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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
PLATE GLASS AND THE TARIFF.
Wonderful Demand American Estab-

Wonderful Demand on American Estab-
Iishments.
In the year 1873 Mr.. De PAW of New
Albany, Ind, started the first plate-gass
works in this country Possessed If a
long purse and indomitable will, Mr.. De
PAW sank, it is estimated, over million
of dollars before he succeeded in placing
the industry on a remunerative basis.
Another enterprise in the same line was
not long afterward begun in Crystal City,
Mo-, near St, Louis, which also exhausted
the resources of three Or four stock COM
panies. One Of the great aids to the'plate
glass industry was the imposition of the
present duty. Before this tariff was placed
the representatives of the foreign COM
panies invariable shaded the prices lit
tie below what the American manufact-
urer could afford to sell for. Bot the
foreign product barred cut by formidable
duty, the American industry commenced
to thrive. Imported processes and labor
saving inventions speedily reduced
the cost of the manufacture.
The first plate glass made at New
Albany in 1873 cost $3.50 per square foot
To-day the price averages from IS to 80
cents. Fifty years later the percentage
udu CfepJ up 10 oU. 1nre6 years ago ~
per cent. represented the standing of
American plate-glass and in the last two
years the importation of plate-glass for
glazing has entirely ceased. There is still
considerable amount of plate-glass still
imported for silvering, but it is confidently
expected that this will soon stop. Plates
for silvering must be of the finest quality,
careful selection. The demand
on the American establishments has been
so urgeant that it has been found i'm
possible to select from stock. plates for
silvering The quality of plate-gIass made
in this country is said to be fully up to the
standard required for mirrors, and when
American Manufactures shall have accu-
mulated stocks large enough to permit of
selection for silvering, it is supposed that
the importation of plate glass will cease
entirely.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
STATE VS.. McFETRIDGE.
The Interest suit Stated. by the Attorney
General.


MADISON, Feb. 24.-Papers were today
served on ex-State treasurer Edward ..
McFetridge and his bondsmen, in suit
to recover interest on state money alleged
to have been receivd by Mr.. McFetridge
during his last term in office, and not ac-
counted for to the state. A complete COM
plant has been made in the case cover
ing Mr.. McFetridge's last term, and suits
were also ms tituted covering the other
term and one-half served by Mr.. Met
ridge. The last named suits two In num-
Der, were begun by Attorney General
O'Connon requesting Mr.. McFetridge to
appear before him and give sufficient testi
mony against himself to sustain the
states case As Mr.. O'Connor puts it,
Ito appear and disclose facts regarding
the same, so that the state caL properly
frame its complaint.
The money that Mr.. O'Connor seeks TO
recover for the state under these three
actions is a sum equal to the interest on
S649, 1851 for the year 1882, on 1876, ISL
81 for the year 1888 and for Judgment
of $500,000 and cost of the suit which
covers Mr. McFelridge's last term, of the
year 1885 and 1886.
The bondsmen, most OF whom reside In
Baraboo, are James A McFetridee, John
T. Smith, John S. Rowell, George B.
Congdon, S. P. K. Lewis, T. L. Newton,
Andrew Willard, F. NJ Warren, George
Mertens, J. J. Gattiker, William Stanley
and E. Mariner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12

Give your cows tablespoonful of salt
once day in their mess of mill feed; it
will keep them in good health.
Ccattle men claim strap with snap is
better tie than the old-fashioned stanch-
ion.
Remember that a cow is like closet or
cupboard; you can take nothing out unless
you put something in.
In cold weather take the chill from the
water you use In messing COWS; they will
like it better.
If you want the best results from your
cows feed them all they can assimilate
and digest, but remember it takes close
watching to reach that point,
If your cow is in heat present the male
as soon as possible, and separate her that
day from the herd.
Handle your heifers every day and make
them gentle; it will save much trouble
when they become fresh.
Never drive a COW nor a fattening
steer faster than a slow walk.
You haveno use for dogs on a dairy farm
except it be we'll trained collie.
Sell your kicking COW to the butcher,
she has no value in the dairy.
Never wet you fingers while milking,
especially with milk
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
HE GOT THE DINNER.
Never Refused a Man Dinner When
Sought in "a Manly Way.
New York Star.

