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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

ness men In various commercial and manu-
featuring centers of Europe, and in the
acts of these governments, protesting
against our recent tariff legislation. This
sentiment and the determination to hold
the markets of the United States, in spite
of the will of our people and the laws which
are enacted to express it, has now found
utterance in the attempt to secure by
money the ends which they have failed to
secure by arguments and protests. The
use of money by foreigners to control leg
islation and public opinion is not unknown
IN this country. But nevers we believe,
until now has an American citizen of high
standing and acknowledged ability DELHI
erately conspired with the industrial and
commercial representatives of foreign ma
tions to overthrow the settled economic
policy of the United States, by the use of
foreign money, in order to promote the
prosperity Of foreign industries and labor
at the expense of those of his own country
men.
We call attention to the fact here stated
with the conviction that when they are
known the Indignation of the American
people will battle and put to naught the
unnatural scheme. The infamy OF
Arnold was fruitless, but it will be
eternal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

we had our horses stabbed. and then for a
canter over the beautiful roads to the bun
galow. fifteen miles away. We had to go
through Vicullah to reach our destination.
What kaleidoscope that native city Is.
The burrah-wallah water-carrier, wear
ing nothing but breech-clout, and the
male body servant with his red turban and
long white jackets. Jews from Palestine.
Parsees, or fire. worshipers, who travelled
5000 miles over desert and mountain from
Persia and carried their sacrid fires, all
picturesque, all in white, bordered with red
or other bright colors.
well, in turning a corner in Vicullah
we found crowd being harangued bv one
of the best-known fakirs in India. had
heard him spoken of as one who could put
a blight upon yon. People called him
Sadi-Sahib-Sadi, my master. Col. Yeag-
er pushed through the crowd within few
feet of the fakir. to whom he said some
thing in Hindostanee. 1t seemed to en-
rage Sadi, who jumped from his little plat
form in front of Yeager saying:
4" 'Englishman. be careful, or blight may
fall upon you and yours Tread not upon
the smallest thing Buddha has created or it
may turn and sting you.
DCiO1C L SOulil SltD uIILl lllS SOlCIcI udtt
cut the fakir across the face, and with an
oath had shouted: Out of the way, you
Hindoo pig!'
The fakir turned and, with blazing
eyes, said:
" 'Englishman, you will not meet your
wife, You will not meet your child. Your
plantations will be devasted; your craven
heart will wither within you; you will
die
The fakir's words were prophetic.
felt it then, and also think the colonel
did. We reached the bungalow and we
were soon in bed. How l slept that night
| don't know. The words, 'Englishman,
beware, were continuously ringing in my
ear. Next morning went into the break
fast-room, and | shudder when | think of
II. The colonel was there walking up and
down with a telegram in his hand, his face
drawn, and he looked twenty years older
than he did the night before With tears
in his eyes he handed NE this message:
Steamship Fiago went ashore at the mouth
of the Hooghly. Your wife and child
drowned. | have never seen the colonel
since, but | have watched his career.
His poppy crop was failure that year and
it ruined him; his bungalow was burned
by either accident or design, and Yeager
died within twelve-month of a broken
heart. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
WHY THE COWS COME LATE.

Crimson sunset burning
Ger the tree fringed hills
Golden are the meadows,
Ruby flashed the rillS,
Quiet in the farm house.
Home the farmer HES,
But his wife is watching.
Shading anxious eyes,
While she fingers with her pail beside the barn
yard gate,
Wondering why her Jenny and the cows come
home so late.
Jenny, brown-eyed maiden,
Wandered down the lane:
That was ere the daylight
Had begun to wane.
Deeper grows the shadows;
Circling shadows sweep:
Katydids are calling;
Mists DER meadows creep.
Still the mother shades her eyes beside the barn
yard gate,
And wonders why her Jenny and the cows come
home so late.
Loving sounds are falling,
Homeward now at last,
Speckle. Bess and Brindle
Through the gate have passed.
Jenny, sweetly blushing,
jamie grave and shy,
Takes the pals from mother,
Who stands silent by.
Not one word is spoken as that mother shuts the
gate,
But now she knows why Jenny and the cows
came home so late.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
4 ChimPanzee's Education.
Forest and Stream.

