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SUPERIOR COURT.

department One - Hughes, Judge)
Friday Oct 9th.
Estate of Joseph A. Todman. de-
ceased-Permission granted to compro-
mise with Lawrence & Co. for $375
Estate of David II. Hudson deceased
Letters of administration granted to
Moses Hudson; bond, $500 Notice to
creditors ordered published.
Estate of Frank E. Mitchell, de-
ceased-Executor discharged.
Estate of William T. Manson. de-
ceased - Letters of administration
granted to Theodore D. Manson; bond,
$500; notice to creditors
Matter of estate of d. T. Lufkin, de-
ceased-Continued two weeks.
Estate and guardianship of Edgar
Dorsey (minor)-Repairs on property
authorized not to exceed 500.
Estate of Rachel Klenk, deceased
Repairs of Albion House not to exceed
$50 authorized.
Estate of Susan Hutchinson, deceased
Will admitted to probate; letters of
administration granted to Jacob A
Hutchinson without bonds; notice to
creditors.
Johana c. C. Stodick VS.. Catherine
Niederquille ct al.-Interlocutory de-
cree directing sale of property; J. J.
Bauer appointed referee; bond, $4,000
w. w. Coons VS.. James Stewart ct
al.-Demurrer overTuled and ten days
given to answer.
Helena Buckley VS.. John J. Buckley
Motion to modify decree granted;
motion to retax costs, SO, granted
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never recommend glasses or
treatment of the eyes for the sake
of making a sale, not Unless | am
reasonably and honestly sure that
| can benefit your sight.
p. $. HUNT. srhcEslisr. 1EHllAs
zO4 X Street.
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Buy box of our mountain apples.
They are nearly perfect. Price S5 cents
The Pacific, J, near Eighth.
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Night School at Atkinsons Business
College, open now. Bookkeeping, pen
manship, shorthand. typewriting, etc, =
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# .ors a1s'ss sss: sis' sss Thompson's Eye Water
NEW TODAY.

SHALL .UTAH'S LAWBREAKER BE
Americas LaWmaker?" Calvary Baptist
Church, | between Twelfth and Thir-
teenth. SUNDAY EVENING. Come and
hear and decide whether Utahs Congress
n1an-elect should be seated in the Fifty
sixth Congress. It's
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Department Two = Johnson, Judge
Friday, Oct 9th.
j. E. Tilden vs. Siller Bros.-Contin-
ued one week, conditional that it be
then set for trial.
E. Driemeyer VS.. Rebecca Robertson
Demurrer to complaint overruled; ten
days given to answer.
Margaret Byrne ct al. VS.. Catherine
Quale ct al.-Set for trial for Wednes-
day. October 18th, at 10 a. m
Susannah Peck VS.. Herbert Peck
Return of citation continued four
weeks.
Estate of Mary Larl1in, deceased
Petition for letters of administration;
hearing continued two weeks.
Estate and guardianship of Leland
F. Dewner (minor)-Letters of admin
istration granted to William F. Train
or; bond, $1,000.
Estate of Rosie Johnson, deceased
Letters of administration granted to
George H. Johnson; bond, $1,000 APP
praisers-L Herbert, Frank Wardrobe
and Dennis Maroney
Estate of Isabel Lopez, deceased
Letters of administration granted to
A. A Borges; bond, $500 Appraisers
Fred t. Taylor, James Harris and
Isaac Hyman.
Estate of Thomas Hague, deceased
Order made directing erecting of a
monument not to exceed the sum Of
S65. Order to consummate Durston
contract.
Estate of Christian Weisel, deceased
Order appointirg Theodore J. Weisel
and Christian Weisel, Jr., administra-
tors, each giving bonds in the sum OF
$4,000. Appraisers-Frank Kunz, II
F. G. Woolf Notice to creditors or
dered published.
Estate of Harriet NJ. Figg. deceased
Order made for sale of personal prop
erty.
All other cases continued one week.
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T4E WEEKLY UNION-THE BEST
weekly on the coast. Only 81 q year.
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Glenbrook Whisky, Blauth.
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Grand Picnic and Ball

WILL BE GIVEN BY ACoRIANo
Grove, No. S6, Z. A O. D., opposite Free
port, SUNDAY. October g. 1889. Music by
Lisbon Band Admission free. 1t
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"The Jewels of Hope. .

s'N.~A - a .
who is at
last con-
vinced in
her very
soul that
there is no
more hope
of healthy
happiness
on this
earthp Or
is there on
the other
hand any
more de-
1iphtful and
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SPECIAL NOTICES.

