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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12
REMARKABLE TEXAS FAMILIES.
Schmidts Number Fifty-six and All
Live Under One Roof.

Two very remarkably prolific fam
lilies reside in adjoining counties in
southern Texas They are all all fri
gal, Industrious Germans, living on
well cultivated farms.
Christian Pohel, who is not yet fifty
years Of age, is the father of fifteen
children. They are all alive, and there
has never been a death in the family
All were born under the same roof
Not one of them ever had bone bro
ken, nor did ever one Of them take
a dose of medicine prescribed by a
physician. They are all rosy-cheeked,
stout-looking boys and girls. The
mother of all these young Texans is a
fine looking woman, possessing clear
cut, classical features. Her face looks
as if it had been chiseled from olive
colored marble. She is nearly so years
of age, though she looks twenty years
younger. The boys and girls have
been reared to work in the fields, and
as a result of such training they are
very robust and healthy.
Mr. Pohel owns a large tract Of fine
land, a greater portion of which is un-
der cultivation. The children seem to
be very devoted to one another, and it
is the intention of their parents to
give each of them a farm when they
marry and have them settle near the
old homestead. Should they prove to
be as prolific as their parents it will
not be long before the Pohe1s will oc-
cupy much more than a corner of Bur-
Lesson county.
In Austin county there is another
German family almost as prolific as the
Pohels and equally as interesting.
There are fifty-six people in the family,
and they all dwell in the utmost har-
mony and apparently the greatest felic-
ity under one roof. These people are
Germans, and the family name is
Schmidt. Casper Schmidt, the founder
Of the family, is still alive. He came
to Texas and settled the league that
his descendants occupied in very early
times. Strangely enough, he had but
one son. This son, however, whose
name is John Schmidt, has made ample
reparation for the failure on the part
Of his parents to multiply and replen-
ISL the earth. He married when he
was 20 years Of age and he has reared
fifteen BOYS and girls Five of these
have married, but not one has yet left
the parental roof. These five married
sons and daughters have twenty-five
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12
ONE YEAR FOR BEATING A HORSE

Drivers of carts and other vehicles
will do well to profit by the experience
of Otto de Valmaseda, who was before
Judge Mccarthy in quarter sessions
court No. 1 Philadelphia, charged with
cruelty to a horse. He pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to the limit Of the
law-one year in the comfy prison.
De Valmaseda was hauling a heavy
load of stone, and wien his horse be-
came Stuck" he beat the animal with
an iron bar His only excuse was that
he had lost his temper. Judge Nc
Carthy said he proposed to make an
example Of the prisoner. A man who
would thus ill-treat a poor, dumb
beast, the Judge said, merely because
he lost his temper, was deserving OF
the severest penalty prescribed by the
law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12
APATHY OF TENNESSEE VOTERS.

The Nashville American bewails the
apathy of Tennessee voters as eXhib
tied by the results of the biennial reg
istration. Not half the voters are reg
istered in Memphis, little more thar
half in Nashville, and the registration
in Knoxville and Chattanooga is not
much more satisfactory. The fact that
municipal elections are to be held soon
in Chattanooga and Nashville helped
to swell the registration, but still
hundreds of voters neglected to regis
ter in these cities. Speaking of this
apathy, the American says: eff an at
tempt was made now to disfranchise
voters, a wave of Indignation and pro-
test would sweep over the state, and
the promoters of such a scheme would
be condemned by all and relegated to
the rear instanter. The people would
become aroused as to their privileges
and rights and would resist by
all means the attempts to
take them from them. But
the returns from this and other
cities in the state of the results OF the
regular biennial registration Of voters
just closed show that the free and in
dependent citizens Of Tennessee are
not eager to exercise the grand priv
ilege allowed them of voting. In this
city and the other cities and towns Of
the state the registration was light;
voters did not avail themselves of the
provisions of the law, and the result
shows that apathy exists in nearly
every community where registration is
enforced"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12
SAVED FROM RUIN.

