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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
THE TEE-WAHN.
The FoIk-Lor OF the Pueblo Indians of
New Mexico.

Despite all their progress In civilization
despite their mental and physical acute
ness and their excellent moral qualities, the
Iee-wahn are In some things but over
grown children. Their religion is one of
the most complicated systems on earth.
Besides the highest deities, all the forces of
nature all animals, as well as many things
that are inanimate, are invested by them
with supernatural powers. They do not
worship idols, but images and tokens of
unseen powers are revered. They do moth
ing without some reason, generally re-
ligious one. and whatever they observe
they can explain in their o wn superstitious
way. Every custom they have and every
belief they own has a reason which to
them is ali-suficient; and for each they
have story. There Is no duty to which
Pueblo child is trained in which he has
to be content with the bare command, do
thus; for each he learns fairy tale de
signed TO explain how people first came to
know that it was right to do thus, and de-
failing the sad results which befell those
who did otherwise.
1t is from this wonderful folk lore of the
Tee wabn that have learned-at er long
study of the people, their language, Gus,
toms and M, ths-and taken. unchanged
and unembellished, this series OF Indian
fairy tales.
The use of books is not only to tell, but
to preserve; not only for today, but foI
ever. What an Indian wishes to peroetuate
must be saved by tongue and ear, by tell
ing down." as were the worlds first his
tories and poems. This oral transmission
from father TO son is of sacred Importance
with natives. Upon it depends the preser
walton of the amusemepts, the history, the |
beliefs, the customs, and the laws OF their |
race. A people less observant, less accu
rate of speech and memory, would make a |
sad failure of this sort of record; but with |
them it is d wonderful success. The story |
goes down from generation to generation,
almost without the change of a word
Here if Isieta, the quaint pueblo of the
Tee VAIN where | am living. [ nave be-
come deeply interested not only ia the
folk stories themselves, but also in the |
manner of handing them down. Winter
is the season for story telling. Then the
thirsty fields no longer cry for water, the !
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
WOULD EAT FOREVER.
How a Hotel Clerk Made a Hayseed Stare
About Meals,

He was from ShelbYvifle, says the Chi
cago Posi-. and he looked like it when. with
his son Bill he ''arrove., at the Palmer
House the other day. In burst of conf
dence be shook hands with Clerk Cunning
ham and informed him that Me and B II
come in this mornin' with car O. hogs,
an we lowed we d come in frum the stock
yards an see the sights. Whuts the
cheapest roo ye kin give me an Billf
We don't want no style-just like We hev
yer own self is good huff fer US; eh Bill9"
Bill bobbed his head forward in panto-.
mimic assent, and Clerk Cunningham in
formed them that the lowest rrice for the
two would be s. y day. my! That's
pretty steep. They onlv charge 81 day
at Smiths Hotel down to hum. But |
guess, seem as we're here, we'll go the
whole hog; eh, Bill?"
Again Bill assented and the old man
asked Cunningham What time is meals
readv?"
Breakfast from 6 80 to II, lunch from
II 80 to g, dinner from $50 to 10, and
supper from to 1l:30, y replied Mr.. Cum
bingham.
The man waited minute and then
shouted: Gosh almighty, Bill, we won't
have scarcely nc time to do nothing but
eat.
The Grand Rapids Democrat this morn
ing will print challeng, Offering to back
Nelson for S., 90 to meet Ailerton or any
ther stallion On earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
AMERICAN SHIPPING.
When our Vessels Led the World. and Left
all Rivals far Asiscn


