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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
FOREIGN WHEAT CROPS.
Fall Sowing Delayed Throughout
Europe by Drought

The following is a summary Of
the agricultural departments report
Of agriculture in foreign countries for
October: The Hungarian ministry of
agriculture and the several CONNER
clal authorities have issued their esti-
mates of the worlds wheat crops of
1893. The Be9rbohm estimate is
equivalent to 2,64G,O0O,0O0 bushels of
60 pounds, in the grand total varying
but little from the Hungary official es-
innate. The wheat crop of India for
1893 as officially reported amounted to
1921 ,280 bushels, while the annual
average for the previous five years
was 226, 446,O 8O Official figures ON
area show an increase of $50, 172 acres
IN France, of 218,6S6 acres in France
Of 163,S6O in Ontario, Can, and 147. $50
in Manitoba in areas under wheat.
The estimates of production given in
tables published with the report make
the crop of 1898 the largest on record.
but the worlds reserve stocks had
run extremely low before the harvest.
The French area under wheat was
about AZ per cent greater in 1898, and
taking wheat, rye and maSlin to-
gether, the area increase amounted 20
1919 acres. The average yield of
wheat this year was nearly % bushels
per acre, against less than 1872 in 1897.
An official estimate for Hungary puts
the wheat crop at 19,638, 900 bushels,
against 35, ISL 100 bushels last year.
barley 81, 446, 900 bushels, against A.
475,OO0 bushels last year; oats 84,041.-
900, against 1881, 900 last year. The
wheat crop of Roumania has been
stated in English papers on the au-
thority of an official estimate sc, 8OO.-
900 bushels.
Reports from Russia are conflicting.
Supplies of new wheat for export
come forward sparingly, and consid-
cradle quantities of grain are said to
be moving toward the provinces which
so severely through the fail
ure of the crops last year. At the be-
ginning of September the crops in
were reported to be in fine
condition, but about three weeks later
they were represented as suffering for
want Of rain and threatened by To-
Gusts. Accounts from Australia repre-
sent the crop outlook there as excel
lent. The sowing of the fall grain
crops in Europe has been delayed by
drought in a number of countries.
on this score has been seri-
JUS and widespread.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
FOREIGN.

The strike in the Paris building
! trades has ended
The bodies OF l6 victims were buried
in pit at Falmouth.
There are reports in Paris that Rus
STA will help France in the Fashoda
dispute.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland is be-
trothed to her cousin, Prince William
of Wien.
China's dowager empress is reported
to have been secretly married to Ii
Hung Chang, but the report is denied.
The latest news from the wreck of
the Atlantic Transport Company 5
steamer mohegan, which sank near
the Lizard, off the coast of Cornwall,
is that about 100 persons were
drowned. Thirteen persons were
drowned by the wrecking of a Norwe-
gian vessel near Leigh, Scotland.
Terrific weather continues to pre-
vail on the south and east coasts of
Great Britain. The mail service be-
tween Dover and Calais has been in
terrupted
France is putting armored cruisers
on war footing, and rumor connects
the preparations with the Fashoda
dispute.
Oscar S. Straus, the new United
States minister 10 Turkey, was for
mally received by the sultan at Con-
stantinople.
Turkey has notified the powers that
she assents to their demand for the
immediate withdrawal of Turkish
troops from Crete.
The naphtha steamer Blengfell
burned Off Margate, England Tween
ty-seven persons persisted and only
six were saved
HerE Gruenthall, superintendent of
the German imperial printing Office,
who was charged with theft and for
gerry, committed suicide.
The American chamber Of commerce
in Paris gave a dinner to Ferdinand
W. Peck, American commissioner
general to the Paris Exposition.
collision occurred on the Great
Central railroad near Barnethy, Eng
land, in which six persons were
killed and twenty-five were injured.
Distrous typhoons, sand storms and
floods are said to have destroyed hun
dreds of villages and caused the death
Of thousands Of persons in the orient.
Ralph Disraeli, brother of the late
Earl Of Beasonsfeld, is dead, in his
eighty-ninth year. For a long time
he was deputy clerk of the parlia-
ments.
Leaders Of French aristocracy, it
was alleged, open their doors to the
rich Americans on the payment of a
large fee, in the guise of charity, to
the footman.
Henri Rochefort urges in his paper
that the members of the court of
cessation be horribly tortured for
their Dreyfus decision, and it is be-
leved that he is insane.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27

