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Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

Tom Watson is going to give up politics and devote himself to his law business. This is real nice, when so many lawyers are giving up the law business and devoting themselves to politics.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

An 18-year-old boy in New York drank flask of whiskey on a wager and was so affected that he imagined himself to be great actor There are lots of people on the stage who suf- fer from the same delusion without the aid of stimulants
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

It is reported that Japan is clan destdnely egotiaing with .the diet of the v, ter Republic of Central
 1nerfcSv5 construct the Nicaragua {canal. We'll, somebody ought to com plete that canal.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

Kaiser Wilhelm has made another alliance This time it is with Italy. If Willie keeps on at this rate it will not be long until he is allied to every thing in sight, and there will be noth- ing left for him to fight.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

Phoenix is forging ahead without making much ado Buildings are ip course of construction in all parts O. town. New firms are entering the business field. The expansion in all branches of business will be marked nthis fall
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

are surprised that the Graham tin should grumble at the re- of the United States court Solomcnville to Florence. Does
 to say that the presiding Ds no right to consult his own
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

For an arid region Arizona is do- 1ng pretty we'll in the rainfall busi- ness. General Humidity is getting Something of hump on himself.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

people are beginning to Buckley O'Neiu was on La Will that stalwart friend of please rise and explain?
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

y council. For par
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12
The Official City Paper

Publication Office: Ss Adams Street. Tel ephone No. AT.
Arizona republican., 1897-09-12
The Arizona Republican.
The Treasure Terrtory's Chief Newspaper

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Arizona republican., 1897-09-12

Entered at the postofice at Phoenix, Arizona, as mail matter of the second- class.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
Convenient Feed Box

A good feed box for out door feeding
in winter is made in the following
manner: Take four posts, say two
inches by four inches; these to serve
as the corner posts for the feed box.
Connect them, near the centre, with
one side board on each side and end.
Then put on a bottom in such a man
ner that one-half of each post serves
as a leg Then put another side board
Just below the bottom of the box, all
around, and finally adjust braces, both
above and below bottom. Or, perhaps,
one side board, foot or more in
width. may be nailed on so that SIX
inches will extend above, and as much
below the floor This is to hold feed
in box. These boxes can be made to
feed sheep, cattle or horses by making
the legs of the proper height, and are
so constructed that in case OF a sleet
or snow it can be upset and the oppo-
site side used for feeding on, so that
in this manner it can changed back
and forth so as to have a dry and clean
feed box This, in all cases, will far
exceed the feed from ground or racks.
Practical Farmer
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
TENNYSON'S NAIVETE.

Tennyson's very human delight in
MS own reading Of his own poems is
brought out in one of Mrs. Brown
ing's letters, dated 1855. "One of the
pleasantest things which has hap
pened to us is the coming down on US
Of the Laureate, who, being in London
for three or four days, spent two of
them with US, dined with US, smoked
with us, opened his heart to us (and
the second bottle of port), and ended
by reading Maud through from end
tc end, and going away at 2:30 o'clock
in the morning. If l had had a heart
to spare he would certainly have won
mine. He is captivating with his
fIankness, confidingness, and unex-
ampled naiYetei Think of his STOP
ping in Maud every now and then
There's a wonderful touch! That's
very tender'-as if he was only the
listener to another's masterpiece, not
it's creator"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23

concerned. Very few transactions
lave come to the surface, though sew
raj large trades are under advise
nent. A single sale from first hands.
that Of Brictson Bros, 160cs '95 at
sc, made to Henry Miller, is re-
ported. c. L. Culton has effected a
sale Of 25cs lot. A feature of New
York market for the week was the
sale Of a 2,000cs packing of 80 Wis
consin, but particulars have not been
maze public. Casing weather is pres
ent and should it continue long enough
some Of the hanging tobacco will
come down from the sheds, when the
work OF stripping will go forward.
Very little of the 81 crop has yet been
emoVed from the curing sheds. which
preclunes much moving in the new
until it can be examined by the BUYERS
he shipments from Edgerton do not
xceed 400cs to all points. Something
yer 30 carloads of Vernon county leaf
being transferred to Edgerton for
storage.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23

