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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
THE CLIMATE Is CHANGING.
But Sergeant Sims Says That Irrigation
Does Not Cause It-His Interesting Ex-
PLANTATION of the True Reason.

Albany, \. Y, Argus.
A few days ago a reporter of The Argus
strolled into the government building
weather factory and asked Sergeant Sims
opinion on the changes in climate. He
said: The cause of the abnormnl wealth,
er condition during the past few days has
been the uniform high pressure over the
gulf States, together with the prevalence
of a steady pressure over the northwest.
In this section the barometric pressure has
has undergone hut a slight huctuation.
and the total rainfall for the past few days
only equals one-half the average daily
rainfall for the month of June. The pres
ent weather condition, while tits abnormal
liz character, is not an indication of a
change Of climate. Some meteorologists
claim that the climate is changing, and
attribute the notifications of our climatic
conditions during the past two Or three
years to extensive irrigation in the far
west. True it is that proper irrigation
makes arid lands productive, but it can
not be made to stand as causing our eli
matte changes. The amount of irrigation in
the weston country would have about as
much lnfiunce as bucketful of water over
every preemption claim in the same sec
ton of country.
During the past few years winter storms
passed eastward to the north of the usual
winter storm tracks. consequently the
warm air of the south was forced farther
to the northward and caused a loosening
of compact fields of ice in the northern
regions.
The question naturally arises-what
caused our great winter storms to go to
the north of us? In former years the
normal pressure prevailed on the Both par
allel of north latitude, unless southern or
northern cyclOnlc area was prevalent, and
after the passage of the depression the
pressure returned to the normal standard.
Last winter we had, along the thirtieth
parallel, succession of anti-cyclone areas,
and as the circulation In anti-cyclone areas
Is outward from the centre, the warm air
has run from them northward on both
coasts In OTHER winters, storms coming
In from the extreme northwest would dip
down to Dodge City, Kansas, turn at the
northern side Of the Ozark range, increase
their energy and pass across the country to
the Atlantic ocean.
For the past three winters the storm
course has been going farther north. True
it is that the meteorological conditions Of
the United States are undergoing a
change, and it is possible that the change
will be permanent one, caused by the
earth receiving more heat from the sun
than heretofore, In January last the
temperate zone ranged far above the nor
NAL winter standard, showing that the
earth was receiving an abnormal amount
of solar heat, which caused the large anti
cyclonic areas of the south, and pushed
northward the depressions. A thousand
fold greater are the forces at work in ma
ture laboratory for the production Of
changes in our seasons than irrigation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
THE FARM And HOUSEHOLD.
AFTER FORTY.
FROM THE ST. JAMES GAZETTE

After forty, locks grow thinner,
We grow stouter-"there's the rubi'
L1nger longer Der our dinner,
Shirk the matutinal tub.
After forty we get lazy,
To the lads the girls resign
They may flirt with Dot and Daisy
whilst we loiter Ter our winei
After forty, we discover
Aches and pains distinctly new
Once lObster-salid lover
Now we court the hominy stew,
After forty, fdgets find us,
Sad to tell, an easy prey:
Leaving lIghtsomeness behind us,
We grow grayer day by day
After forty. saucv misses
Treat us like their own papas;
No fear now of stolen kisses,
BIllets-dOuX-irate mammas:
But, with their arms calmly resting
On our shoulders, if you please,
They will ask 4 am not jesting)
After our rheumatic knees!
After forty, We re approaching
Fredom-so Ethel thinks;
And we grow at aught approaching
On our precious forty wlnks. !"
Ger stile we crawl with caution,
We, once agile as a roe!
For llfe's autumn is our portion,
And its spring went long ago!
After forty, grey boards claim us
Quite as lone of them''-ah me!
Men of sixty too defame us
We are only forty-three.
Old ID i'm Crow, too, scrawls with pleasure,
After forty, ON our phIz!
Time, who picks our locks at leisure,
Wlnks at twigs-the hOrrid quiz!
What's the moral of the matter?
This, and lay it well to heart;
After forty, cease light chatter,
Act no more the stripIing's part!
Let us take, with resignation,
In old fogies' ranks a place;
It's an art worth cultivation,
That of growing old'' with grace.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
THREE WOMEN'S VIEWS.
Religious Belief of Edna Dean Proctor
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland and Louis.
Chandler Moulton.