FOfeSI ana SlIedlQ.
The ouestion has been frequently discus
sed. Can animals count?" Sir John Lub-
book, among others, has given much at
tention to some apparent examples in the
case of insects. bees and others, which in
feeding their young invariably bring the
same number of victims, more to a female
than to a male grub. But in passing it
NAV be suggested that knowledge of
quantity rather than number is the guild
ING instinct, the female grub being larger
and requiring more food.
Now there are two animals at present
in the London geological gardens who are
unfailingly correct regarding numbers;
and in both cases the comprehension of
actual language directs them. First, as
being by far the more accomplished
scholar. comes Sally. 1t is no regular
routine that she goes through, nor one
voice only that she obeys Not only has
she two keepers both being in turn her
tutors. but if a casual visitor asks for a
straw, six straws, ten straws, or to shake
hands with her, as may be, and if Sally is
in an amiable mood, she complies as if
her keeper had spoken the words. For a
time, and after much patient teaching,
three seemed to be the limit of her calcula-
tions. Then she advanced to four, and
then to five, and here she stopped for a
year or two, Ter keepers almost relinquish-
ING hope OF any further advance. But
suddenly her intellect seemed to gain
strength, and now she can count ten cor
rectiy. By counting we. of course,
mean that she comprehends clearly how
many straws to pick up if told to give 10
10 lo,. 10 nISn hn ra-
quests that number; her compliance toward
a stranger being, however, less certain,
as Sally resents unwarrantable liberties.
Her steady and methodical way of going
through cher lessons is an example to
any pupil. Deliberately she selects a
straw and holds it in her mouth while she
picks up another, passing that to her
mouth and so on, until the required num-
her lips, folds the Iundle in compact
form and delivers it to her keeper:
But her comprehension OF language
does not end here. Give me straw
through the bars and she does so. Put
one through the key-hole, NOV. III my
pocket" and so on. Not taxing her
patience too long, the keeper approvingly
says: Good girl, now you may have
this piece of apple. laying several slices
on the woodwork between the wires.
This piece is for you to smell: - this
bit for you to look at, but not touch until
| tell you;' Sally giving her undivided
attention. not attempting to eat any more
until the keeper says: Now you may
have this piece or that To "shake
hands with the right or the left one, to
put up her right or her left foot as hidden,
to collect straws for 'button-hole' and
place it there, to take milk from a cup
with spoon like a lady," and many
other small performances, are promptly,
though deliberately, executed as the words
ara spoken. have watched her often,
but | have never seen her make a mistake
in the comprehension of the request.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
TIE HINDOO WAS A PROPHET.
How the Death of an Englishman's Family
Was Foreto1d in India.

James Mass tells this story, says the
Philadelphia Inquirer:
1T was about o'clock in the evening,
and Col. Yeager and | sat on the veranda
of the Vicullah hotel in Bombay, and on
the edge of the native city, which is call
ed Vicullah, and not Bombay. The col
onel is dead and all that he once owned
and loved is gone. He was expecting his
wife and daughter. who had been out to
England on year s visit. and the vessel
was to arrive at Calcutta next day, while
we were going to get the bungalow ready
to receive them. The colonel was in the
best of spirits. He joked and laughed
and told stories of love and war; how he
was nearly captured and murdered by the
renowned Mana Sahib at Cawnpore; of his
vast poppy plantations and the revenue he
derived from the opium he distilled every
year. Finally we started to walk to where
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
Papa Paid for the Cocktails.
Boston Herald.

