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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
F. w. Kruger S; Co. the Wanamakers
of the Twin Cities.

The business tact, energy and push Of
the above firm is commendable even
by their rivals. They are believers in
advertising and they make it pay them
because they study its advantages and
make the best of their opportunities.
1t is pleasing for their friends to watch
their growth and progress. They spend
more money in advertising than any
other one firm in either city. They
buy the best goods in the market and
sell them at close living cash prices and
the people have learned to know them
and can depend upon what they say in
their advertisements.
This is to be great week in the
history of this firm first because it is to
be the opening of their great Removal
Sale" and second, because the junior
member Of the firm, Mr.. D. B. Philleo
was united in marriage on Tuesday,
in Oshkosh, to Miss Grace Minahan, of
that city. These two things will work
in harmony and prove to be browning
events in their lifes history, both socially
and commercially.
In this weeks issue they present to
their patrons and friends in a page
advertisement some of the greatest
bargains ever offered by them. This
sale will continue until the time of their
removal into the new brick block in
course of construction by Mr.. F. j.
Wood. Read over their bargains and
then you are cordially invited to call for
whatever YOU want.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
A New Creamery.

Messrs. Rice and Douglas, agents for
w. B. Hargle & Co., of Lake Mills, Wis,
have interested sufficient farmers in
the town of Grand Rapids to organize
a stock company with SO members,
who each take a share Of 500 for the
erection and establishment of a first
class creamery under the latest
improved methods. The construction
Of a building 22X40 feet, with II foot
posts, will be commenced next week on
lots selected south of the Henry
Osterman farm in that town.
The agents have been busy in the
town of Rudolph where they expect to
establish a second one. From circular
we take the following, which shows the
value of a creamery to farmers when
properly operated:
Farmers, as we'll as other business
men in towns, do not fully appreciate
the effect on the growth of wealth in
humble creamery. A fact or two may
fasten the question. The five Hoard
Creameries, situated within a radius Of
five miles of Fort Atkinson, pay to the
farmers annually over quarter of a
million of dollars. The twelve cream
cries in Dickinson county, Kansas, cost
at most not more than $4,000 and in
two years paid to the farmers $425 900.
A we'll and honestly managed creamery
is a blessing to any community, and
ought always to meet with general
appreciation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
Condition of Trade.

When circumstances are duly weighed,
the strength and soundness Of business
in this country during the past two
weeks are amazing. With the second
city in the country in the hands of a
lawless an murderous mob, besides
many other cities and towns, with rail
way traffic almost entirely stopped over
the vast area between Toledo and the
Pacific, with Presidential proclamations
declaring the existence of an 1nsurrec-
ton, and the passionate answer order
ing half million men to stop work,
with a prolonged strike of coal miners
not fully ended in many states, and
with differences between the House and
Senate on the tariff question so wide
that duties affecting mining and manu-
features cannot be anticipated, indus
tries and trade have nevertheless gone
on with sublime confidence that the
people and their Government would
soon restore order. The shrinkage of
business and the depression of values
have been unexpectedly small, the
failures relatively few and unimportant,
and there are even signs In some in
dustries of actual progress toward
recovery from previous troubles. 1t is
a good foundation for hope that firm
and wise action by the Government has
been upheld by the loyal people, that
order has been generally restored and
the blockade of transportation has near
ly ceased, and that the wage earners
have in the main refused to arrest in
dustries at the dictation of leaders,
Dun's Review.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
Live and Let Live.