Rose Elizabeth Cleveland and Louise
Chandler Moulton.
The Washington Post recently present.
ed brief statements of the religious views
of various literary people, from which the
| following are taken:
| Edna Dean Proctor, the New England
| poetess, says that no religious creed is
! possible to her but a belief in the bound
less love of God for all His creatures, and
In his intent and power to bring them all
ultimatel y into harmony with himself, in
| accordance with his gracious invitation,
! heavy laden, and will give you rest. -
She believed that in our present state
grief and pain are a necessity for spiritual
development, and that punishment for
wrong is disciplinary and remedial. This
view, she thinks, should give us SYM
pathy with every human being and bring
hope for this life and the life to come
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland expresses her
views in the following:
MY belief is in a religion which looks
into poor-houses and idiot asylums and
penitentiaries, and mol the darkness of
great cities by night and still believes hu
mainly reclaimable, however marred or
! fallen, and infinitely worth saving; faith
which contemplates the catastrophy of
moral obliquy and spiritual suicide;
! of the mole and bat life of thousands and
| thousands of US; of the Ieprous human be-
ings who are constantly thrown upon the
shores of life to cOntamlnate and curse,
and yet which says, with LOngfellow, 1
believe the feeble hands and helpless, prob
ing blindly in the darkness, reach Gods
right hand in the darkness, and are Lifted
up and strengthened.
Louise Chandler Moulton says that her
religious belief is expressed in the follow
ing three quotations. The first is from
Tennyson:
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill
To pangS of nature, sins OF Will,
Defects of doubt and talnts OF blood.
That nothing walks with aimless feet;
That no one life shall be destroyed
Or cast as rubbish to the void,
When God hath made the pile complete.
The second is from Darwin:
We cannot know the unknown, but we can do
duty.
The third is from Stevenson, who
writes Flemming Jennings that he used to
say:
a man must be either very wise very vain to
venture to break with any generally received idea
of ethics.
She adds: These quotations will re-
veal to you that | reverence the moral laws
founded on the teaching and experience of
the past-that | am conscious Of my own
blindness as to the meaning and distiny of
life, and that | trust only in that God who
is love-"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24

DO understand you to refuse?"
Il certainly DO refuse.
You reject me?"
IF you must have it in the plainest
possible words, Mr. Van Punk. | reject
you, though | am sorry to say anything
that gives you pain. y
The young man took notebook from his
pocket and made mark IN it with his
pencil.
You will not deny he said, that |
have asked you explicitly whether you
would marry me?"
Certainly not.
And you have said you would not?"
That is what | have said.
That's right. Check"
And he made another mark in the note
/. book
1on are the ninth young woman who
Eas given me the same answer since last
Thursday, he said brlskly. IN get
over the pain, Miss Petherbridge I'm
trying to make record. That ALL
Good evening"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
BOILING LAKES.
Some of the Wonders of Northern Sierra
Neyadas.

Some of the Wonders of Northern Sierra
Nevadas.
About 100 miles north of Oroville. at the
foot of old Lassen, there is a boiling lake
covering several acres. The depth of the
lake is unknown. but its entire sur
face constantly boils like huge kettle
The degree Of heat We do not know, but
we remember distinctly that it would scald
the shin from the fingers in very few
seconds, says a writer in the Red Bluff.
(Cal.) Peoples Cause. Our paaty agreed
that it would boil an egg In four minutes.
The smell of sui phur pergaded the atmos-
phere about the lake, and around its
borders something like sulphur could be
scraped up in handfuls. This lake is near
Hot Spring valley, at the base OF Mt. Las
sen. Between it and the mountain there
are, perhaps a thousand boiling, bubbing
hot springs, and in tramping about these
springs the soles of person shoes become
intentionally warm. The North Feather
river, at the base of Lassen, in its trickl-
ing SHOWS and springs, and is clear,
cold and beau iful stream but few feet
wide flows through this community of hot
springs. Some Of these springs bubble up
boiling water within span of the river.
Standing in the midst Of these springs a
peculiar sensation is experienced. At a
thousand places the earth emits a vapor of
smoke, while III der the surface there is a
Earring, roaring noise DIS if hundreds Of
steam engines were in operation, and the
oninous trembling Of the earth produces a
feeling Of uncertainty.
A short distance south Of the Boiling
lake, and near Willow lake, which is beau
tlful, cold and clear, there are several gey-
sers that shoot streams Of water from FIVE
to 10 feet in diameter and Is to 20 feet
feet high. That is a grand and rugged
country about Mt Lassen, presenting every
variety of natural study to the geologist.
If it is desired to lcok into the crater
of an extinct volcano, a trip to the summit
of Lassen will crafty the wish.
The high Sierras of northern California
are little known except to prospectors and
trappers of past age, and their wonder
are yet to be described.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24

