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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20
Pliny Jewell, Vice-Pres.
r. G. Solomon, Vice-Pres.

ly existing desire for a strong and
well-balanced organization, thorough
ly national in it's character, equipped
for the performance of any service
which the manufacturers of the United
States might require. Upon this basis
the association has developed into
powerful organization, embracing in
its membership upward of 1000 of the
largest manufacturing interests in the
United States, representing every i'm
portant industry and every prominent
industrial center in the country.
The work of the association natural
ly falls into groups-that which per-
fains to the home interests of the
manufacturers of the United States and
chat which relates to American trade
with foreign countries. Among those
objects which pertain to home inter
ssts are these: Conservation of the
home market, creation of federal de-
partment of commerce and industry,
Improvement of patent laws, unifica-
ton of railroad freight classification,
enactment of a uniform bankruptcy
law, and improvement of internal
waterways.
To further foreign trade the associ-
alton concerns itself with the follow
ing questions: Investigation of the for
eign markets, establishment of sample
warehouses, improvement of the con-
sular service, restoration of the Amer
lean merchant marine, and restoration
of treaties of reciprocity.
AT the meeting in Philadelphia last
year every state in the country was
represented and almost every city of
Importance and the most important re-
suit achieved by it under the stimulus
of its enthusiastic resolution S was the
hold obtained by this country on
South American trade. On February
p, of this year, the first American
warehouse in South America will be
opened at Caracas, Venezuela, under
its auspices, and later in the year, sim
liar privileges will be obtained in other
countries on that continent.
The warehouse at Caracas is being
established under the terms of a
special concession granted to the Ma
tional Association of Manufacturers by
the government of Venezuela This
concession gives the privilege of enter
ing goods free of duty when intended
for exhibition in the warehouses of
the association in Venezuela, duty to
be paid only in case of the actual sale
of the goods. AS this is the first of
an extensive system of similar depots
which the National Association {
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20
SCIENTIFIC. FARMING.

The value of scientific farming is
remarkable results attained on the
Cornell University farm this year in the
cultivation of potatoes. The yield is
stated to have been 800 bushels per
acre on Indifferent, gravelly and loamy
soil. which has had no fertilizer for
four years. The crop elsewhere in the
state has been unusually poor on ac-
count of the blight and rot, so that the
contrast is especially striking. The
Cornell agriculturists attribute their
success to the observance of the follow
ing points: Proper fitting of the land;
proper planting; proper and sufficient
cultivation; proper spraying. They es-
innate the cost of the crop at about
$40 per acre as follows:
Seven civilizations at SOC. $3.50
Four sprayings, at 81 each. ....... 400
Sixteen bushels seed. .... 500
Flowing and planting .. 800
Total NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. S1S.5e
The net price for the crop is so cents
per bushel of $50 for each acre, leaving
profit of $3.50 for each acre. 1t is es-
timated that the sort of land on which
the crop was raised can be purchased
at about S35 an acre for farm purposes,
being only average land. Inasmuch as
the average yield in New York state
this year is but 65 bushels to the acre
and the highest average yield ever
known was 120 bushels, the eXtraodin-
airy achievement of the Agricultural
college can be readily appreciated. The
farmers of New York state have been
greatly impressed with this object les
son in scientific farming. The bulle-
tins of the experiment station treating
of potato culture and the prevention of
blight and rot are suddenly in great
demand. They perceive that it is with
in their reach to- greatly enhance the
value of their farms by adopting the
methods in vogue at the college and
are anxious to acquire the Information
that enabled the university farm to
achieve such phenomenal success. 1t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20
INDIAN ANTIQUITIES.