washed away sections Of the railway
on which these supplies were in a
great measure dependent. Follow
ing upon cholera and other sickness
in his corps, this fresh disaster
seemed overwhelming. But he stood
up against it with characteristic for
titude. In "a hours the distribution
Of forces along the line Of communica-
ton was so arranged that battalions
could be set free for fatigue work on
lie railway. He went to inspect sew
eral points where great damage had
occurred, looked at ruined bridges and
broken embellishments with the eye of
an engineer, told the officers that
these things must be repaired in so
many days, and then confident in the
effect of that word must" went
away, leaving them to their own re-
sources. Though the task thus set
seemed in some cases herculean, it
was done, and trains were running
again on the renewed line on the very
day which he had named for the COM
pletion of the work.
Oh I1oiDSIt hIlCQSuSr courage IN
battle is as conspicuous as his faculty
for organization, whereby he has been
able to conduct a great and eventful
campaign at cost which seems ridic-
uIOusly small by comparison with
others. The sirdar is a strong man,
and his faults are the faults of
strength. He has, if anything, too
little sympathy with or tolerance for
human weaknesses. Untiring himself,
he expects others to have the same
power of endurance, rising early and
going to bed late, yet always about
and always ready for action. He has
not, perhaps, made many firm friend
ships since his rapid rise to eminence
began, but he has known how to keep
the old ones, and they are ready to go
wherever he leads, as the history of
the Soudan for the past 10 years
should prove.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
LIFE OF CHINA'S EMPEROR.

Naturally very little is known of the
private life of the emperor of China.
but from time to time few interest
ing facts crop up. The unhappy mon
arch is compelled to rise every morn
ing at 2 o'clock. At 3, by which time
his toilet is completed, he receives the
ministers, and from that time till 6
is occupied with affairs of state. He
breakfasts at 9, and dimes at in the
afternoon. In spite of the great num-
Der OF officials and servants in the pal
ace, the poor man is perhaps the
worst-served master in the world.
A menu for every day is written out a
long time beforehand; and as it is by
no means certain that such things as
young vegetables and certain kinds of
fruit are to be had on a given day.
things are so badly arranged that
they often make their first appearance
on the emperor's table when they have
been in season at least a month. 1t is
strict etiquet that no single thing of
kind shall ever be put before his
majesty; everything, even the fish,
must be served in pairs. He is rather
fond of good living, and should he by
chance, in the opinion of any of the
doctors who are always present at
every meal, eat too much of any ia
vorite dish, it is never allowed to ap-
pear again in the menu. The expen-
ses of the imperial kitchen are enor-
nous, but with it all the emperor has
a sort of Barmecide feast. In his ca
pac1ty Of high priest, the emperor has
to offer at least As sacrifices to differ
ent gods in the course Of a year: and
as to each sacrifice is dedicated one OF
more holidays, which must be passed
by him in complete solitude, the mis-
cradle monarch's time must be pretty
well taken up. These sacrifices are
made by him either by night or about
dawn, and the houses along the route
taken by him, as he is carried in his
closed palaquin through the deserted
streets of the city, are hung with
black, the effect of WHICH is unspeak-
ably depressing. 1t is also a very
strict religious rule that his majesty
shall offer in the course of every year
many hundreds Of silk balloons before
the tablets of his ancestors, the I'M
broken line Of whom extends back be-
fore the time of our Lord. These bal
looms are made Of the richest silk OBJ
ta1nable, and several of the imperial
silk manufactures are occupied the
whole year through with the fabrica-
tlon OF the material.-Lady's Pictorial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
fNN-&s- ~
4EAI I!l'
THE COW-BELLS.

