Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-11-06
GRAND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

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ferently In their report they urged that
ministers should have sufficient income to
maintain a respectable appearance to
purchase books entertain, visitors and
properly rear their children. They should,
furthermore, never be disturbed from work
by having to seek the necessaries of life.
None will dispute these points; yet probab-
ly those ciergymen to whom they apply
are as we'll off in material way as the
great majority of their pensioners. And
it might be pertinent to inquire what more
do they expect?
FARM AND PRESIDE notes that like
the Indian and the buffalo range cattle
are becoming a thing of the past The
census returns show this, and the fact may
otherwise be regarded as a natural ac
compartment to the spread of settlement
westward. The springing up Of mining
towns and cities here and there on the
areas which few years ago were open to
range" by the cowboy and his herds
may have increased the actual consump-
ton Of meat in that region, but it cuts
down the possibilities of occupancy under
The free pasture system in which the brand
in lead of the landmark was the deciding
test in question of ownership. The far
mers are pushing out farther west, and
with them carry the older plan of caring
for live stock in small lunches, and dis
placing what had been the intermediate
phase between savagry and civilization.
Hence the change is for the better, and all
the more so as it tends directly to do
away with the irregularities of supply in
the market which have done so much to
depress the selling prices of cattle in the
last few years.
TIE exposure by the New York Herald
Of thieving In the hands of the Johns
town relief fund is shocking, but not sur
prising. There has been a well-defned
suspicion abroad for some time that gang
of unprincipled people were Juggling with
the fund. The Herald charges that of the
s.. 900, 900 subscribed in cash for the i'm
mediate relief of suffering survivors, near
81, 800 900 has been misappropriated In
various ways. This money went in num-
erous directions. The state government,
il is said, appropriated $3.50, 900; S25O,OOO
went to relieve ordinary poverty in other
parts of the state; SIS, 900 was used to
build bridges year and half after the
disaster. Thousands were squandered
among contractors, perintenderts, over
seers and clerks. After detailing the
manner in which other sums were misap-
piled, the Herald says: ''The record is
one replete with evidence of mal-adminis-
tration, political corruption, robbery, and
jobbery we'll calculated to heap disgrace
upon the state of Pennsylvania and dis
courage a similar demonstration of public
generosity should an occasion for its dis
play ever again occur" The persons who
handled the fund should lose no time in
replying to the sweeping series of accusa-
tions.
WORK OF WOMEN.
New fields of labor are opening to wo-
men every day, and In no instance has
one of them, once opened, been closed.
The appointment of two women ticket
agents by one of the New York elevated
roads is almost certain to lead in time to
the displacement O. men now employed.
The change will be gradual, but it will be
none the less certain. In time perhaps,
women will fill nearly all the telegraph and
ticket Offices of the country. One or two
of the largest hotels in the country have
for years employed woman as cashier,
and they have proven satisfactory to the
public. The chance of loss by peculation
is much less with women than with men,
reason sufficient in itself to recommend
them. Ofall countries on the globe more
respect is paid to women and more liberty
allowed them in America. Mrs. Kendall
paid most glorious tribute to American
men and customs when she told news
paper reporter in London that she would
rather her daughter should go alone from
New York to San Francisco than walk
down Bond street in London unattended.
Employment is gived them everywhere be
cause it is cheaper labor. Germany en-
ployes 100000 women In industrial
pursuits; England 100000; France,3,-
100000, and Austro-Hungary about the
same number But 1t is in the more
profitable and pleasanter employment that
women are now making Roadway. 1t has
been but a little while since two women
carried off the highest honors at two lead
ing universities. In the study and practice
of medicine they are becoming especially
noted Dr. Julia Brink, a medical writer
of some note, is the first woman to be
honored by receiving from the British
Medical Association of London 920 to
defray the expense of publishing physi-
illogical treatise on the nutrition of the
muscles. In all the fields faction hereto
fore n3onopolized by men, women are be-
coming prominent. Miss. White, a mis-
sionary attached to the China Island
mission has a daring scheme in prospect
to elude the vigilance of the Thibetan of
6cials on the frontier, and to enter the
dominions of tie Grand Lama. She has
already famiiarized herself with the
language. and is only awaiting an