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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
Winter Wheat.

There is no mistaking the fact that win.
ter wheat is growing steadily in favor as q
part of the crop rotation in the west. A
combination of causes has led to this re
suit Farmers must have some crop OF
small grain with which to SOW grass seed
Spring wheat is becoming more uncertain
and unreliable along the entire border Of
the spring wheat region. For some reason
it recedes further and further northwest
each year. Blight and rust drove it con.
tinually before them. When farmers get
down to the business of restoring fertility
they soon get the land too rich for oats,
and something must be found as a nurse
crop for the grasses.
After clover has held the land for a few
years farmers find they can grow winter
wheat even in central and northern Iowa
The uniform experience this year has been
that winter wheat paid better than spring.
Again farmers are beginning to see thai
there is {, hopeful future for the price Of
wheat. This arises from two entirely dis
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD
THE CITY OF THE LIVING


In long vanished age whose varied story
! - NJ leeolo nag W ua!,
| 80 long ago expired us grle1 ana glory,
H.. ,.-...- -.oz =, -,o.
III proad Feallh' WHOSE oeautt Passeu al lneSS
| lit IRE. or,d ,r;ao.
Within the jewellers lived In peace and pleasure
disease and PAIN ana oeath, those stern marauc
usf eTs u,ou o,,u ,,or,a,. t;,r e0oo
WITCH mar our WoFlu lar lace,
| Meyer , encroaGheq upon me Pheasant borders
|
/ Nor fear OF parting and no dread OF dying
| Could ever enter there;
| No mourning for the lost, no anguIShed crying
Made any face less fair
| Without the city wall, Death reigned a. eYer,
| And graves rose side by side.
| Within, the Gweliers laughed at his endoaToT.
| And never any died.
| o. happiest of all earth favored places,
| o, bliss TO dwell therein:
To live in The sweet light ofloving faces.
| And fear 10 grave between;
| To feel no eat th damp, growing cold and colder
| To live on7upver loueI1er nor older
| Radiant in deathless youth.
| tiers
| \ tide of pilgrims flowed,
Across broad plains and over mighty waters,
To find the best abode.
Whenever death should come between and sever
Theln from their loved apart:
Where they might work, and will and live for
ever,
And so they lived in happiness and pleasure
And grew in power and pride
And did great deeds and laid up store of treas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
A south American Farm,
Harper's Magazine.

Amongst the many hospitable farms and
haclendas that | visited, we may take as a
favorable specimen Lenora lsidora Cousi-
nos large and beautiful estate at Macu!
near Santiago, which is rather, perhaps, a
model farm than q commercial enterprise
The whole hacienda comprises 500 cuadras
irri gated, 700 cuadras of mountain land
without irrigation. Forty cuadras are de-
voted to vines, which produce over $40, OfO
lltres year; certain portion is allotted to
raising wheat, barley, and oats for home
consumption; Il considerable space is laid
out as park, with very fine and pictur-
esque ornamental gardens and the rest is
given up to alfalfa and grazing. The
stud farm at Macul is important, and the
stock consists of imported Ciydesdale, Per-
cheron, Cleveland, Anglo-N Norman, and
thorough bred racing stock, including a
Yankee trotter, In ali, about a hundred
horses and nearly two hundred COWS, bred
from thorough bred imported French and
English Durhams This establishment be-
ing rather an exceptional one from many
points of view, you might expect to find
the farm Iaborers treated with the same
care as Ihe cattle But no. They receive
the usual sixty five cents day, with food
and lodging gratis. The lodging consists
of rooms in an adobe building, with
beaten earth floor Or cane hut pIastered
over with mud, while the food is composed
of daily ration of two pounds of bread in
the morning, and at midday an unlimited
quantity of beans cooked in greese. That
is all; the laborer receives neither tea nor
coffee, much less beer or wine. The la
borers who work permanently on the farm
all the year yound, instead of being lodged
In barracks, have cottage and bit of
land, which they are allowed to cultivate
for their own profit; but in return for this
privilege they have to work at the rate of
ifty-fve cents a day. Or furnish a substl-
thte. The laborers of this class are called
''inquilinos, " and are considered TO be the
standby of every farm, because their SER
vices can always be counted on from years.
end to years end. Their cottages and
plots are invariably situated on the out
skirts Of an estate at intervals one from
the other, so that, together with their
families, they form the natural guardians
and watchmen of the hacienda.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
JAPHET's OPPoRTUNITY.
An Agitator Who Manages to Get Dia-
InOnds and Dresses, Good and Square,
Meals

