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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
COMMENCEMEN EXERCISES.

heard the essays That one on
THE Magma Charta and King JOHN
The head girl wrote, she with the wreath,
Described Iear's wandering on the earth
Quite prettily. Another one
Explained THE spots upon the SUM-
"fhe Influence of Browning" and
tine early writings of George Sand;''
The Transcendental Movement: How
1t Touches German Letters now
All these | sadly listened TO.
''What earthly good can these things dor
| asked myself: "Does old King John
Teach you to sew patch upon
A coatf-or can the spotted sun
Say when a roast is rarely done?
Do Browning's tangled poems tell
The way to mend a stocking we'll?
While l was wondering sadly there,
4 sweet girl rose, and, I declare,
She talked about the homely things
From washtubs down to muffin rings!
She had ten pages all on pie,
She knew the choicest way to fry
An oyster and how best TO bake
4 good old-fashioned johnny cake.
Next day the girl was asked to share
The fortunes of millionaire;
She now reads BrownIng's wondrous books,
And leaves the cooking TO her cooks.
The girl who wrote on Browning's work
Is married to a gentle clerk
Whose incomes small. No girl have they;
She scrubs and cooks the livelong day
And signs, while bending DER the range,
When she reflects upon the change
The fall from school sublimities
To tattere books of recipes
-SDriOpfial1 Mass } Granhic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
A MYSTERIOUS CASE.
Mrs. Stone Murdered While a Pinkerton
Detective Was in the House.

EDeERToN, Wis, June 16.-The testi-
mony Of Drs. Palmer and Mills, of James
vile, in conjunction with that of Drs.
Lord and McMannus, Of Edgerton, taken
in the inquest of the case of Mrs. Daniel
Stone, whose dead body was found IN the
cistern on the Stone premises June
5, brought out the startling infor-
nation that Mrs. Stone was MUIR
dered before being thrown into the water.
Tue post mortem of the physicians re-
vealed the fact that she had been struck
upon the chest with force sufficient to
break the clavicle and dislocate two ribs.
The Commissions and congested conditions
Of the organs prove conclusively to the
friends Of the medical experts that
injuries sufficient to produce uncon-
scI0usuess were inflicted prior to
being thrown in the cisterp. The
coroner's jury reached a verdict Of death
by Intentional violence at the hand or
hands OF some person or persons unknov n
to the jury. The case has caused intense
excitement and has proven one of the
most mysterious muder cases that has ever
taken place in this county. That this
woman should have been murdered while
a Pinkerton detective was in the house
awake and watching the surroundings
makes the mystery still more unfathoma-
able.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
Thoughts for The Farm er

A timely matter for thought just now
is: How may the farmer make all expert
ment station of is own on mis- farm? Is
there anything he wants to know OF
croos, feeling or other matters? Then
let him test these things for himself. The
great question of surprising interest is
How may the yield OF the crops be doubled
at the same cost as the present unsatlsfac
tory product? Can it be done by better
culture, more liberal or more effective fer.
til zing, or by better seed? Every farmer
who has sufficient intelligence to be dis
satisfied with crops that make no profit for
him may fix on the cause Of the difficulty
whether it be small yield or excessive cost.
And having found this he may very easily
SET himself to work to try in a small way
how 1t may be remedied. Take one crop,
for instance, any one, corn or potatoes
Apply double the quantity of manure Oh
fertilizers. and study how the method Of
cultivation may be improved. Keep the
soil always mellow and clean. At every
cultivation apply little more fertilizer
so as to keep tie crop fully fed, If it i.
thought desirable to test the soil use diff
ferent fertilizers to portions Of the crops
and note the results.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23