The late Hallet Phillips remarkable
collection of over 10000 Indian nipple
ments and antiquities from the valley
of the Potomac river has been given
to the Smithsonian institution by
Thomas Lee, to whom Mr.. Phillips had
bequeathed it. Besides being an ex-
pert of high rank in international
law, Mr.. Phillips, in a comparatively
short life, became the greatest author-
ity in the country on the subject of
prehistoric man in the Atlantic tide
water region. The Phillips collection
is said to be the best key in existence
to the manners and habits of the
ancient Algonquin race, as it was the
largest of it's class in the world
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20

Manufacturers contemplates establish
ing in various foreign trade centers, it
is hoped that this warehouse shall be
in every way model institution Of
it's kind. The plans for its organiza
ton and management have been care
fully formulated, and the exhibits are
confined to those lines of goods foI
which there is a known market in
Venezuela. There are many articles
Ct American manufacture which it
would be useless to sell in Venezuela
and exhibits of such goods as these are
not desired
The special tCTic on which President
Theodore C. Search of Philadelphia
will dwell in his annual address con-
Germs the consular service, Of which
he has made a thorough study in late
years. He will appeal for a complete
change in the method of appointments.
At the meeting in Philadelphia, the
executive committee was ordered to
iruuire into the needed reforms in
the patent laws. 1t is understood that
among it's recommendations will be
one calling for legislation that Wall
compel the payments of annuitles on
patents, trade. marks. copyrights, ETC.,
in order to invalidate such patents as
are not considered by the owners OK
sufficient value to warrant the annuity
but which nevertheless, stand a
menace to new and useful patents for
fear of infringement. Another recon-
mendation, it is understood, provides
that foreigners should be treated ex-
actly as their respective governments
treat our inventors. Still another rec
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20
WASHING FIAANNELS.
Mrs. S. T. Rorer Describes How it Can
be Done Perfectly.

SHAVE a quarter of pound of soap
lrtC a granite saucepan, add one
quart of boiling water, stir over the
fire until dissolved" writes Mrs s. r.
Rorer in the Ladies' Home Journal
Pour this into a tub half filled with
water at a temperature of 100 degrees
Fahrenheit. Mix WELL Have ON the
left side of the tub a bucket of clear,
warm water, 100 degrees Fahrenheit,
into which you may put half-tea-
spoonful of household ammonia Take
each piece Of flannel singly and i'm
merse it in the suds. Soap should
never be rubbed on flannels, nor should
flannels ever be rubbed on board.
Wash them by pressing and drawing
through the hands, rubbing the soiled
places quickly with the hands. Rinse
at once in clear water. and wiring by
pressing one hand under the other, or
through wringer. Never twist in
the wringing. Shake well and hang to
dry Immediately; then proceed to wash
the second piece. The fiannels when
nearly dry must be taken from the
line and pressed with a hot iron. Be
careful that it is not, however, too
hot, or it will destroy the color. Elan
nels washed in this way will retain
their soft texture and original size
until completely worn out No de-
yiations from these directions, how
ever, can be made. For colored
fannels make a suds as above. To
the warm water for rinsing add four
of white-wine vinegar,
or a tiny bit of acetic acid which has
been thoroughly dissolved. 1t is al
ways well to wait for bright day be-
fore washing flannels. They shouN
be dried as quickly as possible"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20

ommendation discusses the advisable
ity of establishing separate courts for
the adjudication of patent, trademark
and copyright cases.
On the whole the transactions of the
association promise to be of the most
important value and will be followed
with interest throughout the country
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20
T. w. OlVyeT, VIC6-FTeS.
Robert Laidlaw, Treas.

tributed I sent an old chum of his up
to get the real lay of the land, for I
was still suspicious. This is what
the old chonies said to each other:
"'What is them things, Ike?'
Hand grenades.'
What's hand grenades?'
"tI don't know what was in 'em at
first, but they're full of-kerosene oil
now
eve cancelled the policy. detroit
Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20

]. Hoge Tyler, the new governor OF
Virginia, is a farmer and the first of
that calling to fill the gubernatorial
chair Of his state in forty years.
Hitherto the Office has been practically
monopolized by lawyers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20
A BUSINESS BODY
AMERICAN MANUFACTURERS AND
WHAT THEY WANT.
CABINET REPRESENTATION

Home Interests and Trade With For
eign Countries Among the Themes
That Will Be Given Attention
Reciprocity Also Favored-Foot-
hold Gained in South America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1898-01-20

is seldom that the practical character
of our agricultural colleges has made
so deep an impression on the farmers.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
Southern War Claims.

