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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Save The Bows.

Women who have sons to rear, and
6read the demoralizing influences of bad
associates, ought to understand the nature
OF young manhood 1t is excessively
restless. is disturbed by vain ambition,
by thirst for action, by longings for ex-
element, by irresponsible desires to
touch life in manifold ways If you,
mothers, rear your sons so that your homes
are associated with the repression of nat
ural instincts, you will be sure TO throw
them IN the society that in any measure
can supply the ends OF their hearts. They
go to the public house at first for the
animated and hilarious companionship
they find there, which they find disturb
ing restlessness in their breasts.
See to it, then, that their homes compete
with public places in their attractiveness.
open your blinds by day and light bright
fires by night. Illumine your rooms.
Hang pictures on the walls Put books
and newspapers on your tables. Have
music and ent, raining games. Danish
demons Of dulness and apathy that have
so long ruled IN your household, and bring
In mlrth and good cheer. Invent occupa-
tons for your sens. Stimulate their am
billions in worthy directions. While you
make home their delight, Eli them with
higher purposes than mere pleasure.
Whether they shall pass happy boyhood
and enter IN upon manhood with refined
tastes and noble ambitions depends on
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Chicago, Sunday, the ImmanuA
Baptist Church was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000.
SEVEN railway coaches filled with pas
sengers We're overturned near Upton, Ia,
Saturday merning.
A SON of J. NJ. Moses, a prominent
farmer near Jackson, Mimi, fell from his
father barn, sustaining injuries that will
prove fatal.
JUDGE L. c. Houck, a member of con-
gress FROM Tennessee, died at his home in
Knoxville, Sunday night. By mistake be
took poison.
A TORONTO dispatch says William Silt,
William Gilmour and Charles Lockwood
were drowned in RIdeau lake by the up
setting Of a canoe.
Two woRkMEN fell from the roof Of st.
Paul's church at Springfield, H., Thurs
day and one of them, VIM. McCaulla, had
his back broken and will die.
A TEN-year-old daughter of William
Hall, prominent Hall county, Texas, far
mer, was dragged to death by a horse
which she was holding by the halter.
w. 0. WORTH, president of the Chica-
go bicycle company, and A. S. Jordan, tie
St. Louis agent of the concern, were ter
rlbly burned by an explosion which took
place in toe Keene block, Chicago, where
the Worth bicycles are manufactured.
Loss about 100000
WHILE Martin Spillman and wife were
driving across the railroad track near
Lebanon, Ind, Wednesday evening they
were struck by the east-hound train on
the Big -Four road and fatally injured.
DURING the excitement of fire in a
tenement house at Baltimore, Md, Mrs.
Mary Morton threw her child out of a sec
ond story window. 1t fell in the arms of
big coored woman below and escaped
unipjuled. Mrs. Morton followed and broke
hel legs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
GREEK HORSEMA NSHIP.
Readers in tie Time of Alexander the