ject that has been argued in our breeders
meetings often. but butter sold high and
dairymen looked no farther. Now they
must. The late retiring commissioner.
Sherman, at Hampton. last fall. called
attention to the necessity of making more
of the calf. Many farmers do now. but
not all. Good beef pays. and will pay.
Lean toward it. 1t may be that it will be
some time before butter is high again.
Meanwhile make good exports of the
calves, good hogs, and let the butter bring
what it will. We learn from these ex-
periences.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
A NARROW ESCAPE.
A Runaway Horse Nearly Overturns the
Harrison Carriage

CAPE MAY, n. J.. July 18.-Mrs Har-
rison and Mrs. Mckee narrowly escaped
serious injury when out driving, last
night. On Washington avenue a boy
driving dog cart in the opposite direc-
ton, lost control of his horse, which
dashed madly up the street The cart
swerved into and narrowly
missed overturning the Harrison
carriage. The horse then ran into an iron
awning post and demolished a large plate
glass window. He fell on the pavement
bleeding profusely, and at the sight of the
blood Mrs. Mckee tainted. She was soon
revived, however, and the president S car
riage proceeded to their cottage without
further mishap.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
HAWKINS MUST LEAVE.
Otherwise Southern Stables Threaten Not
to Enter the Races.

CHICAGO, July 17.-Much dissatisfac-
ton has been expressed by horsemen from
the South and elsewhere with the way in
which things have been going at Wash
ington park during the present meeting.
This dissatisfaction is chiefly directed
toward the running of the Chicago stable
owned by George Hawkins, the we'll known
gambling house keeper. His
horses have been running in and out
in a most remarkable manner and the pa
pers of the city, beginning with express
sions of mild astonishment, have come to
an outright denunciation. The threat is
made, that unless Hawkins is expelled,
none of the southern stables will be rep
resented here next year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
ARITHMETIC ON THE FRONTIER
OF INDIA.
RUDYARD KTPLING.

A great and glorious thing it is
To learn for seven years or so,
The Lord knows what of that and this,
Ere reckoned it to face the foe
The flying bullet down the Pass,
That whistles clear: "All flesh is grass
Three hundred pounds per annum spent
On making brain and body meeter
For all the murderOuS intent
Comprised in ''villainous saltpeter''
And after ask the Yusufzaies
What comes Of all our ologies
A SCI manage in a Border Station
canter, down some dark defle-
Two thousand pounds Of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jeZail-
The Crammers boast, the Squadron pride
Shot like rabbit in the ride
No proposition Euclid wrote
No formula the textbook knows,
Will turn the bullet from your coat,
Or ward the tuwars downward blow.
Strike hard who ares-shoOt straight who can
The odds are on the cheaper man.
One sword-knot stolen from the camp
Will pay for all the school expenses
OF any Kurrum Valley scamp
Who knows no word of moods and lenses,
But being blessed with perfect sight,
Picks off our messmates left and right,
With home-bred hordes the hilI-sides TEEN,
The troop-ships bring one by one,
A vast expense of time and steam,
To STAY Afridis where they run.
The .'captvcs of our bow and spear
Are cheap alas! we dear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
COLLISION OF STEAMERS.
The Crew Was Saved, but Several Were
Injured.