why Industries Are Prospecting in Il

why Industries Are Prt speripg in the
South.
The Atlanta Constitution quotes from
a statistical report a statement that the
difference between the annual value of
the cOuntry's raw cotton as the planters
sell it and the same cotton when wrought
into fabrics is on an average SOO,OOO,OOO.
The Constitution calls attention to the
enormous wealth whidh the sum total Of
few years of suchl financiering had
thrown into the handi of northern man
rfacturing communities and the old
world as it declares:H
1T is rot too late til make an effort to
keep this money at Home. The south
ern people need all Che profit that can
be made out of cottdn, and it is evident
that the surest way 10 get it is to man,
ufacture our raw mferial here at home
in sight of the cott&sa fields"
This is the republican idea exactly,
and putting it into practical operation
it has built up many industries in the
south. Under free trade, there were no
cotton factories in the south-under
protection there are many. And yet,
isn't it strange that while the Atlanta
Constitution breaches republican doc
trine in declaring that the factory and
the cotton fl Id should be close neigh
bors, it supports men for congress and
for pr sident whose policy is altogether
against the establishment of industries
IN the south or anywhere else in this
country Free trade never coated a
cotton factory near a cotton field, and
never will.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
PAINFUL PARALLEL.
Some Of the Reasons Why the
Country Endorses the Ad-
ministration.
Foreign Trade During the Last
Two Administrations Brief
ly Compared.
Facts Which Plainly Prove the
Wisdom Of Republican
Policies.

A condensed statement has been pub
lished of the trade between this country
and foreign nations during the last three
years of President Harrison's admins
t1ation and the last three years OF
Cleveland's administration, which Will
not be very interesting reading to the
friends of the latter. Both exports and
imports are given for each of the years
in question, and the Industrial policy OF
the republican party is triumphantly
indicated. The exports during the
three years of Harrison's administration
exceeded those during the correspond
ing period Of Cleyeland's by the sum OF
1851 907 $685. and the imports during the
three wears of Harrison S adminlstra-
ton exceeded those during the cores
bonding period of Cleveland's 309,694,-
918
The excess of exports over imports IN
favor Of the p esent administration,
which is SO oftea accepted as showing
the prosperity Of :he country, was, IN
money, S252, 212 1888; or, to put it in an
other form, the excess of exports over
imports during the three years OF Pres
ident Harris administration have
been 1921 1877 269, while during the cor
responding period of Cleveland's admin
lstrduOn they < ere only 5Zo,oo4,oi9.
Equally significant is the fact that the
foreign commerce of the country has in
creased during President Harrison's ad
ministration, as compared with a cores
ponding period of his predecessors
term, by the enormous sum of S87l, co.,
S24
But this is not all. The value of
merchandise imported free of duty dur
ing the twelve months ending March
81, 1899, the last year of Cleveland's adj
ministration, was $254, 294, 235, or 24.65
per cent of the total imports during
that period, while The value of the mer-
chandise imported free of duty during
the twelve months ending March 81,
1892, amounted to 5l6l ,473, 523, 81 IL per
cent of the total imports for that period,
and this large increase in merchandise,
free of duty, consisted of such artic' es as
almost whole enter the daily consump-
ton of the people. Much of this, and
the most striking feature of 1.-THE in
crease in the importations free of duty
has been accomplished under the
working of the Mckinley tariff and its
reciprocity supplement.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
HE GOT HER.
How an Ugly Man Captured Rich a
Winning Widow,

How an Ugly Man Captured a Rich and
Winning Widow.
When woman who has weathered if.
ty winters travels 1900 miles with
S3l, 900 in her pocket TO wed penniless
man whom she never saw, it is i'll testing
to say that marriage is a failure. Such a
woman is Mrs. Lena Benntt, who Travelled
from Hilisdale, Mich, to Wilmington,
Del, to marry Charles B Cleaworth,I /.
machinist, and mary him she did al
Campden recently.
Two months ago Mrs. Cleaworth, who
has already buried two husbands, put q
tempting offer in a metropolitan paper.
1t fell under the eyes of Charts B. CIea-
worth, and correspondence followed.
Photogra phs were exchanged but the.
groom -to-be was not pleased wstn his own
physognomy, and he transported the ike
ness Of an Andonis friend. The latter man
euver bound the match and last week the
wealthy widow arrived in the chief city of
the Diamond state. She registered at the
Western hotel, Fourth and Orange Streets.
and learned that the object Of ner Journey
was at work at Trump Bros machine.
shops.
When the pair first met at the hotel
there were not the expected embraces, for,
the lady could not see in Cleaworth any re-
senbiance to the picture. No amount of
persuasion could make the coy widow be-
lieve that the pleader for her hand was the
bonafde correspondent until ellsworth adj
mitted that be had sent friends photo
tograph instead or his own. So deceived
was this rich wife of two previous hug
bands that she began to pout; bnt the
sympathetic actions of the prospective
third protector won her over and she act
ually said she was willing to have the
ceremony performed If he was inclined
likewise, The next day the marriage was
solomnized in Camden, n, J. and a
brief honeymoon at Atlantic city followed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
Industry and Faith

