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The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-05-28
CITY PROPERTY.

No. IA. House and two lots in 4th ward, city.
Good barn: buildings in first class order.
No. ia Five acres of land in the Second ward,
city. Buildings first .class. Terms third down,
balance on time at per cent. interest.
No. IS. Good business property in Second ward,
city. Dwelling and store. Terms, one-half cash,
balance on time at per cent. interest.
No. 16. House snd lot u G. and Avenue. lot 5ox
I24 For sale cheap. Terms cash.
No. IT, We have desirable lois on Prairie Ave
II taken soon will be sold ar bargain.
No. 10. House and lot on Mechanic street for
aisle cheap.
No. 10 House and lot on Exchange street for
cheap. Also houses and lots street
buildings irst-class condition.
- 20 House and lot in McLaughn-s addition.
Ne have large number of outside city lots which
/, shall he p-ss-d to show to parties desiring TO
p-rehase for building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
TIN
The American Product is Placed on the
Market.

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 24.-W. W.
Stewart of the Temescal tin minas has
just placed on the market the first Ameri-
can tin ever offered in commercial guam
titles. The shipment includes 207 bars
of pig-tin, weighing about ffty-six pounds
each, and this with the quantity sent here
for exhibition, makes about seven tons.
This quantity is to be offered first in the
San Francisco market, and what is not
taken here will be shipped to the east.
The most Of this tin will possibly be
bought and consumed here. supplying
plumbers, timers, and those who create
the demand 1t is claimed that in few
months the Temescal mines will be abund-
antly able to supply the entire American
market.
Considerable correspondence about this
supply has been exchanged between Mama
ger E. NJ. Robinson of the mines and the
Eastern tin-plate manufacturers. The
mines in question are said TO be the rich
est In the world, and the managers claim
their future production will be limited
only by the market. Large steam lis,
furnaces, ETC., are IN process of erection
now, and an immense establishment will
soon be completed.
According to present plans," said Mr..
Stewart, ''the mines a year hence will be
capable of turning out $500 tons of tin a
year, with an almost unlimited capacity
for increase. The Importance of this pro
duct will be seen when it is remembered
that the highest annual product of the
world has been 10000 tons and the average
is about 5000 tons.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
COTTON WEAVING.
Some Interesting Facts-the Origin OF
Weaving Cotton Into Cloth.
HarDsr's YouDc PeoDle

The weaving of cotton into cloth was
first done in India centuries ago. Moth
ing woven in America can compare with
the flmy fabrics wrought In East-Indian
looms. One man will take months to com
plete a single piece, which is so exquisitly
fine that we cannot wonder that it is poeti-
cally called woven wind" Who but the
elves or the brownies could sew seams in
web as dainty as thisl
The tree cotton of India, with its red
dish purple flowers, is grown about the
temples of the Hindoos, and from its yell
lowish fbres is made the sacredotal tripar-
tit9 thread of the Brahmins-the emblem
of their trinity.
From the Hindoos the Egyptians and
the Persians learned to use cotton for
clothing, but the Persians at first employ
ed it only in the vestments. of priests.
In China previous to the eleventh CEN
fury cotton was rare and precious, and a
cotton robe was deemed fitting gift for
an emperor. 1t was grown only in gar
dens, and Chinese poets sang the beauty
of its flowers. 1t was early known in
Arabia, for its name-cotton-i derived
from an Arabic word.
The word muslin comes from Mosul, in
Asiatic Turkey, where it was at one time
largely manufactured, just as at later
date cambria receives its name from Cam
bray, in France.
Europeans began to wear cotton cloth
ing in the time of the Crusades.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
The Fptrancipp Woman

One needs only slight experience in
general society to discover that taste has
separate necessities in different individu-
ais, and beauty, wit, "style," a gift for
light conversation, depth of mind, have
each their admirers, fact that sets the
ones on the outside of the especial circum-
stance to wondering what there can pos
sibly be in the particular woman to
draw"
Is there a woman that is universally
enhancing? Is there one who commands
worship swift and entire-a worship i'm
patient of reasoning, that submits to no
authority but that of insight?
If there is, we must naturally conclude
that she possesses something that appeals
to more than one side of human nature,
and this does not mean that she has that
diplomacy that in the beginning is per-
haps nothing more than the desire to
please the many, but which often degen-
crates into positive insincerity, but rather
that unconscious touch upon her kind
that comes from a very necessity of her
being.
Sorrow and JOY are at the extremes of
human experience, and the woman who
stands at the center stretching sympa-
thetic hands towards either condition
must be the one who is essentially charm-
ing. Like Tennyson' Rare pale Mmga
ret, she stands 'between the rainbow
and the sun"
This woman of the sweet, con6ding
nature, who is thrilled with the delights
of life. upon whom is flashed all the
beauty and grace in nature, and yet who
bears about her evidences that the storms
have ragged at the very center OF her soul.
and that she has taken the hand Of many
a sufferer, to descend IN sympathy to the
deepest grave of affection, is an enchant-
ress. She Is the one to whom the young
come with their enthusiasts and youth
full fears and hopes; indeed. so perennial
are the springs of renewal within her
nature that in the passage of the year s
time seems to have refused to make its
sign upon her, and yet the middie-aged
and the old recognize In her friend
and helper.
| To her the knightliness of the manifest
manhood bows and offers protection. Per
| haps all men naturally are susceptible TO
appeals to the strength of their arm and
| to their brasery of soul, and this some
thing in a woman's eyes half revealed,
| this touch of sadness, few of the stronger
sex are able to resist.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
Foreigners Sell in the United
States During the Last Fiscal
Year $40, 100000 of Farm
Products.
And This Sum is Exclusive o
S16,OOO,OOO Worth Of Wool
Imported.
Facts Proving That the Tariff
Does not Discriminate Against
Agriculturists.

