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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
PROVIDING AGAINST WANT.
Insurance for Bed and Board-A Nov,
Scheme of Co-Operation.

A form of practical insurance against
want is under advisement in this CITY,
in which large portion of the labor
ing people should be deeply interested
says the Boston Herald. A working man
is often thrown out of employment
and reduced to great distress because he
has little or no money laid by, and is
unable to provide for his board and
lodging while out of employment. 1t
has been suggested that a peoples
mercantile company might be formed
among themselves which would under
take to provide board and lodging
with landlords at the rate of 81, s. or
S. a week, on such terms that. after
one month Of regular payments one
weeks board at half pay might be
placed to the credit of the interested
party, so that if he were out of work
or sick or otherwise disabled, he might
not be brought to discomfort because
he could not pay his board. At this
rate in six months a man would be en-
titled to one and half months credit
for board, which at the half rate, would
only cost him the price of one and a
half months board anywhere.
This plan. if it could be carried out,
would be great relief to hundreds of
working people who are so suddenly
disabled or compelled to be idle: 1t
would be impossible for everybody to
fall rapidly in debt to such company,
and only in case of extreme misfort-
une would persons be willing to sur
render their certain insurance of food
and lodging, which would grow larger
as the years roll by. A company of
this kind would need to have respon-
sible backing in order to secure public
confidence, but though it has never
been attempted, it could easily be con-
Quoted on the basis which is common
to similar undertakings. Payments
would be made to landlords the same
as now, and the company, after collect
ing 20 per cent discount every week
for month, could afford to give one
weeks credit and do business on that
basis. The credits would not be trans
ferable except by consent Of the com
pany Of directors, and would be dealt
with by them in the same manner as if
they were life insurance policy. When
sucn q company was established its
range of restaurants or lodging and
boarding houses would be such as to
meet the wants of all classes Of people.
This is a system of cooperative effort,
but it would be company that could
accumulate capital and increase its re-
sources in proportion to its member
ship. 1t would thus be safe invest
ment for individuals without involving
them in any personal response bility
beyond what their regular payments
would demand.
This organization is not yet in ex-
istence, but it is one of the first prac-
teal suggestions for self-help which
has sprung out of the movement for
christian socialism in Boston and when
it is properly developed and brought
into shape it looks as if it might meet
a present and pressing need among
people who are not forehanded and
are not accustomed to make invest
ments for themselves.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

as 1uuaIIc.' one IoIu the census
enumeration that he was at present en-
gagged in paying an election bet by
pushing a wheel5arrow twenty-five
miles, and she didn't expect him home
for a week.-NoTristoacR Herald.
why don't you go to workp" she
asked Of the tramp. Il am a-work-
ing, lady" SAT what? You show no
signs of it." No matter for that
mum, I'm a-working as traveller adj
ver- for a soap firm. I'm the Before
Using card, and my pardner around
the corner represents the After Using
end of the combination. Thank YOU,
mum. Philadelphia Times.
Jennie How did you enjoy your
self at theater last night?" Mamie
30, immensely!n Jennie .What was
the play?n Mamie-'I declare don't
know. Let me see-I think l have got
program in my other dress pocket
Mamie-'It does not matter; but |
think it strange that you should go to
a theater and not know what the play
was. "Mamie-''Why, bless you. dear,
| was with theater party. Boston
Courier.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
His Decoration.

He walked by her SIDE as they strolled apart,
Through the lonely bios oming ways,
Afa from the bugles and rolling drums,
The psalm of a nations praise:
Afar from the crowds that linger there
Mid the sunlit graves and the headstones fair.
They, too, with the reyerent throng had bent,
And in dear remembrance crowned
With palms, and laureis and garland bright
Fully many graSs-grOwn mound,
And heard the voices of comrades tell
How nobly the heroes fought and fell.
But now, in silence, they turned away
Through meadows with daisies spread-
Her face was grave, but her eyes were sweet
With the languOr of tears unshed;
And she held a rose in her finger tips,
Red as her own soft rOSe-red lips.
You were kind to the dead" he said, at last,
In a pleading, injured tone,
But what Of the living soldier brave,
Who in daily fight alone
Must strive for duty, nor dream Of fame
Dare he no token of honor claim?"
She turned with SMILE half tears and placed
Her rose on his bosom. There
NY one last flower! 1t was meant for you,
But, was not sure-wOuId-care.
We give, unsOught, to the noble dead,
But the noble living must ask" she said.
Madeline S. Bridges.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
1t Is Good Plan to Keep Books.

