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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-10

One of Tammany'S objections to
Col. Roosevelt is that he would make
an aggressiyely honest governor.
Tammany uses a very mild brand OF
honesty and not much of that.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-10
The PIuraIitieS of Two Years.

The pluralities in Wood county for
the officers named, at the election In
1896. were:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-11-10

A republican president and demo-
cratic house would meet eager eXpec-
tations at Madrid. Anything in the
nature of political discord in the
United States will create 10y in Spain.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
HINTS FOR DAIRYMEN.
The calf ought TO be fed three time:

The calf ought to be fed three times
a day.
Unless the dam was good one, dom t
try to raise heifer calf.
The separator saves labor in setting
milk, saves room and waste.
Rapid change from new to skim milk
may injure the delicate stomach of the
calf.
Barley is highly recommended as
food for cattle, ranking nearly as high
as wheat.
Both the dam and the bull should be
of good milking families, if you want
calves to make good cows.
An exchange Fract Aally says that a
calf cannot be raised on skim milk. 1t
can be if it gets enough of it.
1t would seem timely to suggest
again that the playful dog ought to
be kept away from the cows.
If heifer is fed upon fat-forming
food constantly you will spoil her as a
mixer. She will learn to take on fat.
Separators should be bought only of
the most reliable manufacturers, for
unless made of The very best material
serious accidents may occur.-Western
Plowman.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
FAVORABLE DECISION.
Good Roads, Says the Iowa Supreme
Court, Are of BENEFIT to Every
Citizen of the State,

A decision which is favorable to the
improvement of the highways has been
rendered by the Iowa supreme court,
and is based on the principle that
good highways are of general bene-
fit, not only to the territory through
which they pass, but to the inhabitants
of cities and towns, by facilitating
travel, and thus promoting intercourse
and trade"
The question at issue was on the
right of d county to collect taxes in
cities and towns for road purposes.
y railroad company claimed that it
was double taxation, on the ground
that the cities already laid a tax
for their own streets, and further
claimed that taxes could not be levied
in one part of a county to use in an
other part.
The court decided against these
claims and, it would seem, very Justly.
1t is very shortsighted policy for a
city to desire to limit its work of road
improvement to its own borders. In
order to grow and prosper and main
tain a healthy activity the roads from
the surrounding country which nour-
ish it and take its merchandise in re-
turn must be kept open and III good
condition. This is at least as impor-
tant for the city as for the country,
and they should divide the expense "a
right proportion.-:L, A. W. Bulletin.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
wEELBARROW ROLLER.

stovepipe, a split oak sapling and
small two-inch board nailed across, the
split just behind the roller. The pipe
was well riveted with wrought nails;
a short apple tree limb, with old bolts
driven in either end. was put in the
pipe and packed solidly in gravel and
sand, and an inch board was sawed out
to fit the ends, and nailed in, after
tamping the sand and gravel. Auger
holes bored in either side of the split
handle made that fit nicely, and to
strengthen it wire nails were driven
through and bent on both sides. A
support to hold the tongue or handle
off the ground was made by mailing
an eight-inch peg in an auger hole at
the point where the split stopped. The
roller could be pushed or pulled back
and forth, over and across, and did
most effective work
The small roller proving inadequate
as clod crusher and leveler, where the
soil was rough and uneven, | made a
larger, stronger and more durable tool
after the fashion of a wheelbarrow.
In this | used the six-inch stovepipe
filled with sand and gravel, and iron
spikes driven in center square block
for an axle. The frame was made of
two by four-inch scantling, with boards
nailed across for bottom, and dash
board of eight-inch plank nailed to up
right standards just behind the roller.
This made platform for weighting
the roller, by giving the children ride
or putting in some rocks. The legs
may be left off, if desirable, and the
roller can be made of wood to suit
the circumstances. In this roller. how
ever, where much weight is needed the
stovepipe is hardly heavy enough, and
round block of wood, even one foot
in diameter, is preferable. This roller
can be used in the same manr er as
wheelbarrow. and is very handy, in
expensive tool that more than pays for
its manufacture in one season, and will
last a great many years if properly
handled.-Joel Shoemaker, in Farm and
Fireside.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
is TO BE CONTINUED.
Free Mail Delivery in Rural Districts
May Become an Established Ma
tiOnaI Institution.