1t is of No very great credit to the
government of the United States
that there are number of war
claims aggregating several millions
dollars still due and unpaid at this
late day, thirty-three years after
the war. Whether or not all the
claims are just it is not possible to
determine, but surely some, and
perhaps most of them, are just. The
foreign and domestic bOndholder
has been paid his due, cent for cent,
the contractor has been paid, the
Federal soldier has been paid and is
being paid. Only the Southern
claimant is turned down. Accord
ing to figures sent out from Wash
ington the government owes the citi-
zens of Tennessee $3,l62, 1856, which
should have been paid years and
years ago. Other Southern States
are similarly situated. This debt, If
just, should be paid. There is no
reason why the government should
play the role of deadbeat.-Memphis
Commercial-Appeal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18

it will be seen by this calculation
that Judge Bonds district Will have
the largest number of votes in the
convention.
The vote by counties, assuming
that the Bryan vote is taken as the
basis of computation, is as follows:
East Tennessee-Anderson, Z;
Bledsoe, 8; Blount, 10; Bradley, IL;
Campbell, 6; Carter, 4 Claiborne,
IL; Cooke, 10; Granger, 10; Greene,
q; Hamblen. 10; Hamilton, 81;
Hancock, 8; Hawkins, II; James, 3;
Jefferson, 8; Johnson, 9; Knox, 40;
Loudon, 6; MeMinn, IA; Marion, 10;
Meigs, Z; Monroe, Is; Morgan, 8;
Polk, Z; Rhea, IL; Roane, 8; Scott,
2; Sequatchie, 4; Sewer, 4; Sulli-
van, %; Unicoi, /; Union, 6; Wash
ington, II. Total, 81.
Middle Tennessee-Bedford 26;
Cannon, 10; Cheatham, II; Clay 8;
Coffee, 10; Cumberland, 4; David
son, "a; DeKalb, Is; Dickson, 10;
Fentress, 3; Franklin, 25; Giles, 80;
Grundy, 10; Hickman, 10; Houston,
8; Humphreys, 10; Jackson, II; Law
reuce, IL; Lewis, 8; Lincoln, 80;
Macon, 8; Marshall. rs; Maury, 80;
Montgomery, 30; Moore, 8; 0verton,
10; Perry, 10; Pickett, 4; Putnam,
II; Robertson, "a; Rutherford, 30;
Smith, "a; Stewart, Is; Summer, 30;
Trousdale, z; Van Buren,, 4; War
rem, 81; Wayne, 4; White II; Will
Hanson, 20; Wilson, 81. Total, III.
West Tennessee-Benton, IA; Car
roll, 81; Chester, 8; Crockett, II;
Decatur, 10; Dyer, %; Fayette, 24;
Gibson, 80; Hardeman, 81; Hardin,
10; Haywood, "a; Henderson, 10;
Henry, 30; Lake, 8; Lauderdale, 81
McNairy, 10; Madison, 80; Obion
%; Shelby, 81; Upton, 81; Weakley,
80. Total, 4SS.
Grand total, 1870.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
GUBERNATORIAL CONTEST.
A Lively Time Is Anticipated in the
Coming Campaign.
There VIII Be $3.50 Votes in the Conven-
tiOn-Three Candidates are in the
Field ana More win Follow.
Sundays Americana

