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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
COULDN'T QUITE UNDERSTAND.
The Englishman Thought the New Way OF
Paving Small Debts a Funny One.

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ne nhsiishhan inousn' ,ne Ne" way OF
rasins smah Dep's unns one.
He was taking pleasure trip through
this country and was unused to its citizens,
which may explain his action: He met a
trend fr19 don On the n street showed him card
ana ASKED MIN TO go with MIN to the adj
ure e.W On IT, a. .o,, ,
sa n"' Is the matter! asked the
ile " ~. ;,
foro; w ny, TN. .th,g gentleman, explained the
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WIN n9tnlng out draft In my pocket.
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llsIeo TO come clashlng AFTER MIN with
nlckel ana ne Indignantly refused t.
'ake IL. ;, $50,
but' SIR SAID the stranger, with sur,
PRISE. owe IL 10 you. Ana don
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
RUBBERS.
Where the Material Comes from, and How
They are Made.

Many people suppose that rubber shoes
are made by melting the material and
running it into moulds. Such is not the
case. The manufacture of rubber shoes is
not very much different from the manufac-
ture of leather shoes. They are made On
| lasts lust the same but instead of being
sewed they are cemented.
eve get most of the raw material from
South America, said a drummer. IL is
about the color Of moiasses and is of
spongy nature. First it goes through
crushing or rolling process and comes out
in rough sheets and looks very much like
cows hide. then it is taken into COM
pounding room, where it is mixed with
compound and vulcanized. After that it
is cut up into small pieces, according to
the parts of shoes which we wish to get,
and is afterward fitted on to lasts by the
workmen in the same manner that
leather is.
"How much pure rubber is contained in
the manufactured article? About 70 per
cent The best Para gum costs e5 cents
pound, so you see rubber boots and shoes
can not be made for nothing. In the
smallest rubber shoe made there are about
four ounces of pure rubber, and from that
to probably four pounds in a pair of rub
Der boots.
"Old lubbers are ground up, lining
and all, into what we call rag carpet, and
it is used for insoles.
"Che work is nearly all done by hand,
and IN the factories are employed young
children, men and women. A bo0tmaker
gets 20 cents pair for making them, and
a good man can turn out from ten to
twelve pairs day.
There are between fifteen and twenty
rubber boot aud shoe factories Ia the coun-
try, with total capacity of over 10000
pairs Of boots and shoes day.
There are four factories having ca
pacity Of over 5000 pairs each, and one
which has capacity of 10000 pairs. 1t
is mystery where they all go to-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
ASSESSING SAW LOGS.
New Laws Discriminate in Favor of The
Smaller Townships.

Smaller Townships.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, Special Telegram,
June 13.-Today was the time for the as.
sessment of saw logs and it is found that
the shrewd Legislators from the upper
counties whose constituency consists
largely of specbed trout, bears and
catamounts have gotten the better of the
lumber manufacturing centers under the
new assessment laws. The only way the
logs. which are now on the stream and
destined to be sawed at Eau Claire, can be
assessed at Eau Claire is by fling at
fidavits of the mill owners with
the assessors of the district where the logs
now are. The afidavits must be flied by
June Is, and show that the mill owners
own the logs, specifying the amount and
other details. But the fact that nearly all
the sawmills get logs from the comm on
stock of the pool prevents them from full
filling the technical requirements of the
affidavits and the logs can be assessed
only where they now are on the streams.
This viii give large, sums of taxes to
needy township in the woods, but knocks
Eau Claire out of five hundred thousand
dollars valuation. Other manufacturing
centers are IN similar fix.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Mr.. ALBERT II. ScoTT. chief of the SAL
airy and allowance division In the office of
the first assistant postmaster general has
completed the adjustment of the salaries
OF the frst-class postmasters to take effect
July l. 1891. The total number OF first
class offices is 128. an increase of fourteen
during the year. The aggregate OF the
salaries of the frst-class postnasters is
$3.50 500, an in crease Of 81, 800. The IN
creas' of the gross receipts at the first class
OH q. for the year ended March 81, 1891,
3 GAG. 247.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

