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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05

prices and, with existing conditions
in other lines of business, the outlook
is for better request for cotton goods
and for iron and steel in early au-
tumn.
The most favorable feature of trade
Is its slow, conservative, steady ex-
ports, it being based on the increased
wants and larger consumptive capac-
1ty OF the agricultural community. for
whom the prospect is brighter than it
has been for six years Practically
the only decreases in quotations this
week are for iron and steel. The
prices of oats and print cloths is I'M
changed. The list of advances is
longer and more significant. including
prices Of wheat flour, wheat, Indian
corn, lard, sugar, live stock. cotton
and WOODEN goods, lead and nails.
Exports of wheat (flour includedl
II ON both coasts of the United States
and Montreal this week amount to
2,343,O0 bushels, compared with 2
$4,000 year ago. There is a sharp
falling off in exports in Indian corn
this week, the total amounting to
/ ,4S2,715 bushels. compared with
2,29S,OOO bushels last week, and 1876
600 bushels week in Chicago.
The statement compiled by Brad
streets shows the total bank clearings
III the principal cities of the United
States for the week to be S1,O43, 06S,-
oOo, an increase of 2S.7 per cent. COM
pared with the corresponding week
last year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
DRAGONS HORN TRUMPET.
New Musical Instrument Devised by
German Manufactures.

Germany is not only fertile in COM
posers, but it would seem also in in
SCrument-makers, says the BerIiner
ISignale. 1t is but a short time since
RItters yiola-alta became known since
tLat we have heard something about
q Violate and a 'cellono, or similar
names, and the newest invention Is 4
dragon horn trumpet. The new instruI
ment is oval shaped and terminates in
d norm, representing a dragons tongue
III the middle. The cup-shaped mouth
piece is bent ike that brass clarinet.
The dragon-norn trumpet possesses
three valves and an apparatus for the
regulation of the sounds, which allows
the player 10 pass without ceaslng to
blow from the loudesL forte to the
sottest piano. The timbre is described
as partaking of the corno di caccia and
that OF the trumpet-Whence the name.
The happy inventor is c. w. NORTH,
OF Berlin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
GAY MUSIC AT A FUNERAL.
Custom in Vincennes That Destroys
Much at the Grave.

People in Vincennes Lave been wit
Messing what is called "a gay funeral,
according to parodoXical phrase. Mr..
Ferret a resident in that suburban
borough for many long years, died
recently at he age of 80. He left in
structions in his VIII that the local
brass band should be engaged for his
funeral, and that lively music was to
be play ed during the journey to the
graveyard. The octOgenG Rams rela.-
tives fulfilled his wishes to the letter.
In the black-bordered invitations to
the interment sent ont by them they
announced the names of the airs to be
cortege started for the cemetery the
band struck up the appropriate Chant
du Depart" TO the intense aStonish-
ment OF the master of ceremonies sent
by the Pompes Funebres, who knew
nothing about the last matter of music.
Then the bandsmen played series of
polkas and mazurkas, and wound up
at the cemetery with the "Marseil-
laise." After the funeral all adjourned
to tavern, where drink was ordered
in abundance. The instrumentalists
having refreshed, played more lively
music and then everybody returned
nome, apparently satisfied with the
days outing. This is the third fun
eral of the kind which has been organ
lied IN France within the past twelve
months.-London Telegraph.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
FEASTS FOR FISHES.
BanQuets That are Spread When a
Fleet Gets It's Anchors I'D.