There seems to be no limits to the
efforts of trade attorneys to pre-
JUDGE farmer voters against the policy of
protection for home Industries. One of
the commonly employed means to this
end is urging the farmers to believe that
or tariff legislation is framed with the
view to discriminate in favor of manufac-
tured products and against the products of
agriculture. As there is not a single
clause in the law susceptible of such a
construction, none but the unwary will be
misled by the charge of discrimination
against the farmers interests.
Some idea of the extent to which farm
products are directly protected can be
gained by glance at statistics within
reach of all who care to inspect them; and
the honest student of these figures is quite
forcibly impressed by the necessity for
maintaining adequate barriers against
foreign competition so long as the home
market of our farmers is menaced by
products of foreign rivals.
During the last fiscal year foreigners
sold in the United States over $42, 900, 900,
worth of farm products, without TAX
ing into the account more than $l6,000,-
900 worth of wool imported.
Here are the items.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
BRIEF ITEMS.

Every year layer of the sea fourteen
feet thick is taken up into tie clouds
The winds bear their burden into the
land, and the water comes down in rain
upon the fields, to flow back again through
the rivers.
Moved in on Saturday Superintendent
And who is Your neighbour"
Scholar-"I don't know yet, sir. We
haven't had ter borrer any thing since the
folks moved in next door"
Six miles off the Ladrone Islands, in
the Pacific ocean, Russian vessel took
sounding a few weeks ago and foundt
depth Of five miles, the deepest spot
vet found in any ocean. It's convenience
of access recommends it as summer re-
sort.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02

These goods and supplies include thous.
ands of wooden blankets, overcoats, suits OF
clothing, shawls and other wooden and
worsted manufactures; tens of thousands
of yards of denims, calico and other manu-.
features of cotton; hundreds of tons of un.
worked iron and steel and hundreds OF
tons of builders hardware, stoves, and
kitchen and household utensils; besides
axes, ploughs, hoes, and other agricultural
tools and implements by the carload; tons
Of beef, pork and -four, and tens of thous-
ands of bushels of corn, oats, and other
grain. Assistant Secretary Bussey has
personal supervision Of the letting of the
contracts, and has personally inspected all
samples of goods to be furnished BY the
successful builders.
did you pay Mckinley prices for these
goods?" asked correspondent.
Yes, Of course, replied General Bus
''Well, how did they correspond with
the prices paid for like goods last year?''
the correspondent asked.
For manufactured goods the prices
were generally a shade lower than last
year; for beef, -four and other agricultur-
al products the prices were somewhat
higher
could you buy wooden goods as cheap
ly as you did last year befo.e the tariff bill
became IA law?"
eyes, and the quality of the goods is
better. For example, eight pound woclen
blankets last year cost the government and
the Indians 1886 pair; this year they
will cost 1881 pair. The same con.
tractors who furnished them last year
were the successful bidders this year, and
the samples were as good or better than
those of 1890. The blankets will slightly
overrun eight pounds pair. This year
we get good, servlceable overcoats, well
lined and made at $3.50 each, and other
kinds of clothing in proportion. In fact,
all manufactured goods, including wool
ems, cottons, boots and shoes, leather,
iron and steel and hardware of every des-
crlption- everything in fact-costs little
less than last year.
And so 1t appears that Mckinley
prices" in June, 1891, even for woolers,
are cheaper than the prices of last June
before the new tariff bill had passed con-
gress, and when free traders and their
newspaper organs were loudly proclalming
that it never would become a law. They
were false prophets then; later they were
something worse. What are they now :?
Perhaps they will have the effrontry to con-
tradict the statements Of General Busy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
New work
NEW
Works Capacity and addi-
started Firms in pots tional pots


