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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
MR.. KOHLSAATS CAREER.
Chapter from the Early Life of the
EX-Publisher of the Inter Ocean"

Major Handy in Mail and Express:
No man ever entered the newspaper
business through the counting-room
and made a record in journalism in
quicker time than Herman H. Kohl
STAT who pOcketed 100000 on the
sale OF his stock in the Chicago Inter
Ocean last week and sailed for Europe
free of all care for the first time in
his life.
Mr.. Kohlsaat is a smooth-visaged
man, of slight physique and less than
medium height, and is barely 40 years
of age. You would put him down at
sight for a doctor of divinity, but he
is nothing Of the kind; albeit he is
Baptist Of the first water. He began
life as a cash boy at So a week in a
Chicago dry goods store, and jumps
now if Cash. is exclaimed unexpect-
edly in his hearing. When Chicago
was in as'les, after the great fire, he
got a job of cleaning bricks for $3.50
a day, but, after cleaning them for
an hour, found his hands so blistered
by the heat that he had to run home
to get pair Of gloves. On the way
man who recognized him asked him
what he was doing.
Cleaning bricks, but it's pretty hot
work"
What do you get for it?''
"A dollar and a half a day"
well, [ can give you that much for
taking care Of my cash."
"All right" said Kohlsaat, Il would
rather handle cold dollars than hot
bricks
And so he was installed in a new
position. A few weeks later he took
the field as drummer for the sale
of fire-proof safes. And if you want
to know what hard work is [ heard
him say once, Just try to sell fire
proof safes in the year OF a panic,
when people want money rather than
a place to put it" He went to town
after town without selling a single
safe, but stuck to it, and finally he
made little money out Of it. From
that business he went to drumming
for a cracker bakery, and prospered
so well that he was enabled to start
the bakery lunch system, which is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
PARISIANS FOND OF PICNICKING
Carefully Planned and Decorously En-
Joyed Outings of the Bourgeois.

Ine Partisan bourgeois is seen at
MS best when engaged in picnicking,
says a writer in the New York Trib-
une. His eagerneSS to enjoy himself is
tempered by his sense of dignity as
head Of the family. The preparations
have generally been made long i'm adj
vance, and the relatives and best
friends invited. Then, equipped with
huge baskets containing the provisions
and red wine, the whole party set
forth, pater and mater familias in the
van and the entire band of children,
relatives and servants bringing up the
rear. They submit to the discomfort
OF carrying the heavy baskets. of
uudglng through the dusty streets and
roads, and Of being jostled and hus-
tied IN oVercr0Wded public convey
anceS without a murmur, determined
at all costs to enjoy themselves. FL
naHy, when they nave reached their
destination, generally a shady tree in
one OF the bOiS around Paris, they es-
tablSh themselves on the grass. The
men take off their coats, the women
their bOnnetS and hats, and after hay
ing enjoyed the good things which
they brought with them, they pass the
remainder Of the day, the men in
smoking and chatting, the women in
gossiping and the younger memE ers
of the party in flirting and in games.
There is none of that heavy drinking
that constitutes the invariable accom-
paniment of picnics among the lower
CT asses in Germany and England.
Everything is quiet and decorous, the
cOmlcal eature of the whole affair be-
ing the endeaVOr of the worthy pater-
familias to lay aside for the nonce
all his bourgeois and city manners
and Instincts and to assume a bucOlic
role. Then in the evening there is the
homeWard journey, the women laden
with wild flowers, the men carrying
the empty hampers and baskets and
everybody dusty and tired, but emf
nently contented. This is the holiday
of probably three-fourths of the Par
isian population and it is a holiday
to which they look forward through
the entire month, AMI in some cases
even through the whole year
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
STUB ENDS OF THOUGHT.

