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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
latest NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.
Gov. Stevenson, of Nevada, is dead.

Gov. Stevenson, of Nevada, is dead
In Boston, r. Gardner & Co.. bankers
and brokers. have failed for 81 ,000,0 900.
THE population of the state of Con-
necticut is 745, 061, an increase of 1913, 161
since 1880.
DISTRICT Attorney Rossman Of Ashland
Wis, has been fined for unprofessional
conduct.
THE university of Minnesota has regain
ed possession of the Iowa meteor over
which there has been so much litigation.
THE faroily of the late General Fremont
is said to be in destitute circumstances at
Los Angeles, Cal.
Gov. MELLETTE of South Dakota and
three companions get lost on the prairie
while hunting and go three days without
food.
IT is charged that J. c. Root, president
of the Modern Order of Woodmen, is a
defaulter from 525, 900 to 10000.
The Iowa weather crop bulletin esti-
mates the total damage to corn by frost at
least more than 5 per cent
THE Massachusetts labor ticket is as fol-
lows: Governor, George R. Peare; sec
rotary of state. John F. Dowd; treasurer,
George J. Moulton: attorney general, J, J.
Johnson; auditor. P. F. O'Neil.
TUESDAY, at Butte Creek, democrats of
the Third Michigan district nominated
John W. Fletcher for congress.
AT Burlington, Iowa the publishing
house of J. w. Burdette & Co., has closed
its doors. The liabilities are many thous
ands In excess of the assets.
SwEDEs, Canadians and Germans are
taking the places of the strikers in the
morocco trade at Lynn, Mass, and it is re-
ported that the workmen have little chance
of winning.
REPORTS were presented Tuesday to the
switchman' S convention at Buffalo, show
ing that the order was in a healthy condi-
ton. OF the years receipts 1897, 572),
$4,000 was paid out for deaths and in
jurles
DION BoUCICAULT, the playwright and
actor died in New York Thursday after a
lingering Illness He had caught cold
which turned into pneumonia. He was
born in Dublin, Ireland, December 26,
1922.
EDWARD FITZPATRICK brought to Wau-
saw, Wis, large nugget of fine gold,
found on his farm, which adjoines that on
which the Kolter gold mine is located.
The discovery caused great excitement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
AN INTERESTING POSSIBILITY

Whatever may be said against the Nor
mons, their industry and persistence may
be recognized. They know how to make
the desert blossom as the rose. The phys
ical good work they have accomplished
in Utah is admitted, and in Arizona and
Wyoming they have done onl y lesser
work. They are hardy pioneers. with
scheme of cooperation which has been
proved more practicable than many In
eastern communities, and they are tenn
perate and thrifty. All this COM
mendation they merit and that they do
merit it may prove a good thing
for old Mexico. The Mormons are becom-
ing restless as the tide of general immi-
grafton in the United States reaches and
surrounds them in their old strongholds.
They find that they cannot resist the an
tagonistic influences now bearing upon
them. and another hegira of the people of
the strange faith has already begun and
may assume great proportions. They are
looking upon certain portions OF North
ern Mexico as their land of Canaan, and,
already, in the fertile Cacas Grandes and
Piedras Verdes valleys haze two flourish
ing colonies Leen established and over a
thousand people are making the region
more ola garden spot than would have been
possible in less favored location. The
Mormons of Arizona, it is said, show in
clination to take the lead in joining those
two colonies, and there may yet occur a
migration as romantic and striking as the
flight of Tarter tribe De Quincy des-
criued so we'll, with some or its attendant
horrors, but with the same termination in
fair land ard the Inauguration of an era
of prosperity and peace. 1t will not be
bad for Mexico to have the Mormons
come They are of better fibre than the
natives of the thinly populated district
they haze chosen for their home and they
bring to the republic the accomplishments
of the stern race. Thrifty as the Nor.
mons are, we can perhaps spare them
from the United States, for largely of oul
own blood, they are not of our instincts
but in Mexico the similar case has lighter
bearing, for they can long remain isolated
while adding vastly to the resources of tht
country. A Mormon hegira seems gooC
thing alike for Mormons, Americans ant
4exicans.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
A Girls Own Brother.
Ladies' Home Journal.

