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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
ONE REASON FOR POOR SER
WANTS.
MistresSeS Seldom Run Their Houses
On Business Principles

MistresSeS Seldom Run Their Houses
On Business Principles.
One Of the greatest hIndrances to
an Improvement in domestic labor is
the want of business methods among
miStresses who engage servants, says
the New York Tribune. The maid is
generally engaged to come and has
but the faintest idea in the world Whal
are to be her specific duties. She
Judges of the methods of her new mis-
treSS by the methods of her last one
which are often Numerically different
Before engaging q servant her daily
duties which are required of Ter
should be carefully gone over. She
should be told plainly and clearly just
what will be expected of her, lat
day OUT she Will have, ana What
wages she will receive. She should
be engaged on trial for Il week. On
no account should the routine of her
duties he interfered with except on the
the occasion Of some serious accident
in the family. 1t is the common thing
for careless households to put back
the washing day for the weather or
change the ironing day or general clean
ing day; but this is a mistake that is
fatal to the order of the housework
The stitches of work thus dropped are
not easily picked up. There must be
Il daily routine of work laid out in
every household, Il systematic sweeping
and cleaning day for the kitchen and
for sweeping around the kitchen door
If the work is methodically laid out
the mistress of the house can easily see
that it is done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

four holes We're cut for windows on
each floor. These are filed in With
WindoWglasS found a out the house
But the expense would be trifiing if
it We're necessary to buy it. The out
side Of the house is painted q warm
yellow, with white around the wind
oWs. The walls are covered with old
blue cartridge paper, with a frieze of
pale-yelloW roses and olive roses be
low, and with paper in a wild-rose
pattern on the second story. The
wallpaper was found in the house too,
but books and samples are often given
away by dealers in wallpaper. If
paper is not to be had without an out
lay, cover the walls with pale tinted
silesia or cambria with a little frill at
the top. Fa<ten to the wall with tackS
Then add little curtains of lace or
chcesecloth, make rugs or carpets of
Il bit of old carpet or heavy cloth. A
piece Of plush of olive o. cardinal, with
Il wide border Of another darker color,
would make Il rich-lOoking carpet Ii
there is no furniture for the house, it
may be made OF bought for a very rea-
sonable price at a toy store. 1t is no
more trouble to fit up such a house
than to dress Il doll, and it Will hold
together much longer than the fimsy
affairs sold in most shops.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
A GREAT GAME FARM.
Dhuleep Singh the Originator of
Heavy Shooting in England.

The late Dhuleep Singh was one of
the originators of the heavy days
shooting so much in vogue nowadays.
When he settled at Elveden Hall, near
Thetford, in Norfolk, many years ago,
he was surrounded by everything that
makes life easy and pleasant. Fond of
sport, he located himself in the best
sporting district Of England. He set
to work to ingratiate himself with
his country neighbors, and in this he
admirably succeeded. He welcomed
them at his own house and there gave
them princeiy entertainments, and in
return was pleased to accept their
hospitality.
Elveden eventually became nothing
more or less than a game farm. Enor-
nous bags of pheasants were killed
there, and then this extraordinary man
set himself the task of killing more
cartridges in one day than had ever
been done before.
In nine days shooting in September,
1876. to his own gun, he shot $3.50
cartridges. In one day he killed 7S0,
and to do this he is reported (and it is
officially recorded in ''Badminton'o to
have fired just 1000 shots. Thus, if
he shot for eight hours that day he
would had to fire over two shots per
minute, without allowing any interval
for lunch. In the same year at Five
den four guns killed from October 10
10, 500, 557, 662, 4S3 cartridges in the
four days. In the year 1885, $50 par
tridges were bagged by only three
guns.
The Badminton book also relates that
in September, 1885, the same three
guns shot in 10 days no fewer than
$500 cartridges. The Maharajah also
distinguished himself as grouse
shot, on one occasion bagging 44O
grouse in one day in Scotland. I'm
fortunately for himself he exceeded
his allowance, and eventually the
crash came He had to leave Elveden
and his magnificent furniture and gor'
geous plate all came under the auc
tioneer's hammer. His on, Prince
Fredric Dhuleep Singh, is in the Suf
folk yeomanry cavalry, and is most
popular in the eastern countries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
NAUGHTY SECRETS.
If Women Insist Upon Rouge What
Can One Do?

