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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
A r;no was formed of hovs of all sizes

A ring was formed Of boys of all sizes,
who, with their elbows drawn close to their
sides, walked slowly ronnd, twitching
every music of the body, while the
women and girls, forming On the outer
ring, stood around clasping their hands to
sort of measure. This dance was curious
but neither beautiful nor inspiriting.
We are next shown big wooden drum
which Mr.-called the Dualla telephone,
and he explained to US how, by different
ways of beating it convention could be
carried on by the natives two miles
apart.
Just as we were about to go flor the sun
was setting, and we had to get down to
the river where our boat was waiting for
us), Mr.. A-motioned to me to look at
two girls standing close by. one whom
with what looked to me like sort of bod.
kin.
"She is taking out an eyelash, laughed
ne. Have you not noticed that none OF
the Duallas have eyelashes? They think
they destroy the sight, so they pluck out
the hairs as soon as they grow
Crowds of people followed US to the riv-
er, and I found it very modifying to my
dignity to be snatched up and carried to
the boat like baby. Two other boatnen
took Mr. Ker and Mr.. A on their
backs and carried them also on board. for
to say nothing of the crocodiles, a chill In
west Africa means fever, and we had too
much of that.
The natives, however, came wading OFT
by dozens, struggling to get the last
shake of my hand, with the fattering COM
pliment: Nov that we have seen the
white woman we can die contented.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
YAWN1NG CHASMS.
The Great CrevaSses of Mount st
Elias.
April Century.

Crossing the great snow field forming
the floor of the amphitheater were hun
dreds of yawning chasms, many of them
twenty or forty feet in breadth and half a
mile IN length. These we have to cross on
narrow snow bridges or follow for long,
long distances before being able to pass
around their ends. a view into the
blue depths of one of these great crevasses
is a sight never to be forgotten. Their
lips are of white snow, festooned and
overarching in thousand fantastic forms;
below the color changes by impercepti5le
gradations to the deepest blue. Their
extreme depths are as dark IN color as the
toms are beyond the reach of vision; again
they are level-hoored and form fairy-like
valley With walls of sculptured crystal; IN
other instances they are partly filled with
water of the deepest indigo, in which
every detail of the fretted walls above is
reflected. Some of the larger crevasses
are crossed by snow arches, thrown direct
ly from bank to bank, and resembling In
their grand proportions the natural bridge
of Virginia. Our way lay for miles across
this beautiful and treacherous pavement
along the brink of dizzy precipices and
across narrow bridges with bottomless
CULTS on each hand. Although we had
been living on glaciers for weeks and had
become familiar with many of their
wonders, the great crevasses in the upper
snow regions were so magnificent in their
proportions and so wonderful in color that
called forth explanations of admiration they
from every member of our party.-Israel
c. Russell
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
REALITY AND TARIFF.
Real Estate nj en- Claim that the Mckinley
Bill Has Even Helped Values of Land.