But he is my own brother.
Is that any reason why you should
take his courtesies for granted. and never
say ''thank you?'
Is that any reason why you should not
try and make an evening at home pleas
ant for him, instead of forcing him by your
seIfshness to seek his happiness some
where else?
Is that any reason why you should not
think his opinion of your frccks, your
bonnets or your looks, worth considera-
ton?
Is that any reason why you should appear
before him in clumsy wrapper and with
your hair in papers?
Is that any reason why. when you have
men visitors, he should be made to feel that
you endured your brother when there was
nobody else, but that when there was
we'll then it was different?
is that any reason why you should not
be glad of a dance or game with him as
your partner?
Is that any reason why you Should not
listen to his word of advice about other
girls or their brothers?
Is that any reason why you should not
be interested in his story of the shooting
or the hunting, when you do the same
tales from other people?
Is that any reason why you should push
him to the wall, except when you need
him, and then claim his attention as your
right?
Because he is your very own brother
you ought to be ten fold more considerable
to him than the brothers of other girls.
Because he is your very own brother you
ought to study his tastes and cater to
them; read the books that he likes aud
suggest Others to him; study the songs he
fancies and be glad 10 make new ones
known to him. In this way you will
make your brother your very own and to
him his sister will be the most delightful
among girls. Are you your brothers
keeper? Yes. in way; but you do not
keep him by letters formed Of ill-temper,
untiiyness and lack OF courtesy, but by one
made of every feminine grace and bright
ened by a sisterly love. That is the keep
er that will give You Your brother love
and make you worthy Of the heart of some
girls brother too.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
Fall Flowing For Oats and Barley.

Much has been written in favor of fall
blowing in the American Agriculturist, y
but learn by letters received from read
ers that there are points not yet clearly I'M
derstood. In repeatedly advocating fall
blowing, which was particularly In mind
was not sod land, but land on which a
crop of corn. or potatoes, or beans, or
roots had been grown, and which was IN
tended for oats Or barley in the spring.
Little or nothing was said about blowing
sod land in the fall; ON my own farm-of
late years, at any rate seldom, If ever,
piow sod land in the fall. and that not
from theoretical reasons only, but because
there is not time and because, further. sod
land can be plowed in the spring at times
when other land is too wet and sticky to
work to advantage.
1t Is OF great Importance to SOW barely
and oats early in the spring. A few days
difference in the time Of sowing often
makes all the difference between a good
crop and a poor one-and what a differ
ence that is all experienced farmers know
1t is not merely the loss of all profit from
our labors. but the land is foul with weeds
and In poor condition generally. My own
land varies considerably in character.
Much of tits rolling land the knobs being
sandy, while the lower edges of the knobs
are more or less clayey, and the valleys be-
tween the knobs vary from a dark sand
to sandy loan and clayey loan. Per-
haps these terms dc not convey distinct
meaning. All | wish to show is that the
soil varies considerably and requires diff
ferent methods of working To get part
of field in good condition for oats or bar
ley in the spring requires three times the
labor required on other parts.
On such land as this (say a field that
has been IN corn the past season, and on
which one intends to SOW oats In the
spring. | find an immense advantage
from fall blowing. As soon as the corn is
cut, and while it is standing In stocks In
the field, if | have time | like to start the
plow say ON the land between the rows OF
stocks, and finish plowing after the corr
and stocks are removed.
On strong land | put three horses on the
pillow and run up a good, deep furrow, ard
leave the subsoil On top, where 1t is expos
ed to the amellorating action of the air
and rosts of winter.
Such fall-plowed land is cleaner and
much more easily prepared for spring
crops than if it had not been plowed. In
blowing for corn, my practice is to pillow
around the field, and thus avoid having
dead burrows Bn., in blowing in the fall
for spring crops, can, if necessary, make
narrow lands, and, connecting the dead
burrows with the necessary outlets, can
get rid of large quantity of water In the
early SPRING The narrow lands, by run
ming a gang-plow so as to fll up the dead
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
THE FARM And HOUSEHOLD.
HARRIET WHITNEY. IN BELFoRDs MAGAZINE