If Women Insist Upon Rouge What
Can One Do?
There is very little rouging done at
present compared to the extent to
which the custom prevailed in years
gone by, yet even now there are many
women who at times use a little rouge
on their cheeks when they think they
are too pale to be attractive. Better
than rouge, however, and less likely
to be detected, is beet juice carefully
applied to the skin. The face is first
carefully washed in tepid water with
out soap, to which few drops Of toilet
vinegar or oil of eau-de-cOlogne should
be added. When the skin has been
thoroughly dried with 4 soft towel it
should be damped with Il strong sOlu-
ton of alum water, leaving this to dry
on. After Il few minutes a good pow
der should be put ON with Il piece OF
clean channels leather, kept specially
for the purpose, and rubbed well into
the skin. When this is done the beet
root juice should be applied with Il
rather thick camel-hair brush, the
checks being painted where and how
desired. Then. when the coloring is
quite dry, the face should be again rub
bed witt! the les Their to tone down the
color.
The advantage Of a piece of channels
leather over tie usual puff are us
vet scarcely recognized, One very
great one, however, is THAT While the
result of powder applied with puff
to a damp skin is almost inevitably
"fakey," with n leather the face can
be wiped and the powder rubbed thor
oughly in, and when this has been done
only the good effect, and not the pow
der itself, will be visible, the skin hay,
ing a natural whittier ess and delicacy.
A favorito method of darkening the
eyebrows is the use of the artists pen
Gil. Oil crayon is harness and is easily
applied.
Many women improve and brighten
the natural color of their lips by wettins
the fingers with scent and rubbing it
on them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

good and wholesome things. CuStard
in cups, the many blanc manages of
corn starch and gelatine. orange,
lemon and other fruit jellies; hot boil
ed rice with hard sauce, cold boiled
rice in cup molds served with cream
or Custard, floating islands. cottage. In
dian, plain rice and bread puddings;
fruit cooked and in its natural state,
especially baked apples, and that de
light of all children, Brown Betty.
Jam sandwiches have been known to
serve acceptably as a dinner sweet,
and a still better sort of sandwich for
this purpose is that suggested recently
by Il contemporary. Chop seeded rails
ins, figs and dates together; mix with
a little soft icing and spread between
cruStleSS OblongS of bread This is
almost as good as plum pudding. and
much less harmful.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
CUTS AND SHUT-UPS.
Working People Continue to Suffer in
Many Places.

PittSbwg, january 13.-The Penn
Gas Coal company has posted notices
notifying their men that q general re
duction in wages will take place on
and after january 16. The miners
will be reduced 10 cents per ton and
outside employees IS ID cents on the
dollar The WestmOreland Coal COM
pany, the largest concern of the kind
in the country, has reduced their men
a like amount.
Reading, January 13.-Ninety- nine
employees of the Reading Railroad car
shops in this city have been suspended
on account of slack work. Nearly
five hundred men are still at work
Pottsville, January 13.-The Phila-
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron
company has made a reduction in
working force in this vicinity. Seven
ty-tour employees were indefinitely sus-
pended at Palo Alto, st. Clair and
Schuylkill Haven. The suspensions
are confined exclusively to the car re-
pair shops and do not interfere with
the mechanical or any other depart
mentS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
WOULD PLEASE A LITTLE GlRL
How Splendid Dolls House Can BE
Easily Made at Home.

A suggestion that is particularly APP
propriate to this hard-times Christmas
comes from the New York Evening
Post, in which a description is given
Of a beautiful dolls house that a father
made for his little girl. The foundation
was a shoe box that cost % cents and
was three feet long and a foot and a
half wide. The lid was put on hinges
and when the box is stood up on end,
it forms the door or side of the house
that can be set wide open. Two
shelves are fitted in for floors, and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
DESSERTS FOR CHILDREN
Dainty Dishes Which Are Whole
some and Will Be Relished.