AN expedition maintained by the Chi
cage Herald has gone to the West Indies
discover the exact spot where Columbus
frst landed, and where his foot first
pressed the soil of the new world. A
monument will be built at that point. The
place has long been definitely located, but
the Herald expedition will not be value
less insofar as some of the breezy des-
criptions of the newspaper writer of today
will be employed in refreshing the mem
DRY of the public as to the features Of the
historic spot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

THE Roman authorities propose to cure
the commercial vice of adulterat1on by
the publication, in the daily papers, of the
names of all makers and vendors of food
substance which are adulterated or injuri-
GUS to health
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

IRELAND's population, thanks to
English rule, has decreased nearly one
half in the past forty years. 1t is now
4,7O6, 1862. In the same time Scotland has
added over IS per cent, and is now but
little behind Ireland in numbers. England
and Wales have about doubled in the
half century, having not far from 10000
900 at present.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Montana
. 1898 w. T. Sanders, r
1895 Thos. G. Powers, r
Nebraska
1898 A. S. Paddock, r
1895 c. +. Henderson, r
Nevada
1898 VIM. NJ. Stewart, r
1897 John P. Jones, r
New Hampshire
1895 W E. Chandler. r
3 1897 J. H. Gallinger, r
New Jersey
1898 Rufus Blodgett, D
1895 j. r. Mcpherson, D
New York
1898 Frank Hiscock, R
Z 1897 David B. Hill, d
North Carolina
1895 Matt W. Ransom, D
1897 q. B. Vance, d
North Dakota
1898 Lyman r. Casey, r
1897 H. c. Hansbrough,R
Ohio
1923 John Sherman, R
1897 Calvin s. Brice, D
Oregon
21S95 Joseph \. Dolph, r
1897 John II. Mitchell, r
Pennsylvania
1893 Matthew S. Quay, r
1897 j. d. Cameron, r
Rhode Island
: 1888 \. w. Aldrich, r
1895 Nathan F. Dixon, r
South Carolina
Z 1895 NJ. c. Butler, D
\ 1897 John L, NJ. Irby, D
South Dakota
} 1895 F. R. Pettigrew, R
} 1895 j. H. Kyle, Ind
Tennessee
1885 William B. Bate, r
1895 Isham q. Harris, D
Texas
1898 John II. Reagan, D
1895 Richard Coke, D
Vermont
1898 G. F. Edmunds, r
1897 j. F. Morrill,, X
Virginia
1898 John W. Daniel, D
3l1S95 John s. Barbour, D
Washington
R 1898 John B. Allen, r
R 1897 W. c. Squire, R
West Virginia.
1893 G. j. Faulkner, d
z 1895 John E. kenna, d
Wisconsin,
D 1898 Philetus Sawyer, r
1897 William F. Villas, D
Wyoming
1898 F. E. Warren, r
1895 Joseph M. CareyR
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

IT is announced that company of New
Workers intend to make search for the
buried treasurers of Capt. Kidd this sum-
mer This leads some cynical paper to
declare that the Grant monument commit
tee at last has been heard from; may its
search be successful!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Alabama
1895 John I. Morgan, D
1897 James l.. Pugh, ID
Arkansas
1895 James II. Berry, d
1927 James X. Jones, ID
California
1898 G n. Fenton, r
1897 Leland Sanford, r
Colorado
1895 Ed. 0. Wolcott, r
1897 Henry NJ. Teller, l
Connecticut
1898 Jos. r. Hawley, r
1897 Orville II. Platt, r
Delaware
1898 George Gray, d
1895 Anthony Higgins, |
Florida
1893 Samuel Pasco, ID
1897 William Call, D
Georgia
1895 A. II. Colquitt, D
1897 John b. Gordon, D
Idaho
1898 George L. Shoup, r
1907 Fred I. Dubois, r
Illinois
1895 Shelby NJ. Cullom. ]
1897 John NJ. Palmer, ID
Indiana
1898 David Turpie, d
1897 d. W. VOORHEES,, d
Iowa
1895 James F. Wilson, /
1897 VIM. B. Allison, r
Kansas
1895 Preston b. Plumb, l
1897 VIM. A. PETER, F I
Kentucky
1895 John @. Carlisle, |
1897 j. c. S. Blackburn, /
Louisiana
1896 r. l.. Gibson, y
1897 Ed. ID. White, d
Maine
1898 Eugene Hale, r
1895 Within P. Frye, r
Maryland
1893 A. p. German, d
1897 A Democrat
Massachusetts
1923 Henry l.. Dawes, r
1895 George Z. Hoar, ]
Michigan
1893 F. b. Stockbridge, ]
1895 James Mcmillan,
Minnesota
1893 c. X. Davis, r
1895 ". d. Washburn, )
Mississippi
1898 James z. George, ]
1895 E. c. Walthall, ID
Missouri
1893 F. NJ. Cockrell, D
1897 Geo. G. Vest, d
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