Writers of maritime history give to the
United States the credit of establishing
long lines Of communication BY sea with
far-dlstant countries. As early as 1889
the merchants OF Boston despatched their
ships direct TO China and the East Indies.
some time before England entered on this
trade; for the American vessels not only
brought their caTgoes to the home mar
kets, but also transshipped spices, silks,
teas, sugar, coffee, and cotton to Europe.
In those tunes skipper felt satisfied if he
made the outward voyage of 5000 mics,
by way of the Cape Of Good Hope, in $50
days, and came back via Cape Horn. some
1900 miles, in the same time.
he development Of the resources of the
east by the East India company. aud the
richness OF the freights carried by the
United States vessels-the proceeds of
single Noyage often defraying the first cost
of the ship-induced England to enter
into competition; thus starting that RI
valry between the sailing fees of the two
nations that was long the admiration of
the world. In 1916 the American clippers,
long, low, Of good beam, very fine lines,
and with yards so square and spars so lofty
as to set a greater spread of canvass in
proportion TO their tonnage than any
snip hitherto sailed, entered the race and
left all rivals far astern. Then followed
the days of which the old sad sea-dogs"
still love to tell, when every stitch of sail
was carried until the fierce wind blew it
from the bolt-ropes; when for weeks the
lee scuppers lay buried in the seething
waters and the flying jibboom plunged
deep into the white capped waves; when
the good ship Sovereign of the Seas came
into port 80 days from Hong Kong, and
the town gathered on the wharf TO welcome
the daring navigators; while the cargoes
of teas and coffees was sold at fabulous
prices. And these old salts still discuss
the dinner given the bold captain that
night, when the log of the voyage would
be read and the men would sit amazed at
hearing that in q days the ship had sail
ed over 5 ,391 miles. and that fer fouI days
her daily run had been 341.S miles. and
that in one day she had done SIS miles,
at the rate of 1876 knots.-Lieuen ant
Ridgely Hunt, U. s, N, in September
ScribDer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
LOTTERY CASES.
Strong Opinion Expressed by the Attorney
General,

WASHINGTON. Sept. 18.-Tne case OF
the United States agF inst John l.. Rapier,
and two cases of the q nited States against
Depre, will come up for argument ut the
October term of the United States supreme
court. Each case is an application for
discharge by writ of habeas corpus from
arrest for alleged violation of the anti
lottery legislation of the United States in
mailing lottery advertisements. Judgment
was against the defendants and the cases
were appealed TO the supreme court.
Acknowledgement Miller has prepared
brief which he submits in behalf of the
government eff il can be demon
strated,'' says the brief, ''that to prey up
On ones fellow men by means of the lot
terry is fundamental human right the
decalogue and the sermon on the mount,
not to mention the declaration of indie
pendence, ouoh t to be rewritten at once. "
81 maintain" says the attorney general,
without fear of successful contradiction,
that whatever acts or enterprises congress
has the power to make criminal in the dis
trict of Columbia or territories,
it may refuse, directly, or
indirectly, to aid, encourage or
abet in any state without violating any ob-
legation either to The citizen or the state.
Any state may make practices Of tn s lot.
terry company or even the possession of its
tickets within its borders with intent to
sell crime"
In the exercise of this power Of legisIa
ton In regard to the mails as in the exer-
else of many of its other Legislative powers,
the attorney gene al holds that congress
has very broad discretion as to whether it
shall act at all, and if SO, when ard to
what extent, and for what purpose it shall
act.
The attorney general then argues to
show that congress has the undouhted
right to legislate for the corlmon good,
ard says: Suppose, as is now an early
probability, postal telegraph should
be established, is 1t true that the
United States government would be under
obligation to transmit over its telegraph
lines messages in reference to all business
or practices not indictable at common
law or not known to law books as mala In
Sc? Could it not refuse to transmit tele-
grams boldly relating to gambling
transactions, trading upon margins IN
wheat or stocks or negotiating purchases
and sale Of lottery tickets, or IN regard to
any other business which in the exercise OF
sound discretion, congress might declare
to be contra bonos mOles.
Upon the theory of the argument OF
the petitioners that the publishers OF news
papers had an absolute right to carriage
IN the mails and that any discrimination
against them is abridgiDg the freedom OF
the press, then all postal regulations
by which letters are given precedence over
newspapers in the mails. even IN time and
carriage and distribution are invalid
This is certainly discrimination against
the newspapers and might be held to be
abridging the freedom OF the press"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
A Dream of Bappiness

May be followed by morning Of SIS Grippe "
Easily, and why' Because the displacement of
covering in bed, neglected draught from partly
closed window. an open transom connected with
windy entry in hotel, may convey to your nos
trIls and lungs the death dealing blast Terrible
and swift are the inroads made by this new de-
stroyer. The medicated alcoholic principle in
Hoststter's Stomach Btters will check the dire
complaint A persistence in this preventive of
lis further development will absolutely check
mate the dangerous malady. Unmedicaied alco-
Just medium Is the Bitters. Not less eficacious is
II in cases OF malaria bIliousness, constipation,
rheumatism, dyspepsia and kidney trouble. The
weak are usually tnose upon HON dissxse fastsus
frst. lnslyorais with the Bittsrs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
BIG BLAZE AT Fort WORTH,
Guests at the Ellis House NarrowIy
Escape Dealh-Osher Los~e.

