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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30

Johnson fought congress, have we ha'
such flow Of scandal as this now ooz
ing from Washington. Let Us sun
it up:
1. The president writes to Mr.. VII
son letter saying in plain words tina
tariff REFORM as he calls the miser
able business. has been sacrificed by
the ''perfdy' of the democratic sena
tors.
=. He appeals to Mr.. Wilson to save
his honor as a democrat in this-that
g., having pledged the country in favor
of tariff reform, these pledges should
! be redeemed.
3. The country is not considere, in
these ntreaties-simply the pledges
! Of a democratic leader to his parti-
! sans.
t. Senator German. speaking from
his own knowledge, and summoning
| other senators as willing witnesses.
AYERS that the tariff bill denounced by
Mr.. Cleveland as 'perfdy'' had been
submitted to the president and ap-
proved.
D. While the president, in Difference
to a recently developed New York pub
lie opinion, 'deprecates' the income
tax, it is shown that he had suggested
such a tax in public message.
6. The presidents demand for free
coal is declared by his political friends
to be in the interest of a Nova Scotia
coal syndicate owned by personal
friends. The direct result of free coal
will be the destruction of one of the
most important Industries of Penn
sylvania to enrich the syndicate.
Z. 1t appears that before Mr.. Cleve-
land was nominated he was stood up
by two Louisiana senator's, The late
Randall Gibson and the present Justice
White, and compelled to promise pro
lection to sugar"
s. The outcome is that every poor
man in the United States must pay
from one to two cents a pound extra
for sugar to enable a few planters in
the tropical sections Of Louisiana to
compete with the West India Islands
and Brazil.
>. The sugar trust, a concern largely
owned by aliens, gave money in the
recent elections in return for a conceS-
sion worth to them $30,000,0O0 a year
10. The whisky trust, another mer-
cenary and Infamous combination, has
arranged in the same manner for
monopoly worth several millions.
This may we'll be called the black
week. The sky of darkness is unre-
deemed by single star
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
A FRANK SOUTHERN COMES
SION.

The New Orleans Times-Democrat.
the leading democratic paper in Louisi-
ana, is honest enough to make this
striking confeSSion:
The negro bugbear is brought for
ward to justify fraud. Ii we have an
honest election, say our legislators.
farewell to democratic government and
white supremacy. This cry will de-
ceiye no thoughtful person. White rule
does not depend on fraud, and we
have only to look around at our neigh
berS to see that fact demCnStra ted 1t
would be a humiliating confession OF
we had to say that we rule and can
rule only by dishonesty. Btu, as a MAJ
ter of fact, everyone knows that this
negro scare is but d Subterfuge which
has been successfully used for years
past. We have submitted to fraudu-
lent elections for tWenty-siX years in
the hope that democratic legiSlat ure
would put an end to them. That hope
we must now abandon, and the people
themselves must give us ballot reform
All the ills that Louisiana has suffered
all the miSgOvernment that has pre-
vailed, and all the robberies that have
followed, have been the result of DIS
honest election laws and methods"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
IT CANNOT STAND PROSPERITY

1 will give you a good campaign
story. ! met L gentleman few days
ago. We got into conversation on the
situation of affairs. He said to me:
Mr.. d., l was born a democrat
have been one for fifty years or more.
My father was one. He was a pretty
good man. He held some quite i'm
portant offices down where he be-
longed in New England. 1t was an
honor then for man to say he was
democrat. Well, I have always
voted the ticket, but as the party now
stands it reminds me of what Il neigh
Dor once said when l was buying a
horse of him for my business wagon:
'Neighbor Gage, here is nice gelding
He will make you 4 good horse for the
place you want to put him. said the
would-be seller.
We'll, neighbor Jones, what's the
matter with this fellow? He looks to
me as if he could stand lots of work,
I asked of an onlooker.
Don't buy him, neighbor Gage
why not?
He is the kind that cannot and
will not stand prosperity.
"'What do you mean?
81 will tell you. Let him remain in
the barn for a few days. Then hook
him up. He will kick the wagon all
to pieces, raise the ID generally,
and demoralize everything
"Now, friend Day, that's the trouble
with my party. 1t cannot and will not
stand prosperity, and [ am through
with it."
[ could not refrain telling him as d
party the democrats were not on rec
ord as doing anything good for the
country, the nation, or the people fol
forty years. How should they know
how to run anything? They do the
| best they know how. They are never
in power long enough to learn. L
! they depend on experience for {
! teacher, they will never do any better
! the bells have rllng for them as {
party. They will never be lin it
again for thirty or forty years. The.
lose sight of everything which is good
llOb4S3 ASNsll, anu plI14ollSs w bS1C I'll
you find one who was or is a leader
dead or alive, who ranks up with Alb
Lincoln, Charles Sumner, Dick Yates
James G. Blaine, Gen. q. S. Grant
; and many others who were reput
licans? Of course. you can name Ton
Seymour, Hendricks, Augeld, Hogs
Waite, and that class. But, Mr.. Ed
tor, you cannot find a democrat in tn
country who can read and write VIII
will not tell you these men were an
are no good to run a country and max
laws for its people. They are Away
preaching reform and they don't kno'
what it means. Now, take my wor
for it, the republican party furnishe
,, the fabrication which keeps ever
wheel of industry moving; the dem
, cratic, the instruments which tea
: them to pieces. They have about
: much idea about progression as bin
= dog has of the north star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30