The cande-power which is used as the
standard of Illuminating efficiency means
the light of the sperm-candle seven ghths
of an inch in diameter, burning at the
rate of 12S grains per hour.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18
THE UNITFD STATES SENATE

The election of Senator Call in Florida
makes the senate of the ffty-second con-
gress complete with the exception of the
member from Ma land to succeed Sena-
tor Wilson, deceased. A democrat will of
4,4-s7 "a jits Maryland vacancy. Thus,
in the absence of any further visitations
by death, the exact composition and
completion of the next senate may be
known
The new senate will stand:
Republicans 4o
Democrats ........... ........... ...... IS
Independents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ..........
This gives the republicans majority
over all of eight and plurality of ten.
Following is list of the members of the
new senate, together with their politics
and the date of the expiration of Terms:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

Of all the four hundred methods Of i'm
proving the memory invented, nothing
up to date beats giving note on thirty
days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1891-06-18

to US, with the prospects Of large wheat
crop IN this country and poor one in
France, where it is estimated that the de-
fciency will be nearly sixty million bush
els, that the French chamber of deputies
last Saturday voted to reduce the duty on
flour to six francs and on wheat to three
francs per hectolitre, The franc being
nearl y twenty cents and the hectolitre be-
ing two bushels and three and 35-1O0
pecks, The duty on wheat has been FIVE
francs.
IT will be a comfort to know, if we. ever
do, that the American metropolis is not
exposed to utter destruction in the event
of war being made upon us by some
4ureign power. 1t is therefore proper
tionately pleasing to learn that the practi-
cal fertilization of the harbor of New
York was begun last week. If the twelve
inch gun that has just been sent from the
Watervliet factory to Sandy Hook shall
stand the tests to which it is to be sub
jected, no hostile vessel can approach
within five miles of New York without
encountering its fire. The range
of the gun, the largest yet con-
structed in this country, is considerably
greater; but at that distance it is conf,
IDENTIFY expected it could sink any war
vessel now aaoat. This expectation is
soon to be put to the proof, for the trial Of
the gun will be made ir a few weeks. The
guns of smaller caliber, made at Water
vliet, have more than met expectations
and have been praised by the officers Of
foreign armies as the most powerful
accurate and efficient ordnance the
world has seen up to the present time
There have, it is true, been various fortif
cations for the protection of New York
notably those at the Narrows, but theil
guns have quite generally been deemed O
insufficient power to keep hostile vessels
from running through into the upper ha,
Dor by night and thus from the shadow O
the statue of liberty pouring into the help
less city the deadliest fire to which plac,
was ever subjected.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-17
What poes He 1.-Two For?