One of the most precious relics of the
past is bronze statuette dug up at Her
culaneum in 1851, and thought to be a
copy of the equestrian statue known to
have been made of Alexander the Great by
Lysippus, after the battle OF the Granlcus,
when statues of all the brave who fell in
this initial victory were made by the
famous sculpturer II it is truely copy
of Lysippus's work, we can judge from
it how the Macedonians manage their
horses in a hand-to-hand conflict. The
king is shown sitting on blanket firmly
held in place by breast strap and glrth;
without dropping the reins from bis bride
hand he grasps this substitute for saddle
at the withers, and turning full halfway
to the right and looking backward. gives
a swinging cut with his sword to the rear,
covering as big an arch Of the circle as the
best swordsmau who ever sat In saddle.
The statue is full of life and natural to a
degree. Ifnot Lysippus pork, 1t Is that
of a 3onsummate artist. The position
shows great freedom Of movement on the
horse, and seat strong and elastic. That
the Macedonians kept their keels well
away from the horses TANKS, or that they
did not rely on their heels to cling to him,
is shown by their commonly wearing
spurs thing the Indian usually avoids;
and the same habit shows clearly in this
piece of art.
When riding merely and not fighting,
the Greek sat on bis breech In naLural
position, took a firm hold with his thighs,
but let his legs from the knee down hang
free. His attitude, as shown in the Pan
athenaic procession on the Pdrthenon, was
singularly graceful n style; and that it
was, the common one is to be seen from
Xenophon's rules for keeping the seat.
He managed the rains with light and easy
hands The Indian, ON the contrary, was
singularIy awkward and .ungainly. He
sat on his crotch, leaning forward, with
the thigh not far from perpendicular, and
the leg thrust back at almost a right
angle. This he could do with the Plains
pony, whose barrel was far from as well
rounded as that of the Thessalian chunk;
and he got a goodly part of his grip from
his calf and heel. The contrast between
the statue of Alexander, or one of
Catlin's Pictures is .stri king. Bat though
the old-time Indian was the equai-prob-
ably the superior-f.s a mere rider, Of the
Greek. it Is the latter whom we must
select as mode if we wish to preserve any
senblance OF beauty In the equestrianism.
From Some American Riders by
Colonel T. A Dodge, in Harper's Maya
zine for May.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

A STRAW in the Canadian annexation
question is the effort being made by Cana
da to regain It's own emigrants to the
United States. Many of the Canadians
now residing in America are out Of work,
and the opportunities offered by the Do,
minion are being pressed upon them. One
way or another such of these people who
do go back will have good deal to say on
annexation, and probably the majority of
them will have seen enough of the bust
ness energy of the United States to join
the annexationist crown But it is not at all
certain that the United States has yet made
up its mind what the manifest destiny of
our friends over the border ought to be.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

under such conditions, suffer in mind
and body, and what must have been the
sufferings of this little one, wandering for
days where there was little to sustain life,
and where the solitude was as great as
though the child had been in the middle
of the great desertt Muchis occasionally
said of the fortitude and the endurance
of Indian children subjected to privation
and danger, but here is a case of endurance
and fortitue on the part of a white child
bat as remarkable as anything related
of Indian children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

FIRE at Montreal, Sunday. burned a
block of warehouses owned by friedman
& Friend, the New England paper com
pany, the Metropolitan manufacturing
company. H. Beleau, church ornaments
and several smaller concerns. Loss, $780,
900; insured.
CHARLES HOLM. an iron worker, fell
from the ninth story of the new Manhat-
tan building, on Dearborn street, Chicago,
Tuesday morning. He was alive when
taken up, and the physicians are unable to
tell how seriously he is injured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Wool Woe! Unutterable Woe.

Why endure it daily, nightly, we had well nigh
said hourly. They do who are tortured by chronic
rheumatism. The remedy, botanic, pure, safe
and prompt is at hand. Were the evidence in be-
half of Hostetter's Stomach Bit,ers colated, it
would be found to TEEN with we'll authenticated
proofs that the medicine is both a preventative
and remedy in this malady of varying sgonies
and ever present danger To forestall its chronic
stage IL the dictate Of prudence. Renounce dan
gerous medication. Far more effective, more GER
tain, more permanent In the benafcant conse-
quences is the Use of the Bitters. Experience in
dorses, the recommendation OF physicians sane
ton its use. Begin early, use with persistence
and expect relief. Hoststter's Stomach BI ters
relieves constipation, biliousness, kidney all
ments, dyspepsIs anu malarial trouble.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

WILLIAM, the Little, by sufferance of
the people rather than the grace of God,
emperor of Germany, in speech the
other night, is reported as declaring, 81
alone am master in this country, and no.
body else The young man may learn
before he dies that no one man is the alb
soute master in any country. The czar of
Russia, even, knows that the power of the
people is not to be despised in these days
by any autocrat in any land. William
may wake up some fine morning and find
his throne overturned and the people run,
ming the government.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
THETHANEs EMBANKMENT.
A Wonderful Work of Engineering, The
History of Which is Forgotten.

and internal trade Roman London was
as eminent in antiquity as it is to-day.
It's monuments, the memorials Of It's
greatness. prove its prominence One OF
these, If it is Roman work, which is IN
certain, is the embanknent Of the river
Thames. This immense work is quite
unequalled by any of the labors of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Color on Juries.