The busy man has more leisure than the
INDECENT man. | have never had any DIFF
fculty In arranging an interview with q
man who was DONG hundred things
regularly, but have had great difficulty
in fixing a man to definite appointment
who mad nothing to do. Who are doubt
ing men? Those who are not doing real
work The man who goes out with his
gospel to the Sums and the alleys of Lon
don comes back confirmed Christian; the
man who takes out his little religious
knowledge TO the club. the playground,
the festive circle. comes back wondering
whether, after all, there is not something
IN unbelief. Both issues are natural
Rev. Joseph Parker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
How to Train the Colt.

A colt should meyer know how much
strength he has unit. ~ KNOWS now to use
it. If he once runs iSvaIy he is never a
sale horse afterwards. and while he NAV
to all appearances forge ct it; there will
come a time when he will do much
damage The harness for breaking and
driving colts should be extra strong and
heavy. The reins and bit, especially,
must be stout enough for all possible
emergencies. A straight-bar bit is good
enough for steady horse, but it canuot
be depended on with fractional animals,
There are numerous kinds of bits that are
easy when horse is steady, but so made
as 60 hold the horse when he tries to run
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23

Let him that thinketh be standeth, take
heed lest he falI.-Bible.
Christ gives brightness and beauty,
giadness and glory, to the whole circle OF
life and duty.-NcArthur.
1t will help you to be charitable toward
others, to remember that other folks
have just as niue mule in them as you
nave.
Example and character teach as words
Hever can. Words unsustained by deeds
and with no character behind them are
empty and power!ess.
by about minute, but that short
time was enough to defeat the purpose,
and to disappoint the hope. the OPP
portuoity was gone, and with it the priyi-
lege.
No man has come to true greatness who
has not felt in some degree that his life
belongs to his race, and that what God
gives him he gives him for mankind
Phillips Brooks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
Hints for sheen Rree ders.


Old, experienced hockmasterS are usual
~ guided by certain golden maxlms, one
being that variety IL the feeding OF sheep
Is lndlspensably necessary. Many Of our
most successful sheep ralsers are those VINO
adopt the largest series OF fodder crops,
not because seasons cause one KIND to ans,
wer when another fails, but owing to
s. eep having their likes and dislikes no
less than human beings.
Instead of depending wholly on hay
turnlp or stage, as some do, the sagaclous
and experienced fockmaster adds TO that
cabbage, kohl rabi, thousand headed kale,
ape, vetchei or whatever is suited to the
climate and location. There are many
sheep growing districts In America where
one and oil of these fodder plants can be
grown TO the greatest advantage, but
farmers are slow In leaving the old rut.
Rape can be cultivated almost anywhere,
and wonder hockmasters can resist the
temptation OF giving II trIai.
Hurry up, shepherds, and keep pace
with the times, and provide for those
charming Downs that you are importing
| and lavishing so much money on. Your
sGubbles will soon be bare, SO II with the
plows and On with the rape seed, and you
| will reap 1t golden harvest through your
sheep that YOU never dreamed Of. The
seeep and hogs [ kept per acre on rape IN
Oregon seem sometimes to me Incredible
What wool the sheep produced, ard what
lambs were TO be found IN that forest o.
foliage!
Close folding is now very commonly
p~acticed among the leading iockmast ers
| IN Britain Tue advantages OF close fold
ing when judiciousiy practiced are very
great. 1t is most commonly prachcad II
tLose districts where Down sheep are Lep.
| aud where the arabic land y adapted e
the growth Of fodder or catch crops. |
moan by catch crops, rape SEED, mustard,
winter vetches, winter barley, rye, etc.
Grow these instead of following or allow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
THE HOME.
Wordsworth.
E. r. SILL.