Nodd-Blinker had hard time the
other day. His head clerk is In the
habit of giving him checks to sign, and
Blinker, who has every confidence in
him, always does SO without question.
This day his wife filled out one and
the clerk took it in. Blinker signed it.
Todd-Ruined him?
Nodd-No. 1t was for such a large
amount the bank wouldn't cash 1t
Detroit Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12
THIS IS WHAT 1T IS COMING TO.

We quote from the Centreville (A1a.)
Press: 1--WE saw a young lady out rid
ing on her wheel a few days ago, with
That young lady was ready to protect
herself, and if more would follow her
example there would be less outrages
committed. A woman with a gun is
dangerous. Mobile Register.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12

field. They are celebrated for their
hospitality, and many travellers turn
aside in order to take a meal or spend
a night with this extraordinary family
"a family without a counterpart
either in Europe or America.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12
TUESDAYS BASEBALL SCORES.

At Boston-Boston 9, New York 8.
At NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 2; Phila., 2
At Cincinnati-Louisville 4, Cincin-
natl
At st. Louis-Pittsburg 9, st. Louis s.
Washington 4, Brooklyn /.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12
THE DERVISH STORY-TELLER.
Mingled Emotions in a Caravansera
at the Tale of Rustum.

While we were drinking the steam
ing beverage we became aware of
voice crying in the desert below.
That the naib of the caravanserai was
venting his spleen on his underlings
was our first guess at the strident din,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12

"Do you think this poem Of mine
will live?" asked the high-browed
youth.
81 dunno" answered the brutal ac-
uuaintance. "It ought to. J. seems
pretty tough. "-Washington Star.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1899-10-12

At Berlin Count Eglofstein, a promi-
nent member Of the Club Der Harm
losen, was sentenced to nine months
Imprisonment for cheating at cards.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21
IT'S "PUBLIC LIBRARY.'
How One Big Railroad Aids in the Ed
ucatiOn of its Patrons.

The extent to which the great railroad sys-
tens of the United States invoke the aid of
printers ink in their audable ambition to de-
velop passenger business is something that
rather a>toni-hes the foreign transportation
manager Take the Boston & Maine Railroad,
for instance, which is the most conspicuous in
the country for effective advertising. The
summer publications of that railroad now
numbers no less than 1G different volumes, all
but one of them illustrated. and making in
themselves veritabe library of railroad lit
elature. They cover in almost minute detail
every one Of the various g sections" reached
by the Boston Il Maine and its connections
No one need be at Il loss to secure any desired
information as to the various mountain, sea
shore, lake or country resorts or the fishing
or shooting regions of the territory lttakes
time and skill to accurately coate all these
these essential facts and statistics, and it costs
lots of money besides: but the education and
artistic results is something that the company
may feel proud of.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21

.auCerest enemy Of womankind.
: the average run Of femininity
{ such a helpless, harmless

t buCu uoAplcbo, udA hAAO
The late, cannot l.o,.cs 'ained.
''Picturesque New England library Is -
Valley of tn. connecticut and Northern Yer
mont" descriptive of the wonderful summer
region lying along the beautiful Valley of the
Connecticut river and continuing to Lake
Champaign and Lake Memphremagog In the
North.
A copy of the book will he sent by the pas
senger department of the Boston Maine
Railroad, on receipt OF two cents In stamps;
as will also the indispensable "Summer Re-
sorts and Tours" and the other descriptive
publications g cents In stamps for each book
"All Along Shore" Among the Mountains"
"LaLes and Streams" "Southeast New Hamp-
SHIRE" "Merrimack and Valley" Central
NASSAU husetts," southwest New Hamp-
SHIRE" "Lake Sunapee." "The Monadnock
Region" Lake Memphremagog and About
There "Fishing and Hunting"
Six Cents In stamps will procure a copy Of
either "New England Lakes ''Rivers of
New England" or "Mountans of New Eng
land" magnificent new portfolios of half-tone
reproductions of originals photographs just is
sued by the Boston & Maine Passenger De-
partment. These are vertable editions de
luxe in the way of railroad literature.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21