Escape Deaib-Other Losses.
FORT WORTH. Texas, Sept. 2l.- Fire
early this morning destroyed the r.l.i.
house and darlington Il Montgomery
wholesale produce house. The .is
Is the largest hotel in the city. The
hotel vas crowded with guests MANY
among them being womtn The loss
cannot be estimated now The tire
bur. Ell SO rapidly that very little of
the effects of the guests were saved
There were many narrow escapes
PINE BLUFF, Ark, Sept 2.--The
Planters house and kesSos hotel. two
massive brick buildings, were de. troved
by fire lest night. Part of the furni-
ture in the two hotels was lost. as well
IS portion Of the stocks carried by the
merchants occupying the lower floors.
The total loss is estimated at SIP, 900
on building aud SIO,0 900 on stock. The
flames originated in the kitchen OF the
Planters house.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE at Quebec Sunday destroyed
twen,y-nine houses and rendered 200 per-
sons homeless.
CHARLES OwNEs, of Kaneville, ILL.,,
fatally shot himself Tuesday while hunt
ing prairie chickens.
By an accident en- the Interurlan line
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24

Two-LEGGED pig is the latest sensa-
ton in Philadelphia. 1t only differs from
those you know of in having bristles.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
HYDE PARK MYSTERY.
Ir> Rathbun of buffalo Missing
From Dr. Bucks s}OR,e

CHICAGO, H., Sept. 2l.-Mrs Del
Rathhun, wealthy widow residing in
Buffalo, n. y, mysteriousiy disap
peared from the home of DR. William
II. Buck. of Hyde Park, last night and
her friends arc looking for her body
along the shore of Lake MICHIGAN.
The lady was of extreme nervous tcm-
permanent and of late her friends saw
she borrowed trouble and they fear
that in tit of temporary insanity,
caused 10y real or Imaginary grief. she
has taken her life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24
Dragged Six Blocks by RUNAWAY.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, Sept. 2I-Mr.
Ben Allison. 'armer severty-nine
years O. age. living four miles nth.
east OF this city. was dragged along
The brick pavement at noon to-day for
distance o. six bio ils by "a runaway
horse His legs were broken and his
head mashed He is still alive, but his
death is m "a ntar. Z expected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24

IT has been discovered in Philadelphia
that the men who go on the ocean boats
loaded with petroleum gel fat and healthy,
and do not have dyspepsia, insomnia or
ether common diseases. Three of the cap
tains tip 1000 pounds together. But
who ever saw sea captain who was not
stout and stufy!
WHEN H. Clay King Is swung off the
law will receive handsome vindicatlon.
Wealthy, influential and brainy, there was
due reason to fear that in his case justice
might fail. His crime we murder most
foul, cold blooded, pre- meditated, unjusti-
fable murder, snd his punishment is
righteous if all the statute provides be
inflicted upon him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-09-24

SAM'L OF PosEN fell into a serious
error when he essayed a tragic part
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-08-05
Experiments in Producing Rain.