A woman may know a man is lying
when he tells her she is pretty, but
she would not have him punished for
the fault.
knowledge throttles faith.
When a man loves money, woman
may expect very little Of his love
and less of his money.
A man who will not lie to a woman
will not lie to anybody.
No woman disikes other women, IN
til she falls in love with a man.
Most rich people do not try to make
themselves attractive, because they
are led to believe that their money
does that for them.
Good people don't get half the sym
patty bad ones do.
Dollars brighten as they take their
fight.
Woman's moral support is as valu-
able TO a man as his material suppors
is necessary to her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14

There IS every reason to cOngra tn
late the residents of South Chicago on
the resumption of work by the Illinois
Steel company, says the Chicago Jour
nal. True only little over one-half
the usual force employed at the works
there have been employed, but this is
beginning, and is better than that all
should continue to eat in sorrow the
bitter bread of enforced idIeneSS. TIME
TOO, the wages of those for whom
work has been provided have been crt
from 70 to 40 per cent But here again
the consolation, in this instance very
real one, that half a loaf is better
than no bread must reconcile the work
lngmen TO conditions that can not be
reversed. Except with a half force
and on reduced pay there would be
no resumption of work for several
thousand men and bread for five times
as many mouths at South Chicago.
South Chicago is in the thirty-third
ward. 1t used to be a regular demo
cratic stronghold. In November. 1890,
1t had democratic majority of 431,
and ut the presidential election in 1892
Cleveland had Il plurality Of COL. This
Notwithstanding every intelligent
Workingman in South Chicago should
have known that free trade meant no
work or half pay for him and bitter
deprivation for his family. The VIII
son bill caused him to realize this be,
fore November last, when. for the first
time, the thirty-third ward went re-
publican. In the December election
Swift carried the ward for the repub-
hcanS again by 2;':I, showing conclu-
siFely that he voters of South Chicago
We're alive to the cause of their idle
ness and of the distress of their fami-
lies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
PHOTOS OF YOUNG WOMEN.
Stage Beauties are Easier to Take
Than the Ordinary Girl

New York Commercial Advertiser:
Il would rather take an actress pict-
ure than anybody else's," said a young
photographer. AN actress knows her
business and keeps perfectly cool
when she is having her picture taken
and she tells you just what she wants
in a calm and sensible way, without
giggling and blushing and being silly.
Every woman that [ have ever pho
tographed thinks that one side of her
face is prettier than the other. Well,
an actress will tell you which side
is the prettiest in a ghtforWard,
plain way, as though she we're talking
about some one else. But your ord1-
nary, average girl will blush and litter
over telling it, and it will take her
half an hour to get it out. Then when
it comes to the striking poses that are
all the 90 now an actress will take
her pose and give you few directions
about arranging her drapery and so
forth and in a couple Of minutes it is
all over But with ordinary girls in
their pOses-great Scott! The other
day [ photographed a girl, and [ had
to pull a great big cheval glass over
to her about twenty times and fetch
her hand-glass and a comb every
other second; and she had two frocks
with her that she put on and took off
three times just to see which she
looked best in, and all told it took
me just sixty-fve minutes to do what
[ could have done with an actress in
six
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
MEASURING A ROOM.
How to Find Just How Much Wall
paper Will Be Needed for 1t.

New York Recorder.-In catalogue
recently issued the following rules
are given for the measurement Of
rooms to determine the exact amount
Of paper required to cover the sur
faces. As most paper when trimmed
is Is inches wide and "A feet to the
single piece, a piece will contain 36
square feet.
Measure the length and height Of
each wall in feet and multiply. Add
together the number of square feet
of each wall, getting the total number
of square feet. Divide this total by
So, which will give you the number
Of pieces required for side wall. AL
low one-half piece Of paper for each
door and window.
To allow for waste in matching it is
safer to divide by 80 instead of So
To find number of single pieces re-
quired for ceiling, multiply length by
width in feet and divide by 80.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
ONE AFTERNOON.

