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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06
OLD-TIME WHISPERS.
The Way That Boards Were Once
Worn in England

lie way Hat DSdIuS were OuCS
Worn in England.
The early SaXOns who inhabited the
British isles appear to have delighted
in a full beard of the long, forked va
siety peculiar to Saxony, Austria and
southern Germany. With the Norman
conquerers it was different. They had
almost as great hatred for boards and
hair as have the Chinese. According
they not only shaved their chins, but
also the backs of their heads almost W
to the crown. Before they had been
long established in England, however,
a complete change in their ideas of
birsute adornment took place, and it
became fashionable among them to
wear boards of eXtravagant length.
Those who were by nature blessed with
heavy beard growths were envied as
being children of fortune, and those
with thin and craggy "chinners" RENE
died the deficiency by wearing false
boards of extraordinary size and enOr-
nous fashion down through the reigns
Of the early kings with one or two
eXceptions) until the time of Henry ".
In the time of the reign Of the monarch
last mentioned closely cropped boards
were beginning to come in, and by the
end of his reign, which lasted Is years,
men with full boards were seldom seen,
unless they were travellers from the
continent With the Reformation the
beard returned and all because of a
Romish law which demanded that
priests must have clearly shaver faces.
The Catholics. of course, initiated their
priests, and the reforners could not
show their hatred for priestcraft more
forcibly than to meet such ecclesiastics
and their henchmen with their faces
covered with beard. At one time in
England all "gentlemen"wore swords,
as we'll as boards, ana their habit of
drawing these weapons to settle the
most trivial disputes is said to have
had much more to do with the cut
and styles in boards. Dur ing this
sword wearing period all buffers
wore their boards cut and hacked in
the most outlandish shapes, trying to
convey the impression that they were
bad men who had been in many terri
BILE combats.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06
IS HE INSANE.

Waterloo. Iowa, Aug. Pin the Scott
case Mrs. Scott filed an Information
charging her husband with insanity
and he was taken before the commits
sioner of insanity. After hearing a
few witnesses the case was continued.
J. K Joder, a druggist, testified that
Scott had purchased morphine of him
several times this year and that a
short time before he came into the
store and asked for a dose that would
kill or cure saving he felt miserably
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06
About Hens.
jected.

A correspondent writes as follows
Last fall l built a chicken house on
a side-hill and put it three feet from
the ground. As soon as the chickens
were transferred to it they ceased to
lay. l fed them corn morning and
night and meat scraps from the table.
Please tell me why the fowls will not
lay?" In reply to this oft-repeated
question the answer is again given
first, frequently, in fact, usually, the
removal Of laying hens to a new place
will cause them to stop laying for
time. Again, a vast majority of hens
do lay in winter, and such as do rarely
begin to lay after the weather becomes
cold. Corn should not be fed to laying
hens oftener than once q day, and then
only for the evening meal. An almost
exclusive corn diet is a bad one at any
time for egg production; there should
be a greater variety and less corn.
Spring is the natural season for egg
laying. 10 get eggs in the winter all
the conditions must be favorable, and
with old fowls and such as are late in
mOulting, no matter how we'll fed, you
may be weeks without eggs. Only
well-developed early pullets, about ten
months old or Matched not later than
March, can be at all depended on for
before winter sets in they usually prove
good layers al season when eggs are
scarce and dear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06
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LEARN TO LABOR AND WAIT.

For the lessons Of life
They are many and stern:
And the hardest to learn
Is not maSterful strife
For king or a state;
1t is only-to wait.
Youth is eager to start
On the ocean alone.
Ere his strength be full-grown;
And though Age from his leart
May of perils inform,
Still he thirsts for the storm.
If his courage be high,
He may struggle along
And by sorrow grow strong;
May allot him lifes prize
On this side of the skies.
But the many that strive
For the laureIs must fail;
And full many a sail
At Deaths port shall arrive,
That could enter Joys gate
Would Its master but wait.
Frank PutEam in Chicago, Times
Herald.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06

should always be used By commencing
with a small quantity, half pound a
day being sufficient, increasing an
ounce a day until a pound or more OF
the meal is allowed. II should be
mixed with other food, as it sometimes
gums in the mouth and may be re-
jected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06
Ration for Dairy Cows.