At a travelling circus many years ago
clever and pretty trick of horsemanship
used to be performed. A horse was led
into the ring carrying on his back what
looked like an old tar barrel, with which
he trotted at first slowly round. Pres
emily he began to quicken his pace, and
as he did so, one ED of the barrel was
pushed out by some unknown means,
and out popped human head; next &
pair of arms pushed themselves out;
then the barrel fell to pieces, and a
rough looking countryman, dressed in a
loose, shaggy coat, stood up on the
horses back, holdinga whip in his hand
which he cracked. The horse at once
broke into swift gallop, and the man
pulled off the great coat, which he threw
down, showing that he had on another
one underneath. AS the horse went
faster and faster, his rider stripped off
his other coat; then third; then q
fourth He seemed to have enough
coats on to furnish an old clothes shop,
and apparently he did not care in the
least what became of them, as he flung
them from him upon the ground. At
length, by the time the horse reached
its fullest speed and appeared almost
flying, and the cheers of the loOkers-on
were at their lOudest, the horseman got
rid of his last wrappings, and 10, there
appeared an elegant, slim figure, dressed
in pink silk and spangles-a young girl,
with pair of gauzy, glittering wings
fastened to her shoulders.
A scene something like this, only far
more wonderful is acted by every one
of those beautiful and happy creatures
which we call butterflies; and people
may see it done any summer day with
out paying any money.
So clearly did the ancient Greeks be-
lieve the change of the grub into the
butterfly to show forth that through
which we must all pass, that they gave
the insect the name of ''Psyche" or
''the soul" And doubtless the Great
Master, who planned this beautiful
creatures life, meant us to learn this
lesson from it. Indeed, nothing in Gre
alton reveals His love and power more
than the wonderful manner in which
the lives of insects are arranged. The
wee, lively grasshopper, which cheers
us with its merry music amid the turf,
and whose simple chirp is made by
rubbing its long, crooked Jumpers"
against its rough sides; the busy ants,
which contrive a house underground,
with stories, passages, and tunnels,
making use of workmanship, industry,
and patience which put our own to
shame; the millions of minute but per-
feet creatures, each "a MARVEL" which
creep across our path, are fitting objects
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
A Pleasant Evening.

Messrs. Rueben Lyon, Russ Lyon
and A. H. Colcord, of Centralia, placed
their many friends in the Twin Cities
under obligations to them Sunday
evening from the hours of $50 to II
o'clock for series, of charming
selections on the clarionet, cornet and
guitar. They were in a boat upon the
Wisconsin rivers placid waters and
charmed the people in hearing distance
on either bank with the sweet strains of
music furnished by these well known
artists. These evening concerts are
very enjoyable and we hope they will
see fit to repeat such delightful enter
tainmentS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
WISCONSIN PATENTS.

The following patents, granted this
week to Wisconsin inventors, are re-
ported expressly for the Reporter, by
H. G. Underwood, Solicitor of Patents,
107 Wisconsin ST.. Milwaukee:
William Dewey, Thorp, Child's
swinging cradle; 0. D. q NJ. \. Klein
steuber, Milwaukee, Electric distribu-
tion-box; Jesse Walrath, Racine
Explosive gas-engine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
Horticultural Society rleeting.

The regular monthly meeting of the
Wood County Horticultural Society will
be held on Saturday the 18th inst, in
the Compton Hall at ? p. m. A nice
program has been prepared and a
cordial invitation is extended to all to
he prpsent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
Fifteen Car Loads of Tea.

F. w. Crapsey, station agent at the c.
NJ. &, st. Paul depot informed the writer
that train of fifteen cars loaded with
tea passed through Centralia over their
line Monday on it's way to Chicago. It
came direct from China. This is an
unusual occurrence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
Notice.

The restrictions having been removed
with reference to transportation of
freight over our road and connecting
lines. We are now prepared to receive
and handle promptly all freight offered.
S. T. DURGA, Agt., 6. B. w. 4 st. P. Ry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19
Yellow, Dried Up and Wrinkled.