There's moss for your seat
If you'll rest for awhile
By the brook,
And violets sweet
In quaint modesty smile
As you look.
Iome, stroll with me there
Where the yiOlets grow
By the stream.
There's peace in the air
And the brook murmurs low
While you dream.
Che clamors Of life
Echo further away
Till they cease.
The burden of life
Is exchanged for today
Sweet release.
The shade is so cool
In this sacred retreat
By the brook;
All natures a school
And we read and repeat
FIR d loves book.
George E. Bowen.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
GLADSTONE'S FLOGGING
When the Great Englishman Was
SchOolboy at Eton

| 4 sch0Olmate of Gladstone sends
| this Renaissance, which Gladstone has
| himself recorded, to The London Tele-
! graph: At the age of II Mr.. Glad.
stone was logged by DR.. Keate-not.
as has been commonly reported for
. introducing wine into his tutors house,
but for the following reason. 1T is
true that / was tiogged-nOt because
OF anything connected with wine (of
which, by the way, my father always
kept me provided with a small supply
at EtOn), but because from kindness
and good nature, not unmixed with
pity, | omitted, when praeposter of
the remove, to put down the names of
three boys in the list sent up to Keate
of culprlts to be logged
The names of these three boys were
'Snipe" Booth $50 called for his long
noSe) and two brothers named VoWels
windsor boys, who were usually
logged twice a week. Heath, the
master of the remove, had ordered w.
E. Gladstone to write down these three
names in Keate's list-a very long one.
Heath was VIGOROUSLY a loose fish.
generally drunk, but with a good deal
of dry humOr about him when sober
enough to display it. The three pee
cants got around Mr.. Gladstone by tell
ing him their friends were coming
down from London to see them, and
that If down in the list to be logged,
they could not meet their visitors.
Heath found out the omission, and
said in a loud voice: "Gladstone, put
down your own name in the list to be
logged tomorrow" Then turning
around to the form, he said is there
me to appoint him praeposter?' Upon
this challenge a boy called B0ughing
sprang up, and Heath gave him the
list, and Mr.. Gladstone was duly
fiogged. In 1891 at the Elton dinner,
which took place at the Criterion
restaurant, Lord Chief Justice Cole
ridge brought down the house by de-
scribing how at Elton DIR. Keate ad.
ministered the final touches which
were necessary to complete and per.
feet Mr.. GladStone'S character" Mr.
Gladstone has often spoken of Elton
as "a pagan school in my time"
AS an instance of Heath's ways, Mr.
Gladstone told the following story:
Zone day Heath called out to the prae-
poster, Write down Hamilton's name
(brother to Bishop Hamilton to be
fogged for breaking my windows
q never broke your windows, SIR
exclaimed Hamilton.
Write Hamilton down. reiterated
Heath in voice of thunder, for break
ing my windows and lying
Upon my soul, sir, did not do it,
pleaded Hamilton again.
'Praeposter, roared out Heath,
louder than ever, write down Hamil-
ton for breaking my windows, lying
and swearing"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14