Sought in "a Manly Way.
New York Star
A well-dressed, bright looking young
man entered a French restaurant where
table d'hote dinner for so cents was adver-
tised and asked the proprietor in good
French the following questions:
''Will you trust me for dinner to-
night, sir? [ Will pay you tomorrow
evening.
Certainly. Sit down.
The young man had his dinner and Or
dered cigar besides, which he walked
out putting, while he had given his check
to the proprietor.
Never saw him before
Then why did you trust him?'
"Well, he's hungry, or he would not have
asked me for credit. He is we'll dressed
and cannot always be without money"
But did it not occur to you that he
might be d fraud?'
"Perhaps-but | never refuse a man
dinner if he asks for it In mani Y way.
Some people would not ask, but would
eat the dinner and be quite satisfied to
be kicked out afterward.
''Do you have many applications of that
kind?'
every night have some one, and |
have never lost a dollar yet in that
way
"How do you account for this"
THAT man rarely repudiates the fact
that he is honest when another man shows
him that he can be. | get good deal of
trade that way, too.
There are few men in New York who
would be willing to run the risk of trust
ing every well-dressed young mum even to
the extent of a quarter, but the good
hearted Frenchman has found in his
modest little basement the medium of APP
pealing to the honor of the impecunious-
through their stomach.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
THE HOUSEHOLD.


Merit may not always win, but it can
stand it if it doesn't.
That is good kind of charity that be-
gins at home, provided it does not end
there.
Observation-Disclosures flowing out into
practical benefcence is the worlds want;
1t is the divine response to human selfish
ness.
The unremitting retention of simple and
high sentiments in obscure duties-that is
the maxim for US. Let US be poised and
wise, and our own to-day.
Why is social life additionally reIegated
to the domain of frivolity, and work,
alone, held up as something serious? Con-
versation is an inspiration in itself; So
ciety is one of the fine arts. 1t is quite
worth while, as an end and aim in itself,
to draw people together, noble and beauti-
full souls, whose Intercourse shall be full
Of charm aud significance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
EARNING MONEY.
Queer Ways III Which Money is Made by
Women in New York City.

Queer Ways III Which Money is Made by
Women in New York City.
A lady tells this story of the queer ways
in which money is made by women in
New York:
A gentle and hearted old lady
was making some purchases in one of the
big dry goods emporiums On Twenty third
street, and was attracted by the grace of
manner and physique displayed by the
yong woman who waited on her. She
questioned her about her life and habits,
and the girl, recognizing the honesty of
the old creatures interest, smiling replied
to her queries,
How much do you make in this store?'
asked the old lady.
Eight dollars week, ma am, replied
the girl.
=, And IN you can live comfortably on
We'll, you see, I make considerable
outside
"How?"
Il have a typewriter at home, and l
get from 50 to IS week doing copying.
Then | have my arms modelled.
What is that?" exclaimed the old
lady.
Il have my arms modelled for the wax
works 90 the other side OF the street. Then
/ dress lady's hair when she goes to
large dances, She's one of the Four Hun
dr. d, and one day she was trading with
me at this counter, and she liked the way
my hair was arranged. You see have
great quantity of hair, and so has she,
and as she thought | managed mine so
well and got it to look so smooth, she
asked me if would teach ner how to do
it. | offered to do it for her. and | did
so at her house. Since then she has sent
foI me quite regularly, and at each visit
make her | receive S.. | also make
gentlemen scarfs for downtown manu-
flcturers and get 81 10 dozen for them
can finish a dozen in two evenings at
home. | usually employ myself in this
way when have no typewriIlng to do,
Altogether have made SIS tC $50 week
and as | have a sister that makes as much,
she mamma and | are really laying up a
nest egg for rainy day"
Yes" said the old lady. ''but where
do you get any pastime during all this p
''Oh," responded the shop girl, 81 don t
need any pastiue except Sundays, when
we all 60 down to Staten Island and take
dinner with mamma sister"
The old lady patted the the shop girl S
hand fondly and smiled
''You are good young woman, said
she. Il shall see you again. You deserve
good and rich husband. And who
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Josh Billings Philosophy.
New York Weekly.

If man il very anxious tew kultivate a
good opiny I'm Ov human natur, he mustn t
know teo mulch ov it.
A phool il not necessarily man with
out the right kind ov sense.
When man gets tew talking about
himse f, he seIdum fails tew be eloquent
and often reaches the sublime.
Excellence in emmy direction IL rare
even good clowns are skarse.
Love generally changes coquetry to
sense, and prudery to siIlyness.
1t IL only step from cunning tew dis
honesty, and it IL step that man IL
liable at emmy time tew take.
Old age haz its privileges-one is tew
find fault with everything.
Weak and wicked are the two worst
things that ennyboddy can be charged
with.
He who IL willing tew trust everybody
il willing to be cheated by everybody.
Whenever WI find man with an excen
tricity ov emmy kind, which he brags ov,
va can put that man down az be at and
charg it to mi account.
A wize man IL never less alone than
when alone.
A man ma mistake hiz talents, but he
kant mistake mis- genius. Talent must
hav memory, genius doesn't require it.
Idon't believe thare il a human beng
on the face ov the ear b, nor an angel In
heaven who IL positively proof against
temptashun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
An Instantaneous LIZ, IL

