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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23
LITTLE BOY BLUE.
ABBY SAGE RICHARDSON.

Under the haystack little Boy Blue
Sleeps with his head on his arm,
While voices of men and voices OF maids
Are calling him over the farm.
Sheep in the meadows are running wild
Where poisonous heritage grows,
Leaving white tufts of downy fleece
On the thorns of the sweet wild rose.
Out in the fields where the silken corn
Its plumed head mods and blows,
Where the golden pumpkins ripen below,
Trample the white faced COVE.
But no loud blast on the shining horn
Calls back the straying sheep,
And the cows may wander in hay or corn
While the keeper lies asleep.
His roguish eyes are tightly shut,
His dimples are all at rest;
The chubby hands tucked under his head,
BY one rosy cheek is pressed.
Waken him? No. Let down the bars
And gather the truant sheep;
Open the barnyard and drive in the cows;
But let the little boy sleep.
For year after year we can shear the fleece,
And corn can always be sown;
And the sleep that visits little Boy Blue
viii not come when the years have flown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23
The Beauties of Andalusia.

As regards her stature and mould, the
Andalusian girl is almost invariably a
petite brunette, and although not all are
plump, and many are too stout, the ma
jority have exqulsitely symmetrical tap
ering limbs, well-developed busts fiat
chested women are almost unknown. IN
SPAIN, and the most dainty and refined
hands and feet. Regarding these feet
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23

Tom Connors, the Milwaukee wrestler,
having received at different times letters
from Charles Moth, relating to matches,
makes the following challenge: Il will
wrestle Moth at from 500 to 5000 side,
catch-as-catch-can style, two points down,
best two in three or three in FIVE falls;
match to take place within three weeks
after signing of articles. either In Chicago
or Milwaukee. If Moth viii accept will
cover S25 forfeit money at once
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23
A Charitable Woman Gone.

QUINCY, H., Jan. 17.-Mrs. Lesem,
wife of the Hon. Isaac Lesem, died at her
home In this city, this morning. Mrs.
Lesem has been prominent In charity work
for many years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23

business. and with eontentment. accom-
panying wealth, that is of real value to
him because he Is prepared to make good
rSn of II
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23

ExPLANAToRY.-An explanation is due
our readers that still another breach-of-
promise suit has been brought against us,
making the seventeenth in two years
This time it is the Widow Cumbers who
brings suit, and she lays her damage at
$1,000 Society here is peculiar. Lone
women seek this locality to catch a hus-
band Any unmarried man is fair game,
and ordinary courtesy is construed to mean
love and proposal. Take the last case
for instance. Mrs. Cumbers invited us to
dinner She said it was an acknowledge
ment of the power of the press. We put
on clean shirt and combed our hair, and
she took it to mean that we were gone on
her. We spoke kindly of he way she
boiled corned beef, and she argued that we
loved her. We praised her prune pie,
and she replied that she could be ready in
three weeks.
The sixteen other suits have all been de-
cided in our favor, and of course this one
will be. It is plan to capture US or our
cash, but we don surrender. Even when
we have had offers to settle $50, 900 suit
for 81 and calico dress we have sternly
held to our course and let the case go on
trial
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23
The BnffaIous No More.

In a recent publication Superintendent
Hornaday, of the National Geological Park,
at Washington, speaking of the extinction
of the buffalo and the proposed methods
for the multiplication of the remnants,
points out the danger of the utter extinc-
ton of the species by crossing and in
breedings The last bunch of this noble
animal over which the government has any
control is comprised in the band of 300
now protected in the Yellowstone Park.
In 1870, says Professor Hornaday, there
were at least 6, 900, 900 animals IN the great
southern herd and twice as many in the
northern. Men poured cartridges into
Winchesters and dropped the unsuspecting
brutes by the 10000. To-day there are
less than 700 wild buffalo in existence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23

While out hunting several miles south
of Stevens Point Bert Booth, son of A. j.
Booth was accidently snot and killed by a
companion in front of him. The charge
entered his abdomen. He lived for over
an hour He was about twenty years of
age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-01-23

Tom-Say, Jack, what's bucket shop?
jack guess it IS where the brokers get
their buckets to water the stock with
Lippincott'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
sTATEMAKING.