ing the season of 1929, this includ
ing the bounty on both the sorghum
and maple sugar products as we'll as
upon the cane and beet sugar.
Placing the amount of the bounty a
| SIO,oOO,OOO and deducting this from
| the S4S,62O,OOO direct tax upon the
! people under the 40 Der cent AL Va.
Ioren rate, as now proosed in the sen.
ate we have a special additional and
direct tax upon the people of s3S. 500
Ooo to be imposed by the demOcra tic
party.
While imposing this special and di-
rect ad valorem tax of S3S. 500 OOO
upon the people, so as to provide a SIP
pIuS OF revenue for democratic waste
ana extravaganza in the administra-
CIon OF our government affairs. We also
nave the fact that the producers of
the American raw sugar VIII be
robbed of more than $1,000 wear
10 which they are legally entitled nm
DER a contract with the United States
government
mus we have the complete policy of
the democratic tariff exposed. It is
proposed to steal $4.1OO.OOO a wear
from the farmers and producers of
sugar i'll the United States, which will
chiefly be a steal from the south. and
IL is further proposed to steal $685.
100000 a year from the entire peO-
pie of the United States, in the north.
IN the east, in the west and in the
south, by direct ad yalorem tax upon
their breakfast tables.
Which United States senators will
dare TO be party to d steal of $685.
OOO,OOO a year from the pockets of
the American people by a direct tax
upon their breakfast tables?
New York Tribune: Fortunately.
the Cleveland administration cannot
the nation irrevocably to a
new departure in Samoa without the
of the senate. The treaty rati-
fled on Feb. 4, 1890, cannot be torn nm
by the president and the secretary of
state at their own pleasure; nor can
they make an ignOble surrender of
American rights in any new cOnven-
ton or compact without the consent
of the senate. The secret burrowing |
In Hawaii was brought to light in due !
time, and the conspiracy of the adj |
with a head-chopping |
queen was overthroWn. Congress will !
have something to say about a new
of American rights in Sa- /
mOa. Secretary Gresham's partisan
warfare upon the diplomacy Of the |
Harrison administration may begin in /
secret intrigue, but in the end the .
lighting must be done on open ground |
md in broad daylight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
THE SERPENTS POWERS.
Some Amazing Muscular Feats Of
Which 1t Is Capable.

Fortinghtly Review: The power Of
continuing motionless, with the lifted
head projected forward for an indsti-
mite time is one of the most wonderful
of the serpent's muscular feats, and
is of the highest importance in the
animal both when fascinating its vic
tim and when mimicking some mani
mate object, as, for instance, the
stem and bud of an aquatic plant; here
it is only referred to on account of the
effect it produces on the human mind,
as enhancing the serpent's strangeness.
In this attitude, with the round, IN
winking eyes fixed on -he beholder's
face, the effect may be very curious
and uncanny.
Ernest Granville, a South African
writer, thus describes his own expert
ence. When a boy he frequently went
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
Notes.

1t is proposed under the tariff bill
for Barter. now before the senate, to
impose q duty of 40 per cent. ad va
loren upon the whole of the sugar
we import, and the value of our entire
domestic product would be regulated
accordingly, although not imported.
A 40 per cent ad valorem tariff upon
the 1921 $50, 900 worth of raw sugar
that we consume would amount to
S4S,62O, 900, which is equivalent to a
special tax of II II cents upon every
man, woman and child in the country
upon the basis of a 6SOOO.0OO popula-
ton.
Under the Mckinley tariff the total
cost to the country of the sugar bounty
paid to the producers of American
raw sugar was but S9,375, 1908 dur
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
A BLIZZARD VICTIM.

Here underneath this simple stone
He lies in peaceful rest
He took his fiannels off too soon
And the blizzard did the rest"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
HANS B. WARNER.
In the Race for the Goyernorship-
Home Backing.

Ellsworth, June 6.-Ex-Secretary Of
State Hans 3. Warner is an avowed
candidate for the republican guberna-
tcrial nomination and will go to- the
state convention with the solid back
ing of the Pierce county delegation
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-06-14
WORK, Low WAGES.
SOUTH CHICAGO'S EXPERIENCE
WITH THE DEMOCRACY.
THE ILLINOIS STEEL COMPANY'S
MILLS START.

But with only Half the Usual Force
and with Wages Cut - to 10 Per
Cent-Discontcnt Exhibited by the
Encmy-Notes and Press Comment.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-16
City of Shelton.
SOME FACTS OF GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT

