reported a
resolution reciting an enormous increase
in the ratio of divorces and stated the Meth
odist Episcopal church south recognizes
but one cause of divorce (the spiritually,
and will rejoice on the day when the laws
of all the states accord with the law of the
church in the matter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Violating the Labor Law.

CHICAGO, May pa local paper says
the treasury agents who have been here
at the request of the carpenters union
looking for proofs in the al
legged importation of foreign laborers
by the old masters association have secur-
ed evidence of numerous violations of the
law by that organization and will soon
begin prosecution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Hurley on the Quite.

HURLEY, Wis, May 20.-All gambling
houses in Hurley were closed last night by
the order Of the chief of-police. The town
has been infested for some weeks by a
large number Of what are known as tin
horn gamblers, and it is to get rid of
this class that the houses have been
closed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Miners Succumb.

SCOTT HAVEN, Pa, May 23.-The min
listers at W. L. SCOTS mines have been
notified that the firm will pay them | cent
less than the Columbia scale. SCOTS
miners and the greater portion of the
Youghiogheny river miners who have
been Cd strike for the Columbus scale,
will resi- ne in full today, tho proposal
having been accepted by them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Cut From Ear TO Ear.

P1TTsBURG, Pa, May 22.-Henry
Swindell, we'll known and very wealthy
resident of Allegheny City. cut his throat
from ear to ear. yesterday, while laboring
under fit Of melancholia, the result Of
the recent death of his wife, mother and
eldest son. He is still living but will
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Agreed with the Last Conference.

AsHEvILLE, N. c., May 22-The Gen
eral assembly of the Presbyterian church,
South, today reconsidered its action ON
the temperance committee report, and
after a vigorous debate decided on no
further action to be taken and that the
assembly simply afirms the deliverance of
previous assemblies on Temperance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
w husky Way Up.

CHICAGO, May 24.-Upon the report
that the Shufeldt distiIlery had joined the
whisky trust, spirits were doomed today
from 81 05 to 81 70, and whisky from 81 O5
to 81 TO- Trust certificates also boosted
up from 45 to 48A, closing active at AZ.
The boom may prove boomerang, how
ever, representative of the Shufeldt es-
Enlistment declaring emphatically that it
has not and will not join the trust
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Can't Find COttrefI.

CEDAR KEYS, Fla, May 22.-The ex-
petition of the revenue cutter McLain, in
search of the missing Mayor Cottrell has
been abandoned. At meeting of the city
council to-right, Cottrell's brother an
nounced that the mayor would never re-
turn to Cedar Keys, and that the council
might, therefore, declare the office vacant.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
A Duel With Swords.

ROME, May 24.-Mrquis Ungaro and
Count d'Arco, fought duel to-day with
swords, the count being slightly wounded
It was political quarrel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29
Cigar Makers Ont.

NEW YORK, May 26-Fully l 800 cigar
makers vent out on strike today, for the
restoration of the old schedule of wages
and tomorrow the number Of strikers will
probably be increased to 1000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-05-29

The emperor's foot is swollen and he is
unable to wear boot on it. He has been
ordered to keep In his room for ten days.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-26
AFTER OUR PATTERN.

a prominent Richmond journalist said
last October that TIE ROANOKE TINES
had set the pace for every daily in Viz
ginia and that they were all spurrcd to
improve their plants and papers by its
cight-page example. If its press had
been delivered at the time il was
expected TIE TINES would have had The
honor of being the first eight page daily
in Virginia. 1t was, hov ever, close
second, and claims to be the best daily
paper printed in any city of 10000 in
h"bitants in tho United States.
Following its style and makeup tho
Lynchburg News has come out in at
tractiyo cight-pagc form. The exact size
Of TIE TIMES. The News is now printed
on Il new Cottrell press and cut, pasted
and fpldci on Ii Dexter press. We con
graduate thc News on thc Increasing
evidences of its prosperity and on
Brother Glass good taste i'll the romod-
cling Of his paper.
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ing death to any unfortunate capitalist
who attempts to claim his own by talk
ing action on an overdue mortgage. In
one county men who rent land held by
mortgage companies under foreclosure
proceedings are driven out of the county
and warned not to return.
This is bad. Until this year Kansas
has been the banner state in supporting
party whose financial policy has
stripped the Kansas farmers, and now
by the same fanatical fervor turned in
a different direction capital will be
driven from the State by the million.
We are sorry for Kansas. She WAS Il
force plant from birth. Her arid prairics
were colonized to forward political aims
and have received population far be-
You'd their value The reaction has
begun. Kansas will lose popula ton and
wealth steadily until more favored
regions are developed.
The capital which leaves her will seek
Investment in less turbulent sections.
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IIARRISONIsURG.