Strange to say the passage of the Nc
Kinley bill has had already great effect
on the value of certain portions of Chica-
go realty. This may seem buncombe, but
the following facts will speak for them
selves. Alfred I. Otto, Of Stuttgart, Ger
many, who headed the syndI cate purchas-
ing the 3,4Q0 acres several weeks ago at
Bloom township, in Cook county, said
The operations of the Mckinley law have
forced certain European manufacturers to
locate in this country and primarily caused
the puchase of 3, 400 acres in Bloom at
$3.50, or 1884 000." To explain further,
although not in Mr. Otto's words.
A huge cork concern has practically
closed negotiations to locate at Bloom.
This concern comes from Germany and
employs 5000 men. The new law put
duty of Is cents per pound On manu-
featured corks, while the raw material
comes IN free. Therefore the firm has
decided to open works at Bloom which
will employ over 5000 men to start off
with. Again, Mr.. Bensing, the owner
and controller Of the famous works of
DR.. Yoeger, manufacturing the medicated
WOODEN underclothes, etc. is at present in
the city and is heavy subscriber to
tie stock of the company making the pur-
chase of the land at Bloom. Mr.. Bens-
ing will not be interviewed as to his rea-
son for being so far from home, or for in
vesting in Chicago realty, but it is given
out that the duty of 60 per cent ON wollens
has something to do with it. Bensing's
works are the largest Of the kind in the
world, and besides having q
capital running into millions. employ
several thousand Of hands. Mr.. Otto
of Stuttgart, Germany, admit:
the fact that large plate glass manu-
featuring firm of Germany has also
made provision for establishing works al
Bloom. Plate glass, he claims, is made IL
this country. but it Is not mirrored OF
beveled, the former not at all and the lat
ter only by hand. Formerly the German
manufacturers could import at profit
bul the increased duty, now go per cent.
has compelled them to manufacture in this
country, and they have selected Bloom fol
their workshops. A large furniture firm
now manufacturing on the west side, ha
also about completed arrangements t.
move to the new purchase, on account @
the prospective nearness of the glass plant
and the lessening in the cost, which, Mr.
Otto says, will be almost one tenth of thu
present price, as all beveling will be done
by machinery and not by hand. as is nov
the only method known to this country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
THE KITCHEN,
QUICK WAFFLES.

QUICK WAtFLES.
One pint of milk, three eggs beaten,
enough wheat -four to make stiff batter;
add a tablespoonful Of melted butter, a
little salt and small teaspoonful of bak-
ing powder.
EGG KISSES.
Beat the whites of four eggs to a firm
froth; STIR in one half pound of powdered
sugar, flavor and drop spoonful on but
tered paper. Bake in a moderate oven
till colored; slip off with knife and put
two together.
APPLE CREAM.
Pare, core and quarter six or eight large
tart apples, Boil until tender, press
through seive and sweeten to taste. Beat
the whites of two eggs to a stiff froth, add
to the apples and whip until white and
stiff. Serve with cream.
COTTAGE SOUP.
One pound of good beef or mutton, two
onions, two carrots, two ounces OF rice,
one pint of whole peas, pepper ana salt
and two quarts of water; cut the meat
into slices; put one or two at the bottom
of an earthen jar then put in more meat
and the CARROTS sliced; the peas must be
well soaked and added with the water, and
salt and pepper to suit the taste; cover the
dish and put it into hot oven for two OF
three hours.
RICE BREAD.
Boil teacupfu of rice in a pint of water
with pinch Of salt; when nearly done,
add teacupful Of milk. Set it away to
cool, and sift together three teacups
sugar two teacupsful of baking powder,
and when the rice is cold, mix it with the
-four, eCc. Pour it into a well-greased
pan, and bake at once in mode1 ate oven
forty minutes, or until done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
BE CHEERFUL.
"Speak Like You Do When You
Iourb

"speak Like You Do When You
Laugh"
A baby of three years once preached me
a sermon, and pass it on, for the benefit
of other downcast and respondent ones
who need to lesrn to rejoice evermore. "
How IS the baby?" | asked dreamlly,
standing at the foot of the staircase
leading up to the chamber where the
little one lay i'll. | was tired, unhopeful,
my mood came out in my tone.
'Peak like you do when you laugh, -
called the weak little voice upstairs;
and if ever felt rebuked by an angel,
that was the moment. It has come up
to me a hundred times since. | hope
am the brighter and cheerier for it,
Speak like you do when you laugh. y
Those fretful lines at the mouth
corners don't rome from. laughing.
The weary ones around the eyes have an:
other origin. But the pIainest outward
sign of dependency is that in the tone.
The sick feel it; that is why ''visitors
are forbidden" Little children are in
fallible weather prophets; they will not
take to- you. And you and Just
common working men and women, neither
sick nor young nor old, but busy anC
tired--we love-yes, that is the word-wt
love the bright, loving, laughing, happ!
voice. Speak like you d. when Jol
laugh"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
STATES
-----------------
CANADA IN CRAMPS.
The New Tariff Law Forces 1t Into an I'm
happy Condition.