The advice which Daniel Webster
gave to a neighbor of his in The fol-
lowing anecdote might be followed
with advantage by many people. IN
deed, the reader will be like to think
that it might have been followed to
good advantage by Mr.. Webster him
self:
On one occasion a man presented to
Mr.. Webster bill for payment.
''Why. Mr.. n" said the states
man, lit seems to me that I have paid
that BILL
Mr.. N protested that it had not
been paid. and Mr.. Webster told him
to call in few days and he would at
tend to the matter. Alter the man
had gone Mr. Webster asked his clerk
to look over a quantity of bills and see
if he could find receipt for the
amount. To his surprise two receipts
were found. Indicating that the bill
had been paid twice.
In due time Mr.. N called just at
the dinner hour, as it CHANGED, and
Mr.. Webster invited him in to dine.
After the meal was over they proceed
ed to the business in hand.
Mr.. N, do you keep books?" Mr..
Webster inquired.
NO" was the reply.
Il thought So" said Mr.. Webster
Now, | advise you to keep books. If
you had kept books you would have
known that | had this receipted bill, y
showing him one.
Mr.. N was greatly surprised and
mortified, and apologized as best he
could for his mistake
Yes. it is always good plan to
keep books" continued Mr.. Webster,
showing him second receipt.
Then, knowing Mr.. N to be an
honest man, he suggested that per-
haps receipted bills had been present
ed but really left unpaid. and insisted
that Mr.. N-should take the money.
atlanta Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

rasnIuuaure cnurcn III NovemUer MISS
Lang, very quietly, a month later.
And are you to live in a little house,
Marion?" asked Miss Dormer the day
before her own wedding.
Probably. dearestr'
"And shall you spend your summers
''In some quiet suburb where Mr..
Kane can conveniently come up and
down Yes, yesm laughed Marion.
Then with sudden rush of tears in
her eyes, she threw her arms about her
friend.
"Oh, Millicent, l hope you will be as
happy as / amp
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23

dead rabbit were protruding from
their sockets, and by way of beginning
the boa licked them with his tongue.
Once more he coiled about his victim,
leaving its head and shoulders free.
Then he opened his monstrous jaws
and, taking ''bunny's" head therein,
began TO swallow. Soon the head and
shoulders We're out of sight. and in
less than fifteen minutes the hind legs
fnlInwad .
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
A Woman Who Kills Tigers.

Tiger hunting in India has brought
to the front woman tiger-killer of
great skill in the person of Mrs. Evans
Gordon. The fearless lady. as a MEM
Der of a recent hunting expedition,
shot an angry tigress that was rushing
viciously upon the party, and was
actually within a few yards of her ele-
plants trunk. Her shot was as WELL
timed as it was well-aimed, for the
other guns engaged, including that of
the lady sportsman's husband, Mai.
Evans Gordon, had failed to stop the
furious brute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
Photography in Great Britain.

Photography is fast becoming one
of the standard branches Of education
in Great Britain. From returns made,
though incomplete it appears that IN
the first quaroer of this year the teach
ers of photography had under in
struction in the whole OF Great Britain
81. 739 males and 3,028 females max
inc a total of 81 767, while the number
under instruction during the whole OF
last year was 44,730 A large portion
of the pupils We're i'll what are termed
aboard schools
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-10-23
How a Sewer Was Choked Up.

large sewer in Portland, Ore, had
to be reopened recently, as it was
badly choked up. When the work
men dug it open they found the
roots of a shade tree had forced a
passage through the walls and formed
a solid mass for fifty feet The top Of
the sewer was ten feet below the sur.
face
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23
TALMAGE'S GREAT ORGAN,
1t Will Contain 444S Pipes and
VIII Cost $4,000