Of book paper is probably as much as
1000 tons, and of writing 40 tons
each daily.
I 1t VIII De interesting here to quote
some OF the figures of the paper in
duStry in the United States The
gross daily capacity Of the paper mills
CT the United States IN operation dur
ing 1928 for all kinds and grades OF
paper was estimated at about 10000
tons. Of this amount nearly $500
tons represented news print and boO!,
paper, 1880 tons wrapping paper, $50
tons straWboard, $50 tons writing pa
per and almost 2,400 tons OF the vari-
Gus other kinds and grades.
The states which rank first in the
production of paper are New York.
Maine, MasSa chusetts, Wisconsin,
Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois. From
these seven states comes nearly three
tCUrths of the entire paper supply of
the country. By far the greater part
Of the vast output is consumed in the
United States. The greatest paper
using country in the world. In foreign
markets, however, American paper Is
gaining a firm footing The grea test
consumption Of printing paper is In
the Sunday editions Of the metropoli-
tan dailies, which often require from
10 to 100 tons for single issue.
With the rapidly increasing output
prices have as rapidly declined. until
today grade OF news print paper
worth twenty-five years ago 13 cents
or IA cents per pound is now sold at
, IL cents or 8 cents-a decline in
price unequaled in the history of any
other industry. This enormous de-
crease in the cost Of paper is due es-
pecially to the introduction of wood
as paper stock. Today it is the
principal material used in the manu-
facture OF paper for all but the high
est grades Of book and writing.
News print and not only ordinary
but even very attractive qualities OF
book paper are made entirely of wood
Another means conducive to this phe-
reduction Of cost has been ,
the improvement in methods of max
ing wood pulp. The perfection and
greater efficiency attained in paper
making machinery, rendering much
larger production easily possible in a
given time, have added materially in
this downward trend Of price.-Ph1la-
delphia Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
CHICAGO OPINIONS.

Record Qndl: A year and a malt
after the inauguration of a democratic
administration the party in control has
arrived at a conclusion as to its course
on the issue upon which it was carried
into power. The labor and turmoil in
congress during that period have been
prodigious; the final result is ludi-
crouSly disportionate. The democracy
standing on a radical tariff platform
and elected on that platform by one
of the most signal demonstrations of
popular approval ever vouchsafed to
a party, has brought forth a deformed
companion to the Mckinley law.
Times (dem): The Louisiana SEN
ators demanded taxed raw sugar, the
West VirginianS and the MarylanderS
taxed coal and iron, Murphy taxed col
lars and cuffs, Mcpherson and Smith
taxed pottery and other manufactured
good. Hill no income tax, taxed refined
sugar. It is this unintelligent, undem-
ocratic measure. this bundle of gratui-
ties to trusts at the expense of the peo-
pie. that the house democrats, after a
prolonged struggle, had forced upon
them. 1t is this measure, too, Whlct
President Cleveland will be forced tC
sign, despite the fact that few days
ago he counseled the house never t.
agree to it, and declared that it
passage would be. party perfidy an6
party shame.
Tribune (rep): Thus there is to bt
a tariff law which, according to Mr.
Cleveland's letter to Chairman Wilson
means party perfidy and party dis
honor" According to that high demo
cratic authority mo tariff measure cal
accord with democratic principles AM
promises or bear a genuine democrats
badge that does not provide for FIRE
raw materials" But the bill whicl
has passed imposes duties on coal. irol
ore and suo"r. Mr.. Cleveland said t
Chairman Wilson a month ago tina
the democracy demanded speedy az
ton on the tariff, ''but they deman
not less earnestly that no stress c
necessity shall tempt those they truS
to the abandonment of democrat
principles" The house democrats di
yield to the stress of necessity and al
going to abandon democratic prime
pies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
OF Recent Years None Save Arthur
Paid Much Attention TO Society
Forms.