Children should have dainty desserts
as well as anyone else ard while pies
and heavy buildings are not we'll suit
ed to young stomachs Tor to old ones
either for that NATTER, there are plenty
of nice sweet dishes which the young
folks will relish. First there is home
made ice-cream made with half milk
and half cream and favored in differ
ent ways. 1t is not much work to
make it and doctors agree that there
is a great deal of nourishment in it.
Fruits, dates, and figs are always in
order and then there is long list of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
A BAND OF FIENDS.
Troops That Were Led by an Aveng-
ing Husband.

At o'clock in the afternoon, as we
were marching up the eastern branch
of Tongue river, a man in citizens
dress came riding furiously from the
east, says the Pittsburg Post. For
five minutes after he reached us he
could not answer an inquiry. Then he
wept and rayed by turns, and 1t was
a Quarter Of an hour before he told
his story. 1t was one so often heard
in those days-an emigrant family
n dash by q small band of Indians
killing. scalping and making captive.
His two children We're dead and his
wife was carried away on the saddle
before a warrior. He was wounded by
arrows and bullets, but as we wheeled
suuarely to the right and rode for
Panther valley, he was with the cap
tain at the head of the troop.
We were riding to intercept the In
dams at White creek. For two hours
every horse was at full speed. Then
we struck the creek, followed it
through the scrub and over the ridge,
and as we broke cover there were the
Indians coming up. One Of the fore
most had the woman before him.
There was the valley, five miles wide
and without cover; a dozen Indians,
| 80 troopers. With wild cheer we
dashed at them. Fast as we rode, the
wounded and bereaved citizen rode
faster. He had borrowed a saber of
one of the man, and as he rode into
the battle bare-headed and his face
covered with blood stains and the
saber waving in the evening sun and
catching it rays, the Indians yelled out
in alright and wheeled and galloped
| down the valley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
e. X. PAINE ASSIGNS.
President of the Milwaukee CONNER
cial Bank

Milwaukee, Jan. BE. r. Paine,
president of the Commercial bank,
made an assignment today. John
Campbell is the assignee and his bonds
men are George NJ. Paine and Chas.
hewitt, of Oshkosh. The assignment
papers state that the nominal assets
are 100000.
The chief cause of Mr.. PaiEe's as
signment was his heavy investments
in suburban real estate at the wrong
time. About a year ago he bought a
large number of lots in Lakewood sub
division No. 2, Forest Park and Lisbon
Avenue heights. For these he paid
what some real estate men at the
time considered very high prices. He
has since paid large sum in interest
and purchase price, but there IS still
due on his contracts for suburban
real estate over 100000. Suits have
been brought for default of interest
and payments and they in the first
place made his assignment inevitable.
Mr.. Paine was a large stakeholder OF
the Commercial bank and he said to-
dav that the stock by the failure had
been rendered almost worthless and
that was another cause of his assign
ment. He was q partner Of B. j.
Johnson & Co. manufacturers of soap,
for four years, owning a third interest,
hit he sold out last summer.
Mr.. Paine was on the Commercial
bank bond to the county for 100000
but it is thought that his assignment
will make no difference, as his tinan-
cial responsibility has been known for
a long time Mr. Paine has been Mil
waukee business man for about
twenty-five years and until few years
ago was very successful.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
SIMPLE WINDOW GAR MING.
Sweet Potatoes and Willow Branches
Help Make the House Beautiful.