WANTED - Men and women to
handle the two best selling books upon
the market; Our New Possessions, :"
four books in one, giving very COM
pIele description of Cuba, Porto Rico,
Hawaii and the Philippines; also " Life
and Glorius Deeds OF Admiral Dewey"
Over 200, 900 copies of these books have
been sold in the last few months. Sold
by subscription only. Apply by mail
to +. Galley Il Co., 1856 Washington
St, Boston, Mass. wi
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21
Antoine Burk is in Burlington to da,


James Ingram returned this mornin"
from Spring feld, Mass.
A very pleasant croquet party took
place at DR.. II. O. Worthen's last even
ing.
Bolster Reservoir is Al inches below
normal having settled ut an inch a
day for the last six day oar
The Progressive Clut vii meet with
Max Fisher this evening and an inter-
esting program will be rendered
ID. w. Mcdonald returned yesterday
from Lingwick, 7. O., where he has
been on business for the past week.
The trouble with the electric power
yesterday afternoon was caused by a
tree falling across the wires below
Montpelier.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21

Paris, June 21.-The approaching ar
rival of Dreyfus at Rennes is causing an
influx of foreigners there. The hotels
are besieged with applicants for rooms,
which command immense prices. The
arrangements for the conveyance of the
prisoner from Crest have been made
with the greatest care, and it is believed
there is no danger of demonstrations
Dreyfus is expected to reach Brest early
in the morning, and precautions have
been taken to prevent anybody from see
ing him either at Brest or at Rennes.
The Figaro says it understands Dreyfus
will arrive at Rennes June 80, and that
he will be landed elsewhere than at
Brest
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21
Leads to Insanity.

Fargo. N. d., June 21.-As a result Of
an advertisement in a matrimonial paper.
Nina Smith. who came from George
town, Mass. to marry l.. G. Finch Of
Minnewaukan, n. d., is insane. She al
leges that he secured possession of $500
she had and all her clothes, after which
he sent her home. She escaped from a
hotel at which the police had placed her
MD is still at large.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21
Knutz Nearing Home.

San Francisco, June 21.-The steamer
Australia arrived here from Honolulu
and brings word that the Philadelphia
sailed from Honolulu June II. Owing
to the foul condition of her bottom the
Philadelphia will not be speeded on her
Journey S. NJ. Damon, minister of
finance Of Hawaii, was a passenger ON
the Australia.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21
Wreck of the Paris Deserted,

Falmouth, England, June 21.-The
American line steamship Paris. on the
rocks near the Manacles, experienced the
first southeasterly gale yesterday which
has blown since she was wrecked. This
compelled the salvagers to desert the
work. The divers had succeeded in blast
ing away the rocks and had cleared the
steamer of water above her false bottom.
when a storm came up.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21
LADIES. ATTENTION

Miss Kirk, of Montreal. who taught
scientific dress cutting to a number of
Barre ladies last season, will open Il
class at 12S State Street, River Side,
Montpelier, June 49, Ladies wishing
to avail themselves of this opportunity
will please call at once.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21
SPECIAL NOTICES.

LOST.--A Silver brooch, design Il wreath
Set with small garnets. Probably lost at NJ
E. Church during graduating exercises.
Finder please leave at this office. 6l-lw.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21

" ANTED.--Work of any description
quire at this Office. Cliff.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21

WANTED.-A Sober, Industrious Man
of 80 would like position in store. For par
ticulars inquire at this Office. Cliff.
Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-06-21

WANTED.-A secondhand bicycle
for a boy. Call or address Room 8
Miles New Building. SO 81
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
County Exhibits at the Fair.