lIAEHIsoNBURG, Va. Dec. 25. Especial
Messrs. II. T.. Sipe. L. a. Herring. and
Jasper lIawsc have been appointed COM
missioners to contract for the buildsng
OF wrought iron bridge over the Shcn-
andoah river at Island Ford. and James
j.. Lowman, A. Is. Click and Jasper
llawsc arc designated to act in similar
capacity in the construction of an iron
bridge over Dry river, near l'ridgcwatcr.
These gentlemen. acting in concert.
have advertised for bids for the stone
and structural work required in tho
erection OF these bridges. which will be
received up to l.! o'clock Tuesday. De-
ccmbcr 30th.
In the daily Florida Standard, of last
Friday, Richard II. liggctt, of Jackson
willie, formerly of this place, is favor
ably mentioned for vacancy on the
bench of the supreme court Of Florida
The mention OF his name in such q con-
nection is a compliment such as rarely
comes To ono OF his years. and dick s.
numerous friends here at his old home
will be delighted to learn OF the laurcls
he is winning in the Land OF Flowers =
The valuable farm known as maple
wood" about seven miles west of Iiar-
risonburg, formerly owned by Col. John
III. Hopkins, was sold last Monday by
Commissioners Winfield Liggctt and
George Chrisman. The purchaser was
Mrs. Mamie Il. Fell, and the price paid
was $4,000
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80 H
SALEM.

SALEM, VA, Dec. Christmas eve
was dull in Salem. There were quite u
number of people in town, buying goods
to fill sundry stockings, etc, much TO
the delight of the children generally.
Mr.. W. r.. Barllsdalc and Miss !.ucio
Walters wcrc married yesterday morn
ing AZ tho Luthern church, by the Row.
G. Armand Miller. The contracting
parties boarded the east-bond train fo.
Charl0ttcsyillo, tho iormer homo OF thc
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-26
NUAiAEE CIYY isi,rl:!.4Rtsl,.

The New York papers never fail 10
sheer Mt Philadclphia's quiet and con-
servativc development and to intimate
tina her business men lack enterprise
and spirit. Is it so? Hardly.
While New York invested her surplus
capital III Improbable Western rail.
roads and traded dollars in Wall street.
Philadelphia sought an untrcd fold.
She knew the vast wealth which had
come to Pennsylvania from coal mining
and iron manufactures She knew that
any section in which were suitable Goals
and the raw materials of iron making
could be made populous and wealthy.
Southwest Virginia presented every
advantage, and Philadelphia capital was
daring enough to make the venture. 1t
was successful one. Tho enterprise
of the sreat Quaker City has been ten
fold rewarded. 1t has blazcd the way
toward the creation of the greatest iron
manufacturing section of America.
toward the utilization OF the most valu-
able of natures raw materials whore
they are most abundant and accessible
New York has lost hundreds Of mil
lions Of dollars in wildcat western ven
lures. SO far as Southwest Virginia is
concerned, Philadelphia has not only
never lost n dollar, but on the other
hand has made more profitable invest
ments than New York can name as her
own in any section of the country.
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The TIMES controls the fran
chises of both the Associated
Press and the United Press,
and is the only paper i'll the
oGty publishing regular tele-
graphic dispatches.
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NO NEED TO WORRY.