Sudden changes of the ration do not
prove of advantage with dairy COWS. A
change Of food should be gradual It
requires but very little to cause a COW
to fall off in milk, and the feeding
should be done judiciously. O:lmcal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-08-06

| think l shall write a novel. II | do, |
promise you that it will not be pOpu-
lar"
Lord Marlborough shrugged his
shoulders.
clared.
All men with a single grain Of phil
osophy are pessimists. The more one
knows of man and appreciates his COW
ardly fear of death, the deeper grows
ones scorn of him. Look at this
wilderness; think of the thousands and
thousands Of heart-broken men cling
ing on to life with q desperate nervous
tenacity which seems to be the ruin
and end of all their strength
Their wives and familiesr'
Bah! IL half the cases their wives
and families would do better without
them. They would rise to their leveI
and earn an honest living. But
speak of the other half, the great army
of men who must know that the world
| has no need of them, and that every
step forward in life must be on the
downward grade"
Lord Marlborough made no answer
He sat forward, watching the passers-
by in the streets with a sad, gloomy
face. Massinger from his corner never
| looked away from him. He was try
ing to read how the parable worked.
By degrees the character of The
| neighborhood through which they were
! passing changed. Dinginess became
dirt, shabbiness. saualor. The corner
! public houses became glazing gin pal
/ aces. The shops became open stall:
and the streets narrower. The dark
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
SUNNI ONS,
In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial Dis-
 trict Territory of Arizona, County of Apache Greer & Woods,

Greer G WOODS,
 Plaintiffs,
 seveFo NJ. Vfgn,
 Defendants.
 Action brought in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District, in and for the County of Apache, Territory of Arizona.
 Territory of Arizona sends greeting to Ben- igno Lopez and Severe M. Vigil.
 You are hereby summoned and required to appear in an action brought against you by the above-named plaintiff in the District court ofthe Fourth Judicial district in and for the County of Apache in the Territory of Arizona and answer the complaint filed with the Clerk of this Court at St. Johns, in said County, within ten days exclusive of the day of service) after the ser vice upon you of this summons, if served in this County; but if served out of the County and within this District, then within twenty days; if service of said summons is by pub ication, then you are required to appear and answer said complaint within twenty days after the com pletion of said publication, in the same manner and under the same penalties as if you had been personally served with summons in the county in which the suit is pendi.g In all other cases, thirty days.
 And you are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer the complaint, as above re- quired the plai intif will take judgment by de- fault against you in accordance with the prayer of fths plaintiffs plaint herein and costs and disbursements in this behalf expended.
 Given under my hand and theseal otssid Dis IsEALl trict Court, this 18th day of Nov, A. D.
 1896. ALFRED RUIZ, Clerk. By s. M. CRAIG Deputy.
 W. M. PERRILL, Attorney for plaintiffs:
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
THAT TAB.

That little tab on the lower end O your shirt bosom.
 Did you ever stop to think about it? You never did.
 Did you ever ask yourself why you have it there at all? No.
 Do you have any use for it? No.
 What is the sense of having it?
 You don't know.
 Yet on every one of your shirts is that Tapping, useless tab.
 It has a button-hole carefully worked into it. But you can't button it to any thing. Your shirt-maker himself will tell you that.
 Just try to button it 10 your drawers or trousers and you will have pressure at the back of your neck that is unbear- able.
 It was once suggested that all patri- otic Americans should cut off these tabs and out of part of the saving thereby to pay the national debt.
 The balance of the amount saved could be used to provide new navy and adequate coast defenses.
 Another thing about this tab. It usu- ally bears the initials of the wearer i'll bold-faced English text, something like this-G. 5n. sf.
 That means that the shirt belongs to man whose name might possibly be George Washington Smith, Esq.
 But this is not enough reason to &C., count for that tab.
 There is also useless attachment to the internal economy of the human sys- tenn, to which scientists have gwen the name of vermiform appendix.
 It is of no use, and seems o be the seat of the latest fashionable disease one with long Latin name.
 This vermiform appendix is the use- less tab of the human system.
 Every hive of bees has it's drones.
 Every ship bears it's proportion Of barnacles.
 You will find that the useless tabs are to be found on many more things than attached to the lower end of your shirt boSoms.
 The wart on the toad
 The knot on the log.
 "And many other things" as the auction bill says, ''too numerous to mention,"
 Are all useless tabs.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
COOPERATIVE MERCANTILE AND MANUFACTURING INSTITUTION

