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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
PENETRATED THE PIT.
Rescuers Break Into the Hill Farm Mine
But Are Driven Back by Fire Damp.

DUNBAR, Pa.-The rescuers dug
through into the Hill Farm mine at $50
o'clock Tuesday morning, but before they
had gone far fire and black damp were
encountered, and the men quickly made
their way out of the dangerous pit. The
fans were then started, and at o'clock
this morning nine selected men, including
the three mine inspectors, District Master
Workmen Watehorn and Superintend-
ent Hill started on the search for the
thirty entoumbed men. At II o'clock moth
ing had been heard from them. There is
scarcely any hope that any of the imprison-
ed men are alive.
The exploring party were driven back
by smoke after advanding ten feet in the
Hill Farm mine. Another attempt will
be made this afternoon.
2 p. MT is certain now that the Hill
Farm mine is full and has been full of
smoke and the deadly black damp. There
seems to be no doubt that the entoomb bed
miners are all dead, and it is now ques-
tiou whether their bodies can be recognize
ed. At 2 o'clock this afternoon prepare
ton were being made for another descent
into the mine A carload of collins arrived
this morning. The question now is:
Will they be used ?'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10

mosques. and when they are they USUALLY
sit IN the galleries, with their faces yelled,
and only their bright eyes visible to the
masculine crowd below We were FORUM
ate In reaching the mosque at an hour
when so many were prostrating themselves
before the Shrine of Mecca in PRAYER.
while In corner young priest was ex-
pounding or reading the Koran to group
OF boys, who We're repeating the words
after him In a loud. sing-song, nasal tone.
accompanied with a swaying back and
forth OF the body, as they keep time to the
doletul slng-song. Here we saw the
sweating pillar from Heiopolis, which, in
summer, is sometimes covered with drops
OF water, and In which they told us, were
the bones of st. John. To this Mosque the
Sultan Is obliged to come once a year, suf-
1erlng torture at every step, and looking
years older IN his return, so acute are his
tears that some act of violence will be at
tempted on his person.
The Hippodrome is the most celebrated
square In the city, but nothing remains of
Its former grandeur except tie Obelisk of
lheodoslus, the pillar of Constantine and
the serpentlne column of three twisted
braZen serpents.
ne bazaars are very attractive. and eS-
peclally the grand bazaar, which is rooted
over, andis d succession of narrow streets
and passages, gayly decorated with the
wares to be sold. Here are crowds of tour
lists, bargaining for goods, while the
olly-tongued merchants smile land hatter.
and offer them coffee AID cigaretts, and
always end by cheating them, more or
less according to the shrewdness or credu-
l1ty OF the buyer. Here, too, are many
Turkish ladies, closely yelled, some on
donkey and some on foot, some attended
report any improperly to the master at
home. At these women, some of whom
are very handsome, English and American
men stare fearessly, while the etiquette of
the Mohammedan requires that he shall
turn his eyes away from beholding the
charms which bolong to his neighbor;
consequently, a stolen glance or two, when
the woman is fairer than usual is all he
dares to indulge in. The ladies. how
ever, are not so careful, and their eyes,
which often have a coquettish twinkle in
them, as if challenging admiration, look
curious y over the wells drawn across the
nose, and which, as they are of the same
white thin mate rial, scarcely conceal the
features they are intended to hide.
1t would take too long in letter to tell
of all we saw In that strange city built on
many hills, with one head touching Asia.
who're Scutari lies, and the other holding
part of Europe in its grasp. The days we
spent there were delightful days and full
of interest, and they come back to me over
and over again, as does the lovely sunset
which shone on masque and dome and min
erat and palace, and gave to sky and sea a
brilliant coloring of violot and crimson,
as we sailed in the golden light through
the Bosporus and out upon the Marmora
on our way to Athens.
MARY J. HOLMES.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
THE COLD Man.
BY FRANCIS =. SMITH.