BAKER & HAMILTON. WHOLESALE
hardware, bicycles. carts, buggies, car
riages, phaetons. Balm farm and header
wagons. Send for catalogue
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ADJUSTMENTS.

All other cases continued one week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02

back. He has adopted a step which
prevents him from slipping and this
gives him peculiar shutting step I'M
like any movement seen elsewhere. He
combines with this hosting of the
shoulders and a peculiar turn of the
head acquired from turning his face to
let sack hest upon his shoulder. These
three traits are distinctive and give the
deckhand strange appearance upon
the levee or anywhere off a boat away
from the river.
AS he works going up the inclines
or along the gang plank, precariously
resting upon a levee's crest, he has a
rhythmic sort of chant which fits in with
his music. Always the same class of
songs are sung. Usually there are no
words, but some leader chants and the
others voice the chorus as they bend to
their tasks. There are sack songs and
barrel songs ard music for the cotton
bale and the ordinary package. The
music varies with the task, as the
bale is lifted forward and allowed to
drop, has a catchy swing to it. Down
go the sharp hooks and the bale starts
up to fall with a quick thud. So does
the music-Memphis Scimitar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02
SIR JOHN WATERS A FINE SPY.
Thrilling Adventure When Captured
by the Spaniards.

Sir John Waters was the most ad-
mirable spy ever attached to an army.
In the Peninsular war he gave to Lord
Wellington accurate and valuable in
formation about the Spaniards. Once
he was taken prisoner by Spanish
dragons while clad in the English uni
form. He was supposed to be stupid
Britisher who could not understand
word of French or Spanish, and his
captors talked freely before him. Then
he learned that they were going to kill
and rob him at an old mill where the
company was to stop for dinner. They
would pretend that they had shot him
because of his attempt to escape. On
reaching the mill the dragons dis
mounted and went into the house,
leaving their prisoner outside, in the
hope that he would try to escape. As
soon as they were out of sight Waters
threw his cloak on a nearby olive
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02

! contact between the photograph and
the glass
1t would be we'll now that dust photo
graphs exist to examine carefully the
glass before removing an olo picture
Perhaps in the near future the world
will be enriched by many fine speci-
mems of these peculiarly produced
images.
Mr.. Hammer has also an historical
collection of incandescent lamps, which
were arranged on shelves in a glass
case standing obliquely in the sunlight
about an hour a day. After the lapse
of many months the very fine dust
within the case lodged upon the inner
surface of the glass in such a manner
as to produce oval dust figures CORE
spending somewhat to the shapes of
the lamps and some of them appear af-
ter reproduction. Professor Thomas
thought, when the figures were inspect
spected closely and the circumstances
were known, that the sun and lamps
acted as agents in their formation.
AS to the correct explanation, the
matter has not been sufficiently dis
cussed by scientists to enable him to
render the opinion of others, but it is
of interest in connection with the
ROentgen rays and the discharge of
electrified bodies by light. AS a matter
of course, the surfaces of the lamps
would reflect the light in such way
as to make bright spOts-movable
however, with the sun-upon the glass
of the containing case, and if the lat
ter were in any sense charged by mega
tive atmospheric electricity, this light
would cause a variable amount of dust
to be attracted according to the inten-
sity of the rays striking the glass.
Professor Thompson also details a
remarkable series of experiments made
by Professor Sanford Of Leland Stan
ford university, California, and by Pro-
fessor Mckay of Packer institute,
Brooklyn. The images produced were
termed photographs, and were made
by placing a number of coins on the
sensitive side of Photographic plate,
covering each size with tinfoil and
wrapping the whole thing in black pa
per. The upper tinfoil was then re-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02
PLEA FOR A NEW SONG.