The experiment in rural free mail
delivery, made from 140 post offices
throughout the country, is to be con-
Anued, owing 20 the increase by con-
&ress OF the appropriation available
Tor this purpose. If rural free mail de-
livery becomes an established insti
tuition it will remove one more of the
drawbacks to rural life in the United
Estates. Perhaps the time is not far
distant when the American woman's
dislike Of country life will be succeeded
by an appreciation of it as hearty as
that felt by her English cousin.
Rural free mail delivery ought to be
as successful in the United States as it
lis in England, if for no other reason
than that the country in the older sec
tions of the United States is more
thickly populated than it isin England.
.One of the greatest obstacles to rural
free mail delivery in this country has
been the absence of good roads. Some
of the experimental routes now under
trial are in the vicinity of Moorestown,
n. j., from which place radiate many
miles of improved roads, built under
the state road law. In that vicinity
mail Isl now being distributed at the
( farmers homes by carriers upon BIZ
cycles, so that the roads, which make
the use of a bicycle, equipped with
mud guards and gear case, possible in
all kinds of weather, except when the
ground is covered with snow, have con-
h. AL. l. I
tional benefits of a free mail delivery.
The past reports of the stone road
commissioner Of New Jersey have con-
tanned communications showing
much greater activityin the real estate
market in the neighborhood of inn
proved roads. Every additional con-
genience added 10 rural life must make
that life seem more desirable to the
American women who are chiefly re-
spOnsible for the flocking of the Amer
can people to villages and towns.
dood roads, bicycles, free mail delivery
all tend to counteract rapidly that
dislike of an isolated life which has
been handed down from mother to
daughter from the time that America
was a wilderness inhabited by wild an
imals and savage men. The conven-
fences spoken of help to make rural
life not only possible, but enjoyable,
and they afford opportunity for de-
Velopment of that interest in country
affairs which must be the basis of per-
feet content with a rural life.-Phila-
delphia Inquirer.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
DUTY OF THE STRONG.
The Very Heart of Temperance He
form Is That They Should Bear
Intirmities of the Weak.

Sometimes our temperance refOr
mers are counted harsh in speech,
critical in temper, narrow in outlook.
lacking in generosity and sanity of
outlook. But broad minds will also
be just and generous, even toward
those who are thought to be eXtrem-
lists. The very heart of the temper
ance reform is this single principle:
Those strong and well-poised persons
who will never be injured by the use
of wine owe something to the weak
ones who will be destroyed thereby.
When for three generations a family
uses liquor in excess, nature registers
the deterioration. It has been said
that the first Webster represents
colossal strength and sobriety. Dan
iel Webster represents colossal
strength and moderate drinking; his
son represents erratic strength; his
grandson represents one who made
the amusements of his ancestors to be
his occupation. Some there are born
with soft nerve and flabby brain, and,
like the reed, they bow before the wind
of temptation. And the strong owe
them sympathy, shelter and protec-
tion. Our age is still cruel and harsh
toward the children of weakness and
temptation. Our alleys and tenement
houses are filed with the children of
ignorance and squalor, who have been
curst by centuries of misrule and
superstition under foreign govern
mcnts, who were born without nerve
or poise or self-control. And for
the state to place stimulants in their
hand is for parent to give pistols,
razors and bomb-shels to babes to use
as playthings,-N"well Dwight Hills,
D. d., in Homiletic Review.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
TEMPERANCE ITEMS.

A Hindu proverb says: eff mad
bull pursue you, rather die than take
refuge in grog shop
The Catholic Total Abstinence
union will hold its national conven-
tion in historic Faneuil hall, Boston,
August 1913.
The war ought to teach temperance
and Christian people many valuable
lessons. It remains to be seen wheth-
er they will profit by them.-Lever.
The members of the Cincinnati
preachers meeting have made vigor-
Gus protests against the establish
ment of canteens in our military
camps.
The Peoria Gll) school board at
its last meeing for the year took up
the Anti-Cigarette league work, plac-
ing the matter in the hands of fine
committee to recommend plan Of
work to be followed next year
The Omaha Camp Meeting associa-
tion has sent out circulars announcing
series of meetings during the sum-
mer to agitate the temperance ques-
tion, as a counter iGfluence to the
liquor selling In connection with the
exposition.
The Republican., 1898-08-25