Wyoming and Idaho are to be adj
mitted by this congress as part of the
Republican policy, in order to secure
their six votes for the party in the pres
idential election, while New Mexico
and Arizona are unfit for statehood, as
they cannot be relied upon to vote the
Republican ticket. The system of
government does not contemplate the
permanent existence Of populouo terri
tories, and the Democrats are willing to
take in the Quartette as body, but see
only partisan reasons for diScrimina-
ton. Neither of the four meet the
very proper requirement of a popula-
ton equal to congressional ratio, nor
do they possess the conditions of rapid
development that are had by the four
so recently admitted. There Is much
vagueness and assumption in the claims
made for them, and the reasonable
plan would be to let them wait
few months until the census takers
report as to their numbers, and their
fitness for development IS better
understood. No more Nevadas are
wanted. Idaho is believed to be some
what similar to Nevada. II is mining
district, with only agricultural lands
that can be titled by irrigation. Its
population is not claimed to be much
more than half the probable next ratio
for congressman, and its senatorships
will be holdings for millionaire pur-
chasers. One-fourth of its population
consists of Mormons, who are pres umed
to be disfranchised under the test oath
decision. If there is such danger in
that element in voting, prudence would
suggest that a little time be taken to
see whether the exclusion of the church.
ridden population is real and effective.
The shrewd and crafty leaders may. as
In some former cases. give letters of dis
mIssal to members of the church ana
qualify them for voters. The assumed
apostates may flock there from Utah.
and the state come under their rule.
The only interests to suffer by delay
are those of the Republican party.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
FEBRUARY STORMS.

1t was, perhaps, in celebration of
Chicago's victory that the weather clerk
turned loose the widest blizzard Of the
season yesterday, Or, possibly. 1t may
have been to yindicate Prophet KEEL
LoGG's claim to being the premier
weather seer. But, whatever the cause
or pretext, the storm came in gusty
force, filling the air with snow and
making outdoor exercise generally un-
comfortable. The only damaging effect
OF the storm was to the cattlemen of
Montana, who were unprepared for it.
And yet there is no reason why they
should not have been on the lookout.
The February storms are always the
worst ones for the cattle ranches, and If
the preceding part of the winter has
been unusually mild the February
storms can be safely relied upon. ALI the
weather predictions for this season, the
goose bone included. foretOld storms of
unusual severity during the latter part
of February. while March is expected
to usher in an early spring. At this
season the cattle Oh the plains are in a
low state of flesh. And then the late
oeOtn oic Always dCCoulpduicu ny
high winds, which drift the snow and
render it impossible for the cattle to get
to shelter, even where shelter is pro-
vided for them. In view of all these well
known facts, it is singular that the
ranchmen do not keep their herds bet
ter in hand at this season of the year,
so that on short notice they can be
driven to where food and shelter can
be provided for them. When they have
learned to do this the cattle business
will become more profitable. and the
February storm Will be robbed of It's
dread
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
A JUST JUDGE.

The Gentiles in Salt Lake City are ont
of humor with the federal Judge, ZANE,
because he would not override the law
in their interest, when only Mormonsl
were to be put out. The judge is Re-
publican, but he is an honest man, and
always tries to do his duty. He was
kept on the bench in Illinois many years
by the votes of Democrats because they
had confidence in his official integrity
and impartiality. At the late election
the Gentiles voted for councilmen on a
general ticket, disregarding the law
adopted in 1888, providing for election
by wards. The Mormons carried six of
the fifteen wards, but their men were
denied certificates of election by the
canYassing officer. They applied to
Judge ZANE for mandamus, and he
granted 1t. This has excited the wrath
of the managing politicians on the anti
Mormon side, who seem to have ex-
peeted the judge to act the partisan and
degrade himself as a jurist for their
service. He deserves credit for admin
istering the law, and not the behests of
the laWleSs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
ADULTERATloN GENERAL.

There is very general movement in
the states to accumulate curious infor-
maticn as to the constituents of articles
of food and common use, but little ac-
ton seems to be taken to annoy the in
genIous parties who are trying to aid
the manufacturers in simplifying things.
An agent of the agricultural department
at Washington has been investigating
the subject for some time. and estimates
that at least Is per cent of the food sup
ply Of the United States is adulterated.
By his computations the people who do
the infusing and substituting make
profit of S675, 100000. That is, they de-
fraud tine consumers to that extent. 1t
is not surprising that powerful in
fluences are brought to bear to make
the explorations of the various state
agents as ineffective of disturbing re-
suits as possible. The confidence
schemes that defraud the confiding pub
lie of this enormous sum would be much
less deprecated if all the substitutions
in articles of food were harmless. Some
of them are not only injurious to the
consumer, tut positively dangerous.
Forinstance, the health officers at Brook
Ign found sulphate of copper used to
make pickles look bright green, and a
little girl died by eating one Of these.
This Washington agentreceiyed reports
from the local and state officials, upon
which he based his conclusions. 1t is
understood that most of the molasses
and syrups are chiefly derived from giu-
cOse, which is not regarded as specially
harmful; but the Massachusetts, analyst
found salts of tin in thirtv-three SAM
pies of molasses. This is an active
poison. Ali the baking powder he
tested contained alum. Even of mustard
the larger portion of the samples were
not pure. In New Jersey majority of
the food clements were adulterated,
ana in New York only 140 out Of 326
kinds of drugs were found pure. The
liquors do not fare much worse than the
solids. The only effective remedy
would seem to be to publish the names
Of all manufacturers who adulterate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
TIMBER rnIEVING.