Is this the way your face looks? If so,
try Beggs' Blood Purifier and Blood
Maker. 1t not only purifies the blood,
but renews it, and gives your face a
bright youthful appearance. Sold and
warranted by John Z. DAILY.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-19

We have not a doubt but that
the capitalistic owners Of railway
stocks and bonds would be
delighted to trade their earnings
during the past year for those Of
the most poorly paid wage worker
on any Of the lines.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-04-13
Advantages of Exercise

1t is important to notice how much
depends on what students and young
men are apt to despiso as below their
notice-Imean a perfectly sound ply
sicai condition Take two men, if they
could be found, exactly alike in mental
and bodily aptitudcs, and let the one
go on carelcssly and idly indulging his
appetitcs and generally leading life
Of what is called pleasure, and let the
other train himself by early hours, by
temperate habits, and by giving TO
muscles and brain each their fair
share of employment, and at the end
Of two or three years they will be as
widely apart in their capacity for ex-
ertion as if they had been born with
wholly different constitutions
Without "a normal healthy condition
there can, us a rule, be no good work,
and though that qualification cannot
absolutely be secured or preserved by
any rules little common sense and
care will go a long way both in secur-
ing and preserving it. On that point
| will just give these hints: FIRST,
that it is not mental labor that hurts
anybody, unless the excess be very
great, but, rather, fretting and tidget-
ing over the prospect of labor to be
gone through, SO that the man who
can accu-tom himself to take things
calmly, which is quite as much a
matter OF discipline as Of nature, and
who, by keeping we'll beforehand with
what he has to no, avoids undue hurry
aud nervous excitement, has a great
advantage over one who follows diff
ferent practice. Next, | would warn
you that those who think they have
not time for bodily exercise will soon
YER Of lafsr havr fo-ssa,s sin4 f5r ~
ness. - Lord Derby.
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Nharpshooiers

Tie disposition of Americans to
exageerte is specially prominent in
what is known rs American humor. A
story associated with "picket firing"
during the evil war brings out this
feature Of NATIONAL character. One
day their vas truce between the
hostile picket lines. tHo. Yank -
called ont a hnk Mississippian, who
hnd ju-t been posted. "Cnn you fel.
lows sl5ot iWal. Johnny, l guess
veclu some Can your" "shoot -
sbouteIbacsth4 Confederate. s'Why,
down III Mississippi We knock a bunble
bee off thistle blow at 800 yards.
"Oh. that, nothin' to to the way we
shoot Up in Termontl l belonged to
a company up her of hundred men
and every week we used to go out to
practice. The cap'n would draw us
up in single dIe, and set a cider barrel
rolliu down bill. Each man took a
shot Mt the banghole as it turned M.
This barrel vas then examined. and.
if there was shot found that did not
go into the mnghole, the man that
fired /. was sspelled. I've belonged
to the company ten years, and there
amt been aobody expelled yet
fThe Iniepsnlent.
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Information About Amber

Amber is a pnle yellow. gmetimes
reddish or brownish substance. anelo-
gous to the vegetable resins. and is
in all probability derived from n.cx.
tinet coniferous tree, though now n,,.
pcaring, like coal, 10 connection Win
beds of which il is usually found. as
a product of The mineral kingdom.
It is sometimes transparent md some.
times almost OPAQUE, II formerly had
a high reputation as a mcdieine. but
the virtues ascribed to it were purely
imaginary. Amber is employed in
the arts for the manufacture 81 many
ornamental articles and for the prepa-
ration of kind Of yarnish It was
obtained by the ancients nom the
coast of the Baltic sea, where il is
still found, especially between Konigs-
berg and Mermel, inueater abundance
than anywhere else in the world. It
sometimes incloses Insects Of species
which no longer exist Leaves have
also been found inclosedin it. Speci,
mems which contain insects or leaves
are very highly valued. Pieces Of
amber occasionally been found Of
twelve or thirteen pounds weight. but
such pieces are extremely rare. Great
quantities are consumed in Mohomme-
dan worship at Mecca and it in great
demand Throughout the east. The
beauty and hardness Of amber have
caused it to be longesteemed by smok-
ers for mouthpieces Of pipes and tubes
for cigar-holders. In Turkey as much
az 81, 500 has been given for single
mouthpiece. Il Is particularly es-
teemed by the Turk, in the belief that
no infections diseases can be commit
nicated through it. The value of am
Der differs greatly according to its
tint and opacity, The bright yellow
transparent amber is least valuable.
Dark, nearly Opaque yellow has "a
much higher value and the best of all
is the Opaque lemon.colored. 1t is
said that one Of the most esteemed
talismans or amulets bclongiug TO the
shah of Persia il a eub3 Of amber re-
ported to have fallen from heaven in
Mohammed's time. Detroit Free
Press.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1894-04-13

