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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22

Venezuela boundary treaty will shortly
be ratified.
Kneebs, the American horseman con-
victed in Berlin of ringing" has been
released.
Advices from Epi1us say the Turks
ere laying the country waste with fire
and sword.
The Peruvian government has ap-
pointed Alberto Falcon delegate to the
postal congress in Washington.
John William Morrison, secretary Of
public works for Prince Edwards ISL
and, IS dead, aged II years.
The Honduras syndicate, composed
of capitalists who live in the United
States, has received swet ping conces-
slOns.
1t was announced that the Grand
Duke Of Mecklenberg- Schwerin, who
died at Cannes, France, committed
suicide
! 1t is reported from Canea that the
/ Cretans recently impaled Turkish
non-commissioned officer whom they
| had captured.
The reported offer of the United
States government to intervene annie
! ably in Cuba is fayorably commented
upon at Havana,
Captain General Weyler, on arriving
at Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, learned that
the insurgents had crossed the trocha.
He ordered pursuit.
Queen Victoria will not attend st.
Psul's cathedral on the occasion of the
diamond jubilee because she is too
feeble to mount the steps.
The British farcical inquiry into the
TTansvaaI raid resulted in making DR..
Jameson and Col. Willoughby the most
popular men in England.
Mr.. Balfour announced in the house
of commons that Great Britain would
not take the initiative in promoting an
ir lernational bimetallic conference.
The porte has addressed a note to
the powers, stating that indemnity will
be asked for Turkeys great expenses
caused by the attitude of the Greeks
on the frontier,
Secretary Sherman has sent a note
W IhC VI SISdL DIlIdIu
urging that the indiscriminate butchery
of seals in Alaskan waters be stopped
Immediately
The Athens correspondent of the
London Daily Chronicle teIegraphed
mat Turkey IS showing herself excep-
tlonally friendly 20 Greece and that
compromise is evidently in the air.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, speak
ing at a banquet in London, charged
the government with shrinking from
definite vote on the employment of
the British forces in Crete, and declared
the governments course a piece of in
tolerable tyranny.
The Turks on the Greek frontier held
a council of war, and an immediate at
tack on Greece was considered probable.
! Mussulmans and Christians fought near
the frontier of Montenegro. Bulgaria
and Roumania are massing troops on
! their border.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
THE DOCTOR NUISANCE"

Your story about calling for a doc
tor in the circus said a retired show
man, reminds me of the way we broke
up nuisance in Pennsylvania
town. l was on the road with a farce
comedy company, and we put in two
weeks at the town in question, there
being a big military encampment there
and a county fair to boot. l don't
think we had been there more than one
night before the doctor nuisance began.
There would come a hurried messenger
from the box Office to the stage man
ager with a request that he ask if Dr..
BOluS, or whatever his name happen
ed to be, was in the house, and if he
was to send him to the b X office at
once. OF course the stage manage
couldn't we'll refuse, and general at
tention was directed to the medical
man, much to his satisfaction. We
soon found out that the doctors who
we're so much in demand were very
small medical fry, and there wasn't d
doubt that they had themselves called
for in order to secure the consequent
nOtoriety.
We'll, we stood it fol a few nights,
ard then an idea occurred to me. L
took walk Up the nam street until
l came to a certain sign hanging over
stairway. | went up co the office in
dlcaled, and had a Drlef conversation
with its inmate, ending II by handing
hIIn reserved seat tickets
That evening, Immediately after the
first act and before any messenger nom
the box office had cnance u arIIVe,
/ stepped out in front OF the curtain
and held up my hand Then In my
grayest tones | asked
Is Dr. Chizziold IN. the house,
Immediately a very tall colored
man.. with bushy WnlCe head and huge
sIlyer-mounted spectacles, arose in the
audience and said
Here is, sab.
The audience t.ttere /, buL kept my
gravity.
You are wanted at the box Office
at once, doctor, in a case WHICH re-
quires your immediate professional al
tention.
AS the aged darby ducked to me and
hObbled from the room the audience
broke into a wild roar.
Perhaps you will understand the
cause Of then merriment when L add
mat the old man was a corn doctor and
probably the best-knoWn eccentri
character in town. There were no more
doctors called for from that Stage dur
ing our engagement" -CleyelanQ PLAIN
Dealer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22