Tho Washington Critic devotcs half
column to what it calls the boom towns
of Southwest Virginia, particularly OF
the Shenandoah Valley. With IN in
cidcntal reference to land operations
around Washington it assails section
of which it possesses no accurate knowl-
edge.
1t is i'll bad taste for any Washington
paper to assail Virginia developments.
The Capital City is surrounded in every
direction by paper additions, houscless
and hopeless, into which tho confiding
government clerk has sunk his surplus
salary on the installmcnt plan. Accord
ing TO the reliable statement of an ex-
collector of taxes of the District of
Columbia, there is enough land laid
@eout in city lots in the vicinity Of WASH
ington TO accommodate, 5000, 900 of
people. Yet the District contains only
100000, and is not growing rs rapidly
as the city Of Roanoke, let alone South
west Virginia.
&C None Of the Washington suburbs pos
sess merits other than ncarness to tho
Capital. No manufactures enlivcn their
solitudes. They are forlorn. The
engineer who laid out Washington cal
culated that 100000 people could
easily live within its boundary. 1T IS
not yet one-fourth occupied. And as to
shrewdness of purchasing, the worry
Government itself is buying lands in
the district for hugo park at 81 900 an
acre when tho sworn aiIidavits of the
owners are on file in the assessors Office
to the effect that their lands are not
worth over $50 an acre.
Now We will make few predictions
This city of Roanoke with 10000 popu-
lation will build two-thirds as many
Buildings in 1891 as tho big city OF
Washington with over 100000. 1t viii
increase in population at vastly greater
rate, and no less in numbers.
The city of Salem, Roanollc's twin
sister, claiming over 5000 population
to-day, will during 1891 build ono-Shird
as many houses as Washington. The
two cities arc erecting moro business
houses than are being built in the grea t
capital of tho country. This whole
region is moving with tho Same impulse
and speed
AS to manufactures there can be no
comparison. This is manufac turing
centre. The whole southwest section OF
Virginia is a vast magnet, drawing 20
itself capital, labor and manufac turing
enterprises. 1t is producer. Wash
ington is purely artificial; it has no
manufactures outside of the govern
ment's which will compare with those
of a fourth-rate Virginia town.
Southwest Virginia can hold its own.
There is not enough Washington mon ey
here to make n ripple, and no one in
Washington need feel at all worried
over Virginia town lot specuations.
BLEEDING KANSAS.
Tho Kansas situation becomes moro
-.
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NOTICE.

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orders are given for the same by the
general manager.
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| 10 Commerce Street.

Are HOW offering the greatest variety of articles suit
able for Christmas gifts that useful as we'll as orna
mental, in Roanoke. special attraction among their
many exhibits is pretty line of
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-26

Eutezed at the Postofico at Roanoke as sec
0nd-efstSs matter.
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VA, DECEMBER &c, 1880.

NOTICE 10 ciTX s G.iSGstIHERS.
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CLARENCE W. Bowen, Secretary, 25l
Broadway, New York, desires informa-
ton regarding portraits of William
Gfayson, J1o,hn Walker, ThenH,oricll
Bland, Isaac Coles. and Alexander
White, mcmbers OF Congress from Vir-
ginia a hundred years ago. These por-
traits are particularly desired to in
sort with portraits of the remainder OF
the Virginia delegation in the memorial
volume on the centennial of Washing
toms Inauguration. Any clue, however
slight, is especially desired.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-26
BLEEDING IsANsAs.

Tho Kansas situation becomes more
desperate as time goes on. Not only IS
tho Legislature in the hands of the
FARMERS Alliance, bat ar,aed bodies of
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-12-26

THE TIMES Gun DC found regularly Oh
eale at the following places:
Roanoke--George Gravatt, Jr; III. L.
Smiths, Dallis z; Dennis, Hotels Roam
clle, Continental end Ponce De Leon.
SaleIn--AlfrGd S. BuyGette s. Co.'S.
Pulaslli--AGaple Shade Inn.
Observation-Disclosures Inn.
MISUNDERSTANDING Inn.
Norfolk and Western ands5honandoah
Valley trains.
Bristol. TOMMY e Ward, Front
Street.
Washington--Winar .:;Ihe Hletropon
tan.