Most people are so used to planting
melons in hills that they deem this the
only way. But very successful melon
growers think that making a very
slight ridge and planting the seed in
a row pretty closely together is bet
ter way. So soon as the vines begin
to run their tendrils clasp others, and
this keeps them from being blown
about by winds. By making the ridges
eight or more feet apart the cultivator
can be kept running through them un-
til the vines spread out and occupy
the whole of the vacant space, which
they will surely do before the sum-
mer is ended. If the vines appear to be
too close together in the row the poor
est may be cut out without leaving a
vacancy, as would be the case if they
were planted in hills.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
MISS CHRISTINE BRADLEY.
Honored by White RibbonerS of hen-
lucky for Her Brave stand
for Temperance.

In recognition of her loyalty to
principle in christening the battleship
kentucky with water, the state w. Z.
T. U. of Kentucky has presented to
Miss Christine Bradley a sterling silver
water set. The ceremony took place at
the executive mansion, Frankfort, on
the afternoon of June 20. Mrs. Beau
champ, state W. C. r. L. president, in a
characteristic little address, expressed
her Joy at the sounding of new key
note for the state by Kentucky young
womanhoCd. Our governors daugh-
ter has" she said, 'as far as one wom-
an could, forever dissociated Kentucky
women and kentucky whisky, and
wherever the name of our battleship
shall 60, with the now dauntless fame
of our navy, this that she hath done
shall be told as a memorial of her"
Col. George Balm made the presenta =
ton speech in behalf of the w. C. T. j.,
several representative men of differ.
ent states whose names accomLXenied
the testimonial, and ''in the nN,ne of
every sacred interest of land and sea-
For a girl yet in her teenS," he de
clarcd. ''to face the frown of false ed
ucation and defy the opposing power
of prejudice in the multitude, required
as blood-born bravery as coursed the
veins Of the ensign who met death
while cutting the wires in Cardenas
bay, or the lieutenant who sunk the
Merrimac in the entrance to Santiago
harbor." He paid eloquent tribute,
also, to the governor for his brave de-
fense of his daughter and her pur-
pose. Miss Bradley, in a modest, but
self-pOssessed manner, gracefully ac-
knowledged the gift. IF my action in
christening the Kentucky" she said,
should in any way serve to stay the
march Cf alcohol or should be ins&ru-
mental in saving the life of one of
our brave sailors or prevent one tear
from coursing down the cheek of wife,
sister or mother, am more than re-
paid. Signal.
The Republican., 1898-08-25
TWO HANDY ROLLERS.
No Market Gardener Can Afford 60 BE
without One of These Com
venient Implements.

The garden and flower beds require
firming of the surface after planting,
TO insure even distribution of moisture
and perfect termination. This is
necessary also in starting lawn, and
frequent rollings will destroy ant hills
and rout many soil pests that accumu-
late in neglected plats. In my own
experience L have fully proven the benz
efits of rolling, and would not attempt
growing a garden, lawn or flower bed
without some means of leveling and
firming the rows and beds. The sur
face does not bake so hard in spots
where the beds are properly leveled
The Republican., 1898-08-25

and rolled; the seeds sprout more uni
formly and the plants grow better,
while the work of wedding is lessened
and the appearance much more than
pays for the care in properly prepar-
ing the seed beds. But every farmer
does not have sufficient cash at his
command to purchase all necessities
though the tools may be cheap and
small, hence some homemade imple-
ments are often brought into use.
Hand garden rollers may be made at
home by any person familiar with the
use of tools.
A cheap roller, large enough and
good enough for even the professional
kitchen gardener, may be made for
so cents or less, and with proper care
will last for many years. The ma
terial used in constructing this handy
tool consisted of joint of six-inch
The Republican., 1898-08-25
The Average of Butter.