SIS. 600 for the establishment of an in
termedlate prison or ret0rmatory for
Hrst offenders. 1t was passed. SO to
81. The Agen bill, Elsa, continuing the
state board of immigration for two
year, OF which the secretary is to get
$1,000 annually, was passed, a to ,
Mr.. Rosenkrans demanded to know
the purpose Of Nos. 2S9a, the PoIacheck
Plumbing measure. It's author ex-
planned that it was purely in the in
tel est OF the public health by requiring
the careful and SYSTEMATIC inspection
OF plumbing as it is introduced to build
anss-sGch inspection to be under local
regulations and to be made by a com
retent official. The bill was passed,
The Hall bill requiring the attorney
general to investigate ard report upon
The question whether the railways are
making a proper return OF their gross
earnings to the state was passed. 81 t.
.. Senate bills concurred III were.
Mes. 219 (Green), increasing the salary
Of city clerk in Milwaukee to s.. 500
and 237 (Baxter), appropriating $40.
600 for additional room at Wisconsin
veterans home. On motion of Mr.
Minch, the Welton bill to reenact the
law of 1888 to protect fish in Dane
county lakes, was passed under sls-
| pension Of the rules. Final adjourn
| s ssion to pass on the revised statutes
will open August Il.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
CARS FLOATING PALACE.
The STANDARD ExcelIs the German EN-
perOrs Yacht HohenZollern.

1t appears that the German emperors
yacht Hohenzollern is excelled in al
most every respect by the cars new
floating palace, the Standard which
probably is the most magnificent plea
sure vessel ever constructed. She was
quilt at Copenhagen, is AIS feet in eX-
IRENE length $40 feet along the water
line, so feet wide and 40 feet, deep to
the base of the keel. She has three
lnaStS Of stee41 tue main mast. being
1870 feet in height, and carries Ii 900
square feet Of canvas. There are two
separate engines of 10000 total horse
power, each working its own. screw
rwenty-four French boilers from Belle
Vile and hydraulic rudder machinery
from England, The yacht has TWO fun
nelS, and coal capacity for 900 tons,
which is sufficient for five or ten days,
according to the rate OF speed. Her
maximum speed is calculated at twenty
one knots, but on the trial trip only
nineteen were made. The interior is
lighted by LOO electric lamps. There
are $50 sailors and twenty officers on
board, and the armament consists of
eight guns of. 47mm-. caliher- A pee
uIiarity in construction is that, in or
der to give plenty Of room for the
cabins, the engines have been put much
more forward than. usual, and are not
in the center Of the, ship The EN-
peror, the two expresses and the heir
apparent each have a cabin of three
rOcms-a sitting room and study COM
bined and bed and bathrooms. Ali are
connected with family dining room,
in carved oak From the Imperial
cabins two stair-cases lead up to the
state dining saloon, in the after part
of the vessel, which has q double row
of windows and five crystal chande-
liers. 1t measures 80 feet in length,
about 20 feet in width and is more
than 13 feet high. Seventy-fve per-
sons can dine in il cOmfortably.-St
Louis Globe Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
LOVED THEIR DOGS.

An eminent judge in England has
testified to his affection for a deceased
cog VINO by founding, a canine hospital,
which he mas dedicated % Tue memory
o. lne deceased Fido.
OLner members OF the judicial b6nch
fave SHARED his Londness Tor their
dogs. Lord Clare always brought MS
NeWtoundllng mo COURT, ana when
litigation grew serious would amusa
himself by petting the dog.
Ersklne usually astonisned new eli
ents because he permitted his four
looted animal to be pres ent at consul
tatiOns and interviews. Lord Herman
took his dog to church with him, and
when there Was no church TO attend
they went to a dissenting meeting.
Dogs are not the only animals IN ia
vor with Judicial lights. Lord Garden
stone had a fayorite pig which fol
lowed nun everywhere. The judge
was proud of tie affection he aspired in
che pOrker, thereby differing from Sir.
Walter Scott, who was profoundly
as Eamed of the fact that a pig eVinced
a fondness for him.
The love Of animals is supposed to
portend a softness of heart. Apropos
is a good story of one of the Judges in
the time Of the French revolution.
He was fond Of a pack of dogs, but far
from humane. A lady had come before
him to plead for her husbands life,
which was refused her AS she turned
sorrowfully to go away she trod by
accident on the paw Of one of the
judges numerous pets. Madam" he
exclaimed in genuine Indignation,
have you no humanity"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22