not oae. They gave her the note.
She read. folded it, put her spectacles
on the table and sat quiet fifteen
minutes, half an hour, an hour. Then
she arose and said:
Il have call to speak. When
the prodigal son returned the father
killed the fattcd calf. Bessy is o
naughty child but verify she desires
forgiveness
And Bossy was forgiven. Two
weeks later Peter married Widow
Ann, and Mr. and Mrs. John Hub
bard were guests at the wedding. =
Yankee Blade.
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LA PLATA, MARYLAND. 4pRIL 10. 1891.


The water drips from the messy caves.
In jewel drops on last years leaves.
The earth is wrapped in a vale Of mist;
And through this gauze of amethyst
Comes the phebe's note, so clear, so sweet,
The call Of the phebe bril-
rhebe phehe Phebe.
The SUMS shedding its rosy glow
On tufts Of crocuses white as snow,
That bloom by the old stone wall
And from the woods by the waterfall,
We family hear. SO clear, so sweet,
The call Of the phebe bird.
Phebe Phebe Pheba.
The breath of yiolets most rare
Is waited on the gentle air.
While from each mend and ferny dell
Comes plaintive note like a silver boil,
SO piercing llne, so clear, so sweet
The rnIl Of the phebe bird.
phebe Phebe. Phebe2
-lAL1cE b. WAITE, in New York Sun.
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mn lhlrming Nide nf Iirn

"Thare de'r@ remarked the young
wife, who 'a- trying Glove in a cot
tage mst'itar the lapse Of the honey
moon, vbis 'ae sat with her husband
at the breabast table, you forgot 10
get the sug Yesterday, so you have
none for bokfast. "
"ob, yes have. I've got you.
"Bat you an't sweeten your coffee
with me, b said, with love light
III her eye
"Mayb. but I can sweeten my
life with !c-
How Ms just like books. -
Toledo B5ie'
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A Pigeon Win a Memory

1t seems really impossible to extin-
guisb the heJ Rsaetin a good
carrier pis5 captured i'''I,,'' y
the German sodiers during the siege
of Paris in $50 The bird was being
carried in Jalloon from Paris to
some point in the hafcountry whence it
was expcctedto return to Paris with a
message. Il was taken to the German
headquarters and presented to the
commander Prince Frederick Charles,
who sent it to his mother in Germany.
Here it was p.acsd in a splendid roomy
nyiary and clrefully fed and nour-
ished; but, although it was kept here,
living in the Tap Of royal luxury for
four years, the French pigeon did not
forget its fatherland. At the end of
TINT timq the ayiary door was left
open one day. The pigeon flew out,
mounted high in the air, flew about
for a moment as if to find the points
OF the compass and started in a
straight line for Paris. Ten days
afterwards it beat its wings against
the entrance 70 its old loft in the
Boulevard de Clichy. There it was
recognized, and its case being brought
to public attention it was honored as
epatriot returned from foreign cap
tiyity. 1t remained at the Paris jar
din Vaccination until it died, in
1873. New York Witness.
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Your loving daughter,

777-71IE1 IT f7HtNT.
Friend Ephraim twisted his thumbs,
frieTa Hannah folded her hands
trleIH Peter opened his eyes and
mou' and shook his head slowly.
At length Hannah said:
y ~ my mother, Ephraim. F"
Anp Ephraim brought the old Indy
down stairs. Nobody said a word
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NO. H.