An Agitator Who Manages to Get Dia-
nonds and Dresses, Good and Square
Meals.
There were fifteen or twenty people
passengers on a Hudson river steamer-sit
ting together on the promenade deck
when q young man who had evidently
reached his majority suddenly fell off hi:
stool with great crash, having lost his
equilibrium while taking nap.
"Consarn his pictur!" growled gray
haired farmer, who was smoking d yer!
bad cigar. That's my son Japhet, ano
he is allus putin his foot in it
HE seems worn out, " replied the mar
addressed.
He shouldn't be. I've had him down
In New York for a week to see If | couldn I
polish him up a bit, and get some new
ideas in his brain box, IN just clean dis
couraged about Japhet.
Good worker on the farm, should
judge?"
Yes, very fair; but wanted him to
tackle something better. If he was only
like his brother Bill.
What sort of boy is Bill?'
He's regular xxx -four, and POO
pounds to the barrel. Up TO the time ne was
20 he didn't know enough to slice tuTnips
for calves Then he suddenly began tC
hump himself He went to readin' about
anti-poverty, free governments, single tax
free Ianos, the grindin monopolies. the
oppressed classes, the bloated bondholders
the elective franchise, and all that. and In
side of year he could out talk any mar
in the county,"
'.'Ebo+ WOO 1,ina -
Guess ii was! He begun to talk to the
mill hands, and In a week they were on {
strike. He got them to strike in the fac
tory, convinced all the farmers hired meI
then their life blood was being pumped
out, and drawed S. a day and boarded a
the hotel
"A workingman' advocate, ell"
That it. He tells EN- all about how
the rich are growing richer and the poo
poorer; how capital has EN- by the throat
how Jay Gould and Vanderbilt are gnaw-
ing out their beating hearts to make
profit. Gets $4,000 year now and all eX
penses, and wears as good clothes as the
governor. Has a $500 watch and a $500
diamond pin, and | reckon he has oyster
and turkey at every meal.
Il see.
And when | see this dunder-headet
Japhet hillin' up 'taters for Sl4 mont
/ the comparison knocks me clean out.
have slight hopes. though, that this triY
may be the means of changing him.
had him with an agitator three days at S
a day, and tomorrow he's going over t
the cooper shop and prove to the 81:
coopers that the boss is sucking their lif
blood by the gallon, and that If they don
stand up like men and demand 81 da
he'll soon be working on their necks an
making up faces at their starvin' children
It's golden opportunity, and if Japl
don't seize it and make hit | Ii boil hin
up with carrots for the steers. New
York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
THE

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Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches Of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
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Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches Of latest
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Through Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room and Co1onist Sleepers via the North
ern Pacific Railroad between Chicago and
Portland, Ore.
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern
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For tickets, sleeping car reserTa ions, time
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
True Facts About the Prices OF
American Machines at Home
and Abroad.
Roorbacks Of the Free Traders
Cruelty Exposed by Consul
Dunlap.
AGRICULTURAL Machinery Cheaper
to American Farmers than to
People Any Where Else in
the World.