| No 55 Improvements at New Town, St Johns, former owner Ambosio Gonzales, charges
 No 56 Improvements on land near Pine. dale, former owner A Galespie, charges S S6 No. 5S. Land north of Alpine; Lot 3, Block g Nutriosa. former owner Lyman s. Hamblin charges $1747.
 No 67 Inf of sw or of section6 Township F, R 21 E., 50 acres, former owner James D. Houck, charges $9 30.
 No. 68. Improvements on land, former own- CT Jose M. Jaramilla, charges $7.O7. No. 72 Lotin section 2, Township 12, N, R. 2l E ,aDd improvements, foamer owner Nephi Johnson. charges s "A. | No. 73. Lots 19, 26 and p, Block 20, St Johns, | former owner w. F James. charges $3. .O5
 No. TT Improvements on Silver Creek, for mer owner Lorenzo Lucero, charges s 65.
 No: 80 Lots and 2, in Township g. N: R. 26 K. Fl acres, former owner J. A. McGrath, charges $20 59.
 No S2 Inf of NE ar and Sw pr of NE ar and NV qr of SEE qr of Section 2l, Township 2, N R. 31 E., 160 acres and improvements; SW ar of NE qr and SE ar of NV qr and NV qr of SE ar and NE qr of SW qr of SectsOn P, Township 2, N. F S1 E., 160 acres and improvements; former owner John V. Morrison, charges $60 25
 No. SS Four acres of land at Pinetop and Improvements, former owner H H. Mitchell, charges $o B
 No. go Eight acres of land in Jensen Entry and improvements, former owner Olojio Nu- anes, charges $7 .2S.
 No s1 Improvements at Fool Hollow, for mer owner Wm; E. Oliver, charges $15. p.
 No. 8 Improvements at Nutnosa, former owner Chester Paddock, charges $4 50.
 No e4. Improvements on ranch near St. Johns. former owner Jose Antonio Pena, charges SITS.
 No e6 Improvements at Mineral, former owner CasimirO Padilla, charges SS .15.
 No. 97. Improvements on railroad land at Concho. former owner Patricio Peralta, charges $22. 50.
 No 9s. Improvements at Mineral; former owner Jose radilla, charges $l1 90.
 No. 99 Improvements at Pinetop, former owner Nephi Packer. charges $6 6S.
 No l04 Lot ,, Block 2. COncho, former own CT Bias Romero, charges $4 65.
 No. l07 Improvements at Linden, former owner John L. Reidhead, charges $l0.17
 No. no Land at Springerville. former own CT TiotilO Sanchez, charges $S 33.
 No. 115 Improvements at New Town, St Johns, former owner Pablo Sedilla, charges $6 to
 No 116 Improvements at New Town, St Johns, former owner Samuel Sanchez, charges 50 97.
 No 1l9 Lots to and 13 to 1S Block 75 St. Johns, former owner Alex Shreeve, charges $5 63.
 No. 122. Improvements at Linden, former owner s. D. Shumway, charges $10 S4. owner T. B. Saul, charges $l0 75.
 No 125. Improvements at NutrioSa, former owner w. M Penney, charges SIP .OO.
 No 129 Improvements at Pinetop, former owner Alma Thompson, charges $I0 .2S.
 No 13S. Improvements at Linden. former owner Alma Young, charges $5 .65.
 No. 120. Lot D. block 35, St. Johns, former owner St. Johns Builders Union, charges SIP.
 N GONZALES. Clerk
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
The Way Et Worked.
Philadelphia Timas l

