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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
SHE X EXV HER NJ AN.
How a Wifes Winning Ways Have an In.
fiuence on Her Husband.

She stood at the writing desk in the
postoffice corridor, with a sheet of paper
and an envelope before her, says the De
troit Free Press, and as man approach
ed with a postal card she queried:
Might | ask you to write a few lines
for me to my husband?"
Certainly he replied
well, date it; begin-'My dear Hus-
band and then II tell you what to say. "
''All right; go ahead, ma am"
Nov say: Wood is out-four is out
meat is out-money is ont, and rent is
due, and want $40 p. d. q!''
Exactly. You know what the letters
stand for, | suppose?"
Certainly"
'And-and aren't they little strong?"
''No, sir-not for my old man. I've
lived with him twenty-five years and 1
know him like a book"
''All right-you know best
And you may add: If it don't come
by Saturday I'll raise -"
Certainly
Now, I'll sign: Your Dear Mary,
and it will be all ready to go, and l bet
you 5 to l | get the $40 inside of three
days. Strong! Why, man, | can't even
get him to bring home bit of butter or a
package of sugar without threatening to
knock his head off if he forgets it. Thanks,
you have done me great favor"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
TIL. FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
THE WAY TO SLEEPTOWN.
8. W. Foss.

The town of Sleeptown is not far,
In Timbucto nor China
For it's right near by in Blinkton County,
In the State of Drowsylina;
It's Just beyond the Thngumbod hills,
Not far from Nodvile Center,
But you must be drawn thro' the Valley
Yawn,
Or the town yon cannot enter.
And this is the way,
They say, they say,
That Baby goes to Sleeptown!
He starts from the city of Odearme
Thro' Booboo street he totlars,
Until he comes up to Dontcry Corners
By the shore of the Sleeping Waters;
Then he comes to the Johnny-Ju imp p
And the nodding Toddlebom mountains.
And straight does he 90 thro' the Vale of Helgh-
And drink from the Drowsy Fountains
And this is the way,
They say, they say,
That Baby goes to Seeptown!
By Twilight path thro' the Nightcap hills
The little feet must toddle.
Ihro the dewey gloom of ElyaWay Forest,
BY the drOWsy peaks of NOddle;
And never a sound does Baby hear,
For not leaf does quiver
From the Little Dream Gap in the Hills of
To the Snoozequehanna river
And this is the way,
They say, they say,
That Baby goes to Sleeptown
Away he flies over Bylow bridge,
Through Lullaby lane to wander,
And on thro' the groves of the Moonshine valley
BY the hills of Wayoffyonder;
And then does the fairys flying horse
The sleepy Baby take up
Until they enter at JumpOff Center
The Peekaboo Vale of Makeup.
And this is the way
They say, they say,
That Baby comes from SleeptOWn.
-Yankea Rlede
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
No Woman.

No woman ought to marry man she
cannot respect.
No woman ought to be more concerned
about her bonnet than she is about her
salvation.
No woman ought to say things about
other people that she would not like to
have said about herself
No woman ought to neglect her babies
to become a philanthropist.
No woman ought to be a fraid to do
what she knows she ought to do.
No woman ought to scold her child
rem
No woman ought to be cross to her
husband
No woman ought to be tattler
No woman ought to be a busy body.
No woman ought to forget to be polite
to every body.
No woman ought to be Lanything less
than lovable.
No women ought to be a poor house
keeper.
No woman ought to be uncharitable.
No woman ought to be unforgiving
No woman ought to be resentful.
No woman ought to be envious
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26