DETROIT, July 17.-This evening al
$50, as the steamer City If Detroit, with
an excursion party aboard, was nearing
the city, her steam steering appa-
ratus gave out In some una 3counta-
bic manner and she steered about and
ran into the steam barge Kesota.
cutting her completely in two amldships,
Captain Flick and a crew of seventeen
were rescued by row boats and yachts that
were in the vicinity of the accident at the
time. The mother Of the steward was
drowned
Judge Nichols, of Batavia, Ohio, was
among the excursionists on the City OF
Detroit, and was severely injured by the
breaking of some shrouds and three OF
four other passengers were slightly hurt.
The City of Detroit is damaged to the ex-
tent Of $4,000. The Kesota, valued at
Sl20,000, is total loss.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
SHOT BY HIS WIFE.
A Brotherton Indian Shot, as the Result OF
Quarrel.

Quarrel.
Chiffon, Wis. July 18.-A shooting
afray occurred in this city between 10 and
II o'clock last night, which resulted in the
serious wounding of Edward Brussel, a
Brotherton Indian. 1t seems that there
has been trouble in the family, which Gull
minated in row last night, the wife
grabbing revolver which lay on a trunk
In her bedroom and shooting her
husband. Brussel went home last
night under the influence of
liquor. He told his wife that he intended
to take his mother to Brothertown the
following day, which didnot suit her, and
husband and wife got into words about
the matter. She claims that he came for
her with hands appraised as if to strike her
and that she shot IN self defense. Immed-
lately after the shooting she went after d
doctor. The bullet entered the left thigh,
passing down and in about four inches,
and then passed out.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
TIRED OF LITE.
The BarabOo Street Commissioner Twice
Attempted to Commit Suicide.

BARABoo, Wis, Special Telegram
July 18-Street Commissioner Smith, a
man forty-fve years of age, and comfort
able situated financially, has twice at
tempted suicide this week by taking Paris
green. Family matters is said to be the
cause. The physicians think he may re-
cover.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24

A lot of ten-year-olds were told by the
teacher in Pressure Isle. Me-, school the
other day to write the names of FIVE per-
sons of whom they had read. The ques-
ton was a poser for most of them, but one
rose to the occasion and handed in list.
He was told to read it and did so as fol-
lows: 1.-The Lord George Washington.
Buffalo Bill, DIR. Boone, Mrs. Willard.
In answer to a question, he further ex-
planned that DR.. Boone was man who
went out West among the wild Indians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
TWO BROTHERS SHOT.
A Mule Trade Was the Cause of the
ARRAY

SAVANNAH, Ca, July 1S-At Guyton
to-day, R. g. Norton, the son of physi-
clan of this city, shot and k lied two
brothers named Willie and John Bird.
Yesterday young Norton and Willie Bird
traded mules To-day Bird, accom-
panied by his brother John went
to Norton's place to get him to trade
back. Norton refused and John Bird,
drawing pistol told Willie to break open
the stable door and recover the mule. At
this point young Norton shot the Birds
dead. Norton has fed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
NOT UTTERLY CRUSHED.
He Was Trying to Break the Record-A
Pure Matter of Business.

Pure Matter OF business.
please do not say anything more, Mr.
Van Punk, protested the Dung girl. Il
must not listen to YOU.
Don refuse to hear me, Miss Pether-
BRIDGET he exclaimed and he looked
about the room as if to find a hassock to
Rneel ON but seeing none he stood upright,
looked intently, and said in a high pitched
voice:
Doubtless you will say, Miss Pether-
. bridge, that you never have given me any
encouragement You will think am pre-
sumptuous In venturlng to address you
thus. But it must occur to yon that a
young man has no other way of ascertaining
! in what light he is regarded by the object
! upon whom he has fixed his hopes of earthly
happiness than toto try it on, you know.
Therefore, Miss Petherbridge to come to
the point at once flor in matters of this
kind 1t has ever been my customer, as
was about to say, in matters If this kind it
Is always best to be directed and explicit,
let me ask you, without any preamble, pro-
logue or introduction, whether you could
''Mr. Van Punk, am sorry"
Whether you could make up your mind
| to consent to link your fate to that of a
young man whom you never may have re-
garded in any other light than that of a
friend, but of whose entire devotion you
may be assured. and who long entertained
for you feelings tn It"
f! You will obiige me, Mr.. Van Punk by
Feelings that he may have suffered 70
escape him hitherto. In short, Miss Pether-
bridge-for the question is simply one of
| the heart, and need be occasion for the
fewest words only-may ask you whether,
after mature deiberation and"
''What are you trying to ask me, Mr..
| Van Punk?''
Il am trying to ask you, Miss Pether-
bridge, if you will marry me.
words l am sorry l cannot give you a
favorable answer, but
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
CHARGED WITH THEFT.
Indictments Were Returned Against John
Epret and Three Others.