Prof. Wing, speaking recently to
the New York state dairy meeting of a
visit he had paid to Europe, said: Our
butter in some cases is as good as any
in Denmark, but does not average as
good. There are some careless dairy
men there as elsewhere, but there is
not so much variation. There is moth
ing done there that we do not do.
There is no milk secret. Their cows,
feed and milk are ordinary. Scrupu-
lous care, cleanliness and the use OF
artificial ferments, which is almost
universal, are the causes of superior
ity."-Farmer's Review.
The Republican., 1898-08-25

Do not work late among raspberries
or blacBbeTries. or they will not ma,
turN
The Republican., 1898-08-25

In a wake of light, with canvas as white
As foam on the waves of the sea,
FAST making her trip is the Temperance
ship,
Bound to all lands that are free.
A flag is nailed fast to each tapering mast,
The flag of the free and the brave;
Rend the air with huzzas for the banner of
stars
And the good old ship on the wave.
With truth at the helm, though the waves
overwhelm,
Not a thread will be torn from her sail.
Her colors are true as the Red. White and
Blue
Hurrah for the ship in the gale!
The flag a her bow is stainless as snow,
The white flag of honor and peace;
And the canvas which crowds like clouds
upon clouds,
Is soft as the wnd-woven fleece.
On the deck, firm and true, stand the cap
tain and crew.
"All is WELL" the commander cries.
I'VE shall gain the port, We shall storm the
fort,
For victory goes where our banner flies
George w. Bungay, in National Temper
ance Advocate.
The Republican., 1898-08-25

When the calf is four weeks old put
little meal in the bottom of the pail
from which it has drunk it's milk. That
will teach it to lap meal.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-10
CAN SHE FLOAT?
Decay of Former Terror of tn,
Eastern Seas.

New York, June 9.-Chiras course
IN ordering the Monocacy away from
onangna1 may have been justifable
ana even inevitable under information
al laws as to the duties of a neutral
nation toward those of war, but it is
action that will cause something very
much like CONSERVATION among the ma
val authorities at Washington, and as
TOT the officers and crew of the noble
vessel. their situation is one of really
1r1ghttul difficulty. Thirty-five years
ago the Monocacy could get out of a
harbor where she wasn't wanted-if
those on board of ner wanted to go
with as naughty a grace as anything of
her size afioat, but she has been indus
Itriously growing older since those days
and the prospect of facing the attack
Of waves larger than those raised bv
the passing of harbor tug is enough
ITO make everybody on the old ship
turn pale.
When the Monocacy first went to the
,Asiatic station she thought nothing OF
IAN occasional trip over to Japan, or
from one end of the China coast to the
other, and she made such Journeys
whenever occasions for them arose.
Then her officers noticed ominous svm
ptoms developing in her hull and ma
chinery, and they limited to the navy
department that perhaps it would be
Judlclous to keep her near the shore.
and preferably in smooth water. The
hint was taken, and for a long time the
Monocacy's active service consisted of
an occasional run up the Yang-tse-Ki-
ang to impress the Cinnamon of the in
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-10
WHO CANNOT TAKE PART.
Official Announcement Regarding the
Second Call for Troops.

Washington, June-9.-In an order
issued at the war department today
the official announcement is made that
the following named states and terri
tories under the presidents first, call
furnished troops in Bexcess of their
combined quotas under, the first and
second calls: 8.
Delaware, Idaho, Montana, Nevada,
North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont.
Wyoming, District of Columbia, Ari-
iona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and the
Indian territories. These states and
territories therefore will not be in
cluded in the apportionment of troops
under the second call for $4,000 men.
The order for the organization of ad-
ditiona1 companies necessary for the
completion of existing regiments to
twelve companies under the new call Is
not to apply to cavalry. The recruit
ing to fill the existing companies and
battalions is to be done by board
consisting of an officer and four en-
listed men, who are to do their work
in localities where the organizations
are raised. Instructions for recruit
ing officers and blank forms are to be
sent to the acknowledgement of the
states.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-10
WHEN CUBA is FREE.