Some of the fragile, sensitiye-lookin
girls that adorn the fashionable summer
resorts hereabouts and seem almost too
frail for the rude sea breezes, have a
wonderful facility for slowing way slim
lants of every kind, and are somewhat
overcongenial with their acquaintance
There is little beauty stopping at a big
hotel by the sea who wears the dalntiest
sort of big, fower-laden shade hats, the
sauciest gingham gowns and the
tiniest russell shoes in the world and all the
young men that catch a glimpse of her
would pawn their souls to know the Joy Of
kissing her fresh, red mouth. No one
would ever dream, to look upon this mouth,
that it knew any moisture other than the
natural honey of the maiden herself, but
the frs hotel bill that was presented to
her indulgent father showed that it is well
acquainted with glass rims. the bill was
for two rooms, one of them being that of
the daughter and to this latter was charg-
ed S3S from the bar. The fond father
glanced down the enumeration and then
went in search of his child.
That's right, papa. > said she with the
utmost sang -froid 1t has been awfully
thirsty weather, you know, and | have
given three room parties to the girls this
week
We'll, it all seems possible" said the
father. but forty-six cocktails is little
steep, now isn't it?"
Yes, little, " replied the girl. But
Maud and Alice don't drink anything else
but cocktails, and that is how there hap
pened to be so many
The doting parent paid his daughter S
bill without more murnluring, and then he
paid his own, the bar charges for this con-
sitting of bottle of Bass ale and siphon
of carbonlc water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
A Scheme to Betray American Industry

A scheme to boom free-trade, ruin
American industries and protect foreign
manufacturers has just been discovered by
the New York Sun. 1t announces in its
issue of the 18th thct the well known, free
trade editor, Melville E. Stone, late of the
Chicago News, has returned unexpectedly
from Europe, with plans and funds for the
publication of seven penny morning news
papers in the seven largest cities of the
United States It is said that he has Sc
cured 100000 dollars to be devoted to
this object, enrich himself and force open
the markets of the United States to the
products of cheap labor.
This scheme is not new tous. We have
been aware that Mr.. Stone was at work at
it, and counted upon the liberal support
of foreign merchants, bankers and manu-
facturers to make it a success. The i'm
portance of this country as market for
European products has been strongly
manifested of late in meetings of the bust.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
THE TERRIBLE UNDERTOOK.
A Formless Terror of the Sandy Beach
That sucks Its Victims TO Their Doom.

The octopus, who turks in the coral reef
self to make a brave man chill The
fendish perseverance with which the shark
follows the ship day after day melts ones
nerves away. There is death in the touch
of the Observation-Disclosures in the fall of
a whales fukes-e nternity in the rush of
breakers on rocky shore. But the grim
ness of all these is overshadowed by the
soft purrlng and the gentle tapping Of the
tiger of the beach-the unseen beast who
gathers d dozen victims where another
claims one.
We stand here on the sandy shore with
the surf knee high. The sky is clear the
the sun shines brightly, and there are a
hundred people about US. If one would
predict danger he would be ridiculed.
What's that? The sand suddenly cuts
out from under our feet, feeling as if some
one had pulled on a rope we stood on.
Was it a cave? Did some one pull stick
away? No. 1t was the soft, low growl-
ing of the tiger of the beach-a note of
warning. 1t was the undertow. It
startled you for a moment, but you soon
forget it and push forward into the surf.
Now you stand just right to get the
shoulder breakers as they rol in and in
the excitement YOU forget the cruel FRANCE
and sharp claws waiting for you The
shore is only a few yards away. Men,
women and children are laughing; why
should you fear.
Of a sudden the water deepens. You
push back and Jump the roller laundering
in, and now there is no sand for your feet
to touch. The undertow has been pulling.
pushing, and coaXing you on. and now!
You can swim. You are startled, but you
see the shore is nigh. You strike out
5raveIy, but your legs feel as weighted
down The vexed waters beat you and
keep you short of breath. You exert more
strength You make grand effort You
are simply startled at the mysterious some
thing which has dragged you out.
A-h-h. See his face blanch! See his
wild strokes! Look into his eyes and read
the horror they express The undertow is
cold-cold as we'll as merciless. 1t has
pulled him out and down the coast foot by
foot. until he suddenly realizes he is
drowned If men notice that he is far out
no one speaks of it. If they see him beat
ing the water they pass it by as sport.
The tiger of the beach has crept down
among a hundred people in open day to
snatch victim, and he has accomplish
ed it.
Help. help!''
1t comes too late. The life guards are
too far away. Even wsle they right here
they could not save him. He has been look
ing death in the face for the last two min
utes, and he was unnerved before he cried
out. He cried cut because men always do
in their last moments if they die like this.
Terror has blinded him. He does not see
the people running up aud down the beach.
Terror has made him deaf. He does not
hear the shouts sent to him to make his
last effort. Even as they shout he throws
up his hands. utters long-drawn cry of
agony, and the spot where we last saw his
head is now covered with foam. The tiger
has pulled him down.-New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
AU STRAIIA.
VesSeIImen Won't Give In