complexion, eyes and hair betoken his
the late Makaranee Bamba, the ma
harajah's first wife, to forget whom
the old gentleman took two English
spouses. Educated in England, Prince
Victor in 1888 was appointed a super
numerary lieutenant of the second
royal dragons. Soon he was assigned
to duty on the staff of General Sir
John Ross, K. G.. B., commanding
her majesty's forces in British North
America. But Prince Victor, tired in a
twelvemonth Of garrison life, in Hal
flax and came to the United
New York and he was put up at all the
best clubs. The women smiled on
him. He was the lion of the season
at Newport and Narragansett Pier. He
went at such a fast pace that he
could not meet his obligations and the
ting up an awful barking when the
pension was restored to his papa and
he had money to burn" again.
Lady Coventry is first cousin Of Lord
Craven who some few years ago mar
ried Miss Bradley Martin in New York
city Her father is one Of the best
known sporting men in England and
belongs to the prince Of Wales's set.
The Indian government, overwhelmed
by the glory of marrying one of their
swarthy princes into the English arts
tocracy, will settle $4,000 year on
the bride
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
Timely Hints.

Put the well-rotted manure where
the next years garden or potato patch
is to be.
A hot bed will give you much earlier
vegetables, and it is not difficult to
make. Study the thing up before
planting time next spring.
One acre Of good land set to straw
berries, with plenty of manure, and
practical intensive farming, will
afford more pleasure and profit than
six acres set with berries and only
half cared for.
It is said that the odor of the sweet
pea blossom has much the same effect
on flies that alcohol does or. mankind
-stupefies them. To prove it, try
some of the choice varieties next sea-
son.
All the apples should be picked up
and taken away. The diminution in
the number of insects next season will
we'll repay the trouble. The more
wormy they are the more reason why
they should be picked up.
Right now is a good time to wage
war against the currant borer. Look
the bushes over carefully and cut out
and burn all infested canes. The yell
low, withered appearance of the shoot
indicates where the borer has been at
work North American Horticulture
iSt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
Live Stock Notes.

Corn and oats make good feed for
the horse. Corn alone is too heating.
The horses eyes are often injured
by the sitting down of dust from the
NOV.
Jamming a tight collar over the
horses head is often injurious. Put
the collar on gently
Watering animals in the stable in
cold weather is a great convenience
and better for the animals.
The diseases of the horse are very
similar to those of the human being
and the symptoms are the same.
1t is much better to break the colt
with a blindless bride. 1t makes a
safer horse and is better for the eyes,
The hog has been and will be a
Klondike. Now is the time 20 think
about building a comfortable hog
house
One of the best remedies for pole
evil is a pint of turpentine and an
ounce of corrosive sublin ate, applied
at night and washed off with warm
suds in the morning and applied again
at night and so on.-Western Plow-
man
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
Coal Ashes for Fowls.

AS the season for wet weather is ap-
preaching fowls cannot find dust beds
out of doors. In most cases where coal
Is used for fuel, the coal ashes make
perhaps as good a dust bath as can be
had. 1t has the further advantage that
the bits Of coal which hens find among
the ashes will be eaten by the hens,
and will help grind the food in their
gizZards. The coal itself will also be
digested in the process, and may ap-
pear as black specks on the egg shells
of fowls who have access to coal ash
heaps Coal ashes make very excel
lent insecticide. They are finer than
any road dust can be made, and there
fore are more effective, closing the
pores Of vermin which breathe through
holes in their sides. When these are
c-osed by any fine powder the vermin
quickly die from uffocation.-Ameri-
cen Cultivator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
PRAISE FOR THE ASS.
Virtues of the Humble Moke Have
Been Sadly Overlooked.