Besides the things that live in the
water said a collector, to the New
York Sun, there are many things
that live in the mud and sand under
1t, many Of which furnish food for
fishes, which seize them when oppor-
tGnlty offers, or which perhaps dig
them out. The sturgeon, for instance,
with its sharp pointed nose, ploughs
a furrow in the mud on the bottom.
and then goes back along it and picks
mp and eats whatever may have
dropped into it, as worms dislodged
by ploughing drop into a furrow in
a field.
Some curious or interesting speci-
mems are found attached to timbers
or other wood or materials imbedded
in the mud. 1 came across once a
plank half buried in the mud in shall
low water. 1 worked my anchor under
the plank and turned it over, but it
was heavier than one man could lift.
There had been lot of small soft
clans in the mud along the edge of
the plank, little bits of fellows. half
an inch long or so, and when l turned
the plank over quite number of them
tumbled into the space where it had
been. Two or three minutes later a
little BLACKLIST, may be six or eight
inches long, came out from some eel
grass near by and made for the place
where the plank had been and began
eating the little clans 1t would pick
one up and chew it up and spit out
the shells and go for another. It
was a feast for the little blackfsh.
probably the greatest it had ever
struck, those dainty little CLANS. and
plenty of them, and nothing to do but
eat them.
With a strong easterly gale blow
ing up the Sound many vessels bound
east a,sng the Sound seek shelter in
some of the harbors along the Con-
necticut shore. Sometimes in some
OF these places you will find forty or
fifty vessels, many of them. most of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
AZ EXPLAINED 1T

Il wonder why it is" she said,
thoughtfully, that a man always
speaks OF the other party to a love
affair as an old fame"
That's easily explained he re-
turned without taking his eyes off his
paper.
Howl
why, whenever the term is used 1t
is an indication that it all went up in
smoke"
oh" she said doubtfully; then it
has no reference to the warmth OF
their affection"
None at ALL" he replied, but at
the same time he began to have his
doubts as to whether he was having
a little quiet fun with her or she was
having some with him.-Chicago Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
ALASKA NATIVES.
They are Proud and Intelligent, IL
Spite of Raggedness and Squalor-

They are Proud and Intelligent, IL
Spite of Raggedness and Squalor-
John Muir, the California naturalist
and discoverer of the great Muir
glacier, writes Of the Alaska Trip in
the Century. Of Fort Wrangel, he says:
On the arrival of the steamer most
of the passengers make haste to go
ashore to see the curious totem-poles
in front of the massive timber houses
of the Indians, and to buy curioslt1es,
chiefly silver bracelets hammered from
dollars and half-dollers and blankets
better than those of civilization, woven
from the wool of wild goats and sheep;
carved spoons from the horns OF these
animals; Shaman rattles, miniature
totem-poles, canoes, paddles, stone
hatchets, pipes, baskets, etc. The
traders in these curious wares are
mostly women and children, who
gather on the front platforms OF the
half-dozen stores, sitting on their
blankets, seemingly careless whether
they sell anything or not, every other
face blackened hideously, a naked
circle about the eyes and on the tip
of the nose, where the smut has been
weathered off. The larger girls and
the young women are brilliantly ar
rayed in ribbons and calico, and shine
among the blackened and blanketed
old crones like scarlet tanagers in a
flock of blackbirds. Besides curiosl-
ties. most of them have berries to sell
RED, yellow, and blue, fresh and deWy
Snd looking wonderOus clean as COM
pared with the people. These Indians
are proud and Intelligent, nevertheless
and maintain an air of self-respect
which no amount of raggadness and
squalor can wholly subdue. Many
canoes may tie seen along
the shore all fashioned alike
with long, beak-like sterns
and prows, the largest carrying
twenty or thirty persons. What the
mustang is to the Mexican vaquero the
canoe is to the Indian of the Alaska
coast. They skim over the CLASSY
sheltered waters far and near to fist
anG hunt and trade, or merely to visit
! their neighbors. Yonder goes a whole
family, grandparents and all, the
PROV of their canoe blithely decorated
with handfuls of the purple epilobium
They are going to gather berries, as
the baskets show. Nowhere else in
NY travels, north or south, have | seen
SO many berries. The woods an6
meadows and open spaces along the
shores are full of em-huckleberries
of many species, salmon-berries, rasp-
berries, blackberries, currants, an6
| gCoseberries, with fragrant straw
berries and service-berries on the
drier grounds, and cranberries in the
boys, sufficient for evry worm, bird
and human being in the territory, anC
thousands of tons to spare. The In
dams at certain seasons, rowing il
merry bands, gather large quantities
beat them into paste, and then pres:
the paste into square cakes and dry
them for winter use, to be eaten as {
kind of bread with their oily salmon
Berries alone, with the lavish bloom
that belongs to them, are enough tt
show how fine and rich this Northern
wilderness must be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
THEY DIDN'T ELOPE.