His heart is cold, and his blood is cold,
And he speaks in an ICY tone,
And he is best contented
When he sips his wine alone,
But when he gives a party
Just for the sake of show,
His guests, chilled by his manner,
Reserved and frigid grow.
The CLINT of his cold, keen glances
Freezes the air around,
And the notes of his grand piano
Come forth with Il freezing sound,
Even the steam from his viands
Have a sort of acrtic smell,
And every guest seems under
A fever and ague spell.
No heat in the glowing fire,
No warmth in the bright champagne,
And the halting conversation
Seems bound by an icy chain,
And the host sits grimlY waiting
To see his guests depart,
In his voice freezing langnor,
In his bosom frozen heart.
New York Weekly
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10

broidery is done, cut out all the linen
from the points of the star with a pair of
sharp scissors. This will leave you fine
pointed star. Thirty-six stars will make
a quilt large enough, and they are to be set
together by points This will make the
edges formed of tie points which finish
with small silk tasse If perferred, boil
ten sheeeting and rope linens may be
used
The colors used are gold and white. old
rose and white, green and white. and all
white. The number Of stars depend on the
size you make your stars, but from thirty
SIX tC siXty-four are enough.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10

above the junction of the Middle and South
bear With vi b0s Knife feM dav s snoe 0s
the Boise Qdaho) Statesman. He had
followed the bear for several miles. 1t
laid down beside rock and Sullivan crept
to tot it and plunged big knife s into vital
Dor and saw the bear when it was dead,
was in the city ON Saturday last and re-
lated the story. The bear was very large
and would weigh 500 pounds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
Errors Concerning Tornadoes,

There isa fair PROBABILITY that the tor
nado which has just occurred will
strengthen and extend popular error
regarding such calamites which is already
! widely ditfused, but which has no valid
reason of being. We have been accustom-
ed to think that earthquakes, foundations
and cyclones in the United States have
been confined to the past fifteen or twenty
years, or, at the most, to the past third
or half century. They were never, we
have been imagining. felt or witnessed
here during the early settlement
of the country, or at least if they did hap
pen In those days they were mild and in
nocent In their manifestations compared
with those which are taking place in our
time. Earthquakes like that which occur
red in Charleston four years ago, floods
like those which appear in the Mississippi
Valley four or five times in every decade,
and tornadoes like those which obliterated
Mount Vernon, ILL.,, and destroyed hun
dreds of lives and millions of dollars
worth of property in Louisville, are, in
popular fancy. necessarily essentially,
and In some mysterious way, connected
with the human period, and if not caused
primarily by the occupation of the country
by civilized man, are, at all events, in
creased by frequency and severity by his
presence.
The error of this motion can readily be
pointed out. Geological research has
shown that the subterranean commissions
IL the TT zion now called the United States
came at least as often and were fully as
intense in the past as in recent times
Records during the historict period prove
that both earthquakes and tornadoes were
far from being rare or harmless occur
rences on this continent century or two
ago.
Floods have been increased in number
and extent, in some degree, by the de-
struction of forests which mans occupa-
ton of the soil has brought about. In all
other respects, however, as the testimony
geological strata, of historic records and
of Indian traditions set, forth, the con-
ditions in the past in reference to the
strife of the elements were practically the
same as they are now. The operation of
the natural forces, barring that of rain
and its attendant phenomena of freshets
and floods, have been virtually I'M
changed during the last few hundred
years at least. Earthquakes and tornadoes
asserted themselves So 100 and 200 hun
dred years as they have in more recent
times, but owing to the comparative or
absolute absence and civilized witnesses
their appearance was mheralded at the
time, and their destructiveness to man and
the creation of his labor and genius was
infinitely less than in the present age.
The latter consideration has an especial
interest to us at this time. 1t implies
that earthquakes, floods and tempests may
not grow in frequency or mtencity in the
future, they must, from the increase in
number of man and in the broadening of
the erea of his occupancy, be vastly more
destructive to life and property than
they have been up to the present age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
TIE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
A LOST PARADISE.
FREDERICK LANGRIDGE.