General Grant brought the camp
into the White House, says Harper's
Magazine, Mr.. Hayes had lived in
Washington as representative at &
hotel or a clearinghouse. General
Garfield had settled in the capital in
house Of his own, and had enjoyed
the kind of social life that may be had
anywhere in this country, and that
runs 10 literary clubs that are formed
to facilitate the escape of unpublished
manuscripts. To encourage talent and
literary ambition was a great pleasure
OF the president, whose murder cut
short the term that would have been
marked by more geniality and agree
able talk than is usual at the white
house. Mr.. Arthur brought city man.
ners and customs with him. People
who did not know him were greatly
mistaken in him. There had been a
good deal of refinement and elegance
in Mr.. Arthur'S home and its influence
made the white house more of a social
center than it had been before or than
it has been since. Then came Mr..
Harrison, who had passed six years
in the senate and Washington board
ing house, and Mr.. Cleveland, who
went to the capital bachelor, having
lived most of his life in apartments
in a Buffalo business block
None of these men adopted the man.
ners and customs of court life. with
the exception of Mr.. Arthur, who in
sisted that those with whom he came
in contact should pay his office a respect
more than the formal de-
cent respect Of good manners The
rest knew nothing of the rules which
society had laid down for
its swn and their guidance, and which
were as conflicting as the various in
terests that invented and frequently
modified them. Moreover, they have
seemed to care a good deal less.
They or their wives or their secre-
taries studied up the necessary regula-
tons that govern the intercourse be-
tween the head of the nation and the
representatives of foreign
powers. And, although Mr.. jefferson
insisted On taking out to dinner what
woman he would, regardless Of her
husbands rank, modern presidents
have done their best to observe the
in this respect
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30

There is not in Europe a sovereign
better guarded than NJ. Casimir-Pe
A flying brigade of police agents in
civilian costume has been created to
follow the president step by step wher-
ever he goes. When NJ. Casinir-Perier
is about 20 start from the Elysee the
prefecture Of police is apprised by tele-
phone of the place to which he is 60
ing, as well as of the route he is to
take. Before he has crossed the gate
Of the palace a carriage is already on
the street, with orders to follow the
presidential conveyance and not to
lose sight Of it. This maneuver is re-
peated several times daily, for the
president goes out frequently, either
| in a carriage or on foot NJ. Casimir-
Ferier often goes to the Bots de Bou-
logne, like NJ. Carnot, and thus gives
| a great deal of work to the police
service at the Elysee.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30

darkey from whom he borrowed it,
to write and TO set to such soft and
sympathetic music. ''Dare's where my
heart is turning ever" Henceforward
FOR me that Georgian stream, with the
dark groves fringing ii, and the red
cragS, and the quiet reaches o. silver
water Glided by the setting SUI. has
4 place = the thought anon. the
famous rivers of the globe, and l
never hear the melancholy music of
the popular nigger-lament without
new feeling of what song can do, far
beyond history and important events,
to conSecrate a spot in nature forever,
and to localize universal sentiment
Eft Ego in Arcadia. I, too, have been
Way Down Upon de Suwanee Riber."
Sir Edwin Arnold
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
BOSS SNAKE STORY.
1t Gets Loose in Fayette County, Pa,
and a Native COrralS the Facts.