Having demonstrated the absolute falsity
of the charge that American manufacturers
sell agricultural implements abroad
more cheaply than to our own people, it's
now proposed TO go even further and show
that there is neither inducement nor neces-
sity for thom to do so. he fundamental
assumption on which the free-trade propa-
gandists base their crudeIy constructed
ISLANDERS, which have appeared under the
blood curdling caption of war on the far
mer, " is that the tariff on agricultural
machinery enables the manufacturer to
charge exhorbitant prices. In other words,
In the absence Of the protective duty, cheap
German and English plows would enter
our markets and compel our manufacturers
to reduce the present price of American
pIows to American farmers. These theO-
rists think they know or affect to believe
that the German and English agricultural
machinery retails at a much less price than
do similar implements III this tariff OPP
pressed country II ours,
United States Consul H. }. Dunlap
cruelty demolishe8 this argument IN his
latest report from Breslau, Germany. He
attended the annual exhibition of agricul-
tural machinery held in Bresau last June
and make good use of his opportunity to
gather complete and reliable information
as to the retail prices and merits, not only
of German, but also of English agricutur-
al machinery of all kinds. His report to
the state department. OF what he saw and
learned ought to cover with confusion
those un-American ''refOImers," who con-
tinuaIly mourn because compelled to buy
inferior American manufactured pro-
ducts .
The most Aattering proof of the super
iority of American agricultural machinery
is the fact that the Germans have initiated
it so largely. Formerly American manu-
facturers had agents and extensive ex-
hibits at these annual expositions, but do
mestic limitations, aided by Germany pro
tective tariff, have tlken possession OF The
German market for German manufacturers.
Five American firms were represented on
this occasion, whose retail prices on their
implements plainly prove that they are
higher abroad than at home.
Mr. Dunlap compiled the following
table of prices Every farmer will see the
moment his eve fails npon them that
they are from . to 100 per cent. higher
than the prices of similar articles IN this
country.
Prices Of Americaa machines in germany at
PsfaH
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
l. S. ST. gu.
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to tie Pacific Northwest

This line is composed Of the
Chicago, St Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaha and Union Pacific Rail-
ways, and reaches more Far
Western Cities than any other line
as follows:
Haley, Boise City, Lewiston,
Moscow and principal Idaho
points.
Walla Walla, Colfax, Farming
ton, Rockford, Spokane Falls and
numerous Washington points.
Baker City, Pendleton, Portland
and principal Oregon points.
Ogden and Salt Lake City, the
largest points in Utah.
San Francisco, Los Angeles and
all California points from Mt.
Shasta to San Diego.
And this line also reaches Butte,
Anaconda and many other points
in Montana.
Also note that by this line
accommodations are furnished in
Pullman Family Sleeping Cars at
very low rates to holders of
second-class tickets going to
Washington, Oregon and Califor-
MIA.
When you get ready to go
West, before deciding upon your
route, call on agents of c., St. P.
M. & O. Ry., who will cheerfully
furnish rates and information
about through car service over
the "Lake Superior, 81. PaM G.
Union Pacific Line" and connec
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'l PassengcrAgent, St. Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
The Debt We Owe a Prince.

There seems to be no good reason why
Americans who live up to their funda-
mental p rinciples should pay any atten-
ton to a European prince visiting this
country, provided he is distinguished for
nothing but his birth and situation Such,
we scarcely need to say, are not the limit
ed credentials of the count of Paris, who
is shortly expected to make brief soiourn
in the United States. His claims upon
our respect and good will may be said to
unite those Of Lafayette and of De TOcqUe-
vile.
In the dark days of the civil war when,
outside of Russia we seemed to have no
friend in Europe and when the usurper,
Louis Napoleon, was eXerting all his in
fuence to effect a joint intervention of
France and England on behalf Of the
southern confederacy, the grandson OF
Louis Philippe and heir of the old French
monarchy, which had helped US to
achieve our independence stood forth
upon our side. The man although hun
dred fold greater parsonage than Lafayette
according to European standards, did pre-
cisely what Lafayette had done, namely,
testified his sympathy with our cause by
offering his service to cur commanders in
the field
For considerable period the count OF
Paris served on the staff of General Nc
Clellan. Nor was his testimony to the
rightfulness of the struggle to uphold
the union limited to service in
the field. For nearly quarter of
a century he has devoted himself to the
composition of history of our civil war,
which even to Americans, is one of the
most trustworthy books upon the subject
extant, while it commands, as the work
of no ether author could, the attention of
European students. We owe this man a
debt, and we should not be the less glad
to acknowledge it because our creditor
happens to be d prince. the representative
the proudest line III Europe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