happy Condition.
Unless Canadian sentiment changes it's
focus 10 a point that favors unrestricted
reciprocity, the lower province will be al
most ruined by the Mckinley bill The
bulk of the articles exported from Canada
to this country are dutiable from 100 to
800 per cent. more than under the old tariff
Animals and farm products can no longer
be shipped here with profit to compete
with American farmers. Referring to the
situation the Toronto Globe says:
1T is not merely that the Canadian
farmer is going to be seriously out of
pocket by the operations of the new Amer
lean tariff, but by obliterating his margin
of profit, the new duties will render it al
most useless for him to cultivate of GER
tain articles. One Or two degrees of cold
make all the difference between water and
ice, and a very slight diminution of his
income or disorganization of his hus-
bandry will often convert a sloven farmer
into bankrupt one. 1t is not necessary
at this time of day to show that the repeal
of the Mckinley tariff would be good
thing for Canadian agriculture; nor, the
election being over, will anyone seek to
gainsay the proposition that it would be
an additional boon if the manufactured
goods which the farmers require were
cheapened by free American competition
with Canada. AS things stand the farmer
is buying in the dearest and selling in the
cheapest market, process which would
wreck a much richer man.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
THE PORPOISE.
One of the Most Pee uliar Fishes of the
Sea.

The gregarious porpoise or Phocana COM
NUNS, is one of the most jolly and care
less fishes in the sea. He is hardly ever
found alone, but delights to join great
roaming parties, and scour the fishing
coasts, running into all the coves and bays
along the rout and sometimes entering
the mouths of tidal rivers, in pursuit Of
other fishes. But even when a great herd
of porpoises is in pnrsuit of a school OF
capelan, herring, tomcod, seatrout or other
fish, it will stop its march to play.
The gregarious porpoise is known by
various names along the coast If Labrador,
Newfoundland, the maritime provinces of
Canada, and New England. The best
known of these names are pufip g-plgs,
herring hogs sea-hogs, and roundheads.
The porpoise is from four to six feet long,
with thick, round body, and black, shin
ing hairless skin. When he is above
water for some time, with the hot sun
shining upon him his bare hide fairly
glistens with oil. and if you pass to The
leaward of him in boat you catch his
stroug oily smell. Like the whale he is
obliged to rise to the surface regularly to
breath and he sends his breath through a
blow-hole situated on the top of his head.
When breathing through this curious
funnel he makes putting, labored sort of
noise, which accounts tor one of his
names. If You should see him alone on
some fine day in some little co ye, he would
look exactly like big black pot turned
bottom up bubbing up and down. He has
from forty to fifty teeth, wide mouth,
and an astonishing stomach. But he has
the smallest ear to be found, suppose,
on any beast of his size, 1t is no bigger
than a pinbole, and is placed just about
an inch behind his eye. But small as
it is, no fish that swims the sea has
sharper hearing. and none will more
quickly take alarm at the slig
sound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16

the same. A child once attuned by the
hearing and neighborhood of sweet voices
to take an agreeable pitch, and while the
tone-prodncing organs are still flexible,
can be corrected in any deviation. from
purity and pleasantness. TIL the deviation
becomes all but impossible. The certainty
is not achieved by simple effort; it is to
be done only by unremitting observation
and unceasing correction. A harsh tone
should be modified upon the spot, coarse
cry abandoned, a sharp enc softened;
modulations should be taught, giving the
speaker a gamut on which to play and
prevent monotony, for we all know how
uncomfortable is either reading or speaking
in one dull unvaryine drone 1t is often
desirable. especially liz the case of children
who have had throat troubles and recur-
ring catarrhal colds, to have them taught
enunciation by professional elocutionist;
that is, the producing and managing of
tone.
There is no young voice that cannot be
improved by advice and training at the
hands of one capable of giving both; this
is emlnently true during the first dozen
years of life, but it is true, also, until
close upon the thirtieth year. In the mat
ter or singing voices, OarltoneS nave
made for themselves tenor voices by slow
determination and practice; Sopranos
have closed a lower and opened higher
register; and if such miraculous work as
that has been done with the delicate and
difficult singing voice, surely all that can
be required of the speaking voice is posi-
BILE every day, and all that is required is
much less than anything of this sort.
Many of the great orators of antiquity are
known to have overcome defects in speech,
either in delivery of the voice, as in Tully's
case, or in articulation, as in the case of
Demosthenes, and that when they were no
lonoar chi I1ran
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
The Cultivation of the Voice.
Harper Bazaar.