an eye-but they are of a greater varia-
" tnan COWS are. | have seen them
OF every color Imaginable and ALWAYS
or the same color as the soil or rocks
IN when they are found, and the dia
mond-shaped spots on their sides and
back are sometimes lighter and some
times darker than the rest. once saw
a rattlesnake caught in a canon in
Lower California, near San Fernando
that was almost as black as let and
the diamond spots were lined with
white. Two years ago killed a rattle
in Para Valley, in NOrtherna Arizona
lnat was three and a half feet long and
OF deep red color, with diamonds of
jet black. l think it was the hand
soonest snake 1 ever saw. l have his
skin yet. In another valley, not more
/ than forty miles from there, | saw
rattieSnakeS as yellow as Ochre. with
| reddish diamonds. Brown rattIesnake
VII dark spots are the most common.
! But the queerest-looking RATHER l ever
! saw friend of mine and l caught in
/ Lower California five or six years ago.
/ We were riding along the western
! coast OF the peninsula, about opposite
Guadalupe, when we came upon rat
tlesnake as white as milk, with faint
black lines outlining the diamond spots.
! 1t was the only white one l ever saw
though l have seen many light colored.
1t had simply taken on the color of
! the white rocks and sands where it
lived, We captured it alive, and took
it to San Diego and sold it for SIS
to man named King, who was gath
ering rare specimens of reptiles and
insects for some eastern institution. -
! San Francisco Call. &
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
COLORS OF RATTLESNAKES.
They Take on the Hue of the Rocks
Where They Have Dens.

A few days ago a Mexican was ex-
hibiting on the streets Of Pomona a
rattlesnake that he had captured in
one of the neighboring canons He
was leading the snake around by cord
of horse hair fastened about it's neck
and tied to the end of a sharp rod
or walking stick. Some Mexic4ns are
experts at catching rattlers. They al
ways take them alive if they can, and
they seldom fail, for it is lively snake
that can escape them when they are
armed for the fray,
If they cannc- sell their capIves
alive they kill it and sell the skin a
a good price for a hatband or a belt,
The snake in question was a rare speci
men. It was about three feet long,
plump and sleek, and almost as bIac
as coal. Nobody had ever seen a black
ratler before. One man declared that
1t was no rattlesnake because it was
black.
One OF the interested spectators, who
had been looking the snake over care
fully, but had said nothing, was Jacob
who had travelled over nearly ali 0
the mineral regions Of Southern Cali
fornia and Mexico. The man who
secuted the idea Of a rattlesnake being
black turned TO Morency and said:
What 30 you think about it, Jake?'
We'll" said the latter, you'd better
not let him bite you, unless you're
ready to pay your debts, say your
prayers and die; for he's a rattler al
right enough. Rattlesnakes are not
like chameleons exactly-they can't
change their color in the twinkling of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
A NEW BRICK .

A great brick plant is to be estab-
llshed in proximity to San Francisco.
which will add materially 10 the city 8
manufacturing interest, and, through
new methods, may lead to a. revolution
N that important. industry. An organ
iZation has been incorporated under
the name Of the California Stone Brick
company, which proposes to expend
$4,000 in the purchase of a site and the
erection OF buIIungs for the manufac-
ture OF bricks from sand, no other in
gradients entering in their composition
than those contained in sand or earth
Plans for the kiln have been drawn and
clay, etc. These substances are mix
a search is now being made for a pro-
per site. The process to be employed
is that of Professor E. c.. R~ice OF
Washington. 1nu stone brick which it
is proposed to make here is manufac-
ell with prepared 'flux" which acts
as bond, holding together the par
tlcleS of sand or other material used as
tured from powdered stone or the ele-
ments contained in stone, such as sand
a filler, the whole being thoroughly
annealed by heating. Among the ad-
yantageB claimed for the Brice brick is
the saving of time, only ten hours be-
ing needed for their manufacture, in
stead of eight to thirty days; a much
less consumption of fuel, scarcely any
loss from ten to forty-fve thousand
pounds to the square inch instead Of
from four hundred to four thousand
pounds, and a reduction OF cost to
threeffths of that Of the old-style
bricks
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
+ EDE2AL LAW llANs...,.r