1t will be seen that American machinery
commands higher price than that of Eng
land or Germany, while both the latter are
much higher than our own home prices.
but the superior quality of American inn
pements secures to them their command
ing place in the markets of the world Mr..
Dunlap says:
The plows resemble the double Michi-
gan plow SO popular in the United States
twenty and more years ago, but now about
obsolete The workmanship on these
plows IS very rough, especially the wrought
parts, and the finishing of the mould
boards Is very imperfect. Many of the
better class had been immersed n a mic, e
bath to give them polishcdappearar"9. :
am perfectly safe IN saying that no Alneri-
can farmer would take single one Of the
plows on exhibition as a gift; he would be
ashamed to be seen in its company. 1t
looks very much as though 1t was the work
of a, '2yblacksmith of forty years ago.
There were on exhibition any quantity
of harrows, including German made Ac
mes, and flexible iron frames. such as are
common in the United States-all of the
ordinary blacksmith make A harrow
with a wooden frame is not made here.
''Of cultivatorS there was an endless va
lICty Vic ltiI &C OuS, SONt1llS nearly
9 feet in width, combination of shovels
and scrapers for cultivating sugar beets, to
the modest three shovel affair used for po-
tatoes. None of these would be used by an
American farmer, his double row cultiva-
tor being in every way superior, while the
common five shovel American cultivator is
much lighter and more easily adjusted
implement than any on the grounds.
There was no exhibits of spades. shovels,
hoes, scythes, forks or gardening tools
whatever, and | may say in explanation
that nearly all these implements in COM
mon use here are made By the village
blacksmith and are exceedingly crude,
heavy and ungraceful, though they have
unusual weight and durability In their IA
vor.
aside from the American reapers and
mowers above named. the exhibition was
ln.,no wise worthy of notice. Three OF
tour German manufacturers have endeavor'
ed to copy the American mowers but with
no success SO far as outside appearance
goes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
PROHIBIT TIL 1R ORG @.
An Injunction Is Issued Against the Cen
trail Sugar Trust.

New YORK, Oct. ia temporary IN
junction was granted today by Judge
Pratt in the supreme conrt against the
trustees of the sugar trust. Kidder, Pea
body & Co., the central trust and others to
enioin them from proceeding further with
the pending reorganization of the
trust and from parting with any assets o.
stock certificate of the company. The re
ceiver also applied for and the hearing O
the motion to make the injunction per
manent is set for Monday next Application
owner OF $4,000 shares of certificates O
the trust.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

From geological observations On the
Alps vegetation on the higher portions
seems to be retreating, and the poplars that
at one time adorned the crest Of the hills
and now nearly all dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