The new organ for Rev. Dr.. Talmage's
new Brooklyn Tabernacle is rapidly APP
preaching compilation. The first organ for
the Tabernacle vas built in 1873, and at the
time was one OF the largest and most com
pete in the country. Il was destroyed with
the Tabernacle in 1889.
The new or .an i much larger and more
complete IN all its details and one of the
most powerful in the world, and a veritable
king Of Instruments" 1t will contain four
manuals OF five octaves each. q pedal of two
and a half OctaveS, the largest OF which
VIII be the deep c. G. {. (. thrty-twU-foot
cathedral tone the same as In the large organ
in Westminster Abbey. II contains more
large stops than any other organ IN the coun-
try if not in the world there being eleven
stops Of sixteen feet and thIrty-twO of eight
feet. The entire number of stops Is 40. of
which slxty-six are plpe-StOnS running
through the entire scale: the rest are coup
lers. pneumatic combinations. tremulants
and pedal movements. The total number of
pipes are 444S and the cost over $50, 900.
The case IS the open style. showing a
facade Of forty feet wide and fifty feet high
Of richly OTnamenCed pipes. The console Will
be brought out ten feet in front of the organ,
and the wind supplied by three immense bel
lows. driven by a powerful electric motor on
an Edison circuit.
Among the novelties of this organ viii lie
a Chinese gong" a chime Of bells and three
drum effects as follows: Long roll. bass
drum and drum check Many of the stops
are entirely new in this country and some
are original with the builders. a new feature
is the inclOsing of the choir organ in a sepa-
rate swell box, which, with the swell organ,
will enable the Organist to give very power
full and effective swell accomplishments. 1t
is to be completed by September next when
the Tabernacle is to be ready for its recep-
ton.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23
" BOAT, Alloy =!

the rapids are below you" cried a man to
a pleasure party whom he deserted gliding
swiftly down the stream toward the foam
ing cataract. And we would cry, :" Boat
Alloy" to the one whose life is being drawn
into the whirlpool of consumption, for I'M
less you use effective measures you will be
wrecked in Deaths foaming rapids
If your lungs are weak, br0ath short, have
splitting of blood, experience occasional cold
chills creeping up your spinal column, with
hacking cough, variable or poor appetite,
feeble digestion, with gradual loss of flesh,
cold feet, laSsitude or general debility, are
easily fatigued, don't disregard these pre-
monitory symptoms. Thousands annually,
without experiencing half the above symp-
toms and not needing their timely warnings,
are plunged into the relentless grasp of that
most fatal scourge Consumption
You can't afford to fool away any
precious time, if suffering from any
considerable number of these unmistaka-
BILE symptoms of approaching danger It's
madness to trihe and experiment with ttrl-
certain means when thus afflicted Don't
forget at such a critical period that the
only medicine possessed Of such positive
curative properties as to warrant its
proprietors in guaranteeing it to cure
Consumption of the Lungs, if taken in
time and given fair trial, is the world
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23

famed Dr. Pierccs Golden Medical Dis
Covery.
Trying conditions these, under which TO
offer the afflicted relief and cure. No ordi-
nary remedy could sustain itself under such
a guarantee Ii would bankrupt its propri-
etors! Not so with Golden Medical Dis
covery" Its best advertisement Is the thou
sands Of consumptiyeS, in all parts Of the
world, which it has restored 10 health,
strength and happiness. Today no other
medicine has so great sale. Why Be
cause il does just what it is guaranteed TO
accomplish, OthertciSs its sale on So peciIiisIr
q plan as this lCOuLd ruin its mdnutdct-
urerS.
Golden Medical Discovery" cures Con-
sumption in all its earlier stages, on common
sense principles Being, according 10 all
recognized medical authority, a SCrofulous
affection of the lungs, il is reasonable TO
seek remedy in those agents known 10
prove most efficacious in conquering sCrofu.
lous disease affecting other parts and organs.
Now for Scrofula in all its myriad forms,
nothing has ever yet been discovered TO
compare with the wonderful remedy already
mentioned And especially is this true Of
Lung Scrofula. or Consumption 1t SOOthes
the cough, improves digestion, sharpens the
appetite, invigorates the liver, purlties the
blood, cleanses the system of all sCrOfulous
humOrs, and builds up the flesh and strength.
WORLDS DISPENSARY MEDICAL AsSOCIA-
TON, 663 Main Street Buffalo, \. Y.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23
ATE THEIR GUESTS.
invited to Feast and Then TOma-
hawked by CannibaiS

Four whites and forty-seven natives who
We're going as Iaborers to Australia were
lost by the wreck Of a schooner on the New
Hebrides.
!. The survivors say that about twenty ma
yves and one white man reached shore, but
t tne ISLANDERS, after inviting them to . feast,
Winahawked and ate the whole crowd, eX
1eRI one boy, VINO escaped.
me schooner was the Eliza Mary. and she
1aa on board a crew of eighteen, two passen-
gers, torty-four recruits and fifteen return
nlS laborers. During a binding storm the
colo.
boat, manned by four white men and sew
etaI blacks, was lowered, but vas dashed to
tsseceS IN an attempt to gain the shore. The
SUur white men and number of the blacks
we're drowned.
About twenty Of the blacks succeeded in
y; Lnmng TO shore and making their way to
@-$Sion Station, ten miles distant. Here the
,Ss'aWayS We're given food. but while eating
Ne s3Vages set upon and began tomahawk-
~ them. Or the twenty only one, a boy,
s3 Seeded IN escaping. In all four white men
~ 1orty-&even blacks were lost.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23
MURDERER AND SUICIDE,
Abel BergersOn POisOns His Two
Children and Himself.