Washington, April 16.-To-day Sena-
tor Hansbrough introduced a bill
authorizing the appointment o. com
mission to Introduce and popularize
the bread foods OF the United States
among the peoples of the orient. 1t
provides that the commission, 10 con-
slst OF three persons shall be appointed
by the president and s2all be known as
the bread foods commission and be un-
der the direction OF The secretary OF
agriculture. The commission shall
ascertain and report on the best modes
Of introducing and popularlzlng the
bread foods OF the United States among
the peoples of oriental countries. 1t
calls for an appropriation Of $4,000 20
defray the expenses OF the commission.
Senator Vest spoke in criticism of a
provision Of the Indian bill abolishing
seCtarian Indian schools. Mr.. Vest
said that he would make no effort to
oppose this provision Of the bill, but
would content himself with this pro-
test. The amendment opening the
UncCmpahgre Indian reservation in
Utah to public entry was agreed to, 33
to 10 The reservation includes
extensive deposits of asphalt.
The bill was not completed
when the senate adjourned to Mon
day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
DAY AND NIGHT ON THE MOON

The dag on the moon is a fortnigh.
in length. During that period the tenn
perature on the Illuminated side prob
ably rises to 220 degrees Fahrenheit.
The night is, Of course, of equal length
and during the period of darkness the
heat probably radiates so freely that
the temperature falls to 300 degrees be-
low the zero of the Fahrenheit scale!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
THE RETURN TRIP.

Physician at Resolving Hospital ito
driver of Where are you
going now?
Driver (who has just brought in an
injured citizen)-Tm going back to
pick up the three. people l ran over
while coming here with the patient
San Francisco Wave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
BEGGAR DID NOT SEE THE POINT.

She-You know, Reggie, that girls
are being called by the names Of flow
ers now, and my sister suggested that
should be called Thistle.
Reggie-O, yes, I see, because you are
50 sharp.
She-O, no; she said it was because
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
A CURE FOR EVERY ILL.

THE great curse of modern -4fe is
the overcrovding of the cities" said
the parrot philosopher.
Too true" admitted the other man,
'but I think the trolly cars and am
balances will eradicate the evil in
time, '-Cincinnati Inquirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Prince Bismarcks health is much
improved.
Cubans captured an important sea
coast town.
Aubrey BeardsIey, the artist, was re-
ceived into the Roman Catholic church
in London.
Il was announced in London that the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22

Washington, April 19.-Today the
senate passed the Indian appropriation
bill. 1t is substantially the same as it
passed the house and can occasion little
division save on the amendment open
ing the Uncompahgre Indian reselva-
ton.
Resolutions OF inquiry were agreed
to asking the secretary of state as to
the operation Of the reciprocity treaties
made under the Mckinley act. Mr.
Vest dem, MOI introduced his res
olution declaring illegal the recent
order of the secretary of the treasury
relative to, imports arriving after Aptl
l., The senator gave notice that he
would press the resolution today and
1t may afford another test on the tariff
After executive session the senate
adjourned as mark of respect 10 Rep
resentative Milliken, deceased
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22
SCALES ON THE HUMAN BODY

High-grade microscopes show that
the human body is covered with min
ute scales, each scale covering 400
pores,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-04-22

Madison, April 15.-Tn the senate
the assembly resolution for the ap-
pointment of a committee on recess
was concurred in and Senators Austin,
Batter, Mills and Whitehead were ep-
pointed. Senate bills were passed:
NJ. 2SS Davis, continuing the one
fifth nil tax to the university for he
next two years; 391 Davis. to prevent
combinations Of fire insurance com
pcEIes; SO (TrUe), authorizing county
aid for highway Improvements; and
$50 Peterson), relating to compensa-
ton of delegates TO state fair. The
| judiciary committee submitted i joint
re: ciution providing for a constitu-
t:tral amendment authorizing the next
| legislature to call a convention for q
revision of the state constitution. Tho
judiciary committee recommended TO.
irGef1nate postponement Mr.. Halls
joint resolution, No. Sa, prohibiting the
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-21
GOVERNOR EVANS ON THE D|SPENSARY,
HIS FINAL MESSAGE TO THE
LEGISLATURE.