Some rather startling conclusions as to
the future conditions of the American
plate-glass market and the prices that are
likely to rule, as we'll as some forcible illus
trations of the operations of protective
tariff, may be drawn from the above fig
ures, with other contemporaneous facts
Prior to 1888 the importation of plate
glass for G azlng purposes was very large
Since that time, however, the home pro-
duct so largely increased each year that the
importation steadily decreased until 1890,
when it entirely ceased, so far as glazing
quality is concerned. According to the
above table the product will be 70 per cent.
larger before the close of 1881, and plate
glass become so cheap that it can be used
in the most ordinary structures.
Fifteen years ago plate plass was selling
at an average price of about $3.50 per
square foot land the manufacturers lost
money at that, but today the average
price Per foot is about sixty cents, and the
margin of profit is still large. These
changes, both as relate to price and the
supply Of the home market by home
product, have been achieved under fos-
tering tariff, and in the face of the fact
that the product has been far short of the
demand the past year.
The only plate glass OF any large i'm
portation nov is the silvering quality of
small sizes, which American manufactur-
ers claim they cannot afford to produce
under the present low duty on glass under
ten square feet.
The benefit of this protected industry to
the country may be briefly summed up in
the complete supply of our entire demand
for glazing quality glass at less than one
fourth the price formerly paia for it, the
employment meanwhile of vast numbers
of workmen, and the retention in this
country of the money we formerly sent
abroad for glass, thus encouraging our
own shop and store keepers agriculturists
and producers and manufacturers, rather
than those of Europe. The plate-glass
manufacturers have just now, it is true,
problems of serious moment to work out
the need of more skilled labor and the
possibility of over production But the
former will come at their own risk, when
they understand the situation. and reciproc.
ity will provide a means for disposing Of
the surplus product.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02

Such woman is hey ond the art of the
copyist. Spend their efforts as they may
in trying to reproduce the fascinating
effects, women who envy her are never
able to get a true copy Sometimes they
imagine that the secret may be found In
tone OF the voice, or, again, in glance
of the eye, or in the pose of the figure;
but IN the effort to adapt these to their
own personality, they meet failure even
before the first trial of their experiment
is made in public.
But the enhancing woman pays her
price, in a sense, for her power The rain
bow that is hung in beauty in the sight
of the many to delight, cheer, and inspire
them, was formed through the midst of
her tears, and when the glorious colors
fade away, some turn to behold the lonely
figure that stands amid the clearing mists.
MARY R. BALDWIN in Harper's Bazaar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
MASTERS OF STYLE.
Some Modern Writers Masters of Pure,
Elegant English.
NayfyV orI-

Elegant English.
New York Sun.
By common consent Cardinal Newman
is the great master of a pure, idiomatic,
luminous elegant English style. Mr.. Ma
thew Arnold is also worthy to be classed
in the same category Mr.. Thackeray
wrote a style of inimitable beauty, terse,
lucid, witty. Nathaniel Hawthorne has
command of a wonderful vocabulary and
most suggestive and surprising style. He
was also of excellent taste and felicity
in the construction of his sentences. The
late DR.. Ripley so long the literary critic
of the Tribune, wrote in a full, round, and
informing style. Mr.. George Bancroft,
the historian Of the United States, en-
ployed an animated, picturesque, original,
yet never redundant style. A beautiful
style, simple, classic, unaffected is that of
the great DR.. Charming, vino played so
important a part in this country fifty
years ago. His writing was replete with
high and unaffected moral sentiment,
the very reverse of the phariseeism so often
displayed by some modern writer's. The
noble style of John Fiske will repay study,
and it is seen in its best estate in the
Excursions of an Evolutionist. " Andrew
Lang is master of an enviable style, as
every one will declare who know his
Letters to the Dead. The story of
Henry James is subtle, natural, and en-.
gaging. Robert Louis Stevenson employs
a style that is sometimes uneven, but is
often great.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
IN A POCKET.
The Story of Model and How She Came to
Pose.

''It was in Paris. | had to raise some
cash. Knew another girl that was a model
and she told me all about 1t. I went with
her to an ARTISAN American too-and
agreed to pose for him. When he first
asked me TOTO pose, ] objected. He tried
TO argue, said it was no good Then |
got red. | knew | got red. | felt it.
Then | wanted to run away and then l re-
pented.
Eventually he got me to show him just
a little bit of my nuck-not as much as a
society girl shows in evening dress, not
half as much. He admired it so much that
| began to stop feeling mortified. Posed
a little more for him, in fact; let not an
artist: but if ever you do become one and
you want to break in new model you just
begin with the neck.
Its the same with all of us girls. If
one will pose for neck and shoulders you
can easily make her pose for her bust; and
if you can only coax girl into posing her
bust you can make her pose as Venus tax
ing a sun bath, for the asking. Nothing
makes new model so nervous as posing
her upper figure and no one knows the
reason. All that one has to do to pursuade
her to overcome that little nervousness and
the rest. Pouf! The rest is nothing"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
L. s. ST. ?. gu. ?
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 Fai
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 &
Union Pacific Line" and connec-
tons, or for pamphlets and map
address
T. w. TEASDALE.
GenlPasengerAgent, St Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
MODERN POLITICAL CHICANE.
Cleveland Opposed Because He is the
Apostle of It.