Green fields and young faces,
Sunshine and flowers
All, in the far off fairy places.
Once they were ours.
Now. when cares ard crows feet thicken,
Brown locks are gray,
Do the hedgerows somewhere quicken,
Flushing with May:
And the buttercups as golden?
Do the harebells chime
In those meadows of the olden
Blessed time:
Look, how cold that sky above us!
All, met 20 walk
Where the daisies grow and love us,
And the sparrows talk!
Hush! the wistful children heed US,
Pausing in their play.
Darlings, take your hands and lead US
You know the way.
The Spectator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
Justice Lamar.

Washington correspondence of the
Philadelphia Telegraph: Justice Lamar
may have many years of life before him,
but his friends are made uneasy by his
broken appearance, and people who meet
him on the streets shake their heads when
he has passed and predict that Mr. Har-
rlson will have the appointing of his
successor. He is man of naturally
sedentary habits, and the further confne-
ment attendant upon hard work required
of him on the bench appears to have told
on his health sadly. He has been obliged
to break away from the secusion of his
study and again take to horseback exercise
Or long walks in the hope of finding new
vlgor III the country air. | often see him
of late on a sleepy bay horse wandering
about the suburb roads, the reins hanging
loosely on the horses neck and the ami
NAL going at will up one bridle-path and
down another, as if choosing his own
route. The Justice sits in the saddle in
languid attitude, with pallor of death on
his face and an absent, far-off look in his
eye. Within the.year he has grown eble
his flesh hangs fabby, and haggard care
worn expression is habitually on his face.
When he walks he carries book in his
hand, sometimes reading and sometimes
holding the book with a finger between
the pages, while he moves slowly along
with his head down. The first time met
him after not having seen him for two
months | did not recognize him until my
attention was called to him the second
time by my companion, who was startled
by the great change that had taken place
in the Justice"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
Is THE SUN GROWING COLDs
We Can Not Prove that 1t is, NOtwith
standing Great Changes i'm Climate

We Can Not Prove that 1t is, Notwith-
standing Great Changes in Climate.
We want to know whether the sun is
showing any symptoms of decay, says the
Story of the Heavens. Are the days as
warm ard as bright as they were ten years
ago. one hundred years ago? We can
find no evidence of any change since the
beginning of authentic records. If the
sun S heat had preceptiblv changed within
the last 1000 years we should expect to
find corresponding changes in the distribu-
ton of planets and animals, but no such
changes have been detected.
There is no reason to think that the
climate of ancient Greece or of ancient
Rome was appreciably different from the
climates of the Greece and the Rome that
we know at this day. The vine and olive
grow now where the grew 1000 years ago.
We must not, however, lay too much stress
on this argument, for the effects of slight
changes in the sun s heat may have been
neutralized by corresponding adaptations
in the pliable organisms of cultivated
plants.
All we can certainly conclude is that no
marked change has taken place in the heat
of the sun during historical time. Bnt
when we come to look back into vastly
earlier ages we find the most copious
evidence that the earth has undergone
great changes in climate. Geological
records can on this question hardly be
misinterpreted. Yet it is curious to note
that these changes are hardly such as
could arise from the gradual exhaustion
of the suns radiation. No doubt in very
early times we have evidence that the
earth's climate must have been much
warmer than at present. We had the
great carboniferous epohc when the tenn
perature must almost have been tropical
in arctic tatitudes. Yet it is hardly posi-
BILE to cite this as evidence that the sun
was then much more powerful, for we are
Immediately reminded of the glacial
epoch when our temperate zones were
inctsed in sheets of solid ice. as northern
Greenland is at present If we suppose
the sun to have been hotter than it is at
present to occount for the vegetation
which produced coal then we ought to as
sumo the sun to be colder than it is now to
account for the glacial epoch. 1t is not
reasonable to attribute such phenomena
to such oscillations in the radiation from
the sun. The glacial epochs prove that
we nay not appeal to geology in aid of the
doctrine that secular cooling of the sun
is now In progress.
The geological variations of climate
may have been caused by changes in the
earth itself, by changes in the positions of
its axis, by changes in its actual orbit;
but, however they have been caused, they
hardly tell US much with regard to the
previous history of the sun The heat of
the sun has lasted for countless ages, yet
we can not credit the sun with the power
of actually creating heat. We must apply
even to the majestic mass of the sun the
same laws which we have found by our
experiments on the earth. Whence comes
the heat sufficient to supply this temend-
Gus outgoing?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
Stanley Will Return to Africa,