Avaunt! We tiresome bards who sing
OF the budding flowers and breath of
spring,
Of the hackneyed, threadbare themes
of love,
Your lady's wavy locks of gold,
Or dainty fan or shapely glove
Avaunt, The tale is trite and old.
Be We men and waste your fancies rare
On the tangled tufts of a woman's
hair?
Be We sons of Eve and spend your
brain
Singing the light Of a woman's eyes?
Ere the wind has snatched the loving
strain,
Ere the song has hushed the love-
light dies.
Sing me a song of work and strife,
OF the man who shouldered his way
thro's life,
Leaving the primrose path to fools;
Who gained the skies from the vul-
gar sod
With aught save natures sturdy tool;
All, there's man for the smile of
God,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02
AUTUnIN.

Now the last sheaves are garnered in
the barns,
The fields all bare, the cleaners al
gone home.
Ripe apples fall from overladen
trees,
And boys and girls go nutting in the
woods,
That wear a Drawer pomp than sum-
mers green.
The squirrel buries deep his winter
hoard,
The swallows gather on the red farm
roofs.
The plowmen toll across the fallow
lands,
And fails are loud on every thrash
ing floor,
The kindly earth has yielded up her
fruits,
Troubled and swollen, the river
twfrls among
The withered reeds, and ghostly in the
moon
Look all the misty fields and dim
woodsides,
And all the distant outlines of the
Mary A. Marl-~.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02

Professor Edward P. Thompson has
published remarkable work on the X
rays, which is the most comprehensive
digest of all the experiments made
since Roentgen's discovery. Exhaus-
tive study has been made of what are
known more recently to scientists as
dust photographs, and yet while this
is perhaps the first publication of the
strange phenomena, the publications
given are asserted by Professor Thomp-
son to be simply based on hypothesis
and are subject to a very decided
change when the scientists begin furth-
er experiments. 1t is to William J.
Hammer, member of the American
Institute of Electrical Engineers, that
we owe the discovery of these dust
images detailed by Professor Thomp-
son.
Mr.. Hammer in his workshop has a
portrait formed of fine dust upon a
pane of glass. The circumstances under
which it was obtained are peculiarly
interesting. Mr.. Hammer happened
to be in some place where an artisan
was removing a photograph from an
old frame. The glass which protected
the portrait exhibited a fac-simile in
dust on the inner surface. The glass
had not been in contact with the photo
graph because of thick passe- partout
surrounding the picture. Neither was
the glass an old negative Photographic
plate
Further test and inspection tended to
prove that the dust picture was execut-
ed by some action of the heat or light
of the sun. Professor BENJAMIN F.
Thomas of the University of Ohio
scarcely thinks that the result was due
to convection, because the dust print
was so sharply defined. He thinks the
principle of the discharge of bodies by
light may be applicable perhaps, but
further experiment would be necessary
as a more secure foundation.
ct is common" Professor Thompson
says, 'Fto find the print of a picture in a
book upon the opposite page, being due
merely to the pressure Of the linked
surface, as in the art of printing. This
explanation cannot be applied to the
dust portrait, because there was no
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02
WANTS HEROINES WELL FED.
Protest Against Authors Treatment of
Women Characters.
Mary A. MARI