The individual who thinks he has
discovered means of arti6cially pro-
ducing rain, as it is stated, to make an
experiment under government auspices
in an arid region of the West. His APP
paratus, according to the Philadelphia
Record, has two forms, either of which
may be used as circumstances may di-
rect. Zone is a cannon, to fire explos-
i've bombs in the air and produce rain
by conclusion, according to the theory
that rain always follows the explosion
oflarge quantities Ofgun-pOwder. The
other is more elaborate and depends on
chemical action for its effect. Water,
as every school boy knows, is liquid
formed by the cOmmingling of two
gases, in the propOrtions-very nearly
--of one part of oxygen to two parts of
hydrogen. 1t is also known that
given amount of air will hold only
certain amount of air without precipi-
tatiOn, and furthermore, when the at
mospheric equilibrium is disturbed, it
takes some time to restore it. Hence,
the project is to send up balloons filed
with oxygen and hydrogen in the pro-
portions given, and at the proper mo-
ment to send an electric spark through
them by means of wires. This will ig-
mite the gases, they will explode and
form water by means of chemical COM
binatiOn, which being in excess of what
the atmosphere is capable of holding
will be precipitated in the form of rain,
and it is hoped that the atmospheric
disturbance will not subside until a
plentiful shower has fallen. TO carry
out this beautiful experiment on a
sufficiently large scale, one hundred
balloons, each ten feet in diameter,
have been shipped to the selected
spot"
If the sanguine experimenter should
succeed, drought will no longer have
any terrors for the enterprising farmer.
All he will have to do will be to keep
a supply of balloons on hand and send
them up whenever his corn or his grass
begins to suffer. We would not advise
our farmer friends however, to delay
their preparations for pitching their
wheat crops in the fall, in hopes they
may be put in possession of a means of
securing weather to order.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-08-05
The Army of Faith.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAvOR CONVENTION


The next convention of the Christian
EndeavOr Societies will be held in
New York in 1892. Judging by the
recent meeting at Minneapolis, it will
be vast assemblage of the faithful
from every state in the Union, from
Canada and from across the Atlantic
The conventions have increased stead
lily and rapidly in magnitude, 10000
persons having been in attendance in
st. Louis last year, the number swell
ing to $4,000 at Minneapolis last week.
The enrolled membership Ofthe society
now numbers one million, and if it in
creases in the ratio of the ten years
since their organization, it is likely to
be million and a-half when the New
York convention meets.
This is marvellous development of
an enterprise SO new, ana 1t has pro-
ceeded at time when various other
enterprises of similar religious pur-
pose have grown with a scarcely less
rapidity. The organization of the
Kings Daughters has been successful
to wonderful degree. The CHATEAU
qua Assembly is stretching out its
branches in every direction. Summer
camps and schools for study, the basis
of which is religious faith and zeal, are
steadily multiplied, so that never be-
fore in our history was the camp meet
ing so prominent feature in American
life. 1t is novel, too, in its present de-
velopment, and peculiar to this coun-
try. II - ,a'. =" rance of religious
feeling no longer marks ~. To former
days sinners were crazed by the preacn-
ing of the terrOrs of the law, writhing
in physical spasms and nervous tor
lures under the terrible denUnciations.
But all that has passed away. The
love of God and not his consuming
vengeance is now preached to the null
titude and calmness now prevails
among them. They also seek both
spiritual and intellectual profit, and
the camp meeting now serves the pur-
pose which it is proposed to accom-
plish through the means of what is now
known as University Extension.
Chautauqua is doing that very work
without state aid, the trihe paid by
each of the hundreds of thousands of
students amounting to a very great
sum. Private enterprise and religious
zeal are sufficient for the task and they
are doing it well.
1t was like an old.fashiOned New
England conference meeting. Soul
winning by prayer and conversation
meetings was the great theme. Prayer
was inculcated as a necessity for the
health and salvation of the soul, and
the bible held up as the guide to
heaven, perfect in truth, wholly divine
in origin and absolutely trustworthy.
Hence we see that side by side with
the growth of religious scepticism un-
der the assiduous cultivation of thee.
logians, there arise extraordinary
movements for the propagation and
preservation of the simple faith of the
ages of Christianity, when belief was
strongest, most vital and most sincere.
The plant of faith is not rooted up but
grows vigorously in the hearts of
yOuth.-N Y. Sun.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-08-05
The Beauty of Women.