''No p2rscn charged with crime in
volv.ng life or liberty is entitled by virtue
OF me constitution Of the United States to
have represented upon the grand jury
that may indict him or upon the petit
jury that may try him..
Such is the law as laid down by the high
est court of the nation in the case of
Jugrio, who complained that no Japanese
were on the grand jury that indicted him
Of murder. The same principle was ap-
piled in the case of Wood with respect to
colored jurors.
The question raised is not new one.
1t just came up some years ago In Vir-
GINA jury case. The law as then ex-
ponded by the court is that a state may
not exclude colored citizens from the jury
either by statute, by official action or by
systematic practice.
At the same time a colored prisoner Is
not entitled to a cOlored or mixed jury.
He cannot claim as right that even one
colored person shall be among the
twelve
What the law requires is that the jury
shall be drawn fairly and indlscrimlnate-
iy from the community. If this results In
a white jury colored prisoner has no
ground for complaint. To object success
fully he must show that eolored persons
have been purposely excluded because OF
their race.
At the new comic opera: Rush-"That' s
very good chorus, they arr rema hably
: well drilled"
De Billboard-'They ought to be,
they've had time enough, there ism 1 4 girl
In it under 40"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
EGYPT.
Its Conquest by the Young Women and
Young Men of England

Its Conquest by the Young Women and
Young Men of England
When the Khalif Of Granada returned
from the conquest of Cordova, in which he
had Inundated rival khalif by the aid
of Christian allies, and rode in triumph
through the streets to his palace, the
Alhambra he was hailed as a conqueror by
the populace. "AIas'' sid the weary
monarch, with pathetic recognition of
the fact that he had only aided the down
fall Of his own religion In the subsection
of rival-"alas! God is the only Con-
queror. The pious monarch had no ex-
perience of another force which is neither
Moslem nor Christian nor pagan, whose
deities are of this world. He would under
stand the matter better if he could be in
Egypt in the year of grace 1881. He
would see that Egypt is for tine first time
conquered, but not by arms, and not by
religion. What was accomplished neither
by the Hyksos nor by the Ethiopians;
neither by Nlmrod nor Shiskak nor Tig-
lath; nor by Shabek or Esarhaddon or Sar-
danapalus, by Psammetichus, by Cam
byses, or Darius Hystaspes; nor by Alex
ander the Great or by Ptolemy Softer; nor
by Caesar or Anthony; not even by Omar
and Ali; not by the Memlooks or the
great Napoleon, nor by Mohammed Ali
what none of these illustrious warriors
could accomplish has been effected by the
fashionable young women and the delight
full young men out of England. 1t is not
any Gladstone or Salisbury or Sir Garnet
Wolseley who has done this thing, or ever
could do it, any more than Cambyses or
Haroun al Raschid. The Assyrian. the
Persian. the Arab, have conquered Egypt,
and overrun it and occupied it and enslay-
ed it time and time again for five thou
sand years, and Egypt has always remain
ed essentially the same, conquerlng It's
conquerors by the inertia of It's traditions
anu the persistence Of its customs. And
the English, most stubborn to resist any
thing not of their own island, might have
ercampeG here and absorbed the riches
of the land, as the invaders Of Egypt for
ages before have done, and left not so
much impression on the country as the
annual rise and fall of the Nine. But one
day English society conceived the idea
that Egypt would be good winter resort,
and the young man and the young woman,
with their fixed ideas of the enjoyment of
life, descended on it, and set up The wor-
snip Of their goddess beside the ancient
temples and the sacred mosques. In ten
short years they have accomplished what
the great conquerors could not effect in
centuries before. The English tax-gather-
ers could not have done it, nor the rail-
ways, nor the electric lights. Both Fellah
and Arab are powerless before the new
goddess fashion. Charles Dudley Warner,
in the Editor Drawer of Harper's Maya
zine for May
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
Lost Girls.