Why are the heroines in novels not
permitted to eat hearty food? Why
does beauty, both in joy and in dis
tress, starve through the pages of
romance? Men eat in all the novels,
but in many works of fiction the poor
girl never gets anything in the way of
solid nourishment. She goes through
the most trying scenes and narrowing
experiences, so far as the novels dis
close, on a diet that would not sus-
tain a bird. When the novelist does
permit his heroine to stay the sense
Of hunger it is usually on viands of a
most delicate nature, and many fic-
tltlous young women have gone
through 100 pages on the rose leaves
they nibbled in the first chapters.
Perhaps the idea seems to be that to
disclose the heroine enjoying the
pleasures of the table would detract
from the air of refinement or the artis-
tic delicacy of the picture. 1t really
does seem as if the author fears that
the love of the hero would wane
should he behold the object of his ad-
miration placing roast beef between
her lips and see her charming face
beam with the joy of hearty mastica-
ton. Indeed, in fiction, teeth seem
| to possess no utility except to add to
the charm of the ladys smile or accen-
tuate the cruel nature of the dark and
bitter villain.
If the novelists were all men this
starvation of herOines might be as
cribed to masculine cruelty, but the
women writer's, with practical unan-
sufferings that have come to young
women through this neglect of authors
to furnish their heroines with a
proper diet exceed perhaps, the hope
less attempts to look like the ladies
of the fashion plates. There is rea-
son to believe that many young wo-
men have inferred from the models
Of feminine grace and elegance created
by romancers that men do not like
to see women eat as if they were hum
cry and enjoyed what they ate. Ac-
cOrding they display ennui over the
soup and nibble daintily at the celery
and are prone to seek nutriment in
ices and salads. Of course, the wo-
men who feed on candied violets and
angel food in novels and in the pres
ence of their lovers are not averse to
beef and potatoes when the oppor-
tunity presents itself of assimilating
that sort of food, and it may be set
down as a concrete fact that men, in
stead of feeling dismay at the dis
closure of good appetites in the women
they admire and adore, on the con-
trary are delighted to see any woman
eat with a show Of enjoyment. The
man must be blase, indeed, who can
find pleasure in taking to dinner a
girl who cannot eat and who seems
bored by the sight of food. Men do
not like fragile women. They may
admire women Of delicate beauty, but
OBSERVE how man beams to see the
sweet image, fashioned so delicately
as to justify the smile Of Dresden
china, pitch in and eat with tokens of
genuine Observation-Disclosures City
Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02
NEGRO DECKHAND.
The jolly Roustabout Extinct From
the Mississippi.

One who makes a trip up the river
and watches the antics Of the negroes
and listens to their weird songs and
tales will not agree with the iconoclast
who says that all the beauties and the
picturesque features have faded out of
the steamboatman's life. AS a line of
negroes goes up the hill under the glare
of the searchlight with their peculiar
swinging tread and sing the music,
which seems somehow to be an essen
tial part of the action, the sight is one
which has strange wildness about it
and a fascination too. The negro is
not the same as he was before the war.
Conditions have changed too much for
that. But he has retained his love for
the fantastic and most of those barbar-
ic customs which civilization seems I'M
able to eradicate from the African
mind.
The first mate has undergone a
marked metamorphosis and to his
change is due some portion of the new
features in the deckhand's character.
Time was when the first mate had a
vocabulary which would make an ordi-
nary sailors parrot die for shame. He
had this vocabulary and the negroes
held the same opinion as the one who
answered when asked if he did not OBJ
ject to the mates abuse NO, boss
OATS whut he's paid for. He's got ter
make out he's doin' somethin' an il
don't do US no harm" Now the deck
hands actually object to being sworn at
when the oaths become too vigorous
The pay of the deckhand is usually SEC
a month, even when the business is
only moderately heavy, and last winter
| during the big rush a crew Of negroes
refused to ship. because the wages did
not suit them. They were offered S9G
per month, but wanted 800 for the
| trip.
| The first popularity which strikes
| the observer about the deckhand is his
walk. He has climbed up the steer
river embankment when there was mud
all over it and he has come down that
same side with aheavy weight upon his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02

so small that it can sit comfortably
or ones hand. In the store are five
grown cats-common cats of no pedi-
gree, toms and tabbies-and this
elder band has assumed maternal care
OF the forlorn little orphan. They
watch it vigilantly, seeming particu-
larly apprehensive lest it stray out up
on the street, and whenever one of
them perceives him too near the open
doors the older fellow walks over to
the kitten, picks it up in it's mouth
and gravely carries it back and de-
posits it in the rear of the store.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02