"The fair at Birmingham" says the
Sheffield Reaper, "this fall will be of i'm
mense advantage to the entire state, and
should receive the cordial assistance of
every county in the state. The more at
tractive the displays are made the greater
will the advantages aceruing therefrom
be-" This is undoubtedly a correct view.
and no effort will be spared in this city
towards making the exhibition a grand
and even turning event in the material
interests of the state.
But the fair can only become truly and
thoroughly representative through county
action. If the sixty-six counties can each
and every one be induced to prepare
county exhibits, the fair will become the
finest and most representative one ever
held in the south not excepting the expo
sitions of New Orleans, Atlanta and Nash
Vile. No doubt the fair can be made at
tractive without county exhibits, but it
cannot be made thoroughly representative
without them. 1t cannot be made an OBJ
ject lesson to people at home and to capt.
talists from abroad except through such
showings from each country. The value of
the fair to the state depends upon county
efforts. 1t is within bounds to say that
one hundred dollars in each county will
secure an exhibit that will do the county
much good. The money would be returned
many fold. What Is needed in each county
is leader, or a committee of strong,
active and patriotic men. This would as
sure the gathering of the needful articles
at the court house, and the shipment of
them to the state fair. The state fair au-
thorities will take good care of them, al
though it might be well to send man
along with them in some cases.
Let every county give the subject atten-
ton 1t means permanent exhibition
that will Illustrate to all corners the re-
sources and possibilities of the state. 1t
means capital, population, wealth and
prosperity, in the long run.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
PRIMARY ELECTIONS
From the Admission Republic.

From the Admission Republic.
Tho people of Alabama seem to be
aroused to the Importance of holding pri-
mary elections in preference to beat meet
ings and conventions, as never before, and
the example set by Jackson county threat
ems to spread all over the state, and to
lead Alabama democrats to follow the pace
set by the democrats of Georgia and other
states in the Union. Give the people an
opportunity to say who shall be the demo-
cratic nominees, and who shall represent
them in the United States senate, and the
democratic party will be greatly strength
ened. There is no reason why the people
of Alabama cannot be trusted to say at
the ballot box, in an old-fashioned demo-
cratic primary, who shall represent them
in the United States senate, and who shall
be governor, and who shall fill their county
and district offices. Yes, give the people a
chance. They deserve it and have right
to demand it.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23

Cecil Rhodes on that issue. namely, sym
PATTY for the Beers. The Orange Free
State adjoins the Transvaal. lying just
south of it. 1t is a Boer republic. Eng
land win therefore have to contend with
the Transvaal and with sympathizing pop
nlations IN the Orange Free state, Cape
Colony. and to some extent In Natal. Moth
ing but the strong hand of England could
cope with such a trouble. and 1t will be
a difficult and tiresome and expensive Job
at the best
England has, however free hand. She
has arranged affairs with Germany, and
again NEEDLE with the affair In behalf of
the Beers He will restrain his propensi-
ties to send sensational kilograms. He win
attend strictly to his canal and other af-
fairs at home, and there is no other ma
ton that has any intention or disposition
to interfere. England is now free to get
rid of a deep-seated trouble, and the in
dications are that she intends to do it.
The Beers have forfeited the good opin-
ion of the world by their rank injustice to-
wards the Uitlanders. some of whom are
Americans. They are taxed numerically,
and they are given no rights in return.
They are denied representation in any re-
spect. England cannot afford, in the ex-
ercise of her suzerain rights, to let Beer
obstinacy and Boer injustice farther go
in the heart of what is destined to be one
of the most important parts of the vast
dominion of the British empire.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
Prosperity Will Last Another Year.

The country in general is just beginning
to appreciate the appreciation in iron.
When iron went from Sc in this district to
SIG a ton, they seemed to think that the
rise was due to speculation, and would pre-
haps disappear after a while; but now
when they find that iron-makers are be-
coming reluctant to accept present prices
for next years deliveries they began to APP
preciate the great change that has occurred
In the market.
They begin to see that the price of and de-
mand for iron and steel is but an index of
the general prosperity that is spreading
rapidly to every section of the country, af-
fecting every interest, and filling every
Industrious worker with hope. All In all
iron is prosperitys best barometer. be-
cause 1t is the metal of construction, be it
ships, railroads. bridges, buildings or other
work.
The making of contracts for iron and
steel to be delivered all through the year
1900 at present prices means that such
prices probably will stay at the present
level and this means in turn that the
coming year will be one of exceptional
prosperity. All other known indications
confirm this belief, and every additional
month strengthens optimistic views.
Prosperity in 1900 means a year in this
district that in steady and needful growth
will outrun any it has ever known Hun
dreds, if not thousands, of bulldogs will be
erected and the development long expected
will begin to be realized The feverish
and unreal features of boom times" WILL
however, be lacking. Whatever is done
will have good and sufficient basis. The
burned child avoids the fire. There will
be prosperity in abundance in this district
next year, but there will be no undue in
flation of values, no expansions that lead
but to explosions and disasters. We want
steady growth only. Booms need not ap-
ply
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
A DETACHED CHATTER IN LIFE
Isfr of Human Wreckage Stranded on q
Southern Plantation