The approaching gubernatorial
race promises to be an interesting
political contest. Since 1890 guber-
Material plums have dropped by a
mere touch of the favored ones. The
candidates for the office at every
convention since that year have had
an easy time in securing the nomi-
nation, because it was always sure
that the people wanted one man and
he was virtually nominated before
the convention met.
In 1896 Gov. Taylor received the
nomination by reclamation. But in
1898 the man who wins the nomiaa-
ton will; have to battle for it, If
the candidates continue to enter the
race, the situation will become more
complex. There are already three
announced candidates in the field
and the fight is beginning in earn
est.
Those who nave announced their
candidacy are Judge John r. Bond,
of Haywood; Judge John M. Taylor,
of Henderson, and Gen. Andrew B.
Woodland, of Lincoln. Other candi-
dates will be sure to follow.
Neither Congressman Benton Nc
Millin nor Hon. James M. Head
have made any announcement as
yet, but one or the other will be sure
to step into the field some time dur
ing this week. Mr.. McMillin is not
ready to announce his intentions
yet. A large number of his friends
are urging him to run for the nomi-
nation. 1t may be said very truth
fully that the majority of the politi-
clans think that he will make the
race. Mr. Head, it is understood
is waiting on Mr.. McMillin.
Mr.. McMillin gave up his apart
ments at the Maxwell yesterday and
is now, with his wife, at the resi-
dence of his sister-in -law, Mrs. Nc
Millin, at 306 North High street.
If either Mr.. McMillin or Mr.
Head should enter the race, they
would make strong opponents for
the candidates who have already
announced.
Judge John M. Taylor's announce
ment, published in yesterday s
American, was discussed in pOliti-
cal circles yesterday. 1t did not
come in the nature of surprise, as
he has been regarded as a candi-
date for some time.
AS the contest will be a lively one
it will not be amiss to look at the
number OF votes which will be in
the nominating convention. This
calculation has been made: Taking
the Bryan vote as a basis-Uhat is
one vote for every 100 and fraction
over 50-there will be grand tot
of 1880 in the convention, a ma.
jority of which will be any fraction
over 915. Taking it by grand divis.
ions of the State, East Tennessee
will have 81, Middle Tennessee
III and West Tennessee 48S. The
apportionment by Congressional dis.
tricts will be as follows:
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
OR TREACHERY!
The Battleship Maine is Blown Into
Small Pieces,
And Two Hundred aud Sixty American
Sailors are Numbered With the
Dead.-It May Cause War.

In Havana harbor, last Tuesday
night, an explosion took place on
the U. s. battleship Maine, which
totally destroyed the ship and killed
about 26O of the men on board.
How it occurred, nobody seems to
know, but in Washington the popu-
lar sentiment is expressed in these
words; 1T is significant that that
accident should have happened
where it did, when it did," The
people and the politicians and par
ticularly the Cuban sympathizers,
call it "treachery;" but the admin
istration and Consul-Geueral Lee
and Capt. Sigsbee, who was in com
mand, call it an accident. OF course
prompt and thorough investiga-
tion will follow.
The explosion shook the whole
city of Havana. The Maine was
one of the largest and best equipped
ships in the American navy and
cost over two million dollars.
If the accident" cannot be ex.
planned, war between Spain and the
United States will doubtless follow
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
Winning His Wager.

A tall, herculean Gascon, astride upon
a wretched pony, encountered as he rode
over bridge richly dressed cavalier
mounted on a noble steed. Saluting the
horseman, the Gascon said to him;
~ will bet you ten golden pieces that /
can do with my horse what you can
with yours"
Done" said the cavalier, whereupon
the Gascon dismounted from his miserable
hack, and, taking 1t up in his arms, threw
It over the battlements into the river,
thus winning his wager, to the great dis
comfture Of the owner Of the noble steed.
Nuggets.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
SOME RAMBLING THOUGHTS.
BY "NEMo."

A pimple by no means proclaims ap-
preaching death. One day it is visible;
another day it is gone. Viewed with a
microscope it is terrible enough, but
looked at from fitting distance it's lost
to sight. Often it is solely sign of un-
healthy skin in one small spot, that
is all. Thus also with the startling MUIR
ders that reach our knowledge through
a microscope "press." Awful are their
details and enormous seem their ten
denotes as they fill out columns of space
to the exclusion from our vision of all
those things that are progressive and
healthy. Believe me, the powerful
poisons in our national life are not to
be found in these fierce blOtches, I'M
slightly though they may seem. There
is more danger beneath the smooth skin
of false civilization, whose selfishness
rules employers, and, in turn, domi-
mates the workers as well; where men
lose sight of their obligations to one
another; where purses breed pride and
poverty breeds envy; where, beneath
sanctimonious professions lust rules
rampant both within and without the
household; where boys are not taught
to reverence womanhood, and where
girls are not taught to reverence them
selves. Surface complaints show chem.
selves and are treated; chronic diseases
too often sap the strength until toe
late. Against these let US be watchful,
instead of lifting up holy hands in hor'
ror at some wretched yielder to anger,
-
A sententious individual when asked
the time-old question, ais life worth
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
Praise for Carmack.