A few days ago Samuel Lowry, who
works with me at the furnace, asked
me to go to the mountain with him
and he would show me a snake den.
Sam is an old hand at the business.
He took with him a shall hand drill
and hammer and a liberal supply OF
dynamite and drug store whisky.
About five miles back in the mountain
from the furnace we found the den.
Sam proceeded to drill a small hole
in kind Of fat rock that lay by itself
in a small cleared space. When Sam
had got everything in shape we re
tired a short distance till the explosion
of dynamite had shaken the snakes
up; then we proceeded to arm our"
selves with a stout stick apiece aRsa
went for the snakes. AS we came near
the rock, that was now blown to
pieces, l got very sick from the smell
of the snakes, but Sam did Ut mind
the smell. He just took drinz Of
whisky and went for the snakes. lie
killed forty-three that were crawling
away from the rock.
After the air had got little purified
about the place we, proceeded to eX-
plore the den. Carefully rolling thu
heavy pieces of rock away we founA
a space of about ten feet square COW
cred a foot deep with dead snakes.
We got sticks with hooks on and
dragged them out and counted them.
There were 200 rattlesnakes and 1873
copperheads, in all 347. l never kneT
before this that two kinds Of snakes
would stay in the same den.
Any one wanting to prove the truth
of this so-called snake story, let him
come to Dunbar and / will show him
the remains Of the snakes.
News Standard.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
SECRECY IN INVENTIONS.
Many Inventors Disdain Patents and
Merely Keep Their Machines Secret.

Readers of one of Charles Reade's
fayorite novels will remember a re-
markable description of an inventor
working under lock and key because
he was afraid of his discovery being
made known" The speaker was Ar
thur f. Baldiston of New York, him
self the owner of several patents
There are number of people who,
like Edison, are disguised with the
unsatisfactory protection given by
patents, and who in consequence keep
their inventions secret and work under
lock and key. There is a carving ma
chine now i'll use which turns out
some most beautiful wood work. 1t
is not patented in any way. but the
secret has been admirably kept, and
it is not known outside two or three
workshops. These are kept almost
Theoretically sealed during working
hours. The men get double pay and
do not even leave the room for meals.
So far the secrecy has been success
full, but the law does not recognize eX-
clusiveness Of this kind, and If any
one can find out the secret and utilize
it before a patent is applied for, no
valid patent can ever be given for
what is really a most wonderful In
vention. st. Louis Globe-DemOcrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30

work, passed through Ridgetield. He
was looking for work.
I will do anything" said SiIas-
dig potatoes, tend children, or milk
and cheap, too"
Why don't yoa work in the Meride1
! shOps:' l asked.
a third of Us are out" he said
/ They USED to pay out 100000 a
month, but now it's only 100000 that
the boys get hold Of Times are hard
in New England"
! Why do the boys say about the
! third times, Rockwell?' L asked.
We'll, they don't say much. They
sit still and growl. They don't under
! stand the thing; but I used to teach
school in Stratford, and | can figure
it ali out"
What is the trouble, as you figure,
SiIaS!" l asked
Its like this: The darned fool poll
ticianS are fusSing around 10 save cents
while the labOring men are losing dol
i lars. According to the census reports
there were in good times, a year ago,
100000 men at work, earning on
an average 81 per day each, or $4,000,
900 day altogether. Now a third of
us (5,000,O0O) are idle, and $1O,000,000
are lost every day. The other 1000G,-
600 are working for - per cent. lower
wages, and there goes for 100000
mOre-$15, 100000 a day gone-yes, 81
100000 a year taken out Of circu-
latiOnr'
And what is congress doing, Silas?'
Why, they are trying to save the
$9,0OO,OO0 bonus on sugar, and $1,000
600 on coal, and $1,OO0,OO0 on iron ore.
Why the losses of us idle Iaborers dur
ing one day would pay it all. They
are penny wise and pound foolish
But, Silas, Cleveland may make
wages lower, but he's working for a
foreign market" L said.
There they are picayune again"
said Silas. why the cersus report
says the cloth, iron, tin, glass and
other stuff we manufactured in 1890
to $9,O54 .435, 327-ntne billion
dollars and We consumed $S,903, &c.,
O61 of it at home. Now, these Wash
ington idiots want us to give up 3d.
OO0,000,O00 worth Of home manufact-
urers to the poor, half-paid iaborers
of Europe. They want to stop our
mills or make us work for their pauper
wages!
1--WE are great nation" said Silas
THE combined importationS of the
whole world, Europe, Asia, Africa,
South America and Australia, accord
ing to the American almanac, only
amount to 81, 569, 100000 If we should
give up our market to the World-giye
up nine billions and try to make the
seven millions worth OF stuff that the
world makeS-We'd have to do it at
their low wages less the freight! No, +
continued SilaS, wed better make this
so, 100000 worth of our own stuff
ourselves at big wages and let the
rich import $500, 100000 worth of kid
gloves, champagne, silks and mOquette
carpets and support the government
We were getting our tea, coffee, sugar,
tobacco, bread and meat free and get
ting double wages. That was good
enough for Silas Rockwell. l wish we
mechanics could talk to old Cleveland
for ten minutes. We'd knock all that
silly, picayune, silver bill, sugar.
bounty, income tax, and other baby
stuff out of his head, and fill it with
billions instead of cents"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
TEN THOUSAND TONS A DAY.
Enormous Quantity of Paper Turned
Out by American Mills.