MELBoURNE.-The ship-owners of Mel
bourne and Sydney, whose business has
been greatly interfered with by the de-
mands of the Seaman's Union, have held a
conference and addressed letter to the
union, refusing to employ any officer be-
longing to the union, on the ground that
such a course would be utterly subversive to
discipline. The latter added that the
average profits of the trade are under five
per cent and that as a compliance with
the demands of the men would entail an
annual loss of f200, 900, the only alterna-
tive is to lay up the vessels.
Non-union labor is abundant in sgd.
new.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
TIRED OF LIFE.
The Bold Bandit Makes Another Unsuc-
cessfuI Attempt at Suicide.

MARQUETTE, Mich, Aug. 25.-Holzhay,
the bandit of the northern woods, made
another unsuccessful attempt to commit
suicide in the prison at Marquette last
night. He was found laying in his cell in
an unconcious condition from loss of blood,
he having severed the arteries of his wrist
with a silver of tin, secured from a slop
bucket. His calp aud the top of his head
was also reduced to pulp from attempts
to dash out his brains on the prison walls.
Holzhay now lies in straight-jacket.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04

RUN

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Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
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st. Paul and Minneapolis
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Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman Vestibu1ed Drawing
Room and Colonist Sleepers via the North
eTn Pacific Railroad between Chicago and
Portland, Ore.
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern,
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
afording unequalled service to and from Wau-
kesha, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Neenah,
Menasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire,
Hurley, Wis, and Ironsyood and Ressemer,
Mich.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations, tune
tables and other information, apply to agents of
the line, or to Ticket Agents anywhere in the
United States or Canada.
S. r. AINSLIE, General Manager MILWAUKEE,
Wis.
J. NJ. HANNAFcRD, Genl Traffic Manager,
ST. PAUL, MINI.
X. G. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, MILWAUKEE,
WIS.
LOUIS ECKSTEfE, Asst Gen1 Pass'r & Tiki
Agt., MILWAUKEE, Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-04
Peace Declared.

City OF MEXICO, Aug. 27.-Dispatches
from San Salvador state that the peace
protocol was signed today. Similar adj
vices were received from Guatemala
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
THE WEATHER.

ga For WESTERN PENNsYL-
W VI vANIA: SLIGHTLY WARNER,
HA SOUTH WESTERLY WINDS,
SD 6A SHOWERS, FOLLOWED BY
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ONE RACE TODAY.
A Muddy Track Compels the Homewood
OficinI, to Give IL UD

Muddy Track Compels the Homewood
Oficinl. to Give IL Up
When the officials of Homewood Park went
out to the track yesterday morning they found
the course to be perfect sea of mud. 1t was
so much worse than they expected that all
hopes of starting the races were abandond
there and then. and it became question
whether they would be able to get the track in
shape for to-day.
Had the sun unveiled his countenance during
the forenoon there might have been fair
show, but the old sport was securely under
cover and as he did not lift the blanket until
well along in the afternoon the case became
hopeless. and it was decided to declare every
thing off except the unfinished 2AO trot, which
will be COMPLETED this afternoon. As but one
heat has been trotted the prostects are that
the race will prove quite interesting as there
are two or three likely animals in the list OF
six starters. which includes, Miss Agnes, Lucy
W. Lamarline, Inle, Ashby and ]. g. w.
There is now strong probability that the
Hal Polnter-Dallas match race will take place
after all. Ed Geers. who has the Pointer
horse, is anxious for it, as are the Dallas peo-
pie. A telegram was sent to Mr.. Hamln last
night, asking If he would agree to have the
race take place on Monday. In case his an
swer is favorable two extra events will be
added to the card. and a great afternoons
likely include three or four stations now at the
track all eligible to the 2:30 class and all ambi-
tious to secure record. There are a number
of good horses at the track, and two good races
could easily be made up. The matter will be
definitely settled to-day.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-04
MISSING IN TEXAS.
Alarm Caused by the Disappearance of n
Titusville Merchant.