From the New Orleans Tfmes-Democrat.
"These little detached passages in other
peoples stories that we are continually
running into by pure chance" said an old
reporter off duty, "are the most fascinat-
ing and tantalizing things in life. Some
times we get a whole chapter, sometimes
we get nothing more than a scrap of dia-
logue, and as often as not it's only
glance of the eye a gesture of the hand,
but we realize all the same that we have
accidentally intruded upon some poignant
human document which we are never to
know either the beginning or the end I
have often amused mysef by taking such
fragmentary morsels and attempting to re-
construct around them a logical sequence
of events, just as naturalists build up fos-
sill monstrositfes from small sections of
their big toes, and I may add that the
invariable result of my efforts has shat
tered my faith in comparative zoology. l
am forced to believe that the naturalists
are taking US. However, when-"
"Oh, WE'LL" said somebody in the office,
ego ahead and tell the story and have
done with it."
1.-The incident had in mind" continued
the old reporter, was narrated to me by
a gentleman of this city who is now man.
ager of an extensive orange grove, with Of
fees in New Orleans. Eight nine years
ago, before he assumed his present posi-
ton, he had charge of a large sugar plan
tation up the river, and one day during
the grinding season q young Englishman
came to his office and applied to him for
work. The young fellow said his name was
John Mason and his shabby clothes and
hungry look in his eye confirmed the
statement that he was badly in need of
job The manager liked his face, and
put him at light work with a gang at the
cane carriers.
''Mason proved good hand He was
steady and sober. but he attracted no spe-
cial attention, had no intimates, and never
let drop word about his history. At the
end of the season he drew his money and
went away. About month later the man.
ager received letter from a, lady in Eng
land inquiring about her son, John Mason,
whom she understood was working on that
plantation. The letter went on to say that
he had left home. believing he had killed a
young woman to whom he was engaged.
He had struck her with something in a fit
of insane jealousy. The woman was not
dead and the trouble had been fixed up.
Meanwhile the young man had come in for
a legacy of $4,000, and his mother wanted
him to return at once. This letter was evil
IDENTIFY written by a person of culture and
refinement, and seemed sincere, but, HAY
ing no idea of Mason's whereabouts, all the
| manager could do was to reply to that eff
feet. That closed the correspondence.
One evening next grinding season very
ragged, trampish-looking man came to the
office window and asked for work. Dirt,
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-23
wOMAEKIND

From the Atohison Globe.
Women begin finding fault with a hoy
by the time he is month old, and never
quit it.
Very few unmarried men know they are
related to great men; their wives make the
discovery.
After a woman has been married a year
and nothing has happened the ether women
quit staring at hoe.
Married people should be more careful to
avoid the first quarrel than the first scratch
on their new furniture, but they are not.
When a woman Is critical of her sons it
means no more than her apology for a
cake she made which she knows was a sue
cess.
1t must be nice to be girl A lot OF
North Atchison girls piled four in seat
in a two-seated carriage this morning and
rode off to wadirg place north of town.
They carried with them a luncheon of
cod things" picked up around The house.
to any one. They will come back this even4
ing eaten up by chiggers. sunburned. their
garments wet but laughing SO loud that
they can be heard six blocks off. Could
any one else on earth have as much fun
on such little capital? Why should money
be spent on getting girls fine clothes and
taking them to high-priced enterta nments
when they can have a better time in wad-
ing?