CHICAGO, July 1S.-A new indictment
was found by the grand jury today,
against John Epret, ex-driver for the
United States express company. charged
with the theft of 10000 gold bar. In.
dictments were also returned against three
other persons, and one of them, Epret s
brother was arrested this afternoon.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
THE HOUSEHOLD.

Every particle of fat which is skinned
off soup, all the sewet left from steaks and
chops should be saved, rendered, clarified
and strained into dripping pot 1t not
only saves lard, but is much better than
it for frying doughnuts, and fritters are
better fried IN it, as they will not absorb
so much Of it, but it must be thoroughly
cleaned first.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
PINEAPPLE SHERBET.

Prepare one large or two small pineap-
piles by first peeling. removing all of the
eyes and then chopping it finely. Cover it
with d pint of fine sugar and SIX gills of
water first. and dissolve in one tablespoon
full of crinkly gelatine or half that guam
t1ty Of the powdered kind Stir this we'll
and then freeze.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
Confined to Her Bed

BoRDENTowN, n j.. July 18.-Mrs.
ParneIl mother of Charles Stewart Par
nell, is confined to her bed with cholera
morbus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-24
COMPOSITE OF CHERRIES.

Take quart of early red cherries; boil
quarters of pound of sugar until it
candies, drop the cherries into the SOUP
let stand five minutes, then return to the
fire, let boil gently until clear, take out
the cherries with skinner, lay them in a
dish, and a small teacup of red currant
juice to the syrup, boil until very thick
pour over the cherries when nearly cold.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-12-04
GENUINE HAPPINESS.
1t Can Not Exist Where There Is Not
Perfect Self-Command.

1t Can Not Exist Where There Is Not
Perfect SeIf-Command.
What is there in the bosom which
leads us wrong. directly in opposition
to the suggestions of our reason? We
see the right and approve it; we wish
secretly to pursue, but are misguided
and led stray. We are early appraised
of the wrong, condemn it, and resolve
to avoid it; but the first temptation Sc
duces us away, as traveller is deluded
by deceitful agnis.f atuus, which draws
him over boys and briers to some dan
gerous pitfall. or to the edge of terri
BILE and destructive precipice.
The delusive meteor which sports
with man in the journey of life is his
vicious affections. He wanders through
wi1ds wherever they lead; and, though
bleeding every moment afresh from the
wounds of the thOrny way, still goes on,
as if impelled by irresistible necessity.
But, however far we may have strayed
from the right path, it is never wholly
out of our power to regain it. Painful,
indeed, will be the effort it will cost US
to return; much resolution, much cour-
age will it require to re-ascend; but we
have always this to stimulate us in the
attempt-that of the two ways, the
right one is certainly the better and
more pleasant
But even when re-eSta blished in vir-
tue, we are still in danger, and still
must we be active and vigilant. We are
in life as waterman rowing against
the stream, and we surely go down if
we rest on our oars. Never can we be
secure from evenSim Nc ediate harm, until
we have acquired over ourselves per-
feet command. On the one hand we
shall be tempted by appetites, desires
and the dazzling phantoms of a wild
imagination; on the other, we shall be
driven from our way by the goadings OF
discomfort, or hurried into error by the
violence of passion. Never can we
hope for security until we have so com
pletely subdued the propensities of the
heart that we can silence every commo-
ton of the bosom by the first attempt,
guide the mind to any subject at tho first
| call of prudence.
When, by single whisper of reason,
we can in a moment quell the refractory
passions, then. and not until then, shall
| we be able to judge of every thing in life
| with all the accuracy of right. Our
bosom will be tranquil, whatever may
| befall us. Neither unlooked-for good
| will raise in it the tumult of Joy, MOI
| unexpected evil disturb it with violent
| sorrow. Like beings of more exalted,
purer nature, we can look on the one
| with generous Indifference, and smile
| on the other with an undisturbed seren
| ity of mind.-N. Y. Ledger.