bush and put his cooked hat on top.
Empty -four sacks lay on the ground
and he crawled into one of them. A
moment later the dragons came out,
fired their carbines at the supposed
prisoner and galloped off, intending
to return later to rife the body. A
horse loaded with sacks Of -four stood
near the door and Sir John, still en-
veloped in the sack, managed to
throw himself on the horses back, as
if he were part Of the load. The own
er came out, mounted and rode away
without detecting the peculiar con-
tents of one of the sacks. When far
enough away for safety, his position
being uncomfortable, Sir John freed
himself from the sack and sat up.
The horseman, happening to look
around, saw the man covered with
flour and imagined a ghost was perch
ed behind him.
He fell in a faint and the supposed
ghost threw him to the ground and
galloped off. Sir John reached the Eng
lish camp without further adventure.
New York Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02

moved and each coin was touched sue
cessively with the wire from a positive
pole, the other wire being connected
with the tinfoil on the lower side. Per-
feet reproductions were obtained.
But this method, OF course, differs al
together from that of producing dust
images. When the German scientist
Professor Reiss began experimenting
for the production of photographs he
laid coin upon a plate of glass and
charged it electrically for half ar hour.
Upon removing lne coin and sprinkling
the plate with dust an accurate engrav-
ing of coin was visible on the glass.
Professor McKay's experiments of
producing magnetographs are also in
teresting in this connection. He OBJ
tanned photographs of different objects
in the dark by means of radiatiOns
from the poles of an electromagnetic af-
ter two hours exposure but it need not
have been so long, as he obtained clear
images in five minutes in one expert
ment with frequent variations of a
current by means of a rheostat, and by
approach and recession OF the arma-
ture.
The elements involved in the expert
ment were arranged in the following
order: First, large inverted magnet
for supporting 100 pounds, the poles
hanging downward. Next in order was
a wooden board pressing fatwise
against the ends of the poles of the
magnet. Next, the objects and the
sensitive plates backed thereby and all
inclosed in a completely Opaque wrap
ping extending over the sides, face,
back, etc., of these two elements. Next
in order was an armature about as
heavy as the magnet would support.
Very accurate photographs of the diff
ferent objects were produced. The
photographs were not due to light, for
he tried the experiments in different
ways and with various precautions.
OF course the greater part of Profess
sor Thompson's work is devoted to the
X ray, but to the lay mind the above
phenomena give curious insight into
the experimental work of the electrical
scientists of today.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-11-02
APPENDICITIS AFFLICTS CATS.
San Francisco Animal Submits to the
Knife Without Resistance.

Maltese cats are in large demand in
business houses not only because of
their beauty, but because they have
proved themselves to be fine hunters.
One of the handsomest of these is
Tom, magnificent fellow belonging
to a wholesale grocer in lower Cali
fornia street, or perhaps it would be
more correct to say that the cat owns
the establishment. He spends his
nights in useful labor and is some
times for considerable period found
regularly each morning with a big
dead rat by his side, for, like most of
the genuinely capable OF his kind, he
disdains to eat his game. During the
day he has appropriated to his own
use nicely finished mail tray on the
office desk, and when the weather is
cool a big nickle lamp standing bes1ue
the tray is kept burning for his es-
pecial benefit. A fit of indigestion very
nearly carried him off one day and it
became necessary to perform surg1-
cal operation to save the noble fell
lows life. He seemed to know that
the veterinary sui SCOu ldANCL W clo
unsheathed for his good and bore the
pain like stole and without re-
distance.
Vying with Tom in beauty and in
telligence and his almost exact coun-
terpart in size and appearance is Joe,
splendid maltese of Petaluma birth,
belonging to a wholesale boot and
shoe house on the corner Of Second
and Stevenson streets. Eyes of am
Der, a coat Of silky blue-gray, sinewy
frame and leonine rather than tigerish
face, Joe is magnificent specimen Of
cathood. He not only answers to his
name, but understands and will obey
simple directions issued by his master,
jumping on desk or chair at his bid
ding or playing with cord strung
across the entrance in the office rail.
An instance of cat devotion Of an
extraordinary sort is found in a whole
sale establishment on the east
side of Front street, near California.
Here is wee motherless gray kitten.