WASHINGTON, June 23.-Cleveand's
friends have taken alarm and have been
compelled to acknowledge that there is
great and growing opposition to his nomin-
alton on the part of southern and western
men. The tactics to which the Cleveland
forces are resorting to break the force of
that opposition, or to at least explain it,
are not we'll calculated to add to his
strength or to promote harmony in the
ranks of the party. The Cleveland hero
worshipers maintain that the only OPP
position to- him proceeds from disappoint-
ed office seekers. If the Cleveland men
believe this they are self-deceived. The
southern and western men, who are the
most earnest in their opposition to Cleve.
lands denomination, are for the most part
not office seekers. They are opposed to
Mr.. Cleveland because they do not believe
in his political doctrines and because they
believe him to be the most conspicuous
apostle of modern political chicane.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
WALKING.
How You May Learn to Walk Easily and
With Noble Bearing.


Americans are bad walkers, says a
writer in the New York World 1t is rare
to find an exception, even in our army.
Among the Europeans, and the aborigines
of our own continent, noble mein is not
uncommon. | understand the causes of
this ugly defect among our people, and my
and to point out the remedy.
In English and French books on the mil
tary drill and physical training whole
Weare told that this or that part of the
foot must touch the ground frst-that the
angles must be SO and so, etc. | will not
say this advice is not all right, but | will
say that very few have been helped by
it.
Look at a good walker. Shoulders,
head and hips drawn well back and the
chest thrown forward. What firm, Wig
orous tread! Such walk may be secured
by carrying a weights upon the head An
iron crown has been devised for this pur-
pose. 1t consists of three crowns one
within the other, each weighing about
nine pounds One or all three may be
worn at time.
The water carriers of Southern Europe,
although belonging to the lowest class,
have noble bearing Certain negroes in
the south who tote" burdens upon the
head as business, can readily be pointed
out in crowd. The effort required to
keep the burden directly over the spine so
d velops the muscles Of the back and neck
that in the absence of the burden, the
head is carried in a noble, erect atti
tude.
By carrying one of these crowns upon
the head half an hour two or three times
q day while walking in the garden or
through the hall of the house, one may
soon become fine walker. Onetenth of
the time occupied in leaning to play
few tunes on the piano, given to the exer-
else would insure any girl a noble carriage.
The crown is not necessary. ANY weight
which does not press upon the very crown
Of the head, but about, will answer the
purpose equally well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
THE

Fast Trains with Pullman Vestfbuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of --latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
ST. PanI and Minneapolis.
Fast Trains with Pullman Vestibuled Drawing
Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of latest
design, between Chicago and Milwaukee and
Ashland and Duluth.
Through Pullman VestibuIed Drawing
Room and Tourist SIeepers 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 unequaled service 10 and from Waukes
sha, Fond du Lac. Oshkosh. Neenah, Me-
nasha, Chippewa Falls, Eau Claire, tx urley,
Wis, and IrOnwood and Bessemer, Mich.
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
]. M. HANNAFoRD, GenI Traffic Manager, St
Paul, MINI.
81. c. BARLOW, Traffic Manager, Chicago, T.
LOUIS ECKSTEIN, Gen1 Pass'r and Tiki Agt
Chicago, IL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02

department of human Industry All the
bases of wealth and of sound and satisfac-
tory finance are here; and in my opinion
southern enterprises are animated, sus-
tanned, and fortified by as sincere and
high regard for commercial credit and
personal honor, and by as profound con-
viction of the necessity of fair dealing, as
are TO be found anywhere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
She Neither sleeps Nor Eats.

READFIELD, Me-, June 25.-Julia
Adams, Is years of age, has taken no
food whatever, and only one swallow
of water for twenty days, and is yet
able 10 sit up and says she does not
feel the need of food and has no feeling
of faintness. During this time she has
not slept more than two hours in the
twentyfour and says she does not feel
the need Of sleep. Her disease is in
fammat. on of the bowels
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-07-02
Quarreled and Took Poison,

BLOOMINGTON, Ill, June 25.-One
week ago Lorena Cheney of Weldon,
Ill, domestic working for family in
this city. in a fit of dependency caused
by quarrel with her lover took dose
of poison. She did not tell any one of
it until to-day. She died in great
agony, deeply repentant