No more pitiful story has been told in
the papers than that of the two little gIrls
lost in the sand hills of western Nebraska.
1t is terrible thing to think of a child
lost in. the city and scores of mothers had
the experience over the few hours absence
of little children wandering and half crazed
about the city, but with what pitiful ten
derness will the hearts of mothers and
fathers turn to the two little wanderers in
the almost desert region OF a newly set5l ed
country? Who can picture the sufferings
Of an eight-year-old girl who In the wild
wanGerings Of five or six days made the
distance of seventy-five miles. The stout
est men, those most resourceful when lost
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

THE state of Vermont is in a state of
mind over the aspect that the return Of
the direct tax money has taken on. The
question now is: Does the nation owe the
state $4,000 as its share of the direct
tax, or does the state owe the nation a
balance of $343, 100 on an old account for
arms issued to the Vermont militia in
1864, part of which were sold by the state
for $4,000 to the Turkish government in
1872? The cost of the arms was $640, 000
and the occasion of their issue was the fear
of a Canadian invasion that followed the
ST. Adams raid. The state rests its case
on the plea that frontier defense was a
national enterprise. The decision lies
with Attorney General Miller and is ex-
pected within a day or two. If it is
against the state, the matter will be taken
to congress. In any case, the proposed
$4,000 extra session of the Legislature to
accept the direct tax at once, and thus
save $4,000 in interest, will be obviated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

PIECE of apparatus for rendering safe
the ends of broken trolley wire was re-
Gently tested in Boston. 1t consists of a
frame, a parallelogram in shape, the space
between the sides being occupied by a
spiral spring which operates contact bar.
Inside of the parallel sides, thoroughly
insulated, run the wires connecting with
the contact piece of brass. In operation
the strain of the wire pulls The contact
bar, which is connected with the spiral
spring, into contact with the brass contact
piece, and electric connection is secured.
When the wire breaks the strain is releas-
ed, the contact bar springs back, and all
wire beyond the device is dead Max
Kerstein is the inventor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

MARCUS SIMoNs, young American
painter, heretofore confning his work to
Paris, exhibits picture this year in the
Academy, at Chicago, andis honored by a
position in line. He also has picture in
the Salon at Paris, accepted unanimously
in an Unprecedented stress of competition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04

TIE success of the pneumatic dynamite
guns of the Vesuvius in the recent trials
off Fort Monroe is very gratifying from a
naval point of view. The horrible power
of this explosive, by the way, was illustrat-
ed to perfection at Tarrytown at the first
test of the cruiser guns. Dynamite is
bound to make its mark in the warfare of
the future.
SANITARY administration, says Erastus
Brooks. means not only personal comfort
and health in the family, but economy to
the estate and family. Two hundred and
fifty thousand lives lost, three million cases
of sickness and 100000 in money are
traced, in one decade in England alone to
neglect of sanitary care. The sword and
musket are terrible ministers of death,
but even in armies, where battles kill one
peeson, disease kills at least three.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
sRi ND RAPIDS, WISCONSIN

Coal frieghts by lake are lower than
they have been since 1873-74. Dealers al
know it. Will they give the public any
share in the obvious advantage?
AN edible litchen which may possibly b
connected with the mamma of the Hebrews
has lately fallen in showers in Asia Minor.
1t is in the form OF little balls, yellow out
side and white within, aud is greedily
eaten by man and beast.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-04
CRIME.

A RANCHER on Clear Creek, close to
Alma, Ari., has been murdered by In
dams
Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-06
TEN DOLLARS CAUGHT HIM.
A Man Wanted by San Diego Bank
Captured by Bosqui.