Alarm Caused by the Disappearance of n
TitusvilIe Merchant.
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
TITUsv1LLE, October 3.-The long continued
absence of Frank L. Muse, the business man
who recently erected the handsome brick
block on West Spring street, and also stocked
the lower store with elegant jewelry, is causing
his many friends great deal of uneasiness
Several months ago, hearing that real estate
was having a boom in Galveston, he deter
mined to go there, and join his uncle,
Laurence Muse, with whom he had been cor
responding, and who is very wealthy. On the
18th of last July Mr.. Muse, in company with
Harry Rowland. embarked in a small boat on
the Allegheny river and went down the Ohio.
He was heard from regularly up until Is days
ago. The last heard of him was telegram to
his secretary, Mr.. Perkins, dated Galveston,
and informing Mr.. Perkins that it was his in
tention to leave the city that day on horse
back, and journey with his uncle into wild
country, where he owned some lands; also that
his friends here could expect him home in
eight days The eight days came and went,
and nothing can be learned of the missing man.
While some are venturfng the opinion that
the young man has met with foul play, others,
more hopeful, think he has been delayed in his
country ride, and will finally turn up all right.
tits known, however. that the lands he owned
were in a very wild portion of the country. Mr..
Perkins says that Mr.. Muses. business matters
are all right, and that he can draw a check to-
day for $40 900 cash.
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Tri.Stnte Brevities.

Tri-State Brevities.
JEALOUSY caused Charles Taylor to shoot
and kill his wife. near Athens, o.
BUSINESS troubles drove Farmer Jacob
Draime to commit suicide near Canton.
DAVID GLAssBURN, of Wooddale, Pa, was
kicked on the head by horse. and will die.
TYPHOID fever has caused a number Of
deaths in the neighborhood of McKeesport
ENGINEER EDWIN WELLS was crushed to
death in a wreck on the Vandalia near Collins
vile.
known as the McKeesport and Wilmerding
pike.
The works of the Mansfield (O.) Carriage
Hardware Company burned Yesterday. Loss,
$50. COO; insurance, $4,000
THE Allegheny Valley road is to be double
tracked it's entire length as soon as it Is possi-
BILE to have the work done.
AT the Westmoreland Coke Company's LarI-
mer mine AZ of the old miners are in their
places. Over 200 new men were employed
ABOUT half the coal miners who want more
pay along the Monongahela and Youghiogheny
rivers have sought employment elsewhere.
THE Butler Home Natural Gas Company has
just completed the laying of a line from Win
field township to Butler, a distance of 15 miles,
at cost of $4,000.
CHARLES RoLoFF. of Jonnstown, was found
hanging dead in the back yard of his divorced
w1fe's residence. The Coroner's jury returned
verdict of suicide.
BOLD robbers called Farmer James Butler
near Munntown village, Pa, to the door, at
midnight and compelled him to hand over his
money at the point of pistol.
The corps of engineers who are surveying
the proposed route of the New York, Philadel-
phia and Chicago Railroad from Franklin to
Clearfeld, are now near Dubois
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A QUIET MEETING.
Directors of the Local n. L. Team Meet
and Make Resolve.

Directors of the Local n. L. Team Meet
and Make n Resolve.
President Nimick and Directors O'Neil, Con-
verse and Brown had quiet meeting regard
ing the affairs of the local n. L. club
late Thursday evening. The meeting was a
lengthy one. and it was resolved to make every
possible effort to have irst-class club for
next year.
During the evening Director O'Neil presented
a statement of the clubs financial condi-
ton during the time he has had it in
charge. His statement showed that he
had good balance on the right side.
Other statements showed that since
June l3 this year. the clubs debt has been re-
duced to the extent of $4,000. This has been
done by money that the club has made and by
assessments paid by the directors. The direct.
ors resolved to pay off all the clubs debt by
the first of next April, and to have 500 cash
to start the season with. 1t is understood that
this will be done By: the stockholders con-
tributing so much per month between now and
April.
During a conversation on the matter last
evening Director O'Neii said: "It is quite true;
we have had a meeting and we have resolved to
continue in the ring. We have cleared money.
and very few people in the baseball business
can say that much. We have run our team to
meet emergencies, because we have had to deal
with untried players. Next year we'll have a
team as good as anybody's team"