minds. If this government should once be
organized on the Bellamy plan. it might
work first rate until the officers. of which
there would be about two millions. were
elected and installed. Then you would see
the other ffty-eight millions. who were
to be set to work by these officers at such
wages as they might determine upon.
climbing for the Canada line or seaport
to leave the grandees of the relam who had
been selected to oversee them and keep 'em
moving, to live on whatever they could get
out of their own labor
Sparta originated the Bellamy idea a
couple of thousand years ago. But
Lycurgus and his friends knew human
nature as it existed in Greese pretty well.
and his orders were that the Spartan
should never work He should devote his
youth to the gymnasium and his manhood
to war He made war the regular bust
ness of Sparta. The slaves did all the work.
The slaves were the people the Spartans
captured when they went to war. 1t went
on for several hundred years that way I'M
til the slaves got educated up to the point
OF assisting their relatives at home to
thrash the Spartans. The consequence was
that Sparta soon became a Renaissance.
Slaves are the only class that will work
at what somebody else sets them to do for
living, such as somebody else designs to
allow them. They do it for the simple
reason that they have their heads broken
with a club or their backs lacerated with
cato nine tails, or some other handy in
strument, if they refuse. And Mr. Bella
my has the hardihood to presume
that the American citizen of the twentieth
century will voluntarily consent to have
federal officers designated to make him
work at such handicraft as may seem good
to the overseer, at wages concerning which
he shall have no say. If the American
citizen of the twentieth century will be
that sort of hair-pin this generation will
conclude that it was lucky not to be be-
lated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
PHYSICAL GRACE FADS.
A New Kind of Training Which Takes in
Everything from the Toes to the Eye

Everything from the Toes to the Eye
Brows.
If you watched the dress parade on Con-
necticut or Massachusetts, avenues any of
these afternoons, says Washington let
ter, you would very likely notice that the
swell girls have adopted a fresh style of
walking chests thrown out as far
as possible, without any throwing back of
the shoulders, however, and certain in
describable spring in their gait. Upon
inquiring as to the meaning of this, you
would be informed that it represents only
a small part of the new system of phys
ical grace, introduced from abroad by a
lady who is now giving lessons on the sub
ject to the daughters and wives of the
richest and most distinguished personages
in Washington. A class of young women
meets at the Wanamakers twice week,
to learn how to walk, to 60 I'D and down
stairs, to stand, to bow, to smile, to make
eyes and to dispose of the hands. It need
excite no surprise to see three or four
pretty girls in the dressing-room, upon
their arrival at party, wringing their
hands frantically as if in violent grief
All it signifies is that they are making those
members unconscious, so that they will be
at ease in company. This is a portion of
the new method. If your don't know
what to do with your hands you have only
to let them hang at your sides, and wiring
them vigorously for about FIVE minutes be
fore making your appearance in the draw
ing-room at the end of that timethey will
be deprived of consciousness to such an
extent that you will have no trouble with
them for an hour or so anyway. Do this.
once more ever day and you will find your
self become much more easy about your
paws, through the habit of the thing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
An Old Coincidence.

4 remarkable story told by Ex-District
Attorney John W. Johnson of Lancaster
county is not likely to have many parallels.
About three years before the war, acting
on the great Greeley's advice young
johnson got as far as illinois. His cousins,
Frank Pierce and Kersey H. Fell, had pre-
coded him there from Chester county and
were we'll established. They put some
legal matters in his hands that needed
attention, and on April 30. 1857, he found
himself at Decatur, then enough of a
railroad center to be the interesting point
of two Illinois roads. Connection were
faulty here, and Johnson found that he
would have to lay over the greater part of
the day until the next train came along.
Presently he noticed another young man
who, is afterward transpired, was in a
precisely similar situation. They fell to
talking and walking together. As pair
of scales stood near by they jumped on
and were weighed. Each tipped the beam
at JAS pounds. This excited some sur
prise, as one seemed taller than the other
They then measured their heights. Each
stood five feet nine inches. Still more re-
markable, however, was the coincidence
that now came out, that one was born on
the same day of the Identical year on which
the other was ushered into the world
'Well, now," said the surprised young
lawyer, whats your name?"
John W. Johnson came the reply; land
what's yours?"
John W. johnson.
So it was that these two young strangers,
accidently thrown together, found that
their respective weight, heights, ages, and
names were identical. Both were also
Pennsylvanians. The Lancaster John
W. Johnson vouches for the truth of this
remarkable series of coincidence. He has
never seen the other John W. Johnson
from that day to this.-Philadelphia In
quirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26