The GLOBE furnishes another III
stance of the value of newspaper as
public detective. The government was
in blissful ignorance of the depreda-
tions that were being committed by the
Canadian timber thieves upon the gov
eminent land and Indian reservations
in the northern part of this state. until
the GLOBES exposures brought them
to the attention of the authorities. Our
White Earth letter this morning tells of
the investigations made by Deputy
Marshal CAMPBELL, which confirmed
the revelations previously made by the
GLOBE. The thieving has been going
On for years, no telling how many years,
until the forests in some localities have
been stripped of all their valuable tim
Der, and yet the government had never
been Informed of it. OF course, it is an
out-of-the-way country up on the Cana
dian line, yet it does seem that the poy-
eminent should have some system for
protecting its own property, or, at least,
of informing itself concerning the con-
dition of its property. The Canuck raid
ers have followed their understanding
operations so long that they actually set
up claim to the country they have been
invading under the "sQuaw-man" title.
1t is now in order for the secretary of
the interior to administer good, whole :
some discipline to the timber pirates.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
PROFIT SHARING.

Another prominent firm in Chicago
with great number of employees has
recently adopted the profit-sharing pol
ley. A considerable portion of the
large houses in that city are inclined to
experiment in this direction, if they
have not done so. The plan of most of
those who divide any portion of the
profits is to ascertain the net surplus at
the end of the year and distribute GER
tain per cent of it among the employees,
having consideration to the respective
merits of the benefciaries as indicated
by length and character OF service. 1t is
believed that where reasonable care has
been taken to secure just recognition of
merit the system has usually been
found advantageous to the proprietors.
The great ARMOUR house. with its thou
sands of employees, recognizes the prin-
ciple without formal or systematic
methods. The most deserving are the
best requited. In many lines of indus
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
GERMAN pROTECTIoN.

From the standpoint of the protection
list there can be little room for COM
plant of any country for excluding
alien productions that are comprised in
any home industry. His theory is that
the local producer should be given
substantial monopoly of the home mar
ket. If the principle is sound its appii-
cation should be as wholesome in Ger
many as in the United States. But the
restrictive measures that bar the Ameri-
can hog from that country are found
extremely inconyenient and baneful to
the producers on this side of the water,
who have outgrown the home requir e.
ment. The recent report of the Ameri-
can consul at Mannheim shows some
thing Of the operation of the Ger
man righteousness that has excluded
limited States meats. The duty is
Sl.50 per head on hogs and S. on
cattle. Taken In addition to the
cost of shipments by water and land,
this is practical prohibition-not, how
ever, like that known in some of the
states in beverages. There are also
regulations in regard to inspection that
duQ w tllC CGSb tliiu GitiiO3 ftuCOs l.
are imputatIons upon the healthfulness
of the foreign articles, especially the
American hog, that are made the ex-
cuse for this sort of legisIation; but
there is no disposition ia the control
ling quarters TO allow their faIlacy to
be demonstrated. There is little rea
confidence had in the charges. Thos e
who are benefited by the local monopoly
are influential and able to secure the
favor Of the government for the protec-
ton of their somewhat ancient infant
industry. Austria has been the chief
source of supply for the German meat
eaters, and its sales have dwindled so
per cent, while the United States is un-
able to come in at all The case affords a
good Illustration of the protective policy,
Outsiders are almost entirely excluded,
and the government derives very little
revenue from importatlonS, but the
large land owners and meat producers
are able to raise the prices to extraya-
CANT figures. The report referred to
says pair of steers increased rs marks
in price and other meats in proportion.
AT one of the cheapest cities of Baden
the prices of meats are given as-beef.
IL to Is cents; mutton, Is; pork, II; ba-
con, IS; veal, 16 cents. and beef lard, 26
cents. The result is that the masses of
the people can afford to eat very little
meat. and the consumption has fallen
off enormously; but the few cattle and
hog producers are getting big prices
from their monopoly. The country is
unable to produce as much as the popu-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
ouICK TrNNEf, pRANsIr.