A moonlight deserts yellow sands,
Where, DINNER than Its shadow stands
A motionless palm-tree here and there,
And the great stars thro amber air
Turn calm as planets, and the face
Of earth seems lifted into space;
A tropic oceans starlit rest,
Along whose smooth and sleeping breast,
Slows swels just stir the mirrored CLEANS,
Like faintest signs in placid dreams:
All overhead the night, so high
. And hollow that there seem no sky,
But the unfathomed deeps, among
The worlds down endless arches Swung.
On moonlit plain and starlit sea,
Is life's lost charm, TRANQUILITY.
A poet found it once, and took
II home, and hid it in a book,
AS one might press a violet.
There still the odor fingers yet
Delicious; from your treasured tones
Reach down your Wordsworth, and there
comes
That fragrance which no bard but he
Fer caught. as if the plain and sea
Had yielded their serenity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
The Transformer.

A transformer taking 50 horse power
and giving current at a pressure of
10000 volts, has been constructed in
England, and the makers believe that even
much higher pressures may be employed
It is claimed to be possible, with this
transformer, to transmit so horse power,
capable Of driving large factory, through
wire nolarger than hair. :.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
Nip off Useless Branches.

Watch your plants when growing ac-
lively, and when you see branch starting
out where none is needed nip it off. D.
not let it grow for weeks and then cut it
eff, because by SO doing all the vitality Of
the plant which went to the production Of
that branch is wasted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
FREE TIN
The Democratic Bill IN Congress for the
Relief of Foreigners.

The statement made recently that the
ways and means committee of the house
of representatives had determined to
recommend the passing of the bill re-
Gently introduced into that branch of
the legislature, with a view to getting
rid of the duty of % cents per pound
on imports of tin plates, is one that will
come as a relief to very important
branch of the iron trade of Great Brit
ain industries, London, April l, 1892
Even in South Wales, such is the state
Of trade that a large percentage of the
tin-plate works are standing for want of
orders Iron Trade Circular, Birming
ham, April 2, 1892.
All who are keeping pace with the
progress of the tin plate industries will
read t. following with interest:
The Krsseu Murder ea q cost Eau Claire
county the snug sum of $4,000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
$50 quickly" said Nine. Dutally,

go quickly" said Nine. Dutally, +"
shall not live longer than that time
Il will run, dear madam Saving.
this the captain took his military cap
and cloak anu went By the way he ran
! down the stairs it was evident he was in
a hurry.
went back to the drawing room, where
fear reigned. Nine. Dutailly wavered be-
| tween the wish to dy and the desire to
watch over the shell. Without seeming
| to do SO, looked out into the moonlit
street.
1T would have been so easy to let me
take it" murmured Anatole
BE SILENT" replied Dutailiy, a little
| surprised by the quiet courage of this boy.
1T is better the captain should do it."
Provided, groaned madame, she does
not wait too long
"Ae will wsit dear lady" said | gayly.
You may count On that. For he win
never come back"
He will never come back ?"
Certainly not. The way to the Bra
bant honse is to take the the right hand
street; he went to the left hand and very
quickly"
What do you mean?"
Il wish to say, friend DutaiIly, that
your captain is an lnposter, and | rejoice
TO have dismounted the batteries OF this
boaster by the aid of this engine" Then
taking a photograph album l struck
blow on the top of the shell, which broke
into thousand pieces-of chocolate, and
scattered on the carpet volley of sugar
plums, burnt almonds and pistachio nuts.
A shout of Laughter greeted the explo-
sion, and, may say, the climax.
Three months later Anatole married
Gertrude.
And the captain was never head of
after Romance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
Grating.

Grating is an old art too much neg
lected. It is ap easy way to speedily
change the character of an improbable
tree, and to give it value and beauty. 1t
is also an easy way to get many varieties
OF fruit from few trees.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23

Integrity is the first moral virtue, be-
nevolence the second, and prudence is the
third. Without the first the two latter
cannot exist, and without the third the
two former would often be rendered use
less.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
\. From 80 cents TO 81 D.