I New York, June 9.-The visit OF Dr..
| Capote. Vice President of the Cuban Re
public, to the United States Is said to
be for the purpose of comforting with Mr..
f; concerning the future of their govern
ment The failure of Congress to rec
! ognize it's independence and the policy
| Of President Mckinley to carry on the
war without reference to the insurgents
| caused alarm among the leaders of the
movement in Cuba, and it was consider
ed best for Mr.. Capote, who is recognized
as the ablest lawyer among them, to
come personally to Washington and
reach an understanding with President
Mckinley regarding the present status
and the prospects of the insurgents. 1t
will be remembered that Mr.. Rubens
the attorney of the junta in New York.
when the matter was pending in Con-
gress. declared that the insurgents
would fight the United States if We at
tempted to interfere without recogniz-
ing their independence. This, at the
time, expressed the spirit of Gen. Gomez
and other insurgent leaders. who insisted
that the destiny of Cuba should be in
trusted to their hands.
President McKinley's plan of organiz-
ing republican form of government in
Cuba that shall represent all classes and
factions, the rich and poor, the sugar
planters, the tobacco manufacturers, the
merchants, the professional men, and all
concerned, with a legislature elected by
the people to make the laws and jul
dietary and executive chosen in the same
manner to enforce them, is not approved
by all the insurgents. Gomez, Masso, and
other leaders are said to dissent very
emphatically from such q proposition
and insist that every man in Cuba. who
has been loyal to the Spanish govern
ment during the revolution or has not
shown active sympathy for the insur-
gents shall be permanently disfranchised
and forever prohibited from holding Of
flee under the new government. They
declare that all the friends of Cuba Libre
are known and can be easily identified
when they come into their kingdom
They have suffered for their love of lib
erty: they have fought to drive the Span
1sh flag from the West Indies. and are
entitled to the fruits of their victory
Haven't we been fighting and suffer
ing IN order to drive out the Spaniards
and are we not entitled to run the gov,
eminent when they go? Are the men
VINO have assisted Weyler and Blanca 70
defeat US to share in the honors and
emoluments? Not much. They can %
pack to Spain with the army. or we will
make them very unhappy Thus spoke
one OF the most prominent and inf1uen
tial of the junta after coming directly
from conference with Capote.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-10

CURED, which will amount to six hun
dred millions of dollars, appropriated
or pledged, before congress adiourns.
What has Spain to throw into the sale
except her honor which 1 should he
sorry to buy for five cents on long time
credit. We have debarred ourselves
from any occupation of Cuba; we have
not yet got possession of Porto Rico
or the Philippines. What have we to
dicker on?'
Though the matter does cot enter
into any public debate or official cor
respondence, it may be stated further
that the disclosures in possession OF
our government as to the plots to poi
son streams, to blow up GOLFERS, to
main cavalry horses, to derail trains
and to commit every other kind OF
deviltry which should form no part OF
civilized war, which have been put in
operation by Spanish agents has
aroused feeling of indignation among
the officials of the government whJ
know the facts second only to that oc-
casioned by the treacherous destruc-
ton of the Maine.
The intense anxiety which Lieuten-
ant Carranza former naval attache OF
the Spanish legation here-the gentle
man who challenged Captain Sigsbee
and Consul General Lee to mortal COM
bat at long range, from his secure hid
ing place in Canadians manifested to
recover the letter which he alleges was
stolen from him by Detective Kellert
in Montreal, has considerable mean
| ing to those who are on the inside.
| Lieutenant Carranza is barking up the
wrong tree, in charging the abstraction
| of his valuable document on Kellert,
but officials of the secret service here,
who obtained an additional appropria-
ton of $4,000 recently from congress
to prosecute just such kind of investi-
cations as Carranza fears, could en-
tighten him if they desired. They
would be willing to pay his expenses
and give him hospitable welcome
over the borders Of the United States,
| i; he could be persuaded to come. His
arrival on American soil would be fol-
lowed by one of the most sensational
trials in modern history, which would
eclipse in interest the court martial on
the Surrat conspirators or the trial OF
/ the Orsini bomb throwers.
H. CONQUEST CLARKE.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1898-06-10

terror with the power of the United
States and SO make life pleasanter for
our missionaries whereabouts.
There is rumor that the old side
wheeler was called 1.-THE White Devil"
by the remoter natives, and that they
had a great respect for her converted
smooth-bores and her pair OF machine
guns. Be this as it may, the Monocacy
has of late years remained carefully
at anchor in the Wusung at Shanghai.
and when an important landsman in
the department at Washington sug-
gested awhile ago that she should
come home, he was instantly hushed
up by the whispered information that
the only home awaiting this particular
vessel was a convenient beach. And
China has ordered her away! 1, will
he terrible moment whe1 SIC starts.
and, if her commander isn't much
drawer than even the conqueror of Ma
Mia, his face will be very long when
he hoists his anchor.