Some mention has been made of the
scheme to tunnel the East river at New
York, to connect with Brooklyn, as the
big bridge is inadequate for the bust
ness. The past week company has
been organized for the construction Of
the tunnel, which is to have its termini
at Broome street in New York. and
Broadway in Brooklyn. The work is
expected to cost S3,0O0,0O0, while the
bridge cost five times as much. The
notable feature of the tunnel is to be the
fast time to be made in it by the cars,
with gravity as the main moving force.
There is to be descent on each side of
about fifteen degrees, with level piece
in the center, and the gravitation is to
take the cars down one side and TO the
foot of the incline, where an automatic
cable will pull them up the rest of the
way. The time given for the entire
1000 feet is forty-two seconds. The
trains will consist of three cars, carry
ing from 800 to 400 passengers. There
will be double tracks and ample pro-
visions for safety. There will be good
deal of the excitement of the toboggan
in the ride. and quick transit enough for
the most rapid.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
esME TOOn

II anybody has any lightning rod with
wrath in store. they will accommodate
the New York people by letting them
have it to blast TOM PLATT's political
ambitions. 1t is almost incomprehensi-
bic how a man of wit could make such a
muck of anything as ex-senator PLATT
made of New York's chances for the
worlds fair. Mr.. DEPEw says the
New York people lost ground by quar-
reIing among themselves over the
choice of site; but, when Mr.. DEPEW
says that. heis simply inyenting a screen
to protect his friend PLATT from
the odium he deserves. 1t was PLATr's
interference at Albany that cooked
New forks goose. Everybody could
see that at the time PLATr was at Al
banT, fastening the Republican legisla-
ture to his political line. and the New
York people understand we'll enough
where to fix the responsibility for their
failure. 1t is fortunate thing for the
country at large that PLATT engineered
the New York fair boom to its destruc-
ton, as Chicago is the proper place to
hold the fair. But Mr.. PLATT was not
actuated by any desire to serve the pub
lie interest. He took it for granted that
New York was going to get the fair,
and Immediately set about to utilize it
for personal ends. At the time he put
in his oar New York had start in
the race that seemed to render it i'm
possible that she could be beaten. But
st didn't take long. under PLATr's
guidance. to destroy New York's
chances for winning. The wonder is
that the Republican politicians of the
Empire state should ever have been
SO shorf-sighted as to have entrusted
the leadership of their party to a
man whose only notoriety was gained
by going out of the senate like a
whipped cur, as he went whining alo ne
at Roscoe COMBINES heels uttering
his plaintve wall OF ME too" By
turning over the leadership to PLATT
the Republican party of New York will
be held responsible, and justly so, for
New York's defeat in the worlds fair
contest, and the voters of that state
will be apt to remember it in that light
in future elections. By his unskiilfui
political maneuvering Mr.. PLATT has
succeeded in landing his party good
deal farther outside of the breastworks
than where WARNER MILLER fell,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
ARMY ARIsToCRAOY.

a good many years ago the celebrated
Tom BENTON opposed an appropriation
to the West Point academy on the
ground that the institution would in
time become the h0t-bed of an aristoc
racy (Which would prove troublesome
TO the government, and possibly dam
gerous to our American Institutions.
While there has not been an exact full
fillment of MIR. BENToN's prophecy, stiIl
there are things constantly occurring
which show that there is tendency TO
build up a military aristocracy in this
country, and that the graduates of the
governments military school are often
disposed to think that they occupy a
pre-eminent position in national affairs.
This disposition cropped out conspicu-
ously during the late civil war in the
little jealousies the. West Point
ers displayed toward the officers of
the volunteer service. There has been
more striking displayIof it recently In
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-26
HEARTS PIERCED.
Continued From FIRST Page.

the girl was not new one with him.
No one supposed it then to be more
than the insane vaporings of a
drunken fool. But how true it
came. For before the old lady
could catch the early morning train
for Minneapolis a swift messenger
brought her word Of the awful tragedy
that had been enacted during the night
at her peaceful and. comfortable home.
Owing to the fact that the coroner and
his jury have not yet completed their
Investigations nothing has been done
with the bodies. and pools of blood still
stand in several places on the floor,
emitting terrible odor, famed into
a liyelier existence by the hot
fire rendered necessary to warm other
portions of the house. County Attorney
NJ, R. Everett, of Wateryille. is on hand.
watching every point in the case, and
Deputy Sheriff C. e. Lehman is sta
toned in the house. Mrs. Washa,
mother of the murdered girl. is pros
trate with grief, and, it is feared, will
lose her reason. The victims, lying as
they do, still weltering in their life
blood, present terrible scene and an
awful reminder of the great tragedy.
T. A. N