To be called AN ass is a great COM
pliment Humility, patience, charity
and industry have been recognized as
great virtues ever since mankind has
been retrospective; but the world has
failed to notice that the ass, which is
the brunt of the jests of all nations,
possesses these qualities more fully
than any other animal or any human
being, except the proverbial one in a
million
Often we call the man whom we like
"a rare old dog and he rather likes
1t. If we called him a rare old ass,
which is finer praise, he would get
mad, however. We write poems in
praise of the horse, though the horse
is in so many respects the ass inferior
The horse makes the brilliant cavalry
charge, but it is the ass who brings
up the army's ammunition.
The ass is to be found in every part
of the world, always melancholy and
slow, nobly doing his work, whether
in the Andes, the Himalayas, the
Rockies, Or in the place of his nativity,
the orient. Wherever he is, his dom
il ant characteristics are the same;
wherever he is, he is generally abused;
perhaps because he puts up with abuse
so meekly.
Always he is the friend of the poor.
In countries where horses cannot be
afforded he is the sole means of trans
port. All day long he will go over a
hot plain or up a rocky mOuntainside,
loaded down with more than any horse
could bear, though his weight is only
half that of the average horse, while if
a horse were limited to the food he
subsists on, the horse would fall down
in it's tracks and die, though it had nc
load With the load it would fall down
anyway.
The London moke is about third
cousin of the oriental ass Of myth, OF
fable and biblican story. The moke
who is about the size Of a big New
foundland dog, draws the barrels OF
the costermongers who yend fl Iits and
vegetables from door t. d0or in al
parts Of the city.
All day you may occasionally heal
him out of your window chivy-chivy-
ing with his rapid and mincing little
steps over the asphalt pavements. A
the same gait he will carry his barrel
well loaded with produce, and two bis
! costermongers up the side of a hill
VI, o&s 60 81,
| marks about brutes who ought to be il
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23

Her ladyship is the sister-in-law of
ViscOuntess Deerhurst, who was Miss
Virginia Bonynge, the American-bor
STEP daughter of Charles William
Bonynge, who was born in England,
MADE his fortune in California and is
now spending its income in England.
Many fashionable men and women in
America who divide the summer be-
tween Newport and Lenox remember
Prince Singh, known in the dubious
adJuncts of society as Prince
Julop. His father, beaten
IN battle, bereft of his possess
slons and despOiled of the jewel Ct
jewels, the Kohinoor, was forced to
swear allegiance to Queen Victoria.
England allowed him a pension Of
100000 year. The maharajah
placed himself in the hands of the
Russian government. In return Eng
and stopped his pension. Then
the czar threw him over but the
queen pardoned him and his pension
was restored.
Prince Victor, son of this father, is
a little more than 81 years of age. His
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
Fall Calves.

Calves dropped in the fall are carried
through the winter on milk with grain
or meal additions and go on to the pas
lures in the spring about weaving
time, so that when hot weather and fly
time come they are well enough ad-
vanced to resist the injury which is
done to spring calves under the same
circumstances The advocates OF the
fall calf are increasing and both
dairymen and beef growers are IN
larger numbers coming to believe That
they can do as well, or even better,
with the fall calf than with those
dropped in the spring. The effect on
the milk COW, too, is even more favor
able. In the fall it is important
to have the herd in condition for win
ter work, and the results are so gooo
that Major Alvord, of the Department
of Agriculture, estimates COW fresh
in the fall as worth 25 per cent. more
during the year than she would be If
she came in the spring. Fall calvlng,
of course, implies December or Janu-
airy breeding, for which those intend
inc to try it must be prepared.
consin Farmer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
MERRIMAN In LUCK
SELOIT ASSEMBLYMAN MADE A
CONSUL IN CANADA.
A DAlRYMAN FOR ATHENS
D. E. Mckinley to Represent the
United States at Classic Athens
Ashland Applicants Win Out
William w. Thomas Goes to
Sweden and Norway.