Their world was world of enchantment:
A wonder of luminous light
Came out with fiaring of carmine,
From all the black spaces of night
The music of morn was the blithScme
And CHEEKY as music could be;
But all through the dawn and the daybreaS
l mourned for the song of the sea.
They showed me the marvellous flowers
And fruits of their sun-beaten lands:
They said, Here are vine-tangled valleys,
Forget We the barren white sands,
For a WEAKNESS unto the spirit
The dash of the breakers must be;
So dwell We beside our blue waters;
Forget the sad song of the sea-
And wrapped me about in the sunlight
On the marge OF dimpling stream,
And there on a tangle of lilies
woye me a wonderful dream:
And song from my dreamiand went floating
Far up where the angels must be,
But deep in its under vibrations
heard the sweet song of the sea.
With the dew in his locks all aglittpr
The Prince of the Daytime lay dead;
For the silver-white lace of the twilight
Smote off the gold crown from his head:
And the Princess of Night came to see him,
Her lights ali about him to hang:
And nightingale, screened in the thicket,
His song to the slumberer sang.
And the stream from the tangle of lilies
Came winding its way through the sedge
And silvery nocturne it rippled
Among the tall flags on its edge:
But its babbe l gain would have given
For the sl.ep-wooing sea voices lull,
And the nightlngales song would have bartered
For the desolate cry of the gull.
Their world was world of enchantment;
As they laughed with the laughter of scorn,
When turned me away from Its beauty
In the light of the luminous morn:
But heard grand voice in the distance
Insistently calling to me,
And rose with jubilant spirit
And followed the song of the sea.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
THREATENED REVOLUTION IN
PORTUGAL

PORTUGAL
The uneasiness that has prevailed in
Portugal ever since the exile of the ex-
Emperor Pedro, from Brazil, but which
temporarily had disappeared, has broken
out afresh, and it is now openly stated
that the overthrow of the monarchy and
the Establishment Of republic are among
the disabilities. The dispute with Eng
and and the deliberate snub to Portugal
by lord Salisbury almost drove King
Carlos from the throne some months ago,
and the situation has now been made
doubly serious by the publication of the
terms of the agreement with England in
regard to African territories. The people
are inclined to blame the Government for
the national humiliation and this sentiment
is being carefully fostered by the republi-
can newspapers A few OF the more reck-
less radical editors accuse the King and
his Ministers of having sold the
country to England, and call on the peo-
pie to shoot the officers down and rid the
country of traitors. Other papers advo-
cate cn uprising of the army. Hatred of
England is manifested everywhere. Eng
lish residents are being mobbed in the
streets of Lisbon. and they can not walk
abroad without serious danger, The King
and ministers are said to be powerless
to control the situation but are living in
hourly terror of assassination. Most of
the cabinet ministers have resigned. 1t
is no sign because the Portuguese are angry
with their King that they are fit for re-
public. But it would be an instructive
sight to see them trying the experiment
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
FISH OF THE GREAT LAKES.
What Cur Inland Seas Yield and How
They Yield Ii