To obtain a light inst ,ntly without the
use of matches, and without danger of
setting things on fire is, according to the
Mining and Scientific press, an easy mat
ter. Take long vial of the clearest of
glass, put into piece Of phosphorus
about the size of a pea. Upon this pour
some pure olive oil heated to the boiling
point, the bottle to be filled about one
third full; then cork tightly. To use the
light, remove the cork, allow the air to
enter, and then recork. The whole empty
space in the bottle will become luminous,
and the light obtained will be good one.
As soon as the light becomes dim, its
power can be increased by opening the
bottle and allowing fresh supply of air
to enter. In very cold weather, it is
sometimes necessary to heat the vial be-
tween the hands to increase the fuidity of
the oil; and one bottle will last all winter.
This ingenious continuance may be carried
in the pocket, and is used by the watch
men of Paris in all magazines where ex-
plosive or inhammable materials are used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12

ed. Our own woollen mills, protected by
the tariff, supply the greater part of the
domestic demand. If the tariff wall were
thrown down, there would Immediately fol-
low an immense expansion in the demand
upon foreign manufacturers for woolens.
a great advance Ia prices abroad must be
the result. The consumer would not buy
his clothing at present foreign prices.
What then becomes of the free traders
tariff tax?
This argument is fortified at our end by
the decrease in the price of foreign cutlery
concurrently with a higher tariff On it,
and at the other end by the Record asser-
ton that the fall in the price of sugar will
not equal the duty which is to be abolish
ed These cold, hard facts stare the ''re-
former" in the face, and fatten his tariff
tax theory
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
/. S. ST. ?. gu. P.
These Letters are the Initials of the
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 then 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
HI MOllldlld.
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 G.
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
Genl PasengerAgent, St Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
FARMERS AS BEE-KEEPERS
Agricultural Value of Bees - Begin
Early.


Farmers should keep bees, even if they
can buy pound of honey cheaper than
they can produce it. Farmers need bees
because they perform service which man
can neither do nor hire done Stop living
chiefly on hog and hominy and have on
your table at all seasons, juicy fruit to
counterfeit the effect of fat meats and
gravies. How desolate is farm without
an orchard, and small fruit garden. 1t is
true that in many localities of the west.
trees have been destroyed by cold and
drouth, and that those which passed
through the ordeal, have been shy bearers;
but the cycles of fruit bearing may soon
occur, and farmers should heed the adj
vice of the old Scotchman, who said to
his son PLANT a tree, Jack, for it will be
growing at nights, while you Sleep"
Even 1t the farmer has fruit trees which
bloom abundantly, they may no. be loaded
at harvest time, unless bees have carried
the fertilizing powder from flower 10
flower. Crops of grain and grass, such as
corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, timothy,
and blue grass, have the fertilizing powder
distributed by the wind; but bloom of
clovers, fruits and Of many vegetables
are dependent upon insects, chiefly bees,
to perform this work for them. Spring
is the best time to purchase bees, and the
coming one they can undoubtedly be
bought cheaply, as little loss has occurred,
except by starvation, because the season
has been mild. The colonies to be chosen
should have their hives boiling over with
bees, and contain enough stores to last
until flowers bloom.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Glover for Cows.

Glover hay is the standard food for COWS
in winter, owing to its nutritious qualities
compared with many other foods, but there
is no reason why it should be fed to the
exclusion Of corn fodder and other coarse
foods that may be utilized with the clover.
A ration of straw sometimes affords an
agreeable change Of diet to an animal that
has been given nothing but grain and
clover. It is cheaper to give mixed food
at all times, variety being appreciated by
by all classes of stock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
FARM, HOME And GARDEN.
YOUTH IN AGE.
ALICE ARMSTRONG.

"Old!" crooned gray haired m9n,
"Sure, words have changed tn ir use
Since | was young and frolicksome.
1t was grave abuse
To call one old, forsooth,
Because his locks were white,
Or, possibly, his limbs did shake,
And feeble was his sight.
ssYes, true thought so once.
And wondered how 'twould seem
When l had travelled down Iife's road
The memory's like dream,
And takes me back to home
In days of childhood glee,
To honored nook beside the fire,
Close by grandfather's knee.
she seldom left his place,
But sat most patiently
With folded hands npon his cane,
Which trembled visibly.
No light was in his eye
So dim had burned life's fire
No sound of earth broke on his ear,
Twas tuned to music higher.
"Yet though lie could not hear,
Twas e'er his fresh delight
To sing the song of sBeuIah land
At morning, noon and night.
One strain comes down the years,
In quavering notes twas given:
THY presence makes my paradise,
And where thou art is heaven
''fThe look Of calm content
Which rested on his brow
The words meant naught to childish ears
Comes back with freshness now
I thought him old, and felt
My little heart grow sad
To see him sit quite still and sing;
And, vet, he seemed so glad.
"I'ye learned his secret too,
Since l have reached his place;
I'm nearer heaven than e'er before,
And nearer closed my race.
| am not old. IT'S true
My body's feeble grown,
But spirit doth its youth renew
And waits its vernal crown.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
DECLINE IN PRICE OF GOODS.
People Should Watch Carefully the Effects
of the New Tariff Law.