At 1O:40 o'clock last night, as the
train for the north. pulled out of Arcade
depot, Detective Bosqui sat down at the
side of a small man with brown mus
tache, who was comfortably ensconced
in corner of one of the cars, and en-
gagged him in conversation. The psssen-
ger was not very communicative, and
replied in monosyllables to the detect
ives questions. On arrival at the San
Fernando-street depot, however, the
officer introduced himself and placed
the little man under arrest by virtue of
a telegram from the Bank of Commerce,
OF San Diego. The little man vigorously
protested against this action, and while
the detective was assisting him to take
his baggage from the car he took to his
heels and fled across the yard. As the
officer was hampered by coat and a
nasty fall he received in jumping from
the car, the little man had all the ad-
vantage and was rapidly making the
best of it. His pursuer pulled his gun
and sent bullet whizzing over his
head, but this only served to increase
his pace, and finally in desperation the
detective yelled out, "Ten dollars to the
man who catches him." This cry acted
like charm, for in two minutes the
little man was struggling in the grasp OF
burly brakeman, and he was soon
handed over to the detective. He was
takenIto the station and locked up in the
city Jail, to await the arrival of an officer
from San Diego. When searched, he
had over 5000 in gold and notes upon
his person, besides gold watch and
several valuable trinkets. He had pur-
chased ticket for Mojave, and would
doubtless have gone east from that place
had he not been captured. The tele-
grams stated that his name was s..
Phillips, but the authorities are some
what reticent as to the nature of the
offense for which he is wanted in San
Diego,
Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-06

THAT was brilliant tianking move
ment in the United States senate yester-
day, which was engineered by Senator
Stewart, of Nevada. The elections bill
was in the full tide of success, when the
Nevada senatormovedt that it be laid aside
and that the financial measure should
be taken up. To the surprise of Hoar
and the other fanatics. the motion car
ried by vote OF "a to29. The Republi-
can senators who rose above a contempt
ible party leadership and voted for the
best interests of the country were Shoup
and Mcconnell, of Idaho, Jones and
Stewart, of Nevada, Teller and VOL
colt, OF Colorado, Stanford, of Cali
fornia, and Washburn, OF Minnesota.
This vote sounds the death knell of the
force bill. The effete eastern senators
may as we'll lay it to one side and get
down to business. This measure, COM
pounded of tyranny and fraud, has been
relegated to the limbo OF things lost upon
earth by an intelligent western senti-
meQt.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-06

WE WILL all feel relieved at the news
that General Miles is still in the flesh, =,
and directing things at the front. The
rumor OF his death bore all the earmarks
of first class but very stupid canard
from the first. He knows the Indian char
acter too well to put himself in danger
while in the field. Really, with all due
respect for the usual excellence OF the
Associated Press news service, we feel
compelled to protest against the giving
of currency to such sensational story
without solid foundation of fact under
meath it. The wires reach to the
camp where Miles is, and a little
bit OF enterprising inquiry at the
start would have kept this story
from disquieting the whole nation. We
are decidedly ashamed of Mr.. William
Henry Smith. OF course this thing was
done while you were necessarily absent
from duty; but the subordinate who
sent the wild story out deserves death
before daylight.
Los Angeles herald., 1891-01-06
WALKED FROM SONORA.
An Old Woman's Long Journey Hunt
ing Her Son. az

About seven O'Clock last evening, as
the "Colton flyer" of the s. r. R. r..
Co., was approaching this city, the en-
gineer noticed an old woman driving
three burros along the track a short
distance ahead of the train. He warned
the woman Of her danger by the usual
signals, but the stubborn burros refused
to obey her command, and the engineer
was obliged to stop his train. Before
bringing it to a standstill, however, one
of the burros was struck by the cow
catcher and thrown down an embank
ment, striking the old woman as it
rolled, and hurting her down also. She
was picked up by the trainmen, and
as she was badly bruised and shaken,
she was brought to this city and taken
to the receiving hospital. At the police
station it was learned that her name
was Elicia Escolara, and that she had
travelled on foot from Sonora. Mexico,
with her three burros, upon whose
backs was packed everything she pos
sessed, in search of her only son whom
she believed resided in this city. For
tunately her injuries were not OF Sc
rious nature.