1t was an DID resident who hit the
table at the, club and announced that
he would put an end to the scandal
that he and his wife had eloped in
order to establish the existing relation
ship.
Il was something of a shining light
in the little town where l grew up
and was married. 1 was especially
prominent in giving eclat to weddings.
l always saw to it that there were
plenty of old shoes, rice, ribbons and
bouquets. l sent word ahead to the
hotels, decorated the trunks, notified
conductors, followed the bridal pairs
up with kilograms that advertised their
appearance at given points, and never
overlooked chance to give them all
the annoyance sanctioned by custom
on such occasions.
There, was very prevalent dis
position to get even when l COM
m1tted matrimony. We were married
in the parlor of my own wife's father
and mother, by our minister and in the
presence OF our own circle of friends
l had several borrowed trunks placed
conspicuously under the stairway in
The lower hall. These were covered
with lovers knots in gaily colored
and to each handle was tied
a slipper that had seen service. My
friends did not forget me- We were
to leave at midnight for the east.
What we did was to creep stealthily
down the back stairs, walk by the
qufetest route to the depot and take
a 10 o'clock train for the west. The
trunks we took with us had been
out ahead, and the decoys
remained in the hallway. There was
no blowing of horns or beating of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
FOLLOW IN EACH OTHERS WAKE.
Plan by Which it is Proposed to Save
the Motive Power Of Steamers.

1t is wise steamer master who
knows how to handle his boat so that
she will get the benefit of the power
OF steamer in front of her. In old
time races this was a fayorite trick,
and that it has not been forgotten even
in this late day was shown recently.
The boat ahead was the larger and
fastered in deep water. She was going
at the usual rate of speed. Another
steamer of light draft smaller and per-
haps a trifie faster in shallow water,
bound the same way, came up on the
port quarter of the other just enough
out of the way to avoid the current
from the wheel of the other, but still
close enough 20 get the benefit of the
suction caused by her displacement as
she moved through the water. Finally,
the run being all the time made in
river water, the stern steamer gave
a squirt and slowly passed the other
and beat her short distance to the
dock
The danger of this close proximity
of the two is that should the boat
ahead part her wheel chains, take a
sheer to port and drift across the bow
of the other, the great speed OF the
stern steamer would have sent her
crashing through the other with great
loss of life and property. Still
another objection to speeding in com
petition is the liability of the engineer,
i'll his excitement, to forget all
thoughts of care for his boiler, and to
shove in coal until the smokestack is
red hot from base to top. By in
tensely heating, the boilers and other
parts of the plant are weakened and to
that degree made unsafe for further
use.-Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05

New York, July 1.--Bradstrects'
weekly trade report says the unex-
rectedly early fall demand for staple
merchandise which was announced last
week has increased and although not
conspicuous in some of the larger
eastern cities, is notably so at points
in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys
and in the larger wheat glowing states.
The special investigation by Brad
streets this week shows increased pur-
chases by country merchants in the
region specified, based on the prospec-
lively large wheat crop at home, and
tkis, in the face of short wheat crops
abroad, has increased business with
western jobbers from 10 to Is per cent
compared with the fall trade last year.
The total volume of this new business
is not large but it is unusual in this
dull month of the year, and it is
growing. A number of western impla-
ment factories are unable to fill all
their orders for nearby delivery and
one order for shoes alone at ST. Louis
calls for $4,000 worth of goods. The
depression among wooden manufacture
ers is less pronounced because the
prices of cheviots and other woo1ens
has begun to advance, pointing to profit
il handling high priced wool.
The greatest relative Improvement
among .jobbers and wholesalers in the
various lines is at Chicago. A number
of large trunk line railways report that
they are carrying more merchandise
than one, two or three years ago. Few
er manufacturing industries than was
expected have been compelled to close
owing to lack of coal on account of the
strike, the principal check being due
to higher prices for fuel Iron and
steel and cotton goods indus
tries are more favorably situated
than almost any other. Bessemer pig
iron and steel billets continue at low
est quotations known. The latter is
a shade under s14 awaiting the re-
newed demand which has begun to
show itself in staple lines of mer-
chandise. The shutting down of cot
ton mills to force the reduction OF
stocks on hand has already stiffened
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05