SOME FACTS OF GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT
Us.
The County Seat
Actual population, $50
one Saw and Single mill, but abundant site,
power, material, and facilities for dozen Others
Two of the largest numbering railroads on
Puget Sound, eight and fourteen miles in length,
with new extensions now being built when one
OF these standard guage roads will be within
TWO miles OF the Northern Pacific. Daily log
feet. Equipped with four locomotives, freight
cars and over one hundred logging cars.
Well equipped machine shops.
Surrounded and the outlet Of untold thousands
OF feet OF logs, all kinds, qualities, and of big
sizes
A first class banking institution, the State
Bank of Shelton.
Center of good agricultural region, compris-
ing several fine valleys and several thousand
acres OF improved farming lands, tributary
Splendid gravity water system, and adequate
fire protection.
Fair streets, buildings, sidewalks, and other
Permanent Improvements
An excellent graded public schoo
1hree Churches, and all secret societies.
Located on extreme Southwestern arm OF
puget Sound. nearest Grays Harbor, and %
miles from Olympia,
Daily mails and excellent water facilities fol-
travel and freight. Connection with Northern
Pacific for freight service, only two miles off.
NO other city can offer such inducements for
the location OF mills and factories, and the peO
pie Will do the liberal thing.
GOOD Hotels, and pleasant place to live and do
business.
Our main industry, numbering, brings us from
$1,000 to $1,000 day in fair times and we want to
encourage mills and factories that will utilize
our other woods, and work up some of this vast
product in Shelton, and save towage
For any further information take pleasure
trip to Shelton and see for yourself.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-16
Fir Finish.

Anyone who has lived in a house
properly finished in fir will grow to be
an admirer of this wood for that pur-
pose. We have in mind house in
Tacoma finished throughout in fir.
Whether special pains was taken in
the selection of the lumber or not, we
cannot say. We know, however, that
throughout the whole house there is
not one pitch streak visible. The
house is now about two years old and
not joint has started and not a
seam opened up in the finish or doors
1t is finished in hard oil, showing the
natural grain of the wood. On ac-
count of its hardness, but few scratch
es have been made upon it. 1t poss-
esses all the virtues of any of the
hard woods and being light in color is
quite the proper thing in the present
style of finish. The only argument
that can be brought against it, is the
question of pitch seams leaking. This
would not occur if reasonable care
were taken in selecting the lumber
and working it, or if it is properly
Kindred before being worked.-West
Coast Lumberman.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1894-02-16
DESTRUCTIVE OCCUPATIONS.
Poisons That Lurk for Flax and Artificial
Flower Workers,

Poisons That Lurk for Flax and Artificial
Flower Workers.
Very little is known of the danger
to life and health that exists in many
occupations where women are largely
employed. In England league has
been formed to call attention to the
facts of the case, and Mrs. G. Mollet
has made extentive Investigations
says the New York Sun.
In the linen trade the flax has to be
left to soak in the water, and rheuma.
tism, bronchitis and pneumonia seize
upon the women who have to deal
with it in this stage. In the dax-card-
ing department the fine dust pro.
duees lung disease and kills its
victims at thirty. In fur-cape max
ing the odor and the fine fluff are both
extremely injurious. A singular in
jury is caused to artificial flower max
ers, especially those employed in max
ing white flowers by gaslight. The
dry dust causes infamed eyelids, and
the work is SO trying that women are
worn out long before middle age. In
the china trade the clay dust settles
year by year in the lungs until con-
sumption results.
In the whitehead trade horrors are
found quite equal to those Of the phos-
phorus match trade. Lead is in itself
highly poisonous, and the most dam
gerous part of the process of making
the ordinary blue pigs of lead into the
deadly white carbonate is carried on
by women, because it requires less
muscular strength than the rest.
Cakes of lead are put to ferment in tan
and acetic acid for three months, and
then the cakes have to be grubbed out
of the mixture by hand, the poison
getting under the finger nails. After
being ground to powder under water
the dishes of damp lead have to be
placed in stove to dry for fortnight.
The worst part is when these poor
women have to take away the dry, hot,
white carbonate of lead from the
stoves. Even the mufaed heads, the
wooden respirators, the sack overalls,
fail to keep out the deadly dust. They
rarely live many years; sometimes
few weeks or months bring on the
symptoms of acute lead poisoning, to
which they rapidly succumb. This
white carbonate of lead is used for
glazing china and enamel Sad-
vertisements. The only safeguard
would be in prohibiting the manufac-
ture, and it would be possible to do SO,
for various substitutes are in the
market.