In a sermon on Sunday Evangelist
Telford enunciated one of those stupen-
dously immoral doctrines which only
a fanatical zealot can invent for the
injury and confusion OF his fellows.
He delivered a diatribe against pleas
ure. He said pleasure" was a word
he would like to blot out OF existence.
He denounced pleasure" a being the
foundation of all evil, saying that
while in one aspect il was beautiful
in the other ii was horrible.
Now what a desert of misery and
despair this world would be If Mr..
Telford had his way. With the eter-
nal round of working for mere life,
and praying in terror of the dread flu
ture, human existence would be re-
duced below the level of the brute
creation. for they have joy in the fair
ness OF nature and in the companion
ship of living things. Not in the
awful rule of the cruelest monastic
order. not in the hysterical asceticism
Of the hermits of the middle ages, has
this doctrine been surpassed for
malignant perversion of Divine pur-
poses.
This awful condemnation Of all that
is soft and joyous in life is of the same
spirit that sent mad armies of Flagel-
lants through the cities of Europe,
that steeled the Inquisition to its
cruelties, that made the Scotland of
the Covenanters a land of night, that
that erected the monasteries of the
Trappists, and that harnessed on the
New World those fanatical blue
Laws which are still a drag and a
hindrance to our civilization. lI5
Does Mr.. Telford imagine he doe g
any good by preaching such a doe
trineg Does he think he woo souls
to Heaven with such theories? Does
he think he speaks in the spirit of the
benign and gentle Master whom he
pretends to preach2 Let him study
the New Testament a little andisee
whether the Savior of men project
ed the salvation of the race through
the humiliation of pleasure, or
whether He did not rather try to in
vest the things OF life with new and
joyous meanings, thereby %elevating
the human soul in preparation for the
still greater pleasures which He prom
Uses in the great hereafter to those
who identify themselves with Him in
spirit.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-17
Economx I'm n Family.


There is nothing which goes so far
toward placing young people beyond
the reach of poverty, as economy in
the management of their domestic
affairs. 1t matters not whether a
man furnish little or much for his
family, if there is a continual leakage
in the kitchen or in the parlor. 1t is
the husbands duty to bring into the
house, and it is the duty of the wife
to see that nothing goes wrongfully
out of it-not the least article, how
ave unimportant In itself, for it es-
tablishes a precedent-nor under any
pretense, for it opens the door
for Ruin to stalk in, and he seldom
leaves an opportunity un~improved-
The husbands interest should be the
wife's care, and her greatest ambition
should carry her no farther than his
welfare or happiness, together with
that of her children. This should be
her sole aim, and the theatre of her
exploits in the bosom of her family,
where she may do as much toward
making a fortune, as he a in the
counting-room or in the workshop.
1t is not the money earned that makes
a man wealthy-it is what he saves
from his earnings. A good and prud-
ent husband makes a deposit OF the
fruits OF his labor with his best friend,
and if that friend be not true to him,
what has he to hope? If he dare not
place confidence in the companion of
his bosom, where is he to place it?-
Neeo York Ledger.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-17
PERSONAL

Judge Caleb S. Green was reported, yesterday,
to be getting gradually weaker.
The Dover Iron Era says:--Last week George
r. Gray of Newark. was elected Comptroller of
the State of New Jersey and ex-senator John
W. Griggs was elected President OF the new
Paterson Safe and Deposit Company. Both
were Sussex boys. who went out in the world to
seek their fortunes, and but add to the oft re-
peated evidences of the push and energy OF the
inen of old Sussex. Among the Sussex County
men now In the service of the State are Secre-
tary Of State Kelsey, Comptroller Gray, and
State Librarian Hamilton. Sussex Is a great
county-to emigrate from.
Mrs. William Walter Phelps and the Countess
Bernstorff and Scbnitenbourg win today preside
at a farewell reception to be given to Countess
Waldersee by the Berlin Young Mems Christian
Association. The Countess was prominent in
founding the association in that city. Mr..
Phelps intends to give a general reception at the
end OF the month TO the members Of the Amerl-
can colony in Berlin.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-17
Pride.