RUN

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room S'eepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and milwaukee, and
s.. Paul and Minneapolis
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee, and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman VestibuIed Drawing
Room and CoIonist Sleepers via the North
ern Pacific Railroad between Chicago and
Portland Ore.
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern,
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
affording unequalled service to and from Wau
kesha, Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Eeenah,
Menasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire,
Hurley, Wis.,, and Ironwood and Bessener,
Mich.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations, time
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. HANNAFORD, Genl Trafnc Manager,
ST. PAUL, MIyN
III. G. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, MILWAUKEE,
Wis.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Asst Gen1 Pass'r & TIKI
Agt-, MILWAUKEE,, WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
The Friendship of a Dog.
Saturday RaviaU

Have you ever been so fortunate as to
have the friendship of dog? The feeling
of love and friendship is attributed usu-
ally to human beings alone, but any one
who has ever been loved by dog will
bear me out in the statement that there is
no tenderer devotion than his, no deeper
affection or more unselfsh attachment.
He oheys like child, defends like tiger,
is happy when you are happy and miser-
able when you are sad. Look at him as he
lies there at your feet while you read your
evening paper. He watches every motion
with those steadfast, beautiful eyes. He
is on the alert for any order you may give,
sensitive to your slightest movement. You
60 away and leave him, he waits patiently
your return. A long separation breaks
his heart. He even refuses food. and is
restless and unhappy until your face smiles
down upon him again. And when you
meet once more with what unchecked en-
thus1asm, frank and innocent delight, he
greets you! Suppose misfortune overtakes
your pathway. friends forsake you at the
lowering of the cloud, you may be in dis
grace with the world, but the dog still
loves, still trusts, still abides in friendship
as firm as the everlasting hills. You can
never be quite forsaken while he lives
Oh, this is something worth the having,
it not? Do you think the earth holds any
reasoning friendship half so noble, so fin e
or so pure as the unreasoning affec ton of
your dog!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
4 COOL COUNTRY.
The Winter Temperature Along the Pro-
jected Siberian Railway

The mean temperature of January at
Tchelyaba is II degrees centigrade, says
the Russische Revue; between Omsk and
Lake Baikal, from 10 to % degrees; on the
Transbaikal line, from 25 to 80 degrees; on
the Ussuri line, from "a degrees at its
northern end to IA degrees at Viadivostok.
Along the entire route the cold sometimes
exceeds 40 degrees, the freezing point of
mercury, and over a considerable part of it
the temperature not frequently remains
below 50 degrees for several days at a
time. If frosts of 80 degrees interrupt
traffic in European Russia, causing steel
wheels, aXles, and sometimes rails to break,
would not the condition on the Siberian
lines occasion still greater difficulties and
even affect the security of the iron bridge !?
These questions ought to be decided by
experimental tests, which could best be
made at the university town of Tomsk,
lying on the line of the proposed railroad.
Low temperatures have different effects,
not onl y on the human organism, but on
railroads, according as they are accompani-
ed by by still atmosphere, or by more or
less violent winds When the wind blows
at rapid rate the interior of iron objects
grows cold quickly. On the plains of west
ern Siberia, west of Oh, the fine is exposed
to heavy winds and frequent snow-stor.ns.
In the mountainous regions of central
Siberia the strength of the wind diminishes.
In the Transbaikal at the coolest period of
the year there is the least wind. From
Viadivostak to the Ussuri district severe
north and northeast storms occur in autumn,
winter, and spring; however, there is
generally no snow, and therefore no danger
of a stoppage of traffic. Beyond the
mountains the winds are not strong, but
there are often heavy falls of snow, which
will make it advisable to preserve forests
and plant trees along the line of the rail-
road.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26
THE BELLAMY SCHEME.
How 1t Would Work To-Day and How 1t
Did Work "a Thousand Years Ago.
Nebraska Sta+a Jouroal
Nebraska State Journal.