thorities demanded an immediate funeral
The fathers grief was touching, but he
consoled himself with the thought that
perhaps Flossie might be saved after ALL
Poor little FIosie went Sunday, and
with her died her brother While. baby
of only 2-years.
Then the father became almost a
maniac. The funeral was held the same
day. but he could make no arrangements
for it. He wandered about the house
you leave me?" and nothing that could
be said could give him comfort, late in
the afternoon he left the house At $50
No. % BOwery, and asked for room. He
registered as John Place and directed the
clerk to call him at 7:30 in the morning.
At that hour Charles Y. Grolman, the
night clerk, knocked on Kean' room, but
received no reply. Then he went out on
the 6re-escape and looked through the
window.
Kean was lying on the bed with bloody
hole In his left temple. The room was en-
tered and it was found that the MIN had
taken laudanum before he had shot him.
self. One vial had been emptied and a
portion of the contents of another had
been spilled upon the floor. The man was
dead, the pistol bullet having gone through
his head and lodging just under the skin
of the right temple.
The coroner's office was notified and
after permit had been obtained the bodn
was taken to an undertaker's.
The Great Charm of the Maine Woods.
One decided advantage which this lake
country of New England posS esses over the
Adlrondacks Is the vastness of It's solitude.
Its uncleaTed area Is so extensive, Its for
ests are still unbroken by any highways,
save the streams and the rough tote-roads
of the lumber crews, that this region can
not become populOus with visitors.
Though many summerings Ito com word
to describe US summer transients) now fit
along these streams, yet is not this wilder
ness over-swarmed with visitors. Even
while padding down the main streams
one will meet but few canoes, and
may camp at night with no neighbors
in sight or sound Some future day the
rich bottom lands along these streams may
know cultivation; but now they are mostly
left to the grasses, the wild flowers, and
the deer. When | first discovered for my
self the delightful possibility of relapsing
for a season into this Indian like existence,
about twenty years ago, although it was
then late in the summer, learned that
only two parties of sports" las we are
called in the native dialect had crossed be-
fore me the carry from Moosehead into the
Penobscot waters; and not until the last
day on nearly fortnight 5 canoeing did we
pass a boatman on the rlver.-From The
Lake Country of New England" by Rev.
Newman Smyth, in October Scribner.
The accumulation OF explosive gases in a
room, mine, or ships hold can now be
ascertained by means of an indicator It
consists of a porous cylinder closed by a
thin metal membrane, and the penetrat-
ING gases raise the membrane, close cir
emit and rinr an alarm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
Nebraska KNIGHTS of PythiaS

OMAHA, Oct. 4.-The twenty-third
annual session of the Nebraska lodge OF
Knights of Pythias began here today.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

The accumulation OF explosive gases in a
room, mine, or ships hold can now be
ascertained by means of an indicator. It
consists of porous cylinder closed by a
thin metal membrane, and the penetrat-
ING gases raise the membrane, close cir
cut, and ring an alarm.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

Sn"N KIuUf
Tablets of white paper for pencils.
pen, all sisss ksp4
in stock.
We propose to Z esp ell blanks used in Circuit
Court, Justices Court and those Of mIseslla-
neeUs cha racter ted above.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

JOB DEPARTMENT.
We have in this department = complete line
of job Material and Type for doing hrst-class
Job work on short notice and at the lowest
living prices. We do all kinds of Pamphlets
aad Law Brief work known to the trade.
Call in and get prices.
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-07-23
CALIFORNIA TIN.

Large Mines Near San Jacinto to Be
Worked by an English Syndicate.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 22.-From pres
emit indications California will have
new industry, rivalling in Importance
even the taking of gold from the bowels
Of the earth. The new industry is the
mining at great profit of tin ore near
San Jacinto, San Bernardino county.
Twenty-seven years ago tin deposits were
found in this neighborhood, but the
value of the discoveries did not
seem to be appreciated. Negotiations
,----z.:ss-4 sJesif cOlfcIudod whereby
the San Jacinto tin mines VIII pass into
the hands of an English Syndicate with
large experience in the treatment of
these ores. These men, who own the
tin mines near Swansea, Wales, pro-
nounce the California oress as rich as the
Welsh ores they have been operating
with fair profit. The formation of the
country where the mines are situated is
similar to that where the best tin mines
exist
Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1890-07-23
ROBBED THE MORTONS.


The Vice Presidents Family the Victims
of Thieves.
SARATOGA, n. Y, July ia bold
daylight robbey was committed in
this village. About noon sneak thieves
entered the Bliss cottage, on North
Broadway and got away with $4,000
worth of diamonds and jewelry. The
cottage is occupied by Mr.. Morton, vice
president of the United States, and his
law partner, Mr.. Bliss, and their wives.
The robbery was first discovered by
Mrs. Morton and the police We're
promptly notified. 1t is impossible to
ascertain whether the iewelry was the
property of Mrs Morton or Mrs. Bliss,
as the parties decline to be interviewed.