1t is astonishing how many things
people find to buildtheir pride
nationality, as the Jew; citizenship, as
the Bostonian; a large house; an extra
servant; a wealthy or distinguished
relative; an old name; a frequently
printed one: a little prosperity; a big
adversely; the empty air itself.
HE is the proudest man in town."
said one citizen to another.
What is he so proud of? Is he
wealthy"
"High-born?"
mo"
"Handsome?'
"Why, no. There is nothing in
particular, you see. He is just
proud
In this, as in everything else, zone
touch of nature make the whole world
kin" Milford, wrapped away in his
grandeur, has a devout if comical
imitator in the valet who struts after
him with haughtiness tenfold greater
than his own. How milady, melting
out. with exquisite tact, her smiles
and her condescension, would shudder
TO behold the parody on herself in the
first floor of that tall meagre house
near Golden Square, where Mrs.
Kenwigs is in the delightful act of
engaging French lessons for her little
family.
"'And when you go out in the
streets or elsewhere, | desire that you
don't boast of it to the other children
said Mrs. Kenwigs, and that If you
must say anything about it, you don't
say no more than We've got a pri-
vate master comes to teach us at
home, but we amt proud, because ma
says it's sinful" Do you hear, Nor
leenaT"
Perhaps eccentricities of pride show
themselves most in the country. There
every mans house is emphatically his
castle, and independence reaches its
acme. Any peculiar advantage takes
on for its possessor vast proportions.
Glibness OF tongue, a little learning,
make one man IN autocrat. A little
mouey-a very little-makes many
another an -overweening aristocrat.
The %proudest family we ever knew
was in a tiny country village. The
grandfather had been n wild, swearing
blacksmith. But his son had been
left with means sufilcienNto provide n
pretty little hotne Tor wife and daugh-
tiers. Through whatever occult men
tai processes. these people built them
selves up in the belief that IL was
theirs to dominate the place.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-02-17

- Jersey. on pill. etc. for partition between Vic
toria Charlotte Laurencot. complainant. and Ed
BY virtue OF a aecree for sale In the above stated
eouse, bearing date the twenty-nrst day Of Novem-
ciai Masters OF tho Court Of Chaneery OF New Jer-
s plsn sRall S saEq1sd tos sh5s r atP p two O yensas "a ap shs az. afs
ternoon OF Saturday. the twentyeighth day OF FEB
land and premiises situate in fthe City y RRo obfeifa
IN the county OF Hudson and State of New Jersey.
Inat tract or parcel Of land and premises. situate,
lying and being in the clty.o: Aoooksn. in the
commencing at u point in the westerly line OF Gar
den street two hundred and thirty-three feet esq
and Tenth streets ana running thence northerly
and along The line of Garden street twenty-one ell
street one hundred feet; thsEee southeriy and par
allel win Garden street Iwenty-ons t2D feet, ana
Being the same. premises conveyed TO the said
By y'0 the EoOoken Land ana Tmprosemen com
Rany By deed dated feorgary 1885,. aud reeo5ded
10! OF Deeds. p.f15. when said deed contains the
s soid DaT,y 6 so ssa seso5 sga pays fgr 6i%ssif. h Az hs sRs
and assigns hereby covenants TO and with the said
pssrsies; h Of "a the / hr ssio part esst their el ,S SUCCESSOR ceeoSd n ana 5 sS
heirs and assigns, oceupyinx tho hereby granted
n psssd Sp %ii ne not e sasi bra nof permit a5y 10 s Gs ss5sS,
house. taliow chandiery. furn ace. steam en-
factory nor any, manursctory of :gaepOwder
or fire works. glue, vitrlol or yarnish, ink,
camphor. Nor Tor the tanning. dressing. preparin :
or keeping Of hides, skins or leather, nor any chemi
S aii; gSs nor Us P sSy oehe5 i nSISanes. N0 To gesSsry WITH "a d ali
ami singular the herediIaInents and appurtenances
Guiding tae ss.ate ana int rest Ia DOVER Of tie dc.
fendanI. Desifse Hortense Adelaide ,Laurencos,
widow OF Joseph p Lnurencot, deceased.
Special aaster In chancery Of New Jersey.
Messrk L. 4. z W. T. DAY. SOLICITORS.