1t is a curious and rather startling
fact that, next to the articles entering
into food and clothing, paper Is the
most universally used commodity in
the world. 1t would be an almost i'm
possible task to find in any civilized
community a person or business con-
Germ that does not to greater or less
degree make use of paper in some Of
is various forms Some philosopher
as said that the civilization and pros
terity Of a country may be measured
by it's consumption Of paper.
If this is as fair an index as seems
upon reflection to be reasonable, sta
tistics prove the United States to have
distanced all the other nations Of the
world in the race Of true development.
Perhaps no line Of business has had
a more remarkable growth in the
/ United States the past ten years than
the paper-making industry. This is
true in all branches, but especially SO
in the line of book and news print
papers. The American people are a
nation Of readers, and the rapidly de-
creasing prices Of books and news
/ papers have greatly increased the con-
sumption Of paper in these two lines
| One or . cents will purchase a mass
of reading matter in the form of our
great dailies, consisting of from eight
to sixteen pages, while II to 20 cents
WI purchase handsomely bound and
attractive books of standard and popu
lar authors The daily output Of news
print paper in the United States is
about 1.2OO to 1900 tons. Just think
of 125 or $50 carloads of newspapers
mentally devoured each day in thi:
countryI The production of news prin
is larger than any other grade. Tha
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
VICTIMS OF SMALLPOX.
Many New Cases Reported Each Day
in Milwaukee.

Milwaukee, Aug. 27-The following
new cases of smallpox were reported
yesterday by the health department:
Heinrich Gaulke, age 5; son of Rich
ard Berkholz, age IA; Elsie Galloway.
age 20; Edgar Buckelmueller. age );
Charles Krause, age 4; Lima Kossow.
age S: Elsie Baelje. age is months;
Charles Gaulke, age IS; Martha Kop-
lin. age 9.
The following dea tbs from smallpox
were reported from the Isolation hos
pital: Joseph Suvek, age 6, Joseph
Welsselousk, age 80.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30

Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, and Herman
Oelrichs, two Well-knOwn New York
swells, have been having a little tiff
at Sea Bright, n. J. Mr.. Van Rens-
selaer, who is a cottager, objected to
Oelrichs' dashing out mile or more
did it to show off and was likely to be
drowned and throw a damper on the
place. OelrichS retorted that Van
Rensselaer, was an old fogy and afraid
of the water anyhow. They both aired
their grievances in print.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
A FIRE BUG CAUGHT
The La Crosse Police Apprehend an
Alleged Incendiary.

La Crosse, Wis, Aug. 2S.-Two more
incendiary fires, both in barns, oc-
CURED Sunday night in the region
where most of the recent blazes oc-
Cured, and A. Quackenbush was ar
rested on suspicion of being the incen-
diary. The police had been watching
him for two weeks and they claim to
have sufficient evidence to convict.
The alleged firebug is a carpenter,
about 45 years of age. No motive is
known for the work charged to him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
A PEN PICTURE.

That we'll known newspaper CORE
spondent wrote to the Philadelphia
Star a few days ago thus:
This will be known in American his
tory. as far as Washington is con-
cerned, as the black week.
Never, not even when President
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-08-30
PERSONALS.

Biddeford Me-, has a 9S-year-old
physician, DR.. Westbrook Farrer, who
is still in active practice and, what is
still more astonishing, visits his pa
tents on a bicycle. He attributes his
exceptional vigor to wintergreen tea,
of which he has long been Jealous
devOtee.