Even Gen. Luke Wright, the most
influential gold man in the state,
was compelled to give Carmack the
lions share of the credit for elect
ing Turley to the United States
Senate. Praise from Sir Hubert Is
praise indeed. Carmack may be
unseated by the Republicans in Con-
gress, but he will be sent back by
the Memphis district at the first
opportunity almost without opposi-
tion.-Chattanooga News.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18

A CIRCULAR letter mailed to the
press of the country, from the man
agement of the Omaha exposition,
says: "On Sunday afternoon,
February ID, party of 60representa-
tive business men, left Omaha, in
two special coaches, on tour of the
South" A public, business enter
prise of Shis character, launched on
"Sunday afternoon" ought not to
be countenanced by christian pee
pie. Such representative business
men" as these, whatever may be
their lack of morals or religion,
should be taught decent respect
for the opinions of the christian
country in which they live. What
sort of Sabbath observance may we
expect from the Omaha exposition,
when we are told in the very begin
ming that the men at the helm have
not even a decent regard for the
proprieties Of the occasion?
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18

living?" replied very aptly, "That de-
ponds on the liver" True enough
whether you have in mind person or
an organ of the body. So mark you, be-
fore we 20 any further, that in food
there is both life and death. The very
elements that strengthen us, and build
orr tissues, begin to poison us unless
they are removed from the body as
soon as their work is done, and in this
labor of removal, the organ mentioned
above does quiet, accomplishing SER
vice under great aggravation from some
of us, unholy eaters of complex dishes.
So far as our bodily life is concerned,
the world il nothing but vast feeding
crib, whereat we must linger, if we
would live, and whereby we are laying
up painful burdens to ourselves unless
we eat wisely and not too we'll. But
lust as the child is Disconnected with
creeping, after it once stands upright,
so the joys of the world Fof thought
make us sink to secondary place the
joys of the world of food, and the civ
ers" estimate of life and its worth is
settled by the thoughts he has. If he
is satisfied with the thoughts of others
and lets them pass through his brain
like water passes through an open
sluice-wav-leaving nothing behind ex-
cept highwater mark-it is not
astonishing that he finds life empty.
Thought, like food, must be made to
surrender to us nourishment, which
thereupon becomes part of ourselves.
IT he takes of the thoughts of times
past, holds On to them as though
thought never moved, swears by the
knowledge he gained years ago, closes
his mind both against the gaining or
giving of new, progressive, helpful
ideas, little wonder that life seem like
the mockery of daylight to blind
man. Thought like food must be con-
stantly added to and never retained in
definitely without re-actiDg upon the
world we live in,-or we stagnate in
mind and become sluggish and ulti-
mately useless.
#x*
Or If he holds himself ready to be
stuffed with opinions quicker than he
can digest them-like some unhappy
turkeys that remember in my child
hood as being periodically forced gorge
full of barley meal-it is not surprising
that he takes muddled and bewildered
view of the one life to the end of which
he is Fastening.
1t is thought that makes life worth
living. Many of my readers will mo-
be able to agree with me at once, bu
later we shall. Right thoughts make
right acts and right acts make life
worth the struggle of seeing it through
Very few of us stop to reckon the iu
fluence of thought on the world
Every Improvement of nature, every
artificial change in the surface of tn,
earth, is the result of thought taking
shape in the brain of one man or gen
erations of men. Every politica
privilege, every fight for conquest Owe
enemies outside or within ourselves il
the outcome of thought; every better
ment of mems conditions onward from
the cave-dwellers to our modern com
forts, has first taken form in som,
mans mind; every straining upward o
the race towards morals or toward
God is Thought! Thoughtful Thought!
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18
Changes at the Penitqntiary

Warden P. H. Ragsdale, of the old
penitentiary, and Warden Andrew
Mcclellan, of the new penitentiary,
were discharged by Gov. Taylor last
Friday. G. w. Farris, of Coffee
county, was appointed to succeed
Mr.. Ragsdale, and M. H. Cannon,
warden at Inman, was transferred
to Mr.. McClellan's place.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-02-18

THE disaster to the battleship
Maine, will doubtless occupy page
In history. If it was an accident, of
course Spain should not be held re-
sponsible; but the burden of proof
should be put upon the treacherous
Spaniards to show that it was an
accident. 1t is significant indeed
that so inexplicable an accident
should have occurred just at this
time, Just where it did.