Some of the newspapers are taking Mr..
Bellamy and his Looking Backward" in
earnest, and are making grave and elabor-
ate arguments for or against his preposter-
Gus scheme OF society. Bellamy is doubt
less astonished at the way his joke has
struck In on many practical American
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26

That peculiar echinold, the sea-urchin,
has five teeth in five jaws, one in each jaw,
all the five Immediately surrounding the
stomach. The jaws have a peculiar cen
tralized motion, all turning inward and
downward, SO that they also act as feed
erS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-06-26

Ex-Sherif Flack and Will Flack have
given 5000 bail in the New York SUI
preme court.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16
Deafness Can't be Cured

by local applications. as they cannot
reach the diseased portion of the ear.
There is only one way TO cure deafness.
and that is by constitutional remedies.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed con-
dition of the mucous lining of the Eus-
tachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have rumbling sound or
imperfect hearing, and when it is closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the in
ffammation can be taken out and this
tube restored to its normal condition,
hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by catarrh.
which is nothing but an lnflamed con-
dition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any case of Deafness (caused by ca
tarrh) that we cannot cure by taking
Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for circu-
lars. free.
F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
50
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16
Organization and Protection

Workingmen who, at the solicitation
of persistent free trade attorneys, may
be considering the ACCESSIBILITY of sup
porting candidates committed to tariff
repeal, should not fail to recognize the
inconsistent attitude their unpatriotic
advisers would have them assume. Just
now the entire body of workingmen are
committed to the policy of protection.
Every Farmers Grange, every Knights
of Labor Lodge, every Trade Union,
not only urges the necessity for mutual
protection in explanation of its exist
ence, but finds ample reason for con-
tinued organization in defending its
members from influences and combi-
nations against which individual resist
ence has been found effectual.
The men who have so well learned
this first lesson in protection, and who
have combined for defense against in
fluences they could not Individually
resist. are now urged by free trade adj
vocates to aid in removing barriers
against still more formidable influences
in other countries. The long enforced
poverty and limited ambitions to foreign
workmen compel the acceptance of
wages which the veriest ''scab" work
man in this country would reject as un-
satisfactory.
Every imported article represents
more or less of labor, nearly all of
which could as we'll have been per-
formed in this country. The reason
that most of it is not given to workmen
in this country is found in the fact that
workmen can be hired for less money
in other countries than here. The
principle is sound one that all such
work as can as we'll be done in this
country should be forced here by pro-
tectlve tariff that will make the employ.
ment of the foreigners instead of citizens
of the United States an improbable
arrangement for all who would other
wise find an excuse for it. Members Of
organizations for maintaining good
wages for workingmen and fair prices
for all products of labor involve them.
selves in Inconsistency when aiding with
voice or vote those engaged in the un'
patriotic effort to remove the barrier,
against foreign competition in any o.
the products of labor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16

from self-support to>a degree of six
dollars month, whether contracted in
the service or not, IS now pensionable,
in proportion to his disability. The de-
pendent parent of every soldier who
died from the effects of his service.
whether in the service or since, is Glso
reasonable. Every widow of every
soldier who lost his life in the service.
or who has since died from the effects
of his service, is pensionable. The
orphan children, under sixteen years of
age, of every deceased soldier who has
died from the effects of his service, are
pensionable. Every widow of Union
soldier who is dependent upon her own
efforts for support is pensionable with
out proof that the death of her husband
resulted from the rervice.
In fact, it may be said that every
person, whether soldier. or parent, or
child. who has been crippled in body, in
health, or in means Of support, through
the service rendered by the soldier to
his country, is in condition to claim the
bounty of that country in the form of
pension.
Nine hundred thousand claims are
now pending in the Pension Office for
adjudication. Congress; at the present
session, has appropriated from the pub
lie Treasury one hundred and twenty
millions Of dollars for the payment of
pensions; and this does not include any
appropriation for the payment of PEN
sions under the act of June q, 1890,
which, it is estimated. will require from
thirty-five to fifty millions of dollars
year for the payment of claims that
may be filed under it. 1t is altogether
probable that when the claims shall
have been finally adjudicated under that
act, in will require not less than one
hundred and fifty millions of dollars
annually, for the pension roll, sum
vastly larger than the sum required for
the support of the greatest standing
army in the world.
Who shall say, under these circum-
stances. that the Republican party has
not kept ITS utmost pledges to provide
more liberal pensions for the disabled
Union soldiers, and who shall say that
the sacred promise of Abraham Lincoln
to care for those who have borne the
burden of the battle, and for his widow
and orphan, has not been fully and hon
orably redeemed
BYRON Nj. CUTCHEON.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16
County Ticket .