What Cur Inland Seas Yield and How
They Yield It.
This city Is the most important lake fish
distributing market on the entire chain of
the great lakes. although very small pro-
portion of the Ash that are daily sent from
here to the Eastern cities are taken from
waters contiguous to Buffalo. They are
brought from Lake Superior. Michigan. and
Huron. the nearby waters of Lakes Erie and
Ontario furnishing a comparatively small
supply of fish for shipment. The fish are
transported In refrigerator cars, and the
supply is so large that the present demand
is net only fully supplied. but there is sur
plus enough to keep the winter demand for
lake fish amp y cared for. The trade in
lake fish with seaboard markets has in
creased so of late years that it would now
he impossible to supply it during the win
pended upon for the material The surplus
of the summer and fall catches is frozen
and stored In refrigerators for the winter
trade, so that white fish, lake trout, vel
low pike or lake bass served on "a New
Yorker table in mid-winter may have
been caught the previous July or August
Whittier the flavor of the fish is frozen in
with the fish itself so That it will be the
the water is a question
Lake Superior is considered the best of
the lakes for fish Its water are more like
that of springs than the others. White
| fish and trout taken from Superior COM
mand better prices than similar fish taken
| from any of the other lakes. They like
deep water, and are found at their best in
water 800 feet deep. Yellow pike come
| chr from, t a1~o., a.
Lake Erie excels in blue pike and black
bass. Immense numbers of white fish and
lake trout are also taken from Lake Erie
! and Lake Michigan, but the best come rom
the colder clearer waters of Superior. Gill
nets are used almost entirely in capturing
/ lake fish for market although tons of pike
and bass are taken with hook and line. 1t
is singular fact that blue pike are rarely,
if ever, found in any of the lakes except
Erie. The fishermen of these lakes follow
a perilous calling, and many lose their lives
in the violent storms that sweep over the
lakes almost without warning.
It has long been noted as a curious fact
that all the st. Lawrence river fishes are
found in nearly all the great lakes with the
exception of Lake Erie. This can be ac
counted for only by the theory that sub
lCiIrt I1NCI SohlICCuo lIIthC
the upper lakes. The beds of Lake
Superior, Huron, Michigan and Ontario
lie about the same depth below the sea
level-from $50 to 26O feet-the upper
lakes beds being the highest. The bed Of
Lake Erie is $50 feet above the sea level
The theory is that a river running beneath
Lake Erie extends from Lake Superior tc
Lake Ontario, and that the fish from the
st. Lawrence and Ontario follow the
course Of that river and find the waters Of
the upper lakes.-Buffalo Cor. N. Y. Sun
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
Origin of "Pin Money"

Long after the invention OF pins In the
fourteenth century the maker was allowed
to sell them in open shop only on the lst
and End of January. 1t was then that the
court ladies and city DANES focked to the
depots to buy them, having been first pro-
vided with pin money by their husbands.
When the pins became cheap and common
the ladies spent their allowances on other
fancies, but the term pin money remained
in vogue.
Offers and minks were scarce in Con-
necticut a dozen years ago, and 1t was
feared the animals might become extinct,
for their hides were worth from S. to $40
apiece, and everybody hunted them. Then
suddenly fashion changed her mind about
the value of mink and otter skins. the
price went down. and now the animals are
in the state again. So numerous have
minks become there that they are getting
to be quite familiar with country people.
Recently mink, frightened by sharp
thunder storm, fed out of meadow,
rushed into farmers dwelling, and raced
from room to room until hound caught
him upstairs in chamber. A still more
remarkable incident occurred in Hartford a
few days ago. A mink trotted right into
the heart of the city, among throngs of
people Oh Uue StItcOS. dllu pdSseu dli Minus
of dogs with impunity, and finally made
lis way into the back yard of store on
Asylum street. In the yard the men
cornered him and tried to capture him
alive. but he fought so desperately that
they had to Kill him.
Mr.. Charles J. Murphy, commissioner
for the state of Nebraska, is managing the
American corn exhibit at the Ediaburg
(Scotland) international Exposition. His
object is to teach the Scotch how to eat
corn cakes, pone, corn f1itters, etc, He ex-
poets to hold a corn exhibit at Glasgow,
beginning December LIST, and continuing
three months. Next summer he Will Try
his hand on the Dutch at Frankfort ger
many. commencing in Nav. and makn g
their mouths water for Johnny cake. He
Will :, ntinne bis good york in Europe IN
til the Columbian Exposition at Chicago S!{?
ton md teach the nations how to eat
corn cakes and roasted ears in all langu-
ages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
HENRY CLAY'S POKER PLAYING.
Some Stories that Recall the Old Gambling
Days at the Capital.