Miss Laura B. Parsons, of Denver,
former art student of Munich, says
that on going into a Munich gallery
one day she saw beautiful new
Cecilia. 1t was the ideal face of
saint, calm, serene and rapt with the
heavenly melody, and Miss Parsons
recognized in it the face of a model
who had a few days before stolen her
purse.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05

drums and pans. The kazoo band
sought us in vain. Public sentiment
was robbed of its vengeance, and those
who had planned to give us a rousing
send off were too indignant for utter
ance. That is all there was on which
to base a sensational story of elop-
ment, Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW.

did you see the account of the
new submarine boat?"
Yes; out l didn't read 1t. It
doesn't interest me, you know"
1T certainly indicates extraordinary
IroglAS
"C1 course; but in the wrong direc-
t1cn. Enough boats go down now.
What l want to see is one that is
guaranteed to stay up."-Chicago Post.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
A QUESTION.

Brain gone astray, he ends his earthly
days,
And deems that life to him is ever
over.
Do we, now left behind to blame or
praise,
Believe the human soul can run to
cover?
Edward Creamer in New York Sun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1897-08-05
NEWS OF THE WORLD.
DOMESTIC CONCERNS.

Prof. Charles H. Marcy, we'll
known Brooklyn musician, died sud
denly
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-29
AS to the Fee Bill.

THERE is a great deal of kicking
about the fee bill by the office hold
ers. The taxpayers, while willing
to pay fair salaries, are not very
sorry over the situation, because
they remember that they have been
paying fat salaries to their public
servants for these many years.
These kickers have nobody to
blame but themselves. Had they
tried to secure a fair and equitable
schedule of fees, instead of playing
the swine act, we might have had a
better law than that which the ex-
tremists have enacted.
The present fee bill may be un-
just to the Office holding fraternity,
but the old fee bill was an outrage
on the taxpayers. That member
of the legislature who had the al
tentative presented to him of voting
for the new fee bill, or allowing the
old schedule to stand, did right to
vote for the new fee bill. When
public servants grow so fat and
saucy on their salaries as to imagine
that they are public masters, it is
time to turn and give them a little
discipline.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-29
School Closed.

The Bonner's Ferry public school
closed yesterday, after a most sue
cessful year. The high water pre-
vented the teachers from carrying
out the beautiful and impressive
ceremonies planned for the flag
raising on the last day, but the
year was rounded out with the ex-
aminations and reviews necessary
to complete the very Thorough
work of the year.
Miss Winterbottom, as principal,
and Miss McRae, as primary teach
er, did such excellent work last
year, that there was not that room
for Improvement this year that
was so noticeable last. From the
very first they placed the Bonner's
Ferry public school on a high
plane of excellence where it ha S
been maintained for two years,
with such improvements, now and
then, as experience and knowledge
of the individual pupil dictated.
And think of the improvement
they have madel OF the advance
ment their pupils have made.
1t takes a greater combination Of
talents, probably, to become a
successful school teacher than is
required in almost any other
calling. Mistakes VIII be tolerated
in anyone else but the school teach
er Anybody but school teacher
is allowed to show some partiality
to their friends or those who are
most congenial to them. And then
think of the patience and the fort
itude req diredl And all these and
many other requirements before
we even come to those qualifications
necessary to obtain certificate.
When parents think how smooth
ly the months-years-haye glided
by; how patiently, earnestly and
industriously the teachers have
labored; and what progress those
precious ones, the care of whom
they have had, have made-no
only in learning, but in higher anC
nobler ideals-they can not con
graduate themselves too highly
that the school has had such teach
ers, nor can they show too much APP
probation Of the work of thos
teachers.
Both Miss Winterbottom anC
Miss McRae expects to spend tn
r summer in the East. Miss Win
terbottom expects to leave earl,
next week for her bone at Por
Hope, Michigan. Miss McRae
after taking months outing il
= the mountains, with her siste
t and brothers, will leave for he
= former home in Ontario. Tn
C HERALD and their many othe
=. friends will wish them very pleas
ant times.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-29
Hon. Fred 7. Dubois. Sena