Every student of the tariff question
should keep an eye out to observe careful
ly the effects of the new tariff bill. One
feature in its operations becoming prom
inent, which has a vital significance in
the tariff controversy That feature is
the noticeable define In the price Of foreign
goods When the free-trader insists that
the tariff is tax he assumes that, with
removal of the duty, the consumer could
buy the taxed" article cheaper by just
the amount of the tariff on it. The I'M
soundness of this assumption Is just now
being practically illustrated under the Nc
Kinley bill. Custom house officers report
decided falling off in the valuation of
Imports, particularly in the classes, like
cutlery and worsted, on which duties were
most largely increased. This result proves
that it is the existence of the tariff which,
in part at least, causes the low price of
foreign goods. 1t follows, therefore, that
prices of foreign merchandise would go
up if the tariff were removed. Conse-
quently the consumer would not buy his
goods at the ,sent low foreign price.
That prices would rise abroad with the
removal of the tariff was proved by the
removal of the duty on coffee, which har :
ly declined in this country when made
free. The same phenomenon is now seen
in the price of sugar, made free by the
Mckinley bill The free trade Philadelphia
Record of February 10 contained long
article announcing in bold headlines that
the price of sugar rises, and that 1.-The
removal of the duty acts as a boomer
ang." 1t goes on TO tell of how the peo-
pie expected to get the full benefit of the
removal of the sugar duties, and adds:
Meantime the foreign producers and
dealers In raw sugars, realizing the pros
pect for an enlarged consumption of
sugars at relatively low prices in this
country, and knowing what was going on
in the United STATES sugar markets, pro-
ceeded to anticipate the effect of the de-
mand by putting up prices.
Now this is just the point to which we
wish to call the Reviews attention If
the consumer does not get the benefit of
the removal of sugar duties he certainly
would not in case, woolens, for example
tirely upon foreign countries for our
sugar, and the annual import may be
almost a fixed quantity 1t is not likely
thai free sugar will materially increase
our purchases from abroad. for the in
creased domestic production under the
new bounty system will probably more
than counterbalance any increase In con-
sumption which may follow lower prices.
Yet the Record says that the price
of sugar goes up as soon as 1t Is
made free.
Woolens would have much greater cause
to advance in price if they were made
tree, or If the duty were materially redue-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Young Trees Need Care.

Examine Your young trees careful
ly and see what insects have tucked them
selves away for the winter. You will find
various web-covered things glued to the
branches, also nests of eggs here and there,
and the plant lice hid in cracks and broken
places on the bark, on trunks and branches.
Destroy now everything of the sort, and
thus save yourself big job next summer.
We have found more apple tree borers on
that part of our orchard near a woodland
than elsewhere five times as many. Hence
we infer that timber of the woods harbors
these insects.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
1t Was not He that Worried.

Nov, SIR" cried Mr.. Bagwig fero-
difficulties few months ago?"
No"
"Now, sir! Attend to my question. I
ask you again, and pray be careful in ans
wering, for you are on your oath. | need
hardly remind you. Were you not in
in difficulties few months ago?'
mo; not that | know of. "
Sir, do you pretend to tell this court
that you did not make a compromise with
your creditors a few months ago?"
A bright smile of intelligence spread
over the ingenious face of the witness as
he answered:
Oh, ali? That's what you mean, is it!
But, you see, it was my creditors who
were in difficulties, and not me"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
Influence.

You will find if you think moment
that the people who influence you are the
people who believe in you. In an atmos-
phere of suspicion men shrivel up, but in
that belief they expand and find encourage
ment and educative fellowship 1t is a
wonderful thing that here and there in
this hard uncharitable world there should
still be left few rare souls who think no
evil. This is the great unworldliness.
Love ''thinketh no evil, j." imputes no mo-
tive, sees the bright side, puts the best
construction on every action What a de-
iightful state of mind to live in. What a
stimulous and benediction even to meet
with for a day. To be trusted is to be
saved. And if we try to influence or ele-
vate others, we shall soon see that success
is in proportion to their belief of our belief
in them.-Selected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-03-12
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