Not only the sweet potato, but the
carrot of our soups, DaucuS carOta,
curtailed two or more inches Of its
length, and given Il place among moss
es in water, often puts fern to blush
by the beauty of its graceful green
plumes. When we know that in the
days of Queen Elizabeth ladies decor
ated their hair with carrot leaves, we
ere not slow to acknowledge their
charms. AS a foliage plant that can
give thrifty growth when managed
like the carrot. in water among the
MOSES, the common blood beat, Beta
vulgaris, it's golden or rose-tinted
leaves veined with deep crimson, rapin
ly pushing up toward the light after
it gets accustomed tot is new cOndi-
tons, is Il satisfactory substitute for
Colens and Achryanthus. Wands of
Salix candida. the while willow, cut
from the parent tree in November,
placed in vases of water to the depth
Of six or seven inches and kept in a
warm room, will develop beautiful
gray velvet catllins c'pussies," the
children call them in January or
March Boughs of Kalmia laitfolia-
mountain laurel or calico buSh-taken
at the same time and given similar
treatment, will keep the glossy of their
foliage and send out full rich cOrymbS
of lovely white or rose-cOlOred flowers
that will be as perfect as if growing
upon the parent bush. Branches of
Syringa cerulia, S. alba or S. Persica
the blue, the white and the Persian
lilac, common in gardens. treated like
Kiamia for winter growth, sometimes
do equally well.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
PATRICK HENRY'S GENIUS.
He Studied Law but q Few Weeks,
and Then Was Admitted to the Bar.

and Then Was Admitted to the Bar.
During this year of seeming idleneSS.
conceived the idea OF being a lawyer
Digging in the soil would not yield
him liz clihood; drawing molasscs ana
measuring tape had Produced the
same barren result, But words never
failed him. lie could move or melt any
audience before whom he might stand
Therefore he determined to earn his
living by his tongue
The wonderful mental capacity Of
this broken-down farmer and mer-
chant may be understood when we
learn that after Il very few weeks OIL
reading and study, he presented himself
at Williamsburg before the eXamin-
ers, and was admitted to the bar! Not
however, without much urging and en-
treaty, for the examiners soon discover
ed the paucity of his knowledge of the
statutes. In spite of his ignorance of
the forms and technicalities, young
Henry pleaded his own case so well
that he received his license, not at all
because ol Ills ieS"h p1oLClehCS, pu'
solely of his ingenuity and the promise
he gave of future usefulness. One OF
the examiners, John Randolph was sc
much shocked by the uncouth appear
ance of the man that he at first refused
to examine him. But he shortly dis
covered that the candidate was dla
mond in the rough, and after subject
ing him to q most severe series O
subtle and intricate queries, he wa
forced to remark, "Mr. Henry. il you
industry be only half your genius,
augur that you will do we'll and becom
an ornament and an honor to your pro
fesslon.'' Prophetic words!
Like all great public characters
whose lives are the common propert
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
WEEKLY BANK STATEMENT.

New York, Jan. 13:-The weekly
bank statement is as follows: Reserve,
increase. SS,7SS, 900; loans, decrease,
1922, 900; specie, increase, $4,000
legal tenders, increase, $500, 900; de-
posts, increase, S9,3S9, 000 The banks
now hold 800, $4,000 in excess of the
requirements of the % per cent. rule.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

At the annual reunion Of the society
of the Army and Navy of the Con-
federate States in Maryland, to be
held in Baltimore on the evening OF
Jan. 10, Congressman Mallory, OF
Florida, will respond to the toast, The
Confederate Navy. Two Of the daugh-
tiers of General John B. Hood will be
the guests of the society on the occa-
sion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
HOW TO DEVELOP A THIN NECK.

1t is claimed that it is possible to
develop d thin neck into a firm and
graceful one simply by regular exer-
pressed lightly upon the muscles at
the front of the throat and the head
thrown forward, the pressure of the
fingers serving the same purpose that
dumb bells do in the exercise Of the
arms and chest. The process is re
peated forward and sideways.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

Dr. Arbino de Treitas, one of the
most famous physicians of Portugal
and a member Of one of it's most illus
trious families, has been sentenced to
eight years solitary confinement for
poisoning his nephews and nieces. He
gave them, when sick, poisonous drugs
in order, as it came out on the trial,
to make away with them that he
might inherit the greater part of the
fortune of his father-in-law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

Kansas City Star: A Topeka woman
who applied for laid" at Topeka, spent
the dollar that was given her to buy
coal for pink wool fascinator that
was going at great bargain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18
WASTE ON OCEAN LINERS.
Table Ware, Cutlery and Linen Thrown
Overheard.