Pittsbdrg Press.
That is the very table at which Henry
Clay used to lose the greater part of his
congressional salary" said an old Wash
ington gambler. 1.-The game he used to
play was one in which the blind was so
cents and 81 to come in. There was 10
limit in those days, as there generally is
to-day. A man could, however, demand
sight for his money. Clay's antagonist
was generally man named Bright, and
both preferred to play two handed game.
The cards were out one day, and Clay got
the first deal. He was better card shut
fer than lives to-day. He could hold his
hands four feet apart and fly the cards
from one to the other without a card fall
ing. Generally he dealt with one hand
and without a perceptibe movement OF
the arm, throwing each card to its proper
place with his lorg, muscular fingers.
CLAY was a poor poker player, how
ever. He played for the excitement and
not for the gain, and he was careless about
his bets he generally came out loser.
He almost always straddled the blind, and
whatever hand he held would raise the
bet of his antagonist. He used to bluff
good deal and, as this would soon be found
out he would come out loOser.
VI ucdIly Two hours IHe ulSuI speak
of Clay had been having his way with
Bright. He held king full four times
running and then held jack full. Bright
did his best to catch Clay In bluff, but
Clay had hand that could be beaten only
by forus. The play began at o'clock and
at 1920 Bright had lost $1,000 and had
borrowed $500 from John Hancock. At
ter that Clay's luck vanished and by mid
night he had lost all his winnings ana
$1,000 besides-all the cash he had with
him.
1T was Saturday night, and Bright pro-
posed that they would quit so they could
go to church in the morning. but Clay
wouldn' have it. So he borrowed $500
from Bright and let TIE play GO on. The
game continued and by daylight he owed
Bright $500. He liquidated the deLt by
giving Bright 800 acres of Kentucky land
and six shares of stock in a Louisville
bank
CLAY went to church all the same that
morning. While he was talking to the
rector after it was over he put his hand in
his pocket and pulled out pack of cards
along with his handkerchief. They fut-
tered to the ground but Clay was not
abasned and replacing them said they must
have been put there as a practical joke. "
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-09-25
CRIME.

Two Mormon dignitaries have been
arrested in Idaho for advising their
followers to violate election laws.
Two Chicago gamblers, Michael Hag-
gerty and J. Connorton, mortally shot
each other Saturday.
NEAR Wayne court house, Va, ter
rife fight occurred between sheriff S
posse and a gang of Italian railroad
laborers, in viii, h several Italians were
killed.
A GLOVE fight between Tommy Warren,
of Cleveland, and John Van Heest, OF Ash
land, for $500 came off near Buffalo. n. Y.
Tuesday morning. 1t resulted in a draw
after eleven rounds.
SOME of he New York Central train
wreckers have confessed their crime and
say that it was their individual act and
was not advised or abetted by the Knights
of Labor.
A BOX containing $1,000, belor ging to
George Garland and B. Saunders, racing
book-makers of Chicago. was stolen from
the safe of the Hotel Vendome of New
York.
DIR. J. H. McHENRY, a physician of
wide local reputation, died near Jackson
vile. ARK. from wounds received in diff
6culty with M. c. Jones. a telegraph
operator. The men quarreled about a hog,
the doctor being stabbed.
in New York, Gustav Koch, crayon
artist, born In Vienna twenty-six years
ago. and Emile Ross. age 10, an actress
with Ambergs troupe, born in Berlin
committed suicide. Emile left a letter ad
dressed to her aunt Mary Knoon, with
whom she boarded, in which she spoke
about her lover, Koch. quarrel with hel
mother, the determination of Koch ano
| herself to commit suicide and asking that
| her body be cremated.