The women at Chautauqua are very
much interested this year in the sub.
ject of dress reform. The reformers
criticise and denounce the present
dress of women because it deforms the
beauty of the feminine figure. They
are teaching that to conserve and de-
velop bodily beauty is duty, and that
to impair it and detract from it by I'M
suitable raiment is to commit a griev-
iOus sin. One of the leaders, accord
ingly, cOunsels women to study photo
graphs of the Venus of Milo and
Titian's nude figure in the picture of
Sacred and prOfane Lore until their
beauty is literally felt"
This is very novel doctrine to be
taught at camp meeting of Methodist
OriginatiOn Not many years ago piOus
Methodist and Baptist women would
have fed in horror from such instruc-
ton. They accounted it sinful to give
thought to the enhancement of the
beauty of the perishable body, believ
ing that the cultivation and the saliva
ton of the soul should be the only
care. Therein they followed the ex
ample of early Christians, who admOn-
ished women to conceal their natural
loneliness with disfguring garments,
so that it should not attract the gaze
of the behOlder. The Puritan preach
ers of the old days in this country were
fond of denOuncing the frivOlity of gay
raiment and the deceitfulness of physi-
cal beauty. They said that it was the
devil who put it into wOmen's hearts
to thus charm the eyes of men and
therefore in some of the New England
colonies dress which displayed the
nakadness of the arm was made ille-
gal. Even in very recent years the
wearing of Mother Hubbard gowns has
been forbidden in various parts of the
Union, because they reveal the con-
tour of the figure SO generously.
Yet the Chautauqua teaching is that
women should study the more perfect
delineations of the feminine form pro-
duced by art in order to criticise and
helpful dress. It is only recently that
the exhibition of such nude statues and
pictures has outraged the prOpriety of
Philadelphia and other provincial
communities but now Chautauqua
commands that they be displayed for
che benefit of women especially; for if
women may study them they must be
morally innocuOus. If they present
examples of beauty ofprOpOrtiOn which
it is desirable and profitable for women
to observe and emulate, and if bodily
perfection in itself is a duty and the
Disagreement of the body of sin, they
should be put before the people as an
object lesson of prime Importance.
Thus we see that Chautauqua is
broadening the views of the women
a movement for the physical develop
ment which is animated by the spirit of
of the old Greeks, so passionate in
their love for the beauty of the human
fgure.-M Y. Sun.
Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1891-08-05
Highest of all in Leavening Power.-Lal
Fruit Stills Will be Busy.
TURNING APPLES AND PEACHES INTO
BRANDIES

A correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun thus writes
The immense fruit crop of the PEN
insula this year will give big impetus
to branch of business that has Ian
guished for many years, and which last
year was not operated to the smallest
extent. 1t is the distillation of fruit
brandies from apples and peaches
There are about 100 registered stills
on the Peninsula between the two
bays. Probably half of them are in
WicOmicO county, Del. More of them
will be in operation this year than at
any time within twenty years At no
time recently has the business been
profitable, because the shortness of the
apple and peach crops interfered with
the brandy material. This year the
early summer apple crop is very heavy
and the distilIeries are quick to take
advantage of the low prices to begin
their work. H. e. Dodson the deputy
collector of internal revenue for the
division comprising the eastern shores
of Maryland and Virginia, is busy
already with the official work of bond
ing and starting the distillers. In
Dorchester and Wicomico distillers
began work on the early summer
apples week ago. This is early for
the distilling season. Usually they do
not begin work before August and
often not until September. 1t is quite
certain there are not fifty gallons of
homemade fruit brandy in the market
on the Peninsula, and the output this
year will find an empty market.
Fruit brandy pays the United States
government tax of 80 cents a gallon
and the business on the governments
part is so thoroughly systematized and
hedged about with red tape forms that
al escape from the payment of the tax
on a single gallon by any distiller is
impossible, unless there is collision
between him and the government off,
Ger. Two deputy collectors and two
I gaugers have all this work to look
after on the Peninsula. Their hands
will be full this year. One deputy col
lector and one gauger has Delaware,
and another pair the Maryland and
| Virginia territory from from Cecil
county to CObb's Island. The deputy
collector has to visit every distiller,
survey and register his still and take
his bond before he can start the fires.
1t is probable that 10000 gallons of
apple and peach brandy be made this
year on the Peninsula, on which tax
of $4,000 will be paid into United
States treasury. Under the internal
revenue laws only the juices of apples,
peaches and grapes are permitted to
be distilled. Recently, since tomatoes
have been canned so largely in the
country, thrifty packers have desired
to experiment in the stills with the
tomato refuse, and some have made
application to the internal revenue de-
partment can find no warrant of law
for it. To use any other material than
what comes from peaches, apples and
grapes in his still would subject the
distiller to heavy penalties.