Tho Main Part of the NTcssaDc ia
Devoted IT, II Discussion or the Dis.
pcnsary Law--IIe ia in Favor OF
Aggressive enforcement, or all its
Provisions
The following is u portion of Cover
nor EVans' message rotating to the
DiSp"nsary.
Two years ago was elected Gov
crnOr TO succeed leader OF ~ rcvolu-
tlon VINO, to use his own language,
was tho worst hated and best loved
man VINO has ever entered tho noli.
tics OF our State. The policy that |
shouId pursue was already formed by
the people and the only issue made
was The enforcement Of the dispcnsarv
law, whether It should be aggressive
with Wow TO destroying the illicit
tralllc In liquor or whcthcrit should be
OF u milk and cider form as our enc
mics would have il with the hope Of
It's final repeal. My nomination and
electlon incant tho former and have
cndcavOrcd TO be true TO that policy
II "Culd have been an easy matt, =
Tor nc 10 nave placatcd my enemies
ana the enemies OF the Reform nov
ment by giving ear to the ovcrturcs Of
the "hiskcy element and their allies
in the cities OF the state, and the daily
press. These pcopio who sIandcred
and vilihcd the trainers OF the dispcn-
sary law have continued their stub.
born warfare 10 an extent that would
barely be tolerated by q less conscrva,
tive people. They have not bccn con.
tent TO express their contempt of the
law, bnt have attempted to drag down
by lying and 6lander every official
connected with the administration oi
the law. Every error in bookkccpihu O
OF an inexperienced dispenser has beer
magnllicd into an embezZlemont,
Every arrest OF an illicit dealer in IL
quor by a constable has been charac
tcrizcd as vilcst oppression of innocent
and law abiding citizens. Ifperchancc
an offender is killed while resisting
the officers and carrying on his dam
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-21
Easlcy, 5. G..

ctaSs aI Clemson and upon terms Cuu-
hily as reasonable us that afforded at
thc college. The best evidence OF this
Is inc laCt that the South Carolina
colicEc has IL higher standard than
Clemson with no lifting school. and its
enrolment OF students equals Clemson.
The lifting school nt Clemson should
be ABOLISHED, instead of coming in COM
petlon with the high schools of the
state. Tho State supports the FREQ
common schools, and there is no rcu-
son why the people should be taxed 20
support high school at this college.
Make Inc COZ !ogc what it ought, TO be
ID hlgh Institution Of lcurning--and
do not fill it up with bows anxious to
don Il uniform and be placed upon Il
iootlnG with college students, and |
boilcHc the college will be moro pros
porous. Ihc buildings and equipment
Oh lniS Institution arc the equal Of any
IN the South and the State has spared
no expense IN muking it II success. In
TACT, Ii has been the idol OF Tie Reform
movement and the people have dealt
with it with ii lavish hand, and if there
is any failure to fulfil! the cypcutations
OF the people, the blame must res,
where 1t bclon9S-upOn the shoulders
OF those charged with its mauamc-
hlclL. nc income OF the cOllcGi> lOl
the past year was f9l ,92l.5J, made up
as follows:
privilege tax. ....... .. sol, ,g1:i.G1
Land scrip fund .............. 5I5iUO
'IcmSon bcuucSt =. ..... :hl2.H
Balance on hand ............ IH.JI.1S
Murnli iund... .. .......... lu,h2l.Ul
lialch L. ;. appropriation. l5,uuU.Uu
Convict labor value. l4I2UU
l"ial '...... ................. 50 - LOO
No account is given OF the value OF
| products from tho farms and dairic!
and no account given for tuition fec.
from students. IL is unfair 10 th,
other Institutions Of the State to com
pei students 10 pay tuition and make
no cll)rt to enforce the same rule al
this institution. Something is wrong
somewhere, as with all these advan
IageS the enrolment Of students il
growing less every year. The why's
ana whCrclorcs you must discover.
| Ihls showing is made, not with Il
view of prcjudicing you against the in
stitution but for the purpose OF pre-
venting its downfall before il is too
late. Find out the trouble and eradicate
it and all will bo well.
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-21

The following is the principal por-
tion of the message of Governor Evans,
relating to the general affairs of the
State
The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-01-21

CONTINUES ON FOURTH pAeE.)