Not because Of their own music
AS they tinkle down the lane,
But from memories interviewer
Would l hear the bells again,
With their Jingle, jingle, jangle,
As up from woodland tangle
Bess and Moll come home.
Melody I've heard that's Sweeter
Swelling from the thrushes' throats;
But there's country peace and quiet
Mingled in the cow-bells' notes,
With their jingle, jingle, jangle,
As up from woodland tangle
Kate and Nell come home.
Possibly because I'm weary
Of city's ceaSeleSS strife,
That my heart swells out in longing
For the quiet rural life,
Where, with jingle, jangle, jingle
From lOwland, dell and dingle
All the cows come home.
Elizabeth D. Preston
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
GIRLS AS YOUNG MEMS ENEMIES
HOW 1hey Puncture Holes in a
Young Mans Business Prospects.

q
Young Mans Business Prospects.
Girls are by far too apt to thought
lessly punch holes in the business
prospects of the young men of their
acquaintance" writes Edward Box in
the Ladies Home Journal. "They
work this mischief in various ways
They consider it great fun to step %
a telephone, for example, and ring
up some young man while he is at
his office, only to send him some I'M
necessary message or indulge in some
fiippant talk. They are forgetful Of
the fact that what may be rare sport
at their end of the line NAV cause
serious embarrassment or worse to the
young man at the other end Even
II the young man enjoys it, his en-
ployer does not. Sending unneces-
sary or even fancied necessary notes
to young men at their offices during
business hours is another favorite
'past1me' of girls. Sometimes the
fun is carried further by meeting a
young man at his luncheon hour. or
n.
even more dangerous element is
introduced by girls urging young men
to leave their Offices before closing
hours to escort them to some place Of
amusement, some game, or to a train.
The danger in these acts is not in
themselves, but in the injurious dis
fractions which they mean. Business
hours, though doubtless they seem in
expl1cably long to girls, are, in reality,
all too short for the accomplishment
OF things necessary to a young mans
success. Hence every moment when
he is at business should be precious to
him, and it is nightly precious To-
the right sort Of young man. His
mind should be focused on the prob
lens before him, which mean either
his success or his failure
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27
GREAT THOUGHTS.

We are often more foolish than we
think.-Plutarch.
Happiness is but a dream and sor-
row is real.-Voltaire.
Prosperity doth best discover vice,
but adversely yirtue.-Bacon.
Life is one great battle; we have TO
fight at every step.-Schopenhauer
Your friends will tell you that they
are sincere; your enemies are really
so.-Schopenhauer.
The most finished man in the world
would be one who was never irreso.
Lutte and never in hurry.-Schopea-
hauer.
The worst estate of man is where he
loseth the knowledge and government
of himself.-Montaigne
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27

In my experience, the effects of the
wood ashes are more permanent on
the land than are most of the COM
merclal phosphates, even though one
buy the most choice and high-priced
article. They seem stimulants rather
than food
Potatoes
And speaking of Prof. Roberts re-
calls his very extraordinary expert
ment in the summer Of '97 in the Gull
tlvation of potatoes. On land in
fairly good condition, he succeeded in
raising crop of potatoes of from 275
TO 800 bushels TO the acre, nouwith-
standing the fact that it was an ex-
tremely bad year for the potato crop.
He said TO me in talking about it:
---e secret of the whole business was
simply that l constantly and freely
used my cultivator. I cultivated be-
fore the potatoes were out of the
ground and l cultivated when they
vert only a few days out of the
ground and constantly after. The
magic Of thorough and frequent Gull
| t1Vation is something that every
/ farmer can demonstrate for himself
not simply in the cultivation of Do
tatOeS, but in the cultivation of any
thing and everything" Recalling this
| remark of his, | made it a point, dur
ing the month of June, to cultivate
two or three times every week q
row Of tomato plants. By the side
OF these was a row set out with equal
care, but cultivated only twice in the
course Of the month. The two rows
Of plants did not indicate any marked
! difference, even as late as the 4th of
July so | stopped my extra work. But
ultimately the cultivated row was
fully twice as luxuriant in foliage and
prolific in fruit. In the cultivation
of lettuce, it is simply wonderful
What the free use of the hoe will do,
especially if one desires good head
lettuce,-in fact, as Prof. Roberts
says, it pays we'll to cultivate any
thing and everything, whether in the
line of vegetables, flowers or trees.
To make this easier next summer
now!
P6dS.
Speaking of new varieties of seed.
let me say good word for the COM
paratiyely new Motifs Excelsior green
pea. Most of the wrinkled varieties
OF pea, which are by far the sweetest,
are in danger of rotting if put very
early into the ground. l, this year.
planted Motifs Excelsior, however,
just as soon as the frost was out of
the ground. They first peeped above
| the surface in the midst of a storm of
mixed rain and snow, so cold that l
! thought they would proceed to blight
and die in sheer encouragement By
no means! They bravely kept right
on growing. They not only matured
IN advance Of any other peas planted,
! but were SO prolific in yield, and so
delicious in flavor, l shall hereafter
give them the preference among
all the earlier varieties. And [ hope
to have the land for them all ready
before snow flies. By good rights,
in fact, all fertilizers should be work
ed into the soil the fall previous to
the spring, save alone the commercial
pnosphates. OF these | cannot speak
! from experience.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27