Every one may not be blessed by nature
with pleasant voice; but almost every
one can by endeavor attain something like
1.-THE inspiration, the respiration, the
meditation, the pitch. Some may be
condemned even in the CT adle to the tones
which make you clap your hands to Your
ears: but vast number, if taken in time,
can be made, to say the very least, rot un-
pleasant, if not exactly delightful. 1t
needs early training, the child should be
allowed to produce no raucous tones, to
indulge in no thick enunciation, to utter
no sovenly sur of sound; the elders should
soften their own voices when within the
child's hearing, if at no other time,
should open their own most fute-like
stop, and should speak with slow gentle
ness and a precious. not precise enough fer
affectation, but quite enough so for
thorough distinctness and accuracy, and
for every sound to be given its full value.
A servant of rude tones should never be
allowed about child, nor any one else Of
a disagreeable habit of voice. Even the
nightengales and canaries arc taught by
another bird of perfect throat; and
If the bird learns thus by naturally talk
ing the sound it hears, the child will do
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
Words to the Girls.

Don go with a man II he Is a stranger
to YOU, or one whose reputation you are
not acquainted with. Remember this in
ordinary business the same rule is APP
piled as a protection against the loss of
money. No banker or money lender will
trust a stranger; no business man will
sell him goods on time without guarantee
against loss or deception. Why, then,
should woman, young or old, trust her
self to man whom she does not know
Is honorable or not? Do not marry
man to get rid of him, or to obllge him,
or to save him. A man who has formed
bad habits what is he? What is there of
him you can love? The man who would
go to destruction without you would
quite as likely go with you and, perhaps,
drag you along. Remember your future
happiness depends altogether on the
kind of partner you get, and it is he
that makes your home on earth heaven
of home of sorrow. Therefore, be sure,
take none other than one that is
equally pure as yourself. Remember that
a man, when he looks for wife, seeks So
briefly, virtue and purity in woman.
Why should not women, then, demand the
same of MN. Drunkenness turns man
out of himself and leaves a beast la his
place. Do not marry for home and
living when, by taking care of your
health you can be strong enough to earn
your own living. Be kino and true to
your own sex. Do not let fathers, moth
ers, or aunts sell you for money or position
into bondage, tears, and lifelong miser-
les, which you alone must endure. Do
not meet any man clandestinely, as it may
De to your sorrow. Do not place yourself
habituaIy in the society of any man until
you have decided the question of matri
m ony. Human wills are weak-girls,
especially, often become bewildered. and
do not know their error until it is too late.
Get away from all other influences except
good mothers. Settle your head and
make up your mind alone. A word from a
good mother will not harm you, as she is
the last and browning handiwork OF God,
the link connecting heaven and earth,
the endowment of purity, holiness and
heavenly grace, the most perfect
combination of modesty, patience, devo-
ton, affection, gratitude and loveliness,
and fit for any high or holy trust. Did
childhood, from childhood to girlhood?
And a mother is more of mother than a
father is a father. Mother knows that a
husband S work is from sun to sun, and
wife's work is never done. Forget not,
promise may be made in a moment OF sym
pathy, or even half delirous ecstacy,
which must be redeemed through years of
sorrow, toll and pain. Forget not he only
that is free from vice is fit to be your COM
panion, and no other. Drop the company
of him at once who has uttered a word I'M
becoming true manhood, for, if man
he true to himself, then it must follow, as
the day the night, he cannot be false to
woman. As you make your bed, so you
must sleep. Take none that has ever
slandered or betrayed one of your own
sex, or broken promise. He is not
worthy of wife, nor will he ever be true
to one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
L. S. ST. P. &U.P.
New Line through Wyoming and
Idaho to the 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
econd-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 St. PAIL e.
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Gen'l PasengerAgent, St Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
A SARCASTIC TELEPHOE GIRL.
She Gives Few Hints For Customers to
Follow.