1dDlC w Auuc1S anu II
Overheard.
4 man who came over on a recent
trip of the big Cunarder Campania.
being of an inquiring turn of mind,
used his eyes and ears to good adj
vantage all the way, and he expressed
to a reporter the most unqualified
amazement at the constant wholesale
waste of valuable material. Il don't
think so much of the stewards selling
saloon fare to the steerage," he SAID
to a writer for the st. Louis Post
Dispatch, because the food would be
thrown overheard anyway, and the
stewards, or "funkies,' as the seamen
call them, may well make something
off it if they can. Their pay is small,
so the transaction results in substantial
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-01-18

The report of the treasurer of the
Kite Park association at Fond du Lac
showed that the Indebtedness is ST.
$50, that the unpaid subscriptions
amount to $500, and there is a balance
in the treasury Of $50.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-26

THE sympathetic strike" is declared of" Not much sympathy will be or needs to be wasted on the reckless men who precipitated that strike without reason, without rational prospect of success, without consultation with those who were sure to be the greatest sufferers from inevitable failure, with out the sanction of accredited labor leaders. But great deal of sympa- thy is due the countless thousands of poor, destitute, misguided men who were driven into this maddest, most foolish of all contests of the kind, and who now find themselves bereft of the means of earning even scauty livcli- hood. Most especially is sympathy due to the innocent wives and children upon whom, as usual, the worst of the misery will fall.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-26

SECRETARY Carlisle's recent intima- ton that he would if the tariff bill i'm posed duty on foreign sugar, as it now does, collect that duty on all for eigu sugar regardless of any reciproci- ty treaty, has aroused considerable interest among those who are fond of discussing intricate phases of inter- national law. It is contended by those who uphold the secretary's position that unless specifically excepted in the tariff bill itself no previously existing treaty can save the payment of any duties imposed by that bill. A lawyer discussing the matter said: "It will be nothing new or strange for congress to repudiate treaty obligation. It repudiated the obligations of the first treaty the country ever entered into, not only by default in it's obligations, but by the making of conflicting treaty and then by the passage of a non-intercOnrse act. In q somewhat similar manner it repudiated the Jay treaty of 1794. So far as its own citi- zens were concerued it similarly re- pudiated the obligations of the treaty of 1908 with France, and likewise that of 1919 with Spain, and there are to- day many American citizens holding valid legal claims against the U. S. growing out of the treaty of 1S19, which congress has consistently repu- diated, and which are today an ob- stacle in our diplomatic intercourse with Spain. A more outrageous breach of national treaty obligations cannot be found than the act of March 3, 1891, establishing court of private land claims in New Mexico and Arizo- na. Of course congress will not hesi- tate to pass bill ignoring the reel procity treaty obligations, and the sufferers will be helplessly left to their diplomatic remedies" This indict. ment is not complimentary to congress but it appears to be true one.
The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-07-26
Council Meeting.

A Common council met on Monday Mly 23d. Present, His Honor, G. A. Bray, Mayor, Councilmen Daggs, Bab- bit, Brannen and the Clerk.
 All bids for assessing the real and personal property within corporate limits for the current year were re- jected.
 The proposition of E. S. Clark to do the assessing and clerical work for the current year for three hundred and fifty dollars, was accepted. hs Ordinances were passed fixing pen alty of not less than five nor more than three hundred dollars fine or by i'm prisonment for one day for each dollar of such fine, for wilful and unnecessary discharge of fire arms within town limits. Also an ordinance requiring all persons within tue town to use brick 'chimneys instead of stove pipe where such flues run through the roof or any other portion of the building occupied by them.
 The Clerk was appointed Assessor for the current year and ordered tC commence his duties on Monday, July 30. Board adjourned.