Washington, Dec. 1S.-The presi-
dent yesterday appointed several
| Wisconsin men to Office, among them
being Assemblyman c.. w. MerTiman
| of Beloit as consul at Brockville.
ontario, and D. E. Mckinley of Co
| darburg as consul at Athens,
Greece, and Nels Auley to be register
of the Ashland land office
and August Deonitz receiver Of
the Ashland land office. Mr..
| Merriman is a graduate of the
Beloit college, aged AZ; a ply
stefan, and taught school in Danville,
Quebec, after leaving college. Mr..
Mckinley is a Cedarburg dairy man;
| a popular politician in Ozaukee
county. He was not disposed to ac-
eept as he feared the hot weather.
A mild protest was made by some
educators on the ground that Mac"
lacked the culture to represent this
bounding republic in classic Athens,
but he will go just the same.
The following other important for
slgn missions were filed: William
w. Thomas, Jr., of Maine, to be en-
,oy extraordinary and minister plen-
ipCtentiary of the United States to
Sweden and Norway; Hamilton King
Of Michigan, to be minister resident
and consul genera l of the United
States to Siam; James G.. McNally of
Pennsylvania, to be secretary of the
location an6 of
| United States at Bogota, Columbia;
Edgar o. Achorn of Massachusetts,,
to be secretary of the legation of the
United States at St. Petersburg, Rus
STA.
Oher appointments were: To be
consuls of the United States-George
H. Moulton of Colorado at Demerara.
British Guiana; Robert P. Dooley of
New York, at st. Helena; Louis H.
Ayme of Illinois, at Guadalupe, West
ndies; w. Stanley Hollis of Massa-
chusetts, at Lourenco, Marquese,
Africa; Levi S. Wilcox of Illinois, at
Hankow, China; Chester Donaldson
of New York, at Managua, Nicaragua;
Robert P. Skinner of Ohio, at Mar
settles, France; Frank w. Mahin of
Iowa, at Reichenberg, Bohemia; Mar
shall Halstead of New York, at Biz
mingham, England; Harlan W.
Brush of New York, at Clifton, Ont;
Lemuel w. Livingston of Florida, at
Cape Haitien, Hayti; John C. Bill
heimer of Indiana, at Zanzibar; John
K. Pollard of Ohio, to be consul Of
the United States at Monterey, Mex
leo; Louis Dexter of Rhode Island.
to be consul of the United States at
Leeds, England
To be registers of land Office. H.
Battenfield, at Dardanelles Arkansas;
jacob B. Friedheim, at Camden,
Ark; James A. Layton, at Mont
rose, COL; Samuel Gordon at Miles
City, Mont; August Deonitz at Ash
land, Wis.
To be agents for the Indians-Har-
Ian c. Baird Santee agency, Nebras-
ka; William H. Smead at Flathead,
Mont; Thomas P. Fuller at Black
feet, Mont.
Navy-Past Assistant Surgeon
Francis w. F. WILDER to be a sur
geon; Paymaster George H. Griffing
to be pay inspector; Assistant Naval
Constructors Robert Stocker, Frank
w. Hibbs and Elliott Snow to be
naval constructors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
agricultural
Money in PenperS.

Peppers are profitable crop among
albany county IN. " market garden
ers. This season the yield has been
very much shortened and prices have
been at 81 to s125 per barrel. Italians
are the principal consumers and they
will have them be the price small or
great One gardener has grown and
shipped over 200 barrels to one Italian
in Central New York at contract price
of ST. per barrel. These were grown on
three-fourths of an acre of land. The
varieties usually grown are Sweet
Mountain and Ruby King. The first
is by far the most profitable, as it is
earlier and more productive. The lat
ter is later and while the peppers are
much larger both in plant and fruit,
the yield is very uncertain. However,
I have found the past season that by
setting Ruby King and Sweet Noun
ain in alternate rows, the Kings do
much better, probably because the
blossoms which are deficient in pollen
receive a supply from the other vari
ety-E. V. A, in American Agricul-
turiSt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
TOBACCO NEWS.
Tobacco Conditions at Stoughton, Ed
gerton and Elsewhere.

Around Stoughton the weather the
past week has been most favorable
for farmers in taking down the new
tobacco crop, about one-half of which
has been removed from the poles and
is now being bundled and made ready
for inspection by buyers. Very little
riding is being done and but few sales
have been made thus far. Active op-
CITATIONS will not take place until
after the holidays. O. H. Hemsing
spent a part Of the week in Crawford
and Vernon counties and picked up
about 100 acres of the new crop at SC
to &c. Geo. Mayors of New York is
i6ing with Mr.. Hemsing, looking
fter old goods. James Mccarthy has
old his go crop, consisting Of 112
asses, to Edgerton buyers for 10Ac,
which Melted him over $4,000.
The Edgerton Reporter observes that
his fes been another dull week so
ar as business in the local markets
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
BUTLER FOUND GUILTY.
Weukesha Jury Says He Killed His
Wife.