What did farmers have to pay for
trace-chains in those days?
A. Two dollars for anything like
good ones.
What do you have to pay for the same
kind o. a chain now?
A For real good ones, 60 cents per
pair.
What about boots and shoes in those
days, Jack?
A. An ordinary pair Of rough shoes
cost s., while the most common pair of
brogan boots cost not less than s..
What will the same kind of goods cost
now, Jach?
A. About two-thirds of the old price.
What about suit Of clothes ia those
days, Jack?
A Well, they were so very costly
that the common people never bought
any.
livery one knows that this is the truth
that under the free trade Walker
rariff "store clothes" were so costly that
the common people did not pretend to
buy them.
How is it now under the republican
protective policy?
A. Well, d few dollars will nearly
uIoohe hole family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23

Felix Mierzciewski, charged with as
sault with intent to kill August Rudzinski
was acquitted by the jury in the municipal
court, Of Milwaukee. The complaining
witness and two other important witnesses
had died before trial was had.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
MAILING ATTN PLATFLIE

Daylight Thrown on Democratic state
lnent ~ g4rding Tin Plate.
Representative Scott OF Illinois. made
speeco in Congress on the 18th of
March, in which he made the following
! ct cement:
During the year ending June 80, 1891
there was imported over 100000
pounds of tin plate I his have cost the
consumers under the old law $4,000 900.
Under the Mckinley law it cost S22,-
600, O00 Icing a direct tax upon the con-
sumer~ of tin of 100000 over and
above what they would have paid uu
der the former law
he Righteousness of that statement is
surprisingly strange; and it illustrates
how Utterly reckless these tariff reform
ers are in making assertions regarding
the operation Of the tariff laws.
In the first place. the custom house
report shows that during the year end
ing June 80, 1891, we imported 1,0l9,
278,274 pounds of tin plate, and not
'over 100000" as Mr. Scott states.
In the second place, the cost to the
consumers under the old Law was $50
TAG 800 and not 100000, as the
learned reformer puts it.
Ia the thir place it did not cost the
consumers S12,00),000 over and alb We
what they would have paid under the
old law, for the simple fact that the
Mckinley law was not in operation as
touching tin plate durin the year ending
June 30, 1891. for it did not take effect
July 1st, 1891! SO that during the year
ending June, 30, when the consume of
tin plate were robbed of twelve millions
OF dollars in consequence Of the Nc
Kinley tariff on tin, there was no Nc,
h ley tariff on tin at all!
But fter all there is not much wonder
IN this absurd statement of Mr. Scot
IL is on par with the usual democr ic
statements regarding the tariff
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23
They will Manufacture Tin in the Uni ed

That peculiar vail of the temperate
p;>lgy VIII Oh doesn't believe in the policy
of mG king tin in the United States, will
likely be surprised to read the following
editorial from the South Wales D lily
News:
Last week " S ated that ond of the
leading tin plate manufacturifg firms
untemplate erecting tin wOrkE; ID the
United States. and we are noT assured
That such is the case. The qecessary
negotiations have neen cOmplkted, and
the erection of tinhouse Will be pro
ceeded with during the courshfof next
moth in the vicinity of New Work 1t
is also stated that an extensive Establish
ment will be erected further Inland
The projected works will only comprise
a tinhouse, or the finishing department
of the trade, where black pla. lies, which
will be manufactured in the hyne orks
of the firm, will be sent to be q ed with
tin We also understand that two or
three gentlemen we'll known Il tin plate
circles will this week proceed Eo1America
with the object Of making Arrangements
for the erection of tinhousesI there. At
present the tariff on black pldtes is only
about half of that imposed oh trimmed
tin plates, and were it not for the I'M,
certainty among tin plate makers with
reference to the fu ure d bty on black
plates-for it is supposed that an at.
tempt will be made TO raise it upon this
commodity at no distant date-a feeling
exists that it is just possible other manu-
facturers would also adopt similar
steps,"
This note probably refers to the firm
of Marewood & Co., who will locate in
America
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1892-06-23

The kuSseli Murder ea cost Eau Claire
county the snug sum OF Sl4, 900