Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-08-04

reCOncentradO he should also become
inCOmuniCadO.
An interview with a returned
Klondiker nowadays usually is first
class gold cure.
If the newspaper artists may be
believed, Aguinaldo certainly is a
two-faced fellow
The Boston Herald says, "Spain is
game" A losing game, however
from start to finish.
No man can take from Commodore
Schley the honors bestowed upon him
by the American people.
If Spain decides Inat The perfor-
nance is over, there should be little
trouble about the gate receipts.
Spain appreciates now that there is
great difference between fighting
bulls in ring and fighting cowboys
in Cuba.
Lieutenant HObson has gone through
several engagements in Cuba, bnt
thus far he has ,oIded such things
at home.
A New Orleans paper advises Spain
to ask for change of venue. That
would do no good; what Spain really
needs is good alibi.
A New York inancier who is said
to have $60,0OO,O00 tells an assessor
that he is ''worth only $4,000. "
Perhaps he is right.
The inhabitants of Ponce prOfted
by the experience of Santiago, and
sensibly accepted the inevitable with
out the unpleasant features.
AguinaldO has been very successful
in trimming that Manila orchard
but he is saving off a limb now
between himself and the tree.
Poker has been forbidden in Vienna
on the ground that it is game of
chance. And yet foreigners who play
it usually have no chance at all.
Prince Henry is causing no trouble
in the far east. Perhaps he appre-
Ciates the fact that even mailed
hand doesn't beat four aces at Manila.
Our armies are moving ahead regard
less of the uncertain peace intima-
tiOns. If Spain is in earnest its
proper course is to speak and act
quickly.
Cuba, Porto Rico, Hawaii and the
Philippines offer an enlarged field for
Americans in future. Alaska need
not fancy that it is the only auriferous
pebble in sight.
BlancO'S men nave made a bad
mistake. They might have had a
summer excursion to Spain at Uncle
Sans expense; now they will have
to work their way.
Mr.. Dunno, a Montana cattleman,
tells the Chicago police that he was
robbed three times in one day in this
city recently. What could he expect,
considering his name?
England has decided that it's new
battle-ships must be good for eighteen
knots. The Americans are at their
old business of reyolutionizing the
natives of the world.
Cutting OFT the colonial leaks will
be Il good thing for Spain. A few
years hence Uncle Sam may receive
the thanks of Madrid for his lessons
in compulsory retrenchment.
1t seems that Admiral Camara has
but one armOred ship in good order,
and that is the Emperador Carlos V.
A fleet of one would have no business
in Commodore Watson neighborhood.
1t is estimated from the present
rate of receipts that the new war
taxes will produce revenue of SI75.-
100000 a year If peace comes soon
the war debt will begin to melt away.
Our Porto Rican neighbors will
notice from Gen. Miles proclamation
that they are already in the fold of
Uncle Sam. They should rejoice to
find themselves citizens of the great
republic.
The Maria Teresa has been fiOated
and could soon be put in shape for
active duty. She has suffered a sea
change which will greatly add to her
prospects of future success. under
another name.
The close of the scale year, which
closed June 30, found a gratifying
condition of affairs in the iron, steel
and tin plate industry. The wage
agreements have been reached much
earlier than usual by the manufac-
turers and the Amalgamated Associa-
ton, all of the scales for the coming
year having been practically settled.
President t. j. Shaffer of the Anal