A telephone girl who knows suggests
these rules for people who use tie telephone,
says the Lewiston Journal:
If you have telephone in your office or
store, ring up central and then go and
wait on a customer.
Always speak in an undertone in
order to make central asky you over what
you want. If she does not hear, tell her to
wake up or "take the cotton out of her
ears.
Put your "plug,' in before aLstorm and
be sure not to take IL out again, but go
around TOT the central Office and offer to
lick The whole telephone company for
neglect of duty.
Take your time in answering your bell,
or, what is better, do not answer 1t at all,
but in about half an hour ring up and
ask who called and get mad if central
has forgotten who it was, She has moth
ing else to do but to remember.
Allow everybody who wants to to use
your telephone Hang the receiver end
up, as it in this way gets full of dust,
which makes another cause for complaint.
Bang on the transmitter with lead
pencil as though you intended to knock it
through the wall. This invariably makes
it talk better.
Refuse to pay toll messages, and ifyou
are on line with someone else always
listen to their conversation and be sure to
want the use of the line while they are u.s.
ing it.
Whenever you see the manager tell him
that if he cannot give you better tele-
phone or get that one fixed, You will throw
the whole thing out of the window.
When the inspector comes deny that you
have fever complained Of the telephone,
and that it works like a charm.
Paste this Oh your telephone for future
reference
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
THE

Fast Trains with Pullman vestfbuled Drawing
Room Sleepers Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestfbnled drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman yestibuled Drawing
Room and Tourist Sic epers via the Northern
Pacific Railroad between Chicago and Port
land, Ore, and Tacoma, Wash.
Convenient Trains to and from Eastern,
Western, Northern and Central Wisconsin points,
affording uneauaied service to and from Wauke~
sha, Fond Gn Lac. Oshkosh. Neenah, To-
nasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, Hurley,
Wis., and IronwOod and Bessemer, NJ ich.
For tickets, sleeping car reservations, time
tables and other information, apply to agents OF
the Line or to Ticket Agents anywhere in the
United States or Canada.
s. R AINSLIE, General Manager, Milwaukee
J. M. HANNAFoRD, GenI Traffic Manager, St
Paul, Mimi.
C. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, Ill.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Gen1 Pass'r and Tkt Agt
Chicago, IL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16

white population in 1890 was 1857, 127,
and the total colored population was
8, 54S,263. In 1888 the total vote of these
states was: Democratic, Ass, 914; repub-
lican, 1S2,176 In 1890 the total vote of
the same FIVE states was: Democratic,
1876, OOS; republican. 101, $40. The follow
ing short table shows at glance the ratio
of democratic votes to white population
and the ratio of republican votes to colored
population at the elections of 1888 and
1890, respectively, counting major frac-
tions as units and rejecting minor frac-
tions:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-04-16
4 Bornd Fence 12 Miles Long.

The longest board fence in New Jersey,
and possibly in the country, is just being
completed at Tranquility. It encloses
J. 0 Stuyvesant's new deer park and will
be II miles long. The tract is 1000 acres.
The fence is 10 feet high and is made of
hemlock boards an inch and half thick
The sawmiI at Allamuchy has been run
ming constantly for year cutting lumber
for this one fence. 1t will cost s20, 600.