Hon. Fred t. Dubois, Senator
Cannon and Senator Pettigrew
leave, about July 1, for an extend
ed trip through the Orient. They
will make the trip in an unofficial
character, with theespeoial purpose
to study the financial question as
effected by China and Japan. An
enormous trade has grown up in the
past few years between the United
States and Oriental countries.
They are largely silver using
countries and the gentlemen believe
they will find there a fine field for
the study of the financial question
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-29
Bucklen's Arnioa salve.

THE BEST SALvE in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, letter, Chap
ped Hands, Chilblains, Corns and
all Skin Eruptions, and positively
cures Piles, or no pay required. 1t
is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
zion or money refunded. Price 25c
per box. For sale by J. i.
Cook, Jr., Druggist.
The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-05-29

Register Graham and Receiver
Reiniger of the Ceur d. Alene Land
Office have refused to accept the
final proof offered by G. d. Rowell
in support of his claim to his home
stead entry. Mr.. Rowell was alb
sent from his claim over six
months, but before the expira
ton of six months, the five year
term from the date of his settle
ment expired, and on this point
Mr.. Rowell rested his claim, with
the decision as above stated. The
officials claim in effect that it will
be necessary to show that continu-
ed absence was unavoidable, on
-acco unit of illness or other good
cause.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-17

Ter adjutant. -"''
Judge Longloy, at the March term OF
We county Court, ordered TO be held
Oh the 18th Of April, in Pulaski, Maais-
'erlM District, which includes this town.
hcensc-or-no-license" election II ie
700 early yet to predict whether the
",.s OF 'drys' will win. but enough
not contest, as between one third ar
one fourth OF the voters signed ne noti.
ton for the election.
Our town was called upon a few DAYS
ago TO mourn the sudden death undor a
SutgicT operation. OF one Of It's lovellest
.'u'eS' AIRS. Emma kendrick Waskio. IL
mas now to mourn another-that OF Mrs.
IoS'pn IS. watts, whose family live on
the suburbs She lcavee b,,shanr -
SON and several daughters. Among her
u',usnleis rs Mrs. Duncan, OF Knoxville.
VINO was with her in her last moments.
i ~, Mrs. Was'Sie and Mrs Watts were
lovely Christians
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-03-17

ROANOKE. VA March i6.-(SpocialA-
Tho sixty-elxth annual conference Of tho
1-nifod Brethren I'm Christ will begin here
Tomorrow afternoon I'm the church OF
that denomination. with Bishop j. w.
Ifot OF Cedar Rapids. Ia. presiding.
MANY visitors and delegates have already
arrived The territory OF tho conference
embraces the Shenandoah Valley. seve-
RAJ counties in Virginia east OF the Blue
Ridge. and an OF West Virginia east Of
the Aucchanies. There are two pre-
siiing-cldcr districts in the conference.
with 80 fields Of labor. 50 ministers, over
50 Law delegates and membership Of
1000 Bishop Holt delivered lecture
to-n.cht at the United Brethren's church.
in This city, on "The Bible in Bible
Lands
The Norfolk and Western Railroad
C,mpany Is said 10 be making a sweep
ir- cat I'm the number Of employees all
srorc The line. which cut. rumor says. is
president Fiuk's first move towards re
..trire expenses one third, I'm order 10
enable The road TO carry out a big pro-
t.f OF purchasing the Marietta and
%ortb Gcorcia road. and building a tine
t.,u Bristol TO Knoxville thus enabling
,rtm 10 have a line through from Nor
folk 70 Atlanta, Ga.
.harles J. Stewart. editor Of the Eve
mig World. of this city. has accepted a
,..ition ON the editorial stan Of the
I.iisviFc GNy) Dispatch. the new Demo-
tc morning paper which will be
started there IN few weeks, and will
, yc for his new field of labor on the
-.. of APRIL