"Therc have been thrcc great earth
qu1kes in the United states during
the present century sand Professor
Gilbert the geOlOgist to a writer for
the Washington star. cone that
was very remarkable occurred in lSl1
and lsl2 near tho head 0f tAe delta
of the Mississippi 1t embraced 20
number Of severe sho Ks at short in-
ryals during several months In
fact, the disturbance lasted for about
two years. The ground was moved
in visible waves, by which The trees
OF the forest were rocked and in some
cases uprl0te1 their branches being
so entangled that it was impossible
70 separate them. GrcIt cracks in
the earth Yawned and closed again at
each shock, while from the assures
mud was thrown into the air so vio-
lently as to lodge iu the branches of
trees Some lakes we're drained uy
the escape Of their water into the
chasms which were opened. whi'c
Others were created by the sinking OF
the land. One great ,unken area
thus produced was eighty miles long
by thirty-tlve miles broad The other
two big quakes to which ! refer uC-
CufIed so IaleIy as 10 he remembered
uy Ihe present generation oHe
Iuen hdppeheu Il the Ihyo alIey OIL
CaliOrn a. 1t was caused by a re-
newed movement on what we gcoo.
gists call great fault plane at the
eastern oa'e OF the sierra Nevada
mountains In Ihat par oi lile
wofIu 1here Is extensive Iaultihg In
the structure Oh the mountain ranges
eaeh range consisting OF one or more
huec docks OF rock bound by Iaults
and lifted above It's neighbors. A
iault Is mace by the sinking Of one
mass OF tuck in such manner as TO
change the relatio OF its elevation
to that of mass ad dining. The
creation of such faults is often Incl
dental to earthquakes Tho renewed
movement along the great fault line
OF the inyo Valley IN ls12 produced
a tremendous seismic disturbance.
Inc shocks continued for urteen
months. Great li>suTeS were formed
along the base OF the mountain range
Ior distance OF forty miles, the land
west ot the fault rising and east OF
IL falling several ie t. A icuce wis
parted Tor distance OF fourteen feet
IN one spot Owens River was tenn
pOrarIiy yswal'owed up and the numer-
Gus other phenomena excited the as
! tOUlSOiQeUt and alarm of observers
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His Grudge Against the Roal.

On Michigan avenue car the other
day a woman hud baby about ycnr
old on her lap, and next on her side
sat an oldish man, who was evidently
fond Of babies. The child looked az
him, and he smiled and clucled in
return. He was getting along finely,
when all Of sudden the kid puckered
his lips and began to howl
"There therel Don't cry, my
precious laInb!" said the mother in
soothing tones.
'Seems to be afraid Of me?9 oh
served the man.
'Yes, sir, he do, and can't make it
out l had him ont in the country
last week and he saw hogs and horses
and cows right along, and never
seemed to care about en-.
A giddy young woman across the
aisle began to giggle,a and man stand
ing mp and hanging to strap uttered
gruf ''haw, hsw' and slapped his
leg The old man flushed mp and
looked hurt in his feelings, and seeing
another giggle and another haw hav
on the way. he rose up and went out
on the platform aud said to the CON
ductor:
"This is about the tenth time I've
been insulted on this road this year,
and the next hyena who does it is going
10 get both eyes knocked into one,"
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A characteristic anecdote of eccen-
tric Mrs. Hetty Green the wealthiest
woman in the country, is told by "A
prominent hotel man of this city.
Many years ago Mrs. Green's son Ed
ward, who was then child, sustained a
fracture of the leg. The broken limb
was badly set by New York surgeon,
and the boy was threatened with per
mauent lameness. Mrs. Green brought
her son to this city to be treated by a
specialist, and put at Broad street
hotel She explained to the proprie-
tor that she was poor woman, who
had come here to secure for her little
boy proper surgical treatment. She
was too poor to pay for her board
and lodgings, She said, and asked if
she could not be given room very
cheap. The proprietor, who was a
charitable man, fixed her us comfort,
able as possible in the servants quar-
ter. She had been in the house a
week or so when New York man, in
looking over the register, saw the
name. Il see that you have as your
guest the richest woman in New York, y
said he to the proprietor "Who's
TINT n asked mine host Mrs Hctty
Green" said the other. "Oh, no!
you're mistaken. Shes poor woman
whom [ have taken in out of charity, 7
said the proprietor. But the New
Yorker explained the true condition
Of things, and Mrs. Green found other
quarters. 4 Philadelphia Record