A A tailor named Sam Smith, from 8 country place, visited large wholesale warehouse and ordered a quantity of goods. He was politely receiAed, and one of the principals showed him over the establishment. On reaching the fourth floor the customer saw a speak ing tube, on the wall, the first he had ever seen.
 ''What is that ?" he asked.
 "Oh, that is speaking tube. It is a great convenience. We can talk with it to the clerks on the first floor without taking the trouble of going downstairs {"
 "Can they hear anything that you say through it?''
 'Yes, and they can reply"
 "You don't say so! May talk through it?"
 Certainly"
 The visitor put his mouth to the tube and asked:
 ''Are Sam Smiths goods packed yet?'
 The people in the office supposed it was the salesman who had asked the question, and in moment the distinct reply came back:
 ''No, we are waiting for telegram from his town. He looks like slip pery customer !"
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
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good relations between England and
 the United States, there has come a
 better understanding than ever existed
 before, and great enhancement of mu-
 tual respect. Americans know better
 than they did before, that English pub lie opinion desires just dealing, and that the real English feeling toward America
 is one of great friendliness and good
 will. Englishmen, on the other hand, understand better than they did before that public opinion Tn tce United States must be reckoned with, and that Amer ica has the courage of it's convictions.
 There is good reason to believe that the happy settlement of the Venezuelan controversy is to be speedily followed by general arbitration treaty between England and the United States, which will stand as a great testimony to the determination of both these nations that no future page of history shall be stained with the record of so monstrous crime against civilization as 8 war be- tween the two halves of the English speaking world. Such progress in the path of international righteousness is- when also coupled with the testimony to national character, sanity and stabil- ity furnished by the presidential cleo tion-news enough for one month, cer- tainly. The two events, viewed togeth- CT, may we'll give heart and courage to those who believe that it is worth while to keep on fighting the great battles of
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
WHERE SHE FAILS.

New York Evening Journsl1 know girl whose mental powers are quite e
 revelation; We've squandered many pleasant hours in ear
 nest conversation. She knew the Latin grammar when she was a
 child of three: She speaks the Frankish patois like a native of
 PareO. She has mastered every idiom the Russian lan-
 guage boasts. She knows the Greek of Homer and big Pfus-
 sian words in hosts. She talks Chinese like Ii Hung Chang; the
 Bowery dialect, In all the latest golfy slang her speech is quite
 correct A wonderful vocabulary. but must confess cannot, though I've tried for monthss induce
 her to say ''Yes.'
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12

The wife of Mr. D. Robinson, 8 prom inent lumberman of Hartwick, N. Y., was sick with rheumatism for five months. In speaking of it, Mir. Robin son says; "Chamberlain's Pain Balm is the only thing that gave her any rest from pain. For the relief of pain it cannot be beat" Many very bad cases of rheumatism have been cured by it.. For sale at 50 cents per bottle by St. Johns Drug Company.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
ELECTION CONTESTS.
Four Cases Filed With the Clerk
 of Court Saturday.

l or court saturday.
 On last Saturday four election con-
 tests were filed with the Clerk of the
 District Court. They are as follows:
 Jos. UdaI contests L. J. Brown and
 Elisha AYerett for the office of member
 of the Board of Supervisors, and alleges
 misconduct of the election board in each and every precinct of the county in not counting votes that should have
 been counted for contestant. The second case is that of James D. Murray, Republican candidate for mem- Der of the Board of Supervisors, against l.. J. Brown and Elisha Averitt, and alleges the same ground of contest as does MT. Udall
 The third case is that of N. Gonzales, Republican candidate for Recorder at the late election. against J. H. Greer, Democratic candidate; who had been declared elected by majority of four votes. MT. Gonzales also alleges mis- conduct of the election boards of each and every precinct in the county.
 The fourth contest is A. E. Henning, Democratic candidate for Treasurer, who was declared defeated by Ben Schuester, the Republican candidate, by 42 votes. MT. Henning now con- tests MT. Schuester's right to the office on the ground of illegal votes cast in St. Johns and Concho precincts.
 The papers in the above contests of Gonzales vs. Greer and Henning vs. Schuster were served on the opposite parties on Monday morning, and the other parties will be served within a day or two. The clerk of the court mo- tified Judge Hawkins of the filing of these actions immediately, and it is ex- pected that we will be able to give, in our next issue, the date of the special term of court set for their hearing.
 The HERALD in this instance, as isits custom in such matters, will refrain from expressing opinions and trying the Issues in these columns, rather preferring to leave them to the proper judicial tribunal, whose province it will be to hear them. However, VIC claim the privilege of giving the public the unprejudiced facts as proper news.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
CLEVER CAPTURE.
A Brace of Tough Citizens Ta-
 ken Into Custody.