After his lecturing tour in the United
States, Explorer Stanley will return to
Africa as governor-general of the Congo
Free State. King Leopold, of Belgium,
has offered him that position and be has
accented If
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
Made Clear.

John" said Mrs. j., you were talk
ing all night in your sleep about jack pot.
What is jack pot?" John (scornfully)
You know what Jack rose is, suppose
Well, they can grow in pots, can't they?"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
Killed in a Row.

CHICAGO, July 5.-Frank Luchen was
shot and instantly killed by Dave Welsh
last evening ON board of Santa Fe train
coming from picknic of the coopers at
the Columbia Park The shooting was
brought about by quarrel. WEIGH
ESCAPED.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10

A flannel cloth dipped in melted bees
wax and talIow and put On child's throat
and chest will cure wheeling and is good
for colds.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-07-10
HONITON sPUNGE PUDDING.

Take three eggs, their weight in the
shell in -four, butter and sugar, and CRATE
the rind of one lemon. Beat the butter to
a cream, and the eggs, yelks and whites
separately, and thed together; add the but
ter and keep on the beating, then the
sugar, and the flour and beat the whole
till light. Put into mold and boil one
and a half hours. Serve with any fruit
Sa11cn or with lnn0n Sa11na
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-27
Mad Bull and Iron Hor...


A big black and white bull undertook
the task Of butting train of the track
Of the Port Townsend Southern road,
about four miles north Of Tenino, one
morning. It seems that q former at
tempt had been unsuccessful, and un-
doubtedly maddened at the failure Of
the first attempt he determined 10 clean
the whole train out this time or die. BE
died. fl 4A
The train was under fair headway
when his mightiness was seen by the en-.
gineer In an attitude Of defiance directly
In tho middle of the track. The engineer
blew the whistle and put on the air
brakes, but Sir Boss not only refused to
give way to the approaching train, but
even with lowered crest charged upon it.
The shock was a great one-for the bull.
The pilot struck him full in the head,
killing him instantly and throwing the
body slightly to one side.
The combination car scraped by the
body and remained on the track, but the
rear trucks Of the following car left the
track and travelled from one side Of the
right Of way to the other, humping over
the ties and tearing up both sides Of the
embankment. Two wrecking frogs were
soon produced, and in ten minutes the
train was on its way again. Centralia
News
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-27
Made His win Before RobbinT the Train

Made His VIII Before Robbing the Train.
A startling feature of the train rob
berry near Brewton, Ala, was developed
recently. Criminal court was In session,
and Solicitor Stallings had been active
in having therobbery fully investigated.
He says the evidence is conclusive as to
Rube Burrows being the perpetrator.
He has positive evidence that only two
days before the train robbery Burrows
called on Capt. Green, q prominent at
torney, and, disclosing his identity un-
der professional honor, asked him to
write his BurrowsD last will and testa-
ment.
He said to the lawyer that he had been
outlawed without show, and large
price had been put upon his head. He
expected to be killed at any moment,
and he wanted to dispose Of the little he
possessed in due form. He said he had
some money, and his family would know
where it was. He has a sister living
about thirty miles from Brewton, just
across the Florida line, and was stopping
with her at the time he had the will
written.
It is generally believed that Burrows
had in contemplation the Escambia river
bridge train robbery, and was preparing
for all emergencies.-Mobile Register.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-27