News has been received of the suicide at
Spraugueville N. Y, of Abel Bergerson,
who first poisoned his two young children
with rat poison and then took the stuff him
self
Bergerson belonged to Eboulements, in the
Province of Quebec, Canada, and was
accompanied to the United States by
French Canadian girl known in Eboule-
ments as Lucie. 1t was her desertion that
apparently induced the commission of the
crime, for he left letter, in which he said:
Il have nothing now to live for. Ny
blonde Lucie is dead to me forever. [ am
satisfied to end my days, for nobody can have
more trouble than | have"
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23

THE passageof the bill appropriating $780,
900 for the relief of the sufferers in the
Mississippi valley was one of the quickest
pieces Of legislative work ever put through
Congress. 1t went through both houses in
forty-five minutes, was sent to the President
by special messenger and received his sigma
ture within an hour.
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23
One Reason

Why nearly everybody should take d good medicine
in the spring is because at this season the system is
especially susceptible to the benefit to be derived
from reliable preparation like Hoods Sarsaparilla
In the winter various impurities accumulate in the
BLOOD the effect Of which is most felt when spring
comes on, in general weakness and languor. The
system assistance to maintain the health
tone and expel impurities which Hoods Sarsapa-
rilla readily gives Try it.
For five years was sick every spring, but last
year began in February to take Hoods Sarsaparia.
l used five bottles and have not a sick day
ince."-G W. SLOAN, Milton, Mass
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23

DURING the first fourteen months Of Presl-
dent HarrisOn'S administration $500 nOmlna-
tions have been confirmed. In the same
time the Senate approved Of 300 of Mr..
Clevelands nominees. ----- -
Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23

FITS stopped free by DR.. KLINE's GREAT
use. Marvellous cures. Treatise and 81 trial
bottle free. DR.. Kline, 93l Arch St, Phila.. Pa.
The morning call., 1890-04-02

BAGS-Contnue quiet Calcutta spot nominal
at 6$t@6Tsc; May and June sac: W DOL Bags,
nominal; Rotato Gunnies, nominal.
COFFEE-Weak. Trading is not brisk Salvador,
10000: Costa RIGA and Guatemala, I71@G2Ic 2 ID.
CANNED FRUITS-Yery little inquiry. Aprlcots,
81 FOOL 30: PEACHES, 81 COOL 80; BARTLETT Pears,
81 6J9l 80: whIteoCherries, 81 5092 25 Black
Cherries, 81 rs; Plums7 $l9l Is; Strawberries,
81 l5 Blackberries 81 1891 SO; Tomatoes, 75@
soc spot.
CoAL-AT kinds are firm, but prices are UNMARRIED.
Prices to dealers: Wellington, $e New Wellington,
50: Southhetd Wellington, SO; Diamond, 81; Cedar
River, 81; Seattle, 81; Gilman. S6t97; Coos Bay,
So; Sydney. 50 SO; Brymbo, 80 50; Greta, IS 90;
Cumberland, Sl4; Scotch, -; Anthracite, SO;
Camel, $l2; Colorado Egg SIT 2 ton.
FISH-No. l Maekerel, quOtable at 81 5e1l5 90 In
half-bbls and 81 501} 10 In kits; No. . $l4@l5 in
bbls and 1922 20 III Sfts Mess Mackerel,. $5@3 20
q kit Pacific Cod, 61ac In bundles, &c in cases. SC
forsboueleSs, Eastern Smoked Herring. S5c: Dutch,
do, 81 509l rs 2 keg; WhItefsh, $40 in half-bbs
2 q kit.
oNAILS-Quotable as follows: Two hundred key
lots. SO 20 for iron, So 10 for steel and 81 % for
standard wire small lots, l0@20c higher all round.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and nominal at $49@45l
p flask.
sYRuP-C California drips, in bbls use; do in half
Dds Tie; in 5-gal Kegs, S212c; in l-gal tins.
sUGAR-The California Sugar Refinery quotes
terms net cash. Cube, 7e; Crushed. &c; Extra
Fowdered 7c:a Fine Crushed, 7c: Dry GranI-
ated 69se; Confeetioner's a, 612c; Extra @, 5sc;
Golden u, 5Ssc q 10.
The morning call., 1890-04-02
RAILROAD NOTES.
The Freight Committee Continuing Al
It's Work,