The Dowager Duchess of Suther-
land has offered reward of 10000
for the recovery of the jewels said to
be valued at $4,000, which she lost
on board train bound for Calais.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27

The dowager empress of China has
given assent to a reform measure es-
tablishing boards Of trade at Shanghai
and HankoW to control the business
of the southern part of the empire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27

words, in which there was no doubt a
touch Of boastfulness, pardonable in
the circumstances, frequently gave
rise to angry murmurs and sullen
looks, but they were met by the
glance Of eyes that would not have
qualled If looking at grim death
eyes that in such moments glow so
curiously that the light in them seems
fixed as if suddenly frozen"
1t was Sir Herbert Kitchener who
went ahead of Sir Herbert Stewards
column with two native guides in the
first dash for the wells Of Gakoni.
Near there a notorious robber leader,
who had accompanied the mahdists in
their merciless raids, was surprised
and chastised by the 18th hussar
scouts. He and his few followers
would probably have escaped if Kitch-
ener, who was well mounted, had not
overtaken them. Alone, and far
ahead of the hussars, he closed with
these ferocious freebooteTs, and called
upon them to surrender. The cool
daring that had so often succeeded
told in this moment Deceived by it
into the belief that they were sur
rounded by unseen foes whom the
bold Englishman had at his command,
they parleyed, and were lost, for this
gave the hussars time to come UP and
make prisoners of the band. 1t was
a bold and characteristic act, which
established Kitchener's reputation
with British soldiers.
At the crisis Of the Dongola ex-
petition, when it became necessary to
seize a strategic point, so that sup
plies might accumulate there before
the Nile got too low for river tran
sports, tropical storms of violence pre-
yiously unknown in these regions
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-10-27

In my experience, the effects of the
wood ashes are more permanent on
the land than are most of the COM
mercial phosphates, even though one
buy the most choice and high-priced
article. They seem stimulants rather
than food.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-12

Csy mofemy bye zdrowj, jeasli ma.
szs krew jest niscsystaY Jeaeli :
niedbsmy Aoss1sk, krew stale sic ME
osysts. Wismy o tenn, 70 DR.. Angus
ts Koenig's hamburs kis krople ME
porssdh 10 usuwsjs ! osyssoss krew ".
Dlscssgo ME mislibySmy lob utyws6?
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-12

F'otografe. -Jedyny pisrwsror.e-
dny sskisd ns sschodnio p6lnoonei
stronie missta Chicago -tylko mai.
zdolniejsi ortysci jako wsp6iprsoo.
wnicy % sairudnisni. Me potrssba
udawac sic wSr6dmisssie, ably miec
prswdsiwie srty,tyosnie wyko6osons
robote " nsjrosmaitssych modnyoh
stylsoh 20 prsystepnej Genie. Jsko
dawniejsi zwisskowoy dziekujemy
- dotychcsasows popsrcie ! o dslsse
prosimy.-Z szsounkism, Niklas {
PdsoSopski.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-12