For Sheriff:
w. j. DYER, of Lancaster.
For County Clerk:
JOHN EPLETT, of Smelser.
For County Clerk:
WALTER BREMEN, of Platteville
For Treasurer:
JOHN A. NEAVILL, of Potosi.
For Register of Deeds:
MARTIN OSWALD, of Lancaster,
For District Attorney:
w. G.. PALMER, of Boscobel
ForjSuperintendent Of Schools.
h. X. SHUTTLEWORTE. Of Potosi.
FtG. Coroner:
\. T. TAYLOR. of Wingville
For County Surveyor:
CHAS. SAMPSON, Of jamestown.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16

No session of Congress, since the
war, has been characterized by more
general or more benefcent pension
legislation than the first session of the
51st Congress.
1t may be said, in general terms,
that there is no man who really needs
a pension that is not entitled to receive
it, under the law as it now stands.
Every soldier who received a disa-
bility in the service and in the line of
his duty. and eveY soldier who has a
present disability, which disables him
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16
STAND BY IT!
State Ticket i.

For Governor:
VIM. ID. HOARD, of Jefferson.
For Lieutenant Governor:
JOSEPH B. TREAT, of Monroe.
For Secretary of State:
EDWIN d. COE, of Walworth.
For State Treasurer:
ALBERT B. GEILFUSS,
of Milwaukee.
For Attorney General:
JAMES O'NEIL, of Clark.
For Supt. of Public Instruction:
L. ID. HARVEY, of Winnebago.
For Railroad Commissioner:
SYVER f. BRIMI, Eau Claire.
For Insurance Commissioner:
DAVID SCHREINER. of Grant
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16

GOVERNOR HOARD opened the cam
paign at Two Rivers Monday evening.
The day and evening were wild and
stormy but the Hall was crowded to
overlooking and it is said that our gov
ernor made the speech Of his life. The
large audience was breathlessly still
when he said that his right hand never
did so much for humanity as when il
signed the Bennett law, and that he
wanted no other inscription on the
stone TO mark his grave than "Ht
signed the Bennett law"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16

IT IS folly to get up and kick your
Congressman because every item in the
tariff bill does not suit your fancy. The
interests involved are so varied and so
great, the necessity of taxation so i'm
perative, that to treat every article of
commerce alike would be unjust. Lay
ing aside the question OF protection,
map out little tax bill of your own to
raise the necessary few hundred millions
for government expenses, and show it
to the first three men you meet See
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-10-16

ONE of the best answers to the OPP
ponents Of the Bennett law is found IN
the state Superintendent's Office, where
the statistics showing the number OF
children in the state between the ages OF
7 and IA. az close of school year in June
SO and 80, and the percentage OF at
tendance are on file The increase at
children in the state between those
periods was 1926. giving a percentage
increased attendance of 9.257, while the
actual increase of attendance at both
public and private schools during that
time was 20. $50. showing an increase
of school attendance, due entirely to the
Bennett law, of 11,102. 1t is difficult
for any thinking man to eonscienhously
say the law is harmful, or in any way
abridges the rights of parents and child
rem in view of these facts. That over
eleven thousand children should be
benefited by its provisions in one year.
should enlist the hearty support Of all
parents in the state.