The Freight Committee Continuing at
It's Work.
The Freight Committee of the Transcon-
tinental ssocation continued its work yes
terday at the Palace Hotel in two sessions.
A reduction of freight rates was decided
upon various commodities, the list of which
will be published as soon as the Eastern
roads telegraph their concurrence. In re-
gard to the reductions made at Mondays
meeting, an old resident of the citrus belt
and a man engaged in orange-raising said !:
1t is just what we have been praying for.
This reduction means an enormous saving
to the fruit-growers of California The
rates before were simply outrageous, so
high as to discourage men who had started
OH a small SCALE By the time they cut
once more the rates will be just where we
want them"
The committee appointed to arrange for
the Western States Passenger Association
concluded its labors in Chicago on Thurs
day last. The roads concerned are as fol-
lows: Rock Island and Burlington, Wiscon-
sin Central, Chicago and Alton, Chicago
and Northwestern, Milwaukee and ST. Paul.
The proposed arrangement Is similar to the
one effected last summer, the only changes
being the eliminating OF certain provisions
found to be ineffective.
j. Bergln Jr., recently elected President
OF the San Francisco and North Pacific Rail-
way, will leave shortly for an extended
visit to the Eastern States.
The excursion over the Chicago and
Northwestern left yesterday morning at
$3.50 o'clock with fifty-three passengers.
w. Wardwell, late of the Chicago and
Alton, has been appointed ticket agent of
the Vanderbilt system.
A. j. Burr, travelling passenger agent of
the Vanderbilt system, has returned from a
visit to Los Angeles.
P. F. Ziegenfuss has also been appointed
ticket agent of the Vanderbilt system.
The morning call., 1890-04-02
CHINESE IN TRANSIT.
Eighty-eieht Arrive in Port Yesterda
DirAct From

Eighty-eight Arrive in Port Yesterday
s7 Direct From China.
q" Is civilization failure, or is the eau
casian played out?" is getting to be a seIi-
Gus question here, says the Lower Califor-
MAN of Ensenada, where we are beginning
to be overrun by Chinese. Tea or fifteen
trip have been brought up from the south
by the steamer Newbern, and yesterday
she arrived from San Francisco with eighty
five more, fresh from the Celestial shores
The Newbern was delayed three hours for
the steamship from China, and the Chinese
were transferred without landing on the
soil of Uncle Sam.
If all remained who arrive their presence
would soon become insufferabl., but they
sooE disappear, and nobody is supposed to
know that they cross the line into Calfor-
MIA. Some come ostensi5ly to work for the
On Yick Company, but they ultimately help
to swell the traffic via Tia Juana A gen
tleman who is in q position to know said to-
day: 1T is well-established traffic, and
growing larger with every trip of the
steamer Without doubt the two steamship
o lines have made arrangements for bringing
them direct from China. From here the
Chinese are taken to Tia Juana and put
across the line at $40 and S25 a head At
least three white men are engaged in the
business, and they are making money. The
obstacles at the line appear to be small
e One Chinaman at Alamo. finding his way
so easy, sold his merchants certificate to n
mandarin, with a green topknot, and now
goes across the line whenever he wishes"
San Diego Union, March 31st.
The morning call., 1890-04-02
THE STOCK MARKET.

Yesterday was another exciting day in mining
stocks Prices began to rise in the first session. but
1t was not until the afternoon call that the excite
ment got TO the boiling point. Then the trading was
furious. and its extent may be seen by glance at
the lists below. The Pacific Board rolled up an es-
pecially long list OF sales
The advance was sharp and general. PotosI
touched So 3D. Chollar So rs. Best u Becher SO rs,
Con. Cal u Virginia 50, Gould Il Curry 50 Is, Hale
Norcros5 So 40, Mexican So 95, ophir 81 TO- Say
age 81 So Sierra Nevada 81 so, Union 81 rs and
Yellow Jacket 81 75 Toward the end OF the call
the excitement died down somewhat, and prices
showed declining tendency.
There was another furry after this session ad-
journed, in which Potosl sold up TO So u.s. The
market then weakened again and the close was
lower all around, as will be seen below.
Local securities were quiet and unnterestiug
payable April 18th.