crscego, q niAej podpisanego ma &c
k~retarzs, powoiai takae ns estrada
szan. m6wo6w ! prezesow tow.
Uroc.ystosc ro.poc.esa ,sie bardzo
pieknie wykonsuym spiswsm pr,er
Choir sw. Ka.imierza. Pc spie vie
usstspila deklama,ja MADAME kon
ssytucji 3go mais'. pre-. panne Sta
nissawe Pawfowska. Terra. Dastspi.
spiew Sokoia Pclskiego No. l.
DIielni druhowie byli 1muszeni
isp'ew sw6j powtorry6 Nsstepnis
wypowied.iaf patrjotyczos move
Prezes Zwis.ku Sokolow Polskioh W
Am. p. ZyOhlihski. " kt6rsj to mo-
vie zaohecaa miodsie1 do wstspieu'a
" sseregi sokolskie. Ssan. m6wca
pc kilks rasy prsestac musia& ! DO.
wodu eklssk6w ktore byiy bs.ustan.
ne. Nastepnie dzisOi sskolns cd
sPiewafy pissh Y mad Nismua", DO
ossm wypowisd.iai bard.o ladnis
wiersz nMsrs. Polski' FIR. wojoie.
chowski. Tsras wystapiiy psnny
ohoru sw. Ka.imierza, ktore odspie.
wasy nPiesh Polski'. Poc1sm parma
Dranicka wypow'eisisla deklamacje
,Ani0 Pahski". Choir ms.ki sw.
Ks1. wykonai piekuy spiew , Ma
SUR. Piekoie wypowied.iany 70
stal wiersz DO Matki Polk," pre-.
] 5,efa Kslina.
Parma Sta 3isia wa Pawiowska Z
panns Barbara Bagihsks waly
duet "Wissa". kt6ry bsrd.o dob zs
wypadf. Deklamscja masego Jana
Adamowio1a zos'aia pr.yjsta r.ssi
stymi oklaskami; poosem bardzo lad
ME odspie wafy d.ieci sskolne ,Piesh
Nad.iei". Pan Bsrsrc.ewski red.
nzgody" wypowiedzial move sso
sowna do uroo.ystosoi i .acbsosl re
brans P~ublicznoIc by roku Mic
kiewio.owsk'm ME .spomuiala o
swych oboviszSach wIgledem nas.ej
u%kochanej Ojosy.ny. Teraz wysts.
pin 20 rag drugi oh6r Sokeis Polskis-
go No. l, poosem nsstspiia dekls
macja psnny B. Bagifskiej ,.Polsko
1.-two kraju drogi". Bard1o dobrz,
.ostal wykonany dr ct rPiesf My
sliwska", pr.ez panne Jadw. Glomb
l p. Wiad. Dombek, oras deklamscjs
panny Joanny Wad1ow.kiej. Die.
Of s,kolne odspiewaay picssnke ko-
miosna, kt6rs wieloe public rnc &c
rozweselila. Personal---very. oboho-
du ks. prob. w. Furm.n dsiekowsl
publiosnosc | IA tax liczns sebrauis
sic ma oboh6d, jakotsz | s.an. NOV
com IA wygsosssnie ~piekoyoh NOV,
takze dziekowai wssystkim spiewa.
kom IA ich wystspisnie podosas ma
ssego obohodu; " kohou powoiai
~publicsnosc do og6lnsgo spiewu
uBote COZ Polske".
Il szacunkiem
Stan. x. Jd6foftski, Jr. sekr. obcb.
Zgoda = Unity. [volume] (Milwaukee, Wis.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-12
Echa z ObchOd0w.
4 Chicago, Ill.
Obch6d ma Kdzimierzowie.

v
w MED hele, duis lgo majs r. b
odbyi sic Obohod msjowy ma Ks.i.
miersowie " Chicago. ssls PARTIAL.
"a byss p~rzspeioiona publiosnoicis,
ssls byis prsybrsns pieknie " Ohio.
rsgwis smerykahskis ! herby nsrodo.
We polskie. Program byi prsygoto.
wany bsrdso s~tarsnnis ! zostsi jak
nsjlspiej wykousoy.
o godzinis Bel OBJ. Josef Serwss.
hiswics " kr6tkioh i s~erdeosnych
ssowsoh otworsys oboh6d I powossi
be. prob. W. Farnaoa M pssswodni
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Stan. x. Jd6tOhski, Jr. sekr. obcb,
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Do sDrZeaania.

DIVA domy, dwupistrowe, drswn'a1e,
N wydsieraa ~ionyoh lossob. $500
kupi oba. Dobry rent. 10 wielkich
pokoi | sstor " tyoh domsch. Do
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