On Saturday of last week Sam Loves ranch, just above Nutriosa, this county, was ralded, and almost everything that would be of any value to camper was taken. The tresspassers took the en- tire stock of provisions, together with a quantity of bedding and number of tarpaullns, wagon covers, etc. MT. Love, with his neighbors, Pollard Pear son and W. T. Maxwell. took the trail of the thieves shortly after the robbery, and followed it until Thursday of :his week, they located their men in the ranch house belonging to St. George Creaghe, situated on the Coyote.
 After satisfying themselves that the men had made camp for the night, Pearson and his companions went to Sprlngerville and made complaint be- fore Anthony Long. justice of the peace, who placed warrant in the hands of J. D. Murray, constable. The party being further reinforced by St. George Creaghe and Hank Sharp, immediately proceeded to the ranch for the purpose of making the arrests.
 The posse arrived at the robbers camp about daylight on Friday morn- ing; effected an entrance into the houee without alarming the men. and placed them under arrest. One of the prison CTS, who gives his name as Allen Mar tin, had to be ordered two or three times to throw up his hands before he compiled. The prisoners evidently had intended never to be taken alive, but being surprised and disarmed, resist ance was useless. They were taken be- fore Justice Long, of Springervilie, who held preliminary examination. After the hearing, they were remanded to the custody of the officers to await the action of the grand jury. In default of bail, they were brought to St. Johns and placed in jail, last Friday.
 The man who gives his name as Allen Martin is evidently desperate charac- ter. His reluctance to surrender under circumstances that a refusal meant suicide, would seem to indicate that he is no ordinary capture. Nobody with simply the charge of footing camp would make the movements he did. While in Springervllle, and just after having been committed, he made an- other attempt to escape. While un- armed and surrounded by armed men, he made break and reached a horse, mounted it and tried to gain his liber- ty. Constable Murray fired four shots after him, and St. George Cresghe one. MT Cre&ghe being mounted on 8 very good horse, followed the fugitive, and soon overlook him and brought him back.
 The other prisoner, who gave his name as James Gatlin, seems to be only a common, ordinary hard character, and did not give the officers any seri- eus troubIe. We hope the report of ,his capture may be circulated by the papers of this territory and that of New Mexico and the State of Califor- mia, to the end that the identity of these two men may be ascertained.
 MT. Creaghe, who has had 8 great deal of experience during his long resi- dence in this country, besides having served a term as sheriff, feels almost certain that he has caught brace of rare birds.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
Died as He Lived.
fudge. 1


 The machinery of the big mill stopped with sudden and horrible jar and jerk and the workmen pulled out the crushed and bleeding form of one who was a stranger to them all.
 "Are you badly hurt?" inquired one. 'I fear am," groaned the unknown. "I am dying"
 ''Shall we send for your friends ? Quick, tell US your name."
 "Oh, never mind, he answered. "I am all alone in the world and my name doesn't matter. Just say that 1 died incog." And grim smile illumined his face as the spirit of the professional hu- morist took it's flight with his last su- preme effort.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12

THE United States Supreme Court has affirmed the decision of the Arizona court in the case of Emma J. Gonzales vs. E. w. French ct al. The property question comprises the townsite of Flag staff, This puts an end to the litiga- tion and has the effect of clearing the title to all the lots in the original town site of Flagstaff.
The St. Johns herald., 1896-12-12
The Venezuelan Question.
[ReYieW of Reviews


 The government and citizens of the Republic of Venezuela have right to feel little disappointed, now that they have waited all these months so expect antly, not to know the conclusions of the American commission. For thirty five or forty years the Venezuelans had been trying in vain to obtain fair treat ment at the hands of England, and they may we'll be pardoned for having felt 8 great satisfac ion in the appointment Of the American commiss. on. Neverthe- less, the Venezuelans have now the prospect of an early and substantially equitable settlement of the whole bues- ton, on plan which will be final and which will remove all chances of war. Everybody therefore, has good reason to be satisfied. Out of the controversy which was thought by many people on both sides of the ocean to endanger the