Waukesha, Wis, Dec. 18.-Guilty
of murder in the first degree was
the verdict of the jury in the case Of
James Butler, who was tried on the
charge of killing his wife. The jury
retired at 11:45 Friday morning and
at 2:30 p. m. came in with the verdict
sealing the doom of the uxorcide.
The mental condition of the defend
ant was the subject Of a special trial
which terminated in the verdict that
Butler was sane at the time the kill
ing took place and is sane at present.
The crime Of which Butler was found
guilty was committed at the farm res
idence of Butler in the town of Lis
bon on the night Of July 5. Butler
had been drinking and the theory is
that he returned home at about 10
o'clock and killed his wife with an
axe, literally chopping the body to
pieces. He fed and was found two
deys afterward hiding in his brothers
harm. several miles from the scene of
the crime.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23

Jail from old gentlemen with white
side Whiskers and kindly expression of
mouth, to which the costermonger usu-
ally replies: "G'arn, old plum-pud-
ding. 1t 'urts you more'n i'm
Until Baroness Burdette-C outts and
the society for the Prevention of Cruel
ty to Acknowledgements in imitation
Of the original American society-took
the matter in hand and made the pas
sage of the law matter of great SEN
tlI1ental moment in the house of COM
mons, instead of feeding his little DON
key, the costermonger usually beat
him; and the mOke, too patient and
too humble to attempt to petition the
commons itself, tried to thrive on the
Whipping and succeeded wonderfully
There is no finer playfellow for chill
dren than a moke. When his fuzzy
fur is washed it is soft, fluffy and pref
ty A youngster may crawl all over
him and under him and pound and
pull him in every part of his anatomy
and he will only smile the contented
smile of the moke who is living in the
moke heaven of currycombs and good
rationS.
That the ass is not stupid is proved
by his equal cleverness with the horse
in learning tricks, by his picking his
way where a horse cannot go, by his
calmness under conditions that make
a horse uncontrollably fretful. But he
seems homely and out Of proportion,
unless you look at him closely; and the
world too often goes by appearances.
Scrutinize sharply the patient face Of
the ass and you will find those quail
ties which make a face educational
and, perhaps, even beautiful.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
Swine on a Dairy Farm.

Pigs are essential upon dairy farm,
where butter is manufactured. The
waste products of the dairy furnish a
most excellent food for swine. Winter
pigs require extra care and feed, yet
when properly fed with warm food
and rightly cared for they make prof
liable hogs. Spring pigs can be kept
in a good pasture the entire summer
and will require very little except
dairy wastes to make profitable
growth. Pigs, to bring the owner a
profit as pork, should not be fed over
nine months. Keep the breeds that
will come to maturity and make a
well-proportioned hog when eight or
nine months of age. Keep the pigs
growing every day. See how much
you can get them to eat, rather than
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
A RARE SPECIMEN
Ornamented Copper Lance Head
Found Near Ripon.

Mitchell, owner doubtless of the best
archaeological collection in the state
of Wisconsin, has just added to his
collection a specimen almost as rare
and valuable as the copper razor
which created such universal COM
ment by the press all over the county
last year. This new find is a highly
ornamented copper lancehead, four
inches long and an inch in breadth
It's great rarity consists in the wonder
full concentrations, made by some
Indian who long ago inhabited the
region. The relic was found ON the
north shore Of Green lake near the
lakewood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-12-23
TRAIN WRECKERS FOILEO.
CENTRAL TRAINS
NARROW ESCAPE.
Filled with Passengers 1t Plunges
onto a Lot of Fish Plate Near
Alma, Illinois.

Chicago, Dec. 18.-An unsuccessful
attempt to wreck the fast mail train
from New Orleans to Chicago ON the
near Alma, 233 miles from Chicago.
Six pieces of fish plate iron, four feet
long, were placed across the track at
a place where the embankment was
very steep. The train struck them
while running at a rate of So miles an
hour, one of the plates being cut COM
p'etely in two. Fortunately the en-
CINE did not leave the track. The
motive presumably was robbery.