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'''Riar.- y

Jest cause "a a'Riar" Isn't elm,
Slender wrist and taper limb
Isn't built In fashion style.
She haint got no lovers smile.
No one hangs on "'Riare" gate
Early morn an moonume late;
No one sits by" 'Rlar's eide
When the eyenin' shaders glide
Down the mountains in the west
When the sun has gone 10 rest.
'RiAr" milkh her stinl o. COWS.
Charms the cream, an then allows
She can ds-H the stockin's ell
Fore the harvesters they fall
Into line Gfore the feed
Bot out fore their hunger's need.
'RiArn w'ars no han n'sum gown
"'RiArs" eyes are gray-but brown
II the color on her cheek,
When lot o. freckles leak
All their spotness through her skin
An her arms hainT very thin.
Gals they mary, gals they 20
On LIES whirligig afro.
God bless 'Riar's common Wayai
She don't 60; for 'RiAr'' stays
On the farm TO cheer our best
0h-day years, when the rest
Fhunt an hsunter far away
Like lost-dream's summer day.
Judge,
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-27
Bucklen's Arnicaalve.

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Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-27

The trouble of it is that people do
not get well enough acquainted before
marriage and get too we'll acquainted
after.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-27

During the deluge Noah was In the
habit Of calling his wife an ark angel.
The Appeal., 1890-12-20

to US without the sligh test premonition,
in which the skein of life becomes so in
extricably tangled that the more we
try to smooth it out the more we add to
its complication.
Since the wage-worlxers' inexorable
summons had warned the tardy ones
of their danger on that crisp morning,
just one day before Christmas, until
now. at half-past five o'clock in the
afternoon, it had been veritable black
letter day with me, both literally and
netaphorically. My head swan and
my eyes were dim and blurred. The
typewriter, too, had been in sort of
rebellious, cranky mood, as thou gh pro-
testing against the incessant strain that
had been put upon it. Tomorrow was
Christmas Gay, and had been thwarted
in my intention to go home and enjoy
it, ! was out of sorts.
1t was $3.50 p. M, and cold winter
day. The cranky typewriter had ceased
its petulant clicking, and rested in its
corner in moody silence, as who should
say: 1--WE been shamefully abused to-
The Appeal., 1890-12-20
THE APPEAL: A NATIONAL AFRO-AMERICAN NEWSPAPER.

snake IL Oh. 1t had grown quite dark
outside. had lighted the gas. My.
strange visitor was intently reading
the letter. "John" was also the name
of my old lover. But, then, there arc
so many 'Johns" in this world. was
looking out upon the great panorama
again in all the glory of its electric
lights. Bells and whistles were again
sounding, this time for a respite from
toll; and thousands of tired toilers were
streaming over the bridge. I was of
again, in spirit to my own home, hear
ing the tender tones of q mothers
voice. John was reading his letter
aloud for the third or fourth time, and
something in the subdued tones arrest
ed me. I looked at the now really
handsome face, hatless and illuminated
with tender smile, and Igave sudden
start, suppressing an exclamation of sur
prise. The bronzed face had been meta
morphosed. The careworn features had
been rejuvenated through the influence
OF that letter, which had drawn out tho
true heart of the rough miner upon
every ineament of his face. Surely
had seen it before, and that head of
wavy brown hair. I suppressed my
feelings the best I could, though l
knew my own face was hot and might
betray me.
''It's pretty handwriting" he said,
holding the letter tenderly as though it
we're link betweenrhis mothers heart
and his own. 'Better than mine." he
continued, hiding his MANNED arm in
his shaggy coat pocket. "Id like it